Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-29 Thread Eddy Jacob
I don't know whats the question as I've never seen this thread in the list, but if I understand the subject line correctly, I would say Psi is better than kopete in some ways. I've tried to find a messenger client in linux that I like best, but found none, until I found Psi is included in debian pa

Re: strange disk corruption

2004-11-22 Thread Eddy Jacob
This happend to me, and the problem was faulty memory. Use memtest86+ to check your memory, or as other users suggested before, was to check for bad cabling by doing dd of your harddisk partition into /dev/null On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:48:09 -0500, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-22 Thread Eddy Jacob
I've got Eclipse 3 running on Debian with no problem at all. The only thing is, I only use Sun's JDK and never the others. My current JVM is from j2sdk1.4.2_04. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:56:38 +0100, Eduard Pauna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all, > > Did somebody succeded in running eclipse on

OT: Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Eddy Jacob
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:33:54 +0100, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=best+operating+system > > and for sure i trust them... =) > > > Andrea > Surprise Windows is not the first one on the results :) tried same query on google, show tot

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Eddy Jacob
Well it very depends, if you want a very 'windows' like operating system, probably you want a linux like xandros. but if you want a linux to play with, debian is a good choice. My first attempt on linux was few years back with red hat, suse, and just this year, I've beginning to play debian, and I

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-10 Thread Eddy Jacob
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:37:37 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the big problem. Knoppix is not Debian and a Kernel update is > not easy (think you have to use Ext3 filesystem in the kernel). > > I would like an easy way to update hard disk installed kernel in Knopp

Re: Ext3 file system crash

2004-11-10 Thread Eddy Jacob
Thank you very much for the help guys! :) I've installed smartmontools, memtest86+. First thing I tried was memtest86+, and it reported failure/errors. I am using 2 memory chips, and luckily the fault only on the first chip, so now I can still run linux safely with 512MB. At the moment, I'm still

Re: Can I change when filesystem is checked by fsck?

2004-11-10 Thread Eddy Jacob
You can use tune2fs with -c or -i option (I think). to be sure, please read the man page. cheers. On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:44:53 -0500, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each of my filesystems are ext3. Currently, they are checked by fsck (at > bootup), every 34 mounts. > > I would like t

Ext3 file system crash

2004-11-09 Thread Eddy Jacob
Hi all, Like the earlier post from other user, I also experienced this. I am asking for help here or ideas. I installed knoppix 3.4 to harddisk (debian based option), kernel 2.4.26, and using ext3 for all my file system. my etc/fstab: # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hda7

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-09 Thread Eddy Jacob
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:43:07 -0700, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I don't want to compile the kernel. What I don't understand is, > > > > why the package I downloaded from debian sarge, causes that error? Is > > > > it really because of the file system driver not compiled int

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-06 Thread Eddy Jacob
Thanks for the boot options Justin, Yes I did run lilo, and I use initrd, as you can see from lilo.conf parts that I pasted into my first email. On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:49:23 -0700, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2004 20:11, Eddy Jacob wrote: >

kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-04 Thread Eddy Jacob
Hi everyone, I'm running debian, sarge. I installed the OS from Knoppix 3.4. I want to use kernel 2.6.8, but I've got a problem on booting kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686. I got this: Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,7) Currently I'm using kernel 2.4.26 default from Knoppix