Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Francisco Fialho
Welcome Tom. I`m a former Mandrake and Conectiva user, who was converted by Debian :-) First of all: you will find 99.99% of the info you need taking a look at www.debian.org . The names came from Toy Story ( movie) potato: Latest Stable Version ( 2.2.rev6) woody: "unstable" version or pre-stable,

Re: first installation,cannot find default font

2002-06-25 Thread Francisco Fialho
Wilfried Mestdagh wrote: Hello, Hum that's the second time I ask a question, and just when I see the mail returning to I foudn the answer. I hope you will forgive that ;-) There is a spelling error in the xf86config program. When it asking for the mouse it propose /dev/tty00 and it has to be

kfmclient error

2002-06-21 Thread Francisco Fialho
I tried to open the /home directory thru the shortcut in my Desktop ( using KDE 2.2.x) and i received a message containing the following: KDEInit could nou launch 'kfmclient': Could not find 'kfmclient' executable. Does anyone know how to repair this?! regards, Francisco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Francisco Fialho
Tim Grogan wrote: I'm trying to compile the exact same image on my Athlon 1700 system. I've been following this thread with great interest. I've seen some good pointers from a lot of folks. Could someone please just put a dummy list of steps on how to upgrade a kernel. I've downloaded about

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Francisco Fialho
, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Francisco Fialho wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Francisco Fialho wrote: is there any command I can use to see what kernel I'm using?! uname -a the output to the uname - a command ga

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Francisco Fialho
Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Francisco Fialho wrote: is there any command I can use to see what kernel I'm using?! uname -a the output to the uname - a command gave me 2.2.20... what is missing?! make-kpkg ran OK... must I do something?! after make-kpkg nothing else as

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Francisco Fialho
North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Francisco Fialho wrote: Hi everybody. I running Debian Woody ( kernel 2.2.20) and I trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.18... a did an apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 ) just perfect. the kerbel-sour

kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-17 Thread Francisco Fialho
Hi everybody. I running Debian Woody ( kernel 2.2.20) and I trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.18... a did an apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 ) just perfect. the kerbel-source was saved at /usr/src... I created a dir called linux and a ln -s to the unzipped source ( /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.

Configuring Samba to join a NT domain

2002-06-13 Thread Francisco Fialho
Guys, I've put my Debian Woody box yesterday, and I can use the net, fetch emails, and so on... I'm a client of a NT Server Domain, and I want to connect my machine to this domain, I want to be able to browse it, through a Windows machine and vice-versa... what changes must I do in my smb.conf to

Problems installing woody -> it is solved and I have a graphic interface running :-)

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
I would like to thank everybody that helped me put up my X server up! It`s now working and I have a graphic interface! You guys are great! Hope I can learn and help you all, the same way you helped me! :-) Thank you all for your great help and support :-) Regards --

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
12, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:04:45AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > > Sorry for the big mail... this is what I get when apt-get install -s > > task-x-window-system... > > In woody, use 'x-window-system', not

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Gerhard, thank you very much! I used the dmesg | grep hd command and found my cdrom at /dev/hdd made the change at /etc/fstab and it worked! I`m still fighting with my X config! :-) Thanks again regards Francisco - Original Message - From: "Gerhard Gaussling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
g woody > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:46:30AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > > I did an apt-get install -s task-x-window-system > > and had a message of package dependency... > > so I went doing an apt-get install package ( xlib6g-dev) > > that required (libc6-dev) tha

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Peter, the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command gave me the following output: Package xserver-xfree86 is not installed and no info is available. /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xsrever-xfree86 is not fully installed. then I went and did a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 and got the: Couldn`t find

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
bcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm` Fatal Server error: Cannot Open Mouse ( No such file or directory) X connection to :0.0 broken ( explicit kill or shutdown). hope this helps! Francisco ----- Original Message - From: "Francisco Fialho&quo

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
newest version. I don`t know what to do now... I was told that Debian was dificult to install... :-) but I didn`t realized that is was that dificult :-) can any one help me! regards Francisco - Original Message - From: "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fran

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
blems installing woody On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:01, Francisco Fialho wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I`m just beggining using Linux, and decided to start with > Debian. Heard a lot about how good it was and everything :-). > > I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 w

Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Hi everybody, I`m just beggining using Linux, and decided to start with Debian. Heard a lot about how good it was and everything :-). I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 processor, 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)... when

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Francisco Fialho
After all the postings that I've read... What I can advice all to do is: Lets give a route to this "abandoned ship"! Lets stop the talking and start with some action... I don't beleive we can gather every Debian user and ask for his or her opinion... If we send the image of a desorganized distr

Downloading and installing woody

2002-06-05 Thread Francisco Fialho
h the latest woody. (it supports my hardware.) :-) I want to download the 650 Mg cds, and not just the 5 mg files I found in most of the Debian mirrors. Can anyone indicate a ftp or http site that I can download the full woody. Regards Francisco Fialho -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT