~/.Xauthority, or use ssh's X
> forwarding.
>
On my Debian system root can automatically run X-Apps (after an su). I was
wondering why but haven't figurerd it out yet. It's not what I was used to
before.
Frank
--
Dr. Frank Zimmermann| registered Linux user 133450
23, Sandon R
Maxtech PCMICA modem working just great. The only problem with it left
is that I get denied permission to pppd unless I'm logged in as root. I
added usernames under advanced options in pppconfig, and they're
certainly sitting in the appropriate place in the file vigr, so what's
missing?
--
srt
Y
The client is the one running Debian, it is an old laptop with not
much ram so I had to use Slink (2.1)
Why?? Potato or woody should run smoothly on it as well. Linux is not
Windows where you need more PC power for a new version. You have the
choice on how you use your computer.
I want
Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Frank,
Thanks for trying to help. I have no idea what modem it is to be honest.
What is a softmodem? It's just the internal modem that came with the
machine (an ASUS L8400). I don't even know if the Debian partition
recognises that it exists - there must b
has anyone witnessed encounters between the Dell Latitude C610
notebook and linux? i am looking to buy myself an instantiation
thereof and would like to know how easy it'll be...
anyway, looking forward to your input.
thanks,
--
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
Hi
Thanks, everyone, for all the help. I checked the memory use (using
"free") with Mozilla and a few other programs running. Memory use
never went much above 85MB out of a total of about 250) , so I don't
have to increase the swap partition, at least for now.
And I will try removing unnecessary
1) It's spelled Nimda (it's Admin spelled backwards), 2) Windows worms
are on-topic here how?
--
Baloo
Well some people might read this list with a win machine. I do on
MacOS, just because it's cheaper for me to do it at the Uni and my
boss woun't allow me to put Linux on any of the Crashint
I started with Debian 2.1 on my Pentium 200 MHz with 32 MB of
memory, then upgraded with apt-get to Potato. I recently replaced
the single 32 MB SDRAM with two 128 MB SDRAMs.
When I installed Debian I created a 32MB swap to match the size of
the memory. Should I now increase the size of the sw
I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with
XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea?
Yes!
This yields Segmentation Fault when I run XF86Setup.
Mildly chaotic "update" process, since I was
a bit confused about the Deb packages to get.
I started with:
xfree86-common
x-window-system-core
xse
I have acquired a username, password and phone number for a local isp
and am having trouble setting up a dial-up connection. I've been trying
to use the default PPP utility that comes with GNOME but it seems to
want lots additional information I don't know how to provide.
Any help much appreciated
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:34:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and
> storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These
> documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll have to use OCR
> so
Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot.
I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran fine. In
three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash.
I have rebooted about once every 3 to 4 months (guessing average) after
maintenance. T
I'm using potato 2.2r3 (or is that "2.2.18pre21"). Whatever.
I recently switched to a Matrox G-450 AGP card. (Thanks
to those who helped me "turn off X.")
Question: can I expect that the X driver module for the
Matrox G-400 will work? Has anyone tried this? (The
G-450 isn't offered as a cho
Hi
could you explain how I get the old packages ie: what i use in apt-get ?
I did an apt-get install xserver-svga (this is the server I use) and
it installed some other stuff and then just changes the symlink.
Good luck,
Frank
--
I want to try LINUX DEBIAN. i have an AMD 800 processor.
Can you give me the exactly path for the newest Linux debian ISO?
WIllem..
I really understand now why linux is only for expects, because
finding the good
file is harder than i trought..
You don't have to be an expert to browse th
Is there a way of totally removing XFree86-4.0.1 and going back to
the version i was using with Potato which I didn't have any problems
with whatsoever.
Rachel
That's a question I've been asking myself for quite a while. It
looks like the 3.3.6 packages have dependencies with the 4.x pa
Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/11/2001 (18:29) :
If this does not work apt-get install a_package_that_requires_gnome
yes, but this won't install all packages necessarily.
This should install gnome.
Frank
--
How do one install gnome on a system where is wasn't installed
initially? To me it looks like one have to choose every pacakge manually
as I cannot find any task-gnome package.
Thanks in advance
Did you try apt-get install gnome? If this does not work apt-get
install a_package_that_requires_g
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Hi Folks,
Pardon the inquiry, but I'm still a little new to debian.
I've installed testing on my laptop, it installed XFree 4.1.0 (which is
very nice BTW), but unfortunately I need to move back to XFree 3.3.6. I
have a Mach64 controller in this laptop and the XFree 4.1.0 driver only
supports 8-
jim R. wrote:
HI,
What i meant was how can i make debian linux to
recognize mac
formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to
mount so
that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on
linux is parallel not scsi. Jim
Your kernel has to support hfs file system.
mount -t hfs device dir
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:10:59PM -0800, tom schuetz wrote:
Apt pays attention to the version number, so you definitely don't need to
take the cd's off. If the cd has the most up-to-date version, then I'm not
sure how apt decides where to get it (maybe the first one listed).
It is the first
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:43:01PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote:
Do anyone know where to find a debian package for xv (the classical X
graphical utility). It seems to have disappear from the debian
archives... :-(
It was removed due to licensing problems. Try xloadimage or display (the
latter
I just finished installing Potato v. 2.2r3. My motherboard is the Intel
815EEA, and X recognizes neither the onboard video nor my ATI Radeon 64MB
DDR AGP. Am I correct in saying that I have to upgrade to Woody in order to
take advantage of my video card, or can I simply install xFree86 4.1/4.2?
removing that line or changing it to false doesn't seem to make any
difference to it starting up. Right now I'd just like to see it
starting up even if I still need to fine tune it a bit afterwards.
Rachel
Rachel,
Do I remember this right that you have a Cirrus card as well?
With the Opt
Hi
I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up
in Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also
grabbed the KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting
the x-server up and running.
I have been configuring via dpkg-reconfigure x-server-xfree8
e and what ever I do I can't get rid of
the yellow color scheme.
BTW, I have a no name monitor and a CirrusLogic GD5440 or 5430. They
worked fine under XFree 3.x with the SVGA server. Any more ideas on
how to get them work with XF4?
Thanks,
Frank
--
--
Dr. Frank Zimme
be a temporary problem as
www.debian.org is usually very realiable.
Try your local mirror like http://www.ukdebian.org for the UK.
Frank
--
--
Dr. Frank Zimmermann
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B29 6JQ
Tel.: +44-121-414 2508 or 7877
Fax.: +44-121-414 5925
I just tried out kernel 2.4.7 - everything seems to work fine, except
the PPP connection. pppd quits just after being started.
I tried out pppoe - it can connect to my access concentrator.
What has changed from 2.2.19 to 2.4.7 which could prevent pppd from working?
Quite a lot did change. I s
Does anyone know how to upgrade XFree86 in Debian Potato to version
4.x.x without upgrading to Woody?
Marcel
Yes,
at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ and follow the instructions.
More usefull unofficail apt-sources:
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
Frank
--
Could somebody pls tell me how Modem configuration + Dial up is
done on any Linux
box , if I am having an ISP ?
Thanks,
There is no simple answer to ppp configuration on any Linux box.
Debian standard is pppconfig and then use pon/poff. Then there is
wvdialconf and wvdial to dial in, this
ivo ivo wrote:
One posting should be enough. Please send in plain test only.
I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. There are 3 source cds, 3 binary alpha
cds and 3 binary i386 cds.
I want to install Debian into DEC Personal Workstation 600a, I've upgrade
the bios and now I'm using SRM console.
I wan
Søren Neigaard wrote:
Why haven't I got the XF86Setup btw.?
XF86Setup is, AFAIK, for XFree86 3.x. Thats why you don't have it and
don't need it. You can try xf86cfg, didn't work for me though since X
seems to be broken on my system.
--
Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,
Frank
ramsubs wrote:
greetings all.
i came across this article in linuxworld.com:
http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_706716_6995_1-3133.html
---
"One of the very few technical problems that arose with the Linux OS and the
custom interface stemmed from Linux's tendency to leave an application
Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Hello,
I did a dist-upgrade from potato to sid with the images from
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/. I can't configure the DNS server.
I used pppconfig to do so and the configuration files in /etc/ppp look
like the ones I saved from my potato system. Is
Stan Brown wrote:
On Tue Oct 9 09:43:49 2001 Frank Zimmermann wrote...
Stan Brown wrote:
Without reformating it? While it's mounted?
If there are no data on the partition yes, otherwise no.
So, given the following layout:
/
/boot
I can't convert / ?, since I can't
Mike Grover wrote:
Is there a cd-image for woody, or a way to do a PSEUDO-IMAGE for it?
Yes,
for example here: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody
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Stan Brown wrote:
Without reformating it? While it's mounted?
If there are no data on the partition yes, otherwise no.
Frank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi, all
I'm new to linux and I'm experiencing a problem that is at least a bit odd:
I first installed the kernel 2.2.17 and wvdial was working fine, then I
installed kernel 2.4.9 and wvdial stopped working properly: it said
something
like "the PPP deamon has died!" r
Stan Brown wrote:
Can I set up some filesystem to be resierfs on a stable machine? I have
installed the 2.4 kernel on it.
It is very difficult if not impossible to change the filesystem from
ext2 to reiser. You can get bootdisks for potato with reisersupport,
sorry can't find the link right n
Michael Grover wrote:
I have configured ppp on my machine to dial out and have setup a
fire wall script using ipChains. All my home computers access the
internet fine. (soon to have DSL setup, waiting on phone company)
All is working good except, I use pon to connect, after I have
connetced,
Hello,
I did a dist-upgrade from potato to sid with the images from
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/. I can't configure the DNS server. I
used pppconfig to do so and the configuration files in /etc/ppp look
like the ones I saved from my potato system. Is there anything else I
have to config
Simon Law wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote:
Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an
obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a
new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32
MB of RAM. Is
Andreas Obermaier wrote:
Hmm, I think I was too fast in sending this mail. apt-cache search gave
me the answer:
enscript - Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF or Pretty-Print
Did anybody make any good/bad experiences with enscripting RTF from text
formats?
Thanks again
Andreas
I
First please post only the relevant lines.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very
> little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations,
> read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong.
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> Make sure you have an MTA (exim, sendmail, etc) running. A
> fetchmail log file would help you out also, but you don't have
> one defined in your .fetchmailrc file. Check the manual on the
> proper syntax for it. It's probably something simple like
>
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> The XF86Config serving Root must then be in /root
> Copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config for use by other users.
>
> MarvS
It is (and has always been there) and there is a symlink from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config to this file.
Frank
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> With respect to startx,
> check for a .xsession files in your /root/ and /home/user/ folders.
> You may be missing /home/user/.xsession
> See
> /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/examples/xsession
>
> MarvS
>
Sorry i did not include any error messages. It
I apologise for my late response but i was quite busy and the about
what happend in the Us i couldn't get myself on the PC to solve my
little problem.
But today I thought it's time to do so. I found out that I have
multiple problems that seemed to have appeared suddenly.
It's the fetchmai problem
Hello,
I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu under
/usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't open the file and
the only way I've been able to read it so far is to copy it to my home
directory, unzip it and read display the .dvi file. But I don't be
Rui Tegon wrote:
Ok,
I´ve done what you said but the modem still not working.
When i run minicom the prompt stops, i´ve changed the port to /dev/ttyS0 to
/dev/ttyS1 to /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/ttyS3 but all of then stops the cursor
The modem is good because i conect running windows. And its connected
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another idea, as you all have physical access: map either or to the shutdown command. For the first
solution, in /etc/inittab (as root):
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:
James Martinez wrote:
unsubscribe
Thanks,
James Martinez
Functional Test Development Engineer
How did HE get this kind of job??
JABIL CIRCUIT
Voice: 727-803-3792
Am I wrong or there an increase of this kind of mails in the past
few days?
Frank
Ian Perry wrote:
I had a similar message while loading from CD. I had configured the machine
with the HD as primary master, and the CD as primary slave. The fix was to
put the CD onto the secondary slave.
Ian
I get the same messages but my CD-ROM is hdd. I have 2 HD's on the
primary IDE
Sebastiaan wrote:
High,
Please, stop shouting. We can hear you.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I HAVE A CDROM ATAPI 50X WHICH ACCORDING THE THE CONTROL PANEL SYSTEM AND
DEVICE MANAGER IS WORKING PROPERLY.
HOWEVER, IT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE THANKS TO HAVING RECEIVED A CD FROM
WINSTRU
Sebastiaan wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Paul Scott wrote:
> In the header I see a line 'bounced'. Does that mean that the list bounces
the mail from some users to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No wonder his account is
full.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
AFAIK his account has reached the quota and everytimes a mai
Bob Koss wrote:
I finally have a stable, functioning, system running X, using ice. It
works. Cool.
I would like to try KDE. What's my best plan to do this,
Have a look ay http://kde.debian.net
Frank
Mike Pfleger wrote:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:51:53PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote:
Hi Robin,
You need a mouse with three buttons. Press the middle one with the mouse
over the root window (your backround) and in the menu
"window ops" that is appearing now choose the option "delete".
You get a
Brad Cramer wrote:
I had to replace my motherboard and had no trouble with linux (the board has
a different chipset than the old one just recompiled the kernel and away I
went) but I need to reinstall w2k which is on a 2nd harddrive and I don't
want to lose lilo could someone give me some ideas a
Wayne Topa wrote:
Subject: Re: CD-Rom Probs
Date: Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:10:24PM +0100
In reply to:Frank Zimmermann
Quoting Frank Zimmermann([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
William Leese wrote:
Does the CD-ROM you try to mount has the iso9660 file system?
Well I don't mount
David Purton wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
About 15 mins ago it began hitting my subnet 210.x.x.x ... all Red 2
packets.
Gee - must be my lucky day...
guess what subnet my isp uses :)
I was getting random hits this morning, 5 hrs or so ago with one every 6
mins.
Now its
William Leese wrote:
Does dmesg show a CDROM device at /dev/hdc?
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
Is /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc?
I receive error message:
/dev/hdc is not a valid block device.
Do you have cdrom support compiled into the kernel?
If compiled as a module, did you insmod the
William Leese wrote:
Hello list,
I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux.
Through dmesg I've learnt that it's /dev/hdc however when I try to mount it
with
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
I receive error message:
/dev/hdc is not a valid block device.
Does mount -t iso9660
Colin Bell wrote:
Okay,
I have been trying to get a useful Debian unstallation up for about 5
weeks now. I can get the base system installed but then where do I look
for new packages (the iso image contains next to nothing from what I can
tell)? I don't know what to set in the /etc/apt/
Liz's Email wrote:
I need to batch convert tiff images to jpegs. I'm using the latest
ImageMagick, however everytime I try "convert this.tif this.jpg" I can
hear the harddrive crunching, but I never get a response and must cancel
the operation.
Why do you have to cancel this? How long do y
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
My question is what should be included on a computer that is
being donated to give a new user experience and use of an old 386
or more? Dean
Define "new user experience".
Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
I followed the instructions in ximian's website but trying to apt get
install task-ximian-gnome tells me that apt couldn't find that package...
does anybody has had this problem and how to fix it?
IIRC you had to append to /etc/apt/sources.list the line
deb http://red-c
Estêvão Becker wrote:
HALLO, I HAVE A PROBLEM. I DOWNLOADED THE DEBIAN LINUX FROM THE
INTERNET AND IT WAS TAKEN FOR ABOUT 2GB. SO I INSTALLED THE BASE SYSTEM,
AND WHEN I STARTED MY DEBIAN LINUX I INSTALLED THE .DEBS DOWNLOADED.
BUT FROM 2GB OF .DEBS, ONLY 520MB WERE INSTALLED AND I ONLY D
Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Do you mean the Uminx-mailer mail? It's in the package mailx.
^
Did I write that? It should of course be Unix-mailer. I think it's
getting time to leave the lab.
Frank
Ari Sigurðsson wrote:
Hi,
on my new debian installation some things are different,
I can't find my 'mail' command,
Do you mean the Uminx-mailer mail? It's in the package mailx.
and mutt does not behave
the way I like. I want it to download mail to my local mail
folder and read from there, b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using my Lucent just fine earlier today, after installing a
Linux599.zip driver. It worked great, except when I ran PPPD, it said there
was no kernel PPP support. I looekd at make xconfig, and found that was
indeed true. I enabled PPP support, recompiled, and ins
Gurusami Annamalai wrote:
Also I am not sure why, but my computer vendor has also provided a modem
(Motorola SM56 PCI
Speakerphone Modem) which is attached to the COM3 port under Windows 98.
When I check under
the Control Panel->Modems->Diagnostics I see only the Motorola SM56 PCI
Speakerphone
Robert Schweikert wrote:
# /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download install
/usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: Couldn't find package
/usr/dists/upgrades/xserver-3dlabs_3.3.6-11potato32.deb
# /usr/bin/apt-get --no-download inst
Ramachandran Chidambaram wrote:
X windows failure report: (reproduced from the screen)
(**) FontPath set to " /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ :
unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Cyrillic/ : unscaled,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ : unscaled,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/X11/100dpi/ : unscaled,
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Typel/,
Lance Peterson wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to use Webmin to administer a Debian router/firewall, but
I was hoping not to install X-windows in order to use a GUI browser.
Is there a non-X GUI based web browser available for Debian that I can
install to use Webmin without loading X-windows?
Dan Ryan wrote:
I am completely new to debian and linux for that matter and I was just
installing it on one of my other computers. Now I want to make it a dual
boot system. The only problem is I can't use X because I dont have a
supported video card. So... how do I edit lilo.conf from the star
David Kimdon wrote:
Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:48:11PM +0200 wrote:
Hello,
first of all, I am sorry if I annoy you with my silly question. I just
installed Debian 2.2 (potato) and encountered X-windows problem. It seemed
I configured wrong driver for the monitor so I could not start x-win
Sami Louko wrote:
siddhi:~# mount /mnt/zip
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
Meaning that /dev/sda1 isn't hard-disk/zip-disk etc. compatible block
readable device. There is no disk at all or something like that.
There is something
MaX in the FaX wrote:
Frank Zimmermann wrote:
MaX in the FaX wrote:
Or you can find them here, worked very smooth
for me:
yes, but the number of drivers is very poor (1 disk vs 4 disks).
ciao,
MaX
Did I get it right? With your link you can do it with 1 driver disk?
That&#
Fallen Lord wrote:
3.)Do i need to upgrade pppd if i use kernel 2.4.x?
wvdial won't connect - something like "invalid
argument" reflects in the /var/logs/message file. what
do i need to do? is there a better way to connect via
dial-up than wvdial? if so, how?
Check out the Debian Website.
Matthew M Carroll wrote:
is there a way to upgrade potato to X 4.1 or 4.0.3 cleanly? I don't have a
problem jumping up to woody to get X, but I want to go back to potato. I
hope this makes sense.
Thanks,
Matthew M Carroll
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jepp,
go to
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/x
Nikki Locke wrote:
With these lines, an apt-get update returns one error message...
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
I assume the
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/update
Markus Hansen wrote:
i dont know why, but i dont have any rights to write on my floppy disks,
neither superuser or normal,
neither on the shell or the window of kde2.
can anyone help me plaese?
markus
Check the entry in your fstab, maybe it's set to ro.
Frank
MaX in the FaX wrote:
Sean Quinlan wrote:
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-15 19:40):
Unofficial reiserfs install disks seem to come and go quite regularly,
the site I got mine from no longer exists... but this site looks like
it has pretty much the same disks:
http://debianb
Andreas Rabus wrote:
Hi,
i try to install an Woody box and perhaps a second and third..., and want to
use a journaling fs.
A search with google and -groups didn't reveal anything useful (better to
much to find the useful ones) so i ask you:
Is there a boot cd for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or
Leonard Stiles wrote:
Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long
filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3
filnames.
What is the output of "mount" when this happens? Have you
Sebastiaan wrote:
Hello,
It should be:
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib
(well, it works).
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
I see. Bu tthat is not obvious from the instruction on this site
Hello,
I added the line for security updates to my sources list as
mentioned on the security web site. Now I get the following message
whenever I run apt-get:
(voyager):/home/frank# apt-get install kde-base-crypto
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat
Leonard Stiles wrote:
Note that you can alternatively specify "auto" as the file-system
type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount.
I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long
filenames. When I tried the auto/detection it always showed 8.3
filnames. Well, most
H. Kruppa wrote:
Hallo!
Habe 2 CD aus dem Heft "LINUX-Ausgabe 2001" von "CHIP" erworben. Nach der
Installation von Debian ist mir W98 verschwunden. Habe probiert "lilo.conf"
in Verzeichnis \etc mit dem "ae-Editor" zu modifizieren (wie im Heft-"CHIP"
steht aber ohne jegliche Resultaten.
Was he
Cheng-Dar K Lee wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie of Debian. I tried to install the potato version of
Debian for like the nth time and still couldn't get my mouse worked. The
mouse doesn't follow my hand motion and moves erratically on the screen
in X. The protocol in XF86Config is "PS/2" and the
Michael Epting wrote:
http://www.angielski.edu.pl/angielski/content.php3?name=tnv_1
The English language can be so gibberish :-)
Frank
Thomas Merritt Draney wrote:
I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian
installed to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt.
But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up into it?
When I run startx it says something is broken?
Craig Dickson wrote:
Saqib Shaikh wrote:
recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the
address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that
microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i
also booted windows and had the same problem.
Noah Meyerhans wrote:
When is it necessary to pass the "mem" parameter to the kernel? I was
under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer
kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I
recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256
Stephen Jiang wrote:
If you could set your mailer to wrap to 72 characters it would be much
appreciated.
How? At the moment, I have MS Outlook Express.
Have a look in the preferences or how ever MS is calling it. In know it works
because other people can do it. If you can't use something
Faheem Mitha wrote:
There's also the November 2000 issue of Linux Journal (focus on hardware),
part of which is available online. But I like to hear about hardware
issues from Real People. For one thing, you can ask questions.
Faheem.
The Bioin
Nikolai Hlubek wrote:
Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics,
does anybody know of a linux programm which can
compete with Origin.
(Origin is similar to Excel but with more advanced
features, which are important for me.)
Read you,
Nikolai.
That's exactly what I am looking for, because the a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello! Firstly I want to congratulate for your great
project.
I have a doubt. I don't know if I have to do a
partition on my hard disk to intall Debian.
Thank you.
Your doubt may be right. But unfortunately I run out of magic glas spheres (
hope the translatio
Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nl> Good. Is it worth me "upgrading" to another version? The machine
nl> is there mostly to run samba, apache, apache-ssl and php4. I need
nl> a solid, stable ftp client which will work through a gateway, and
nl> the abilit
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