(Solved) Re: Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy

2014-05-17 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Thanks! That did it! I did sudo su at a terminal prompt and achieved the same result. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless fairl...@ieee.org On Sat, 17 May 2014, David wrote: On 17 May 2014 11:28, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I downloaded some .iso's for Debian Wheezy live CD/

Live CD/DVD's Debian Wheezy

2014-05-16 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Thanks! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless fairl...@ieee.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.d

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
x27; : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems micro$oft windows psychic edition: we will tell you where you are going tomorrow. -- Mr. Gayle

Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

2007-06-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
do have a copy of Martin Kraft's book just in case I missed something in it. Please tell me. Thanks for your advice. I enjoy using Debian from time to time on my other systems. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-06-09 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Although I would have replied sooner; there was a death in the family. Hope you remember or kept the thread! Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > It's worth a try, but the bad 770 lock

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: The pcmcia slots _did_ work for a week or two. Got it used from Ebay so I probably was luckey they worked for that long Mine is a discard from my son. So mine may be totally bad. :-( Every time I try a card, the cursor on the Windows screen freezes.

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Hi, On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:32 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. SS> Since it is a ThinkPad, you should have a look at thinkwiki. [1] A SS> good referenc

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On 05/25/07 23:27, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 25 May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): > have installed Windows and bo

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 25 May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): > have installed Windows and booted live Linux CD's. Ubuntu Dapper Drake > stalled with a KDE desk error. RJ> Wha

Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. (I have partioned it in anticipation of also installing Linux.) Knoppix 3.7 boots on the machine. (Would I be able to migrate to Debian or just stay with Knoppix if I go th

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2007-01-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
see bottom for update: one thing at a time... I can mount my Windows XP partition which also won't boot so I can recover data. Grub seems to work fine. I'm just not proficient in it yet. we can fix that. what partition is xp on? mine is on hdb1 or in grub speak (hd1,0) so I have in

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:50:55AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard >(socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub >was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the >b

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IEE

upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IE

Where is the Email file?

2006-11-07 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I am running the Linux version of Netscape 7.2 on Debian GNU/Linux sarge. When my message box hit 100,000, the messages disappeared. Before they disappeared, only one message would appear in the window. I tried to delete some old messages at the beginning of the index thinking that wo

Re: package chkrootkit

2006-08-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I got the following message from the chkrootkit package. I'm quite new at this and don't know what to do. /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/bin/strings: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file INFECTED (PORTS: 600) Now that I've had more

package chkrootkit

2006-08-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I got the following message from the chkrootkit package. I'm quite new at this and don't know what to do. /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/bin/strings: Warning: '/' is not an ordinary file INFECTED (PORTS: 600) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No.

Re: etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x

2006-05-14 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. I was interested in the etch ne

etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x

2006-05-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contained one of the latest kernels a

Subject: Re: scanner hp psc1402

2006-03-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ne" i am confused. anybody knows how this can happen? No, I was following the advice in Hill, Harris, and Vyas, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, (Indianapolis, Indiana), (c) 2005, pp. 236-238. I don't know if my later kernel is a factor or not. thanks, steef -- (Mr.) Gayl

Re: Dual boot comoputer

2006-03-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
into root from Knoppix. Once I write-enabled the drive, I used the chroot command and then the full pathname of /sbin/lilo to install the MBR. If you have trouble with the MBR being changed, you should know how to redo the MBR from Windows for another try. Since I have Windows 98SE, I can&#

Re: kde status in Etch

2006-01-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:46:59 Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:58:47PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > I apologize if this is a vague query. I have been patiently waiting for > > more than a couple of months now (I believe) to update KDE in Etch. > > Howe

Re: Debian-User in Digest form?

2006-01-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ebian.org/MailingLists/ You can place your subscription at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe Happy Reading! There's a lot! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, (CC's and BCC's are okay.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

X-system X.org Ctrl-Alt-Func key terminal switching

2006-01-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Key stuff. Thanks for any clues or Easter Eggs! And happy hunting to y'all, too! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Easy question for new user regarding sources.list

2006-01-14 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
dy main #deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian woody main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main You'll probably want to replace stable with either testing or etch or even perhaps unstable for yo

Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

2006-01-14 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On 1/12/06, Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS P4P800E deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB S

Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

2006-01-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
the errata. Fortunately the extra size is not an issue for this particular installation. I have some experience with Debian GNU/Linux woody upgraded to sarge on another box. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, Although I am subscribed to the digest, CC's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine for quicker

installation time for a Debian distribution

2005-12-15 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
With a speed of between 1.0 and 1.5 mbs on DSL, how long would it take to install a Debian distribution onto a computer with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4 Prescott (800 FSB), and ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard? I would have a 250 GB Seagate hard drive. I was thinking of either sarge or etch, especially et

Re: update kernel

2005-10-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, SuperrrLeha wrote: > How i can update kernel? > Please post your request on the Debian User mailing list and give us the version that you're using, the type of computer, your kernel version, and what you have already learned from googling for the answer. Then there may b

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-17 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
just installed them myself since I saw them recommended in another thread.) -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.1

Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)

2005-08-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:44:19 +0200 From: "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cups+printer install? On Thursday 04 August 2005 06:35, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > >On 08/03/2005 08:02 p

Re: Cups+printer install? (fwd)

2005-08-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:03:18 +0100 From: Andrzej Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:18:47 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Andrzej Doyle wrote: >> >> >> On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >> >> >>

Re: Cups+printer install?

2005-08-03 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
1/ option in the browser. Now I haven't used it to install a remote printer. The Debian KDE list might also have some good suggestions for you. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux

Re: [solved] 2.6 kernel beating up the IDE controller on DMA test and requests.

2005-07-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
tory. The kernel-parameters.txt and ide.txt showed me that I could put 'ide=nodma' on the menu line from the lilo menu and get a nicer bootup. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linu

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
here. I'll forward the 2 pertinent messages to you offlist if it suits your pleasure. But they're on the Debian Kernel mailing list. I wasn't able to make Google retrieve them neatly so I suppose a better Googler will have to volunteer. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counte

Re: Debian kernel source and compiler

2005-07-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Should I use GCC 4.0 for compiling the kernel (and ignore the warnings) or continue to use GCC 3.3? It appears that you should use gcc 3.3 for 2.6.12. If I understood the comments, gcc 4.0 will be used for later versions (probably starting with 2.6.13). -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http:/

Re: No Screens Found

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
luding your XF86Config-4, and the tail of /var/log/kdm.log (just enough to see one instance of X failing to start. should be from some lines about " Debian heavily modified... blah blah blah" to the end) A -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gco

Re: sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ther he's using grub or lilo and some details about his hard drive configuration, types, etc. then someone on the list may have the specific information that he needs. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 20

sarge + 2.6.12 kernel panic

2005-07-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a box upgraded from woody to sarge. Are you using grub or lilo? (Although I didn't do a fresh install, I suspect grub. Posting the differences in your config file might help. Also lspci results. I'm probably as clueless as you, but the extra information might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

2.6 kernel beating up the IDE controller on DMA test and requests.

2005-07-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
covery. I just want to set the 2.6 kernel boot optons to make it boot reliably w/o corrupting the filesystem. Thank you for your help, pointers, and where to find the correct documentation! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son

Re: Hewlett-Packard package conflicts

2005-07-09 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:04:37 -0300 On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I posted a question to Debian User about package conflicts between hpoj(sp?) and hplip(sp?) that are for parallel HP printers and usb HP pr

Hewlett-Packard package conflicts

2005-07-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I posted a question to Debian User about package conflicts between hpoj(sp?) and hplip(sp?) that are for parallel HP printers and usb HP printers. My HP 697C is parallel, and my HP psc1210 is usb. Perhaps this question should also be posed to Debian KDE since one of their hints in version 3.3 r

package conflict using both parallel and usb Hewlett-Packard printers

2005-07-03 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
installed. hpoj: Conflicts: hplip but 0.9.2-2 is to be installed. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, user no. 365760 Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686

Re: Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-29 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ation when I get home especially in response to questions. Some of this is a 'work in progrss' so I don't have some of the answers (actually many!). I have yet to try out a script in kppp to see if that works. Both Len and I probably run KDE 3.3 from sarge. -- (Mr.) Gayle Le

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ar/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information. --> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Linux Gcomm 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon Jun 20 22:00:38

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)] From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:06:29 -0400 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: line 'initrd=/initrd.img

Re: [Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > > > > Original Message > > Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

[Fwd: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)]

2005-06-24 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Original Message Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:26:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Edward Dunagin <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device 2141 ... Kernelpanic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unk-blk(33,65)

2005-06-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > >I just upgraded from the 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel, now LinuxOLD on my > > LILO menu, to the 2.6.8 686 kernel available from sarge. > > Unfortunately the 2.6 kernel give

Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK (tangent to show example .bashrc file in Woody)

2005-06-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
abas/sql DBCONFIG=/home/gayle/adabas/sql PATH=$DBROOT/bin:$DBROOT/pgm:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DBROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export DBROOT DBWORK DBCONFIG PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686

Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK

2005-06-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
shrc' file that should be in your user home directory. I'm sending my .bashrc file in a separate message for the benefit of those who prefer to skip it. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown (I am

Re: Woody-No Mouse, Sarge-OK

2005-06-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
the same results as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I'm still running just woody and will probably upgrade the week of 13 June 2005. I guess I had better save a bunch of stuff. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/ Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unk

Unidentified subject!

2005-01-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
er I saw a Dlink DI-604 in a local store. How well does it work as a cable modem/router? I'm running woody with a 2.4.18bf2.4 kernel. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: netenv boot popup

2005-01-01 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ion on the details and general philosophy of using Debian systems! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS: I am subscribed to the digest, and CC'ing is fine with me. I'll take whatever is useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-01 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
knowledge of the various shells could probably elaborate more on this topic. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-28 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
mp; apt-get upgrade. Just the plain old ftp by itself just sits there and looks at you silently while doing its business. I have yet to see the difference. I guess I'll explore further. I may have missed the obvious difference(s) or just haven't used it enough yet. Thanks for the in

ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-27 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
since ncurses seems to be necessary for terminal graphics. IIRC I've been shopping the packages list for woody on www.Debian.org. Thank y'all for the background information in advance! -- PS I subscribe to the digest, but I don't mind being CC'ed if a faster reply is

Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-12-13 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade the > kernel, too. Sourceforge makes it sound easy. > Only if there are updated Debian revision of y

Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-12-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
my > /var directory isn't large enough to contain the download. Attempting to > use a symlnk to a partition with enough free space but its not working > either. > > Leonard Chatagnier > ----- Original Message - > From: "Gayle Lee Fairless" <[EMAIL PRO

On your upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-12-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ion can be more easily managed, too. And I hope to use my usb HP psc1210 better as well as the HP 697C on my parallel port. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS. I am subscribed to the digest but not the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
is not in the default command path so it takes a different syntax to start it. Of course you may prefer to be a purist and run what woody already has. You should be able to get that working. -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ian specific and gives you better > > insight into the Debian GNU/Linux system. Of course, browsing through stuff deleted > > > > Enjoy your system and Season's Greetings! > > (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless > > > > The book is by Michael St

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-03 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
t; You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version > > > of Debian are you installing? > > > Patrick, > > > > > end of Patrick Albuquierque quote > > > > The file is plain text, just typed as binary in the attachment for some

Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
my wife, it defaults to Windows at present. But that may change as she gets used to Linux! B-) HTH, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual-OS system

2004-11-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
t you'll be able to read it. I'm running a dual system on a Gateway 500 using Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux woody. The windows partition can be mounted rw under /mnt. The Windows OS cannot see the Linux partitions. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
questions, being all Windows mess, will be directed at the local PC Users Group which run mainly Windows. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
(reply bottom-posted) On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi there! > > * Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041112 00:02]: > > I just had to reinstall Windows 98 on my Gateway 500 and wiped out > > the LILO alteration to the MBR that lets me als

LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
state the menu. I subscribe to the digest but you'll reach me quicker if also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the quick advice! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

RE: ZIP drive question

2004-08-06 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
the listserv if I figure it out. > > kyle > > -Original Message- > From: Gayle Lee Fairless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 7/24/2004 4:23 PM > To: Forinash, Kyle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ZIP drive question > Kyl

Re: Debian Install with Parellel Support

2004-08-05 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
from work.) file that the KDE printer wizard found. (The wizard gave me a choice of 2 files to use with the HP 697C parallel printer.) Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown PS Please CC since I subscribe to

Re: ZIP drive question

2004-07-24 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
finished working with it, though. http://www.iomega.com/software/ http://www.iomega.com/datahandler/servlet I included the URL's with Iomega that I used. It is possible to go to www.iomega.com and drill down to the download menu. Hope this helps! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2

Re: optimizing X configuration

2004-06-27 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer > Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. > Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp > > > I have an EV910 monitor on my Gateway 500 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 etc. Wou

Re: Newbie installation

2004-06-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
d roam around /var to look into the log directory. The /etc directory, as you should know, is also interested to explore. Have fun! Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no hard disk drives detected ?!?

2004-06-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
regards > Andreas Janssen > > I ran into a similar problem with the 2.2 kernels. Only the bf2.4 kernel detected my hard drives. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
en any problems yet. So I can't say for sure, then. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ls120 Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive. > > When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for > > master and

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
heck it out. > > David > > How hard will it be to switch or upgrade to sarge from woody when sarge becomes stable? I'm hoping that CUPS and other stuff in sarge will let me use my parallel port HP 697C printer and my HP psc1210 printer/scanner/copier on an USB port. I al

Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > a. Drive is master, no slave > > that requires a jumper change on the disk -- or -- > the disk is on the master connector of the ide cable > > "cable

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-22 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Gayle Lee Fairless (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm using a Western Digital 160GB drive as a slave. The master is > > an IBM 14 GB that holds Windnows 98SE. I put Debian GNU/Linux woody &g

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

2004-06-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
John Summerfield wrote: Ryan Nielsen wrote: I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. I tried two Maxtors previous and have swappe

Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
n Windows. I missed Unix at work since they switched from Unix to Windows. I purchased the woody CDROMs from Abexia which is one of the vendors listed on Debian.org. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a choice between Windows 98SE and Linux. You can customize the LILO menu, but you can save that question until after installation. I needed to 'wife-proof' my menu to let the machine boot automatically into Windows after a delay. (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
When I ordered Debian woody i686 CDROM's from a vendor listed on Debian.org, I got a set of seven. The first one gave me a list of kernels to try. I wound up using the 2.4 kernel. I am now running Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody 2.4.18 on this Gateway 500. Ethan Vos wrote: Good a

Re: charset of ext3 drives

2004-06-08 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
x27;t it? The filename would be only a stream of characters that would not vary although the appearance would perhaps change as different charset's were selected. Or did I miss something about the way filenames are stored? Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairle