Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-02 Thread Kenneth Jacker
el I have a USB 2 Sony Microvault 256Meg pen drive. el I am running SID. I'm using woody and a 256MB Microvault. el The pen drive is recognized as a hub and mass storage device and listed el as sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4. el The devices are listed properly in usbview. el But, I cannot

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Jacker
pj On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:54:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: I'm sure that someone with a more than mediocre knowledge of apt / dpkg could suggest a way of forcing removal of xlibs and leaving it's dependencies. I'd venture that you cold force removal of xlibs with dpkg, then

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-24 Thread Kenneth Jacker
Sorry I can't remember the *exact* error message ... I today found the error messages caused by apt-get upgrade: The following packages have been kept back libpng3 x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfree86-common

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ mark I would personally recommend the above link, as well, also put mark testing in youre apt sources, as it needs a few packages from mark there to install, but I've been running this for around 4 mark weeks and it rocks (once I

Re: LILO -- GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
km I recommend making a boot floppy: km http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Well I was able to make the boot floppy ... But *now*, I can't even run grub-install /dev/hda without an error message: /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive Note that I can

Re: LILO -- GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) ar and rerun grub-install. Try the following: ar dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 ar this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition ar table. Then run: ar dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443

Re: LILO -- GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar Err, it is 446 :) Made no difference ... grub-install *still* gives the error message and exits ... -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

2003-07-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the net, but no luck. I created the sources.list file with network entries followed by CD entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified network mirrors if I'm connected to the Internet. On the other hand, if I'm

LILO -- GRUB

2003-07-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I've been successfully booting into Debian-3.0 using LILO. Having used GRUB for many years on other systems, I decided to go ahead and install/configure it. Here (similar to what was suggested by another poster) is what I did: # apt-get install grub # grub-install --root-directory=/boot

2.4.18-686 kernel, but no PCMCIA

2003-07-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
When I boot my Dell laptop with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, my PCMCIA card is recognized properly and I can access our local Ethernet. When using 2.4.18-686, however, I get the following error message during booting and the eth0 device is unknown: /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/pcmcia/i82365.o:

'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-06-30 Thread Kenneth Jacker
'apt-get upgrade' is fine if you've got a fast Internet connection. However, what do folks do when they still have *slow* Internet connections (waiting for DSL, my home system still only works at ~25kbps, maybe ~30kbps)? Is it possible to have my home system find out what's needed, create a file

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