Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

anything special to get Mandrake running on my hdb. I still have to get Debian's boot partition below 1024 for it to run. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: Troubleshooting My PPP

distros with a floppy boot so that they wouldn't mess with the MBR. The Corel LILO gives me a menu that lets me select which distro to start. But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition below 1024 cyl. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting

Troubleshooting My PPP

I can get information that may be useful. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: Thank you, Corel, for PPP]

distribution interfere with another? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

? The boot process certainly looks like the three are independent, and the X interface is unique to each. However, I do see in the Mandrake boot (dmesg stuff) repeated errors that say /boot/System.map has incorrect kernel version. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I

Troubleshooting My PPP

with Partition Magic (which I feel comfortable using), copy the contents of the present boot partition to the new one, and then edit lilo.conf to reflect the change. Does the above sound workable? How large does the boot partition need to be to hold things? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County

Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP

it's doing, so I thought it would be better for diagosis. wvdial has worked well under Corel Linux, too. I'll report back on the modem strings... well, if they're different, I'll change Debian's so that it's the same as Corel's. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: Newbie made a boo boo surprise surprise

going to give Debian another look, and I hope apt-get will actually do for me what it does for others: not only install the requested packages, but also fetch any dependencies. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

How to apt-get gnome

Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest gnome basic system packages? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Apt-get Confusion

. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: Apt-get Confusion

changed. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: Apt-get Confusion

from the CD. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Unidentified subject!

. Is there a solution? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: Installation problem

to recompile the kernel before you can get online with a distribution seems extreme, if you don't mind my saying so. I'm planning to get Debian from another source and try it. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: First Kernel Recompile

Shaul Karl said: I would try to install everything that is recommended by the kernel-package package. In fact, have you installed kernel-package? Yes, I have. How do you find out what is recommended by the k-p package? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re[2]: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

. It is very good for newbies, but it provided few answers to questions I had. As somewhat of a newbie, it was helpful. But I thought it was pretty thin for the price. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?

trashing everything on the drive? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

pam needed for ppp?

installed a Dialup package my first install, and yesterday I left pam out of my package-by-package install.) Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Library Names

to the package that contains it. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

First Kernel Recompile

, such as stdio.h. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Dialup Doesn't Dialup

like PPP (D?) died (error 1). Can you help me start getting where I want to be with Debian? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

RE: Based On

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Robert Ruzbacky wrote: Yes, Corel has apparently based their flavour of linux on debian as well!! Yes, indeed. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: Check This Out!

Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Permission Needed to Use ttyS1?

When I tried wvdial for the first time (it was set up for me during the Dialup installation), it said, Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied. I know a little something about permissions, but I don't know about that one! Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Newbie Lookin' for Libraries

to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: 0.0 The above was while I was logged on as root. Not a library question, but a couple of times, alien has reported, 822-date did not return a valid result. However, the process seemed to be successful. Is there a problem? Lane Lane Lester / Madison

Reporting RAM

What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have? My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding the mem= line to lilo.conf, but it doesn't work for me. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

My First Debian Install

I cry for help on this. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

MBRs Are Dangerous Things

to add another Linux. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Which Boot Manager?

that it can happen. I do use EZ-drive to manage the two 10-gig drives in my system. So is there an approach I can use that will manage these OSes? Preferably without having to reinstall any that are already there? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Coming to you through Corel

Re: What is apt-get

questions. g Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Coming to you through Corel Linux