I recently did a Woody upgrade on an old IBM. I have been running Woody
for a couple of months now with no problems, however since doing the
update/upgrade thing a couple of days ago, my X is all messed up.
To start with X would not start at all because for some reason
/etc/X11/X just
Hi,
I am going after my first attempt to compile a kernel under Debian. As
suggested, I went to debian.org and found the 2.2.18 source, and apt-get
install(ed) it. It of course ended up in /usr/src as a .tar.gz2 file. I then
per instructions from docs on the CD of my original install, chown
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:37:47PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
Why do people suggest using things like mc(1)? What if Marcelo hasn't
installed midnight commander? Let's instead suggest he learns about
the tools on the system instead of learning about crutches such as mc.
While I tend
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the
floppy, looked
at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all the correct settings for my config as
dar as I
can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:25:37PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
yup, that's exactly the procedure. okay, i am not really a kernel
guru, but i have compiled *a lot* of kernels before and applied
patches and took the make system apart...
anyway, the procedure that i always follow is:
(omitted
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:18:21AM -0600, sc wrote:
I guess it depends on your friends. A friend of mine introduced me to
Debian when I had a dormant P133 w/32MB of RAM. Only reason I used
Debian was because he introduced it to me. I had no meaningful UNIX
knowledge, and I'm not a
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:55:12PM +, John Carline wrote:
And I no idea why you do that because I haven't found any of those
distributions
to be easier - only different.
what is it about debian that inspires such zealotry?
Quality software, the ideals of the Free Software
Ok, here's my situation. I was planning on doing the switch to Debian in the
near future, but it came sooner than expected when the HD in my Brand X
distro machine bellied up on me. So I went down and picked up a new 30 gig
unit and it now sits in my Pentium machine eagerly awaiting a new OS. I am
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:17:03PM -0600, ktb wrote:
Would the following work?
/boot (5 meg primary)
/ (10240 meg logical)
/swap (64 meg primary)
Just leaving the rest open until I get ready to install the other OSs.
Anyone?
What you have should work fine. With as
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:55:15PM -0800, Forrest English wrote:
!! Why abuse your friends by starting them out on an inferior product and
then making them *relearn* how to do things the Debian way. Be a real
friend and help them start off with the
!! *right* distribution.
!!
!! John
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:02:56PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
I downloaded Libranet 1.2.2 ISO from a ftp site from Linux.org (got a T1
at work). I tried to install it and you know what, it's got a debian
installer (with Libranet thrown in here and there) for Potato. I
completely
Hi,
My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them
on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux
and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the
system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am
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