Re: PLEASE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO TURN MY DMA ON?

2004-04-01 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:01:59PM +0400, Dan Korostelev wrote: > apt-get install hdparm, edit /etc/hdparm.conf (On Sarge and Sid) > > or one-time thing: hdparm -d /dev/hdX (where X is the HDD device letter) Hi :) This will query whether the DMA is enabled or not. To enable: # hdparm -d1 /dev

Re: /var Partition Full from APT Packages

2004-03-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
> There are a a lot of older versions of debian packages in apt/archives > that is just taking up space. Is there a command in apt that I can use > to remove all the older versions without having to physically delete > each package one by one? # apt-get autoclean Regards, Nelson.- -- http://ge

Re: problem with apt-get and 2.4.18 kernel upgrade

2004-03-11 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:08:33AM -0800, Billy Pilgrim wrote: > > vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac > > Package: kernel-patch-2.4.18-powerpc I gave you the wrong advice. I Think you don't use the kernel-patch package unless you compile a Kernel yourself. The 2.4.18 version doesn't say much, s

Re: problem with apt-get and 2.4.18 kernel upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:24:18PM -0800, Billy Pilgrim wrote: ... > vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac ... > Package: kernel-patch-2.4.18-powerpc As you can see, the packages names differ. Maybe you don't have a default kernel installed but one you (or someone else) compiled. That's w

Re: LDAP tutorial?

2004-03-10 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. Yesterday I was reading the "LDAP Implementation Cookbook", a "red book" by IBM (available online). I've been reading about LDAP for a few days because I have to decide whether we will use LDAP or not at work. I think it's kinda hard to deploy LDAP because all the background infor

Re: Accents etc. in Openoffice not working.

2003-12-02 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. I tried OO recently and I found out I had to change the LANG env. variable before starting it so I could type with accents in Spanish. I don't know if there's a better way to do it, I just needed it for one day. Regards, Nelson.- On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:09:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

2003-11-26 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:19:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: echo "apm power_off=1" >>/etc/modules Hi, This worked for me. What happens if you do a "modprobe apm power_off=1" and then shut down? NC.- -- http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-19 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:33:42PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > >You can paste in console-vims, too, depending on your terminal, by > >setting mouse=a . However I have the indent-problem when doing this too. Try :set paste paste text... :set nopaste Nelson.- -- http://geocities.com/arhuaco T

Re: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-14 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. I will never forget to compile modules :) make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -custom01 \ --config oldconfig kernel_image kernel_headers \ kernel_doc modules --bzima

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:10:19PM +, ben wrote: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled > and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. Hi, Make backups :) ... Buy insurance ... - you can got to runlevel 1 ("init 1", no network, only root user

Re: .db files

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:20:35PM +, amit tiwari wrote: > will u pls tell me how to open .db files google with : "berkeley db tutorial" Regards. -- http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard F

2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs in a woody machine without problems, but in the other machine it crashes with a kernel panic before mounting the root file syst