On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:44 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked
inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. How things work has
never been of interest to me except when they don't work. Even then I
just learn enough to fix
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 10:21 +0800, Jason Hsu wrote:
I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS.
It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish. How can I switch to
XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight window manager?
1) You could do a reinstall:
get
I'm running Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Debian Lenny.
While I was using the calendar, Evolution crashed. When I restarted it,
the memo and task lists were blank.
The relevant files are still present. (For
example, .evolution/memos/local/system/journal.ics is still on the hard
drive.) Any hints or
I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to
detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer.
A shot in the dark: lsusb?
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On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 16:11 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian.
should i use dpkg -i or alien?
I wouldn't try to install an Ubuntu package on Debian.
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from the now inactive debian
eeepc project:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
Has this project come to an end?
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On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote:
Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling
around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know.
Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. Over the
weekend, I had noticed that SBM wasn't
Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling
around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know.
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I don't think so. I was simply wrong about it being bad hardware (most
likely). However another poster pointed out that ACPI on a P1 is
probably wrong and since the message say it's not giving results the
kernel likes, it could certainly apply. Try booting with
acpi=off
or
noacpi
(I
Daniel, thank you for your suggestions.
Assuming you are using the text installer (if you haven't you should,
just in case), you should be able Alt-F4 to see the system logs (ctrl
is unnecessary in text mode. Alt-F3 and Alt-F2 should be alternate
consoles you can use.
I'm using the text
How about doing an upgrade instead?
You could even try to do it incrementally.
Thank you. You are right. I could do that.
Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the
Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine down the
road (and I'd like to keep it
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:36 +0500, Ata ur Rehman wrote:
Dear All
I'm new to this list. I'm looking for CD/DVD images for Debian 4.0 r7
but I could not find. Can someone help me?
I tried my best to find the archives at debian.org but unfortunately
couldn't
Try this location:
I use an ATA Force card so that the machine can recognize the large
hard drive and boot from the CD reader using an SBM card. I doubt that
these are the problem since Etch installed okay, but heck, who knows.
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I sent this email in two parts. It seems that only the second part got
through. So, here are both parts combined into one email.
I have a (old) Pentium 75 that used to run Etch. I have been trying to
install Lenny on it without success. The installation stops at the 6%
point of the Installation
I have a (old) Pentium 75 that used to run Etch. I have been trying to
install Lenny on it without success. The installation stops at the 6%
point of the Installation of Base System step. Various packages are
being retrieved at that point. At different times, the installation has
stopped while it
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:22 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote:
ATA Force card so that the machine can recognize the large
hard drive
The computer came with a 1.2 GB hard drive. The BIOS doesn't recognize
the larger 4 GB hard drive. So, I use a ATA Force card (Micro Firmware
ATA PRO FLASH BIOS 1.76AHM
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 19:00 -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:39:51PM EDT, Robert Hodgins wrote:
Any ideas to diagnose what is going on or to get the installation to
complete would be appreciated.
Not sure.. but have you tried (re)installing etch.. just to make sure
The graphic installation from small CD went well but could not boot into
the graphic login afterward. I just get a blank monitor and the hard
drive stops activity.
I re-installed a couple of times, hoping that something would change. No
luck.
Is the small CD the netinst? I tried several
Found some hits: seamonkey, kompozer/nvu, but none of them
are in Lenny. I'd like to keep the installation as standard as possible,
so I'd prefer not to have to get non-aptitude packages.
Would iceape work for you?
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On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:02 -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
What is this update ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For
example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I
see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What are these update ISO
images used for? Thanks in advance.
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-12-30 21:27 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:02 -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
What is this update ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For
example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 19:00 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure
what services are started at boot.
I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux
distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:19 -0500, ttmann wrote:
Hello
I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals
this is the DVD iso release I require
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007
I'm assuming that you are interested in the i386 version
I found this site by googling for
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 20:15 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
An automated voice told me that my (non-existant, of course)
Jefferson Parish[0] Credit Union Visa card has been blocked.
I immediately hung up on it, of course, and am slightly unnerved
that they are now calling people at home with
At some point in the distant past, there were instructions in the release
notes for upgrading from Debian releases other than the prior release.
The release notes for Etch are here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes
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On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist-
upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)?
I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM...
Googling etch lenny upgrade gives
I'm new to Debian (sorta - a recent Ubuntu convert to Debian).
Can someone show me an example of what the sources.list file should
look like for Lenny please?
Here is one example:
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Debian-sources-list-testing-ftopict489925.html
Google for lenny +
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:57 +0200, Bogdan wrote:
Hey,
I'm on Debian Sid / KDE 4.1. I have a HP PSC 1110 multifunction printer.
I found a way to configure the printing function, but I don't seem to be
able to scan with it. I installed Kooka but it didn't do the trick (
afterwards I
In icedove, if i click on a url
it opens up the default web browser. I would much prefer it to open up
the Iceweasel browser which is my preferred browser. Where in icedove
can I change it to open iceweasel?
Actually, you can change it from the desktop. In the menu bar, click on
Desktop,
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 06:54 -0700, Vwaju wrote:
For historical reasons, I need to install sarge .
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge has release information, but none
of the links on that page lead to a page where you can actually
*download* sarge.
I will need to download the basic
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:33 -0430, juan alberto zarate sanoja wrote:
hi, my name is juan zarate from caracas - venezuela,
I am developer of aplications (artificial intelligence, expert
systems, tailor's made aplications)
with over 20 years of experience
and i am also, a linux administradtor
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:46 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
I expect this has been covered before, but people undoubtedly have more
experience with it now, and it won't hurt to discuss it again.
I've been using one for about 3 months. Guess that makes me experienced.
What variety of Linux is
I am trying to use the InfraRecorder program that I downloaded from
the Ubuntu web site.
I've used CdBurnerXP Pro with no problems: http://cdburnerxp.se/
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Given that you're in the country that invented the witch-hunt, that's
not much surprise.
I wasn't aware that he was from Babylonia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Antiquity
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Best of the season to all.
And may we spend the new year helping and being helped on this list.
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But then some genius gave us the sign to allowed us to select how far back in
a thread we wished to read and also saved our scroll wheels many many miles of
rolling through text that we had already read only to find a one-liner at the
bottom of the message.
A: Because it messes up the
That would be Steve Gibsons's site, that I've often used.
http://www.grc.com
Gibosn's site scans the first 1056 ports. This site
(http://www.auditmypc.com/firewall-test.asp) scans up to 65535.
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On Thu, 2007-23-08 at 14:20 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip
address you are?
Your local network address:
~$ /sbin/ifconfig
Your internet address:
~$ wget -O -
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:47 -0700, ann kok wrote:
Hi all
I just install new debian.
but it seems nothing iptable in the default
installation
how can I install?
1) you can use a pre-written script like this one:
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/fw_laptop
Getting it going is discussed
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