Re: easy way to install sid by ftp?

2004-03-02 Thread Steven Leach
Did you try Woody? Sid/Sarge installers seem to basically not work (yet?). There is no reason, however, that you can't just install Woody and apt-get dist-upgrade (which is what I've done here). Woody's installer is flawless. On Mar 1, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Richard Lyons wrote: I've seen loads

Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

2004-02-29 Thread Steven Leach
Which Via board are you running? I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M1 as a little desktop cube. Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M1 (single ethernet) using the via-rhine driver. On the dual lan, however, only eth0 was recognized. Upgraded to sid (possibly

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Steven Leach
On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:36 PM, John Hasler wrote: s. keeling writes: Previously, this was accepted behaviour; making backup copies of originals was just something that was done. I don't recall anyone making backup copies of books or vinyl records. Actually it is fairly common to "back up" vinyl rec

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

2004-02-17 Thread Steven Leach
All hardware would be supported under Linux (no win-modems or anything). Of course there's also http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed On Feb 17, 2004, at 5:17 PM, . wrote: There are some PCs available that do not have Windows preinstalled but instead have SUSE as their only operating sy

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-16 Thread Steven Leach
Oh, I'm not bashing Apple, Mac, or Mac OS X by any means. You might want to check out my email address and the web address on my signature :-) I have been interested in the PowerPC processor [32 general purpose registers!!!] since the first rummers and articles many years ago (what was that

Re: Holy Shee-it

2004-02-16 Thread Steven Leach
I would have to wonder what possible benefit would be derived from this. True, MS Word/Office is one of the biggest things which keeps desktop users dependent on Windows (or Mac too of course). But running Office, already a program with less than stellar stability in my experience, under some

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
On Feb 15, 2004, at 1:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: I think the 286 extended the concept of far pointers somehow to extend the addressing range to 16 megs and make it a bit more like a proper MMU, but you were still limited to 64k blocks. Sort of. The 286 had a truly brain-damaged seg

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Hmm. Your message was a multipart/alternative message, one part plain text, the other part "text/enriched", which seems to be a strange pseudo-HTML kind of thing (RFC 1896). The bug tracking system's logic follows the MIME specification and takes the last part it understands. Unfortunately, it tho

Re: sarge installer successes?

2004-02-15 Thread Steven Leach
Please write to the debian-boot list and describe the problems you've had, they love install reports :-) When I tried the Beta 2 a week or two ago, I tried (as per the instructions on the debian-installer website) to file a bug report. Fill out template (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-instal

sarge installer successes?

2004-02-14 Thread Steven Leach
After yet another failed attempt to install Sarge from the latest unofficial ISO onto my spare/testing partition, I am currently reinstalling Woody. I am curious what kind of luck others have had with the Sarge installer. The only x86 system that I have available to test on is an epia m1

Re: VIA Rhine and IDE-scsi not detected during setup?

2004-02-10 Thread Steven Leach
On Feb 10, 2004, at 4:16 AM, Dennis van Turnhout wrote: I descided to reinstall my VIA epia M1 system with Sarge. Downloaded the 2 DVD iso images with jigdo a while ago. Setup starts as normal but the nic and IDE-Scsi doesn't load?   Downloaded sarge-i386-netinst.iso through debian.com, setu

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

2004-02-08 Thread Steven Leach
You have no business trying to access files in any account that is not yours, much less the system administrator's account of a system that is not yours. Grow Up. If anyone on the list can read french, please forward this jerk's message to the administrator at nordnet.fr - I tried to get an

Font Mystery

2004-02-03 Thread Steven Leach
Oh, more info that I forgot to add and a correction: First, just a correction, it is Mozilla and Epiphany that are displaying fonts incorrectly on the dysfunctional installation, firebird works just fine (I had mistakingly written that it was Mozilla and Firebird both). on the "testing" insta

Font Mystery

2004-02-03 Thread Steven Leach
I've got a strange and frustrating font mystery going on: I have two Debian partitions on a machine that I just built, one is a small testing partition for trying out various software that I don't want leaving residue on my main partition, trying out various changes, etc.. The second partitio