Re: installation

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:41, Mike Stickney wrote: I am unable to install Debian Linux 2.2. The system recognizes the CD, proceeds to installation of the operating system and then decides that the CD cannot be mounted despite the fact that it has already been using it. The instructions on

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

and one 3 1/2). CD-RW and a 60GB drive in them and they work fantastic on both USB and Firewire. Makes up for the dvd/cdrw in the vaio docking station not working in linux. Uber nice to have 100GB of storage on a laptop ;-) -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Procmail setup

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 11:10, Ryan J Goss wrote: I recently joined this mailing list and enjoy the good discussions, but I am trying to figure out how to set up procmail so that all debian related messages get forwarded to a debian folder and not into my inbox. I don't know what I am doing

Re: Procmail question

: | formail -iContent-Type: text/plain } You need lynx installed, but that works for me -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile: +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B

Re: can't KILL tty

whatever Useless without the pid - which judging by the examples - the OP didn't have. Try fuser -9 -k /dev/tty2, that will kill all processes using tty2 HTH Greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile: +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B

Re: Quake III

* This one time, at band camp, ben said: On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: Corey Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience running anything under wine? I've never

Re: bash woes

* This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Matthews said: Ok - can someone explain the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 2err [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat err rm: cannot remove

Re: where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig

* This one time, at band camp, Kurt Lieber said: I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.17 kernel with ieee 1394 support. Only problem is I can't the kernel options to enable it using menuconfig. It used to be (IIRC) a top level option, right under the SCSI option. I verified the 2.4.17 deb

Re: ssh and X

* This one time, at band camp, Kerstin Hoef-Emden said: On 26 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). I did slogin -X localhost, but the X programms I start hang (without any output on the console). You've got the

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

* This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson said: Try using a local mirror. http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors Can I also suggest looking at 'netselect-apt' (package netselect and only in woody+ IIRC) If you change to /etc/apt, backup sources.list, then try 'netselect-apt

Re: mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups

* This one time, at band camp, Greg Fischer said: Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look:

Re: Non-interactive password check

* This one time, at band camp, Nick Hastings said: Hi, * Alexander Steinert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011128 18:36]: Do you know any way to make ssh less interactive? Look at the man pages for ssh-agent and ssh-add. ssh-agent/add will not accomplish what the Alexander was after

Re: Exim problem

* This one time, at band camp, Agics Balazs said: Hi all, I want to compile exom 3.33 on my Debian (Woddy) box, but it fails. The message is: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb collect 2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [exim_dmbuild] Error 1 Please help me! I would suggest you

Re: Can't compile VIM

* This one time, at band camp, Dale Morris said: I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I run make: objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c):

Re: Newbie error

* This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Pad? said: Hi, by mistake (I am tired?), I just did something very stupid: rm /dev/hda3 It worked. Now I cannot access that partition any more. How can I bring it back? Ooops - thats not good! try 'mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3; chown root:disk