Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-08 Thread Matthias Schulz
Alan Tam schrieb: > > Hi, > > I've installed Debian Gnu/Linux 2 months ago, till now I still > can't handle > the Dosemu package and run dos correctly. But I never think of giving > it up. > > I use win95 to download and read news groups to improve my > knowledge > on Linux. Lin

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-04 Thread Frederick Page
Hi kaynjay, you wrote on: 02 Feb 99 at 20:11 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: Goodbye, people!_ >>will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five >>seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say >>is if I c

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
Are you in the CST time zone (6 hours from UTC)? If that is the case, you might be configured to use UTC but are net setting it that way. After you set the system clock, you need to set the CMOS clock with 'hwclock --systohc --utc'. Here is what I put in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/checktime: #!/bin/sh r

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: >Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) > >Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm > the system either (at least I can't!). You're taking the right tack -- you > have to relax, plug away, keep trying

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
A. M. Varon writes: > I have also encountered the same problem few months ago. Try to: > 1. Edit /etc/default/rcS > 2. find GMT="-u" and replace it with GMT="" > 3. set your clock (Thru BIOS or thru hwclock). Try to reboot if it works. You're right: it's rcS, not boot. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PRO

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/02/99 at 05:16 PM, ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five >seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say >is if I can work with this O/S anyone can. It just takes time.

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even > remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Do you have your hardware clock set to local time? If so, check /etc/init.d/boot to see if you have GMT="u" . It should be GMT="" . -- John Hasler

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even > remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Time zone, bios clock > and everything is set ok but when I reboot the correct time is lost. It > has been one of those things on the back b

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, I've installed Debian Gnu/Linux 2 months ago, till now I still can't handle the Dosemu package and run dos correctly. But I never think of giving it up. I use win95 to download and read news groups to improve my knowledge on Linux. Linux is my destination and windows is only

Re: Goodbye, people!/Digressing to time.

1999-02-03 Thread ktb
It's been quite a while since I posted here about it. I can't even remember all I did. It is consistently 6 hours off. Time zone, bios clock and everything is set ok but when I reboot the correct time is lost. It has been one of those things on the back burner. I am (was) working with the tech

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Hasler
ktb writes: > ...my clock doesn't keep time,... What sort of probelm are you having with it? perhaps you should try the chrony package from unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:30:35 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm >the system either (at least I can't!). Fork bomb!!! Fork bomb :) - -- Steve

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Randy Edwards
> distribution to compare it to, I'm glad I did. After getting over the > realization that I wouldn't have everything working that I wanted in Linux, > right now, I began to relax and it has become a hobby. Well an obsession:) Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) Yes, Linux's learning curve is

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Frankie
Assuming you still haven't got your CD-ROM working, tell me the answers to these questions and they might be enough to establish what you need to do to get your cd working: what kernel version are you using? - I might be able to compile you a module for that kernel. Do you have any other kernel ve

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-02 Thread ktb
Two months ago I loaded Debian on my box. Prior to that I had one year of experience with windows 95. I used windows for email and the net mostly. About one month and two weeks ago I wanted to switch to Red Hat as I heard it was easier to use. I received encouragement from the list to stick w

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-02 Thread Clyde Wilson
Cristiano, Try RedHat before giving up. It does almost everything for you. Debian is great, also very hard!! On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Cristiano Viana wrote: > Well, I have tryied... > Everybody was tolding me that Debian was the best Linux... > But I will keep working with my Windows 98. It recognize

Goodbye, people!

1999-02-02 Thread Cristiano Viana
Well, I have tryied... Everybody was tolding me that Debian was the best Linux... But I will keep working with my Windows 98. It recognizes my CD-ROM. Goodbye and thanks to all those people who have helped me! Cristiano