Re: newbie help request

2015-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:54:52PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Ed R wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've just installed debian 8.0 on a thinkpad t41 laptop. Installed w/ grub > > boot selected as this is only OS on system. All seemed to go well until > > reboot which failed due cache sync errors. Cu

Re: newbie help request

2015-05-13 Thread deloptes
Ed R wrote: > Greetings, > > I've just installed debian 8.0 on a thinkpad t41 laptop. Installed w/ grub > boot selected as this is only OS on system. All seemed to go well until > reboot which failed due cache sync errors. Current symptons are I can't > restart from the software as I see a "Kerne

Re: newbie help on installing java on etch /without/ x11 (crosspost from debian-java)

2007-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:20:20AM +, Tim Diggins wrote: > Hi list - > > have recently started with debian etch (sort of know what I'm doing in BSD, > linux is a /slightly/ new adventure). > > I want to install jdk (and tomcat) by the simplest means, but DON'T want to > install x11 stuff. i

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-27 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Kevin Mark wrote: Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. Insulting folks about background, sexual orientation, or language IN ONE POST is beyond the pale. While folks here ocasssionaly make slight taunts or comments at one another, it is expected that newcomers r

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/07 00:07, Oleg Verych wrote: [snip] > > As for "flower" think of it, as synonym to "develop". Flower, bloom, mature, grow, develop. That makes sense, I guess. I'm sure that flower/develop is a perfectly understood metaphor in Cz, but it ju

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: >> >>> Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first >>> sent it this morning. >>> >> >> Oh, man, are you serious? >> >> First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right.

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:11:54AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: >> >>> Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first >>> sent it this morning. >>> >> >> Oh, man, are you serious? >> >> First. No one interested in you p

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Oleg Verych wrote: 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. No one

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Oleg Verych
27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: > Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first > sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. > I am need of some help with a USB

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-05-02 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start > over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can > someone give me detailed instructions to expand my

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-28 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:16:12 -0400 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start > over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can > someone give me detailed instructions to expand my 40GB root > partition to

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is no root partition. There is a root account but if memory serves is located in the "/" partition. So if that's correct, it's the slash partition you want to enlarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John Fleming wrote: > I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put > the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I > knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it > would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this new

Re: Newbie-Help in configuring IceWm

2003-06-05 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:54:04PM +0530, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > I also installed IceWm by apt-get install icewm. gd idea :) > Problem 1. > Since this is a low end m/c , I wanted to use only IceWm. what ya mean 'only' icewm? IM(NS)HO icewm is hardcore :D > But during installation I gave gdm as the

Re: Newbie-Help in configuring IceWm

2003-06-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 15:24, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Problem 1. > Since this is a low end m/c , I wanted to use only IceWm. > But during installation I gave gdm as the display manager. Now login > screen shows only GNome,KDE and failsafe only as the sessions. > > Next I made a .xinitrc file in my

Re: Newbie Help

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:37:50PM -0800, Kris wrote: > I recently downloaded a .deb file how to I actually install it. The deb > package was not a standard deb package and I am so new I don't know how to > setup a standard .deb file. Please help Go

Re: Newbie Help

2003-03-27 Thread Sharninder
> I recently downloaded a .deb file how to I actually install it. > The deb package was not a standard deb package and I am so new I > don't know how to setup a standard .deb file. Please help > try dpkg -i ... and later do man dpkg man apt-get Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Managemen

Re: Newbie Help

2003-03-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030327 15:59 PST]: > I recently downloaded a .deb file how to I actually install it. The deb > package was not a standard deb package and I am so new I don't know how to > setup a standard .deb file. Please help As Seneca says, to manually install a .deb you can use

Re: Newbie Help

2003-03-27 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:37:50PM -0800, Kris wrote: > I recently downloaded a .deb file how to I actually install it. The deb > package was not a standard deb package and I am so new I don't know how to > setup a standard .deb file. Please help Is "dpkg -i foo.deb" what you want? -- Seneca [

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian seems like the center of a funnel; after hitting a few places > on the sides, you eventually end up here;) What a good way of putting it ;-) Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/ For the child

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-10 Thread Russell
David Pastern wrote: Harvey Kelly said: ... As to mandrake, i've never tried it. I've heard some good things about it, some bad, but generally i've heard its installation is faultless, and it has very very good hardware support. Suse 8 pro apparently has very good hardware support as well. No

RE: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread David Pastern
Harvey Kelly said: >You could try Debian, but I fear it'll be too much for you (sorry, that >ounded patronising), I would recommend SuSE over Mandrake, only 'cause >my father tried switching to Linux and he found Mandrake to be more >trouble than it's worth, he's now running SuSE 8.0. And this is

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:33:18PM -0800, George L Smyth wrote: > As a Windows user from the 2.0 days, I have decided to learn a bit ... > So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close > to the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby > words that will all

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread nate
Harvey Kelly said: > Just curious... why not the Personal? He'll be using KDE3, X will be set > up pretty well, and if he wants to explore (i.e Mutt, text-based browsers > etc.) they're provided. It's just that Personal is approx. half the price > (here in the UK). i just think that professiona

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi everyone, On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:52:06PM -0800, nate wrote: > George L Smyth said: > > > So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close to > > the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby words that > > will allow me to get this thing running (it's

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"George" == George L Smyth writes: George> So it was suggested that I try Debian, and I have an George> installation CD. However, when I boot the PC with this George> CD, the CD ROM apparently is not recognized. I looked George> around to try to find a boot floppy, but the d

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, George L Smyth said: > As a Windows user from the 2.0 days, I have decided to learn a bit about Linux, > but am becoming increasingly frustrated. I have an old computer (Pentium > 166MHz) that I chose to use as my learning tool, and installed Mandrake on it. > Unfortu

Re: Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread nate
George L Smyth said: > So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close to > the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby words that > will allow me to get this thing running (it's not nearly as simple as > Windows). if your close to giving up, stop right

Re: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > >From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Problem 2: dselect config file mulched > > > >I've inadvertantly hoarked whatever shoot-myself-in-the-foot.config > >file it is that controls what the dselect program can access. I c

Re: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!

2001-05-24 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie: Help, I'm stuck! Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:30:28 -0700 Problem 1: the cursor won't respond I installed the Potato release as the default OS in a dual-boot setup on an Apple PowerBook "Pismo" (Fire

RE: newbie help

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Try tar zxvf kernel-source 2.2.12.tar.gz (which u have mentioned is already in /usr/src). tar will "un-tar" and "gunzip" the kernel sources into the directory kernel-source- (or something like that). cd into the said directory and do a make config ( ro make menuconfig or make xconfig if you want

Re: newbie help

2000-07-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I do have one little thing that I am stuck on. I am trying to > > recompile the kernel and I am trying to follow the > > /usr/doc/kernel-package Readme file but I am not understanding the > > first step. I have kernel-source 2.2.12.tar.gz in

Re: newbie help

2000-07-29 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I do have one little thing that I am stuck on. I am trying to > recompile the kernel and I am trying to follow the > /usr/doc/kernel-package Readme file but I am not understanding the > first step. I have kernel-source 2.2.12.tar.gz in /usr/src now. Do I > need to g

Re: newbie help (kernel)

2000-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:48:53PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > . . . I am trying to follow the usr/doc/kernel-package Readme file > /but I am not understanding the first step. I have kernel-source > 2.2.12.tar.gz in /usr/src now. Do I need to gunzip it then un-tar > it and then do the mak

Unpacking kernel sources (was Re: newbie help)

2000-07-29 Thread kmself
Please use a descriptive subject line. On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:48:53PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do have one little thing that I am stuck on. I am trying to > recompile the kernel and I am trying to follow the > /usr/doc/kernel-package Readme file but I am not understanding the >

Re: newbie help in setting up mta!

2000-05-13 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:32:15PM +, john smith wrote: > Can someone please guide me thru setting up masqmail? I am lost. I don't > know where to begin. masqmail.conf? the docs tell me to configure it first > using make, make install etc.. but I dont think I have to do that anymore > since

Re: Newbie.. Help!

1999-05-19 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Koyote wrote: > >Question 2: Considering my above statement concerning my ignorance > of OS's, > >should I even be considering abandoning windows in favor of linux ? > > Depends. Can you afford to buy a second computer- a used 486 for a > couple hundred dollars? Then, yes. If ou only have one com

Re: Newbie.. Help!

1999-05-19 Thread Koyote
>Confusing observation: >I am using a Pentium II 350 MHz with 128MB RAM, with windows98 for >intensive algorithms (coherent integration)--aprox. 175 billion calculations >per work unit. (The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project, a fascinating project itself.) > On my system average CPU work time is over 4

Re: Newbie.. Help!

1999-05-19 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Arthur wrote: > > Confusing observation: > I am using a Pentium II 350 MHz with 128MB RAM, with windows98 for > intensive algorithms (coherent integration)--aprox. 175 billion calculations > per work unit. (The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project, a fascinating project itself.) > On my system average CPU

Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > BB> Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK -- > > > > > > > Apart from setting this to a ridiculously high number, is there a way to > > disable it? > > /etc/syslog.conf > > [...] > *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ > auth,authpriv.none;\ >

Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > BB> Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK -- > > > > Apart from setting this to a ridiculously high number, is there a way to > disable it? /etc/syslog.conf [...] *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,mark.none,news.none-/va

Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On 24 Sep 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BB> noticed an annoynace in messages: > BB> lots of messages of the following type: > BB> Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. > BB> Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- > BB> Sep 20 10

Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> noticed an annoynace in messages: BB> lots of messages of the following type: BB> Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. BB> Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 10:07:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 10:27:40 yoda -- MARK --

Re: newbie help....

1998-09-24 Thread Saisanthosh B
> 05:34:36 yoda:~/tmp/pine4.03$ build slx > Cannot stat debian/rules type "./build slx" and not "build slx", because there is a build in /usr/bin -- -- Saisanthosh. B | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

1998-09-23 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | hello, | | me again | | is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin | texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package? It is. Just > export LESSCHARSET=latin1 and all is well. You would probably put it

Re: newbie help....

1998-09-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> - first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. BB> the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want BB> to sue as before 4.03... BB> now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: B