Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Marc Shapiro escreveu: Could the missing blocks (471655 - 456730) be the journal file, since that is completely invisible and not accessable through the filesystem? If so, what is using the 8239 blocks shown by df? The 8239 is the jornal. The ext2 isn't journalled. However it uses the 14 MB

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Matthew Dawson escreveu: Well, the number of blocks was probably taken by ext3 stuff, but I am not sure. As well, by default ext3 sets aside 5% (i think) to the root user, but the can be changed with tune2fs. Thanks fo your reply. However the 5% is inside the partition (456.730 - (424.908 +

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthew Dawson wrote: On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: 2nd Question: When I format the partition with ext3, the df -k command returns: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 456730

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Dawson
On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a 512 MB Kingston flash disk. When I try to create a partition > with 460 MB (471.040 KB), the partition is created with 460.6 MB > (471.665 KB). > > >Device Boot Start

Re: questions about anti virus tools in linux

2005-07-29 Thread Mr Mike
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:43:25 +0200, Walter Hoolwerf wrote: > On 2005-07-26 09:30:13 +0200, Trace Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to do some antivirus scan for my windows partitions in LiveCD, >> so, i want to ask some questions about these tools. >> >> 1. As i know, clams

Re: questions about anti virus tools in linux

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday July 26 2005 12:23 am, Trace Green wrote: > Hi, > > I want to do some antivirus scan for my windows partitions in > LiveCD, so, i want to ask some questions about these tools. > > 1. As i know, clamscan and f-prot can do this work for me. but they > seems don't support NTFS. Why should

Re: questions about anti virus tools in linux

2005-07-26 Thread Marlen Caemmerer
I had to do this as well and I found out I can use bit defender and sophos on the command line but sophos "delete the virus instantly" does not work (esecially for cleaning zip-files)and bitdefender's recognition of viruses is not as good as sophos is. For the NTFS problem I struggled a lot with

Re: questions about anti virus tools in linux

2005-07-26 Thread Walter Hoolwerf
On 2005-07-26 09:30:13 +0200, Trace Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hi, I want to do some antivirus scan for my windows partitions in LiveCD, so, i want to ask some questions about these tools. 1. As i know, clamscan and f-prot can do this work for me. but they seems don't support NTFS. i

Re: Questions about sis7012+snd_intel8x0 sound card problem

2005-07-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sunday 10 July 2005 13:01, Trace Green wrote: > Hi, all > > My sound card is SiS7012 integrated, vendor and > device id is 1039:7012. I tried to use alsaconf to > config my sound card, it loads snd_intel8x0. > > But i cann't hear any sound, when i use alsamixer to > check, i find pcm and master

Re: Questions about sis7012+snd_intel8x0 sound card problem

2005-07-10 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:01:15 +0800, Trace Green wrote: > This seems an old problem, i tried to find the answer in google, fail Search for the relevant report in the ALSA bug tracking system. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: questions about disk partitions

2004-12-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Eric wrote: > Hello all. > > I was in need of some more hard disk space and so I figured I'd reclaim some > of the unused space in my rarely used XP partition. XP is located on hda1. > I resized hda1 from 35GB to 15GB using ntfsresize leaving ~20GB of free > space, but I c

Re: Questions on Conffiles

2004-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:23:48PM +0800, ?? wrote: > >Just replace them with the original files. You may have a > >/etc/deconf.conf.dpkg-dist file--this is the unmodified file from the > >package. > > I am sorry I did not find such file, this means I have to backup first > next time. Bu

Re: Questions on Conffiles

2004-12-07 Thread 徐冠鹏
- Original Message - From: "Brian Nelson" To: Sent: 2004-12-08 00:09:06 Subject: Re: Questions on Conffiles I am sorry there is some problems with my mail system, and now I am correcting it. >Just replace them with the original files. You may have a >/etc/

>:Re: Questions on Conffiles

2004-12-07 Thread 徐冠鹏
- Original Message -From:  "Brian Nelson" To:  Sent: 2004-12-08 00:09:06Subject: Re: Questions on Conffiles >Just replace them with the original files.  You may have a>/etc/deconf.conf.dpkg-dist file--this is the unmodified file from the>package. I am sorry I did not f

Re: Questions on Conffiles

2004-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:50:39PM +0800, ?? wrote: > I was reading the introduction about Conffiles in Debian Policy > Manual, section 10.7 and appendix E, Don't trust anything in the appendix. That stuff tends to be way out of date. > and modified conffiles of package debconf, /etc/debco

Re: Questions

2004-08-31 Thread Josef Oswald
olayemi ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > Kindly, tell me the 3 differences between these topics bellow. > > 1floppy disk and zip disk > 2vcd and dvd > 3cd recordable an

Re: Questions

2004-08-31 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
- floppy disk = only 1.44mb per disk, easy to break - zip disk = more than 100mb (old and new ver) harder than floppy, the floppy drive of Mac :) - vcd = ??? video cd is refer to movie in a cd - dvd = dvd is the media that being used in replacment of CD (not vcd) has more advance tech, can contain

Re: Questions about aptitude use

2004-08-30 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable > available for use. > > I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude > interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming? > > Is there a way to tell which

Re: Questions about aptitude use

2004-08-30 Thread Travis Crump
Paul E Condon wrote: I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable available for use. I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming? Is there a way to tell which release a pachage will come from if I markit for in

Re: Questions about x window environment (kdm and xdm)

2004-06-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have later installed xdm and kdm and changed /etc/inittab to have run level 5. By default, Debian run-levels 2-5 are identical. On other distros the different run levels distinguish between text-mode and GUI-mode. IOW, changing /etc/inittab to run 5 accomplished noth

Re: Questions about x window environment (kdm and xdm)

2004-06-27 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, Hello - > I have installed Sarge with the netiso cd and then installed x-window, > kde, mozilla and everything to have a working desktop. Good. > I have later installed xdm and kdm and changed /etc/inittab to have run > level 5. Well, that's silly.

Re: Questions about x window environment (kdm and xdm)

2004-06-27 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:24:07 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I have installed Sarge with the netiso cd and then installed x-window, > kde, mozilla and everything to have a working desktop. > > I have later installed xdm and kdm and changed /etc/inittab to have run > level 5. Deb

Re: Questions about /etc/profile ulimit -Hn and /etc/initscript & /etc/security/limits

2004-06-05 Thread Bob Proulx
tripolar wrote: > When running java w/ another program I get this error message- > java.io.IOException: Too many open files You have opened more files than the system has resources for by default. This is usually a bug in your program. It is often called a file descriptor leak, similar to a memo

Re: Questions

2004-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:56:01AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello my name is LaRonn Fryar and I am writing an essay based on the > Linux operating system. I just wanted to know why your company decided > to use Linux? What are the advantages and disadvantages in using its > source code? Wh

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-13, Andreas Janssen penned: > > I think pico belongs to pine (although it seems there are also no > installable pine packes in stable). Nano is a pico clone (at least the > package description says it is, I never used pico). Nano is part of > the base system and probably is already insta

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sony Lloyd (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of > apps like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian > system? Or they wont install since my system is too old? You need packages that were built for your system. In m

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:19:08AM -0800, Sony Lloyd wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of apps > like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian system? > Or they wont install since my system is too old? You may be able to build them from source (

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:40:17AM -0600, Dave's List Addy wrote: > On 2/13/04 10:19 AM, "Sony Lloyd" wrote: > > (2)Where can I find pico for debian? > > I searched through the http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/ > > and it's not there. > > If there's no pico dor debian, what simple text ed

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Dave's List Addy
On 2/13/04 10:19 AM, "Sony Lloyd" wrote: > (2)Where can I find pico for debian? > I searched through the http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/ and it's not > there. > If there's no pico dor debian, what simple text editor similar to pico would > you recommend. Apt-get install nano -- Than

Re: questions on ACPI

2004-01-22 Thread Sébastien NOBILI
Do you have apmd installed? What happens when you do an APM suspend? On my laptop (DELL i8k) APM suspend works... but causes problems when resuming X. I can suspend and resume but the mouse has a strange behaviour when resumed. it's almost impossible to control it. That's the reason why I'm tr

Re: Questions about locales

2004-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:40:49PM +, James Ng wrote: > I want to ask something about locales. Since my nationality is > Chinese (from Hong Kong), I use the locale zh_TW.Big5. When I upgraded > the gcc and g++ with "apt-get", during the setting up, the following > messages is shown: > >

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Colin, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > # ls -l /usr/bin/ | grep gnome-session > > # ls -l /usr/bin/ | grep Gnome-session > > both no printout > > Install the gnome-session package. # apt-get install gnome-session rebooted PC Xterm window $ startx /usr/bin/gnome-session ERROR There was

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:52:08AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Login 'Failsafe gnome" as USER > # startx /usr/bin/gnome-session > > > please report problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > xlib:connnection to ":0.0" refused by server > xlib:Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIT-1 key giving up > xinit:unable to

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > Everything you find in /etc has to do with configuration files, not > executables. > > Have a look at the file system: > http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_intro/sect_03_01.html > scroll down to section 3.1/3.2. You get better at finding stuff if you > k

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-02 Thread Chris
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Gnome seems case-sensitive??? everything is. Which pair executables starting GNOME??? a) /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome /etc/gdm/Sessions/Xsession b) /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession c) /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome /etc/X11/Xsession Everything you find in /

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:46:38AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > Gnome seems case-sensitive??? > As far as I know in UNIX and children/sibblings, everything is case sensitive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: questions/comments about new sarge installer & LILO

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tripolar wrote: I have used the new sarge installer alot in the last week and am pretty impressed. Thanks to all responsible. But where do you get the iso file from? I still cannot get to gluck on Debian. Hugo. A few things that seem different are 1) the way discs are labeled in lilo for exam

Re: questions/comments about new sarge installer & LILO

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:42:43 -0600, tripolar wrote: > I have used the new sarge installer alot in the last week and am pretty > impressed. Thanks to all responsible. > A few things that seem different are > 1) the way discs are labeled in lilo > for example: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Re: Questions about using the mailing lists

2003-10-08 Thread J Y
Hello, I am responding to this because I have online email and have been removed from the debian-users list even though I know my account was not over capacity. I have a graphical representation of how much of my inbox I'm using and I never let it get more than 50% but I have been removed from the

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-16 Thread cr
Thanks to those who helped, I've replied to them individually off-list so as not to be too repetitious. Briefly - > mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc1 /mnt/dosC > gives > mount: fs type umsdos not supported by kernel ... and of course I should have been using 'msdos' not 'umsdos' > Secondly, I'm hav

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:44:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a > couple of what may be fundamental points that I should sort out before > this installation gets too far down the track. > > First, I have a couple of DOS parti

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:44:58 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc1 /mnt/dosC > gives > mount: fs type umsdos not supported by kernel > > Am I using the wrong kernel? (uname says I'm using idepci: > Linux alti 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i586 unknown >

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-15 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > I've just managed (on my second attempt) to install Debian 3.0 and get PPP > working (so this time the RedHat 7.2 hard drive doesn't go straight back in) > > However, there are a number of things that need sorting, including a couple > of what may be fundamenta

Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Land
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:35:38PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > > "ls -d" command? The --help notes this would > > list the directory entries - which puzzles me > > a bit because I had ne

Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-08 15:49:00 +0100]: > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > "ls -d" command? This is explained in some detail here: http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ Bob msg23040/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: questions relating to the ls and grep command

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Would someone kindly explain when to use the > "ls -d" command? The --help notes this would > list the directory entries - which puzzles me > a bit because I had never thought of there > may be more than one! Here's an example of the d

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there actually any advantage to using post-mode over message-mode, > other than having some magic that autoloads when composing with mutt? > Assuming, of course, you're not using an older emacsen that doesn't > bundle gnus and hence message-mode. To be

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:15:39AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you > > start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start", > > and then you set your editor in m

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:18:27AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: | ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about | regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and | various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want | to make the PGP

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:03:33AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: | On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: | > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at | > > least i think it is), is ther

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Cameron Matheson said: > Hi guys, > > Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching > between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i > kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it: > > 1) Using mutt

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Glyn Millington
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about > regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and > various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want > to make the PGP output (the lines th

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:18, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I tried a line like 'color body > cyan black ^gpg:', but that only colors 'gpg:', how would i make that go > to the end of the line? Untested RE-newbie guess: '^gpg:.*$' ? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Cameron Matheson
ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want to make the PGP output (the lines that start w/ 'gpg: ' the same color as the default head

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Glyn Millington
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you > start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start", > and then you set your editor in mutt to "emacsclient" and it'll use the > server process. It's been a whil

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:43 pm, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi guys, > > Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching > between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, > i kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about > it: > > 1)

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 16:05]: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: > > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > > > least i think it is), is there any

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:43:42PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running mutt > that work better for people (i don't really like to run it in the > console becau

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at > > least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running mutt > > that work better for people

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Cameron Matheson wrote: > 3) Is there a way to use urlview so that i can just click on the links > and have it launch a browser instead of copy and pasting them into my > browser? Hi, install package urlview and add this to your .muttrc file: macro index \cb |urlview\n macr

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-11 Thread Nick Hastings
* Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: > Hi guys, > > Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching > between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i > kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it: > > 1) Using m

RE: Questions about horde2

2002-12-09 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: Questions about horde2 Yes I feel a bit stupid now !!! The debian installation is so automatised that I assumed that the tables were already created. Merci. -Original Message- From: Antoine Jacoutot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 16:42 To: Mikael

Re: Questions about horde2

2002-12-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Mikael Jirari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi List, > > I successfully installed horde2/imp/turba and the calendar program. > > Basic action are working, i.e sending receiving email but : > > I can't create a new folder for my mails, I have this error in the logs > Failed retrieving prefs for m

Re: Questions before installing w2k or XP Dual-Boot

2002-11-24 Thread Tobias Kraus
Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2002 22:44 schrieb Michelle Storm: > I'm planing on installing Windows 2k Pro or XP, on a 15gb HD. > > But I want to know the proper way to do this before I try it, as I can't > really afford to reformat and start over with my entire system. > > Currently I have the foll

Re: Questions about mirror'ing a website

2002-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:13:30PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > I am just after suggestions on the best and/or most efficient means to > mirror my website (exactly) from one location to another (currently on > same computer, but eventually multiple computers). Consider using version control (CVS

Re: Questions about mirror'ing a website

2002-11-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michelle - the simple way to transfer files from "working" to the "live" area... - just copy the changes - using cron to transfer is bad because ... a- your change might NOT yet be done at the time that cron runs at midnight to update - deleting the whole web tre

Re: Questions about mirror'ing a website

2002-11-23 Thread sean finney
hiya, i think what you really want is rsync. you can do something like su webuser -c "rsync -avP /workingdir /livedir" (a is for preserve time/ownership/etc, vP is for a verbose status report) i believe that this way rsync will preserve all attributes except for ownership, assuming that your we

Re: Questions before installing w2k or XP Dual-Boot

2002-11-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michelle Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm planing on installing Windows 2k Pro or XP, on a 15gb HD. > > But I want to know the proper way to do this before I try it, as I can't > really afford to reformat and start over with my entire system. > > Currently I have the following setup. > Fil

Re: OT: Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-28 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > I think you're thinking of evolution. I think you're both confounding Catholics and Baptists. I agree that Catholicism and science are incompatible, but the Catholic Church does not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-28 Thread csj
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:43:11 -0400 Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 October 2002 08:43 pm, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > i like to argue with him (in person), why one can believe in god > > > and yet be scientific about engineering/science

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
http://www.laurency.com Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:00, Oleg wrote: Hi While I was reading http://telemetrybox.org/tokyo/ (a paper about Debian based on a presentation), a few things cought my attention: The last line of the author's academic credentials read

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 19:00, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > While I was reading http://telemetrybox.org/tokyo/ (a paper about Debian > based on a presentation), a few things cought my attention: > > The last line of the author's academic credentials reads: > > "Ph.D. Candidate, Fuller Theological Seminar

Re: Questions about custom kernels

2002-10-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
from my dmesg: -snip-- Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory MIDI Loopback device driver Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 19:18:39 Oct 14 2002 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0b.0 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev

Re: Questions about custom kernels

2002-10-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> "lameth" == lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lameth> Okay I'm seriously considering rolling my own kernel, but I have lameth> a few questions first. I've downloaded kernel-source-2.4.16, lameth> binutils, bzip2, fileutils

Re: Questions about custom kernels

2002-10-27 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:56:23PM -0500, lameth wrote: > Okay I'm seriously considering rolling my own kernel, but I have a few > questions first. I've downloaded kernel-source-2.4.16, binutils, bzip2, > fileutils, make, and fdutils, is there anything else I need to create a > custom ker

Re: Questions about custom kernels

2002-10-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"lameth" == lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lameth> Okay I'm seriously considering rolling my own kernel, but lameth> I have a few questions first. I've downloaded lameth> kernel-source-2.4.16, binutils, bzip2, fileutils, make, lameth> and fdutils, is there anything else I

OT: Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread Oleg
On Sunday 27 October 2002 08:43 pm, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > > i like to argue with him (in person), why one can believe in god and yet > > be scientific about engineering/sciences :-) > > Why is that a problem? That depends. Apparently, Astronomy and Cath

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > i like to argue with him (in person), why one can believe in god and yet > be scientific about engineering/sciences :-) > Why is that a problem? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Oleg, On Oct 27, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The paper also mentioned that the author, Christoph Lameter, is a | faculty member of the University of Phoenix. I'm a Ph.D. candidate | myself (at Columbia), and I thought one could not be a faculty | member (anywhere) without a doctor

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread John
Alvin Oga wrote: hi oleg donno about the speifics of the tokyo paper but... the guy ( christoph ) that runs telemetrybox is a bright guy and happens to be sorta religious too ... and he is/was a teacher/professor at a theological university i like to argue with him (in person), why one can be

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi oleg donno about the speifics of the tokyo paper but... the guy ( christoph ) that runs telemetrybox is a bright guy and happens to be sorta religious too ... and he is/was a teacher/professor at a theological university i like to argue with him (in person), why one can believe in god and y

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-10 Thread Simon Hepburn
xucaen wrote: > > I would purge all of your X3.3.6 packages and install > > x-window-system-core to ensure you have the essential X4 packages. > > quick question; is there a simple way to purge my X 3.3.6 packages or will > I have to remove them all one by one? and does X4 still use the same file

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. > >> XF86Setup no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing > >> happens. no errors no screen flashing, nothing. > > > >You seem to have started more than one thr

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread xucaen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup >> no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no >> errors no screen flashing, nothing. >You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I'm >

Re: questions about fvwm config, XF86Setup, fonts

2002-03-09 Thread Simon Hepburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, now that I have X running again, I notice a few things. XF86Setup > no longer works. when I select it from my fvwm menu nothing happens. no > errors no screen flashing, nothing. You seem to have started more than one thread on this, so forgive me if I'm losing

Re: Questions about parted

2002-01-19 Thread Seneca Cunningham
As I previously wrote: > Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham: > > > I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read, parted > > > is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it didn't > >

Re: Questions about parted

2002-01-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2002 03:29 schrieb Seneca Cunningham: > > I am want to resize all of my partitions, and from what I have read, parted > > is a way to do it. I originally tried the version in potato, but it didn't > > yet do what it needs to for my

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.16 09:30:15-0500]: > What program would i use to remove old messages automatically once a month > or something? > > Although, I suspect some ls -l magic with a sort piped into rm would work > ;) find . -ctime 60 | xargs rm -f check before doing it. --

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-18 Thread martin f krafft
* Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.15 17:07:59-0500]: > Any solution will need the same setup on mail, that I need to archive old > mail and be able to easily restore it. two things: go with Maildir instead of mailbox format. your users won't notice the difference, and it's easy to archiv

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:30:15AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > What program would i use to remove old messages automatically once a month > or something? > > Although, I suspect some ls -l magic with a sort piped into rm would work > ;) > 'find' is your friend; 'find . -type f -mtime +31 -pr

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
> Mike Dresser said: > > > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. > > cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the version thats in > potato supports po

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > Mike Dresser said: > > > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. > > cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the vers

Re: Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-15 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > I'm looking to see if there's a replacement pop3 server I can use > that can scan the mailboxes for new mail, without having to scan > ALL of the mailfile, as it does currently. cyrus. courier can too but im not sure if the version thats in potato supports pop. i was in almos

Re: questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Saturday 25 August 2001 10:37 pm, James T Prejsnar wrote: > Question 1) I'm using DHCP in my home network, and I'm having problems > getting the network interface up and running. Can I add the networking > interface module for my 3Com card or do I have to rebuild the kernel? I'm > seeing erro

Re: questions

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:37:55 -0700, James T Prejsnar wrote: > **Question 1) I'm using DHCP in my home network, and I'm having problems > ** getting the network interface up and running. Can I add the networking > ** interface module for my 3Com card or do I have to rebuild the kernel? I'm > **

Re: Questions about make a boot CD with Debian.

2001-08-09 Thread mikepolniak
MESQUITA,GIOVANI (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote: > I have used Debian to create a Boot CD. I've used two approaches: > > * Create a CD with boot sector in Linux, but the lilo program > didn't recognize a root=/dev/hdc, resulting the error: FATAL: Not a > number: /dev/hdc. My lilo.conf is:

Re: Questions about make a boot CD with Debian.

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Have you compiled cdrom and iso9600 support into the boot kernel? A bootable cd from what I understand is made from a 1.44 disk image that is added by the cd burning program as a special part of the disc. man xcdroast or appropriate burner. I'm not sure if lilo is bright enough to mount hdc as

Re: Questions about make a boot CD with Debian.

2001-08-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, MESQUITA,GIOVANI (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote: > I have used Debian to create a Boot CD. I've used two approaches: > > * Create a CD with boot sector in Linux, but the lilo program > didn't recognize a root=/dev/hdc, resulting the error: FATAL: Not a numb

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thursday August 02 2001 11:42, Aaron Traas wrote: [snip] > > 4) in my /etc/profile, I add the line: > alias ls='ls --color -F' > This works very nicely at the console, but for some reason, when I'm in > X, this doesn't work in Konsole or Xterm. I have to do an: > exec bash --login >

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > I'm running Woody and Xfree86 4.03 on a couple systems, and have a > couple minor problems. Some questions on how to do a few things: > > 1) I installed a bunch of font packages in Woody, but X does not load > them by default. I found

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