Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  > I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with > the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 5/1/23 18:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, etc. 

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I used the reinstall on brasero and it just said that it was up to date. What error message does Brasero issue before refusing to work ? What optical medium type do you give Brasero for burning ? I can probably help with composing a xorriso run which performs a

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/1/23 19:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates,

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-05-01 at 21:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything. I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work. I suspect that if you don't have the various directories under /var/, you may not be able to use apt or aptitude or synaptic or the

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used the reinstall on brasero and it

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Tom Dial
This Debian-user thread seems to have gone silent, but it is not clear whether your problem is solved. If it is, just ignore this and move on. If not: The Wanderer, in an earlier post (04/28/2023 at 19;02), suggested reinstalling the base-files package. I believe this is the correct procedure,

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Christensen
On 4/28/23 17:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am 72 and have forgotten a few things.  I looked up debian/var and was told I could delete /var/log/ and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/.  I left cores alone and deleted the other two.  Now I cannot burn a backup, download files and even go to web sites

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Apr 2023 at 22:36:39 (-0400), Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Here is what I got. > > root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ > drwxr-xr-x 

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. In case the crisis lasts longer or you need to make a backup before its solution: What program do you use to burn your backups and what does it report when failing ? What kind of media shall be burnt ? Have a

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. One problem may be that /var/log has subdirectories which don't belong to root. Applications trying to write their logs

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Here is what I got. root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov 13  2020 games/ drwxr-xr-x 62 root root   4096 Apr 12

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. Do not look at the NUMBERS. OWNER. GROUP. PERMISSIONS. The numbers mean nothing. > On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:57:47PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running out of

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:57:47PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running > out of room.  All I could find is the directions to delete said files.  I > will put them back, now. Make sure you get the ownership and permissions

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-04-28 at 20:46, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 29/4/23 08:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >> I am 72 and have forgotten a few things. I looked up debian/var and >> was told I could delete /var/log/ >> >> and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/. I'd guess that this was *probably* meant as a direction to

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running out of room.  All I could find is the directions to delete said files.  I will put them back, now. On 4/28/23 8:46 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 29/4/23 08:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am 72 and have forgotten a few

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Dear Mrs. Thomas, Maureen L Thomas writes: > (...) > I was thinking of upgrading > online but don't want to loose my data. First of all, please do back-up your *important* data. Such as pictures, video clips, diary, some text docs, etc. (Also i'm Debian user with Debian Bullseye under

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 29/4/23 08:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am 72 and have forgotten a few things.  I looked up debian/var and was told I could delete /var/log/ and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/.  I left cores alone and deleted the other two.  Now I cannot burn a backup, download files and even go to web

Re: I need help

2018-01-19 Thread Bernd Gruber
Aorey wrote: > > Hello, I am a debian user. I want to customize my own debian ISO > distribution. What should I do? open synaptic, search for live and you'll have all you need. But, be aware, it's quite a lot of work, though, till everything works as you want it to. Bernd

Re: I need help

2018-01-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/01/18 17:55, Aorey wrote: Hello, I am a debian user. I want to customize my own debian ISO distribution. What should I do? Are you trying to make a Live ISO? If so: live-build - old technology, fell behind, new maintainers, works well for me live-wrapper - new officially approved

Re: Re: I need help to determine package name for a bug report.

2017-08-27 Thread Zoltán Herman
No, but since every one works in memory, one of its segments may be defective. Memtest writes and reads ... but not concurrent. 2017-08-27 23:16 GMT+02:00 Fungi4All : > > From: zoltan...@gmail.com > To: Debian User > > I would try to

Re: Re: I need help to determine package name for a bug report.

2017-08-27 Thread Fungi4All
> From: zoltan...@gmail.com > To: Debian User > > I would try to exchange the memories by swapping... > > 2017-08-27 16:36 GMT+02:00 Alexander V. Makartsev : > >> Package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 >> Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 >> Maintainer: Debian

Re: Re: I need help to determine package name for a bug report.

2017-08-27 Thread Zoltán Herman
I would try to exchange the memories by swapping... 2017-08-27 16:36 GMT+02:00 Alexander V. Makartsev : > Package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 > Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 > Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team > > I've already checked memory with

Re: Re: I need help to determine package name for a bug report.

2017-08-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Package: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 Version: 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team I've already checked memory with memtest86+ and found no errors. My hardware pretty recent (Skylake i5 CPU and H170 Chipset based mobo) Also these errors always begin with

Re: I need help to determine package name for a bug report.

2017-08-27 Thread Zoltán Herman
kernel team linux-image- May be a memory error? 2017. aug. 27. 12:13 ezt írta ("Alexander V. Makartsev" ): Hello. On rare occasion, I have these strange system lockups that seems to be tied to "ALC88" sound driver\kernel module. I am unable to determine package name to

Re: I need help

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Feb 2016 at 03:34:43 (+1300), Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:09:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 18:09:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Did you notice I said PAPER tap, not magnetic ;> > > > > Sorry about the typo; my fingers have had

Re: I need help

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:09:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 18:09:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 2/17/2016 5:34 PM, David Wright wrote: > > >On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>[snip] > > >>>Depends on what you consider to be

Re: I need help

2016-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > On 02/16/2016 09:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:46:08AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > >>It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like > >>"I need help". It helps no one else but the

Re: I need help

2016-02-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:43:58PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 17 February 2016 at 13:37, Adam Wilson <[1]mox...@riseup.net> wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas <[2]gener.ong.bade...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi >

Re: I need help

2016-02-18 Thread Gener Badenas
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, I'm starting in linux I

Re: I need help

2016-02-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 17 February 2016 at 13:37, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, I'm starting in linux I used

Re: I need help

2016-02-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 02/16/2016 09:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:46:08AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric If only we had a list of psychiatrists or GPs for their area.

Re: I need help

2016-02-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/17/2016 03:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 2/17/2016 7:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used

Re: I need help

2016-02-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/17/2016 12:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:29:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: ​If you want to do that I think you need to have some examples of sensible posts and silly ones for new subscribers to scan through before they become debian debutantes

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 18:09:03 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/17/2016 5:34 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>Depends on what you consider to be 'fast'. Is 120K/s fast? > > > >This laptop has 2255 packages on it, the

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 2/17/2016 5:34 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] Depends on what you consider to be 'fast'. Is 120K/s fast? This laptop has 2255 packages on it, the total download size of which is about 3GB. At a throughput of 120KB/s, that'd be

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/17/2016 7:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > >On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas > > wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > >> wrote: > >> >

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 2/17/2016 7:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that

Re: I need help

2016-02-17 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > wrote: > > > Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I > > have read that many people that used Debian

Re: I need help

2016-02-16 Thread Gener Badenas
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: > Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have > read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a > MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation,

Re: I need help

2016-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:29:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > ​If you want to do that I think you need to have some examples of sensible > posts and silly ones for new subscribers to scan through before they become > debian debutantes > > Perhaps we could use popular song titles

Re: I need help

2016-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:46:08AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like > "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric If only we had a list of psychiatrists or GPs for their area. -- "If you're not careful, the

Re: I need help

2016-02-13 Thread Tim McDonough
Always good ideas for asking for help... T

Re: I need help, install Debian on Macbook pro intel

2016-02-12 Thread err404
> On 2/10/2016 6:01 PM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: > (...) I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, > can it run Debian? I recently installed Net Install Debian testing on Macbook pro Intel. All work fine but: My friend report a short life time on battery, and he become

Re: I need help, install Debian on Macbook pro intel

2016-02-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:56:01 +0100 err...@free.fr wrote: > I need to adapt keymap, > actualy is a standard azerty keymap, but apple choosed not standard > azerty. (this is not a real problem, we can found many example for > exotic keymap on the web) Can't you just select a different software

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Ric Moore
It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 12 February 2016 at 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > > > > Quite agree. > > "I

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:48:34AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/02/2016, Ric Moore wrote: > > It would be sweet if we didn't encourage people to post subject lines > like "I need help". It helps no one else but the OP. Ric > Quite agree. "I need help" also happens to sound like a spam message subject line, quite appart from it

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 February 2016 17:58:06 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > And, "I need help" better applies to "I need help" to stop people > > posting messages with useless subject lines like "I need nelp". > > This looks like unnecessary, gratuitous bashing. It looks like > venting of frustration. I'd

Re: I need help

2016-02-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:44:47PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2016 17:58:06 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > And, "I need help" better applies to "I need help" to stop people > > > posting messages with useless subject lines like "I

Re: I need help

2016-02-11 Thread Tim McDonough
On 2/10/2016 6:01 PM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know

Re: I need help

2016-02-11 Thread Me
Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 02:01 +0200, Ghaith Etaiwi a écrit : > I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, > can it run Debian? Yes, probably. > Also, I want to know what version of Debian to download, I saw > something about DVD1, DVD2...etc which one should I get

Re: I need help

2016-02-10 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know what

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-25 Thread låzaro
... Thread name: Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp Mail number: 2 Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 In reply to: John L. Cunningham On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:47:02PM -0600, paul e condon wrote: The error messages from Mutt when I press 'y' to send, are; Error sending message, child

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-19 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:47:02PM -0600, paul e condon wrote: The error messages from Mutt when I press 'y' to send, are; Error sending message, child exited 65 (Data format error.). msmtp: recipient address pec1...@gmail.com not accepted by the server msmtp: server message: 550 Recipient

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-19 Thread Olaf Lessenich
Hi Paul! On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 16:47:02 -0600, paul e condon wrote: Is there something else than .muttrc and .msmtprc that must be configured? Is there a specific reason why you would prefer msmtp over mutt's built-in* smtp functionality) *

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-19 Thread paul e condon
On 06/19/2013 05:31 PM, Olaf Lessenich wrote: Hi Paul! On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 16:47:02 -0600, paul e condon wrote: Is there something else than .muttrc and .msmtprc that must be configured? Is there a specific reason why you would prefer msmtp over mutt's built-in* smtp functionality) *

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-19 Thread Olaf Lessenich
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 17:45:30 -0600, paul e condon wrote: According to my research, in Wheezy, Mutt's 'built-in' functionality is a link to msmtp, but ... I'm may be mistaken. It may be that the Debian web pages that I read are coming from some alternative universe. No, I do not think

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp [SOLVED]

2013-06-19 Thread paul e condon
On 06/19/2013 05:28 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:47:02PM -0600, paul e condon wrote: The error messages from Mutt when I press 'y' to send, are; Error sending message, child exited 65 (Data format error.). msmtp: recipient address pec1...@gmail.com not accepted by

Re: I need help with setting up my first samba server.

2013-03-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/03/13 06:45 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think I have an OK understanding of the 'theory' of samba, but something is not working in practice. I have a small home LAN on which there are three Debian i386 boxes, one Windows laptop running Windows7, and five Macs of various models. All nine

Re: I need help with setting up my first samba server.

2013-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hi Paul, Don't know if you remember me. I helped you get your wireless working up there on the mountain, quite some time ago. On 3/15/2013 5:45 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think I have an OK understanding of the 'theory' of samba, but something is not working in practice. There's not much

Re: I need help with XF86Config-4 :-(

2006-02-25 Thread Kent West
Sammy wrote: I cannot find anywhere online what the config should be for my PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz) with Radeon 9700 should be. I can't work the trackpad. All I get is a screen with X in the middle once I run startx. Where am I going wrong? Sorry, new user :S The gray screen indicates that

Re: , I need help...

2006-01-19 Thread Henry Gold
Hi , I apologize for not sending you an email for a little over two weeks now, as I am in the process of providing you with 17 Master Resale Rights packages for F.REE this coming Saturday, Jan 28'05. Please watch for my email on that date. :) Today, I have one good news that I would like to

Re: I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul E Condon: I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package installed and running. But I can't figure out

Re: I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 à 11:16 -0600, Paul E Condon a écrit : I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package installed and

Re: I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:05:44PM +0200, Aur?lien Camp?as wrote: Le mardi 03 mai 2005 ? 11:16 -0600, Paul E Condon a ?crit : I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. I want to install it

Re: I need help.

2004-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:13 +0800, Mole lord wrote: Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to

Re: I need help.

2004-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 13:13, Mole lord wrote: Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to boot

Re: I need help.

2004-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mole lord wrote: Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to boot it. Nothing happened. So i thought it

Re: i need help in my debian OS in my pc

2004-10-28 Thread robin
Amit Poddar wrote: the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a desktop? i have started using knoppix and it is working fine. i even installed it in the harddrive but i am into to debian. apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome or kde, xfce4 etc. i am planing

Re: i need help in my debian OS in my pc

2004-10-28 Thread Chris Lale
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:35, Amit Poddar wrote: the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a desktop? i have started using knoppix and it is working fine. i even installed it in the harddrive but i am into to debian. i am planing on gettting a IBM laptop and i want to

Re: i need help in my debian OS in my pc

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amit Poddar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a desktop? Use aptitude and find the parts of the desktop environment you want and the package x-window-system and install those. -BEGIN PGP

Re: I need help with my touch pad.

2004-08-26 Thread Thomas Adam
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:30:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if [ -f /usr/bin/tpconfig ]; then /usr/bin/tpconfig --tapmode=0 if [ $? ]; then ^^^ That doesn't do what you think it does. In Bash, the [ $? ] bit says if the variable requested is not empty, then...

Re: I need help

2004-06-09 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there when i was insralling debian 3.0 i am booting from floppy disks and low mem root disk when i booted to install it ask me for SCSI drive and i dont know what i have to do? If you'll provide more info about your system, such as if it has SCSI drives, is it a

Re: I need help configuring Sound in Woody

2003-07-09 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul E Condon wrote: My situation is: 1. Sound works with Knoppix running off the Knoppix CD, but 2. when I install Knoppix on HD, it does not work. When I reboot Woody and install various likely looking packages, and reboot 3. I see an error message during boot to the effect that

Re: I need help

2001-02-24 Thread Brian Nelson
The actual harddrive make usually isn't important. What is important is the chipset on your motherboard, or possibly on a controller card. I think the udma 66 disks support all of the common chipsets, so I don't know why they wouldn't work for you. On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100,

Re: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Ashley Clark
* Melissa Stirling in I need help please dated 2000/07/18 10:22 * wrote: I have a customer who would like to purchase a Toshiba from me and intends to run Debian Linux as the operating system. His question is this: He will either buy the Satellite Pro 4320 or 4270 which have with an AGP

RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Don't know about the rest of the hw but Debian/GNU Linux does support the 3Com cardhowever, I would suggest that the potential buyer obtain the latest pcmcia packages(tgz) from the pcmcia homepage.have fun! -Original Message- From: Melissa Stirling [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: I need help please

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew McRobert
' Subject: RE: I need help please Don't know about the rest of the hw but Debian/GNU Linux does support the 3Com cardhowever, I would suggest that the potential buyer obtain the latest pcmcia packages(tgz) from the pcmcia homepage.have fun! -Original Message- From: Melissa Stirling

Re: I need help

1999-07-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ricardo Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi my name is Ricardo Dominguez Ezquerro, and i work in Anahuac Universityin Mexico City, but i have 2 problems, the first one: I need install Linux at Sparcstation 4 but in all pages exist the sofware for PC, but for Sparc nothing. The

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: [...] Another question. Now I'm running wm. And i click with the middle button on the clip to create a new workspace i can't get to the menu options because the menu follows the mouse arround. What am i doing wrong? Thanks I

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-10 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink

Re: I need help Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time

1998-11-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
It is very likely that you will have a problem with your modem. US Robotics makes good Winmodems, that are not working for Linux. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. |

RE: I need help !!!

1998-08-07 Thread Luiken, Arijan
hi, when i tryed to install x i had the same. for the mouse you probaly just pressed enter at the question of the port. you could try to use /dev/ttyS0 (for com1 S2 for com2 e.t.c.) and for the gfx driver i know compaq uses mostly Cirrus logic or chips and tech (if you have win9x installed you

RE: I need help !!!

1998-08-07 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Most of the Compaq QVisions were Cirrus Logic - CL-GD5434 chipsets. I've set up a couple, and use the SVGA server. I also had to use the Tab and Shift-Tab keys to select PS/2 mouse, /dev/psaux for port, and then down to Apply. Seems to work after that. --

Re: I need help with installation....!!

1998-04-03 Thread aqy6633
I get every thing goin except for the base diskettes then it say its unable to extract them, whats goin wrong??? What disks are you using - form bo or hamm? hamm disks are not ready for a prime time yet. In any case the error you mentioned probably indicates bad floppy disk. Just create anotehr

Re: I need help

1998-03-05 Thread shaul
The PPP-HOWTO is a good source, but there are some differences between it and the way debian assume the system is handling PPP connections. The debian way to handle PPP is with the PPP package. Take a look at /usr/doc/ppp/*, especialy at /usr/doc/ppp/README.debian.gz, to see how debian assumes

Re: I need help

1998-03-04 Thread Ivan Ines Rojas
Message- From: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ivan Ines Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 12:42 PM Subject: Re: I need help I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and that you installed

Re: I need help (fwd)

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
- Forwarded message from peterp - From peterp Tue Mar 3 08:30:27 1998 Subject: Re: I need help In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Ivan Ines Rojas at Mar 2, 98 09:30:41 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan Ines Rojas) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:30:27 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread tko
Ivan Ines Rojas writes: Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the ppp-on and ppp-off files. I have no idea if I did

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread IBMackey
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Ines Rojas writes: Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and that you installed close to the latest packages... ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff. Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP? Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account'

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Igor Grobman
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, IIR == Ivan Ines Rojas wrote: IIR Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which IIR wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. IIR I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the IIR ppp-on

Re: I need help, part 2.

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pierre DUPUIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, Here is my situation : I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os.. I want't to conect myself on the internet I don't know how to do. Simple situation, simple question ! Simple aswer ?

Re: I need help.

1998-01-03 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Pierre DUPUIS wrote: Does someone know where can i get a 'Windows or Dos to Linux' Manual, it can be very helpfull. I don't know about such a manual, but there exists a HOWTO: (In my debian system: /usr/doc/HOWTO/DOStoLinux-HOWTO.gz) It is a part of the 'doc-linux'

Re: I need help.

1998-01-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 09:16:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: [snip] By the same, Does someone know where can i get a 'Windows or Dos to Linux' Manual, it can be very helpfull. I agree that it would be useful for the beginner, but haven't seen one. Try the Linux Documentation

Re: I need help.

1997-12-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Pierre DUPUIS wrote: I have dl via the internet a *.zip program for linux. The *.zip has been dl on my Dos partition, and i don't know how to access it with my linux partition (to install the program i need to locate it). I'm a recent debian user, i came from windows OS,

Re: I need help setting up X

1997-11-29 Thread tko
Shaleh writes: The problem is that X believes that all the mode defs are bogus, so it throws them out. There is no entry left that supports anything other than 640x480 8bpp, when it is thru. When this happened to me, I had not properly defined the capability of my monitor. Try re-doing

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