Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1938 +0200]: > I asked this question for future reference in case I need to increase the > size. Currently I have a 50Mb swap partition, I have 12Mb of physical ram. This is fine. Usually twice the size is good up to 256Mb, when you sho

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-26 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Wathen, Metherion wrote: 4.) Is it possible to have the cdrom and floopy drives automatically mount without recompiling the kernel? man fstab. you will have to edit /etc/fstab 6.) Where is there a mp3 plugin for XMMS? - do it need one? i think the default debian package installs it. i could

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space > > on your harddrive? > > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg > > to uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb > > free.) > > dpkg should be fine for removal although "

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread sean finney
hiya, i'll answer what i can :) On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:21:05AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and see

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Kurt Yoder
(Ignoring ones I can't answer quickly) Wathen, Metherion said: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on > your harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1621 +0200]: > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? either use dselect, or apt-get remove > 2.) How do I modify swap partiton size without having to reinstall > everything all ov

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Steve Juranich
> 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg to > uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.) man apt-get (esp. the 'remove' section) > 2.) How do I m

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Roach
OK, here's a go at some of these On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:21:05AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and se

A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your harddrive? (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg to uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.

Re: a few newbie questions

2000-11-20 Thread Cheng H. Lee
I'll do my best...hopefully someone will back me up... On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:12:39AM -0800, Tristan wrote: > 1) After compiling a new kernel, when i boot up i get an error saying > "modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-135" > is this error serious how can i fix it? If I remember corre

a few newbie questions

2000-11-20 Thread Tristan
1) After compiling a new kernel, when i boot up i get an error saying "modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-135" is this error serious how can i fix it? 2) Also when i boot up how do i disable a nfs and lpd service from starting automatically? 3) I just installed console-apt, what are the