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

newbie help request

2015-05-11 Thread Ed R
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 "Kernel Panic - not syncing att

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

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

2007-12-06 Thread Tim Diggins
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. the standard etch package for jdk1.5 seems to require x11. Is there a

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

Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. I am need of some help with a USB device under Debian; trying last night multiple times to no avail. I have a Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron temperature data logger that I am trying to set. The data lo

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

Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-24 Thread John Fleming
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 newbie is having trouble wit

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Lang
Since Knoppix is mentioned quite often in this list and most of the comments are not that positive let me say this: Instead of knoppix you should go for Kanotix ( http://www.kanotix.com ) , which is "the better knoppix" if you want to call it that way. What's better in kanotix is i.e. that it is

Re: basic newbie help: xp and debian

2004-10-12 Thread Duncan Lithgow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi Jason, I've just got started myself (lot's of email on this list!) I'm now running a knoppix/ debian install. I've also just worked out how to edit the fstab file and group file so that me and my wife can both access our old xp files which I've moved

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Katipo
Jason D. Berg wrote: Huy T. wrote: Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for expediting a newer user to getting up and setup running

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Jason D. Berg
Huy T. wrote: Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for expediting a newer user to getting up and setup running this system effectiv

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/04 09:22), Huy T. wrote: > Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS > instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation > located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for > expediting a newer user to getting up and setup

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:22:37 -0500 "Huy T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS > instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation > located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for > expediting

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:22:37AM -0500, Huy T. wrote: > Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS > instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation > located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for > expediting a newer user to

basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Huy T.
Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for expediting a newer user to getting up and setup running this system effectively? Starting

Re: LDAP Newbie HELP!!! Ldap + MS Outlook / Express

2003-09-17 Thread Willem . Smit
>::Please could someone help .. >::I'm batteling to grasp how ldap works and it's config. >:: >::And don't have time to reread the how to's. >:: >::Outlook express gives the following error. >::"The specified Directory server could not be reached. >:: The service may be temporarily unavalibl

Re: [GLUG-tech] LDAP Newbie HELP!!! Ldap + MS Outlook / Express

2003-09-17 Thread Hilton Gibson
http://www.sulug.sun.ac.za/docs/ldap/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone help .. I'm batteling to grasp how ldap works and it's config. And don't have time to reread the how to's. Outlook express gives the following error. "The specified Directory server could not be reached. The serv

LDAP Newbie HELP!!! Ldap + MS Outlook / Express

2003-09-17 Thread linuxinfo
Please could someone help .. I'm batteling to grasp how ldap works and it's config. And don't have time to reread the how to's. Outlook express gives the following error. "The specified Directory server could not be reached. The service may be temporarily unavalible or the name may be incorrect.

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-07 Thread Kent West
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one )

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:10:32PM -0300, mnicolet wrote: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- mnicolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian > distros. But I had no time to go too far. > Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of > Welcome back. > 1) My Debian box has a generic two button ser

woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread mnicolet
Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one ), the mouse is

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

Newbie-Help in configuring IceWm

2003-06-05 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi All, I am a newbie in Debian, though I have used RH for the past 2 years. I installed Woody3.0r0 on a low end m/c today (P I 200 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD) in a 3 GB partition on dual boot with Win 98. I also installed IceWm by apt-get install icewm. Problem 1. Since this is a low end m/c , I

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 [

Newbie Help

2003-03-27 Thread Kris
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

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

Newbie Help Requested

2002-11-09 Thread George L Smyth
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. Unfortunately, Mandrake's Control Center screen is too large for

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

newbie: Help, I'm stuck!

2001-05-24 Thread Scott Frankel
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" (Firewire/2000/&tc.). X (v.3) launches happily, but the cursor arrow won't respond to either the trackpad or an externally connected USB mouse. It won't budg

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-04 Thread Jim Lisi
Wayne Topa wrote: > You have Linux running on that Kaypro (Z80)? No, sorry :( I don't think a multitasking OS would be very useful on it. Know any good terminal programs for a Z80? :-) > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
-- Original Message -- From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:45:18 -0500 >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. >> Those were that days of CP/M, befo

Newbie - help with mouse

2000-10-03 Thread Casey Henderson
Hello, I'm a new Debian user. I have used Redhat for quite a long time and I just switched over to Debian. I'm excited about learning all its features (particularly the cool package management program). A friend helped me install Debian 2.2 (potato) and we got everything up and running fine. I

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. > Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. unfortunately, he bought qdos instead. cp/m was superior by almost all accounts. and qdos stands fo

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Leone
>Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Gates never bought/stole CP/M. MS-DOS v1 was NOT CP/M; it was a separate product. >I do have a router running on a 386sx w/12 Meg of Ram but that is old >hat to anyone who has seen the Linux Router Proje

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long) Date: Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:23:16PM -0400 In reply to:Jim Lisi Quoting Jim Lisi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine

[very OT] Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > > audio tapes and play'e

Re: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > > Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, > without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 > audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. surely, now.

RE: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81, without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90 audio tapes and play'em over t'phone to me users. Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Her

OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Jim Lisi
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Erin Lewy wrote: > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't > > Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at > home as my firewall. :) > how about a 486DX-33? or a Kaypro II (bet you never heard of it!

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > > > > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > > actually > > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I > > have > > to go deal with more

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected > bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs > Redhat > thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while > (Hi, Tom!) > Heh, why isn't he

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > actually > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I have > to go deal with more networking and web server people relatively earl

Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Erin Lewy
Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs Redhat thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while (Hi, Tom!) The very short version of why I'm here is that I'm

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Argh, no! Well, okay, you COULD do that, but then you'd be wasting the efforts of the kernel-package maintainer... Do an apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source bin86 Then chdir /usr/doc/kernel-package Read the README.Debian On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Ronald Castillo said:

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! > Thanks for your help!!! Everything went fine, except when I did "make > zdisk". I got an erorr message saying that my system was too big and I > should do make bzImage or make modules. Does this affect anything? I still > couldn't make my sound card to work. Is there anything else I

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!!

2000-08-10 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi, add the following to the /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US But for me, it came thru the normal installation process Suresh -

RE: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-09 Thread Ronald Castillo
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:00 AM To: Ronald Castillo Subject: Re: Linux Newbie!! Help! 2 Ronald Castillo wrote: > > I also would like to know how can I recompile the kernel. I installes APMD > but it asked me to recompile the kernel but I don't know how to do it. &g

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ronald Castillo said: > I also would like to know how can I recompile the kernel. I installes APMD > but it asked me to recompile the kernel but I don't know how to do it. > Thanks!! Check out the kernel-HOWTO. -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So do

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!!

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Werner
Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hi... I have several things I need help with in Debian... First of all, I > need to know some servers that I can use in the sources.list file for > apt-get and which packages are in that servers. Depends on which version of Debian you want. If you wish to upgrade to the

Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-09 Thread Ronald Castillo
I also would like to know how can I recompile the kernel. I installes APMD but it asked me to recompile the kernel but I don't know how to do it. Thanks!!

Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!!

2000-08-09 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hi... I have several things I need help with in Debian... First of all, I need to know some servers that I can use in the sources.list file for apt-get and which packages are in that servers. I also would like to know how can I configure my sound card. I have an ES1869 (Onboard PCI). I think I

RE: newbie help

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
D] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my Where do you want to go? As far away from Redmond Only dead fish go with the flow! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 3:49 AM > To: debian-user-list > Subject: newbie help &

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 >

newbie help

2000-07-29 Thread trent
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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

newbie help in setting up mta!

2000-05-06 Thread john smith
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 I did not install from source. but as I have said, I am lost. I dont

Starting debian servers/Samba Newbie - help

1999-09-01 Thread Paul McHale
I need a POP3, FTP, Print and Web server. I would use NT server, but then I have to buy an expensive POP3 server. To save money and have a more reliable server, I would like to use debian. Here are the plans: Goals are: 1. Simple setup 2. Secure 3. Good available documen

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

Newbie.. Help!

1999-05-19 Thread Arthur
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 40 hrs p

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 --

newbie help: how do i configure IP services/daemons of my machine?

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am a previous slackware user, and used to edit wildly in config files now i administer also a redhat machine, and they have a runlevel editor and other tools to configure a machine... now is there a special way to administer a debian machine? Especially is there something to respect

newbie help: configuring rdate....

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, each day since i switched to debian, i fond now in the inbox of root messages of rdate failing to connect to a ntp host i specifyed at installation now i couldn't find the location where this call was initiated, thus i do not know how i could correct the errors ciao bboett ===

newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, another one from me. noticed an annoynace in messages: lots of messages of the following type: Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:07:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:27:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 11:07:41

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]

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