Re: ppp ain't talking

2003-06-14 Thread cr
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:04, Ray Olszewski wrote: [...] > > >My preferred browser is Opera, which I believe uses Qt (and I notice > > doesn't come with Debian, but that may be because of Opera's own > > licensing terms). > > It definitely is a license issue. Opera isn't Open Source or Free Softw

Re: Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread cr
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:30, vh wrote: > Hello List. > I want to run Linux on rather old PC. > The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard > Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it > hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I wa

Newbie Qt compiling

2003-06-14 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
Hi All I have Md 9.1 installed on my Thinkpad which eliminates most of the issues that I had with Md 9.0. Currently, I am trying to set up the Qt compiler so that I may again attempt to start to learn a little bit of programming. - In that light I have located Qt to be in the following direc

Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread vh
Sunday, June 15, 2003, 1:07:48 AM, you wrote: SS> Make sure you do a text-only install, as opposed to an X-Windows SS> install. 24MB is a bit small to do X without swap. This may be the SS> source of your problems. I'd also suggest that you make your swap file SS> reasonably large (a couple hundr

books

2003-06-14 Thread dave
Can anyone suggest some reference material that outlines the boot process for Mandrake? -- Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.ke

Re: Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread Stephen Samuel
Make sure you do a text-only install, as opposed to an X-Windows install. 24MB is a bit small to do X without swap. This may be the source of your problems. I'd also suggest that you make your swap file reasonably large (a couple hundred meg). You never really said what this is for. are you intend

RE: Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread Riley Williams
Hi VH. > I want to run Linux on rather old PC. The PC is Pentium MMX 166 > with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard Disk, motherboard > is Intel 430 VX. > > I tried set up ASP Linux, but it hangs up during installation of > packages (on ASP forum I was told that this distributive should

RE: reading links in proc - permission denied

2003-06-14 Thread linda w.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Are you sure that 'top' uses that 'exe' ? --- Not at all...in fact was told it doesn't. Apparently, though, the listed permissions on the links are arbitrary and the system fairly well ignores them.

Re: Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread James Miller
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, vh wrote: > Hello List. > I want to run Linux on rather old PC. > The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard > Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it > hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I was told th

Re: Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:30 PM 6/14/2003 +0400, vh wrote: Hello List. I want to run Linux on rather old PC. The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I was told that

Linux for old PC

2003-06-14 Thread vh
Hello List. I want to run Linux on rather old PC. The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I was told that this distributive should work on my co

Re: reading links in proc - permission denied

2003-06-14 Thread Kari Hurtta
> I'm misunderstanding something about links in proc. > > I thought 'ps', 'top' et al used /proc to display processes, command lines, > etc. > > Since neither ps nor top are suid root, they are running with my uid > permissions. > > However, if I do "ls -l" on /proc//exe, I get a > > "ls: canno

PowerPC related query

2003-06-14 Thread deepesh
Hi, Could someone tell me the differences between the EP8260, SBC8260 and EST8260 boards. I am confused with all these. -- D.Deepesh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://v

Re: ppp ain't talking

2003-06-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:45 AM 6/15/2003 +1200, cr wrote: [...] I believe Qt had its own licensing issues, but that was resolved some time back. Yes, at the same time as the KDE license issues, if I recall correctly. (I was really lumping the two together when I mentioned the KDE fix before.) [...] My preferred bro

Re: Linux newbie: Help requested in decoding the nature of this Martian packet..

2003-06-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:04 PM 6/14/2003 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: I am a new user to this list from Amritsar, India. I have a home network on internal IP 192.168.x.x, connected through GW 172.16.0.141 to a cable (Ethernet Cat 5 Cable) ISP having internal IP network 172.16.x.x and giving Internet connectivity thr

Re: ppp ain't talking

2003-06-14 Thread cr
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:45, cr wrote: > I see kppp in that list > > I'll assume for the present that KPPP is now supported in Debian and carry > on with my debugging efforts. > > Thanks > > cr Success! (This message sent from Debian). (Apologies for not quoting the original message, I ha

Linux newbie: Help requested in decoding the nature of this Martian packet..

2003-06-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
I am a new user to this list from Amritsar, India. I have a home network on internal IP 192.168.x.x, connected through GW 172.16.0.141 to a cable (Ethernet Cat 5 Cable) ISP having internal IP network 172.16.x.x and giving Internet connectivity through GW 172.16.0.1, which he claims is firewalle

Re: ppp ain't talking

2003-06-14 Thread cr
(Some snippage for bandwidth reasons) On Saturday 14 June 2003 18:23, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Perhaps. I'm not sure what Heimo means by "a no-no". Last I read, the KDE > license was revised to be DFSG compliant (quite some time ago, I believe) > and there was no longer any reason not to include it