Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 21:13, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > I redid the partitions and then formatted them with Reiserfs. I then > selected the packages to be installed. None of the packages could be > installed. After waiting quite a while I got messages saying, for example, > xxx program had problem

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:13 AM 3/31/2004 +0800, S. Barret Dolph wrote: I redid the partitions and then formatted them with Reiserfs. I then selected the packages to be installed. None of the packages could be installed. After waiting quite a while I got messages saying, for example, xxx program had problems do you wa

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread S. Barret Dolph
I redid the partitions and then formatted them with Reiserfs. I then selected the packages to be installed. None of the packages could be installed. After waiting quite a while I got messages saying, for example, xxx program had problems do you want to continue. There was a message for every pac

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20:53, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > I have no problems booting the Mandrake disk. It goes fine up with changing > partitions, mounting partitions, but after I have selected the software it > takes a very long time to say problems installing every single package. Just what do y

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread S. Barret Dolph
I have no problems booting the Mandrake disk. It goes fine up with changing partitions, mounting partitions, but after I have selected the software it takes a very long time to say problems installing every single package. On Wednesday March 31 2004 02:50, you wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2004

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20:29, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > I would have guessed that reformatting the disk would wipe everything out > but it seems not to be the case. That is your MBR not your disk partitions working, your disk MBR is the first 512 bytes and is NOt a partition as such. If you boo

Re: Reinstallation

2004-03-30 Thread S. Barret Dolph
A more detailed approach. I made a mess of installing a custom kernal. (2.4x). I tried again with a new kernel. 2.64. This didn't work so I decided to start again as there was little installed. I downloaded the newest source mage (with the 2.63 kernetl), deleted all partitions, reformatted the

Re: [extra] PPP server doesn't work

2004-03-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. FIrst thing -- since we are talking about communication between the two hosts that have the ppp connection between them, proxyarp is irrelevant. That affects only connections from other hosts. (For example, if another host on 192.168.10.x/16 connected to the "server" end's Ethenet tried to

Re: .prn to .txt conversion = ?

2004-03-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:09 AM 3/30/2004 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:24, Jim Reimer wrote: > Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 05:32 PM 3/28/2004 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > > > > When you say "the content is all text", can you be a bit more exact? (I > > haven't used DOS for yea

Re: .prn to .txt conversion = ?

2004-03-30 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:24, Jim Reimer wrote: > Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 05:32 PM 3/28/2004 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > > > > When you say "the content is all text", can you be a bit more exact? (I > > haven't used DOS for years and I cannot recall what the.prn extension > > signifi

Re: XFree86 problems (ATI radeon video card)

2004-03-30 Thread joy
about the log which you sent me and the Xf86config, it seems to me that Xfree86 is trying to open font directories not available. install aptitude (if possible) and search for fonts to be installed. I recommend aptitude coz it has an easier interface than dselect ( which I hate with a vengeance,

Re: .prn to .txt conversion = ?

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Reimer
Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:32 PM 3/28/2004 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > When you say "the content is all text", can you be a bit more exact? (I > haven't used DOS for years and I cannot recall what the.prn extension > signifies.) A .prn file is generated when the "print to file" option

Routing b/w 2 ethernet cards.

2004-03-30 Thread Anupam
Hi all, I've 2 ethernet interfaces. I want the following scenario. I want to control applications to use specific eth interfaces. Say, when I use my IMAP e-mail client, I want it to use eth0, eth1 otherwise. Can I set iptables rules deciding which remote port I want to connect to using a parti

Re: unicode under Linux question

2004-03-30 Thread Beolach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > I don't know if this list is the right place to ask questions about using > unicode fonts under Linux. But maybe it's at least a place to start. You can always ask. You just might not get answered. I just skimmed through the U

Re: XFree86 problems (ATI radeon video card)

2004-03-30 Thread Philippe De Neve
> I suggest you send your Xf86config-4( I guess yours is a Deb Woody from > the Xfree86 version).It might give more insight. > Here's my Xf86-config file: I've also tried to select as Driver "vga" which eliminates the error but also the direct rendering capabilities, I think: Section "Device"