Christopher Sawtell wrote:
No, "Sticks and stones break your bones, but words will never hurt you"
It's oil that fuels wars. I look forward to the day when it is exhausted.
--
C. S.
That could be sooner than many people think. Can a PC run on solar panels?
Woodsey
Greetings,
I could suggest what to avoid. I bought a new Fujitsu Siemens which has
pathetic online support, a virtually worthless worldwide guarantee, very
poor and limited bios setup facility and no updates in the 12 months
since I bought it, so I shall be avoiding this make in future. It wor
If I was younger I would be heading off the Europe. There is still a
remote chance that sanity might break lose there.
Don't forget about all the EU insanity. It really is a nightmare of
rules and regs.
Most of them drive on the wrong side of the road for a start (:
So? It only takes a moment
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
In that case install the spare disk and copy the contents of the partitions to
it as .tar or .cpio files. Re-size the partitions as required using one of
the *fdisk utilities. Recreate the filesystems and restore the contents.
Yes that sounds a sensible plan
If the data
Thanks for all the replies on this.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
All the *fdisk family of programs _only_ change the entry in the partition
table, and don't even attempt to preserve the data. So the answer is NO!!!
You do not mention the kind of filesystem in the partition.
There are some partition
Greetings,
Can cfdisk be used to re-size partitions containing data? I know
Partition Magic can do it but I find that PM always fails eventually,
starting with odd quirks happening at some stage, leading to more
serious problems further down the line.
If cfdisk can do it, how reliable do you th
Greetings,
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Not as embarrassing as under windows where you need a few thousand
dollar to buy a tool that prints your documents as pdf
Ghostscript for windows is a free download. So is acroread.
There is another free download here which enables you to convert your
documents i
Greetings,
The only recommendation I can make is give Telecom a miss. As a matter
of interest, what model ADSL router was it?
Woodsey
John Carter wrote:
My DSE ADSL modem / router/hub has died.
I need to change my ISP service plan anyway, now would be a Good Time
for an Alternate Magical Techno
Hi Shane,
I'm a newbie myself and all I can offer is what I did. I couldn't find
binary iso s myself (but that doesn't automatically mean they don't exist)
Assuming a broadband connection:
I went to debian.org and download the floppy installer images on a spare
PC, about 3 from memory. The targe
Greetings,
I just hope that reliability will increase to match capacity. If a drive
goes on the blink or fails, imagine trying to retrieve a TB or so of
data from it. It's bad enough with a few GB. Pity they can't find some
way of reducing reliance on mechanical cogs, cranks and wheels so to spe
Yes I get a similar thing with my UK bank on my SuSE box + Firefox:
"you are using an unsupported browser, click here to upgrade to Internet
Explorer".
I find it (firefox) works perfectly, however konqueror failed.
Woodsey
I have just signed up to the credit reference company Baycorpadvatage.
In w
Why didn't I think of that?
Thanks everyone
Timothy Pick wrote:
you can use 'pwd' to find the current working directory. But as brad
said you are in roots home.
"The home of the root user" != "the root directory".
Greetings,
When I log in as root say on my debian box (text only)I have a prompt:
mkIIdebian:~#
1. If I do 'ls' from here I get a file list:
dead.letter install-report.template and dbootstrap.settings
2. If I go to the root directory 'cd /' and do 'ls' I get the following
plus others
bin dev hom
Nick Rout wrote:
> You guys should read this page: http://www.savetz.com/fax/
That looks useful as I only need a receive facility, (which appears to
be free) to get some communication from my mate in the UK who only has
to look at a computer and it freezes up, but he can send a fax.
Strange how
Robert
Well that is very interesting and maybe it won't be too long before a
similar thing arrives here. My high school German of (40ish years) is a
little rusty but I might get away with it in the meantime, now let me see:
"Ich bin Englander aber Ich wohne hier auf New Zealand. Zwei bieren bitt
Greetings,
Thanks to all the people who helped on this and my SuSE is now back up
and running.
Whilst the following worked Ok, I did not understand 100% what was
happening, especially the "proc" part.
"Then mount proc and chroot into that file system:
# mount -t proc none /mnt/suse/proc
# chro
The Linux fdisk partition listing is as folows:
Device Start/End/BlocksId System
/dev/hda1 7 NTFS
/dev/hda2 f W95 Ext'd LBA
/dev/hda3 83 L
The words "oh dear" or something similar spring to mind.
According to a DOS boot floppy, C: now contains the contents of the
FAT32WinLin partition and doesn't list the NTFS XPBoot partition at all.
I'll dig out a Partition Magic floppy and see what that comes up with
Woodsey
Steve Holdoway wrote:
It looks like I got the partition designation wrong. The SuSE partition
is no longer on hda5 as before because I got a directory listing of my
FAT32 Win/Lin partition. I think once I figure out what hda number it
has shifted to I'll be OK.
Woodsey.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
/bin/bash. I suspect th
Thanks Nick, Chris and Volker,
I've tried this several times using the SusE, BG rescue, sbminst disks
and can get as far as:
"chroot /mnt/suse /bin/bash"
or
"chroot /mnt /bin/bash --login" as suggested by Volker
but the message is always the same:
"chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash' no such fil
Greetings,
Happy Easter to everyone.
Can anyone help me with this? I have a laptop which was running dual
boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. Having plenty of drive space, I loaded SuSE
9.2 on a spare section of free space and triple booted for a while to
see if I preferred SuSE to Ubuntu.
Eventually I deci
Greetings,
The original problem was as follows:
I have also installed a copy on my 2nd machine as only a base
install+X+network tools, no KDE or Gnome.
When I do startx I get the message:
"There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please
configure the correct X server
Yes, sorry David that was meant for the list.
Whilst I'm back on this topic, now sax2 is on the PC there doesn't seem to be
any way of solving the original problem with it. Yast on the installer was
the key.
Woodsey
On Monday 28 February 2005 20:39, David Kirk wrote:
> I assume
Hi,
I think you go to /etc/X11/xdm and edit it to make sure the line that reads:
#*
#any host can get a log in window
and make sure the * is uncommented.
then in the same directory open xdm-config in an editor
Find where it says:
!Security: do not listen for XDMCP or chooser requests
!Comment o
SaX, Sax, sax SaX2, Sax2, sax2 etc, etc. "command not found" Nick. Nothing in
yast for configuring X either, which is of course the very basic version.
Woodsey
On Monday 28 February 2005 00:53, Nick Rout wrote:
> read our lips, use sax[2]
>
>
symbol be the reason for the failure to load a module?
or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Woodsey
On Sunday 27 February 2005 21:41, Rob Wood wrote:
> When I do startx I get the message:
>
> "There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please
> c
Greetings,
I recently installed SuSe 9.2 which I think is the best Linux distro I've
tried so far.
I have also installed a copy on my 2nd machine as only a base
install+X+network tools, no KDE or Gnome.
When I do startx I get the message:
"There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X ser
Greetings,
This certainly sounds like hardware instability but difficult to ascertain. I
would investigate:
CPU running temperature
RAM integrity
Motherboard setup parameters (not overclocked I hope)
Ensure PSU voltages are within tolerance
Best of luck,
Woodsey
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09
respectively. I have now found a Knoppix
boot floppy image, that did not come with the .iso, but wouldn't a
generic cd boot floppy be so much more useful?
Cheers - Woodsey
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 23:57 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:16, rob wrote:
> > I am s
Steve, Chris, Nick
Guys, those last few postings on PATH etc., were excellent reading for
me and cleared up a lot of queries and mis-conceptions.
I am still labouring to get this CD to boot with the smart boot
manager. I have entered the Base I/O ports and rescanned as required but
it just doesn
Thanks Chris,
That worked. So what exactly does the ./ do?
Woodsey
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:59 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:33, rob wrote:
> > I'm just getting:
> > sbminst command not found
> > sbminst-static command not found
> cd
I'm just getting:
sbminst command not found
sbminst-static command not found
I think I have downloaded binary files that have to be compiled but the
only other alternative was a DOS executable, which I'm trying to avoid.
I will try and compile them.
Woodsey
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:59 +1300, Ni
and boot the CD,
> simply, 10 minutes max.
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:54:49 +1300
> rob wrote:
>
> > Hi Nick,
> > The distro I'm trying is a Knoppix version called Damn Small Linux and
> > the description is given at the URL below. I should correct mys
Hi Nick,
The distro I'm trying is a Knoppix version called Damn Small Linux and
the description is given at the URL below. I should correct myself here
and mention that it says copy the .iso contents over not the boot files.
Woodsey
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/install_from_floppy.html
> copy th
d just copy the boot
files to the hard drive as suggested on the Knoppix 'how to' section of
their site.
Woodsey
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 10:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Rob, there are archives, see the clug wiki for how to access them:
>
> http://
Greetings,
Chris, yesterday you posted 2 e-mails on the above topic. I meant to
save them to my saved items folder as they contained some useful
information but somehow managed to delete them. :-(
If you haven't already disposed of them, could you re-send them to me
off list?
Thanks in advance
W
Wesley,
No I couldn't get type less to work either. I don't know
about the vertical character in your syntax, I've never understood that.
Woodsey
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:49 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> syntax:
> type | more /* DOSish, I know, but it works */
>
> more
>
> more < /* redir
Thanks Nick,
I managed to get the CD ROM to mount using /dev/hdc and got a directory
listing of the CD.
I will try the programme that you suggested and see what happens.
Woodsey
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:48 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> I am not sure if you are able to mount a cdrom from toms, that
Robert,
I have an ISA modem, unknown speed and untested, Lucent chip. If you
want to try it you are more than welcome to it if you don't get any
better offers. Post your address and I'll mail it to you.
Cheers - Woodsey
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:12 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> Does a
Greetings,
Some time ago, someone on the list recommended Toms RTBT disk for
gaining CD ROM access via a floppy boot for installing Linux on a
machine that won't boot from CD ROM.
I have been trying to use this disk but have come up against a few
problems:
/mnt/cdrom gave the message:
"cdrom not
Hi Dave,
You wouldn't be using a laptop by any chance with a touchpad? I have a
similar phenomenon and I found that it is to do with my hands brushing
on the touchpad as I type, making it do similar things.
Woodsey
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:23 +1300, dave wrote:
> Why is it that for no reason te
Greetings,
Well everyone will be greatly relieved to learn that my extended visa has
been granted and that you will have my company for at least another 6
months.
In an effort to fill in some of my time usefully, I contacted Unitec here in
Auckland to try and find a Linux course to do. Guess wh
> try quoting - eg
>
> mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html
Couldn't get that to work ""Fred Bloggs.htm" no such file or directory"
> mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html
>
> the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken
> literally, not as the command line delimite
Would that be a Red Hat?
Woodsey
> >
> Nick. I stole the hat from Nick. (Sorry)
Greetings
Sorry to have been so quiet recently, I know my off topic ramblings will
have been missed. :-)
Just to finalise on an old thread here, I had so much hassle trying to
configure my server with Win2K + Apache 2, I decided to go for the
debian testing release, text only, plus Apache 2, follo
I can only answer this from personal experience and not from any
technical expertise. I have run my lappie with Ubuntu for about 3 months
now with no virus protection on it. I asked the same question on this
list a few weeks ago, had some re-assuring replies and decided to run
with it and try and s
I used to deal in hardware and systems in the UK and I had a hell of a
job to sell anything without Windows and Word on it.
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 15:59 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> One ChCh retailer bundles the win32 version of the gimp on their machines.
But that sort of thing could work well
Microsoft run massive TV ad campaigns in the UK usually around Christmas
time when people buy expensive presents etc. I suspect in the States
and other places too.
> Speaking of IE the Mozilla-Foundation does shovel some money in
> newspaper ads. Ok, that's not much but there are slso all the
Greetings,
Someone said that using IE is normal because it is there, on the PC when
you plug it in. The average user doesn't really know what it is and what
alternatives there are. He just wants to get online to see the football
results or whatever.
It is the more accomplished user, maybe someone
Speaking as a Brit driving 38 years
Insurance is compulsory over there and I think the insurance premiums
are based on statistics. Therefore a 17 yr old with a Porsche plus
performance modifications and a 2 drink driving convictions would find
her premium increase by several hundred percent.
In a
Hi Slosh,
That's the one that did it.
Cheers - Woodsey
> >
>
> have you tried umask=000?
>
> --Slosh
>
Trevor,
Thanks for the re-worked httpd file.
I've really stuffed this Apache setup. It won't even start the service
now, not even with the default httpd.conf loaded. It started when I
moved the old httpd then deleted it. Apache couldn't find it and got
into all sorts confusion.
Rather than mess w
Hi
Thanks Steve, Chris,David, Dave and Nick
Steve, this probably has been covered before but possibly before my
time. Good explanation though.
Well the problem has been solved and I can now read and write to the FAT
partition with both OS.
Last question: Would fat refer to fat16 and vfat to fat
Thanks David, Volker, Dave
What is a *ix filesystem?
No its not a USB device, it's a FAT partition on the machine's hard
drive that needs rw access on Ubuntu and XP, hence FAT system. I'm just
getting read access all the time.
Dave suggested a line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,u
Hi, Thanks for that Rick,
I have attached it as a text file.
> Can you:
> $cat /etc/fstab
> for us please?
>
> We need to know the (read-write) mounting of the FAT partition (I assume).
>
> >Cheers - Woodsey
# <
dump>
proc/proc proc
Greetings,
I am using a lappie + Ubuntu, dual booting with XP. I have made a FAT
partition to contain data that will need to be read and written on both
OS. I think I have changed the ownership of the FAT directory to root OK
but when I tried to make it writable from Ubuntu but it won't have it. I
Hi
I tried to run Xinstall.sh on 486+Tiny after successfully doing chown
and chmod on the file, got the permissions sorted out then ran it. It
immediately asked for extract utility to be placed in the folder where
Xinstall.sh is situated. I am surprised at this as I have been
un-tarring and un-gunz
Ross,
Yes that looks very useful too. If necessary I will try that.
Thanks
Woodsey
- Original Message -
From: "Ross Hamblin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: Ubuntu file permissions
Hi Rob,
You can use tar to get around t
about the script running wild.
I will try the chown and chmod route.
Woodsey
- Original Message -
From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu file permissions
On Tue, January 25, 2005 10:44 am, rob said:
Hi
Hi
Thanks for that Nick.
The output is:
-r-xr-xr-x1 rob rob 44000 2005-01-10
14:59 /home/rob/Xinstall.sh
Is it advisable to re-format a set of floppies using ext2 or something?
and then change the format type in /etc/fstab
Woodsey
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:25 +1300, Nick Rout
Greetings,
How do I change file permissions in Ubuntu? I have a script program
which, when I try to run it, I get the message "permission denied". I
tried to change the permissions via opening the folder containing the
file, selecting the icon for the script, going to file/permissions then
trying t
Greetings,
Did anyone in Christchurch get any downtime on xtra Jetstream last weekend.
Here in Auckland it was off for a large part of Saturday morning. I got a
voice on the helpline to confirm the system was down but no advice was
offered or estimated downtime, certainly no apology, just a load
Greetings,
David, thanks for that; it will be useful on the day. Is the last line of
your message the entry to be added to /etc/exports?
Woodsey.
- Original Message -
From: "David Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: SuSE
Robert,
That clarifies the situation for me. I am trying to digest all this
information as I am not very confident with Linux yet but realise that it is
the way to go.
I am just trying to get my head round the ssh protocol at the moment, then I
should be ready to go ahead with this. I appear to hav
Thanks Robert,
That clarifies the situation for me. I am trying to digest all this
information as I am not very confident with Linux yet but realise that it is
the way to go.
I am just trying to get my head round the ssh protocol at the moment, then I
should be ready to go ahead with this. I ap
Thanks for that Steve,
I will get a spare PC running early next week for a practice shot before
trashing the existing server. When you say get sshd up and running, I
believe that this is an encryption program to be setup on the client machine
before doing the Net install is that correct?
I will
Hi,
I downloaded the SuSE mini installation iso as
recommended. I will probably then go for the DVD version. Is this DVD the
personal or the advanced version? (Not that I think I need the advanced,
- just curious).
If I understand it correctly, I can use this to
boot sufficient OS on a LAN
Hi,
I have re-edited the httpd.conf file as per suggestions and placed
content in the document root directories. When I try to start Apache a
message flashes by really quickly, referring to an error, then Apache
hangs on start up. Is there any way to get at the contents of this
message to find the
Yes, of course it would have been sensible to mention that! (Win2K). A
Linux server is on my New Year resolution list!
Woodsey
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:16 +1300, Dale Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 23:27 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> > >
> > >
> > Oy! Woodsey! No! Wot's this F: st
Thanks Steve, Dale and Trevor,
Putting all this together, the Vhost containers are starting to look a
little fuller than those given in the Apache examples in the
documentation. I thought they looked a little sparse for what they have
to do.
Steve,
The domains A, B and C were just examples for c
Hi,
(For information only)
I have an IDE drive enclosure running on USB 2. It is very reliable, not
bad for speed and they are supposed to be bootable. My lappie will not boot
from it but it will boot from a USB flash drive, which seems strange. I
guess it might if there were no OS on the lappie h
Greetings,
I have been having major problems with Apache,
running a main server and two virtual hosts.
I have been through the Apache documentation with a
fine tooth comb and as far as I can see my cofiguration should work. It works OK
when accessing the main server from outside, but when I
Nice one Nick,
I think I'll download it myself! I always wondered how to remove IE.
Woodsey
- Original Message -
From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CLUG"
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: OT a good laugh at MS
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyw
Rik,
Thanks for the message. Some contacts here in Auckland would be valuable as
regards the local LUG. (I couldn't find much up to date stuff on the web).
Also of particular use to me would be details of a second hand store
something like Computer Broker in Christchurch plus any other
reccomendati
Wow what an amazing response!
I will need a bit of time to absorb all this information, and I'm
currently battling with immigration to avoid being flung out of the
country in the very near future just to confuse things.
I have always wanted to try out SuSE as I like German technology. Those
guys w
Thanks Volker and Philip for offerering to help.
Before I make a decision on this, can I ask a newbie question?
I have only 1 system with a DVD, is it possible for me to access this system
over my LAN from a machine with no OS on it to do a network install of some
type?
Cheers - Woodsey
--
No
Greetings,
Is anyone prepared to supply me with SuSE 9.2 disks
(CDs)? I am in Auckland and would gladly send replacement blanks and refund
postal expenses etc.
I'm really miffed at not being there for the drink
and talk night, sounds like a goody. I don't suppose it is being video streamed
Thanks to David, Nick and Chris,
I have meticulously followed the steps in the unofficial Ubuntu FAQ and
the man pages to get access to NTFS and FAT partition on my drive. I can
view a directory and file listing of my NTFS partition from the prompt
but cannot get the partition to display in Comput
Thanks to David and Nick,
I did mkdir /media/windows for both the NTFS and FAT32 partitions and
made appropriate adjustments to /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab
After a reboot, I have 2 partitions windows and windows2 on the desktop
they both list the directories and files on the FAT32 partition.
The ou
83 Linux
/dev/hda5 16432 17388 481918+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 17388 37804102896017 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 37805 38708 455584+ 82 Linux swap
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/rob #
It is the hda5 one that I need full access to.
I will tr
Thanks David and Chris,
My paranoia is well founded but I'll take your words for it and run without
virus protection. I saw an article in one of the PC magazines where they ran
a batch of different Windows machines (6 I think) on the Internet without
protection. From memory, longest lasting was
Greetings,
Well here we are in Auckland after a long rainy, windy journey. It's
nowhere near as nice as Christchurch.
I have Ubuntu on my laptop and use it everyday on the Internet. I have
no virus protection loaded yet and I am surprised to have gotten away
with it for so long. A word of mouth r
Just to say Happy New Year to
everyone.
Anyone made any resolutions? One of mine is to get
a Linux server up and running and ditch W2K.
Cheers - Woodsey
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004
Thanks to Chris, Nick, Matthew, Steve, David and Glyn,
OK a bit more progress. Further adjusting
xf86config has got background,
cursor and bash$ prompt up the whole time.
The SecurityProfile is still being ignored and I still can't find the X log.
I'm reasonably sure now that it does not exist on t
Thanks to Chris, Ross, Steve and Nick.
I still haven't managed to locate an X log after several attempts.
After running xf86config again and adjusting the horizontal and vertical
frequencies, if I move the mouse about whilst doing startx, the
background and cursor will stay on screen. There is a
Hi Chris,
Well good and bad news. With the downloaded SecurityPolicy file in place
startx starts up and the background stays on screen for about 2 seconds now
(100% improvement). There is no error message at the end of the run
regarding the SecurityPolicy
file so the file is clearly being found OK
Hi Nick,
Yes I understand your thinking but there are good reasons behind all
this. Whilst it's true that I don't have lots of cash around at present
I did have a 486, a bit of spare time and a desire to get to grips with
Linux. The distro was carefully selected as one which would run on the
hardwa
Ah! there we are: XF86_VGA16 and the ( symbolic ) link called X, which
points
to it are both supposed to be in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin
which in turn is supposed to be in the PATH.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
Yes that was the problem, brilliant! Startx now seems to start. I feel that
Thanks to Steve, Chris and David,
The PATH=$PATH command worked OK. Enabled me to re-edit the
/etc/profile file, then after a reboot all was OK. One extra set of " in
the string caused the problem. It's a problem when you have fingers like a
bunch of bananas :-)
As far as I can see,
- Original Message -
From: "Judy & Lindsay Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Judy & Lindsay questions
Most practical - whos got a spare $799 (Harvey Normans - kidding)!!
Hi Both,
Have a look in the Computer Broker 6 Washington way. My
Hi
I have been labouring long and hard to get X system
working on my practice box (486+Tiny).
I made a lot of progress and got all the *.tar.gz
files decompressed and extracted into their appropriate directories. I
followed readme.tinyX to the letter and did locate to ensure that all
req
Hi Both,
Can I strongly reccomend a spare PC to practice
Linux on so you don't mess up your working system. I have done this several
times and have learned this lesson the hard way. This way you can still use
e-mail and web on the working system to get things sorted out.
A spare PC is the w
Hi Both,
I am a newbie myself struggling with various
problems so I probably can't help much but I will try. Mandrake in my experience
is reasonable to set up with a modem as long as you have an external serial
or USB modem and not internal PCI or ISA type (these things depend
on Windows), a
Chris,
I am causing some confusion here. I have Ubuntu on
my laptop, which although I have some problems with it, just installed like
a dream, less problems than with XP, but Ubuntu doesn't like the laptop
hardware. It fails to boot often with Fatal Error messages.
The machine on which I'm
Chris,
I tried X -configure and x -configure but these
would not run. Got the message "command not found" I get the
feeling that some of these executables are not working for some reason. I can
see the files startx* and xf86config* but they won't do
anything. The mass of stuff in the xf86c
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Thanks to Chris, Glyn and David for recent
help.
Some success at last. I have now got the elusive
XTinybin.tar file gunzip'd tar'd and the extracted files are now visible in what
I assume is the correct place: /etc/X11/X11R6/bin/
All files are executables except for one n
Hi
Thanks to Glyn, Chris and David for previous
help.
I seem to have made some progress with
XTinybin.tar. I re-downloaded the file and found it was XTinybin.tar.gz (It got
labelled as XTinytar.tar at 1st attempt) so I gzip'd it and then tar'd it as
it says in the manual but couldn't
Hi
Woodsey here. Thanks to Chris and Steve for the
recent help.
Could anyone throw some light on the
following
I am fairly convinced that my Xtinybin.tar is well
mangled as Winzip won't look at it either so I
had a look through all the directories on my linux box (Tiny Linux on 486) and
Hi CLUG,
It's woodsey here. I never dreamed that my off the
cuff comment would start such a debate. Yes it was just a joke "what shall I do
with it? - polite answers only please" audience collapses
in paroxysms of mirth!
Anyway at the risk of being "flamed" or branded an
idiot or mayb
Hello CLUG,
Rob Wood (Woodsey) here. I attended the meeting on
04December (introduced myself as marine engineer), it was great to meet
everyone for the first time. I was amazed how helpful and welcoming everyone
was, thanks for that. Sorry I had to leave early, but found both presentations
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