Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-20 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
* Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-21 07:10] wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest > > messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the > > digests, so

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:05:39PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: note that you need both HFS+ filesytem AND mac style partitions kernel support to be able to work with the iPod. I have both... From File Systems -> Miscellaneous filesystems: x x<*> Apple Macintos

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Paul Scott
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 18:44, richard lyons wrote: On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:10, Michael Satterwhite wrote: [...] Although I've had to use Windows at some client sites, my personal machines have been essentially MS fre

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Jules Dubois wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:47:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: Just install a Debian box like you normally do, then "apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.whateverfitsyourarchitecture". Thanks for the advice, Kent. A foolish question: There's really nothing more to it than installing

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Re: Gnumeric broken in sarge ?

2004-06-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:16:48 +0200, Tim Timmerman wrote: > I did my usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last saturday, > and discovered that gnumeric wouldn't run anymore. The only message > printed is: > > Cannot allocate memory. Most likely the gnumeric process is being loa

How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

2004-06-20 Thread James Sinnamon
I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). What would be the easist way to accomplish this? 1. use an NFS mount of /var/apt/cache/archives/ frommy first Debian system, and enter into /etc/

Re: Gnumeric broken in sarge ?

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:16:48 +0200 Tim Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I did my usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last saturday, > and discovered that gnumeric wouldn't run anymore. The only message > printed is: > > Cannot allocate memory. > > This is mildl

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:15:59 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:47, Chris Metzler wrote: >> What you're not aware of is that something similar happened last year with >> KDE in testing. More specifically, last year, KDE was uninstallable >> in testing for *several month

Gnumeric broken in sarge ?

2004-06-20 Thread Tim Timmerman
Hi, I did my usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last saturday, and discovered that gnumeric wouldn't run anymore. The only message printed is: Cannot allocate memory. This is mildly annoying, since I kep some essential dat ain a gnumeric spreadsheet. ( I do keep a woody ins

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:13:37 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most > experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than > the testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / > observation It happene

Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-20 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest > messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the > digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else > experienced the same? >

Re: What am I doing wrong(Motor unresponsive)

2004-06-20 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Sunday 20 June 2004 12:27 am, cecil wrote: > I tried to start using motor today. But I could never actually get > off that silly menu bar to code... I just kept going from 1 option to > the next, left to right, right to left. How do I get down so I can > actually do something? I tried escape, I

Re: KPackage and apt-get basics

2004-06-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 05:05:12PM -0700, Brenden wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2004 02:15 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Hello > > > > Brenden (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time. > > > > > > One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of install

Re: apt-get update lists - Thanks

2004-06-20 Thread Brian Astill
Thanks to all those helpful people who responded. I have three HDs and around 70G free, so I'll keep Knoppix as my working system and gradually "work up" a true Debian system on a separate partition. From discussions on this list it seems that "testing" (sarge) is the way to go initially. I h

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-20 Thread Jules Dubois
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:47:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Just install a Debian box like you normally do, then "apt-get install > kernel-image-2.6.whateverfitsyourarchitecture". Thanks for the advice, Kent. A foolish question: There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image packag

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Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:05:39PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > note that you need both HFS+ filesytem AND mac style partitions > kernel support to be able to work with the iPod. I have both... >From File Systems -> Miscellaneous filesystems: x x<*> Apple Macintosh file system sup

Re: bash profile not working

2004-06-20 Thread Michael B Allen
John Taber said: > I want to set some environmental variables - I tried putting them in > bash_profile (which works in RH) but it doesn't seem to work X under Debian does not source /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile. I don't know why exactly but the correct fix is to change the file: /etc/X11/Xse

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2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have two HP computers on my Gateway 500 system: HP 697C (parallel port) and HP psc 1210 on a USB port. I found a CUPs and a Ghostscript tarball files, and printer-magicfilter.tgz.tar during my browsing since it might be better to use the Debian packaging to track this stuff. The Linux defi

new X update screwing up xfce4

2004-06-20 Thread Rob Benton
I updated with some package the other day, and my icons on my xfce taskbar are all chopped off on the edges. sreenshot: http://www.geocities.com/emperorrob I'm not sure what package did it though. Also I noticed I have new mouse cursors so I'm thinking it's an X package. Anybody else run i

Re: KPackage and apt-get basics

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:09:23PM -0700, Brenden wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time. > > One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of installed packages. Is this > available someplace from either tool? > aptitude ~i will do it, or run aptitude with

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:46:27PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 20 18:19 -0500]: > > I have a problem (for two weeks) with Mozilla browsers on my unstable > > box. > > > > I have three mozilla-based browsers installed: Mozilla itself, Firefox > > and

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:01:01PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > unstable > > simply would not run ... > > I was effected by this as well, yet not effected at all. This is where

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:37:12PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:35:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > > Yes, unstable does indeed break sometimes, sometimes seriously so. But > > in the five or so years I've been running Debian, I've seen far less > > breakage on Debia

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:10:30PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote: > > > > In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm, > > wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xf

/etc/hostname

2004-06-20 Thread Tom Allison
My /etc/hostname file contains only the machine name and not the FQDN of the machine. This is causing problems with procmail, squirrelmail and probably 50 other things out there. How do I set this once and for all? And should it be a FQDN or just the machine name? I'm actually thinking it needs

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:25:30AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > >A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in unstable > >simply would not run. I've noted several of the messages recommending the > >unstable branch say that there were some updates

Re: Recording sound from microphone

2004-06-20 Thread Jeremy Workman
I use Audacity a lot, looking in my mixer I see that the Mic is not muted, the volume is just all the way down. I hope that helps. On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 17:36, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hey all, > > I want to record sound from microphone. I am trying to use Audacity, but > the rec program from sox

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Kent West wrote: Ethan Vos wrote: Can I run this from a Win98 C: drive and install to a Linux D: or E: drive? The instructions seem a little daunting... Ethan Robert Sheets wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:19:59 -0400, Ethan Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good afternoon all. The mirrors that I ha

Re: wput? automatic ftp login/upload?

2004-06-20 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:26:04 -0400, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to log into the FTP server with a username and password, then upload > some files, allowing them to overwrite the existing files automagically. > Hands off is strongly preferred. You should be able to use curl. Look at

Re: update-rc.d and package upgrades

2004-06-20 Thread John Hasler
martin f krafft writes: > So what's the recommended way of disabling services? I suggest sysvconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Allen Williams wrote: From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, trim your posts, please. <>Sorry...:>( from now on... No problem. 'ppreciate the cooperation. -- Kent <> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
Sorry...:>( from now on... > -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk > errors(?) > > > Gregory Pierce wrote: > > >On Sun, 2004-06-20

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
I don't know if I got a bad CD image or what. I'm in the process of trying jigdo (after a little internet research) like you said, but, previously, the install hangs when it is trying to install the base system, and there are CD errors, the: June 20 00:58:56 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdc: media e

Re: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Gregory Pierce wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 20:20, Allen Williams wrote: Lots and lots and lots of stuff without snippage. Folks, trim your posts, please. Thanks! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash profile not working

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
John Taber wrote: I want to set some environmental variables - I tried putting them in bash_profile (which works in RH) but it doesn't seem to work although when I manually type in the same lines at the command prompt it works (using Knoppix on HD). Any suggestions? thks John If you're setti

Re: update-rc.d and package upgrades

2004-06-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > The recommended way to disable a service, or to move its > initialisation priority is update-rc.d. However, when the package is update-rc.d is for THE PACKAGING SYSTEM. It is not meant as an admin tool. It could be made smarter, like dpkg-divert, and

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Gregory Pierce
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 20:20, Allen Williams wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for the help. What do you mean, you used jigdo? I just ftp'd it > (onto a Windows NT4.0 machine) and burned an iso image. It booted OK, but > I'm getting all kinds of CD errors. > > Thanks, > Allen > > > -Original Messa

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:44:58PM -0500, James Abella wrote: When sbp2 can log in, use fdisk to get basic partition info of /dev/sda. If there are only sda1 and sda2, it's Win mode. If not, the easiest way to convert it to Win mode is to install iTune on one Windows box.

bash profile not working

2004-06-20 Thread John Taber
I want to set some environmental variables - I tried putting them in bash_profile (which works in RH) but it doesn't seem to work although when I manually type in the same lines at the command prompt it works (using Knoppix on HD). Any suggestions? thks John -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-20 Thread Tom Vier
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: > My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the two comment > > To set resolv.conf, I su then type "echo 'nameserver 10.0.0.1' > | /sbin/resolvconf -a eth0" which takes care of the problem for one session. i've neve

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-06-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 20 18:19 -0500]: > I have a problem (for two weeks) with Mozilla browsers on my unstable > box. > > I have three mozilla-based browsers installed: Mozilla itself, Firefox > and Epiphany (my main browser), and each of them crash on some sites. > For ex

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 20 11:33 -0500]: > stan wrote: > > >If I want to build a new Debian machine to start expolring the 2.6 kernel > >what's the best way to go about this? > > > > > > > Just install a Debian box like you normally do, then "apt-get install > kernel-image-2.6.

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread James Abella
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:26:13 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > > (and then nothing) > My laptop appears to think it's an empty iPod. I guess that means it's > HFS? Unfortunately I do not have a Windows machine with fire

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
Greg, Thanks for the help. What do you mean, you used jigdo? I just ftp'd it (onto a Windows NT4.0 machine) and burned an iso image. It booted OK, but I'm getting all kinds of CD errors. Thanks, Allen > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday

update-rc.d and package upgrades

2004-06-20 Thread martin f krafft
I have not found a clean solution to this, so let me pester y'all... The recommended way to disable a service, or to move its initialisation priority is update-rc.d. However, when the package is upgraded, it is likely that the choice I made for update-rc.d will be overwritten. Since update-rc.d do

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 18:44, richard lyons wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:10, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > [...] > > > Although I've had to use Windows at some client sites, my personal > > machines have been essentially MS free for over a year. S

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:32:54 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > Friday. > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? You need to use something called hotplug and ensure that you have various SCSI modules built for

Re: KPackage and apt-get basics

2004-06-20 Thread Brenden
On Sunday 20 June 2004 02:15 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Brenden (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time. > > > > One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of installed packages. > > Is this available someplace from either tool? > > dpkg

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:39:55 -0700, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you apt-get kcontrol and apt-get gnome-control-center, you will have > "just enough" KDE and Gnome to run apps -- just make sure aptitude > doesn't bring in the display managers, session managers, and window > man

Pse help Debian/ uw-imapd with Win OE

2004-06-20 Thread John Fleming
Could someone engage me off-list about setting up a Win box IMAP account to interface with Debian uw-IMAP please? I think I just need to know the proper root folder path to enter in the OE IMAP account settings. I've done this successfully with a Fedora box running uw-imap, but with my Debian ins

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:10, Michael Satterwhite wrote: [...] > > Although I've had to use Windows at some client sites, my personal > machines have been essentially MS free for over a year. Some > exceptions, there - I can't live without Quicken / Quickbooks [...] Look at sql-ledger. You migh

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 20 June 2004 12:48, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, > > but can be done easily. > > Cripples how? I run Konqueror without any other KDE component. > Granted it sti

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:44:58PM -0500, James Abella wrote: > When sbp2 can log in, use fdisk to get basic partition info of > /dev/sda. If there are only > sda1 and sda2, it's Win mode. If not, the easiest way to convert it > to Win mode is to install iTune on one Windows box. Ok, I'm back to

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Ethan Vos wrote: Can I run this from a Win98 C: drive and install to a Linux D: or E: drive? The instructions seem a little daunting... Ethan Robert Sheets wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:19:59 -0400, Ethan Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good afternoon all. The mirrors that I have looked at have

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-20 Thread Steve Lamb
dircha wrote: > Right. That's when you bring up a dired buffer in emacs. Why would I want to load a 20M+ editor to do such a simple task? Trust me, any time the answer involves emacs and it isn't editing text, it's the wrong answer. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: /lib/modules//build -- why a link?

2004-06-20 Thread Robert Sheets
> That's right, but why do the headers not get installed 'physically' > there when the kernel-headers package is installed? It may be because many systems' root filesystem is quite small, and the kernel headers are somewhat large. That's just a guess, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Ethan Vos
Can I run this from a Win98 C: drive and install to a Linux D: or E: drive? The instructions seem a little daunting... Ethan Robert Sheets wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:19:59 -0400, Ethan Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good afternoon all. The mirrors that I have looked at have binary-1 through bina

Re: wput? automatic ftp login/upload?

2004-06-20 Thread Robert Sheets
ncftpput may work for your purposes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
Thanks, but I'm still getting the base install error, and also the disk errors associated with my cdrom. My cdrom is a DVD-RW, but the CD in it was written on my Windows (old) CD burner, so should be OK. I burned it with "Joliet" file specified, as ISO 9660 only allows 8 char file names. I have

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
When I ordered Debian woody i686 CDROM's from a vendor listed on Debian.org, I got a set of seven. The first one gave me a list of kernels to try. I wound up using the 2.4 kernel. I am now running Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody 2.4.18 on this Gateway 500. Ethan Vos wrote: Good a

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-20 Thread dircha
Steve Lamb wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote: Actually the shell is, for cases like "rm *.o". (That's why I wish graphical shells retained the advantages of command lines when they added the graphical advantages. I should have said "partial, non-continuious selections across a large list." Simple cases

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread James Abella
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:24:03 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And if I try creating a fresh directory I get: > smeagol:/mnt 17:19:49 $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod2 > mount: special device /dev/sda2 does not exist When sbp2 can log in, use fdisk to get basic partition

Re: KPackage and apt-get basics

2004-06-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brenden (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time. > > One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of installed packages. > Is this available someplace from either tool? dpkg --get-selections dpkg -L aptitude (if it is installed) > The second

Re: Most Polite Apps for Window Managers?

2004-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Esteban Martinez wrote: Ed Sutherland wrote: I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments (Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I no need to consider:-) you can just try different WMs, most of them even without restarting X (last time I tried it KD

Recording sound from microphone

2004-06-20 Thread Daniel Klein
Hey all, I want to record sound from microphone. I am trying to use Audacity, but the rec program from sox would be cool as well. Here's what I did, back when I was running SuSE: I brought up KMix, selected microphone as input source, muted it (so there'd be no echo over speakers/headphones), st

Re: Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Robert Sheets
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:19:59 -0400, Ethan Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good afternoon all. > > The mirrors that I have looked at have binary-1 through binary-7. Which > is the correct one to use? I would not recommend using the binary-X CD images unless the machine you're installing onto d

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:10:42PM -0500, James Abella wrote: > log looks good. Did you try this as root: > mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod lrwxr-xr-x1 emmajane root 26 Jun 20 00:27 ipod -> /var/autofs/removable/ipod smeagol:/home/emmajane# mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod moun

Which version?

2004-06-20 Thread Ethan Vos
Good afternoon all. The mirrors that I have looked at have binary-1 through binary-7. Which is the correct one to use? Also, I am using a second HDD for the install. Will the CD ask which HDD to use? Will the install give me way to chose which OS to boot? Thanks in advance for the help. Dropout

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Gregory Pierce
Allen, Having just installed sarge on my laptop I think I may be able to help. I initially attempted to install sarge from a cd I burned using jigdo. This failed repeatedly...I kept getting corrupted media messages part way through the installation, though it would boot nicely. So, I went to a

All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-06-20 Thread Dan Korostelev
I have a problem (for two weeks) with Mozilla browsers on my unstable box. I have three mozilla-based browsers installed: Mozilla itself, Firefox and Epiphany (my main browser), and each of them crash on some sites. For example on http://incoming.debian.org/ or http://people.debian.org/~mvo and ot

KPackage and apt-get basics

2004-06-20 Thread Brenden
Hi all, I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time. One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of installed packages. Is this available someplace from either tool? The second thing is how do I get dependencies to install? I tried installing package apache but it told me apache-

Re: gDesklets -- Which Work?

2004-06-20 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running mixed unstable/experimental here and frankly there are lots of funny stuff here: 1. when I start gdesklets I find this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdesklets gDesklets 0.26.2 Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 The gDesklets Team This softwa

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread jakob bratkovic
stan wrote: I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, Friday. How can I use this with my Debian laptop? If I understand correctly you're talking about an USB drive. If this is the case, Linux will see it as an SCSI disk and probably assign it to /dev/sda1 if you other

Re: USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:32:54PM -0400, stan wrote: > I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, > Friday. > > How can I use this with my Debian laptop? Plug it into the USB port. For more information, post your Debian version, what kind of memory stick, etc. -- Ca

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:35:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Yes, unstable does indeed break sometimes, sometimes seriously so. But > in the five or so years I've been running Debian, I've seen far less > breakage on Debian unstable boxes than on Windows boxes (and much, much, > much more re

RE: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
OK, fixed that problem, but, with "sarge", I still get the following errors (same as original problem): modprobe: failed to load module floppy eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expected ")") With "woody", it can't find my network hardware (Intel 82547EI Gigabit LAN controller). Any help

wput? automatic ftp login/upload?

2004-06-20 Thread Silvan
I don't have time to go research this at the moment, so I'm going to be lazy and ask here. I'm writing some documentation, some of which is in CVS, but I have a printable PDF version that I want to host myself, so as not to waste SourceForge resources needlessly. I'd like to build an upload of

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 14:35, Kent West wrote: > I run stable on my important boxes, like servers, that need to be up > 24x7, and I run unstable on my workstations. I have less pain on > unstable workstations with their occasional breakages than I do o

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread James Abella
log looks good. Did you try this as root: mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:36:28 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:06:39PM -0500, James Abella wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:54:25 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin > > <[EMAIL P

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-06-20 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:06:39PM -0500, James Abella wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:54:25 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just won an iPod (yay!) and I'm trying to get it to mount with the > > 2.6.6 kernel. I've recompiled to get firewire working and the device is

Re: How to install

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Shane C wrote: I have a Toshiba A30 Satellite laptop currently running XP Home. I want, at minimum, to have a dual boot situation with Debian/GNU Linux. Would I be better advised to install what I have and upgrade or install a later version? The best connection I can get up here - Georgian Bay

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Tadek wrote: Louiso, It worked!!! Oh well. Almost. In the midst of trying to fix the problem, on advised of other gurus, I first created new user xxx. Initially it had the same behaviour, but after your sticky bit change I login OK and KDE wizard ask me few configuration questions and it runs bea

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Tadek
Luiso, Yes it works. In addition I had to delete /home/tad/.kderc to make kde work again (kde wizard for new user created previously deleted .kde and recreated .kderc). My second problem (in original posting) of not being able to close kde shell Konsole remains. Thank you again for your help, Ta

Re: "sarge" install: "Install base system" bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Allen Williams wrote: This is a brand new system- no data to worry about, but would like to get the system installed. Given a brand new system, don't think my hardware is dying, but, of course, anything is possible. -Original Message- From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote: In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm, wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc. That works for KDE, but what abou

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Michael Satterwhite wrote: On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:47, Chris Metzler wrote: You're right that this happened recently with KDE in unstable. What you're not aware of is that something similar happened last year with KDE in testing. More specifically, last year, KDE was uninstallable in testing

USB memory stick?

2004-06-20 Thread stan
I was given a USB memory stick, as a promotional giveawau by a vrndor, Friday. How can I use this with my Debian laptop? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:22:19AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: > On Monday, 21 Jun 2004 00:33, David Fokkema wrote: > > Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on > > windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The > > problem is that I can't just

Re: 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' ?

2004-06-20 Thread Luiso Pérez
Hi Adam, Your hard disk isn't broken, there is a problem whith the bios and linux, probe tu disable ulra dma on bios setup. Please tell me since it has gone to you!! - Original Message - From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:09:44 +1200 Subject: 'DriveReady Se

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:27:24PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >> You could create a secure tunnel between the two systems, then run VNC > >> over it. SSH port forwarding + PuTTY would work, as would Stunnel. > > > > Just to be certain: are you saying it is possible on a wi

software suspend on 2.6.5-1-686-smp

2004-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Can someone help me how to get software suspend working on debian unstable machine? In particular I would like to try the hibernating feature. I am using default kernel-image and the /boot/config-2.6.5-1-686-smp has the following lines # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONF

How to install

2004-06-20 Thread Shane C
I have a Toshiba A30 Satellite laptop currently running XP Home. I want, at minimum, to have a dual boot situation with Debian/GNU Linux. Would I be better advised to install what I have and upgrade or install a later version? The best connection I can get up here - Georgian Bay area of Ontar

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Aube
David Fokkema wrote: >> You could create a secure tunnel between the two systems, then run VNC >> over it. SSH port forwarding + PuTTY would work, as would Stunnel. > > Just to be certain: are you saying it is possible on a windows platform > to tunnel a vnc viewer through putty? Yes, though I g

Re: Secure VNC from Windows?

2004-06-20 Thread Alexander Nordström
On Monday, 21 Jun 2004 00:33, David Fokkema wrote: > Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on > windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The > problem is that I can't just install a Cygwin environment or something > like that. Why not? What can you

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:24:45PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun, Jun 20, 20

Re: Faxing from Debian

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Aube
David Baron wrote: > I have gotten this to work using a couple of efax front-ends, efax-gtk and > kdeprintfax. Kdeprintfax can be set up called as a printer choice from kde > applications. However, direct applications such as OpenOffice and others > will only see the regular printers attached to t

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