Tyler Smith wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Etch, but in my impatience for OpenOffice2 I installed it
when it hit Sid. Now that it has made it into Etch I'm getting all
sorts of warnings of impending doom when I try to do a general
upgrade. What would be the best way to fix this? Should I just remove
Hi,
I'm running Etch, but in my impatience for OpenOffice2 I installed it
when it hit Sid. Now that it has made it into Etch I'm getting all sorts
of warnings of impending doom when I try to do a general upgrade. What
would be the best way to fix this? Should I just remove the whole OO
suite
HI
I have just spent hours trying to figure this out, through google
but no luck. I have a single pentium 4 w/ hyperthreading and am
running kernel 2.6.13. I built my own kernel and enabled HT and
the system seems to recognize two processors.
Here is /proc/cpuinfo:
/--\
proces
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
Hi Hugo,
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Debian's search tool is down.
Anybody know where ifconfig gets the inet addr?
...
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet
Don Jackson wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>> Don Jackson writes:
>>>
>>> I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person
>>> installing Debian.
>>
>>
>> There is a choice of desktops. There is a choice of _everything_.
>
> OK, in the small context of the above quote, rev
Chris Howie wrote:
> Except now you're missing twice the disk space. Seriously, installing both
> DEs
> is a complete waste of space, unless the user is interested in evaluating both
> DEs to see which one he likes better.
Or the system is going to have multiple users who might want differen
Dear list,When I try to install an arbitrary package with apt-get or dselect I always receive the following error:...Preconfiguring packages ...(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xyz.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `sysv-rc' is missing final newlineErr
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bryan G wrote:
>> i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to
>> replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer
>> taking over your PC
>> http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm
>
> I find that mplayer is a far better substitute for what I
> used
I've been listening to some of the weekly "Security Now"
podcasts by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte in which they
discuss a wide array of security topics pertaining to
desktop PC's running Windows. Much of this applies to
Linux boxes as well. These programs are entertaining and
informative but they
В сообщении от Суббота 07 января 2006 05:32 Paul Johnson написал(a):
> Roman Makurin wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > At home I`ve got slow dialup internet connection and when I connect to
> > internet mc startup time becomes very long - about 20 seconds :) When I
> > disconect everything goes fine - str
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:01:50PM -0700, Chris Dos wrote:
> I was running the xorg-server from experimental that wsa version 6.9.99.900
> that had the patch for middle button scroll and paste functionality for the
> Thinkpad. However, my recent apt-get upgrade for Sid installed version
> 6.9.0
Roman Makurin wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> At home I`ve got slow dialup internet connection and when I connect to
> internet mc startup time becomes very long - about 20 seconds :) When I
> disconect everything goes fine - strtup less then a second. I think it`s
> resolver issues but I don`t know what I
On Friday 06 January 2006 21:16, Tyson Varosyan wrote:
>Tony, I am going to google away on the MTU thing - I do not even know
> what MTU is... However, please note that when I set up routing from
> ppp0 to eth1, the computer connected to Eth1 is a web server and is
> reachable from outside. I will
Hi,
Anyone know what this error message means?
sudo: unable to lookup viewmaster via gethostbyname()
"viewmaster" is the hostname I chose for my laptop. Sudo seems to work
normally, but the message appears whenever I use it.
I'm using testing.
Thanks,
John
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I just noticed that when we rsync from security.debian.org
we're generating a lot of traffic because
rsync://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/
exists on some security.debian.org hosts and not on others.
One rsync will delete several hundred MB and the next will
download it again.
A
I've noticed a problem where workstations configured with NIS have a
problem mounting Samba shares. Apparently the passwd/group table is not
loaded prior to the share being mounted via fstab, so the share is
mounted with unknown user/group. Executing a "mount -o remount
sharename" fixes it after
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:41 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:46:18 +
>
> Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> > > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced
> > > Debian users responding posit
On Friday 06 January 2006 06:11 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> >Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the
> > option to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then,
> > a "debian-newcomer" list (or debian-how-in-the-heck-do-I-ge
OHH HELL YEA! I think I got it to work!! Tony you are da man!! Prior to
today I had no idea what MTU is, but after googleing and then looking at my
ifconfig and seeing that my MTU was set to 0 I thought that it might be a
problem.
Doing
Ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1492 made it so that my wget is now worki
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:28:01AM +0300, Roman Makurin wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> At home I`ve got slow dialup internet connection and when I connect to
> internet mc startup time becomes very long - about 20 seconds :) When I
> disconect everything goes fine - strtup less then a second. I think it`s
Andy Streich wrote:
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:48 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Andy Streich wrote:
In addition to the other suggestions on how to improve the newbie
experience, I would add creating yet another mailing list specifically
for people trying to establish a stable instal
Tony, I am going to google away on the MTU thing - I do not even know what
MTU is... However, please note that when I set up routing from ppp0 to eth1,
the computer connected to Eth1 is a web server and is reachable from
outside. I will test to see if the web server can pull up websites etc...
Far
Andy Streich wrote:
Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the option
to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then, a
"debian-newcomer" list (or debian-how-in-the-heck-do-I-get-this-working list)
seems like a good idea.
This has been discussed
I wonder if your ISP has an MTU issue. That would explain
small packets getting through but not bigger ones. I don't
recall offhand how to troubleshoot that but a quick google
search should give it to you. You can probably test it
pretty quick by setting a lowish mtu with a paragraph in
/etc/ne
Ok, I have made outputs of the files that Tony and Andrew asked for. For
some reason wget would not dump to a file, so I will copy the output into
here.
Also note: because my laptop does not have a floppy drive, I reloaded same
version of Debian on my PC using a VIA motherboard with onboard PCMCIA
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:46 pm, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian
> > users responding positively to the "help, help" emails. Andrew's
> > question is the critical one: is Debian for ne
According to Andrew Sackville-West,
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:12:21 -0800
> "Tyson Varosyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yea, I am going to keep with it. This is just so damn frustrating! How would
> > all TCP traffic just be blocked be default?! I do not know enough about the
> > OS. I just go
Joey Hess wrote:
Bernd Prager wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update:
...
But root has the required keys in the pubring:
I've been following this issue and also did:
debian1:/home/leec# wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc
-O - | sudo apt-key add
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Kent West wrote:
[ root fsck problem caused by time skew ]
> It seems like I had this on a newly-installed Sid box the other day.
> After I installed "ntpdate" the problem went away (but I was fighting
> several problems at once, so no guarantees that this had any relevance).
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:48:30 -0500
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> debian-boot already exists. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ for
> more information.
I would have never thought of it as a newbie list. The name rather suggests a
list dedicated to boot troubles, like wh
Chinook wrote:
Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop
Thanks for the responses Ronny, Marc and Alvin
Since I missed the obvious (actually didn't recognize it for what it was
in my scanning) I've been off doing more
Hi All!
At home I`ve got slow dialup internet connection and when I connect to
internet mc startup time becomes very long - about 20 seconds :) When I
disconect everything goes fine - strtup less then a second. I think it`s
resolver issues but I don`t know what I need to do. Does anyone know wh
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:48 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> >In addition to the other suggestions on how to improve the newbie
> > experience, I would add creating yet another mailing list specifically
> > for people trying to establish a stable installation. Like other
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:13:13 -0800
Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 10:57 am, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
> >
> > Cold Fusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> >
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:12:21 -0800
"Tyson Varosyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yea, I am going to keep with it. This is just so damn frustrating! How would
> all TCP traffic just be blocked be default?! I do not know enough about the
> OS. I just got home and I am going to try some other flavors
* lsmod > outfile.txt
Ok, how do I get my outfile to a floppy?
* You say you can ping outside addresses? and dns works to? such as
* ping www.google.com
Yup. I can ping without a problem! Ping www.google.com resolves the IP and
gets replies in around 200ms.
* what is output from wget or apt-g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Marc PERRUDIN wrote:
> Have you try the debmirror package? It can create and update a mirror
> with a single command. Here an example:
>
> debmirror [--ignore-release-gpg] -e rsync -h ftp.debian.org -r :debian
> -d etch,sarge,sid -s main,non-free,cont
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:21:13 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am searching for the relatives who settled approximately between 1850 and
> 1910 in Chicago Ill.USA.
> The following ionformatiuon was traced from my parents' papers:
> Name: Aurel HRUSSOCZY
> Parents: Alois H
Hello:
I am searching for the relatives who
settled approximately between 1850 and 1910 in Chicago
Ill.USA.
The following ionformatiuon was traced from my
parents' papers:
Name:
Aurel HRUSSOCZY
Parents: Alois
HRUSSOCZY and Gabrielle HRUSSOCZY (Born: "Gyergyanffy")
Known Addr
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:49:47PM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> is this the next way ?
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142
>
Yes
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Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I peek inside an initrd produce by make-kpkg (2.6.14 kernel, I
> think yaird produced the file)?
>
> zcat initrd-flavor > tinit
> and then mounting tinit on a loopback, but I always got errors that
> the file system was unreadable.
The following s
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:56:10 -0800
"Tyson Varosyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> kernel version: uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTS 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> installed modules: lsmod
> This gives me a long list of modules. I do not see anything that looks to be
> rel
Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:21:51PM +, michael wrote:
mm... not sure which Java SDK is required for this... the Debian/Java
FAQ just confuses me!
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Because (IIRC) the change is quite simple before the first login from the
> GDM screen. I believe barring any user intervention to the contrary when a
> GUI environment is selected *both* are installed and the user can choose his
> poison from the GDM dropdown. Certainly d
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:46:18 +
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian
> > users responding positively to the "help, help" emails. Andrew's question
> > is
> > the criti
Hi,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John A. Martin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can mount /dev/vg1/test and do df. I can umount it, mount it, do
> df. If I unmount it then unplug the USB and plug it in again I cannot
> mount it again until after I reboot!
Have you re-run the vgscan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote:
Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on
my machine.
No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we
can do a much better fix in glibc, but I ne
kernel version: uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTS 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
installed modules: lsmod
This gives me a long list of modules. I do not see anything that looks to be
related with ppp, network or tcp. How do I get outputs of these commands to
be dumped to a txt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:21:51PM +, michael wrote:
> >
> >
> >mm... not sure which Java SDK is required for this... the Debian/Java
> >FAQ just confuses me!
> >
> >
> >
Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:21:51PM +, michael wrote:
mm... not sure which Java SDK is required for this... the Debian/Java
FAQ just confuses me!
Yeah, Java yuck. I agree. There are two programs that are so good it was
worth it to me to install Java: j
Don Jackson wrote:
> Admittedly this is not a scientific poll, and I'm not interested in
> starting (another) flame war over KDE vs. GNOME (send those comments to
> /dev/null please), but I am interested in seeing the Debian Installer
> give the user a choice during installation.
Because (IIRC
Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
Hi Hugo,
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Debian's search tool is down.
Anybody know where ifconfig gets the inet addr?
...
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:200.57.201.194 P-t-P:200.57.219.18
Ma
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote:
> Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows
> on my machine.
No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we
can do a much better fix in glibc, but I need to investigate more. And
there is always
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:30:15PM +0100, Thomas wrote:
> i would like to connect to my Samsung D600 mobile phone via usb on my
> debian machine.
> I want to access the photos, music etc on my mobile phone.
>
> What software could i use to do that?
While not necessarily user-friendly, obexftp wi
I upgraded to etch a while ago, and when the secure version of apt was
uploaded I had to add the secure-testing security archive key, but
otherwise it's worked fine.
Recently however when doing dist-upgrades, apt-get has been warning that
most packages cannot be verified. I can still install
Followup to self because of continuing problems.
> "jam" == John A Martin
> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev"
> Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:47:49 -0500
> "Andy" == Andy Hawkins
> "Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev"
> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:0
Andy Streich wrote:
In addition to the other suggestions on how to improve the newbie experience,
I would add creating yet another mailing list specifically for people trying
to establish a stable installation. Like other diehards on this list I can
filter 150 emails/day. That's not true for
On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian
> users responding positively to the "help, help" emails. Andrew's question is
> the critical one: is Debian for newbies or not? From my own experience over
> the last couple o
Tyson Varosyan wrote:
Hi Marty,
I an very new to Linux. What do I type in to give you more information. I
used the 180MB install disk image from debian.org and I type in "linux26" at
the install prompt...
Here are some tools that may yield useful output:
kernel version: uname -a
pci devic
Hi Hugo,
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Debian's search tool is down.
>
> Anybody know where ifconfig gets the inet addr?
>
> ...
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:200.57.201.194 P-t-P:200.57.219.18
> Mask:255.255.
Sorry for the repost. I am new to the list and I was just informed by
another user that due to the way I posted my original thread, it got buried
as a reply to another thread... This is my 6th day using linux and 3 of it
have now been spent with this problem - I am about ready to pull my hair
out!
Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on
my machine.
My linux configuration is relatively simple with everything on a single
partition. Time zone is set properly, is not a symbolic link and is in the same
filesystem as root.
I've noticed that when I have t
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:12 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
>
> Having said all that, I agree that the prevalence of "help help" emails is
> a good sign and its incumbent upon us, as a community to reach out to these
> people and help them in whatever way we can. First, of course, talk
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:57 am, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
>
> Cold Fusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> > computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> > don't
Hi Marty,
I an very new to Linux. What do I type in to give you more information. I
used the 180MB install disk image from debian.org and I type in "linux26" at
the install prompt...
Far as the issue discussed on junxion, I am not having it. I do not know
why, but I have seen many people refer to
I am certain that my ISP is not blocking TCP traffic. When using the same
account and the same modem in Windows, everything works fine. Also remember
that when I had my web server set up behind my Linux box, I was able to use
TCP outbound and inbound without an issue. This is something dorky having
You may want to check out ltsp---packages for it are available. I
believe it can be configured to set time limits on sessions.
You might also take a look at the Howard County Library [1] [2]. They
cooked up their own distribution, and it appears they're more Red Hat,
but if you contact them th
Don Jackson wrote:
This may be considered "off topic" by some, but I just stumbled on an
interesting website with a program called "Linux Distribution Chooser".
Even though I've been with Debian for a couple years now, I thought I'd
just test out the "chooser"...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/l
Hi all,
i would like to connect to my Samsung D600 mobile phone via usb on my
debian machine.
I want to access the photos, music etc on my mobile phone.
What software could i use to do that?
If i simply connect it to my debian machine via usb the kernel says:
Jan 6 19:49:02 localhost kernel
On Thu, January 5, 2006 12:54 pm, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> 2006/1/5, Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> I am getting the following error during the install of 3.1r0a.
>>
>> The error is: i8253 count too high! resetting..
>>
>>
>> I am installing this in a virtual pc environment. I am pre
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:57:57 -0800
Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the prompt, enter expert26 then hit enter.
For a newbie? Come on ... i did 3 installs and never used this (and i had seen
linux before). The 'linux26' option would be nice though its not absolutely
necessary.
Andrei
Tyson Varosyan wrote:
I am Using Debian 2.6 Kernel
This is not very helpful. There are many 2.6 kernels, some having
multiple Debian versions.
and the Kyocera KPC650 PCMCIA modem card over
Verizon.
Have you seen this?
http://www.junxion.com/opensource/linux_highspeed_usbserial.html
On 06 Jan 2006, Don Jackson wrote:
> This may be considered "off topic" by some, but I just stumbled on an
> interesting website with a program called "Linux Distribution Chooser".
> Even though I've been with Debian for a couple years now, I thought I'd
> just test out the "chooser"...
>
> http:/
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:50, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> did you run apt-get update as it recommends? You get these errors when apt
> is looking for a file that doesn't exist because its been updated IIRC.
No, it did not occur to me to do as I was told. Running apt-get update fixed
the pro
Hi,
Debian's search tool is down.
Anybody know where ifconfig gets the inet addr?
...
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:200.57.201.194 P-t-P:200.57.219.18
Mask:255.255.255.255
...
Thanks!
H
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
Cold Fusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install
> li
On (06/01/06 18:04), Cold Fusion wrote:
> Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install
> linux? I've got the CD, and help wou
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:04, Cold Fusion wrote:
> Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install
> linux? I've got the CD,
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
Cold Fusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install
> li
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:37:03 -0800
Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When enter the command 'apt-get install ntp' I get the error: 404 Not Found
> [IP: 64.50.236.52 80]. Yet, when I use a browser to check that ip address, it
> works just fine. Furthermore, apt-get works fine on another machi
The "print screen" key is next to the BS key on my keyboard. Every time
when I miss the BS key but hit the "print screen" key, a screen snapshot
is printed from my (InkJet) printer.
This has been so annoying that I decided to solve it. I'm using fluxbox,
but I didn't find any such action in its
Hi,
How can I prevent my custom build packages from being downgraded, without
applying hold onto them?
I custom build dvd+rw-tools and nget packages. But whenever I use "apt-get
upgrade", I'll get
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
dvd+rw-tools nget
What's the best approach to cust
Hi,
The "print screen" key is next to the BS key on my keyboard. Every time
when I miss the BS key but hit the "print screen" key, a screen snapshot
is printed from my (InkJet) printer.
This has been so annoying that I decided to solve it. I'm using fluxbox,
but I didn't find any such action in
Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and
I don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I
install linux? I've got the CD, and help would be appreciated. Thanks
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Chinook wrote:
> Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop
>
>
> I recently tested imaging and restoring my complete system with Mondo
> (before I screw it up again :-)
good that you can backup/restore
How do I peek inside an initrd produce by make-kpkg (2.6.14 kernel, I
think yaird produced the file)?
zcat initrd-flavor > tinit
and then mounting tinit on a loopback, but I always got errors that
the file system was unreadable.
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:30:56 +
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who
> arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a
> good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from
> fedora
Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>>
>>> Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>>>
Hi list,
I tried installing etch today, but the installation of the base
system fails to install initrd-tools, lilo and grub, thus leaving
the
Does anyone have a good step by step how to source for recompiling a
debian package?
Take a look at "apt-src" and "apt-build" packages.
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 02:42:08 -0800
"Tyson Varosyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> << snip>>>
>
> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem (I have to do this only once, otherwise the
> dialer uses device "modem" which is not linked to any actual port)
this is fairly normal stuff here, and should only have to
Try:
#!/bin/sh
export PWD
echo $PWD
Gilberto
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:25:10 -0500
Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that...
>
> I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like:
> -
Hello list,
I'm running a couple of old Sun Netra T1 105 boxes which has 2 nic's:
eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:c2:33:f8
eth1: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:c2:33:f8
I'm running Debian Sarge on sparc with the stable debian stock kernel
2.6.8
John Hasler wrote:
> Don Jackson writes:
>
>>I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person
>>installing Debian.
>
>
> There is a choice of desktops. There is a choice of _everything_.
OK, in the small context of the above quote, revise that to say:
"I still don't kno
When enter the command 'apt-get install ntp' I get the error: 404 Not Found
[IP: 64.50.236.52 80]. Yet, when I use a browser to check that ip address, it
works just fine. Furthermore, apt-get works fine on another machine behind
the same firewall. The apt-get command just stopped working for me.
Dear all,
Roland wrote:
/bin/sh exists for compatability with the legacy Bourne shell and does
not provide bash-specific features. In APP 1 I had a ~bash_cmd_rc file
with some output in the BASH_ENV, and it is ignored by /bin/sh, even
if /bin/sh is a softlink to /bin/bash on my machine.
(..
D-kewl.
I made honest selections regarding the last few builds with Debian I have
done AND it selected Debian.
I think of the Debian installer as at least a semi-GUI interface, but I
guess it isn't!
RbtBotL
Craig - ><>
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Hi debian,
It's seem that I have an especially stubborn apt on my hands.
Each of the settings I put in my /etc/apt/apt.conf are getting
blatantly ignored by apt.
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "testing";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1;
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Pac
Don Jackson writes:
> I still don't know WHY there isn't a choice of desktops given the person
> installing Debian.
There is a choice of desktops. There is a choice of _everything_.
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Hi --
To keep ADSL usable during the day I have a script that runs the
following actions overnight:
/usr/bin/apt-get update &&
/usr/bin/apt-get autoclean &&
/usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-upgrade &&
/usr/bin/apt-move update &&
/usr/bin/apt-get update
I have an apt-move.conf file with these values set
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