Re: thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:18 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > Why is it that the time is set by the sender of email anyway? Many people have cofigured their email reader to display most recent messages on the top. Setting date to the future helps the message a lot to stay displayed first a long time. A

Re: Diff in update?

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:18:32AM +0200, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly > different. > Something "differential" has been introduced: "apt-get update" downloads > some kind of patches whose name contains date. > Would you please ind

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:32:55 -0700, michael wrote > hello, > Have some new hardware, > Intel DQ965GF motherboard > Core 2 duo E6600 > IDE Cdrom > > I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what > the installer won't detect my cdrom. > Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet?

Diff in update?

2006-10-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, Six month ago, I used testing, and used to learn packaging for Debian on a testing box. I have been out for some mounths. I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly different. Something "differential" has been introduced: "apt-get update" downloads some kind of patches whose

Re: azx_get_response -- please help!

2006-10-11 Thread Tyler
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > What kind of hardware are we talking about? What version of linux are > you using? > I'm running testing with the 2.6.16-2-486, with the madwifi package, on a Thinkpad R60 with an intel Core Solo processor. > I did find a few interesting things using Google. According

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:01:02AM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > I am under the impression that generally Linux is not guaranteed to run on > the newest hardware. For example, if I buy a brand new model of computer > from Dell, one that's only recently started being sold, can I really be sure > that

Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-11 Thread Grok Mogger
I am under the impression that generally Linux is not guaranteed to run on the newest hardware.  For example, if I buy a brand new model of computer from Dell, one that's only recently started being sold, can I really be sure that Linux is going to detect all of my hardware properly?  Or for

Re: Help - my xserver just went wild!

2006-10-11 Thread W Paul Mills
Mark Phillips wrote: I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login. Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it??

Re: when i want install yahoo mes. ,,that is mesage bug,,

2006-10-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, sebastian.ciubuca wrote: > dpkg -i '//home/sebi/Desktop/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? > (Reading database ... 95144 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace ymessenger 1.0.4_1 (using > .../ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking re

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:59:31PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please excuse me while I go and beat head against a brick wall. > reading debian-devel lately is torture enough x-) :-) But, argh!!! It still doesn't work: regex: ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ /USR/SBIN/CRON\[.*\]: \(ro

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:56:34 -0700, michael wrote > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:04 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Mike > > You can get an i386 sarge with 2.6.18 at the url below does not seem > > to have updated the AMD64 one though perhaps if you ask nicely he may. > > > >

Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?

2006-10-11 Thread Alle Meije Wink
These three, and maybe Xorg, seem to not like each other... I am running etch at the moment, with Xorg as my X server. During an apt-get update last week or so, openoffice-org and ttf-opensymbol were upgraded. Things started going wrong when it came to installing openoffice-org, which was unco

Re: program execution in /dev/shm

2006-10-11 Thread T
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:36:20 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > which version of "initscripts" you > use? (I think, the "/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh" script mounts "/dev/shm".) > Mine is > > $ dpkg -l initscripts | grep initscripts > ii initscripts2.86.ds1-20Scripts for initializing and

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
> Secondly, when I try to resize the 65.5 GB NTFS partition at all, the Debian > Installer (Etch Beta 3) accepts my input (either 50%% or 30 GB, or various > other numbers I tried), but then returns instantly to the previous screen > with the NTFS partition still sized at 65.5. This typically mea

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:04 -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote > > > > Thanks! > > Mike > You can get an i386 sarge with 2.6.18 at the url below does not seem > to have updated the AMD64 one though perhaps if you ask nicely he may. > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ > Cool thanks! I think this is where

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:43:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:35:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:08:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I have the following line in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local: > > > > > > ^\w{3} [ :0-

sid-shipped-eclipse crashed on startup

2006-10-11 Thread amateur
I just upgraded my sid, and installed a fresh new eclipse. But it gives a fatal error when I start it in a term using /usr/bin/eclipse The log file says: !SESSION Thu Oct 12 09:56:01 CST 2006 -- !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 2006-10-12 09:56

Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:32, michael wrote: > hello, > Have some new hardware, > Intel DQ965GF motherboard > Core 2 duo E6600 > IDE Cdrom > > I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what > the installer won't detect my cdrom. > Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet?

RE: installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread Grok Mogger
Does this mean that there is no driver for his CD-ROM drive in the linux kernel he's using? I've never been very clear on how this sort of thing works in Linux. Thanks, - GM -Original Message- From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:33 PM To: debian-us

Re: Diff in update?

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:45:39AM +0200, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi, > Six month ago, I used testing, and used to learn packaging for Debian on > a testing box. > I have been out for some mounths. > I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly > different. > Something "d

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:35:57PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:08:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I have the following line in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local: > > > > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ /USR/BIN/CRON\[.*\]: \(root\) CMD > > \(/usr/sbin/geti

installer doesn't detect cdrom

2006-10-11 Thread michael
hello, Have some new hardware, Intel DQ965GF motherboard Core 2 duo E6600 IDE Cdrom I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what the installer won't detect my cdrom. Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet? I've tried official sarge, etch, AMD64 etch and a custom i386 sarge

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:08:08PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have the following line in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local: > > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ /USR/BIN/CRON\[.*\]: \(root\) CMD > \(/usr/sbin/getimage > > The level in logcheck.conf is set to server. Still, these l

Re: thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:18 +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > Why is it that the time is set by the sender of email anyway? Many people have cofigured their email reader to display most recent messages on the top. Setting date to the future helps the message a lot to stay displayed first a long time. A

Diff in update?

2006-10-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, Six month ago, I used testing, and used to learn packaging for Debian on a testing box. I have been out for some mounths. I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly different. Something "differential" has been introduced: "apt-get update" downloads some kind of patches whose

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:50:24PM +0100, Bill Smith wrote: > I would suggest that you reinstall windows, deleting the existing > partition and just creating one 30G partition to put windows on to, > leaving the other half blank. Then put your debian disk in and it should > work just fine. I c

Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to 2.6.8, but five just this morning between 9:30

Sounds works with skype !

2006-10-11 Thread roy . nico
> What players are you using? Well, i tried mainly avi videos and mp3 songs, with noatun, vlc, or the KDE integrated player. >Try a low level alsa tool, like aplay. not better. BTW, > alsa is known for muting the mixer by default. Did you check this? Yes i checked. Did > you do any changes to y

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Nico
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 readers of this list will begin to think that this is my solution to every problem... well lately it has been! Check the powersupply. [

logcheck regexp question

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have the following line in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/local: ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ /USR/BIN/CRON\[.*\]: \(root\) CMD \(/usr/sbin/getimage The level in logcheck.conf is set to server. Still, these lines show up in my logcheck messages every hour: Oct 11 17:06:01 miami /USR/SBI

Help - my xserver just went wild!

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Phillips
I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login. Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it?? Thanks! -- Mark Phill

Re: WARNING: reiser4 (kernel 2.6.16 w/ reiser4 patch) breaks stuff when the hdd is full

2006-10-11 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:56:32AM -0700, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: > >I hope you have sent it ti bugs.debian.org :) > > > >Dirk ??(??): > >> When a reiser4 partition is full and some process keeps writing to it > >> you can revive

Re: Palm LifeDrive and kpilot

2006-10-11 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Miércoles, 11 de Octubre de 2006 22:32, HXC escribió: > Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: > > Hello, > > I am the new owner of a Palm LifeDrive. I am trying to synchronise > > KAddressBook with the PDA with no success. I have managed to retrieve the > > addresses from the PDA to the PC, but not

Re: WARNING: reiser4 (kernel 2.6.16 w/ reiser4 patch) breaks stuff when the hdd is full

2006-10-11 Thread calvin
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:56:32AM -0700, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: >I hope you have sent it ti bugs.debian.org :) > >Dirk ??(??): > >> When a reiser4 partition is full and some process keeps writing to it >> you can revive it only with >> >> fsck.reiser4 -y --fix --build-fs /dev/... >> Bette

Re: find by year

2006-10-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My dumb @ss solution works but if 2003- is in the file name it will be > listed as well...LoL For quick one-off searches often the quick'n'dirty solution works. Don't knock yourself that hard; your solution might well have worked perfectly in many situati

Re: Palm LifeDrive and kpilot

2006-10-11 Thread HXC
Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: Hello, I am the new owner of a Palm LifeDrive. I am trying to synchronise KAddressBook with the PDA with no success. I have managed to retrieve the addresses from the PDA to the PC, but not from the PC to the PDA. I also have loaded some addresses to the PDA

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread David Baron
> > readers of this list will begin to think that this is my solution to > > every problem... well lately it has been! Check the > > powersupply. Apparently, after HD's, powersupplies are the most failure > > prone part of system. And they don't generally fail catastrophically, > > but slowly slide

Re: Debian doesn't install on IBM Tink Pad R52

2006-10-11 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have to install Debian on a notebook: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad R52 sub >> 1846. >> >> All I've tried filed. >> >> With Etch: >> sata hd recognized >> dvd recorder not recognized (tied to install with an external usb >> dv

Re: debian projects for young users

2006-10-11 Thread debian
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:24:26AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:57, roberto wrote: > > >> Hello > > >> i am building up a project of education for young linux users aged > > >> 11-15 and i am currently looking for something similar since this is This mig

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Smith
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 They may be due to a failing disk, MB, or cable problems but they can stop the system in its tracks. If the disk be mounted or otherwize being

Re: program execution in /dev/shm

2006-10-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
T wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:20:38 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> On my etch system with kernel 2.6.18 I can no longer execute a program >> in "/dev/shm", ... >> >> Does anybody else have this problem? > > Nope: > > $ ldd /bin/grep > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) >

Re: permissions another question

2006-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:49:40 + "Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > this look correct? I'll leave you to ponder Ken's very complete answer. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I'll tel

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Smith
Carl Fink wrote: I just purchased the above laptop. It works fine with the preinstalled Windows XP (Media Center edition), but installing Debian isn't going well. First of all, Windows Disk Defragmenter find immovable files right in the middle of the NTFS partition, making it hard to create a s

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 > > They may be due to a failing disk, MB, or cable problems but they can stop > the > system in its tracks. If the disk be mounted or otherwize being accessed, big > red

internal-error: copy_type_recursive: Assertion `TYPE_OBJFILE (type) == objfile' failed.

2006-10-11 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
For some reason I cannot find this error using google, am I really the only person seeing this issue in gdb: /build/buildd/gdb-6.4.90.dfsg/gdb/gdbtypes.c:3209: internal-error: copy_type_recursive: Assertion `TYPE_OBJFILE (type) == objfile' failed. A problem internal to GDB has been detected, furt

Re: debian projects for young users

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:03:21PM +0200, roberto wrote: > On 10/5/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:57, roberto wrote: > >> Hello > >> i am building up a project of education for young linux users aged > >> 11-15 and i am currently looking for something s

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Wednesday, 11. October 2006 08:07, Kai wrote: > I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or > some other form of linux on it. > Details: > CPU: Pentium I > HD: ~700MB > RAM: 16MB > ... > I want to use Xfce or IceWM-lite as a GUI That might be too little for Xfce4 or IceWM-

Palm LifeDrive and kpilot

2006-10-11 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hello, I am the new owner of a Palm LifeDrive. I am trying to synchronise KAddressBook with the PDA with no success. I have managed to retrieve the addresses from the PDA to the PC, but not from the PC to the PDA. I also have loaded some addresses to the PDA with pilot-address -w file But I

Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
I just purchased the above laptop. It works fine with the preinstalled Windows XP (Media Center edition), but installing Debian isn't going well. First of all, Windows Disk Defragmenter find immovable files right in the middle of the NTFS partition, making it hard to create a substantial ext3 or

Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:54:01 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also had some issues with reiserfs and have always sticked to ext3 > ever since. I guess the advantages of reiserfs don't warrant experiments > on important data. ext3 is rock solid on debian. YMMV. Well, I

Trouble with kernel 2.6.18 (-1-486)

2006-10-11 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm running (somewhat uptodate) unstable. I had been using kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6.12, which both worked fine. I recently added 2.6.18 (-1-486), and Bad Things are happening: a) kernel oopses, and b) occasionally (sometimes pretty often) keypresses are multiplied into dozens of themselves. T

Re: permissions another question

2006-10-11 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:49:40PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:30:34 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:17:46 + > > "Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > then /test/file I then use the command "chmod g+s test", no

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-11 Thread Matt Price
On 10/8/06, Avinash Sultanpur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd > read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my > hibernate script, but I don't actually

Re: permissions another question

2006-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:17:46 + "Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > then /test/file I then use the command "chmod g+s test", now when I > look at file using "ls -l" the group permissions for the file are > still the same as they were originally?Am I doing something wr

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Kai wrote: I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB With such a tiny amount of RAM, I think you need DSL (D*mn Small Linux). [snip] I can boot and install from a large stack of floppys (20-

Etch firefox problem

2006-10-11 Thread L . V . Gandhi
When I try to click the download link in gmail in firefox(running etch), firefox crashes. Any body else has faced the problem? Any solutions?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: Permissions Problems on Mounted Samba Shares

2006-10-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/10/06 02:19), Scarletdown wrote: > I just recently bought a 250GB network hard drive, and have it connected > to my home network's switch, with four shared directories created on it. > > However, when I mount the shares (I'm wanting to do this so they auto > mount at boot time), they are ow

Re: Debian doesn't install on IBM Tink Pad R52

2006-10-11 Thread Vasil Benov
Hi, Probably what you have is a SATA dvd recorder, thats why it get not recognized by Debian Etch. You can install either Etch or Sarge provided you use the 2.4 series kernel. If you want 2.6 kernel for Sarge you'll have to build your own kernel or get a precompiled kernel image (it must be grea

Re: Debian doesn't install on IBM Tink Pad R52

2006-10-11 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I have to install Debian on a notebook: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad R52 sub 1846. All I've tried filed. With Etch: sata hd recognized dvd recorder not recognized (tied to install with an external usb dvd reader) istallation starts dhcp works istal

Permissions Problems on Mounted Samba Shares

2006-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently bought a 250GB network hard drive, and have it connected to my home network's switch, with four shared directories created on it. However, when I mount the shares (I'm wanting to do this so they auto mount at boot time), they are owned by root and nogroup, and are only writable by

RE: permissions another question

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew Critchlow
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:30:34 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: permissions another question> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:17:46 +> "Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Hello Andrew,> > > then /test/file I then use the command "chmod g+

Re: permissions another question

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 00:04, Jesus Arocho a écrit :> Our machines have a user defined for each family member and a group called> family. If I create a file in a directory for which I have defined family> as the group, other users cannot access the file because it is not created> with famil

Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David E. Fox wrote: had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously, ub

Debian doesn't install on IBM Tink Pad R52

2006-10-11 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, I have to install Debian on a notebook: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad R52 sub 1846. All I've tried filed. With Etch: sata hd recognized dvd recorder not recognized (tied to install with an external usb dvd reader) istallation starts dhcp works istallation is stalled and the mach

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Hernán Freschi
Kai wrote: I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I > HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB Won't work, you need 24Mb of RAM (last time I checked) for the installer. Also, you can forget about X. You may have 1MB of video ram on

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread George Borisov
(sorry about the direct reply earlier) Kai wrote: > > I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or > some other form of linux on it. <-snip> > I can boot and install from a large stack of floppys (20-25 disks), > but I want to install from a CD or network and choose certain

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:07:30AM -0400, Kai wrote: > I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or > some other form of linux on it. > Details: > CPU: Pentium I > HD: ~700MB > RAM: 16MB > 2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit > Linksys Ethe

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-11 Thread Stephen
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 07:57:04PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-10-05 10:43:43, schrieb Stephen: > > Besides, it's the only resource I know of, that one can find all the > > browsers > > in existence from the past, in one place. The evolt organization has > > put a lot o

Problem on iptables + ipvs

2006-10-11 Thread Philippe Amelant
Hi I'm testing kernel upgrade from sarge 2.6.8 to etch 2.6.17. This is on a lvs + firewall box. When I reboot with the new 2.6.17 I have some troubles. with ipvsadm I can see ipvs forwarding request to reals servers (in packets) but nothing return (out packets =0) Does anyone is aware about change

Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-11 Thread Kai
I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB 2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit Linksys EtherFast PC Card A wireless router, however I can not seem to set up a

Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops, PS

2006-10-11 Thread David Baron
No Linux partittions are on this disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread David Baron
log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 They may be due to a failing disk, MB, or cable problems but they can stop the system in its tracks. If the disk be mounted or otherwize being accessed, big red switch time. Otherwize, that wonderful click-clack of WD disks is the war

Re: untrusted?

2006-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 23:35:43 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hi. After a recent upgrade, almost every package, when using aptitude, > is now listed as "untrusted", whereas before the upgrade it wasn't. I > checked my keys: > > debian:/home/mark# gpg --list-keys > /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg >

untrusted?

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi. After a recent upgrade, almost every package, when using aptitude, is now listed as "untrusted", whereas before the upgrade it wasn't. I checked my keys: debian:/home/mark# gpg --list-keys /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg pub 1024D/1F41B907 1999-10-03 uid

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 octobre 2006 à 19:22 +0200, HXC a écrit : > I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If > so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix > version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) A first thing to do, to see if this is poss

broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread David E. Fox
had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously, ubuntu is not debian, b

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-10-11 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: run foomatic-gui, it is very easy to setup a new one set a new one? -- +-+ | Lorenzo Bettini ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 | | PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze | | Florence - Italy(GNU/L

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-10-11 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 16:22:58 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: mlaks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Up to date SID! 1) kde printing system will not talk to cups. Any ideas on that? after today's update the problem seems to show up once again... any clu

Re: makefile syntax

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:43:37AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 10/10/2006 11:00 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> In reading the GNU Make Manual > >> (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Rule-Syntax), it is > >> not clear to me w

Re: Filtering connection on wlan using mac address and shorewall

2006-10-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:02:56 +0200 "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am just setting up a local wlan based network at my house. > I would like to filter incoming connection based on mac address (only > allow known computers) appart from having encription and > authentication on the net