LILO disaster: L 01 01 01 ...

Hi! I have two HD's. Although "hdb" (40GB) is not recognised by the BIOS, booting Debian 2.2 on "hdb" worked fine with LILO on the MBR of "hda". But yesterday I installed RedHat 7.2 on a spare partition of "hdb" and now LILO stopps with "L 01 01 01 ..."! However, I can reach my Debian system with

Cross-Platform Development?

Hi Everybody! I plan to develop a little GUI application (GPLed of course ;-) using Debian/GNU-Linux as primary development environment. Unfortunately the app also has to run on Windoze... :-(( Does anybody have experience developing such cross-platform apps? Can you recommend a language or a tool

broken woddy "Packages" file on mirror

Hi! I wanted to install the woody package bluefish_0.6 (which I found on an australian mirror _only_) on my potato system, but apt-get mysteriously didn't "see" the package. It took me quite a while to find out that the file "Packages" from this mirror still contains a description of bluefish_0.3,

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

Rob Rati wrote: > I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It > always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is > all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or > make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors

Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

Jingsong Zhao wrote: > I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton > Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent > several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a > special XF86_SVGA and do some setups. I have an ELSA VICTORY ERAZO