How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

2005-10-12 Thread Dan Davison
I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including r-base 2.1.0. What is the best way to do this? If I don't want to upgrade to

Noisy cooling fan

2004-12-02 Thread Dan Davison
I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high activity; it is very noisy). Oddly, for the last two weeks, it worked every day in quiet or

Re: Grub menu.lst

2004-11-28 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > I made a dual boot system out of a Win2K box I had. I installed sarge > > and everything worked great. I could boot to both Debian and Win2K. > > > > I did that install with the sarge installer and the 2.4.26 kernel. I

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Davison
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kent West wrote: My / is on hda5 and /boot is on hda3 (another ext2 partition). I still can't get the boot partition to mount in such a way that lilo can open/write stuff to it. So I've taken your option of pasting file contents and the results of some commands. etc/lilo.conf

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Kent West wrote: > Dan Davison wrote: > > >Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to > >update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the > >kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both e

boot failure

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both exit with the same kernel panic message and the output up to that point appears to be identical. This ou

Re: apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote: > > > apt-get install won't let me do anything until I fix some dependency > > problems. But when I run apt-get -f install it exits with the output > > pasted below. The package that is mentioned as

apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
Hi, apt-get install won't let me do anything until I fix some dependency problems. But when I run apt-get -f install it exits with the output pasted below. The package that is mentioned as involved in causing the error (fglrx) is the driver for my ATI radeon video card which I got from their webs

broken apt-get/dpkg

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Davison
al seek dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: powernowd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- dan davison http://home.u

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
> Should be fine. (Debian kernel, or custom-built? Which Debian custom-built > (And if you've built your own kernel, there are a couple of kernel > options that need to be enabled, namely the CONFIG_PACKET and > CONFIG_FILTER ("Packet socket" and "socket filtering") options; check Thanks D

alien / radeon 9600 graphics card probs

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
do with shared library dependencies" is about as far as I have got and am likely to get. Do I force it in some way? kernel 2.4.22 Thanks for any help. Dan ---------- Dan Davison http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 at 17:07 GMT, Dan Davison penned: > > I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. > > > > The network settings I am using work under windows on my other > > partition, an

network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread Dan Davison
hat matter? There seemed to be some posts in the archives from people having similar problems with recent kernels, but no obvious resolution that I came accross. However I expect it's much more my fault than the kernel's. cheers, Dan ---------- Dan