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Ah --- a silly then.
It is from our backup software - from Legato Networker.
My problem. I will find a work around.
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Is this a silly or a reportable bug?
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Looking at things differently...
Can you not use the unix "time" command to display the process times on
completion?
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I gave up trying to upgrade it
I did a full expert26 reinstall, and it seems to be ok now.
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On Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 10:22, Dave Whiteley wrote:
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> I am having problems installing kernel 2.6 on my Dell Optiplex GX280. I
> have seen a lot of traffic on the web and the
her important that I am not left with an unbootable system - I need
to keep my working 2.4 system viable until I have a working alternative.
I am sure that there must be documentation on this problem somewhere. Please
can someone point me at it.
Ta
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# bricolage
deb http://tetsuo.geekhive.net/mark/debian/unstable /
deb-src http://tetsuo.geekhive.net/mark/debian/unstable /
was more sucessful.
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ould be available to you.
As root, use your favourite editor to edit the file,
Duplicate the testing/sarge lines
replace testing/sarge in one of each duplicate with stable/woody
OK?
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Woops.
With hindsight a better subject for my previous posting is
Apt/sources.list problem (Bricolage)
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file. Can anyone suggest a clause that would cause apt to try to fetch
from the correct directory.
(I know that I could fetch the files by hand, but I want to show off
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ather slow with my answer and
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BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 3.
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" to be getting on with, so I am sorry, I cannot
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: pid 3876, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Mode Sense (10) 00 2a 00 00
00 00 00 1c 00
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If there is to be a vote on a new series of Debian version names, then
Alice (in Wonderland and through the Looking glass) gets my vote. No
copyright problem.
(Of course I mean the books and not the film.)
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> I am rather confused. (Those who know me will agree, but that does not
> matter here.)
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> I am running a box on "testing" mainly, but I have played with sid a
> little bit, changed my mind, and removed ref
because it cannot find libnspr4.
I have looked at the mirrors I use, and at debian.org, and I cannot
find libnspr4 at all. Any ideas where in the pool structure it is?
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:30:22PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:19:03PM +0000, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:34:19PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote:
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> > > > I see that the boot floppies use a kernel 2.2.20.
>
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> * Dave Whiteley [Tue, Feb 11 2003, 12:42:55PM]:
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> > I am trying to generate a new set of boot disks for an old system (see
> > another thread).
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> Which Thread? Where? There are dozen
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Nice Tux!
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Is it a bug?
I am trying to generate a new set of boot disks for an old system (see
another thread).
I see that the boot floppies use a kernel 2.2.20.
There is not a stable package for kernel 2.2.20!
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> > I had great difficulty with my original install because of the adaptec
> > AIC7xxx scsi. I had to create a special rescue disk for it.
>
> The com
scsi. I had to create a special rescue disk for it.
Before I have to go through this procedure again, I wonder if anyone
has any recent boot floppy images that I can copy.
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> > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname
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> > ... /etc/hostname is ident
ocs on the
bootp/dhcp process, but failed to find what I need.
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is something like:-
xterm &
application1 &
application2 &
exec icewm
I would like application1 to start in the second virtual screen.
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that I am not the only person to
want to do something like this.
Can anyone point me at information?
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am waiting to see if problems change. Can anyone say who should own
these files, and suggest which package has given them the wrong owners
(if they were wrong)?
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also seen it
at other times (but these may have been part of other commands using ps.)
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only way I have found for a cure is to reboot. (Boo Hiss!)
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w flag that replaces it?
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a special generated by Oracle, or is it in another package?
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Thanks, I thought it sounded horrid.
I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each time you
su?
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Message to the developers
Many thanks I propose a toast to them.
Three Cheers ... etc.
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command to tune your system. I found that I had to set
the RAMDAC
max speed to 100 (with the slider) and the ram to 4Mb.
Save the file, and that is it.
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Does anybody know of a filter that will do most (or even all) of the
work of converting old documents in nroff format into latex?
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ethernet card,
and asks all the right questions.
Hope this helps someone.
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What driver module should I select to get the network going? Or
am I missing something somewhere
Thanks to everyone who answers questions here. You are extremely
useful to me.
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slink.
With the time I have spent messing with this, this cheap card is turning out to
be *very*
expensive.
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m to run this script.
Is the whole idea a bad one? If not, what am I doing wrong.
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