RE: Debian on an iBook

Fink is highly over-rated (as is OSX). I am running Debian on a Ti PowerBook. Here are a couple of install guides: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/ HTH John -Original Message- From: Jim Hickstein [mailto:jxh@;jxh.com] Sent: Thursd

RE: Unidentified subject!

-Original Message- From: Fierce Silver [mailto:fiercesilver@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 05:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unidentified subject! I'm having a lot trouble installing Linux on my ppc. I'm stuck on the hard drive partitioning. I've read your installat

RE: Can MSN work on Debian?

-Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a friend at work that is interested in trying > out Linux. The only problem that he has is that he > has signed up for one of these 3 year contracts of > MSN when he got his computer, so he's not really > willing t

RE: Yet another apt/deselect question

Since you didn't sign the temper tantrum below, I can only address you as Moron. (This is also reinforced by your use of AOL) Dear Moron, This may be a waste of time since you seem to lack basic English reading skills, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and try to explain. This message i

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

Debian is not lagging behind Slackware. I don't understand your complaint. Everything available in Slackware 8.0 is available in sid. (and then some) I like both of them. My first distro was Slack 3.6, then I found hamm. I have tried a couple different versions of RH and SuSE but I prefer Debian o

FW: Careful. This is for information only.

I don't recommend doing this, but here is a forwarded message Forwarded Message -- According to incidents.org, for any machine that hits your webserver with X, you can telnet back to that machine on port 80 and get cmd line access to that ma

RE: stalling ppp

I had the same problem. My modem used irq 4 under windoze and worked perfectly. It sucked under Linux. I changed the irq to 2 by running 'setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 2' as root and everything works great. You can check your modem by running 'setserial /dev/ttyS2 -G'. YMMV John Gilger -Original

RE: lilo does not work!

This usually happens when you don't run 'make bzlilo' after compiling your new kernal. All I had to do when this happened to me was edit my /etc/lilo.conf file to make sure everything was still the way I wanted it and run 'lilo'. John Gilger -Original Message- From: Mike McGuire [mailto

RE: zip drive problems...

1. Do you have a disk installed? 2. Did you add ppa or imm and parport_pc support when you compiled your kernal? Or did you insert (insmod) those modules? 3. Does your sysstem recognize the zip drive on boot? John Gilger -Original Message- From: Joern T. Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]