RE: format partition

Hello All, >Formatting under linux doesn't include checking the partition >(Windoze >does this everytime). >For FAT32 the actual "formatting" takes about 2 Seconds. >Maybe you _did_ >format the partition but expected it to take several minutes. > >Did you try and mount the partition?

format partition

Hello All,   I am trying to format the last partition as a fat32 filesystem so that I can use it as a share between my WinNT OS (on /dev/sda) and linux. Formatting via WinNT does not seem to work therefore I am trying to do this in linux. So far, no success either. I use following comman

RE: kdm

lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 11 december 2001 0:12 To: Goeman Stefan Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: kdm On 10 Dec 2001, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello All, > > After upgrading to woody (from potato) I get some unexpected behaviour from > kdm. > > 1) In th

kdm

Hello All, After upgrading to woody (from potato) I get some unexpected behaviour from kdm. 1) In the kdm window, I see a lot of users listed, basically all users are listed. I only want root and myself listed there (as it was when I was running potato). 2) For the session types, I only get "defa

tetex errors

Hello, After upgrading from potato to woody, I find that tetex does not want to install properly. During the initialisation, I get the listed error messages. What do I need to do to install tetex (without upgrading to sid). Greetings, Stefan. Error messages --

ISO or RAW ?

Hello, This is probably a stupid question. I want to burn CD's, I have the CD images in .raw format. How do I convert them to .iso file formats? Can I simple change the extension to .iso? In fact, do I have to convert them form .raw to .iso? I am planning to use xcdroast to burn the CDs. Gree

sources.list file

Hello, Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in my sources.list file deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org stable non-US deb http://security.debian.org/stable/updates main contrib non-free I get the following e

GRUB bootloader

Hello, I was reading an article in Linux Journal on booting with GRUB. It looked very interesting and I thought: "Why not give it a try" There is one feature in GRUB that I like, that is, you can browse with your arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot. I don't think this exists in LILO. T

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Hello, I was reading an article in Linux Journal on booting with GRUB. It looked very interesting and I thought: "Why not give it a try" There is one feature in GRUB that I like, that is, you can browse with your arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot. I don't think this exists in LILO. T

fetchmail, exim, mutt

Hello, I am using fetchmail get get my mail from an (NT) mail server. I use exim as my MTA and read my mails with mutt. However, I also want to send mails and I don't know how I should do this. Do I have to configure something for exim so that it transfers my mails to the NT server and the NT s

windowmaker

Hello, Probably a stupid question. I am running WindowMaker under Gnome. I want to have the wmitime icom appear on my desktop when I log in. Putting a line like: exec wmitime in my .xsession file does not work. How should this be done? Greetings, Stefan Goeman.

color in Emacs

Hello, Putting something like this emacs*background:white emacs*foreground:black in the .Xdefault file is nice. But, does there exist a list of colors to choose from. For example, as background I used grey but I find it still to dark. Is there a way to get it brighter (without using background

Printer Lexmark optra E310

Hello, I have been reading a lot of messages about printers lately. I am wondering what filter I should use for a Lexmark optra E310 printer. This is a postscript printer with 1 Mb of memory (I think). Greetings, Stefan Goeman

java

Hello, I know, this is not really a question about Debian. The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a string to a double. There is a method in the java.lang.Double named parseDouble When I insert a line like double d = Double.parseDouble(x); in my program, I get the error: M

motherboards

Hello, I read the mails concerning the Abit motherboard. Now, I have a question of my own. Recently, Intel had some problems with their CA810 motherboards. Therefor, I had to wait longer for my new PC since they have my (and probably everybody else also) a new VC820 motherboard (with RDRAM modu

Java compiler and Java Virtual Machine

Hello Everybody, Does anybody know where I can find a good Java compiler and Java Virtual Machine for Debian/Linux? Greetings, Stefan.

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Hello Everybody, Does anybody know where I can find a good Java compiler and Java Virtual Machine for Debian/Linux? Greetings, Stefan.

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netbios

Hello, When I do an nmap on my pc, I get something like: PortState Protocol Service . . some services . . 139 opentcp netbios-ssn I am a little concerned about this last line.

NTFS

Hello, If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS mounted partition. However if I try this I get an error message in the style of "permission denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/.." (whereby /mnt/winnt) is the place where I have my NT partition mounted. Am

resize - delete partitions ??

Hello Everybody, I have a problem concerning my partitions. I have a partion /usr and /usr/local. The partition /usr is almost full while /usr/local is as good as empty. I would like to change my partition table so that the partition /usr/local is removed and this disk space is added to the pa

convert

Hello, I tried to convert an .eps picture to a .pdf picture using the command convert test.eps test.pdf I get an error message in the style of could not open file /tmp/imagick. (or something like this) Can anybody help me ? Greetings, Stefan Goeman

acroread

Hello everybody, I have a problem with acroread. I installed and in the beginning it works fine. After some time it does not seem to work anymore and I get the error message: acroread: ../../Source/ATM/Extra/Edge/FileCore.cpp:322:CTBool CTFile::Write(const void *, unsigned char): Assertion 'nWr

network performace

Hello Everybody, Does anybody have any idea if there exists some tools to do performance tests on firewalls and gateways or maybe even better on the complete network. Thanks in advance, Stefan Goeman.

emacs & xemacs

Hello Everybody, For historical reasons I still like to use emacs_20.6 and I am just experimenting with xemacs. The problem is that for some global settings both programs make use of the file .emacs. I find this not so convenient and I would like emacs_20.6 to use the file .emacs and I would lik

libXpm.so.4

Hello Everybody, I have downloaded WingZ (a spreadsheet) and I tried to install this. When I won't to start the program I get a message in the style of: can't find or can't start library libXpm.so.4. Indeed, this library is not on my system. I tried to install it with dselect but I came to the

html2ps

Hello everybody, Somebody probably encountered this problem before. You download a manual from the Internet but this manual is in html format or better you get 100 or 200 html files. You have to browse this manual with a html viewer (netscape). This browsing through the online manual is usefull

xrdb

Hello Everybody, I have put some things in a file .Xdefaults. I know that in order to make these settings active I have to do "xrdb .Xdefaults". This is no problem. The problem is that I want this command to be executed automatically when I login in a gnome session. Therefore I have created the

loading modules

Hello Everybody, Another problem. I have found a way to get my sound card working. It seems that I just need to load the module "esssolo1.o". (# modprobe esssolo1). The problem is that I have to be the root user to do this and I don't like to do it manually. I guess there is a better way to do

wheel mouse

Hello everybody, Same question again, I have my (Logitech) wheel mouse working for a terminal window, and that is about it. I mean, it only works for a terminal window. It doen't work when I use: Netscape, gv, xdvi, emacs, I don't understand this. The funny thing is when i do "imwheel -k"

Staroffice

Hello, I have seen some mails concerning StarOffice. Can someone tell me where I can find this package, because I can not find it on the Debian distribution (or perhaps I am not searching good). Greetings, Stefan Goeman.

ESS sound support ?

Hello, I have an ESS (Maesto-2 ?) sound card in my PC. >From the debian web page I found out that this card is not supported. Does anybody knows how to get the card active ?? Greetings, Stefan Goeman.

wheel mouse

Hello everybody, As requested by Marc O. Sandlus i hereby send my complete iwheelrc file # IMWheel Configuration file ($HOME/.imwheelrc) # (C)Jon Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Generated by imwheel # Any extra comments will be lost on reconfiguration # However order will be maintained # Order!

wheel mouse

Hello everybody, I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator the wheelmouse is not working. These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator) "Netscape" Shift_L,Down, Page_Down, 1, 1000, 1000 Shift_L,Up, Page_

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Hello everybody, I have installed imwheel and it is running well only for netscape navigator the wheelmouse is not working. These are the settings in my .imwheelrc file (for Netscape Navigator) "Netscape" Shift_L,Down, Page_Down, 1, 1000, 1000 Shift_L,Up, Page_

emacs_20.6

Hello, I want to install emacs_20.6. It seems that this also needs the package emacsen-commen 1.4.10 but this package does not seem to be present. (only the package emacsen-commen 1.4.9 is present). How should I install emacs_20.6 I also removed xemacs and then I tried to reinstall it. It did no

wheel mouse

Hello, Another problem. I also have a logictech wheel mouse. I would like to use that wheel for scrolling. I have installed the package imwheel but I don't know what I should do next to get the mouse working correctly. Any ideas? Greetings, Stefan Goeman.

DVD-ROM

Hello everybody, I have a DVD-ROM in PC. The problem with this DVR-ROM is that it is possible to mount software cdrom's using the usual mount command. But I don't know how to play a music CDROM. Clicking the CDROM icon in GNOME gives an error message. Greetings Stefan Goeman

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Hello everbody, I have another question. I also have an iomega ZIP drive (250 Mb) connected on the parallel port of my PC but I am not able to access this device. When I use insmod or probemod to to load the imm driver, nothing happens. Well, this is not completely correct. The parallel port is

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Hello everbody, I have a problem concerning the time indication. Every time I log in to Debian Linux the clock indicates the wrong time. For example, the clock indicates 14.00 while it is actually 12.00. I remember that during the installation I have chosen GMT and this is probably causing the p