Re: Debian Linux and W95 coexist?

1998-05-01 Thread Graham Pople
e your Win95 partition into a Linux partition, all the info on that partition will be deleted, including Win95. You just have to have two partitions (well, three, since you need anotehr one for your Linux swap file). Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna

Re: Linux Installation

1998-04-18 Thread Graham Pople
the 4 to 6 >GIG range). > >Alain > He's right, definitely a new hard drive. I installed Debian on a 100meg partition to test it out, and have since installed XWindows and KDE. Now I want to start adding some proper applications, and run out of room. However, I think a 4-6 gig is a

Re: Debian2.0 and tetex

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Pople
: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/tex/ Just right-click on the tetex-base0.9 directory, and select 'save as'. It's not particularly stable, however. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm)

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-17 Thread Graham Pople
e, and reboot with the floppy in. Incidentally, after doing all this, I still get patchy midi sound through kmidi. It will play bits (the same bits each time) of a song, then just stop playing until a new song starts. Can anyone help me on this? Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Em

Re: why debian?

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Pople
Debian 1.3 then 2.0 frozen systems - with that superb package system it all works fine. However, Red Hat is supposedly a lot easier to use. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demo

Re: KDE Beta-3

1998-04-15 Thread Graham Pople
cidentally, I think I remember you when I was trying to get KDE beta 3 to work myself - if it was you, then thanks, as I eventually got it up and running! Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://

Re: Debian 2.0

1998-04-14 Thread Graham Pople
example. Basically, you should try and upgrade in one go, downloading new versions from either stable or unstable, and not mixing the two too much. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://w

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-13 Thread Graham Pople
T Paint Shop Pro (eeec). > > Well, I do prefer some of PSP's little touches, such as being able to set the brush size quickly, and not go through a seperate menu. But I don't want this turning into another Win95 vs Linux wars. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at

Re: Really have to use .deb to install anything?

1998-04-13 Thread Graham Pople
an installer package, which you could have downloaded instead. Secondly, if you type tar xvzf .gz, it should unzip it properly. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-13 Thread Graham Pople
d 4 of the shareware program Paint Shop Pro. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debia 2 what does give us?

1998-04-13 Thread Graham Pople
atible with debian- seems that >they are using rpm as the packaging system. > >thanks, > >allan bart > > If you download the Debian package Alien, you should be able to turn rpms into deb packages. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.ja

Re: Where is XF86_SVGA package?

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
files into a directory on your Debian partition, then change into that directory and type: dpkg -i name-of-file.deb If it comes up with any error messages asking for other files, download those files, install them using that method, then reinstall the file. Repeat this for all the files. Graham

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
n Australia >voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
I found that KDE required QT1, but the package from Troll Tech installs >itself >as QT > > There is a QT1 file, I've just downloaded it. I think it's in /debian/project, and follow a few of the links from there. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
then run that. >Basically x won't install at all. > > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www

Re:

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Pople
d all the files on the disk instead of using a package.gz file. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: KDE

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Pople
r are there to from what I can >> remember. >> >> Regards >> >> Graham > >Out of curiosity, are they libc5 or glibc? > > They're libc5. They offer a glibc version for RPM users, but not for Debian packages. I did however find a glibc version of kdebase, in /debi

KDE

1998-04-07 Thread Graham Pople
There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there a kdebase one on the way too? -- Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To

Re: request for Debian 2.0 features

1998-04-01 Thread Graham Pople
We are still based on FSSTND 1.2, we plan >to move to FHS 2.0 in Debian 2.1 > Does that mean that all the old packages will be updated to use libc6 instead of libc6? I think they'll incompatible on my mahcine for some reason. Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-31 Thread Graham Pople
Debian goes International (We doesn't work well >here) > Bug Tracking -> Bug Tracking System > > >Jay Treacy > > Why don't you start a competition? Invite everyone to have a go at redesigning a set part of the site, then take the best ideas and apply them to