> Hi *!
>
> Does anybody know a checked way to do the following?
>
> hda1 and hdb1 have the same files structure. hdb1 is mounted under /mnt
> How to make LILO boot after removing hda completly and connecting hdb as
> primary master (so it becomes hda)?
> I know I can make a boot floppy, switch d
> > I'm setting up potato on a clone laptop. My only problem so far is the
> > video chipset. It's a Silicon Motion Lynx family. Anyone ever heard of it,
> > or know how to config the XF86 to use it?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
>
> I had the same problem with my Viper II - no support for
> the Savage
> When I installed Potato I made a boot disc when the installation program
> asked if I wanted to.
>
> The problem is that I managed to spill water on the disc and thus
> destroy it. How can I make a new boot disc from my up and running
> system?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Preben Randhol -- [
> Hello Ralph,
>
> > Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not
> > German.
> Ok, I will do so.
>
> > Altho his machine has 128 megs of RAM, he can only see 64 megs.
> >
> > The solution is to include the following command in your lilo.conf
> > and re- run "lilo":
> >
> >
> Hi all,
>
> Like a good paranoid user, I protect my dial-up machine with both a
> firewall using ipchains, and also using tcp wrappers to add a further
> layer of security.
>
> Sometimes I find it convinient to scp things to my machine for the
> outside world, so I leave my ssh port open (I'm u
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm sure I have seen something similar to this problem on the list
> recently, but I wasn't able to find anything helpful in the list
> archives.
>
> I recently installed a Matrox Mystique in my debian machine, which had
> been in my windows machine for a few years until I got a n
> I have here a 2.3.99 pre9 kernel compiled with fb, am using
> it for console. So far it was no problem then to use
> something like xserver-mach64 (I have an AGP Mach IIc card
> in here). Now all I get is a bad screen resolution, it is
> all flickering like *** and if I run XF86Setup and say I do
>
> One thing that has always surprised me on Linux is that there doesn't seem
> to be any automatic mount/umount handling of floppy drives (DOS format).
>
> I guess I'm thinking of something similar to the pcmcia card manager that
> detects insert/remove events and automatically loads and unload
> I have upgraded three computers to potato (2.2.15). On two of them, a
> laptop and a desktop, fonts for Netscape and other applications have
> gotten BIG. I have done some searching to no avail. Has anyone had
> similar experiences? What did you do?
I presume that the 'big fonts' on these two c
What you're looking for is rather rsync.
If you don't have and/or want ethernet then you can
configure plip (parallel port ip) for the transfers.
Jo
> hi ya matt
>
> create/have a home server.
>
> home.domain_name.com:/home/
>
> on each other client machine
> automount that users home
> Hi guys
>
> What's the difference between a .iso and a .raw file? Which programs can
> use which for cd-burning?
>
> TIA
> Sven
There shouldn't be any difference and so every program will be able to burn it
(I work with cdrecord).
If a certain program needs a .iso extension just move the .raw
Is it possible that you have your CD-ROM connected to the first IDE channel
(hence on the same as your harddisk)? I would put the CD-ROM on its one on the
second
channel. I don't think that this would cause your computer to crash but you
can try it
anyway. Maybe there is something wrong with you
> > I've set vga=ask in my lilo.conf and run lilo.
> >
> > I've specified the kernel image along with the command line
> > vga=auto at the
> > lilo prompt.
> >
> > I've run rdev -v \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3
> >
> > I've run vidmode \boot\vmlinuz-2.2.15 -3
> >
> > I have also tried all of the above w
For potato cds look at:
cdimage.debian.org/potato_pre.html
Jo
>
> How do I register KDE as a window manager in potato? Also, how do I get
> rid of the annoying icons left by a previous scheme in KDE? Thanks.
> Please 'CC' me in a reply.
>
Supposing that you have it installed already and that it is in /usr/bin
you could do the following:
a) update /etc/alte
>From what I saw of your log file it seems to me that you don't have an xserver
problem.
What about a window manager? Check /etc/X11/windowmanagers (file name can be
slightly
different) or /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager (symlink to some window
manager).
Usually xinit checks your configurati
> On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 11:07:17AM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> > Hi! Eric,
> >
> > It was because after I have installed X window 3.3.6 on my
> > laptop, (not yet install any Window Manager and Application),
> > I found that the fonts of xterm is big and ugly (titlle of the xterm
> > window and di
The only thing I can suggest is to check your Xservers file under /etc/X11/kdm
or xdm. It should have only one uncommented line looking something like this
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 (could be slightly different)
Jo
> I have kdm kick up two login screens on vt7 and vt8 at boot up
>
>
> ÿMessage--- Missing cd-rom chokes off the install process
>
> Hi: name here is Hughie. Hope you can help me, if you will.
>
> I'm very new to Linux so have very little knowledge of choosing and
> organizing commands.
>
> I know that """ w """ wipes out Dos 6 and Windows 3.1, when you
> Hello everyone,
>I am re-posting this as no one seemed to be able to answer
> this the first time. If the worst comes to the worst I'll have to
> install 2.1r4.
>
> Thanks and regards JohnG
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>I am running potato with kernel 2.2.15 installed.
> Dear friends,
>
> My valiant attempt as a green user to obtain and insall KDE for slink has
> hit a snag. dselect shows thatrman is nt available and is needed for
> kdebase.
>
> Why would it not be available?
>
> Where can I get it?
It is either in contrib or non-free (can't remember).
You
> Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc
> Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right?
> Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather
> Dominic> not be running?
>
> if you're wondering about things like scsi-initialization
> and isdn setup, the
>> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides
>> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup
>> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from
>> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have
>> it boot linux from hdc1?
>>
>
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