Printer configuration

2003-03-19 Thread Johan van der Walt
I just now noticed (and remembered) that during the installation of Woody that I did earlier today, no printers were configured.At the time of installation I was not connected to the local network. I checked on the Gnome control panel but there is no place where I can configure the printcap. The D

Root login

2003-03-19 Thread Johan van der Walt
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FLASH RAM

2003-01-08 Thread Johan van der Walt
Can someone please give me advice on how to access FLASH RAM. I tried to mount it as /dev/sda1 but got the error message saying that sda1 is not a block device. Tried the same on a machine running SuSE and had no problems. I also have a DDS tape drive on my pc which is handled by a SCSI card - can

Changing display and window managers

2002-11-21 Thread Johan van der Walt
I want to change the display and window managers on my pc. I followed the procedure in section 13.6.3/4 of the users-guide but without success. It seems as if KDE comes up as the default which is not what I want. I simply want xdm as display manager and wmaker window manager. Thanks Johan --

switch xdm off

2002-11-21 Thread Johan van der Walt
Xdm on my pc comes up with KDE. I would like to change that to, say, Windowmaker. How can I change that? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ftp through firewall

2002-11-18 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Woody last week and experience problems to ftp through our organization's firewall. Inside the firewall there is no problem at all. Is there anyone who can help? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: SCSI card & DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card & DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card & DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
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SCSI card & DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
n the hard drive as quickly as possible. I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Johan van der Walt
O' boy! On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:18:52AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > configs files alone (e.g. Slackware) or layer it away so thoroughly that > > changing something in a config file may or may not be sufficient to > > change the behavior (e.g. Re

dist-upgrade

2002-10-24 Thread Johan van der Walt
I tried this morning to upgrade from potato to woody. The procedure I followed was: apt-cdrom add apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After inserting the appropriate CD, apt-get returned the following the eror message: E: Internal Error: Couldn't configure a pre-depend. Apt-get stopped after t

mouse & root password

2002-09-27 Thread Johan van der Walt
My problem has nothing to do with installing Debian. I have been away for a couple of months and on return I found that my mouse just doesn't work anymore. But then I realized that I forgot the root password so I can't get into the system to fix the mouse problem. How can I change the root pass

Apt from behind a firewall

2002-05-02 Thread Johan van der Walt
outside the firewall? (4) What else should I do? (5) Using 2.2r6 Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape3 installation

2002-04-26 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please help. Is netscape 4 not available? Thanks Johan van der Walt - Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled

Why Debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Johan van der Walt
comes with Debian which is something I like. However, that certainly cannot be the only reason for using Debian. Someone told me the other day that Debian is the most stable distribution. Is that so and why? Johan van der Walt