On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:18:54PM +0530, ahsan baig wrote:
> I want to download the DVDs for latest debian distribution ( code named
> etch).
That's testing, it's not a final release. The latest final release is
Sarge. You also, unless the target machine has no or very slow networking,
should tr
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Gabriel S. Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for
> > the direct reply Andy.
>
> Are you Grring because you wish you were using Mutt? It's the
J.Moore wrote:
I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on
an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2
kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible.
Potato installs kernel 2.0 by default, Woody might be what you're after.
It i
Deboo ^ wrote:
Both, an intermediate linux user as well as for server administration
For server administration I recommend the "Linux Administration
Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, and Hein, this book covers intermediate and
advanced administration with examples for Debian and two other distros.
I
Kent West wrote:
-Intel 82845 GL motherboard
uname -r says
2.2.20-idepci
I highly recommend you upgrade to Testing or Sid (unless you have some
reason to stay on Woody, assuming that's what you're running). You'll
get a newer version of X, and a 2.4 kernel is just an apt-get install
away
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:27:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:46 -0500, Joshua Lee wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:02:32AM -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote:
> > > With 15-inch screens, & dial-up connectivity.
> >
> > The dial-up consi
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:02:32AM -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote:
> > I think we would end up with much better software if all
> > developers were forced to use old, slow computers :) . . .
>
> With 15-inch screens, & dial-up connectivity.
The dial-up consideration would help. I have to use the Wo
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Recently my machine started popping up a window that I don't remember
> telling it to do. When I select a URL in my konqueror or mozilla windows
> this pops up asking how I want to open the URL. When I double click a
> URL in
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD.
> The boot process stops at "L" with no error.
> I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf
> and I have also run liloconfig. Any suggestion?
If lba32 instead of linear doesn't work as
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:34:08PM -0800, Gene wrote:
> New to debian, more of freebsd and other OS users (except MS, although
> not by choice at work), anyways, any good reading on using debian that
> anybody could recommend...
O'Reilly has a book on Debian, though it's on an older version of D
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote:
> It's up and running. Just trying to figure out what minimalist window
> manager to use and I'm off and running. I have twm on at the moment and
> gotta say it's a little too minimalist.
I like WindowMaker a lot, but it might be s
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:41:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > However, as I started to download the SDK from Sun's web site, it
> >
> > I'm confused. Isn't this what we have a non-free section for?
>
> We still have to be able to distribute it to put it in non-free. As I
> understand
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:19:41PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> Is it possible to rebuild the gcc and glibc in woody with some optimized gcc
> argument? I've noticed that gentoo has a /etc/make.conf in which I can defile
glibc should work. gcc is one of the few packages that won't work, it
uses a
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:28:26AM -0800, John Floren wrote:
> So, I should just use the new release? Remember, my computer is really
> slow, I could only download with a 56K modem, and I can't download
> directly to the intended computer. Also, exactly how large is the
I downloaded a net instal
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:50:30AM -0800, Patrick Lane wrote:
> Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to
> if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86
> 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to
> start, which t
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:09:15PM +, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I upgraded. It works fine, though the upgrade wasn't entirely smooth, and
> I only got it working by restoring the previous config, so having a backup
> is clearly important. There were some font differences, but they were
> minor
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:32:58PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The Korn shell is not free. At one time you could buy source from
> AT&T by an anonymous uucp connection for IIRC $300 and we did that.
The Korn shell *used* to not be free, now it is, as in beer. You can
download it for free but not d
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
You can install ash, the BSD sh, which is closer to the actual Bourne
shell in behavior. I thi
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:34:52AM +, Chris Lale wrote:
> I installed Woody 3.0 from official CDs and it gave me a graphical login
> (gdm). I prefer it to the command line login, but it means that
> configuration requiring restarting X presents problems. Often, a reboot
> is the only sure wa
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:09:01AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> I'd also recommend 'abuse' and 'abuse-frabs' which is a fun little game
> of killing aliens with huge guns. It reminds me of Metroid.
Note: abuse is marked as obsolete according to apt-cache show, you
should install abuse-sdl instead...
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +, Chris Lale wrote:
> I suppose I could check by stopping the xfs and xfstt servers, but I
> don't know how to do this without removing the packages. Could I move
> xfs and xfstt out of /etc/init.d and reboot?
No need to reboot, this is not windows. Starti
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:30:46AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
> I didn't write that - Drew Cohan did. Please be careful with
> attributions.
Sorry.
> > > There are no regular security updates for testing at the moment (see
> >
> > Does this mean that my security.debian.org line shouldn't
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:14:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I want to change my /etc/apt/sources.list from stable potato to testing
> > potato. I'd also like the security updates.
Um, testing is now sarge, and stable is woody.
> There are no regular security updates for testing at the mome
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:55:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Joshua Lee writes:
> > However, it should be pretty easy to implement a script that would run
> > pon, fetch your mail, and run poff to disconnect once successful though.
[...]
> soon as it receives it from your MU
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:38:39PM -0400, james leclair wrote:
> :mail clients
I use mutt, if you prefer a graphical client there is sylpheed-claws for
a lightweight client and evolution for a more kitchen-sink sized one. :-)
> :game playing
I've just apt-getted froze
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:49:14AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:56:26 -0500
> Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And thanks from me. I was previously reading the list archives
> > rather than actually subscribing, til I realized that some email
> > programs (like kmail)
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:01:49PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The problem is, all I've found so far on the web is info suggesting that
> the "natural" resolution for this card is 2048 x 1536 @ 75 Hz. What I need
> is a way to translate this information into refresh rates.
>
> The screen is a "Pl
For running X programs such as synaptic as root, as a regular user type in
"xhost local:root" then su to root and run it.
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:55:43PM -, Pigeon wrote:
> of OE which to me is the single most important feature a mail client can
> offer: the ability to automatically dial up, send any outgoing mail,
> receive any incoming mail and immediately hang up. This MINIMISES time
> spent CLOCKING UP PHON
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:38:00AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
> ./netscape-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
You need a RH 6 compatability library.
apt-get install libstdc++2.9
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:28:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> get around 40,000 files in one single directory. Some filesystems
> such as JFS (and I think, not sure, XFS and ReiserFS too) store
> directies in B+ trees and are specifically designed to handle large
I know that ReiserFS does this. X
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:49:15AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Hopefully AMD will make non-TCPA x86 chips rather than caving-in to
> the M$/Intel collusion.
No such luck, AMD is part of the TCPA consortium too.
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:04:07 -0500
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install debian 3.0 and I'm stuck on the part where it
> asks me to input my mouse. I have a USB Microsoft Optical wheel mouse
> and I don't know what I should use.
> I've read that /dev/input/mice works but
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