Re: which woody-iso ?

2003-08-17 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:12:08 +0200, Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I shall install debian on my laptop and I need ISO CD. Do I really need to >download the 7 ISO for woody or just a few are sufficient ? (I tried to read >the FAQ but it seems to talk about potato!) I

Re: which woody-iso ?

2003-08-15 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:12:08 +0200, Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I shall install debian on my laptop and I need ISO CD. Do I really need to >download the 7 ISO for woody or just a few are sufficient ? (I tried to read >the FAQ but it seems to talk about potato!) I

Black screen with XFree86 on laptop

2003-07-25 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Hi, after I got my web server up and running, I was encouraged to try another challenge: To give my old laptop, an aging Dell Latitude CPi266XT, a new life with Woody. Everything worked fine until I started messing around with the GUI, which initially came up with an 800 by 600 resolution that loo

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:33:30 -0500, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You asked what you should do to read the documentation from a package. >If you want to read a package's documentation, you should install or at >least download the package. Not rocket science there. If your intent >is

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:29:24 -0500, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: >> However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name >> such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't >

Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Hi, I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named DBD::XBase. It's an excellen

Re: TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-14 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:04:18 +0200, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Somehow the installation seems to have failed. Please check the status of >the cups packages: > >dpkg --get-selections | grep cups >should at least show: > >cupsys install >cups

Re: TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-14 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:52:58 -0400, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recommend cups. It works very well and is easy to set up. Once >installed simply open localhost:631 in any web browser and you can set >up your printer. I've run get-apt install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foo

TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-14 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
Hi, I'm new to Debian and to this list. I've successfully installed Woody on an old Pentium (133MHz, 128 MB RAM, 2x4GB HD) and set it up as an experimental web server behind my firewall. I have not cared to set up any GUI on it, as I want to run it by CLI from a remote console (Putty). The install