Out of necessity to have a working system ASAP, I installed Ubuntu
which has the same problem, but does all the installation from the
blue screen which I can see. Now when I boot up, the screen goes
blank when GRUB should appear, and stays blank until the graphical
part of the boot-up. I will try
2006/3/24, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> it probably is booting. you've got the wrong video mode for your setup. you
> should probably specify vga=ask in the kernel line of your boot also, this
> seemed appropriate:
>
> http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iz_Ho_51kzoJ:www.linux-mag
At least, I think that's what the problem is after installing lilo on
on the the HD partitions, by booting a live CD then using chroot.
liloconfig gave me the following warning:
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
(nb. I wasn't actually able to follow through
nd installation discs but fail when GRUB comes up, but I'm at a loss.
It's an AOPEN Geforce2 Model MX200 plug-in card. I can't see any
onboard video on this mainboard.
2006/3/24, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine,
By the way, I just tried re-installing grub from a chroot environment
within the liveCD environment, then comparing the new MBR with the one
that I couldn't boot from. They're identical, so I don't think the
bios is overwriting my MBR.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECT
I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz,
ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce
video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had
when I bought it.
I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and
re-pa
Thanks Florian, I figured out the chain of depends and recommends
which resulted in zeroconf getting installed. It came from installing
rhythmbox, then
rhythmbox Recommends: scrollkeeper, yelp, avahi-daemon
avahi-daemon Recommends: libnss-mdns
libnss-mdns Recommends: zeroconf
I would that thin
2006/3/20, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sid it currently seems to be enough to have KDE installed and
> aptitude configured to automatically include recommended packages. Then
> this little pest will creep into your system via the kde > kdenetwork >
> kdnssd dependency chain and a succe
2006/3/19, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've seen on this list that this behavior is related to the zeroconf package.
> Try purging it.
I purged zeroconf and that did the trick. Thanks! I didn't
intentionally install it; it must have gotten installed with something
else.
No windows machines at all on the network, just this debian machine
and a mac. It's happening right now with this being the only machine
on the subnet.
As for the differing hardware addresses, very observant! I made one
of them up just for privacy, just for privacy even though I'm sure it
really
I'm on a VPN set up by a D-link router connected to a cable modem.
The internal IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1, and its dhcpd is
set up to deliver IP addresses between 192.168.0.100 and
192.168.0.199, with my MAC address bound to 192.168.0.109. The
bizarre thing is that my computer seems
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up
into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of
each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing
hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly
the same way as l
2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off
> your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to
> save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB
> stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to
> y
Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless
of what happens :)
I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and
did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition)
[
(I'm including Mike's last message below for the archives, as it has
some useful info in it)
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Levi Waldron wrote:
> > 2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >>First step before messing with partitions
> of an extended partition you created before. Or are
> you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much
> if at all.
Sorry, I didn't answer this before: no, I'm not using LVM.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt
bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var
boot dev
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> First step before messing with partitions: do a backup.
> Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy.
> Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector
> of each partition on a floppy.
I have backups at home
I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my
partition table looking something like:
5700MB free space
hda5 logical linux ext3 [/home]
hda6 logical linux swap
hda2 primary linux ext3 [/]
hda1 primary other OS
I wanted to use the free space, so I
I am running a testing system with GNOME, and digikam is missing right
now from testing, I am not an apt-get expert, but I am tempted to
install the digikam from unstable by putting unstable in my
sources.list then doing:
parkdale:~# apt-get install digikam digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins
Readi
I installed epiphany-extensions 1.6.4-2 from unstable, which installed
libosp4c2 and removed libosp4. The "Tools" menu then appeared in
Epiphany the next time I started it, and with it access to the
extensions. Thanks!
This problem, although not reported as a bug against
epiphany-extensions, is apparently already known:
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=opensp
The epiphany-extensions package is out-of-date in testing because it
is being held up by opensp. I guess that means I shouldn't report it
o
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Strange. I've got Epiphany 1.6.3, and the Tools menu is there. Are the
versions of your epiphany-browser and epiphany-extensions packages the
same versions? (i.e. are they both 1.6.4?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep epiphany
ii epiph
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item. Then selectthe extensions that you want to activate.
This apparently is my problem: the only menus I have in my Epiphany
1.6.4 are File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tabs, and Help. No
Tools
I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed
epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like
middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing
epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the
epiphany-browser, and there are no clu
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:37:18 +, Ben Hutchings
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try putting "pci=noacpi" on the boot command line. If you do that then
> the kernel will use the older PCI BIOS interface to find out the PCI
> configuration and is more likely to get correct answers. I'm afraid I
> h
I just tried to install sarge, using the pre-rc2 debian-installer, on
an eMachines T1742 Celeron 1.7 GHz desktop system (82845G/GL
[Brookdale-G] mainboard chipset). After installing the base system,
the floppy drive, network card, and sound card do not work. Although
they are supported hardware,
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in
> the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like:
>
> 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart.
>
> This leads me to believe
I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C,
on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend
to replace it, as I only want to print in black & white.
Unfortunately,
whenever I print something with colour, the colour portions come out
blank as it tries
Is there a telnet client available in sarge that allows local
printing? I access my university email by telnet, and would like to
be able to print out emails locally. Thanks!
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I just went out and bought a brand new, fully hardware PCI modem (for
$68!), USR 56K V.90 w/ Voice (2976/3298). Unfortunately, it does not seem
to get assigned a ttyS* port during the boot process. The Modem HOWTO
gives some tips for finding out the essential information, then says
without givin
On November 27, 2003 04:38 pm, mighty sword wrote:
> So how do I reply to a particular message when I get a
> digest so that it appeas as a thread on
> linux.debian.user or gmane.linux.debian.user?
I think (?) the mailto: links from the archives provide the proper
in-reply-to header so your mes
On October 3, 2003 08:37 am, dan oram wrote:
> from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following:
>
> Booting from IDE 0
>
> LI
The following is from /usr/share/doc/lilo/README.common.problems . Although
if you are able to boot from a floppy, it sounds like you may have forgotten
to
I've been using a P233MMX woody box with stock 2.4.18-i386 kernel as a router
for a home network for a couple weeks. Had IP masquerading working using
shorewall (also with the IPTABLES rules from the IPmasq HOWTO, but ended up
staying with shorewall). Then out of the blue (I at least didn't ch
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound
board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your
recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out
which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which
Easy question, I'm sure:
How can I use a pipe to send something to /dev/null?
Reason: kmail gives a "pipe through" filter option, ie send the message to "|
somecommand". It doesn't have a ">" option. It's time to start sending the
400 some odd #!$@ swen messages/day I'm getting straight
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound
board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your
recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out
which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has
> no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-)
It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of
various lines in this file
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has
> no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-)
It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of
various lines in this file
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/dsp
crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp
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No, /dev/dsp exists with proper permissions (see further below in my posting).
Rather, it seems that the ad1848 sound module
I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, isapnp
etc under Woody.
Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation kernel,
adding second ethernet card, and loading the IP masquerading and iptables
modules, the sound stopped working. The symptoms a
On July 8, 2003 11:24 pm, K S Sreeram wrote:
> Check out this page:
>
> http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html
>
> Looks like it has what you need
This script would be great, except that it doesn't actually work. I first got
an error because the end of one line was missing a \. Then it ran
On July 8, 2003 03:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux
> boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and
> optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there
> a guide on how to
I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the
capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and actual directories
and filenames. And of course all the filename extensions are .HTM. Does
anyone know of a script to clean this up?
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On June 26, 2003 02:26 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I seem to have lost the ability to post to this
> list. This is a test to see if I have.
I seem to have as well, and I'm not receiving much from it either. Server
problems perhaps?
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I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm
window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of
the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at:
Initializing random number generator
so I boot from a rescue CD and put exi
On June 24, 2003 01:58 am, Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Levi Waldron
>
> > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable
> > by web browsers, ie png or jpg.
>
> Have you tried convert?
convert (part of the imagemagick package) worked perf
I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by
web browsers, ie png or jpg.
Using xv there is a bad loss in image quality, so that the text becomes
unreadable. I tried adjusting all the xv dials, but couldn't achieve
acceptable quality.
tifftopnm from the net
On April 1, 2003 06:11 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> You'll probably have much better luck using the unofficial native woody
> packages of KDE 3.1. See http://www.apt-get.org/, which will refer you
> to:
> deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main
Thanks everyone for t
I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the
3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts
on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If
there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time fixing a broken
system
On March 7, 2003 02:55 am, Rob Weir wrote:
> As far as I can tell, this has absolutely nothing to do with Debian.
> Surely Knoopix has a user help mailing list somewhere...
Well, it's related in the sense that Knoppix is an auto-configuring Debian
live CD. It's a mix of stable, testing, and unst
On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote:
> That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little
> messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and xargs.
Hm? Why wouldn't you just check each file individually by:
mount /cdrom
md5sum -c /cdrom/md5sum.txt
On March 2, 2003 06:43 am, Brian Durant wrote:
> The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command.
> The response was "eth0: Media Link Off". I have run into this response
> with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies
> from the thread stated that it
On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in installing woody on this hand-me-down P133 laptop that a
> friend's mom is no longer using, and it has neither CD-ROM drive nor NIC,
> so I'm thinking I'll try the install-over-plip thing. Now, most of the
> process is
On February 27, 2003 10:12 pm, sean finney wrote:
> i just got something kind of like that to work. install the rungetty
> package, and then open up /etc/inittab. change the line that says:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>
> to
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty -u username --autologin
Is it possible to do an autologin into console mode? ie, when turning on the
machine a particular user gets logged in every time without entering a
username or password?
It's for a visually-impaired user, so having to type that stuff in before the
voice prompts are activated is a barrier even
On February 26, 2003 12:11 pm, Carlos Taylor wrote:
> I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.Nothing happens. It does not boot
> from the CD.
Well, either you had a problem with the downloading and burning process, or
your bios isn't really trying to boot from CDs, but there's no way for
someon
On February 26, 2003 10:24 am, hlingis wrote:
> ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to
> be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and
> where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm
> trying to avoid going re
On February 25, 2003 03:58 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Just apt-get install anacron. It will Just Work (tm).
Yep, and leave cron in place (don't try to uninstall it). anacron
"recommends" cron.
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On February 24, 2003 05:15 pm, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> How do the two methods differ? I don't know anything about downreving,
> so I wasn't aware that modifying my sources.list as outlined below would
> prevent me from doing that... thanks for the response
Keeping the "stable" lines in your apt.sou
On February 23, 2003 07:44 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Replace spamc
> with spamassassin and disable spamd if you're not going to use it at
> the MTA level, it's a bit more secure that way.
However, calling spamc (a command-line client for spamd) seems to be much
much faster than calling spamassass
On February 23, 2003 03:18 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> does anyone know if it's possible to specify a smaller than 10pt font
> size for a LaTeX document without resorting to putting the entire
> document in one big \tiny{}? --which is cool for my purposes ... i'm
> just curious.
See http://old.ai
On February 21, 2003 05:26 pm, Levi Waldron wrote:
> that using spamd would be so much faster. I could switch to fetchmail for
> the sake of spamd, although reading through the documentation I see that
> the spamc daemon could also improve my performance without changing my mail
>
> If what you really mean is that .bashrc is not read when you login on a
> text console, then that's covered by bash's man page, which you really
> ought to read. .bash_profile or .profile is read by login shells;
> .bashrc is read only by non-login shells. If you want .bashrc to be read
> by all
On February 21, 2003 01:13 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I bet you're not running spamd, which means you're taking the hit for
> starting up perl on every message scanned. That would hurt pretty
> bad, now that I think about it...
You're correct. I'm using kmail to fetch from POP3 mailservers and
On February 21, 2003 11:24 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow,
> it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow.
I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB
machine (I know it's not real fas
On February 19, 2003 10:41 pm, stan wrote:
> I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and
> cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the
> mailing list archive search engine to find it :-(
I just typed your email address into the lists.deb
On February 19, 2003 10:27 pm, Richard Hector wrote:
> > apt-get install anachron
>
> anacron perhaps?
>
> Richard
Oops, thanks for correcting my spelling. anacron it is.
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On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote:
> I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man
> crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when
> the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned "being logged
> on."
apt-get install anachron
the anachro
On February 17, 2003 03:44 am, Colin Watson wrote:
> Are "they"? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but
> unmaintained and that one should use apt instead.
You're right - the "latest news" from dpkg-multicd is from Oct 2001. I guess
I got the impression it was being worked on f
On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote:
> Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but
> wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the
> 'multi cd' option? Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stable CD Official set was up
> to date.
If you have all the CDs during t
On February 14, 2003 02:56 pm, alex wrote:
> I'll be installing Debian on another computer and would
> like to have the 'multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set' to
> make things easier. How can I add this option to my
> dselect access menu?
As root, just type "apt-cdrom add" for each cd while it is
On February 14, 2003 01:09 pm, Carlos Jiménez wrote:
> I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM
> (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following:
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> Does it mean that CDROM is
Even PINE has built-in filtering capabilities, and threading. I don't see
how anyone could deal with the debian-user list volume without filtering and
threading.
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On February 11, 2003 07:42 am, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> There is not a stable package for kernel 2.2.20!
Yes, there are several. I checked first on my machine with
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.2.20
then double-checked at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages by searching
for kernel-image-2.
Knoppix can be installed on your HD - the main disadvantage I've heard of is
that it's a mix of stable, testing, and unstable, which makes package
management trickier. For instructions, see:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html
(from google: knoppix install)
On February 14, 20
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> Do you have IDE disks?
Yes.
>
> Are you using DMA?
It's a Western Digital 80G HD. The WD website at
http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=5&Lang=1
says, among other things:
Interface: Ultra ATA/100
Mode 5 Ultra ATA100.0 MB/s
On February 13, 2003 11:42 am, George Georgalis wrote:
> anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the
> questions.
I thank both of you for the tips. We're still not sure what caused the
catastrophic hard drive failure, although it may become more clear after
figuring out w
On February 13, 2003 01:19 pm, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the
> type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored
> in the journal file?
>From http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/RE
On February 12, 2003 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I am having trouble debugging my plip connection.
I haven't set up plip for a couple years so my memory is a little
foggy. I used the PLIP-HOWTO to set up the following scripts on
the machine cedar to connect it via plip to b
I helped someone install Debian on a new hard drive a couple months ago.
They didn't use that hard drive for the last couple months, then tried to
boot into Debian and got the following errors during the boot process:
--
mount: mountpoint /proc
On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote:
> Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up
> connection.
>
> I started on 27 January.
That's such a sad story, if you have a hard time fixing the download let me
know and I'll mail a KNOPPIX cd to you. -Levi
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Well, I wish I had gone and goofed off for the rest of the evening then come
in and used one of these 2-3 line solutions this morning. Still, I learned
some things reading them and will use them and the tldp reference for future
scripting. Thank you, Levi
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Never mind, I finished the task. I just first copied all the files into one
directory using:
find . -name *.jpg -print | xargs -i cp \{\} all/
Then wrote (modified, actually) a shell script to run imageinfo on a bunch of
files with a different output file each time:
#!/bin/bash
# run imag
I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few
minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of
directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each
input file, the output file should have the same name except ending in .txt,
and
On November 29, 2002 05:12 pm, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> I dont know much about the windows bootloader, but it wouldn't suprise
> me if it didn't have the capability to chain boot to another MBR. It may
> expect to have the secondary boot loader inside a partition.
I also don't know, but it would
> > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive
> > to
> > become /dev/hdb?
> >
> > What I know:
> >
> > edit lilo.conf, run lilo
> > edit fstab
> >
> > What about the partition table though?
Apologies for my vague question. I know how to do the physical switch, but
On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I
> > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics.
> > How can I do that in Debian?
mk
I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to
become /dev/hdb?
What I know:
edit lilo.conf, run lilo
edit fstab
What about the partition table though?
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On November 27, 2002 01:22 pm, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> ???
> Very interesting... How do you use dselect while installing the BASE ???
Good point - I just saw it was manpages and assumed it was post-base.
Anyways, manpages are not essential, won't it allow you to continue after the
error? If s
On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> hey thanks that's a good idea,
> im planning on upgrading soon anyway,
> other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software
> is available as a downloadable iso or something?
No jigdo iso, just download the program
On November 27, 2002 01:18 pm, Meredith Richmond wrote:
> hi,
> i have an old Acer 486 notebook computer that is currently using win95.
> i would like to start using debian but i didn't see it in your list of
> compatible computer types... is it still possible to install it?
Check the hardware req
Specifically, add the line
NVdriver
to /etc/modules. Add it manually or type
echo "NVdriver" >> /etc/modules
to add it without editing the file.
On November 27, 2002 03:00 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Put it in /etc/modules
>
> -
On November 27, 2002 03:07 am, D.H wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I
> downloaded all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i
> got the same error when installing "diald" package, luckly, it doesn't
> interrupt the whole i
On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Hi,
> well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to
> download there than at home.
> what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then
> tie into the connection at work and ...
> (maybe one d
On November 26, 2002 04:10 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> well here's the weird thing,
> if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are
> long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a
> tilde filling in the missing parts.
> so what ive been
Just curious, why did you make up a CD of .debs and other programs, as
opposing to installing directly from a debian online source using apt (ie,
apt-get install package-name? If you don't know what I'm talking about, fess
up and we'll point you in the right direction. The easiest way to insta
On November 24, 2002 01:50 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> That's "md5sum".
>
> I've been seeing quite a few of these reports lately; perhaps there's
> some deeper problem ...
Oops, thanks Colin - a little mind slip, minor keyboard dyslexia maybe?
I made a set of Woody discs a little while ago and burn
On November 24, 2002 11:44 am, wouter (xlocal) wrote:
> I could install the kernel and other parts, but with the Base System i got
> this message:
>
> "file:/instmnt/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.39-1.1-all.deb was corrupt"
> and afterwards this one: "couldn't download manpages."
>
> I've got var
On November 22, 2002 11:05 am, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> > >
> > >when i typ in startx i get fatal screen error, no screens found
> > >
In 2 recent woody installs, I've gotten this error each time after finishing
the dbootstrap setup. In one case (an old laptop) the autoconfigure didn't
work, an
I'm having a few problems installing Debian on an older Compaq Presario 1020
P120 with 48MB RAM. (Yes I just read the thread on Compaqs - I agree that
after I get everything working it'll probably be great)
1) The worst one is that after apm -s, apm -S, or alt-F3 the system acts all
weird afte
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