Re: Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
> > up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of > > the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? > > grep rootdelay /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ udev -A6 > > linux rootdelay=10 at the boot prompt will wait for 10 seconds That did it perfectly.

Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
f the drive, and it's in a degraded state. It seems to do this (off of dmesg) because the usb drive is brought up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? Thanks! William Lynch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Desktop installation of Gnome

2005-11-05 Thread Jim Lynch
Need more info. What utility are you using to install it with, synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, raw tar.gz files? What error message(s) are you getting? What have you tried? Jim. Matt Allen wrote: Dear Madam or Sir, I am have trouble installing the desktop on Debian version 3.1. I had first in

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Debian sarge 1.0.4-2sarge5 Works fine with that web site for me. Jim. Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it

Re: How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system

2005-10-12 Thread Jim Lynch
Sometimes newer versions of programs can be found as "backports". I've never had any luck finding them, however. I think these are versions that have been put in unstable or testing and someone kindly generates a .deb for the stable environment. See what you can find about backports. Jim.

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-12 Thread Jim Lynch
2005 at 04:47:11PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser or other means of inde

What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-12 Thread Jim Lynch
For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I just can't f

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Lynch
Look at the output of dmesg.  You should find what device the CD rom the kernel assigned.  On my system, these two lines are informative. hdc: CW099D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R5002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Do a dmesg|grep CD  and see if you don't find somethi

Mail relay question.

2005-08-28 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic problem.  My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to permit mail being relayed through them.  Firefox and Mozilla have sections in the SMTP server options to put that.  However I cannot find where I need to place them when

Originating mail problem

2005-08-28 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic problem.  My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to permit mail being relayed through them.  Firefox and Mozilla have sections in the SMTP server options to put that.  However I cannot find where I need to place them when u

Problem with phpmyadmin

2005-08-28 Thread Jim Lynch
I installed apache2, phpmyadmin, php4 and various other packages that came along with the install but when I attempt to access phpmyadmin with http://localhost/phpmyadmin I get a popup box with the following message You have chosend to open which is a phtml file from http://localhost.  What shoul

Re: Help with java in firefox

2004-09-30 Thread Jim Lynch
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:56:55 -0400, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways and firefox still doesn't know about them. 1. I clicked on the window that said "to install plugin click here&q

Re: Help with java in firefox

2004-09-29 Thread Jim Lynch
Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways and firefox still doesn't know about them. 1. I clicked on the window that said "to install plugin click here" or words to that effect. That put the .so file in /usr/local/xxx somewhere I believe. 2. I got the jre14 from Sun

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Jim Lynch
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build i

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Jim Lynch
I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the /dev/dsp device was

Re: Where should I start ?

2004-07-08 Thread Lynch
I think you should download a netinst.iso, and start installing Debian using the nearest mirror site of Debian. Debian have both DVD, CD of Sarge, why do you want to convert from one to another? On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a simple question (well may

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Lynch
there is a stupid but more user friendly way # apt-get install rcconf # rcconf unselect xdm gdm or kdm, then reboot On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 19:07, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui

Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.

2002-09-12 Thread Jim Lynch
of trash. Thanks, Jim. Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > > Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root > > device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the > &

2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.

2002-09-11 Thread Jim Lynch
Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on /dev/hda6. Background: I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom n

Re: ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
Thanks for all the tips. I finally got it working by using ssh v2 all the way. For some reason v1 didn't want to work. Jim. Jim Lynch wrote: > > I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded > to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to

keyboard question

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
I had such good luck with ssh, I'll try again. 8) All of a sudden, starting with the installation of woody, my backspace key is sending a delete, not a backspace. Even when I log in via vnc it thinks my backspace key is a delete. What did I do? Better yet what do I do to fix it.I noticed

ssh not working

2002-09-06 Thread Jim Lynch
I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub files in .ssh on the Debian system. I logged in to the RedHat system and placed the

Re: eth0 no such device

2002-06-14 Thread Jim Lynch
You need to have the drivers for your card either in the kernel or in a module and load that module. I suggest you generate a custom kernel by installing the source and following the directions in the README. You will be able to configure it to support your network card specifically that way. Ji

GIMP and gif files

2002-05-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Is it just Debian or is GIMP not supporting gif files any longer? Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread John Lynch
Thankyou everyone for all your help, I'm going to install Mandrake later. thanks for the tip about upgrading to Debian, I figured I'd have to uninstall then reinstall the Linux Oses. I'm going to hop off this list because all of the e-mails is killing me. Thanks again for all your help. I WIL

Re: Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread John Lynch
LMAO!!! on everyone's advice don't worry. I'LL BE BACK! I'm just gone for a while to learn the Linux OS on an easy to use OS. Trust me, I had enough problems installing it as it was. (I now know more about my computer though) From: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Awww, why go

Dual boot default and Compatibility

2002-03-21 Thread John Lynch
Hello all, Well, I've partitioned my harddrive with Partition Magic. And I am currently downloading Mandrake GNU/Linux, because of everyone's advice. NOW I know this is for DEBIAN GNU/Linux BUT I have to ask in here (because I don't want to be added to yet another mailing list) and I figure s

Installing Debian: Thankyou

2002-03-20 Thread John Lynch
I'd just like to say thanks a lot everyone for all the help you've given me. It was more help then I'd ever hoped of getting. I'm glad a lot of different people e-mailed me because getting a variety of opinions was really helpful. I'm going to PRACTICE partitioning my old harddrive and if tha

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

2002-03-20 Thread John Lynch
The Wise Pat Colbeck said: Hi Personally I would recommend SuSE for a complete Linux/Unix newbie. It has a very easy install with good hardware autodetection and has probably the best manuals I have ever seen with a Linux distribution. Can you download SuSe for free over the internet? And als

Specific Installing Debian GNU/Linux question

2002-03-20 Thread John Lynch
Hello everyone I have a specific question for installing Debian GNU/Linux. What is the swap partition and is it neccessary in a dual boot system? I found a HOWTO with easy english, but some things still go over my head. _ MSN Phot

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

2002-03-20 Thread John Lynch
S) on? thanks everyone for all your help. John Lynch _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

Installing Debian

2002-03-19 Thread John Lynch
a lot if someone was able to give me easy to understand instructions. or a website with easier instructions if no-one can be bothered. I understand this is a BIG ask of everyone, and I do appreciate it (especially if your still reading this) and thank everyone very much for any help th

Racist remarks

2002-03-19 Thread John Lynch
May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is >racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the >reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux user >when confronted by the following terminology: Windows; Microsoft;

Movies, MPEG, and DVDs

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
From: Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user Subject: Re: Movies, MPEG, and DVDs Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:45:15 +0100 Le 18/03/02 à 12:31, Scott Henson a écrit: Scott> xine-ui The best I have seen yet for linux. In my opinion it is as Scott good as t

WOW

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
Thanks everyone for all your help, *thinks "wow!!! I asked the question 15mins ago!! and I already got 2 answers"* as I read more about Denebian I will probably harrass you with more and more questions so I'd just like to say I appreciate any help you give me. Cheers John __

Cost

2002-03-18 Thread John Lynch
I was e-mailing, just to triple check that if I download debian it will not cost me a cent. (Sorry for asking this but I've been burnt before when downloading products). _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messe

How can I use ftp to access distribution through a firewall?

2001-08-14 Thread Jim Lynch
I'd like to upgrade using the ftp access method of dpkg/apt, etc. I am on the other side of a firewall but there is a socks proxy to get through it. On other systems on this side of the firewall, I can use the r commands, rcp, rftp, rsh etc. but I haven't seen them for Linux. I did a google sear

Re: minicom

2001-01-24 Thread Jim Lynch
Run as root and run minicom -s. From there you can change the settings and save the configuration as default and/or as some other name. There isn't really a configuration file like you'd normally use an editor to configure. You do that via the program with the -s switch. Man minicom works for m

Re: Looking for a driver for a sound card

2001-01-18 Thread Jim Lynch
OK, I see three devices connected to IRQ 9. No I/O addresses overlap. THe USB port, my Ethernet controller and the audio board are all IRQ 9. I though sharing of IRQs is OK these days. Is Linux different in that respect from Win9x? Everything works on Win95, or at least the audio and ethernet co

Looking for a driver for a sound card

2001-01-17 Thread Jim Lynch
I recently purchased a pci sound card for my system and haven't been able to make it work. I tried a generic Yamaha driver, based on things I read when I did a search, and when I try to insmod sb.o, I get a message saying Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o Device or resource busy Hint: this err

Re: apache again

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Lynch
e a way to list the modules that are eligible for installation? How do you go about finding out what the name of the module is that relates to what you selected in the config? Most are obvious, but some aren't. Such as "Packet Socket" or "Unix domain socket". Thanks,

Re: One more question

2000-12-07 Thread Jim Lynch
Guess I am stuck in the past. 8) I've always had one. Thanks, Jim. Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > > > What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this

One more question

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Lynch
What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. THanks, Jim.

apache again

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Lynch
Well, I gave up, trashed the disk and installed 2.2 from scratch. Now I've been installing/configuring Linux since 0.12. This release really takes me back to the good old days. I installed about everything under the sun including networking but when I look at the /etc/init.d/networking file, the

apache woes.

2000-12-05 Thread Jim Lynch
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display

Problems with apache.

2000-12-05 Thread Jim Lynch
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display

Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

2000-09-21 Thread Jim Lynch
Thanks, but that didn't help. Something is screwed up. I manually installed everything in the list with an apt-get install and went back and attempted it again and got the same message. Oh well, I think everything is installed, but the auto upgrade is still hosed. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .s

Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Lynch
Forgot to mention I'm upgrading, in case that wasn't obvious. I upgrade my system at work just fine. It is similar to this one. Mostly 2.1, kernel 2.0.36. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/

Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2

2000-09-20 Thread Jim Lynch
Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration No packages on hold. Nothing suspicious that I could see. I'm currently running a 2.1 debian system, or mostly 2.1. Kernel at 2.0.36. Here are the messages from the command that was executing: bash-2.01# apt-get --fix-broken --show-u

2.2 -> Woody

2000-09-05 Thread Kyle Lynch
If I install Potato, how would I go upon the process of upgrading to Woody without a format and reinstall?

Getting in Graphical Mode after Login

2000-09-04 Thread Kyle Lynch
I may sound kinda stupid asking this question (bare with me, im only 13 yrs old), but after I login to my root or whatever account, how do I get the X running for the graphical interface? Thanks for ur time, Kyle

[no subject]

2000-09-04 Thread Kyle Lynch
I am wondering, does anyone have any screen shots of the woody package? I very interested in researching this release before i risk my computer on it. ---[ Kyle Lynch ]--- Debian Helper Extrodinare [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lprng problem, I need help! Thanks.

1999-04-21 Thread Jim Lynch
I didn't see an answer, but since this list is producing over 200 emails a day, I might have missed it, but I searched the archives and didn't see a reply. Can anyone suggest where else I might go to get an answer? I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble with remote

Printer problem.

1999-04-15 Thread Jim Lynch
I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble with remote printing. I've run magicfilterconfig and set my old laserjet series II printer up to work locally. When I print files from the Linux machine all is well. I'm trying to print from a remote machine and things aren't

strange messages at boot.

1999-02-23 Thread Jim Lynch
Any idea what is causing this? I put a new hard drive in and installed hamm from scratch. I am booting a 2.0.34 kernel that used to work fine on the old drive. I had to rdev the kernel to point to the new root device. The system seems to be running fine, except that /var/log/messages doesn't ha

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-25 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Odin wrote: > > > I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present > > > time, but it would be a plus. > > > I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > (snip) > > with something more Linux, like a penguin ... > > > > (snip) > Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. > :-) > > > -- > Ed C. Really it isn't that big a deal.

Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm

1999-01-06 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > - Received message begins Here - > > > Tonight I'm going to install bo from Cd and make sure the modem still works. > If it does then I'll install things one at a time and see what happens. > OK, here's the story. I rem

Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm

1999-01-05 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - After listening to a number of suggestions, I installed a clean copy of hamm from the CD to a spare SCSI disk. The modem still doesn't work. I removed the sound card and disabled all serial ports except for the modem. Tonight I'm going to inst

Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm

1999-01-04 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm tearing my hair out. Here's the story. I upgraded to hamm vi the autosh script and grabbed the 2.0.34 kernel and recompiled it. As far as I can tell, the modem worked OK after those steps. I then reviewed my installed packages and upgraded a bunch of them. I also installed diald and tried

Re: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - I just solved this one. You need the libc5 libraries from the oldlibs directory. I assume you are running hamm. dpkg --install oldlibs/xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb dpkg --install oldlibs/libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb will probably fix it. Regards, Jim. >

Re: Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - I figured out the netscape problem, but this one is still bugging me. > Second question. What is this telling me? > > dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb > Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95. > (Reading database ... 21675 file

Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.

1998-12-31 Thread Jim Lynch
See the following? chinaberry 139> ldd `which xlogo` libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000e000) libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40046000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40058000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a200

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-23 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only > correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: > > shutdown now > I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. Jim.

How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-22 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't kill off the process u

Bash question/problem.

1998-12-18 Thread Jim Lynch
I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've still got it. I'm running ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell I'm trying to get my command recall to work in vi mode for roo

install debian linux completely from source CD

1998-12-16 Thread Andrew Lynch
ividual packages but then you bypass the benefits of dpkg package management. I would love to have a linux installation built COMPLETELY from the original source code. I am sure its possible, but how do I do it? TIA!! Andrew Lynch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS, please reply to my email address as well

Trying to get a 1542C working.

1998-06-17 Thread Jim Lynch
having this problem with it in the vlb box. Thanks, Jim. -- ---- Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- To U

Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Jim Lynch
tunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios. Thanks, Jim. -- ---- Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree

Netscape doesn't save ftp messages

1998-02-27 Thread Jim Lynch
ersions of netscape it brings up a "save file" dialog. I'm running Netscape 3.01, and Debian 1.3. How do I fix this? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email

Re: Partitioning (fwd)

1997-12-08 Thread Jim Lynch
ions. your stuck if > you want more. if you want to take 100megs off your win95 partition you > will need something like partition magic to repartition your drive with > out losing any of your data. Hope this helps. > Paul > > -

Cheap bytes CDROM

1997-04-15 Thread Jim Lynch
to work, in at least one case without error. Jim. -- ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive,

Re: PEX Extension to X

1997-04-08 Thread Jim Lynch
_free_ 3D X library if anyone knows of > one. > > Thanks, > > Ed -- ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: Seem to be hitting a snag.

1997-04-07 Thread Jim Lynch
for. > Any sujestions welcome. Thanks. -- ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: Decodeing base64 stuff

1997-04-02 Thread James W. Lynch
.5-src.tar.Z and it worked great. Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Netscape popup windows zero size problem

1997-04-01 Thread James W. Lynch
small box that I then have to resize also. What have I done wrong? I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it. Thanks, Jim. ---- Ji

How to upgrade?

1997-04-01 Thread James W. Lynch
0.93 to 1.1, b but I can't find a 1.1 to 1.2 upgrade document. Help? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Can't replace the Linux kernel on the "boot" disk (1 of 5)

1997-03-13 Thread James W. Lynch
#x27;t mount as anything I have compiled in. Should it mount? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 27

Re: LARRY ELLISON

1997-03-11 Thread James W. Lynch
h Debian that can be determined from the subject or contents of this message. Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sui

Re: zsh vs bash

1997-03-11 Thread James W. Lynch
x27;m a normal user. Can I do it? How? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: Local X application defaults

1997-03-11 Thread James W. Lynch
lication defaults. I've got mine set to setenv XAPPLRESDIR /home/jwl/app-defaults You could probably set XAPPLRESDIR globaly in the /etc/profile and /etc/ login scripts, I guess, if you wanted it to apply to everyone on the system. Jim. --

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-10 Thread James W. Lynch
- Received message begins Here - Could one add a user named "halt" or "shutdown" whose login shell was shutdown with the appropriate parameters? Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SG

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-21 Thread James W. Lynch
4 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native > > -- > > Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 > > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. > > PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Withdrawl of fee for producing Debian CDs

1997-01-22 Thread James W. Lynch
Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 > > If you don't see what you want, just ask -- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Kernel doesn't have PPP support, What does this mean?

1997-01-21 Thread James W. Lynch
r did increment. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree

Re: Whats in a name?

1996-12-30 Thread James W. Lynch
CTED] > X-Display-Position: 2 > > Where did the name "debian" come from? > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -

Help generating a boot disk for install

1996-12-26 Thread James W. Lynch
? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

Re: file permission for cdrom /dev/hdc etc

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
ebian way for > this? > > Derek Lee > ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Another (different) printing question

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
jumped out at me. Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Generating a boot disk for 5 disk set

1996-12-20 Thread James W. Lynch
th a VFS unable to mount root on 02:00. So that didn't work. So how do I create a boot disk that I can used in place of the original one? I've got a custom kernel that I'd rather use. Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lyn

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread James W. Lynch
uantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by > SGI? > > lawrence, > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -

Re: Question??

1996-11-04 Thread James W. Lynch
le? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > What about /dev ? > --- > Little Billy goes to the zoo: > " Looks mom! an elephant like those on the Internet! " > ==

Re: packages install

1996-10-29 Thread James W. Lynch
word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite

Re: Bogus symblic link in Debian-1.1.12

1996-10-28 Thread James W. Lynch
quot; to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree C

Modules problems

1996-10-25 Thread James W. Lynch
I don't know why I keep trying to use modules, they never work right for me I trashed my 1.2.13 system on my home box and installed 2.0.2?. Dselect didn't work, so I did a manual job with dpkg. I installed the kernel source and compiled it fine. Did the make modules and make module_install

Re: LaTeX problem

1996-10-15 Thread James W. Lynch
onded. What a great bunch of people, this Debian lot!! Jim. Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark

LaTeX problem

1996-10-14 Thread James W. Lynch
revolting development, Version 2.3} \author{Jim Lynch} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Introduction} This is a test. \end{document} end of input-- -output--- This is the title of a new and revolting

LaTeX and XFree questions

1996-10-02 Thread James W. Lynch
The XFree directories didn't seem to have any files newer than 1995 either, so where do I go for that kind of info these days? Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast Distri

dead HD

1996-08-21 Thread James W. Lynch
ftware to work properly and finally decided it was because of the mother board. Thanks, Jim. ---- Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

1996-08-16 Thread James W. Lynch
- Received message begins Here - (urban legend hoax deleted) Oh, god, it's back! Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [

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