problems with my hard drive

I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it. Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird "ping" noise that I know I've never heard before. These ping's are very infrequent, but usually come

adobe acrobat viewer in debian?

I found Adobe's beta3 of their Acrobat viewer, but they claim it is only for the yggdrasiL (sp?) distribution... Has anyone got this setup under Debain (packaged or not) and can explain how to do it? Thanks...

Re: ncurses problems

>Has anyone else out there had trouble with ncurses? I've now run across at >least four separate failures, all related to using ncurses instead of >termcap: > >I have heard of a couple of other Debian users having similar ncurses >problems, but I've never heard of anyone having trouble with ncurs

missing 'savelog' command

After installing debian recently, I've started getting messages from the cron processes that it cannot find the 'savelog' command. I looked for it on my system and cannot find it. Anyone know which package this belongs to? Thanks...

Printing problems

I'm having problems getting pages to come out of my printer correctly. The symptoms: 1) Small text files don't print. The printer heads move around a bit (as bubblejets like to do) but never gets to printing. 2) Larger files (text/postscript) will print, but usually sta

Using monochrome monitor as additional term

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mailing list as digest?

I very much appreciate the service that this mailing list provides. Although I am usually quiet here, the suggestions made by/for other persons is very helpful in fixing my own problems. To the point: unfortunately, the volume is very large. I'd much prefer to get this mailing list in digest form

Cannot open mouse (no such device)!?!?

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which files are for debian 1.1?

I've downloaded and installed debian with the 1.1beta diskettes. What packages should I be using? Stable? Unstable? Thanks...