Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas? - SOLVED

2006-04-03 Thread N . Pauli
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > > launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like > > Mozilla or OpenOffice can take

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-31 Thread N . Pauli
On Fri, 31 Mar, Brian Schrock wrote: > > debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec > > ** > > > > That looks reasonable to me - very fast f

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-31 Thread N . Pauli
On Fri, 31 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:19 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-31 Thread N . Pauli
On Thu, 30 Mar, listrcv wrote: > N.Pauli wrote: > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > > launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like > > Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while > the harddisk drive light is burn

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-30 Thread N . Pauli
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > > launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like > > Mozilla or OpenOffice can take

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-30 Thread N . Pauli
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > > launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like > > Mozilla or OpenOffice can take

Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-30 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while the harddisk drive light is burning constantly. It is as if there is some process

Re: Configuring network printer using gnome/foomatic on Debian

2006-03-16 Thread N . Pauli
On Tue, 14 Mar, Pabla,Balbir Ontario wrote: > I have a HP laserjet 8000 DN printer attached to network directly with > ip address say 142.xx.xxx.yyy. > I want to send print jobs from Debian 3.1 system running 2.4 smp kernel. > I tried from gnome window : system tools; printer; add printer > informa

Usb device connected on boot up problem

2006-03-16 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable and I've found that if I make the mistake of having any kind of usb device (scanner, camera so far) connected during boot up or even plugged in after gdm starts and before I log in that I have slowness problems. The boot up process hangs fo

Getting phpmyadmin to work with auth_type = 'cookie'

2006-03-10 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, I've just installed Mysql5, Apache 1.3.34, Php5 and phpmyadmin4:2.7.0. I've had experience of using these together on Sarge and I've got Apache running okay and I've set up a root user for mysql and filled out /root/.my.cnf. When I got to phpmyadmin, I noticed that the configuration p

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread N . Pauli
On Mon, 27 Feb, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > N.Pauli wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing > > setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool > > and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well > as an

CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial and error I could

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-28 Thread N . Pauli
On Fri, 27 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:27AM +, N.Pauli wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) > > > > N.Pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-27 Thread N . Pauli
On Thu, 26 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) > > N.Pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I've just installed Etch. From previous installs (Ubuntu and Sarge) I've

KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-26 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, I've just installed Etch. From previous installs (Ubuntu and Sarge) I've learnt to disconnect my KVM (keyboard, video, monitor) switch during the install but it has always worked afterwards. Now, though if I switch from my XP Pro box to my box running Etch the mouse is out of control;

Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread N . Pauli
Someone asked for advice on guides to building a custom kernel. Unfortunately I deleted it before I could reply so I hope he/she is still out there. I started off using "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" from http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/dwarfs-debian-guide.html but found its section on b

Re: Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

2003-06-05 Thread N . Pauli
Clive, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. From what you say it seems I don't need NIS; which is a relief! Nigel On Wed, 04 Jun, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (04/06/03 15:45), N. Pauli wrote: > > I have got NFS up and running on my 3 machine network in which beec

Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

2003-06-05 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, I have got NFS up and running on my 3 machine network in which beech [10.0.0.5] is the server and mesh [10.0.0.6] and tecra [10.0.0.7] are clients. From beech I have exported /tmp and /var/www and mounted them on the two clients as /mnt/beechtmp and /mnt/beechweb respectively. I can re

TEST - please ignore

2003-06-01 Thread N . Pauli
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Re: woody, sarge, or sid?

2003-05-29 Thread N . Pauli
Zim, Get the "Apt-get HOW-TO" which can be found in the Documentation area of www.debian.org. It covers *exactly* those sorts of concerns. Basically, you can specify what your default distribution is and yet still specify that certain packages should be taken from another distribution. Nigel