Re: choice of software

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Traxler
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:09:01AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > I'd also recommend 'abuse' and 'abuse-frabs' which is a fun little game > of killing aliens with huge guns. It reminds me of Metroid. Of course, Debian includes Super Nintendo emulators, so if you can "acquire" ROMs, you can play the rea

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:43:17PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > > partition.) > > did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap par

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

Re: XFree 4.2.x question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Traxler
Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2. I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my XF86Config both times. Pretty annoying. -- Nick This one time, at band camp, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka said: > Me.I'm using it for some time and it's great. > The insta

Re: Missing modules are working well!

2002-09-06 Thread Nick Traxler
This one time, at band camp, Glyn Millington said: > > Greetings! Debian Woody (wonderful!!) 2.4.18 compiled by yours truly. > > Since rebuilding the kernel when I boot up I get a long list of > > "modprobe can't find" messages. > > But the modules are there and they work,or I would not be

Re: Disk Partation Help

2002-09-05 Thread Nick Traxler
This one time, at band camp, D. said: > Hi all, > On my laptop I have WimME on hda2 10G and Debian > hda4 is /root 7G, swap is hda3. I'd like to add > another Linux distro onto my laptop. How can I > reallocate the partations so I can do this without > having to a reinstall. You can use parte

Re: nfs-kernel-server with tcp

2002-08-30 Thread Nick Traxler
This one time, at band camp, Jean-Michel Besnard said: > Is there a way I could have tcp as well for nfsd ? Read the NFS-HOWTO at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO It tells you there is a patch for kernel 2.4.17 and later to support NFS over TCP. Section 2.5 of that documen

Re: dhcpd.leases stays empty

2002-06-25 Thread Nick Traxler
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:37:01AM +0200, Andreas Eichner wrote: > > Hi list, > > I've got some trouble with the dhcpd-2.2.x (package is dhcp)from Woody > (on 2.4.18). It assigns IP addresses in a correct manner but > /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases stays empty. Does anyone know why this could > be

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-20 Thread Nick Traxler
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > * AKDT]: > > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > > anyway off

Re: Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-19 Thread Nick Traxler
> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:30, Nick Traxler wrote: > > Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. > > None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are > > they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. > > My ga

Where are the GAIM sounds?

2002-06-18 Thread Nick Traxler
Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome. None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Traxler
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the kernel. Check up on this as well as APM. ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may have been the reason. -- Nick On Thu, Jun 13

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:41:29AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: > > > I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been > > thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. > > I've never used it, but

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-08 Thread Nick Traxler
, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:24:43PM +0200, Rainer Ellinger wrote: > Nick Traxler wrote: > > I got the value 0x340 through trial and error. All the others fail > > the initial ne2000 probe. > > dsl-093-a:~# ne2k-diag -p 0x340 > > You've also tried ne2k-diag without any op

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-05 Thread Nick Traxler
o find the card but the second part doesn't. -- Nick Traxler Computer Science, Purdue University http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend "The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Rainer Ellinger wrote: > Nick Traxler wrote: >

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-04 Thread Nick Traxler
gateway address, it returned an error that the eth0 transmit had timed out, one error message per packet. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Any ideas? I'm not sure if the interrupt can be arbitrary or if I have to find a way to read it off the card. -- Nick Traxler Computer Sc

ISA network card

2002-06-03 Thread Nick Traxler
I can probe the address or set it? pnpdump does not show the card. -- Nick Traxler Computer Science, Purdue University http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend "The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi