of all those billions and
billions of possibilities?
Doug.
I think Bill Watterson put it best: "The surest sign that intelligent
life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Try this:
date -...@1234567890
Hugo
p...@linux624:~$ date -...@1234567890
date: invalid date `...@1234567890'
p...@linux624:~$
Woohoo!
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Jonathan Kaye wrote:
John P Loes, MD wrote:
I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter?
Jonathan
More like Chocolate Mousse with mustard :p.
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put from me!), I think that Debian should be doing
the same thing.
Other than that (minor) point, I would like to say: "keep up the great
work!" When I buy my next PC it will be running Debian for sure.
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he did, but his
question is clear (once you read it a second time): "How does one switch
from 16-bit to 8-bit colours, and have the new setting stick?"
I'm only sorry I couldn't help by answering the question, but perhaps
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trying and miserably failing to be humourous.
While we're on the subject of unusual spelling variants, can someone
explain why, in American English, "moron" is spelt "bush" ;)
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st drivers from nvidia.com
the driver reports me that i have no nvidia card on it ?!
maybe it's an hardware problem that cause those freeze under linux
with the
nvidia driver.
You didn't answer what happened when you stopped loading the apm
module... For me that was the solution.
, I'm afraid. I reported it here
when I discovered it, but I haven't followed up to see if any fixes were
made to either program.
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me then was to re-install debian. Hopefully you will not have to take
such extreme measures.
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Jerome Lacoste wrote:
Hi,
long time Debian user, I often use Knoppix for rescue and test
operations.
There are things that makes the Knoppix boot lean and clean, e.g. the
hardware autodetection, etc...
But I don't have that on my unstable boxes. So I am wondering if it's a
Knoppix special feature o
ks the printer is running, and restart it if it isn't.
I have found that occasionally CUPS tends to stop printers without any
action from me, but they can always be restarted via this admin web page.
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J Y wrote:
Quoting Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 16:28, J Y wrote:
I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke.
BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can
login to a great looking desktop but I can't use it! :(
There's a dialog box op
Jacob Anawalt wrote:
...and how that at times seems to be a 'waste of space' (mutter, if
only they'd all use C and Perl I wouldn't have to download all these
packages...) :P, but thinking of the choices it gives everyone and the
extra software that might get written because some group's 'cup
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages
seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant
language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why,
exac
nori heikkinen wrote:
on Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:27:02PM +0200, David Fokkema insinuated:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
David Fokkema wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
I always heard it as:
M R ducks
M R not
Cath wrote:
2003. augusztus 1. 11:19 dátummal Peter Hugosson-Miller ezt írta:
I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody
with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some
searching on the web, and came up with this promising page:
Hello! U have 2 download and
I am trying to get the above USB card reader to work under woody
with a 2.4.18 kernel. Before I purchased the device, I did some
searching on the web, and came up with this promising page:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1729&PHPSESSID=1568bb227d93770694b5b436529bbe33
Where a certain
Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
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I am interested to subscribe my self in ur mailing list.
please tell me how to subscribe by email request & where to mail that
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request .
thanks in advanced.
Well, that's a new one! Usually this list gets flooded with mails from
people trying to UNsubs
Wim De Smet wrote:
I can't really help, but if apm is causing you problems, and you have a
fairly new motherboard, you might wanna check out if it supports acpi. I
switched to acpi resently and it works like a charm (much better than
apm ever did).
mvg,
Wim
My guess is it wouldn't work, as my m
Still no responses to my apm question (
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.html
), so I've started investigating a bit, to see if I can figure this out
for myself.
I have found the following page that describes, amoung other things, the
initscripts that are ru
In Acrobat Exchange for Windoze, there is the capability to add small
yellow "Post-It" notes to annotate the document you are reading. This is
a very useful way to review and correct almost finished documents
without changing any of the original content.
Does anyone know of a way to achieve the
I have some more info regarding this most interesting problem. I know I
can be a bit verbose (I am never sure what might be important), so I
will not quote my whole original post, just a link to it in case anyone
missed it:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.ht
David Fokkema wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:47:30PM +0200, Qian Gong wrote:
Hi,
I installed CUPS to send jobs to a Infotec 4182 MF printer, using HP
LaserJet Series CUPS driver. It's working almost perfectly. But one
problem is about the page margin. If I send a ps file, e.g., created by
"
Bill K wrote:
Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome
(and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user.
This is the normal default behaviour, as you would normally never need
to do this. If you feel you must, there is a setting in the gdm
con
Gilles Missonnier wrote:
->Easiest way to do this is to copy the config file from the bf24 kernel
->to /usr/src/linux/.config, then make oldconfig before you start
->configuring your new kernel. That way you get all the options that were
->set in the bf24 kernel, and can start turning off the ones
Vittorio wrote:
I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at
boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical
display any longer as with the previous kernel.
How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot
time?
Ciao
Vittorio
Easiest wa
After 8 years of running Debian, I've never had Linux crash on me
before, not once! Until now that is...
I've just upgraded my wife's PC from OS/2 to Woody. No real problems,
other than I found it a bit tricky getting X 4.3 installed, so that I
could use the GLX drivers for her nVidia GeForce2
Is it possible to ask X what version it is running?
I know I can check (in Debian) by looking at dpkg -l and trying to guess
a likely looking package that might contain the X server, but a) I might
not always be sitting in front of a debian box when I need to know, and
anyway b) I would prefer
Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the
net, but no luck.
I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD
entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the spec
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Since I upgraded from potato to woody, I've started getting _lots_ of
these warnings in my ~/.gnome-errors file:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
OK, it
Paul E Condon wrote:
I think that it used to be that when I posted to this
list, my message would be returned to me from the server at
the time that it was sent out to everyone else on the list.
Now that is not happening. Now, when I post, I see nothing
on the list, but my message is showing up in
Since I upgraded from potato to woody, I've started getting _lots_ of
these warnings in my ~/.gnome-errors file:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
OK, it's just a warning, but it's new, and I just wonder
a) If I need to fix it to avoid _real_ problems later
b) If so, how do I
I have not received any further suggestions about my apt-get problem...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/msg02698.html
...but I do have a bit more information to add. Just for laughs, I made
a minimal fresh woody install (which went very smoothly!) to a free
partition
Moe Binkerman wrote:
A curious thing happened today with apt-get, that I have never seen
before.
I recently upgraded my system from potato to woody, using an official CD
set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions rigorously, and
am now 99% sure that all is correctly upgraded (but see
A curious thing happened today with apt-get, that I have never seen before.
I recently upgraded my system from potato to woody, using an official CD
set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions rigorously, and am
now 99% sure that all is correctly upgraded (but see
http://lists.debian.o
Joris Huizer wrote:
Most of my actions were the
same, but there's one big difference - do you know why
this article recommends:
make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image
while the other article I used says:
make-kpkg --append-to-version=bla kernel_image
Well, if -rev is the same as --revision, then the
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
Now my question is: do you still have any other problem? If the answer
is no, I do not see why you should worry about those removed packages. ;)
This is very true! I have found one new problem (and know how to fix
it): the gnome control center doesn't show up the sawfish-sp
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those
"--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going
into the dreaded dselect?
I think that if yo
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
This has got to be the longest time without a working system since I
started using Debian in november 1995. Of course, when I say 'working' I
mean 'with a working desktop' - I still have FTP and all non X-related
stuff working, and my system thinks it has completely upgraded OK.
Normally I would ha
I have a couple of problems upgrading from potato to woody, using a
14-CD official set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions at
this address: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/as
recommended in the installation manual.
I first went with the recommended approac
this one myself right now.
I have found the advice to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the vid driver
from 'nv' to 'nvidia'.
Otherwise try reading this http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/README
as there are a lot of options in the file that might cause the problem.
t it precedes.
So as far as I can see, the examples give the same result.
> I hope one day all would agree on one standard.
>
> Robert
I personally prefer the second version, but I guess it's a
matter of taste :-)
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Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020917 11:38]:
> > I have just purchased a complete set of 14 Woody CDs (7 binary, 7
>
> > Does anyone have a suggestion of how to check the integrity of the
> > complete set? I first thought of a rec
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do the
trick), and only have room inside the casing for either the floppy or the CD.
Obviously with the advent of bootable CD's this feature may have disappeared on
the more modern laptops, I don't know. Maybe time to read the fine manual ;-)
HTH
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to be part of a series, so maybe their firmware is
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Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
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I have a problem that I have started getting recently with
one of my ppp connections.
I have two dialup connections at home, one via my place of
work, and another that I pay for myself. Both use the ISDN
modem that I share between two computers, via a switch box
in the serial cable.
One computer
so if you follow Max's routine it should be
fairly straightforward:
> 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
>
> 2, run apt-get update
> 3, run apt-get dist-upgrade
> 4, install your 2.4 kernel
>
christophe barbé wrote:
> Le jeu, 27 sep 2001 11:11:28, Peter Hugosson-Miller a écrit :
> > Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > > > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got soun
Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound
> > to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a
> > tiny problem with esd that I hope someone
ntroduces a further
complication.
Six months ago I would have been glad to have problems like
this! Now, it's starting to get old... Please help!
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"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> Hi there. I am up-to-date with Debian unstable on an x86 machine. I
> installed a lot of GNOME junk including Galeon, Nautilus, and Gnumeric. I
> also installed alsa 0.9.0b7 from sources, including OSS emulation. Then I
> installed esound.
>
> My problem is that the
arty on both
days."
So it sound as if Linux, like the Queen of England, has two
birthdays. Linus apparently has no strong feelings about which
is the "official" one, so... Party, Party!
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In case you missed the news:
Linus will be signing his new book at the Akedemibokhandeln in Stockholm
17:30 today. The adress is Mäster Samuelsgatan 32, telepnone 08 - 613 61
00.
See you there...
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ny?
>
> Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections.
>
> Rob
But then even masochists avoid comparable suffering...
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idn't want to play nicely, even w/ the onboard sound
> disabled in the BIOS. The main reasons I've been trying to get the
> onboard sound working is a) the principle of the thing, and b) I've had
> it working under RH w/ sndconfig (though w/ that damn 'pop'), and
> flawlessly under SuSE 6.4 w/ the OSS/commercial drivers and SuSE
> 7.0/Mandrake 7.2 w/ whatever drivers they use. Unfortunately, I never
> dug around to see 'how', since things just 'worked'.
If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those OSS/commercial drivers
work together with Debian?
I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that works - it would probably
be
cheaper to buy commercial drivers for the card I have than to buy a new card
(what do they charge BTW?).
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at work you can get paid for beating your head against a wall...
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assuming you don't have any /real/ SCSI
> cards
I do have a real SCSI card, that I'm hoping to use with my Christie tape drive.
Does
this mean I can skip this line, or if not, how should it look in my case?
> Run lilo, reboot, and run `cdrecord -scanbus'; your drive should show up.
> YMMV.
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5 rvf rvf 4096 Dec 5 20:10 apg-1.1.6b/
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd apg-1.1.6b
> > bash: cd: apg-1.1.6b: Permission denied
> >
> > Why would it do this?
> >
> > -Rob
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>
> Tom George
# adduser jack dip
# adduser jill dip
etc...
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e, wait five years for a ten line BCPL
program to compile, wait a further three years for t' program to load an' run,
and at t' end of t' day our boss would sack us, and send us off to work for
Microsoft!"
AH1: "And if you tell that to the young folks o' today, th
oad but pre init?
3) Is it used as a background picture for xdm or gdm?
FWIW, I've never seen any logo during boot up, neither tux or otherwise, so I
just don't get this. Is it maybe a 2.4 kernel thing (I'm still on 2.2.17)?
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Frank Rocco wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am only able to dial in as root, when I try as a user,
> I get a message that PPP is unable to create modem lock
> file.
>
> Any idea on what I can do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
adduser frank dip
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it would work, as foo and bob are on
the same CD.
Any script ideas gratefully received!
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Jonathan Gift wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:35AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> >
> > As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package
> > package. So
> > apt-get install kernel-package
> > cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package
> > zcat README.gz|less
>
> you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any
> other kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you
> would have to make sure that the files that the patch changes
> are unchanged between 2.2.18 and whatever you will use).
This brings up another question: According to w
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I
> > change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked
> > around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn
> > this o
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I
> change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked
> around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn
> this off. My WM is Sawfish, BT
I'm getting a strange new beep in Gnome. This happens whenever I
change to a new workspace using the desk-guide applet. I've looked
around in the Gnome control panel but can't find an option to turn
this off. My WM is Sawfish, BTW.
As I mentioned in my most recent mail, I've just recompiled my
ker
I've just put my brave hat on and compiled my kernel for the first
time. Thanks to Robert Guthrie and his tip to use kernel-package,
and KMDWAF, everything just worked first try!
I do have a couple of questions, though.
1) There were many warnings during the compile, although no errors
that I no
ntial candidate,
then it's considered quite acceptable to publicly describe someone as "a
major-league A**hole". In fact it probably wouldn't even stop you from
becoming president...
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b
y 1"
Where foo depends on bar and bob, but bob doesn't depend on bar.
Armed with this information I would do "apt-get install bar" then
"apt-get install foo", and it would work, as foo and bob are on
the same CD.
Any script ideas gratefully received!
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second problem: this CS4236B chip is a part
of the motherboard, so I can't physically remove it. Will
this cause problems if I install a second soundcard?
Please mail me privately, as this isn't specific ehough
for the list. Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Outlook. this way this garbage won't happen each
> > and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out.
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Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Has anybody managed to get the above sound chip working under
> Debian 2.2?
>
> I've browsed the archives for two hours now. Plenty of people have
> had problems, nobody has posted with a solution. I won't bother
> with posting my sympt
Has anybody managed to get the above sound chip working under
Debian 2.2, using ALSA?
I've browsed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives for two
hours now. Plenty of people have had problems, nobody has
posted with a solution. Perhaps they've solved their own
problems, and not bothered to report back to
Peter, Nils,
I've identified the sound chip in question, it's a Crystal CS4236.
The settings in WinNT can be seen in this picture:
http://www.netg.se/~hugge/images/Sound.jpg . The alsa-related
stuff I've nstalled from the CDs can be seen in this excerpt from
root's .bash_history (commented by me)
David Teague wrote:
> Peter
>
> I can't help you with linuxconfig, but I am intrigued by the .sig
> quote. Can you translate it for me?
>
> > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
Literally: "That which is said in Latin, sounds profound."
#x27;m afraid I don't know how to fix
it (I can
live without the mouse in the console).
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oes it have security problems associated with it that one
ought to know about?
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a good service and are an
> excellent example of how commercial products can exist in an
> open source world. i used them for a long time before figuring
> out all this stuff on my own. :)
>
> pete
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/distributions/debian
unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
fi
apt-get update
Then one of these (selected by the user)
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install task-helix-core
apt-get install task-helix-gnome
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I know I said it's time to close this thread, but Ethan came up with
some good points, so I'll just answer them, and (hopefully) be done.
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:48:19AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps a better descripti
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:52PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > That depends on whether you consider you can trust helixcode or
> > not. "arbitrary" to me means "selected at random", but that might
> >
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:33:45PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there
> > > machine without having the slightest idea what it is goin
alled at all, then he/she is also
kept from learning this new system. More money goes into B*ll G***s
pockets as newbie gives up and buys 'doze2K.
> MS has demonstrated that making the system TOO easy and the users
> too dumb leads to disaster, we should learn from their mistakes
> instead of making them again.
I couldn't agree more! Long Live Linux!
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"Asking for quality software from Microsoft is like asking for the wine
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Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following:
> >
> > $su
> > Password:
> > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
>
> this
Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:27:20PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > Your 2nd suggestion worked OK, but I wonder if it wouldn't be
> > possible to define a new (unused) runlevel that doesn't start X
> > (say 7) and then 'init 7&#
can get to a world of GUI. There
are
only a few percent missing now before a true newbie, coming from a world of
Windoze,
could actually use install and use Debian out of the box.
So the big question is this: is the Debian team interested in this potentially
huge
user sector or not? With the demise of
are trying to boot from the big disk AND your kernel is not
> in the first 8GB of the disk.
Problem solved!
My new 6CD set of Debian 2.2 (potato) disks arrived last night, and potato's
cfdisk
knows about 10 GB hard disks. All is now partitioned OK!
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Best regards,
Peter Hugosson-Mi
big the disk is.
> The 8Gig restriction was afaik a BIOS one.
> Jeff
This sounds like what I'm looking for. Could you please give a (very brief)
rundown on
these three commands? I can't access 'man', or any other help, as I've nothing
installed
yet.
TIA,
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s? I tried using just fdisk, BTW, but it also thinks there
are only 8 GB on the disk.
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Peter Hugosson-Miller
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hat know when to
run at
64kb/s and when to run at 128kb/s.
I've never seen or used any special ISDN utilities neither under 'doze or OS/2,
just
their plain old vanilla diallers for any Hayes compatible modem. So what
exactly is it
that isdnutils is going to give me? I'll use it
Sax" chip so you'll need to select the the "HiSax"
> driver. I'm running this driver as a kernel-module.
> Configuration => RTFM
>
> Additionally you'll need to get the "isdnutils" package.
> This package provides some ISDN specific tools and
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