Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-02 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 01 May 2009 17:52:54 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, May 01 2009, Randy Patterson wrote: > > My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the > > components on a particular system so I can remove everything that is > > not needed. These would be ol

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 01 May 2009 09:34:58 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Faster? I promise that you would not notice the speedup. Conceivably > your kernel will boot slightly faster without having to carry out the > hardware detection for the 99% of modules that have no relevance for > your particular system, but y

Re: kernel-package??

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 30 April 2009 14:30:42 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30 2009, thveillon.debian wrote: > > ers are non-essential. > > > Installing the created .deb will take care of all the linking (/initrd, > > /vmlinuz, build dir...), boot-loader update (with grub at least), initrd > > creati

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 30 April 2009 11:09:49 Dave Patterson wrote: > * Randy Patterson [2009-04-30 10:28:00 -0500]: > > I guess I assumed that kernel-package was to build the kernel from the > > source used by the current Debian distro installed. So if that's not the > > cas

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 30 April 2009 09:51:54 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At > > this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in go

kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Randy Patterson
I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple years ago when I first started using Linux that before diving into

Compiling kernal mailing list

2009-04-27 Thread Randy Patterson
I am looking for another email group that discusses custom compiling the kernel. I am interested in discussions about the pros and cons of setting or removing various options to optimize the kernel for particular systems. That doesn't seem an appropriate topic for this list so I was looking for

Learning Debian - run level question?

2007-11-16 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I've been using Debian/Linux for just less than year and have been irreversibly hooked. I've been studying up on the boot and initialization of the system and have a question about run levels. I know Debian defaults to using run level 2. There is a comment in /etc/inittab that states; # R

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote: > > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file > > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed > > dependency. > > It isn't needed for building the kernel, or even for configuring it > unle

Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny distro that I use and my only real reason for building my own kernel is more for educational purposes than anything but I would also like to compile

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > > directory > > Your system is mis

Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I'm running Debian/Lenny which I update weekly. I downloaded the Linux source version 2.6.23.1 from the kernel.org site and uncompressed the file all with no problem. The next step was to create the configuration which I did by running; make defconfig This ran again without a problem. I

Linux kernel email list??

2007-11-07 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I am trying to compile the 2.6.23.1 linux kernel and have ran into a brick wall. I know this isn't the list for it but was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of the appropriate list. I found the list at vger.kernel.org but that is for linux kernel developers and they prob

Re: "aptitude update" Problem

2007-10-17 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 21:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:09:50PM -0500, Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > > Hey, > > > > When I run this command; > > > > aptitude update > > > > I get the following output; > > >

"aptitude update" Problem

2007-10-16 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, When I run this command; aptitude update I get the following output; Hit ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny Release.gpg Get:1 ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny/main Translation-en_US Ign ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny/main Translation-en_US Get:2 ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny/con

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-15 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 14 September 2007 11:29, David A. Parker wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I ran 'chmod 755 test.php' on the file in question. Loaded this file with > > browser and got the very same results. Checked /var/log/apache2/error.log > > and no error. Checked /v

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-15 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 14 September 2007 11:43, Hans Hofker wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I installed apache like; > > > > aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 > > > > As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; > > > > Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-14 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 14 September 2007 02:26, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2007/9/13, Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:19, Jeff D wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > >

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:19, Jeff D wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I installed apache like; > > > > aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 > > > > As returned by apache2ctl, I am running;

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:39, Willi Mann wrote: > > > > PHP Test > > > > > > > > > > The browser outputs only; > > > > PHP Test > > It would ease helping you if you posted the Source the Browser gets, or > even better include the headers too. (Iceweasel can do that AFAIK, at > least wit

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 08:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2007/9/12, Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hey, > > > > I installed apache like; > > > > aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 > > > > As returned by apache2c

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 08:47, David A. Parker wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I installed apache like; > > > > aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 > > > > As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; > > > >

Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 I point my browser to; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file test.php contains this code; PHP Test The browser outp

LAMP Server setup help

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I have setup a test system on my home network in the past to develop & test PHP apps by installing an ISAPI PHP dll in IIS. It worked great but now I trying to setup a LAMP server on Debian/Lenny. I ran the following command; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 But got the f

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-22 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 11:08, ArcticFox wrote: > On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 16:04, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > >> Randy Patterson wrote:> > >> > >>> After running the above command, this

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-22 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 21:53, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 21:28 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php > > projects before going live. I have installed apache2, php5 and mysql > > using ap

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-22 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 16:04, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote:> > > > After running the above command, this is only item related to php that it > > lists; > > > > php5_module (shared) > > So it's installed... The only thi

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-21 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 14:34, Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 10:43, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > >> Randy Patterson wrote: > >>> I did run it as root and aptitude shows that apache2.2-common is &

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-21 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 10:43, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I did run it as root and aptitude shows that apache2.2-common is > > installed. But in all the tutorials that I've read none of them have > > mentioned having to run this prog

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-21 Thread Randy Patterson
On Monday 20 August 2007 23:13, Jeff D wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Monday 20 August 2007 22:27, Jeff D wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > >>> On Monday 20 August 2007 21:52, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Randy Patterson
On Monday 20 August 2007 22:27, Jeff D wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Monday 20 August 2007 21:52, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > >> Randy Patterson wrote: > >>> I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php >

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Randy Patterson
On Monday 20 August 2007 21:52, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php > > projects before going live. I have installed apache2, php5 and mysql > > using aptitude and apache and mysql se

Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Randy Patterson
I am trying to setup a local web server on my machine to test php projects before going live. I have installed apache2, php5 and mysql using aptitude and apache and mysql seem to be working fine. I try to load a test page in a browser; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file contain

Re: linux-kernel-headers

2007-06-08 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 08 June 2007 10:37, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:28:32 -0500 > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I am needing the linux kernel headers to compile software for a wireless > > driver that isn't suppor

Re: linux-kernel-headers

2007-06-08 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 08 June 2007 10:37, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:28:32 -0500 > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I am needing the linux kernel headers to compile software for a wireless > > driver that isn't suppor

linux-kernel-headers

2007-06-08 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I am needing the linux kernel headers to compile software for a wireless driver that isn't supported. I need to .deb file because this system isn't connected to the Internet but I can't seem to find the correct image. Currently I have; $uname -a Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 The only versio

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-06 Thread Randy Patterson
[Note:] I apologize for the slow response to Andrew's post. I have had a lot of things going on here that has required my attention. Those who take the time to help others deserve a response. On Friday 01 June 2007 17:49, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:35:24 -0500 &

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-02 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 02 June 2007 07:46, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 17:35:24 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I am in the process of trying to get a Linksys wireless network card up > > and running. I have downloaded the DriverLoader from Linuxant. The file I

Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Randy Patterson
I am in the process of trying to get a Linksys wireless network card up and running. I have downloaded the DriverLoader from Linuxant. The file I am using is 'driverloader_2.37_i386.deb'. When I try to install this package by "dpkg -i driverloader_2.37_i386.deb" I get the following error; No pr

Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]

2007-05-17 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 17 May 2007 08:42, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

2007-05-17 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 17 May 2007 09:06, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old > > one by changing etch references to lenny. > > > > My current s

etch to lenny upgrade

2007-05-17 Thread Randy Patterson
I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, "apt

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:54, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If your server side requirement is not limited to ftp, I would suggest > you investigate rsync [1] and unison-gtk [2]. These are special tools > for *synchronizing* files and directories across networks, while ftp is > focused on simply

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
Thanks so much for all the good input from everyone. I now have to go to work checking out some of the packages to see which is the best for my current needs. I have already install lftp and will try sitecopy as well. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: > [snip] > > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need > > a little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I > > use

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 13:39, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:36:40 -0500 > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related > > topics seems to produce

Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I am looking for a good FTP Client. Seaching for specific FTP related topics seems to produce more information than is manageable. I do a lot of web development and I am moving from Windoze to Debian and my previous FTP client doesn't have a Linux install. I didn't see anything like "Kftp"

XAMPP running on Debian Etch ??

2007-04-17 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I have used XAMPP for the backend of my PHP development on a Windoze system for some time. I am in the process of moving all my work over to Linux and have thought I would use XAMPP there as well but it's latest version only supports Linix 1.6. Has anyone tried using this on the latest st

Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba -> NTFS

2007-04-13 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 13 April 2007 13:35, Wackojacko wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2007 13:10, Wackojacko wrote: > >> Randy Patterson wrote: > >>> Hey, > >>> > >>> I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected t

Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba -> NTFS

2007-04-13 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 13 April 2007 13:10, Wackojacko wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb > > Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting > > through Samba. the permis

Deb 4.0 - Samba -> NTFS

2007-04-13 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting through Samba. the permissions on the share in the Win Box, an NTFS partition, is set to allow full control to my user login. I have mounted the networ

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-10 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 09:25, charlie derr wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 07:05, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > >> Also, please don't thread-hijack. > > > > I had another response about needing to start a new th

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-10 Thread Randy Patterson
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 07:05, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:35:29PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I am wanting to install Etch on a home PC with one NTFS partition. I have > > read alot about using Partition Magic and parted but was wondering now >

Re: Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
On Monday 09 April 2007 21:36, Alejandro Barcena Campos wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > Can the new Debian installer be used to > > resize the existing Windows partition? > > Yes, it takes a while though > I know that there is never any guarantees but is the p

Using Etch to resize NTFS partitions??

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
I am wanting to install Etch on a home PC with one NTFS partition. I have read alot about using Partition Magic and parted but was wondering now with the latest installer if that was needed. Can the new Debian installer be used to resize the existing Windows partition? If not, then is creating

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:06, Michael M. wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed > > Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading > > your p

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 10:49, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > The Gnome option doesn't appear under the "Session Type" option. I > > > > assume that I haven't installed all the packages needed for Gnome. > > > > What additional packages do I need? > > > > > > Maybe the gnome-session package? Try t

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 14:41, Michael M. wrote: > -- > Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA > "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions > of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to > dream." --S. Jackson Thanks for taking to time to pos

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice > > of which system to start or will I have to man

Re: Newbie = Networking Question?

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 06 April 2007 20:16, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 04/06/2007 05:20 PM, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have searched for a way to mount that directory to the local > > file systems and use it from there but can't seem to find > > exactly how to do that. I would lik

Newbie = Networking Question?

2007-04-06 Thread Randy Patterson
I have a Windows Adv Ser 2003 box with a shared NTFS partition on it that that I need access to. On my Debian/Etch box I can start Konqueror and look at my Samba Shares and see; smb://myserver/HostedSites I want Eclipse to see this and use it as a workspace but can't seem to find a way to do t

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > > Why Gn

Newbie Questions - Program dir?

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir structure so that all users will have access to them? Is there a 'right

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Wor

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
Oops! Sorry about that! Kmail gave me an error on the first send so I didn't think it was sent out. On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:33, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: &

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I

Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Randy Patterson
I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and was wondering if someone to point me to a good li