PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....

Hello, I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds of boot-up errors I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit

Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

Hello all, I just tried to compile 2.2.1 kernel and ran into a problem Following the directions in /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.Readme, I installed the source .deb, make menuconfig, make-kpkg clean, then make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image... this took a long time (about 30

Netscape .deb packages?

Hello all - I just did a fresh install of slink on my machine, and now want to slap netscape on there for web-browsing and e-mail My question is which of the seemingly dozens of Netscape packages do I need to install? Thanks!

xdm under slink: no "/etc/X11/config" file???

Hello all, I just totally wiped out my hamm system and did a fresh install of slink (long story... and I must say the installation did not go as smoothly as a hamm installation, especially X...) anyway, I used dselect to download and intall "xdm"... it came up and running, but with 2 problems:

??? upgrade to slink - recompile kernal now ???

Hello all, I'm getting ready to upgrade from hamm to slink... (standard packages, etc) Do I need to recompile the kernal or anything like that... Make a new boot disk (how?)? What about LILO? What about those "obsolete packages" - veto them or keep them? Any other suggestions, comments? Than

??? how to TOTALLY remove KDE ???

Hey there everybody, After using KDE for a while, I've decided to ditch it and try Gnome... my question is - How do I remove it so that EVERYTHING is gone? This is my second attempt at running debian (had it running earlier this year with KDE... when I tried to remove KDE via dselect, it didn'

KDE 1.0.....

Is KDE 1.0 available anywhere in *.deb format - does anyone know if debian is going to continue releasing KDE? I have the "old" KDE installed, and it's a little buggy - if debian is vetoing them, maybe I should think about switching to Gnome? But is that anywhere near ready for prime-time? Th

??? a couple more CD-player questions ???

I have a soundblaster awe64 (PnP) w/ a PnP BIOS... I finally got access to the cd player (by adding myself to the audio and disk groups - thanks!)... I also installed the awe-drv package... then I ran gomconfig, where I was told by the computer that there is no mixer support for the device...

??? seeing color (bpp) mode while in X ???

Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these annoying vertical "lines" of sketchiness on t

??? playing cd's in cdplayer ???

Hello everybody, I just got my cdrom setup by modifying my fstab file (thanks for the help!) so that it is user-mountable... Now I can mount it and read a data-type cd... However, when I try to mount it when an audio cd is in, it says it's not a proper filesystem (which I guess it's not...) bu

??? XF86Setup while running X ???

Howdy everybody, I'm trying to tweak my X setup by running XF86Setup while in X... However, I get the message: xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server couldn't connect to display ":0.0" I also tried running as su root same thing. Any

??? Problem with KDE's KFM...

Hello everybody I'm using hamm with KDE, and occasionally, when using the KFM as a web-browser, it just suddenly "disappears" when this happens, the system will not let me start up another KFM (nothing happens when I try to start a new one..) until I log out and log back in Is this

???current directory in prompt in bash???

Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the prompt of bash? Actually, let me re-phrase that my "root" account DOES include the current directory in the the prompt, but I have no idea why or how... I've tried to copy my root's .bash_profile to my "regular-user's" .bash_p

Accidental power-out / LILO / mount @ boot?

Howdy all - I'm a relatively new user... When running X (KDE) as root (I was configuring KDM), our power went out for a second, causing the computer to reboot... as it was rebooting, the power went out again... anyway, now when I type "finger", I get a little table similar to this: user: Tty:

gunzip - invalid compressed data?

Hello all, I just downloaded the 38MB file of the Wordperfect 8.0 prerelease... I followed the directions given at the ftp site, namely: 1. download linuxgui8.tar.gz and then unzip the file (gunzip filename.tar.gz) 2. untar the file (tar -xvf filename.tar) 3. execute the Runme file to start

kde setup...

(which I can't find anywhere). It also mentioned that I would need to edit the ".xinitrc" file and replace the window manager with the kde setup program... - where is .xinitrc? I have found xinitrc (w/o .) - is this the same file? Thanks in advance! Rich Hartman -- To U

after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

Hello everyone: After many trials and tribulations, I have finally upgraded to hamm... First, I installed Debian 1.3 from CD, then immediately wrote my ppp script required to login to my server - worked great. Immediately upgraded to latest stable version, THEN immediately upgraded to hamm usi

problem w/ upgrade to hamm (+ mach64 x server....)

Hello all... I'm relatively new to the whole linux thing, but I've been running debian 1.3.1 for about 1 month now with no problems, EXCEPT that I haven't been able to get X running smoothly with my ATI 3d rage II +DVD video card... could only get 640x400 with very lame picture quality. I trie