xterm cannot execute xterm (fwd)

2000-07-04 Thread Roy John Little
Dear list, I am resubmitting my question. Anyone have any ideas? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:58:42 -0400 (GMT) From: Roy John Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: xterm cannot execute xterm Dear list: While upgrading m

xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Roy John Little
Dear list: While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the originals using dselect. When I realized that my whole x-windows system was being uninstalled, I did a ^C. What I notice now is that xterm, the window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xter

this is an unsecure session

2000-06-16 Thread Roy John Little
Dear list: I have just upgraded from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 by way of apt-get upgrade-dist, and all was upgraded successfully, as far as I could tell. I decided to reinitiate the session. The login prompt with the banner background appeared, with the disturbing difference that, instead of saying "Debi

fdisk switching between w98 and Linux

1999-07-06 Thread Roy John Little
Dear John: Thanks for the reply. It would seem indeed that you have had some unfortunate experiences with windows. I too am in the process of weaning myself from windows, but as I noted before, there are still too many programs that have not made the transition to the linux environment. I

fdisk switching between w98 & Linux

1999-06-29 Thread Roy John Little
For about the past two months I have been using Debian Linux, version 2.1, which has been sharing my hard disk with a previously installed w98. My computer is at home and is not connected to the internet. I have been switching between the os's by setting and unsetting the active partition flag wit