Dialup to DSL

2000-01-01 Thread Tom Malloy
In a view days I will be switching from a dialup system to dsl. What changes and additions do I need to make to my debian system? Thanks

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Tom Malloy
I have not followed every detail of this tread, but I think there may be some confusion here about low level and High level formating. Putting a file system on a disk is the same thing as high level formating. I have created ext2 file systems on a zip drive. The command (if memory serves) was "m

Re: configuring my kernel

1998-09-20 Thread Tom Malloy
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > If you can't find any information about your NIC, and you can't get any > of the modules to work with it, I think you're screwed. Is it > impossible to replace the NIC? > > -- I am doing a fresh install on the new machines. The ethernet howto does tell me wh

configuring my kernel

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Malloy
Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the kernel? Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc link 27247-60001 Any help is appreciated. Thanks T

Hardware reference

1998-09-18 Thread Tom Malloy
A friends company just gave me three old 486s in exchange for my helping them with their mail server and firewall. Anyway they each have network cards, so I want to set up a small network in my apartment. They are HP Ethertwist PC link 16 #27247-60001 I can not find any reference to them at HP'

Re: [Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: > > What driver are you using? > xserver-svga 3.3.2.3a-1

[Fwd: colors in xwindows]

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
This has not appeared in five hours, so I am resending it Tom Malloy wrote: > > Many of my applications say that they are unable to allocate colors in > xwindows. This includes xcolorsel. Yet many apps do have color and I > have used this hardware before without difficulty. So what

colors in xwindows

1998-09-15 Thread Tom Malloy
Many of my applications say that they are unable to allocate colors in xwindows. This includes xcolorsel. Yet many apps do have color and I have used this hardware before without difficulty. So what should I be looking at to fix this problem? Thank you Tom

Re: First time Linux user.

1998-08-11 Thread Tom Malloy
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, GamerZ wrote: > 1) Where would be a good site for information regarding Linux, perhaps a > site maintained by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds. > 2) Where would be a good place to get information regarding the use of > Linux. (As I have yet to find the equivalent to the DO

fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Tom Malloy
I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There are several, prethis.hook postthat.hook etc. Some hooks are links to null files.

window manager cofiguration

1998-07-13 Thread Tom Malloy
Some window managers require you to have a mouse in a window for it to be active. Others allow you to click the mouse in the window and it stays active even if you move the mouse away. This is probably adjustable in the configuration files for each window manager. What is this feature called and

Re: working minicom - gets stuck on initielizing modem

1998-07-05 Thread Tom Malloy
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as > root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root. > Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem. > The same modem works when i start it from win95 > __

Re: xkoules locked my system

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Malloy
. Figured it couldn't hurt anything. Thanks for your help Tom On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: > > > AMD 586 133, 64mg, 100mg swap. I don't see any system messages regarding > > this crash. Thanks for your help &g

Re: xkoules locked my system

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Malloy
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This sounds bad. What version of koules are you running? What state is your > system (Debian 1.3, 2.0 or what). What Xserver do you use? Koules version 1.3-2 Debian 1.3.1 XF86_SVGA AMD 586 133, 64mg, 100mg swap. I don't see any system messages rega

xkoules locked my system

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Malloy
I just tried to play a game I have on my system, which is part of the distribution, called xkoules. I had never used it before. While some text was scrolling in the game window I clicked my mouse on it. My system just froze. I had a blank screen. I could not exit X with ctrl-alt-backspace. I

smtp error

1998-06-09 Thread Tom Malloy
If fetchmail say I have a smtp transfer error, where should I look to figure out what that means and how to fix it? Is that a fetchmail or smail problem or something else. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: inode+superblock?

1998-06-06 Thread Tom Malloy
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: > What exactly is an inode and a superblock? Thanks. An inode ( eye-node) is a datastructure on the disk the describes and stores a files attributes, including its location. Aeleen Frisch Essential system administration

notebook install problem

1998-06-06 Thread Tom Malloy
I am trying to install debian on a refurbished compaqu LTE lite 4/33 The following error appears when I am booting off my rescue disk "hda: unexpected_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError} hda: unexpected_intr status=0x01 {Error} Does this mean the drive is bad or is there a work around? I looked

Installing the official CD

1997-09-04 Thread Tom Malloy
I have 3.1 installed from floppys. There were some problems with some of the packages I tried to install. Most of these were caused by modem errors I think. It was certainly a mistake to try to install so many packages simultaniously. Anyway I decided to order the 3.1.1 cd and work from there.