Re: installation

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:41, Mike Stickney wrote: > I am unable to install Debian Linux 2.2. The system recognizes the CD, > proceeds to installation of the operating system and then decides that the CD > cannot be mounted despite the fact that it has already been using it. > The instructions

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

usings (one 5 1/4 and one 3 1/2). CD-RW and a 60GB drive in them and they work fantastic on both USB and Firewire. Makes up for the dvd/cdrw in the vaio docking station not working in linux. Uber nice to have 100GB of storage on a laptop ;-) -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUB

Re: Procmail setup

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 11:10, Ryan J Goss wrote: > I recently joined this mailing list and enjoy the good discussions, but I > am trying to figure out how to set up procmail so that all debian related > messages get forwarded to a debian folder and not into my inbox. I don't > know what I am doing

Re: Procmail question

stdin) :0 ahfw: | formail -i"Content-Type: text/plain" } You need lynx installed, but that works for me -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile: +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B

Re: can't KILL tty

> > skill NOHUP tty2 > > skill HUP tty2 > > > > lance > > kill -9 > Useless without the pid - which judging by the examples - the OP didn't have. Try fuser -9 -k /dev/tty2, that will kill all processes using tty2 HTH Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Quake III

* This one time, at band camp, ben said: > On Friday 25 January 2002 03:07 pm, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. > > > > Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience > > running anything under wine? I

Re: bash woes

* This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Matthews said: > Ok - can someone explain the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc > rm: cannot remove `abc': No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rm abc 2>err > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat err > rm: canno

Re: where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig

* This one time, at band camp, Kurt Lieber said: > I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.17 kernel with ieee 1394 support. Only > problem is I can't the kernel options to enable it using menuconfig. It used > to be (IIRC) a top level option, right under the SCSI option. > > I verified the 2.4.17 deb

Re: ssh and X

* This one time, at band camp, Kerstin Hoef-Emden said: > > On 26 Dec 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > > > > Ssh tunnels X, if you start it with option -X (at least under potato). > > > > I did slogin -X localhost, but the X programms I start hang (without > > any output on the console). > > You've g

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

* This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson said: > > Try using a local mirror. > > http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors > Can I also suggest looking at 'netselect-apt' (package netselect and only in woody+ IIRC) If you change to /etc/apt, backup sources.list, then try 'netselect-apt [uns

Re: mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups

* This one time, at band camp, Greg Fischer said: > Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? > I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: > Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look: > > http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_

Re: Exim problem

* This one time, at band camp, Agics Balazs said: > Hi all, > > I want to compile exom 3.33 on my Debian (Woddy) box, but it fails. The > message is: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb > collect 2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [exim_dmbuild] Error 1 > > Please help me! > I would su

Re: Non-interactive password check

* This one time, at band camp, Nick Hastings said: > > Hi, > > * Alexander Steinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011128 18:36]: > > > > Do you know any way to make ssh less interactive? > > > > Look at the man pages for ssh-agent and ssh-add. > ssh-agent/add will not accomplish what the Alexander wa

Re: Can't compile VIM

* This one time, at band camp, Dale Morris said: > I'm using potato with all recent upgrades and security fixes. I'm trying > to compile vim 6.0av and I receive the following error message when I > run make: > objects/os_unix.o: In function `mch_set_shellsize': > objects/os_unix.o(.text+0x1b4c): un

Re: Newbie error

* This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Pad? said: > Hi, > > by mistake (I am tired?), I just did something very stupid: > > > rm /dev/hda3 > > It worked. > Now I cannot access that partition any more. > How can I bring it back? > Ooops - thats not good! try 'mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3; chown