Using both CDROM and Apt-get

2002-06-10 Thread Willy S
hi, I have installed woody from 7 CDROM images, since the image are quite old. It was made on 2001. So I decided to use dselect to update my woody to the current one from the nearest server. What happen if I decide to use my CDROM again, that means the apt source-list will be replaced with CDRO

Can not boot to Linux

2002-05-22 Thread Willy S
hi, Yesterday night when I was running 'updatedb', my HD suddenly produce a strange sound 'scrit... scrit...' It is like when a HD reading something, but this time the sound is much more longer. So I thought something is wrong, and I cancel the job by using CTRL-C. After that, I try to copy a file

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Willy S
* Peter Hicks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just put this in your .bashrc file > > XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority > > export XAUTHORITY Thanks for the help. It has solved my problem. Actually I expect to have a nice and clean solution like yours, but turns out there are so many solutions for my prob

how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-20 Thread Willy S
hi, How come root can not run a graphical program under other user session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will produce this message: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Everything fine if I run a console program

old Woody ISO

2002-05-15 Thread Willy S
Hi, I just ordered Woody CDs, there are 7 of them. It is dated 9 Sept 2001, so its quite old. Is there are a way to check the difference between the ISO at that time to the latest one? I need to know what package do I miss. One think for sure, there is no Galeon in my CDs. And when I search it th