Re: why debian

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:11:27 -0800 (PST), ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > should be the preferred choice? > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > I'm in

Re: possible to partition??

Assuming that win98 is on one partition which takes up your entire drive (which I assume you mean), you need a partitioning program which can resize partitions. AFAIK Partition Magic is the only one which will do this. On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:21:20PM -0700, S K wrote: > thanks a lot for all th

Help with mutt

Actually, I suppose this is more about emacs than mutt. I use emacs as my editor in mutt, and I've been trying to specify the mutt editor command so that emacs will start up in auto-fill text-mode. I've tried 'emacs -f text-mode -f auto-fill-mode', but the only way that works is if I can put the

Re: XF86Setup

Check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/compiled for the README file. If it's there, you can just copy it /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled. I believe this was reported as an error. On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:38:47PM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Debian users, > > When I originally configured X11 I dec

Re: Unidentified subject!

Unless explicitly told to do so using xhost, X does not allow anybody other than the person who started it to open windows on its desktop, not even root. I could never figure out the proper syntax for xhost, however, so I usually end up just using 'xhost +' which disables all access control and th

Re: Problem with modules_install

On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:57:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6 Jul 1998 20:32:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric) wrote: > > >You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is > >everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many > >problems with p

Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip. Login as root (or su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'. That should do it, you can check what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'. As for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them. _ _ | _