Re: how to make a boot disk??

2002-11-29 Thread vanillicat
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0800, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time > in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system > in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in > Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to d

Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?

2002-11-29 Thread vanillicat
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:48:13AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > P.S. Oops!! I must apologize to Karl I hit the "Reply" button instead of > the "Reply to list" button and by accident sent my reply to him personally. Do they have two buttons for these functions in Sylpheed now? -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Looking to switch to debian...

2002-11-10 Thread vanillicat
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:59:02PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > Big question here--NVidia drivers. Does Debian handle them well? I've installed them several times now, and have yet to run into any problems. Debian has nvidia package as well to track them, as mentioned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Wish us all luck...

2002-11-04 Thread vanillicat
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:02:23AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > XFree86 4.2 has moved to testing - should be okay, but this is where we > find out... Well, I upgraded last night, and things seemed fine, but I just came back to my computer to find it with a blank screen, and locked up hard. I had

Re: Problem with installation media

2002-10-20 Thread vanillicat
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:06:42AM -0500, Robert Ames wrote: > Hello, > I downloaded the stable release of Debian (Woody) via jigdo. I downloaded all 7 iso >images. Each time, it reported that the checksums were correct. > > When I went to install, I got the message from CD 1 that the file >/ins

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-02 Thread vanillicat
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:22:51 -0400 Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I refuse to believe this nonsense. What university is this, and what > public grant will pay for the illegal use of hardware? Even from a > purely practical point of view, XBox will not pay for itself as a > cluster component. >

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-02 Thread vanillicat
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:20:37 -0700 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Total curiosity here but why on Earth would you purchase 100 Xboxes to > run Linux? Weren't you complaining in the "Problem with Debian" > thread about giving money to Microsoft? > > Just curious. Since Microsoft

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
On 18 Sep 2002 13:51:56 -0400 "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should not need to do both. > > Defoma font management is a _replacement_ for the part of the > update-ms-fonts script that was commented out; that's why it was > commented out. Right, I understand that this is what is

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
Oops, I realize I forgot to mention that I didn't have defoma installed, so I used apt-get to install this, as well as x-ttcidfont-conf. I also added /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType and /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID to my FontPath as mentioned by x-ttcidfont-conf as

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
On 18 Sep 2002 10:05:09 -0500 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, this bug explains the problem in more detail: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes Thanks so much for linking to this. I got panicky when none of my programs were working, and I

Re: network configuration problem

2002-06-28 Thread vanillicat
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 02:49, Lars Jensen wrote: > Also, how do I change my host name. I believe hostname is stored /etc/hostname -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

making an emergency rescue floppy

2002-06-27 Thread vanillicat
Hello list, I'm trying to make an emergency rescue floppy that will be capable of booting my system in the event something happens when booting from the MBR. The idea is to get the same floppy that the installer asks if you want to create during the installation, as an alternate way of booting in

Re: hello?

2002-06-02 Thread vanillicat
> Does this list work? I receive it via news and now through email, but it seems spotty. Messages are missing, including my own request for help with Abiword. > > Just a simple ACK would be appreciated, thanks. Hi Jim, Just a note that this message of yours got through. Also, your query regardin