Re: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-26 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, fixed it. just put the following line in sources.list: deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable/pre xfree86 The trick was putting the slash between stable and pre. Without that apt was looking at the 4.2 version of xfree86 Regds, Sanjay This email may contain confidential or privile

Re: du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:55:19 +0100, Rico -mc- Gloeckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Such Questions shouldnt be directed to mailinglists, though. You > > > might have a faster response if you'd as

Re: du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Such Questions shouldnt be directed to mailinglists, though. You > > might have a faster response if you'd ask on the specific Mailinglist > > ..which specific Mailinglist??? http://www.backports.org tells ya. :) (You might use

Re: du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:37:00 +0100, Rico -mc- Gloeckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:35:26AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..mirroring all of backports.org/debian/ , how much disk space > > do I need? > > A 'du -k' on the HTML Directo

Re: du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:35:26AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > #deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody xfree86 Oh. Norbert just pointed out that this Line must actually read: deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody pre/xfree86 -- Rico -mc- Gloeckner | 1024D/61F05B8C | jabber:[E

Re: du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:35:26AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..mirroring all of backports.org/debian/ , how much disk space > do I need? A 'du -k' on the HTML Directory of bpo shows that it is using about 2.2 GB. Such Questions shouldnt be directed to mailinglists, though. You might have a

du -sh backports mirrors?, was: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 23 Jan 2004 09:39:58 -0500, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 02:54, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to upgrade my x and the packages are available at: > > > > > > http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody

Re: Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-23 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 02:54, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade my x and the packages are available at: > > > http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/pre/xfree86/ > > How do I specify the above in sources.list? > #deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody xfree86

Debian newbie: question on apt-get and sources.list

2004-01-23 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, I am trying to upgrade my x and the packages are available at: http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/pre/xfree86/ How do I specify the above in sources.list? I have read the manual and tried it out, but I am confused. It either doesnt work or doesnt work the way I want. Thanks, Sanj

Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-29 Thread Kent West
Alberto Tobias wrote: /etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt Thanks for the tip! However, it does noet appear to solve my issue. After reboot I still need to manually bring up th

Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-29 Thread Alberto Tobias
- Original Message - From: "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Alberto Tobias'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:36 PM Subject: RE: Debian Newbie Question on Networ

Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Alberto Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html ObFormatting: please set your mailer to send plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. > I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I > can get it up and running ok

RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config Hi, I relatively new to LInux. The last couple of months I have been dabbling with some distributions, but right now I am staying with Debian. I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running

Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Alberto Tobias
Hi,   I relatively new to LInux. The last couple of months I have been dabbling with some distributions, but right now I am staying with Debian.   I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok, using the tulip drivers from scyld.org. I can

Re: "label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Wardle
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:55 am, Jeff Hahn wrote: > I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging > scsi and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. > > I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was something > like "Special device LABE

Re: "label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Schouten
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:55:14PM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: > Woody/testing... > > I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging scsi > and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. > > I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was

"label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Hahn
Woody/testing... I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging scsi and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was something like "Special device LABEL=usr not found" Any special Debia

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:19:39AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: > > > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > >I haven't used it, but judging from the package description, 'no'. > > That's the conclusion I came to as well. I don't see anything in > particular using the lightweight resolver,

RE: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Hahn
> From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >I haven't used it, but judging from the package description, 'no'. That's the conclusion I came to as well. I don't see anything in particular using the lightweight resolver, but if it wants to, I added: lwres { }; to the /etc/bind/named.co

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:43:01AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: > I need to run named (this 'puter is secondary for a few zones) > > Do I still need to run lwresd? > > Or do I enable the lwresd functionality in named conf? > > I don't have a clue what libraries or applications use the lightweight >

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jeff Hahn wrote: > I need to run named (this 'puter is secondary for a few zones) > > Do I still need to run lwresd? Not if you have bind9 installed. lwresd appears (from its description) to be a stripped down version of bind9. Also, bind9 depends on liblwres1, so we can infer

lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-06 Thread Jeff Hahn
I need to run named (this 'puter is secondary for a few zones) Do I still need to run lwresd? Or do I enable the lwresd functionality in named conf? I don't have a clue what libraries or applications use the lightweight resolver libraries... Any help would be greatly appreciated! -Jeff --

Re: Debian newbie question

1999-08-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Aug, Ari Sigurðsson wrote about "Debian newbie question" > hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. > > Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, > I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was > somethin called smbmount

Debian newbie question

1999-08-27 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian. Thanks in advance for all help Ari Sigurðsson