Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:17:31 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/20/07 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a > > new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > > p

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a > new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I > thought Etch was fast b

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: >> For better performance (mainly copying from the CD to the DVD or vice >> versa) IMO you're better off using the CD to the slave of the HD. >> >> Joe > Wouldn't that tend to cause problems when when writing data from HDD to > CD and also a

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a new computer >> last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old >> machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3.This >> however is jus

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread strawks
On mar, 2007-02-20 at 19:15 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch - > I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought > Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3. > > Th

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a new computer > last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old > machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Bruno Buys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch - I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3. This however is just the lead in to a questi

New box

2007-02-20 Thread fmccormick
I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch  -I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3.This however is just the lead in to a question I am hoping the gurus here

Can't get DHCP working with potato on new box.

2002-03-29 Thread Stephen W. Juranich
I've been running sid for the past couple of years with no hitch. I just bought a new machine last week. I connect to the internet via AT&T cable which uses dhcp (and in my area, it is DEFINITELY dynamic, no futzing around with the lets-pretend-its-static kludge is possible here). My problem is

Re: installing Woody on new box - best way to go about it?

2001-12-21 Thread Aaron Traas
Rachel Andrew wrote: > I have a CD with Potato on it, given that I am on a single band ISDN > dial-up here am I best to install Potato and upgrade or is there > somewhere I can download a CD image of Woody? (If so I could get my > other half to download that at work on their DSL) Most of the Woo

installing Woody on new box - best way to go about it?

2001-12-21 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi I'm looking forward to being able to play with the new box I am getting for Christmas. Its for a dedicated Debian installation and I'll be also running KDE on it. At the moment I have a P133 with is running Debian (Woody) upgraded from Potato with KDE pulled from Sid. Question

Re: Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread Adahma Ashirah
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Simon Law wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Adahma Ashirah wrote: > > > and can't find any problems. Can anyone give me a list of ANY file that > > might effect this process? I've tried for 2 days now, and I'm at wits > > end. > > > Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Make sure yo

Re: Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread rich
On Sunday 07 October 2001 17:17, Adahma Ashirah wrote: > I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked > fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal > network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolve

Re: Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread Simon Law
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Adahma Ashirah wrote: > I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked > fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal > network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. > I'

Re: Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread Kent West
Adahma Ashirah wrote: I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. I've been through all my files that I

Not Resolving on new box

2001-10-07 Thread Adahma Ashirah
I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. I've been through all my files that I know to be involved in this pr

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Frederik" == Frederik Vanrenterghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frederik> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: >> I assume you have got potato-CDs? Then just install potato and change >> your sources.list to the new paths (s/stable/unstable) and apt-get >> dist-upgrad

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Scott Patterson
>I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V >motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. >On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to >Woody. As I've found some unofficial debian Woody CD images, I'

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > I assume you have got potato-CDs? Then just install potato and change > your sources.list to the new paths (s/stable/unstable) and apt-get > dist-upgrade. I would prefer not going through Potato, if possible (my Potato CD image was burned while potato

Re: Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:58PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V > motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. > On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to &g

Installing Woody on new box

2000-11-28 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard. On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to Woody. As I've found some unofficial debian Woody CD images, I'd rather go t

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
vice quite a few times, and even tried it | once | or twice myself without much luck... | | What on earth are you supposed to do after --set-selections? dpkg --get-selections will write package database info to standard out. you will have to do dpkg --get-selections > nice_file on the old bo

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg > --set-selections' on the new one. I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself without muc

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
t; >Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I have installed now >over to the new box ? .. so that when i run dselect on the new box .. all >the packages that i now have will be selected .. and it will just start >downloading and installing them etc. You'll want to

Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
I have installed now over to the new box ? .. so that when i run dselect on the new box .. all the packages that i now have will be selected .. and it will just start downloading and installing them etc. Im going to just use loadlin / deb install from dos partition method to install deb on the new