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From: "John Bruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:54 AM
Subject: Almost there!
> Hi,
>
> I have received help getting this far, but now am stuck.
>
> On my Mac IIfx, I can get to the configuration screen. I tell the
> installer which keyboard
If I recall correctly you can change the "exec gnome-session" to
"gnome-session &" and then add another line "exec enlightenment". This assumes
you have installed the enlightenment package. I am not sure if this is
currently the preferred window manager for GNOME, but it should work. YMMV.
- Jimmy
Phil Murphy wrote:
>
> I have recently installed Debian, (Yes, I DID it!) :) , and had my X
> session running fine. I was able to run GMC, from WindowMaker, but would
> prefer to start up Gnome automatically.
you probably would want to run gdm then (apt-get istall gdm). gdm will
allow you to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I was able to ping 130.207.7.21 as ftp.debian.org but when I run dselect,
> choose ftp access enter 130.207.7.21 as address, select anonymous login,
> the default directories and no proxies, I get the following:
>
> Using FTP to check directories. . .(stop with C)
>
>Checking dists/stable/main/binary-i386. . .FTP ERROR - Can't call method
Hey John. I just FTP'd to the server, and while I got in, and you have the
directories correct, I will say the server is agonizingly slow.
Of course, this results in many more debian users :)
Frederic Breitwieser
Bridgep
I was able to ping 130.207.7.21 as ftp.debian.org but when I run dselect,
choose ftp access enter 130.207.7.21 as address, select anonymous login,
the default directories and no proxies, I get the following:
Using FTP to check directories. . .(stop with C)
Connecting to 130.207.7.21. . .
Login as
Yup. It looks like you're almost there. It looks like your chat script is
waiting too long though because it's printing out the 'text' of the LCP
configure requests the
other end is sending. I'm guessing the other end is timing out. What's your
chat script look like?
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wro
John
You've probably had loads of people reply to this, but better two than
none. If you
have access to a win95 machine that works on the net (ie can 'ping
www.digital.com'
and can therefore resolve names) try Start>Run>winipcfg. Click the
'Advanced' button
and it'll tell you the address of your n
I'm not sure what type of firewall we have but, I was able to re login to
the IP address and execute the commands after I wrote the last E-Mail. I
assume I would just need to run dselect, choose ftp for access mode, enter
the IP address and then just accept the defaults for everything else. Is
this
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On 13-Aug-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> John sends:
>
> As you can see, I'm NOT very NET literate. Work uses WindowsNT and most of
> the info is restricted to Administrator access, which I don't have. I
> should be able to use the IP address you have given me t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/08/98 21:10:39
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
cc: John Gay/IE/3Com
Subject: RE: Almost there. . .HELP
Hi John,
> I have been trying to set-up a PC here at work without connecting to
> the
> NET( Boss won't let me :< ). After trying to copy
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On 13-Aug-98 Helge Hafting wrote:
> The nslookup command is available on most machines and
> os'es that connect to the internet. It could be
> missing on dos/windows though.
Just to add a bit of help, I've found that on a dos/windows machine, the
easiest way
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/12/98
at 09:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Not using the nameservers isn't hard - you simply type IP
addresses instead of names. Instead of www.debian.org you
type 209.81.8.242 for example. This works with
ftp and lots of other software.
The problem is of cour
Hi John,
> I have been trying to set-up a PC here at work without connecting to
> the
> NET( Boss won't let me :< ). After trying to copy the files from a
> Windows
> PC via a null-modem cable, I found I didn't have enough room on the
> hard
> drive for ALL the debian packages. I've decided to 'bo
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