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: 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

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
/etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

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 there, can't find it on Debian. >