Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
—Racecar backwards is racecar, racecar upside down is expensive— —My wife can type tesseradecades while drinking a cup of tea— On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 15:38:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > >

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > >> I could find what I wanted at: > >> > >> http://k

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me >> I could find what I wanted at: >> >> http://kbdlayout.info/ > > That's for Windows, isn't it. Yes, but at the end of the

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 10:25:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > My point about the mapping of unicode → keys depressed² seems to > have been missed. On this keyboard, I can type ø by > . holding AltGr and typing o > . typing CapsLock / o > . typing CapsLock o / Ah, Compose on CapsLock. Gre

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > I could find what I wanted at: > > http://kbdlayout.info/ That's for Windows, isn't it. > and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` Yes, as it says, this w

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
It occurred to me that my use of the term "mapping" may have been a little confusing. I used it in general and as part of my corpora research I am moving away from UTF-8. That is all I am doing. lbrtchx

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/2/21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > you're starting from some MASSIVELY incorrect assumptions, > but up until now, correcting all the background noise was never > important, because you were just poking around out of curiosity. Or so > we thought. I don't understand why "we" think "I was just pok

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 02:24:20AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > From your examples you included I will only need yielded glyphs if > they are commonly used in a language. Now, defining "commonly used" > would be an entirely different, yet valid question. > > I will have to code my way throug

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me I could find what I wanted at: http://kbdlayout.info/ and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` > There's no such table: it cannot exist. Which unicode number would you > assign to CapsLock, or RightShift. There are several

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:46:01 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz > ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file > or directory > $ > > Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? > ~ No idea. That was

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Given the baseline option a user chooses as "language" during > installation, the codes sent by the keyboard should be interpreted. > There should be files with the associations of (unicode) numbers and > keys on a keyboard. I d

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file or directory $ Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? ~ $ file /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc: ASCII text

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 01:59:41 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number <-> > gliph for each language. > From where can I get them? I'm not quite sure I can reconcile your subject line and text. For the body text, you could look at a site li

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Will Mengarini
* Albretch Mueller [21-07/01=Th 01:59 -0400]: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number > <-> glyph for each language. From where can I get them? Does have what you want? If not, try `locate kmap`.

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-26 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 22, 2014 1:50:02 AM UTC+5:30, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 21-09-14 14:33, lee schreef: > > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remot

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/21 21:52 "lee" : > > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be avoide

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "lee" > > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce,

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Joe" > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:33:53 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > > > I would like to be able to let a user work remo

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-22 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "lee" > > John Hasler writes: > > > lee writes: > >> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > >> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > > >> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 21-09-14 14:33, lee schreef: > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread lee
John Hasler writes: > lee writes: >> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server >> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > >> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session >> (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be a

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be avoided gnome > --- KDE only c

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread Joe
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:33:53 +0200 lee wrote: > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce

Re: Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards (fwd)

2014-06-05 Thread Bret Busby
> -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 06:03:30 > From: Testosticore > To: Scott Ferguson , > debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards > Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:21:09 + (UTC) >

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/05/14 17:12, Filip wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:55:43 +1000 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> Which release? >> >> pciutils 1:3.1.9-6 >> > > Debian Jessie, pciutils 1:3.1.9-6. > > HP hardware. > It all depends on the hardware ... Sort of. The hardware populates /proc/bus/pci, but /u

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-13 Thread Filip
On Tue, 13 May 2014 16:55:43 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > >> Why? > >> > >> Why when searching for "audio" would you need case-insensitive?? > >> > >> Multimedia *audio* controller > >> > >> > >> An extra three keystrokes for no gain. Extra noise, no signal. > >> > > > > $ lspci |grep audio

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/05/14 16:16, Filip wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 13:55:04 +1000 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >>> >>> $ lspci | grep audio >>> >>> Use instead: >>> >>> $ lspci | grep -i audio >> >> Why? >> >> Why when searching for "audio" would you need case-insensitive?? >> >> Multimedia *audio* controller

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-12 Thread Filip
On Tue, 13 May 2014 13:55:04 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > $ lspci | grep audio > > > > Use instead: > > > > $ lspci | grep -i audio > > Why? > > Why when searching for "audio" would you need case-insensitive?? > > Multimedia *audio* controller > > > An extra three keystrokes for n

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/05/14 08:03, Testosticore wrote: > If this doesn't work: Please don't top post. Interleaved posting is the polite protocol for this list. > > $ lspci | grep audio > > Use instead: > > $ lspci | grep -i audio Why? Why when searching for "audio" would you need case-insensitive?? Multim

Re: Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-12 Thread Testosticore
If this doesn't work: $ lspci | grep audio Use instead: $ lspci | grep -i audio On Sunday, 11 May, 2014 03:06 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 11/05/14 16:53, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version onto a laptop computer. However, the sou

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 11/05/14 08:53, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version onto a laptop computer. However, the sound does not work. In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel something soundcard t

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:53:06 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > > I am therefore wondering whether, somewhere, packages exist (.deb > packages, that make installation relatively easy for those of us not > skilled "in the black arts"), for the hardware drivers that may be on > the firmware ISO's

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 05/11/2014 09:53 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version > onto a laptop computer. > > However, the sound does not work. > > In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek > soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/14 16:53, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version > onto a laptop computer. > > However, the sound does not work. Ouch. But easily fixed. > > In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek > soundcard (

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: > >>Hi there!! > >> > >>I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > >>at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
BTW, sorry for double mailing but I also think it's worth mentioning that nowadays its just Debian. It has other kernels available, such as hurd and kfreebsd. One thing is debian e a total different thing is Linux. -- I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is f

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Machtelt Garrels wrote a terrific introductory guide in its simplicity. http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/intro-linux.html IMHO, it's impossible to have a "perfect guide" or best in some universal sense. Similar to what happens with software, our knowledge grows with gaps and it's up to us wh

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Alexander
If you are looking for some more targeted but generic tutorials: The Geek Stuff: http://www.thegeekstuff.com nixcraft: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ HowtoGeek: http://www.howtogeek.com Howto Forge: http://www.howtoforge.com There is a wealth of information on those sites about Linux, other *nixes

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 06 June 2013 19:10:24 Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:11 +0300, atar wrote: > > I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux at > > general and especially about Debian > > The Debian Handbook may be useful. It's available on a running Debian > system by ins

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 14:11 +0300, atar wrote: > I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux at > general and especially about Debian The Debian Handbook may be useful. It's available on a running Debian system by installing the 'debian-handbook' package, or online as a f

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Sean Alexandre
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:11:21PM +0300, atar wrote: > I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > at general and especially about Debian Linode's got some great tutorials: https://library.linode.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 06 June 2013 14:11:45 Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: > >> Hi there!! > >> > >> I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > >> at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics > >> such

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Kailash
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:11:45 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: > >> Hi there!! > >> > >> I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > >> at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics > >> s

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: Hi there!! I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics such as the system boot process, what are tty's? and where are located the scripts that

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: > Hi there!! > > I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics > such as the system boot process, what are tty's? and where are > located the scripts that the system r

Re: Debian-Linux ally of workstations

2013-05-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Teemu: Thanks for the most useful information. To make the story short, could you point out - from the huge assembly you likked to - a specific device that incorporates a monitor sufficiently wide and well resolved to read papers from scientific journals? And listen to discussions. In current t

Re: Debian-Linux ally of workstations

2013-05-02 Thread Teemu Ikonen
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I was looking for some sort of i-device that could allow whifi, directed > to reading-downloading literature and be capable of talking - via ssh/scp - > with my workstations on a local network (not necessarily wireless). You are probably

Re: Debian-Linux ally of workstations

2013-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 mai 13, 08:38:51, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I was looking for some sort of i-device that could allow whifi, directed to > reading-downloading literature and be capable of talking - via ssh/scp - > with my workstations on a local network (not necessarily wireless). Not sure what you mean

RE: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: go...@dobosevic.com [mailto:go...@dobosevic.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:40 PM > > > > FWIW, unetbootin did not work for me when I tried a few months ago > with > > Lenny Stable; the boot files for unetbootin had version issues with > the > > Lenny Stable release iso's I downlo

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Tebbit
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DO

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
FWIW, unetbootin did not work for me when I tried a few months ago with Lenny Stable; the boot files for unetbootin had version issues with the Lenny Stable release iso's I downloaded.� The Debian Installation Manual instructions, however, worked perfectly (I had posted an email thread not

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
> Hi, > you can use UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and he will do > everything for you. Just choose Debian-stable version and he will download > and put on your USB. > > -- > Bye, > Goran Dobosevic > Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com > English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ FWIW, unetbootin d

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/09 08:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Ha

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > >> I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it t

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich writes: > rand...@songshu.org wrote: >> most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man >> pages. >> admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser. > > Konqueror will display the local man pages when you enter "man:rtfm" in > the location bar

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through >> less with 'man whatever|less', which lets me get rid of the annoying

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:30:30PM +0100, Muzer wrote: > KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to > man:/[()] > (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) Try using w3mman as your man program. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is h

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through > less with 'man whatever|less', which lets me get rid of the annoying > text at the bottom, and replacing it with a ':' which I'm more used to > from vi/vim. Isn

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a1d6a99.9040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Barclay, Daniel wrote: Muzer wrote: KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to man:/[()] (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument)

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a1d6a99.9040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Muzer wrote: >>> KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to >>> man:/[()] >>> (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) >> Which part of KDE is that? (W

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Muzer wrote: >> KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to >> man:/[()] >> (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) > > Which part of KDE is that? (What is KDE's file/etc. browser?) konqueror Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Muzer wrote: > KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to > man:/[()] > (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) Which part of KDE is that? (What is KDE's file/etc. browser?) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 16:39, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 05/27/09 11:54, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 05/27/09 10:20, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: rand...@songshu.org wrote: > most new users don't now the existence of the automa

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 11:54, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> >> On 05/27/09 10:20, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> rand...@songshu.org wrote: most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man pages. admit

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
rand...@songshu.org wrote: And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g. http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync' with your system. http://manpages.debian.net/ is pretty much in sync i guess. th

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread randall
And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g. http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync' with your system. http://manpages.debian.net/ is pretty much in sync i guess. the only "problem with that s

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:19:17AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: [..] > >> It seems that there are many new users who prefer to read their man > >> pages with their web browser. That's why they are online (and can be > >> found with google). > > most new users don't now the existence of the automat

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 10:20, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > rand...@songshu.org wrote: >> most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man >> pages. >> admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser. > > Konqueror will display the

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rand...@songshu.org wrote: > most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man > pages. > admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser. Konqueror will display the local man pages when you enter "man:rtfm" in the location bar (provided you have funny-manpages insta

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
; Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna > Subject: Re: Debian Linux > > rand...@songshu.org wrote: >> http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&l=1 >> >> love that one, >> >> but there seems to be another program already for this >> http://manpages.songshu.org/manp

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread randall
- Original Message - From: "Johannes Wiedersich" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:02:54 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Debian Linux rand...@songshu.org wrote: > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rand...@songshu.org wrote: > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&l=1 > > love that one, > > but there seems to be another program already for this > http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/rtfm.1fun.html In fact both are the same 'program'. You could install that man page with 'aptitude

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
; Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna > Subject: Re: Debian Linux > > Harry Rickards wrote: >> Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you >> to the appropriate manual page. :D > > Try that for a start > > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread randall
- Original Message - From: "Johannes Wiedersich" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:28:24 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Debian Linux Harry Rickards wrote: > Someone definitely needs to ma

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Harry Rickards wrote: > Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you > to the appropriate manual page. :D Try that for a start http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&l=1 8-) Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread JoeHill
Daryl Styrk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Martyn Dowling wrote: > > > > Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP > > Proliant DL360 G5 server? > > > I can resist. > http://tinyurl.com/ort4zu

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/26/09 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Martyn Dowling wrote: >>> Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a H

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> From: Raffaele Morelli [mailto:raffaele.more...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:37 AM >> Subject: Re: Debian Linux > >>> 2009/5/26 Martyn Dowling >>> >>> Hi

RE: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>From: Raffaele Morelli [mailto:raffaele.more...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:37 AM >Subject: Re: Debian Linux >>2009/5/26 Martyn Dowling >> >>Hi >> >>Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP Proliant DL360 G5 serv

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/5/26 Martyn Dowling > Hi > > Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP > Proliant DL360 G5 server? > > Kind Regards > > Martyn > Yes, I got this server up since debian etch was released along with the official port for amd64. cheers -r

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Martyn Dowling wrote: >> >> Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP >> Proliant DL360 G5 server? >> > > > I can resist.

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Kelly Harding
2009/5/26 Martyn Dowling : > Hi > > Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP > Proliant DL360 G5 server? > > Kind Regards > It should work well enough I'd of thought. They're Opteron or Xeon based aren't they? A couple of links that might be helpful: http://wiki.debia

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0100, Martyn Dowling wrote: > > Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP Proliant > DL360 G5 server? > I can resist. http://tinyurl.com/ort4zu - -- Daryl Styrk Naples, FL USA -

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:31:07PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify > Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar > stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are > ru

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. > > I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered > simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. > Perhaps instead I will mak

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-31 12:15:33, schrieb koffiejunkie: > Say you are booted into Linux1, and linux 2 is mounted at /linux2, you > need to do this (assuming they are both recent distrobutions): > > mount -t proc proc /linux2/proc This should be mount -t none /proc /linux2/proc -o bind Thanks, Greetings

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
- Tong - wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: > > > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have > > searched around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that > > they know to be a good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works > > and what its capabilities are? > > Check

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew K Poer
Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. Perhaps instead I will make it a chroot jail for Lenny. Big question answered: you can

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread - Tong -
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:04:10 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? Ch

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew K Poer
I have also thought heavily about doing this sort of thing, for developing and testing and such. My understanding is that there would be very close to having two differant GNU/Linux operating systems running at once, but using only one kernel. Once inside the chroot, BASH would be using tools f

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread koffiejunkie
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are running in Linux-1? Say you are booted into Lin

Re: Re: debian linux-image update

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:20 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > Ok, so that's why menu.lst looks the same. The time stamp was for the > day I updated, so that means it has updated the kernel, right? > > The vmlinux file in /boot has date stamp of the day I installed etch, > but the initrd.img file ha

Re: Re: debian linux-image update

2007-05-09 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:53:23PM +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > > Recently some kernel update for debian etch appeared, which I duly > > installed. In Fedora, when this used to be done, the grub entry would > > get automatically updated. But here it does not seem to have happened, > > the en

Re: debian linux-image update

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:53:23PM +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > Recently some kernel update for debian etch appeared, which I duly > installed. In Fedora, when this used to be done, the grub entry would > get automatically updated. But here it does not seem to have happened, > the entry is the

Re: Debian Linux for Alpha v3.0 rel 4

2005-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:31 -0700, junk email wrote: > By the way, since I can't boot it from the sda1, how > do I reboot this minimal system as root user? > > --- junk email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to install a Debian Linux for Alpha v3.0 > > rel 4 on my AlphaPC 164LX, 21164

Re: Debian Linux for Alpha v3.0 rel 4

2005-09-15 Thread junk email
By the way, since I can't boot it from the sda1, how do I reboot this minimal system as root user? --- junk email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install a Debian Linux for Alpha v3.0 > rel 4 on my AlphaPC 164LX, 21164 600MHz processor, > 256MB RAM, AlphaBIOS 5.70 > > Here are the st

Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:04:46PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:33:37PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > > | Not the original poster, so please excuse me jumping in here. > | > | I'm going to attempt installing Sarge on my brother's G3 beige (old > | world), this weekend

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