Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-23 Thread sean
Thanks very much. I have been thinking about it though. I have a DNS server already running on silentflame.com. So I edited the Host File (using WHM), and added a simple a record underneath for a subdomain. Will this work? Thanks. Quoting ke6isf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Whitton wrote: > 2) > I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS > server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be > appreciated. Like another responder said, assuming you have a domain and a static IP, check a

Re: Newbie Problems!

2005-09-22 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Sean Whitton wrote: Hi all, I would be grateful for any help on the following problems. Please indicate what you are replying to in your response! Thanks. 1) I installed apache using wajig. I want to create a link between ~/public_html and the webspace for the user at ip/~user. How do I do thi

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread Mark Pictor
Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once... --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a very successful day!!! > > Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my > network controller. > > Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run Warning *doesn't* mean failure.

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread David A. Cobb
Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run chroot /target dpkg --force-depends \ /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb \ (same basepath)/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
David A. Cobb wrote: Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches fo

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party products (I've heard of such utilities, but

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Ryan Waye wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan i

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
inline-> Kent West wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:08:14PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Run "lspci" to see what type of Ethernet device you have, then run > "modprobe" to install the correct driver for it. You might then need to > modify /etc/network/interfaces (see "man interfaces" for examples) and > restart networki

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread cr
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > > games with tar at both

[Fwd: Re: Newbie problems galore]

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
--- Begin Message --- David A. Cobb wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches fo

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:34, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from > >>within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the > >>VFAT-mounted drives. > >> > >> > And you won't, unless you resort to

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out how to make the Linux data visible from within Windoze, other than scribbling files from Linux onto one of the VFAT-mounted drives. And you won't, unless you resort to third-party products (I've heard of such utilities, but have never used

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread listcomm
> I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, I > can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad to have to play > games with tar at both sides of the route in order not to munge up the > "magi

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread anlace
> --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > > Official" and started to > > install it. > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the > > Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 > > and the

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't need to reboot into Windows. Actually, he mentions nVidia hardware a

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David A. Cobb (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started > to install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > archive has nVidia p

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Cobb wrote: > > > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian > > archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
You really shouldn't run apt-* without apt-update, first, by the way. --- Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" > Official" and started to > > install it. > >

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Zachary Rizer
Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your hands. My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law) would be to start from scratch, and use one of the beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce chipsets right out the gate.

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Ryan Waye
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to > install it. > First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD > is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 an

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... > I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I > see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for the life of me, > I

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access my NIC, so all t

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
On Sunday 31 Mar 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: > >Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: > > > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > >Apart from that your config looks fine. > > During the install the --configuration of some package asked whethe

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Hmmm... I should ask this on one of the xfree86 mailing lists instead of here, shouldn't I? sincerely, Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Matrox G450" > Driver "mga" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > EndSection Are you using the linux framebuffer ? If not, comment out this line: Option "UseFBDev"

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread I.J.W. Wever
Dear Simon, thanks for your reaction. I realised that I was using the wrong file and XF86Config-4 actually had 'mga_hal' where it should have had 'mga' (which is almost the same problem for which you gave the solution :) ). Please ignore the attachments of the previous message: I made some progr

Re: [newbie] Problems getting Xwindows working [includes /etc/X11/XF86Config and startx logfile]

2002-03-31 Thread Simon Hepburn
I.J.W. Wever wrote: > A few days ago I installed Woody and since then I have been trying to > get Xwindows running. I've downloaded the appropriate drivers for my > Matrox G450 from the Matrox site and tried the XF86config with various > options, but withous succes. These are not strictly neccess

Re: Newbie: problems intalling aps

2002-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:28:55AM +0300, FFF wrote: > I'm a newbie to debian, I had problems when I try to install from a > local disk, after selecting the packs using either "simple" or the > "advanced method" it fails to find them. I checked the installation > path file:/mnt/hde6/debian and is c

Re: newbie problems with eth0

2000-04-20 Thread Agner-Nichols
- From: "Pontus Lidman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: Re: newbie problems with eth0 > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Agner-Nichols wrote: > > > Then, w

Re: newbie problems. . .

1997-01-10 Thread Brian Sheaff
At 12:42 PM 8/01/97 -0600, you wrote: >I have been trying to get man working. Iused deselect to install man and >all the files it required, but whenever I try to run it, it gives me an >error saying: "groff: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.27'" Some of the >other programs I've installed have si