Incoming from Debian User:
> firstly, thanks to those who helped me w/ configuring my intel isa-
> bus ethernet nic.
>
> secondly, the machine in question is running kernel 2.2.20-idepci.
> i don't really recall when it was installed as the machine has been
> a doorstop in my office for close to
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
Now my question is: do you still have any other problem? If the answer
is no, I do not see why you should worry about those removed packages. ;)
This is very true! I have found one new problem (and know how to fix
it): the gnome control center doesn't show up the sawfish-sp
That remarkable Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:16, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> (list of 66 packages, including gdm, gnome-session, xfonts-base, sawfish)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> (list of 22 packages)
> 36 packages upgraded, 22 new
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those
"--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going
into the dreaded dselect?
I think that if you get into dep
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those
> "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going
> into the dreaded dselect?
I think that if you get into dependencies proble
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:00:21 +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
> the next problem. Gnome won't start.
>
> I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
> enter a user id and password. Pressing OK wou
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
the next problem. Gnome won't start.
I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would then normally take me to
the Gnome desktop f
Hi!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:11:53PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
snip [...]
> Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
> the next problem. Gnome won't start.
>
> I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
> enter a user id and pass
> /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome calls for the execution of another script
> /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is sadly missing from my system. Despite
I did dpkg -s /usr/bin/gnome-session. Its in package 'gnome-session'.
> looking through the update instructions, I found no mention of this
> script or whe
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
> greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
> ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
> which seems to
dang, this debian is sooo cool.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:31:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's
> > document at
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/referen
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's
> document at
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
>
> is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have
> to s/stable/
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from
> potato to woody.
Happy landings ;-)
I found the simple dist-upgrade just did it - have you any special reason
to be apprehensive?
Glyn
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"Iram" == Iram Mahboob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Iram> Hi, I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my
Iram> kernel. I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to
Iram> upgrade it to 2.4.18. How can I do it?
You are running either Debian Potato or Debian Woody
Iram Mahboob said:
> Hi,
> I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my kernel.
> I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to upgrade it to 2.4.18.
> How can I do it?
> I have tried to do a
luckily apt-get does not automatically upgrade the kernel. you
can do it manually thoug
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
| On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
| > newbie here...
| >
| > Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
| > If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
| >
| > 1) Change the apt sources.list to
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:19, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> newbie here...
>
> Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
> If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
>
> 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody.
> 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages.
>
If you are useing ds
YOu man need to run:
apt-get install xbase-clients xserver-xfree86
Or one or the other. Startx is in xbase-clients.
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:20, Greg Madden wrote:
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> > hi all, I to
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody.
> so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go??
> My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??)
> I used to have the x serv
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody.
> so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go??
> My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> newbie here...
>
> Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
> If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
>
> 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody.
> 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages.
Personally
dpkg -l
or
dpkg --get-selections
From: "Ian Chilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I ment, before I do the dist-upgrade, I wanted to remove stuff from the
> base install that I didn't want..
Hello,
Thanks for the reply!
> I don't recommend installing all packages then getting rid of them
> one by one. One - you can't install all packages for some packages
> conflict with other packages. Two - not a good policy on simplicity's
> grounds, as production environments shouldn't be burden
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Ian Chilton wrote:
>Hello,
>
>** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to
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>I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as
a
>server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote:
> I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not
> preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed.
> My question is when you do a upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils
> installed with the upgrade if it is required for
Thus spake D.:
> Hi All
> I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII
> 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to
> configure the tulip driver for.
> I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error
> not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not
> installed. My question is whe
Thanks, I install the apt-utils then do the
dist-upgrade.
Don
--- Bastiaan Huisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed this problem too.. And because I had so
> much problems getting X
> to start, I tried another distro. When (in the other
> distro) I found the
> problem why my X wo
Hi,
I've noticed this problem too.. And because I had so much problems getting X
to start, I tried another distro. When (in the other distro) I found the
problem why my X wouldn't start (which was quite trivial), I installed
debian again, and this time I did it the right way.
First I installed po
Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines
>for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks!
Typically taken out, though leaving them in does no actual harm. Note
that woody is currently missing some packages which will be in t
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:18:40PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to install woody from scratch. When i installed potato i
> took the disks off a mirror. Then i did a net install for the rest. Is
> there a way to do this for woody as well? I have been looking in the
> disk dir
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