I am having some problems installing debian 2.0 with
3 archive CDS from Cheapbytes.
I installed base packages off the debian binary cd.
Basically, now what?
i have to say : /dev/hdc as my cdrom
then, i have to say that /debian is my top directory
it finds .../binary-i386/Packages.gz
and
Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent
quality fonts and icons in terms of size.
how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts
and icons?
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Hello,
I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am
considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into
my box to boot from.> Is it possible to install a second hard drive into
something like the floppy
drive bay?> > Thanks
Yes you can in
Hello everyone,
This is a question I've had for a while.
I know Linux uses the ext2 filesystem which is supposed to be
anti-fragmenting. Once in a while, when I boot up, I get a message saying I
have reached maximal mount count and I have to sit and wait a few minutes
before I can continue w
Hello,
I get an
SIOCSIFFLAGS : Device not found
error when I try to boot up. It happens right after:
Startingportmap
This happened all of a sudden. It was working fine before. It freezes the
entire system. I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Del. I have to manually reboot.
I booted w/ Debian Rescue
Hello,
I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am
considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into
my box to boot from.
Is it possible to install a second hard drive into something like the floppy
drive bay?
Thanks
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"abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I create a debian Cd from a selected packages for my own purpose, so I
have 2 cd's, the first official one ( a bootable cd) and the second
built with dpkg-scanpackage. Instead of this a want a Cd like the
off
"Alan Ianson" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote:
I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other
(particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much
want to move to Debian.
In any case, with a new major r
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swm wrote:
On Debian Etch you would need to install apache2, php5, mysql-client, and
mysql-server, and possibly others that you find helpful. In fact, if you
are not using MySQL then save yourself some work and do
"cga2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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So far my personal doc system amounts to a patchwork of notes and
cheat sheets in ascii files that I grep when I need to find some piece
of information or other.
I would like to switch to something a little more ambitious wh
"Lubos Vrbka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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belahcene abdelkader wrote:
Hi, every body
I am using a set of thin client (neoware) connected to
a llinux server, I want to redirect the audio to the
client. It exists probably the way to do that in "same
way" as the im
"Thierry Chatelet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Tanel Kokk wrote:
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Mirror with debian-amd64 are from the past, and I guess, not updated.
Thierry
If so, then why ftp.debian.org's pool contains amd64 packages at all?
Tanel
That's a
"Ken Wahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:38:01AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
I don't see an "unstable" installer on the web site. Is the standard
way to build an "unstable" system to build a "testing" system, point
/etc/apt/sources.
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:50PM -0300, Tyler Smith wrote:
So my question is: is a 'low end' thinkpad worth the mark-up over what
Dell and Toshiba have on offer?
Consensus among people I know who have used several bra
"John Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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I have a 3 cd set of Debian Sarge 3.1 for I386.
I want to create a local apt-mirror to install my systems from using only
the packages on the CD. The systems I am building are very picky about
the
packages that are
"Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Florian Kulzer on 23/04/07 20:40, wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 20:04:58 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
Got a wierd problem that I can't find any viable solution for in google.
I set up a new machine with etch, running kde an
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On 09/26/08 12:27, Cassiano Leal wrote:
Hi list!
Is it possible to escape an "@" in apt.conf?
I have a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60proxy with the syntax to use apt
through a proxy:
ACQUIRE {
http::proxy "http://usernam
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[snip]
Well that never would have occurred to me...
Well, AFAICT that was only a fix for the underkying issue that caused him to
want to switch drivers.
Since that fix made the original driver work, he no longer needs to
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Well that never would have occurred to me...
Thats probably because that solution was related to his original problem,
causing him to want to switch drivers, rather than being
the reason why the driver would not switch
"Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Kalessin wrote:
You should stay with the ondemand governor, you will not see any
difference, except on yout electricity bill (and on the environnement
too).
Anyway, just edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/sc
"OxyOss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Have you tried to use the contents of /etc/issue ? Typically for
RedHat/Fedora this will have the release in it, and (for Sarge at least)
this is also the case for Debian. I've done a dist-upgrade on this box
and the file
"Jon Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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At 1147164438 past the epoch, Art Edwards wrote:
On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards:
What upgrade method did you use?
1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader
With a stable i
Yeah, I created /etc/init.d/local and put S99 slinks to it in rc2, 3, 4,
and 5.d, copying some of the other startup scripts. Doesn't strike me as
particularly elegant, and it's (probably) going to get wiped by Debian
sometime in the future. But for the time being I have a /dev/tape
without havin
I assume that there is no disable button on the touchpad itself.
Try using 'tpconfig --sleep=1'. On many touch pads it will disable it.
If it works, to make it permanent do the following as root:
1. Create file named /etc/init.d/killtouchpad
The file should contain:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/tpconfig
Hi all. I was wondering what I would need to be an OFFICIAL seller of
Debian CDROMs. I currently have 12 available (either in sets or
netinst CDs) in my eBay store and was wondering what I would need to
do to get myself on the OFFICIAL CD (re)seller listing?
First read this: http://www.debian.
"LeVA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi!
I wonder if there is a way to check at an init.d script, if it is system
bootup, or the user just executing the the script from a console, while
the
system is already up. Any way to do this?
Thanks!
Why would you want to
More information just to explain the scope of udebs:
Micro-debs are used by the installer to create a mini-debian system on the
ramdisk so that utilities needed to partion the disk, create filesystems,
and install the real packages are available.
Under normal circumstances the contents of a u
A nasty hack, but if there is at least one margin note per page then this
might work:
\marginpar{\rule[-2000cm]{1mm}{4000cm}Text goes here}
(I've never used LaTeX before so no clue if it will work). The idea is to
make the line next to the paragraph so long it covvers the whole page.
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I have inlined a basic DIR_COLORS file (this is actually the used by default
by dircolors [do not confuse that with the default colors of ls]).
Make a file sismilar to this in your home directory, and name it something
like '.dircolors'. Then add 'eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors`' to .bashrc
Boot your live cd and get a root shell.
mkdir /mydisk && mound /dev/hda1 /mydisk
chroot /mydisk
install-grub
reboot
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Hello,
1) Exact copy of hda1, hda2, hda3 onto hdb1, hdb2, hdb3
the problem here is that I am shinking the partition sizes
beacuse 1) I don't need all the space and 2) I trying to make
room to create a test AMD64 system setup.
I only use WinXP for games and don't need all that space/
W
echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
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So is there a way to get PIE executables with random addresses on
Debian?
Yes, download the debian kernel source, and apply either the PaX, or Exec
shield patch.
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Hi!
Looks nice.
Thanx!
> I also created a rpm version of the game. I don't know right now how to
> build a deb file. But it should be easy to install the game with alien.
Alien is not a nice way to creat debian p
If you want to press charges and if the attack had anything in anyway
related to thed United States then contact the US FBI. Why? I don't know,
but that is what the news companies here in the US suggest.
The fact that you have the attacker hotmail address is nice. Belive it or
not the cracker
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From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's
no utility for the task.
"Brent Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi
Would anyone know of a good and / or it using a windows xserver client.
I googled and I came across this site.
http://x.cygwin.com/
Ok let me explain this one:
cygwin is a complete (nearly) Posix environment in w
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From: "Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: support for amd64?
I was trying to figure out how good is debian support for amd64. Will it
stand, in the long run? I do regular internet/ema
ext3 is set but ext2 is a module. I think I muss check it as well. But
I'm not sure.
Yes. ext3 is very much dependent on ext2. In fact I would personally compile
all filesystems I might use directly into the kernel in case I some day need
to do some sort of weird booting.
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Len, let me clear this?
Are x86_64 and AMD64 the exact same thing? Can they run ordinary x86 apps?
Yes, both refer to AMD64. The can both run 32-bit apps.
In fact if running a 32 bit kernel it should behave identically to a normal
32 bit x86 processor.
If running a 64 bit kernel, 32bit progr
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From: "Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?
Well, as a last resource, one can dualboot the two systems in the same
machine?
Of course. You can use
My understanding is the hashes returned should match. Is this correct? I
may be barking up the wrong tree but I think this is my >problem.
The the hashes are salted, which helps deter cracking of the passwords. For
that reason the same password may yeild different outputs.
It may be possible that
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From: "pnguine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 2:41 PM
Subject: Official CD Images Stable or Unstable?
I just d'l'd the first 4 'Official torrents for the stable release on
CD' CDs and 'installed' them using
We want to survey how often each package is insalled.
Might http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst have the information you want?
Popcon is a volentary system allowing debian users to report the packages
they have installed.
Thus the values are not perfect, but ware at least as good as the values
I do not have idea why this very useful option is removed from sarge.
Now i always need 2 cd's, sarge and woody with xfs.
In my opinion it's the worst change from woody to sarge.
Full rescue support was not integrated into d-i by the time sarge was
released.
The latest Installers have a res
Hello People,
If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg
database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages
installed ?
If you copy the filesystem and it includes /var then dpkg should be
perfectly happy.
Regards,
rrs
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I was unclear. Sorry bout that. However, you hit the nail on the head!
Looks like an execellant way to achieve what I was wanting to achieve!
Can I give points in here for the winner. :)
Well of course you can, but you first need to have points to give. I don't
recall anybody granting you
"Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> Can anyone explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed
> so far from traditi
"linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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hello all
i have a mac and am sick of mac osx
i can't buy a new machine but i can move over to linux
i would like to install debian (ppc)
my problem is, i don't know if my printer/scanner will work
its a canon pixma MP-130 mul
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Any of the national mirrors have the security archive mirrored in the
debian-security/ directory
You can use them. They should contain the same thing as security.debian.org
as they are both just copies of ftp-mast
"S3GFAULT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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SUMMARY:
Files or chunks of files from the root (reiserfs) partition are being
inserted into memory at the rate of 4-16k/5 secs (2.4.18) or 60k/5
secs (2.6.8). This memory is never freed. Thi
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From: "Rishi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux
dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of
Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom ima
"Chuk Goodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On 9/22/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe Mc Cool wrote:
>Get to lift his head and look out at the real world.
>
What is this "real world" of which you speak? And from where can I
download this mod?
It's th
"Mike McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Ron Johnson wrote:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Using what he recommends ruins threaded reading, because
the reply goes to the originator of the message, and the
list gets CCd.
That sounds like a
Fred OGrady Said:
On the same line, I installed the jabber server on my box. Now what? I
know I need a client,
but I can't figure out what to "aptitude install" for a jabber client. I
run gaim, for internet chat,
but that doesn't have anything to do with my jabber server. can anyone
fill m
"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Joe Smith writes:
Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what
newsgroups were invented for.
No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of
thumb
on how
Mike said:
Threading is based on message IDs. The mailer threads properly.
The message ID should not change based on whom the message is sent AFAICT,
so who is in the reply feild does not really matter.
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Perhaps, if squid does get confused (two
squids on one IP address) you could run the second instance on a fake IP
address/alias but I don't know much about that.
And I know all to much about that. IT is done by creating a new loopback
ethernet device, and briging it to your real device. to get
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Alf wrote:
Now my system is no very stable, and some applications crash now and
then. Because of this, i'd like to return to a more stable state. Is
there a way to uninstall all packages from unstable branch? I'd l
Of course, you can always use gcc if you remeber to link against
libstdc++ (I think).
gcc is the universal front-end. It will compile and link anything supported
by the compiler collection.
However that said g++ is better for both compiling and linking c++ code,
because it uses slightly differ
I know how to list the packages that are going to be installed, like with
"apt-get -s upgrade" or "apt-show-versions -u", but I >would like to know
which files included in these packages are going to be installed. I have
tried "grep" when doing "apt-get -s >upgrade" and "apt-show-versions -u",
"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Andy Anderson writes:
Any ideas?
Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard.
I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have
a mouse.
Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. T
"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Joe Smith writes:
Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that.
Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable).
I know that it would be the BIOS. But this is idi
If it is seen as a 'usb-storage' device, it will, most likely, work. The
page does not detail...
One thing: 16MB flash internal for video? If this memory is unremovable,
and the device can't accept newer and bigger modules, this camera is quite
limited...
99.99% of cameras these days support
"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Dear all,
I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part
of
the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage.
I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of w
"Scott Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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(noob)
I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive
install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to
all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you a
Joey,
Because this is of interest to a very large portion of Debian's user base,
this posting might have been better posted on debian-user-announce. I know
that mail to that list should be minimal, but a proper announcement of this
to that group (to which ALL debian users really should be subs
"Zouari Fourat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
gmailfs.py:Gmailfs:named mount options: {'username':
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'password': 'gmailpassword'}
what should i do to get it working ?
Use a real account name and password? ;)
Actually my best guess is that one of the many gmail cha
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