help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11

2003-02-02 Thread Victor
Does any Debian user out there have a Samsung 900NF monitor and got the X server to work? My video card is a geforece 4MX and I will not even attempt to try to get the NVIDIA drivers to work, I know from red hat that the vesa driver works if the video card is specified as geforce2MX. If you have my

RE: help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11

2003-02-02 Thread Victor
I'll try this... Keep u posted. -Original Message- From: Aaron Isotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:05 PM To: Victor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11 "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version

2002-12-29 Thread Victor
- nvidia kernel driver source compilation - error when make install due to different kernel compiler version/current installed compiler version - Hello, this question has been clearly addressed in the README file on Nvidia's website, but what should I do? Get the old gcc that is the same version a

booting from floopy imposible - redhat grub gets in the way (i think)

2003-01-03 Thread Victor
I have just made a sbm floppy for debian from their latest stable relase cd, but when I insert into the system's floppy drive, GRUB always loads over it for some reason, how do I get to startup from the floppy or to get grub to start up from the debian cd? - vic _

Unable to install netscape

2001-02-13 Thread victor
OK, I've installed Potato 2.2.r2, X window, Gnome, Window Maker and Enlightenment and, finally, I've been trying to install netscape 4.76 unsuccessfully. Using the three original CDs I've issued the command apt-get install netscape it starts installing netscape3 to stop after a while saying that:

Re: A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread Victor
Sorry for my being so insistent but HOW I can do it? Vittorio On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, Norman Schmidt wrote: > Hi! > > I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato). > > While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the > card. Later, I have compil

Re: A fact & a problem

2001-03-19 Thread Victor
Hi Norman sorry for being so insistent but HOW I can do it, step by step I mean. Thanks Vittorio On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, you wrote: > Hi! > > I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato). > > While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the > car

Re: FW: A fact & a problem

2001-03-21 Thread Victor
;s there, try > > insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/rtl1839.o > > Let me know if that works for you because I get an error from insmod when I > try it, but it may work for you. > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, M

Re: printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Victor
I've the same problem! Coming from RedHat with its magic "printtool" I'm somewhat distressed about setting up a printer under Debian (e.g. epson 640 stylus color, which is surely supported). Please help the both of us Vittorio On Thursday 22 March 2001 07:58, Eric R Cheney wrote: > Any advice on

Not configuring the kernel from scratch!

2001-03-22 Thread Victor
Once I've installed a new-brand potato 2.2r2 from CDs, I'd like to rebuild the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I know that I can dpkg the source kernel from my CDs and then configure and compile it but you know in this case -if you use "make menuconfig" - Debian proposes a very basic standard configuratio

i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Victor
I've installed potato 2.2r2 on my desktop, a Celeron Compaq Presario, endowed unfortunately of an Intel 82810 graphic card which I would use with X and kde. I've read all the extremely poor and distressing pieces of "Documentation" about i810 both under the various /usr/doc and www.debian.org/br

Easy-going backup software

2001-06-24 Thread Victor
Hi Friends, I've set up and tailored a wonderful debian 2.2r3 in 1.4 GB of my laptop. It ticks wonderfully!! Having a wide free 4GB linux partition on my desktop at home under SuSE 7.1, to be on the safe side I'd like to back up my debian laptop connecting the two boxes through ethernet and a cro

Re: docbook & xml in Italian

2001-06-25 Thread Victor
Me, again! No one using docbook & xml out there? Vittorio Vittorio [debian-user] <22/06/01 18:08 +>: > Hi, > > I've installed docbook and experimented it with XML to build a > tiny book. I'm enthusiastic about the way it builds well structured and > nice-looking documents. Less enthusiastic

script

2001-06-25 Thread Victor
I'm editing a bash script but I need to execute in the given order each command to completion. E.g. ifup eth0 /etc/init.d/./samba start /etc/init.d/./hylafax start Unfortunately putting this lines in a file, while the script is still executing ifup eth0, samba and then hylafax are executed, messi

Changing user

2001-06-25 Thread Victor
I wonder if there's any command under debian enabling to change the name of a user to another one modifying -in doing so- everything under the home dir of the 'old' user to the 'new' one. Vittorio

Re: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

2001-06-25 Thread Victor
Thanks Jimmy for your extremely detailed answer. As a matter of fact I don't need any Apache on my LAPTOP; so I simply dpkg --purge htdig, and now it is all ok. Anyway I'm sure your answer will be very helpful to other people. Ciao from Rome Vittorio Jimmy Richards [debian-user] <25/06/01 08:

Latex and hyphenation

2001-06-29 Thread Victor
I've read a lot of latex enormous, fragmented documentation and still I can't make head or tail of how I can say latex that I want the Italian hyphenation and how to use the \hyphenation command (I mean, what packages are needed, what setting and so on). Is there anybody out there able to gimme pl

Oracle, perl & DBI under debian

2001-07-02 Thread Victor
Willing to use my laptop as a client of an oracle DB on an NT server and network, to start with I've just begun to read the book by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce on "Perl & DBI". Being at my very first steps on this field there's something somewhat obscure to me and I wonder if someone could a

What's wrong with debian site?

2001-07-03 Thread Victor
In my sources.list I've the following line: deb http://http.debian.org/debian Debian2.2r3 main contrib non-free working smoothly for a long stretch. Now updating under dselect it says that it cannot resolve http.debian.org. What's the matter with this site? Has anything changed since a couple o

upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-04 Thread Victor
I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and working greatly and stable. The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! My simple question is: Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5, again!

2001-07-05 Thread Victor
a real risk of instability of the system? Ciao Vittorio Victor [debian-user] <04/07/01 16:03 +>: > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > working greatly and stable. > > The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of > memory,

Re: Lazy panel under Gnome

2001-07-08 Thread Victor
Still no answer to this question of mine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [debian-user] <06/07/01 08:52 ->: > > I use the standard debian 2.2r3 distro and gnome. > > I've noticed an irritating behaviour of gnome's panel. At start up it doesn't > show all the applets but only the standard ones. Cli

gdm slight differences

2001-07-08 Thread Victor
When in a console I log in as user the file ~/.bashrc -tailored to add ~/bin to the path directory - is executed. Booting the PC up with gdm and logging as user it looks as though ~/.bashrc isn't executed because under Gnome terminal I can't use any script in ~/bin unless I issue the command

PPP dialup utility

2001-07-08 Thread Victor
While as root I'm able to define new accounts and use them as root with PPP dialup utility under Gnome, I can't even see the accounts and define new ones as a user. What should I do? Ciao Vittorio

Re: PPP dialup utility

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
way (if I define under this utility a new account I cannot find it under /etc/ppp/peers). Is it possible that the PPP dialup utility of Gnome be corrupted? Vittorio Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [debian-user] <08/07/01 08:55 -0700>: > > use pppconfig and select your user! > > On Sunday

kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5. My specific focus is on stability. What's your experience on this? Ciao Vittorio

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-09 Thread Victor
in a production environment)? Ciao Vittorio olgnuby [debian-user] <09/07/01 06:46 -0500>: > Victor wrote: > > > > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19 > > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my > &g

Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions

2001-07-10 Thread Victor
BM main frame to PCs. Therefore the skill with linux, poor in my case because I'm a one-year user only, is a matter of mentality acquired over time. In any case I find that the Debian distro suits older people needs better than other slick distros about. Ciao (In Italian means both "Hello&quo

Kernel 2.4.5 at last! Problems

2001-07-10 Thread Victor
After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the Bunk's stuff. The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the confi

Squid - a bit off-topic

2001-07-10 Thread Victor
Sorry for this question somewhat astray. I've convinced my Information Tech Dept. to adopt a linux proxy server (instead of Win NT stuff!!) and they're thinking of Squid. Now the problem they are dealing with as newbies with linux is about user authentication. In a nutshell, because only few of

Re: Kernel 2.4.5 at last! Problems

2001-07-10 Thread Victor
olgnuby [debian-user] <10/07/01 10:52 -0500>: > Victor wrote: > > > > After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot > > the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the > > Bunk's stuff. > > >

Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-11 Thread Victor
Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is working great, whilst > after compiling my tailored kernel 2.4.5 (which I obtained using the > config file for my previous kernel 2.2.19 with minor changes) the > following error pops up

Re: Again problems with Kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-11 Thread Victor
Shriram Shrikumar [debian-user] <11/07/01 06:06 -0700>: > had similar problem. before comiling, open th makefile in vi or your > fav editor and uncomment the > > export INSTALL_PATH=/boot > > line. > > good luck > No, Shriram! I'd a go at it but it still doesn't work :-( Ciao Vittorio

Kernel 2.4.5 Problems

2001-07-13 Thread Victor
Victor [debian-user] <10/07/01 17:35 +>: > After extreme deliberation (see my previous thread) I've installed bot > the kernel-image-2.4.5 and the kernel-source & headers 2.4.5 from the > Bunk's stuff. > > The standard kernel 2.4.5 from kernel-image is work

Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-17 Thread Victor
I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian 2.2r3. Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql under postgres user, I'm in trouble using pgaccess. After trying to open the same db giving its name and postgres as user it invariably answers: Co

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-18 Thread Victor
Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>: >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things > as regular user. First of all, thanks Joost, it now works for the postgres superuser only, not for other

I did it a mess with perl

2001-07-21 Thread Victor
Hi Friends, I'll be a long reading for you! As an absolute beginner with Perl I've been having a go at using Perl & DBI to connect to an Oracle server. therefore I neede to download and install from www.cpan.org the DBD::Oracle and the new DBI... *The Sad Story* Reading the poor documentati

Optimizing fron source

2001-07-22 Thread Victor
I've installed debian potato 2.2r3 and compiled my own 2.2.19 kernel to take into account my real hardware. I see that deb packages are built for a generic i386 processor. If I want to optimize for my i686 processor can I compile debian sources packages or are they packaged to be i386 compatible

Re: I did it a mess with perl

2001-07-23 Thread Victor
Joost Kooij [debian-user] <21/07/01 14:05 +0200>: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +0000, Victor wrote: > > Install dh-perl-make && rtfm && build your own libperl-dbd-foo.deb. > > dpkg -p dh-make-perl > Package: dh-make-perl > Priority: optional

Re: ... a mess with perl: End of the story

2001-07-23 Thread Victor
Steve Kowalik [debian-user] <23/07/01 19:30 +1000>: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:47:06AM +0000, Victor uttered: > > I'm unable to find dh-make-perl && rtfm under > > > > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > > deb ht

Optimizing potato

2001-07-23 Thread Victor
I've a wonderful, terrific debian potato 2.2r3 installation on my portable but I'd like to optimize some pieces of software (samba, hylafax) for my actual hardware as I already did with kernel 2.2.19 recompiled to my needs. This because the precompiled packages are prepared for a generic i386 while

Re: TOT Re: Optimizing potato

2001-07-24 Thread Victor
Andrew Dixon [debian-user] <23/07/01 11:58 -0400>: > Victor wrote: > > > > This because the precompiled packages are > > prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor. > > > > > This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . .

Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-07 Thread Victor
I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital camera to use with it and the Gimp. Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? Vittorio

Software for Webcam

2001-03-27 Thread Victor
I'd like to buy a linux compatible usb webcam of the kind of Philips. My question is as simple as that: What are the X (gnone or kde) software in debian potato 2.2r2 CD's or web sites which I should install to look at the images generated by the webcam and to stream them through the internet? V

Re: Setting up a usb scanner

2001-04-12 Thread Victor
Hi Thomas, at last it works! Thanks for your invaluable help. By the way, how the hell did you know that in sane.d you should've put a "usb /dev/scanner" line in epson.conf. It took me something like three endless hours of surfing the net to find a clue, a hint of something like that and not in

Changing some settings

2001-04-23 Thread Victor
When my potato boots it warns me of a modprobe problem (char-major-10-135). I've tried to modify modules.conf putting an "off " at the end of the relating line. It works for some boot but "a thing" (I know that in debian potato "it" exists, but I cannot figure out where/what to manipulate!!)

Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-27 Thread Victor
Trying to unpack devscripts by means of dselect I've got the following error and the package has emained unconfigured: . (Rea

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-27 Thread Victor
Of course it works but it reboots the system, doesn't shut it down. That's what I want. Ciao Vittorio On Friday 27 April 2001 08:26, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > does an ordinary ctrl+alt+delete not work? > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > On 27 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Using debian on a sta

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-27 Thread Victor
Dear friends, thanks to all of you for the many helpful suggestions. In the end I've complied with the method of Francisco Neto which is IMHO the tidiest. Here it is enclosed. Ciao Vittorio - Forwarded message from francisco m . neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - » I suggest a different

Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-29 Thread Victor
Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:21:53 + From: Victor &l

Problems with printing

2001-05-01 Thread Victor
I've installed lprng and apsfilter duly configured for my epson sc 640. Now it doesn't print anything (whilst the test with apsfilterconfig was ok) and invariably gives me something like that debian:~# lpr /etc/printcap debian:~# lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'y2prn_printerLR.upp ascii' Queue

Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-03 Thread Victor
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - In reply to:[EMAIL PR

A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Victor
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued th

A mess with startx, xdm and gnome

2001-05-06 Thread Victor
I had installed gnome and xdm under potato 2.2r3 and XFree86 3.3.6 on my workstation . Sometimes I used startx and some other time xdm to launch gnome and all had been working great. Yesterday, because I wanted to install the Gimp 1.2 resorting to the debian unstable site packages, I issued the

Startx error with XFree86 4.3 & i810

2001-05-11 Thread Victor
I was compelled to download the unstable XFree86 4.3 in order to use the new Gimp 1.2. Now when I issue the command startx the following error pops up and the hraphic display doesn't start: ...

Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by means of magicfilter. Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it shows a menu in which the buttons "File*" and "setup" are present. Because I don't want to print to a file I choose setup and I'm

Hylafax probs

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
I've just installed Hylafax under potato. When I've launched faxsetup the program has complained about the absence of the courier definition under /usr/share/enscript/afm, while there are many afm files under that directory. I've tried to add the line "FontDir: /usr/share/enscript/afm" and now

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
Well, Ethan, I tried the same solution and it worked but, let's face it, it's a somewhat makeshift solution! Is there anyone out there able to give the right hint? Vittorio On Monday 14 May 2001 12:44, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wr

A philosophical one

2001-05-21 Thread Victor
What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no?

Booting under a user login

2001-05-22 Thread Victor
I succeded in convincing my wife to use StartOffice for her work abandoning M$ Word. In order to make it easier the access to a user login to a newly acquired absolute beginner to linux, I'd like to set her PC's boot up so that it goes automatically under a certain user login (I mean without be

Re: Booting under a user login

2001-05-22 Thread Victor
Yes, but you know, with 64 MB of memory, choosing kdm (and kde as a desktop) StarOffice runs very slowly. For my experience on my laptop I prefere to start StarOffice by means of startx putting these two lines in .xinitrc: icewm # a much ligther window manager than any gnome or kde /home/user/

First step with Mutt

2001-05-22 Thread Victor
I'm accustomed to use graphic email reader such as kmail or balsa. Now I find very interesting the opportunity of adopting a console email reader such as Mutt in terms of memory requirements, quickness and flexibility. But I understand that Mutt is only a mere reader and in its documentation I

Re: Unsent mail under exim

2001-06-12 Thread Victor
Not exactly! I mean when you send a message but the dialup connection is not on by your misfortune, I think that exim takes care of it and queues it somewhere waiting to send it out later on. Anyway, Matthias, I did not know of the postpone feature (resembling more to the "draft" folder of graphic

Querying Oracle

2001-06-12 Thread Victor
I'd like to query a database on an Oracle NT server from my laptop using the LAN at my office. What should I install to this end on my linux-box laptop? Ciao Vittorio

Starting with XML

2001-06-17 Thread Victor
Hi, In my job I now need to transfer data between application using XML. As an absolute beginner in this field I'm asking you the very very basic of XML. As far as I know having leafed through debian documentation XML as a tagged language is a subset of SGML therefore: 1) What deb packages shou

Rokon keresés

2004-07-07 Thread Victor
 Nyugat Kanadában Kelowna városban lakok.  Nejemmel jó barátságban vagyunk  Dési Markával aki Dr. Maróti özvegye. Megkért, hogy kutassam fel a Benák családot. A következő adatokat adta számomra: Három tesvér, István, János és Klári Nagyszülők, Janő és Margit Apa neve, István

Debian sarge - raid

2004-09-22 Thread victor
I have one hdd and I inserted another to make a raid1. On short when I tri to start raid md_i, raid md_i-1 starts instead. So I do "raidstart /dev/md3" and /dev/md2 starts. In the log appears the following message when I do raidstart: Sep 22 12:36:31 xchange kernel: md: can not import ide/host0/bu

Re: Debian sarge - raid

2004-09-22 Thread victor
The problem is like this: One hdd has ext3 "partitions," the other hdd has "linux raid autodetect". Could this be the rason for what is hapening? But how can I sincronize these 2 hdd's(I don't want to format the hdd with ext3)? Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004,

Re: Emacs tutorial [was: Extracting tabular text from a pdf]

2019-11-29 Thread Victor
trl-h ?. Stackexchange (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/) and reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/) are active resources for information about specific aspects/problems one might encounter. Cheers, Victor

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread Victor
is significantly more difficult to read under bright conditions). Cheers, Victor

alternative to avidemux?

2015-02-28 Thread Victor
. Thanks for reading! Blue skies, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f17feb.2050...@svictor.net

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-02-28 Thread Victor
On 28/02/2015 10:23, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/28/2015 03:44 AM, Victor wrote: Hi, I used to do this with avidemux when I was on ubuntu and it worked all right. But avidemux is not part of the official Debian packages. It is on deb-multimedia, but I’d prefer not to enable a whole repo just for

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-03-03 Thread Victor
n ssa subs into a video? I can’t believe Avidemux is still the only gui way to do that (and that it’s not part of Debian)! At least (a) is quite a common need, isn’t it? Cheers, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-03-03 Thread Victor
On 03/03/2015 18:05, Dan Ritter wrote: subtitles: - gnome-subtitles (1.2-4 in Wheezy) - aegisub (2.1.9-1 in Wheezy) - subtitlecomposer (0.5.3-3 in Wheezy) These are for editing the subtitle files. I use aegisub, and it’s great. But none of these software can burn the subtitles into the images.

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Victor
On 03/03/2015 18:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere (bookshelves and photocopy files) I wouldn't mind.

Re: alternative to avidemux?

2015-03-07 Thread Victor
On 07/03/2015 02:37, Anil Duggirala wrote: Im using avconv to do this, it is a part of libav-tools package, and its probably faster if you are doing this on a regular basis, use the -ss option along with the -t option. Thanks. Indeed avconv can do it. But as I said, I’d prefer something with a g

Prevent apt/dpkg from automatically enabling services during the upgrade process.

2017-10-02 Thread Victor
Dear Debian friends, I use Debian Sid as my home distribution, and I have an annoying problem. If I disable some services with "systemctl disable service", it happens that whenever an upgrade of any service's package appears, apt/dpkg will automatically enable the service during the upgrade proces

must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an OPTION! Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux machine simple, no frills. Found some good tutorials,

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
loppy since its trustworthy... -Original Message- From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:31 AM To: Victor Stan Cc: debian Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Ok, so

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
I will try this, but can I give it a specific kernel? Like: cp /vmlinuz-2.4.2.00.etc.etc. /dev/fd0 -Original Message- From: Don Hayward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:57 PM To: Victor Stan Cc: Rus Foster; debian Subject: RE: must.. surpress ... murderous

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) Victor Stan said: > Why is Debian so retarded on simple boot floppies??? Red Hat is like: > makebootdisk And done! WHY WHY WHY? I think debian 2.2 had the mkbootdisk program. I don't see it in 3.0. I really didn't like it. Main re

RE: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread Victor Stan
myself- use the new kernel? - Vic -Original Message- From: Todd Pytel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:35 PM To: debuser Subject: Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage (simple boot floppy qveshtion) On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:00:21 -0500 "Victor Stan" <

tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
I backed up my debian installation with the following: tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' And attempted to restore it with the following: ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat linuxbackup.tar.bz2' | tar -jxv Both commands were run as root. However, I now have a *lot* of broken

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0800, nate wrote: >Brian Victor said: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2' > >may I ask why? I have never heard of someone atte

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Brian Victor
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:43:09AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030317 07:52 PST]: >> I backed up my debian installation with the following: >> >> tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2'

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Victor
Kevin, you are a life saver. On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:36:37PM -0800, Kevin Buhr wrote: >Sure, use: > >tar tvfj linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | less > >and you'll get an "ls -l"-style directory listing. That's very nice. Takes a long time on a 3GB bz2'ed file, but it works. :) >I believe you've

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Victor Cain
t/export. It would be > good to get one more person to rally OO.org for this. > -Kev -- Victor R. Cain (865)435-5084Fax:(865)435-9709 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.vicsfamily.net Quote of the Hour "Resistance is futile. Open your sourc

libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages

2003-02-03 Thread Victor Torrico
would all install OK however they would also remove all 182 kde3 packages. How can I keep kde3 installed and still run nautilus and yelp? Wassup? Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages

2003-02-03 Thread Victor Torrico
Thanks to all who replied. Will stick with KDE3.1 for now until the GCC 3.2 C++ recompiles are completed. Will be on the lookout for kde 3.1 in unstable. Victor * Joerg Wendland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael Wardle, on 2003-02-04, 11:19, you wrote: > > I notice that the libfa

Apt-get removing perl libraries

2003-09-29 Thread Victor Cain
>= 5.8.0-19) but it is not going to be installed Depends: liburi-perl but it is not going to be installed libxml-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed libxml-twig-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0-21) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken p

Strange problem with Mozilla/xpdf

2002-10-16 Thread Victor Munoz
ded. Comments? Thanks in advance, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-virus for Linux at an ISP

2002-10-19 Thread Victor Julien
Try f-prot, the linux-version is not licensed in this way. See: http://www.f-prot.com/products/fplin.html Victor On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 14:15, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to install an anti-virus for Linux for an ISP with 400.000 email

Missing packages on CD?

2002-10-21 Thread Victor Munoz
ke this. Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing packages on CD?

2002-10-21 Thread Victor Munoz
of the first one. But of course, non free is not the same as non-US... Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Galeon crash (continued)

2002-10-22 Thread Victor Munoz
a terminal open: Gtk-CRITICAL ** file gtkmain.c:line 582 (gtk_main_quit): assertion main_loops !=NULL failed. Anyone has had similar problems? Thanks, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

XEmacs/GKB Keyboard Switcher

2002-10-22 Thread Victor Munoz
member if the nomule versions gave problems (I also tried them), but I dropped them soon because I didn't really wanted them. Which application could be really responsible (xemacs, the switcher, anything else) and how could this be fixed if possible? Thanks in advance,

Re: Use many graphics in LaTeX document. Configuration files ofLaTeX.

2002-11-27 Thread Victor Munoz
why floats could be moved to the end of the document. Regards, Victor On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Egor Tur wrote: > Sorry. > I have next document in tex: > > \documentclass[12pt]{article} > \usepackage{graphicx} > \begin{documen

Re: XEmacs and Gnome Terminal copy/paste

2003-01-13 Thread Victor Munoz
ld try that. (I tried several combinations of mule/non-mule, gnome/non-gnome, maybe more than one works.) Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Corrupted Partition Table

1998-08-21 Thread Victor Torrico
ition table so the OS/2 fdisk will work and I can get on with installing Debian/GNU Linux on this 6.4G Western Digital drive?? I can use debian to work on the drive with the bad partition table. What docs might tell how to clean up a partition table? Regards, -- Victor To

SLRN woes

1999-02-15 Thread Victor Torrico
. Perplexing. Best regards, Victor -- Head Waters, Virginia USDA Zone 5 at 2100 feet Near the head waters of the James and Potomac Rivers

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