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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #185

Hi, Folks,
I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux experience in general.
I have just installed a "a base system" on a machine I built, 
but could not mark packages on the package list, for some reason, 
and now have only a shell installed.
I would like to have a gui, like kde, and be able to install
more packages, but in the shell I do have, when I cd to /mnt/
nothing is recognized there, with the cd in the drive, so I am
not even able to see what is on the cds to install anything.
Tried to $cd /mnt/cdrom (with deb cd in drive) and got no such directory message.
I'm lost, but this system is useless to me if all I get is a terminal/shell.
HELP!

tony

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debian-user-digest Digest				Volume 2003 : Issue 185

Today's Topics:
  Re: sid: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030109 (D  [ Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ]
  Re: Switching smart relays automatic  [ Carel Fellinger <carel.fellinger@ch ]
  Re: Dosemu                            [ CM Miller <cmmiller1973@yahoo.com> ]
  Re: Curious...Are most of you in tec  [ "Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyn ]
  changing icon set in 'gmc'            [ Maciej Kalisiak <mac@cs.toronto.edu ]
  determining UDMA rate                 [ George Georgalis <george@galis.org> ]
  Re: Can't start X with Nvidia         [ Adam Kao <ack94598@yahoo.com> ]
  RE: Can't start X with Nvidia         [ "Omnecide" <blueshutter@cox.net> ]
  keymaps                               [ Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec. ]
  Re: determining UDMA rate             [ Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> ]
  galeon: infinite instances; mozilla:  [ James Hughes <jhughes@kos.net> ]
  Re: determining UDMA rate             [ Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consul ]
  Re: Compiler error: C compiler canno  [ "Achton N. Netherclift" <achton@hea ]
  Re: keymaps                           [ Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec. ]
  Re: Nautilus load problems            [ qrchaque@master.pl (Marcin Fusinski ]
  Re: Ethernet Adapter Configuration    [ Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> ]
  Re: [SOLVED!] keymaps                 [ Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec. ]
  Re: DHCP prob (woody)                 [ Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcg ]
  Re: Doing a mass downgrade            [ Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.c ]

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003-01-18 20:23]:
> > It does, just not in the way you expect.
> 
> Maybe it should!  Assume a guy just using Linux wo. knowing much --

A guy using Linux without knowing much should just use g++ for C++
source. That makes logical sense and doesn't rely on magic.

> why is Windoofs so widely used? (*)

I've learned that most arguments that resort to comparisons with Windows
end up doomed very quickly, so I won't bother continuing this.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:26:00AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
...
> My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP 
> server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change 
> settings when I go from one place to the other?

There are many ways to achieve this, most with their pecularities:)
But assuming you're not trying to send a million emails, the router
option "queryprogram" might be of use to you.  You'll have to build
your own queryprogram to check which mail server to use, e.g. by
checking IP nrs.

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--- Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have installed Dosemu (1.0.2.1, the version that
> is included in
> Debian 3.0), and have some problems getting my
> Swedish keyboard to
> work. I have tested some different configuration,
> and with this:
> 
>   $_rawkeyboard = (0)
>   $_layout = "finnish-latin1"
>   $_keybint = (on)
> 
> I get Swedish characters to work in xdosemu, but not
> in a console or an
> xterm, when I run there nothing happens when I press
> the Swedish keys.
> 
> Furthermore, in console mode I get "emulated" PC8
> graphics. When I ran
> Dosemu earlier (several years ago, and obviously two
> configuration file
> fornmats earlier) I could configure Dosemu to open a
> new virtual
> console and use a PC8 font there. I cannot find that
> optin in 1.0.2.1,
> does anyone know if it is possible? It's not that
> important, I can
> survive with the ugly line-drawing symbols, the
> important thing is that
> I get the keyboard working.
> 
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On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:40, Cam Ellison wrote:
> * Lloyd Zusman (ljz@asfast.com) wrote:
> > "Scott  --sidewalking--" <sidewalking@webpipe.net> writes:
> > 
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> > > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> > > all of this stuff.  Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> > > long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
> > > levels that all of you are at?
> > >
> > > Just curious...
> > 
> > Well, as for me, I wrote my first computer program in 1969, and we all
> > used puchcards and paper tape and printouts, as well as console entry
> > switches on the computer itself.  We programmed in Assembly Language,
> > FORTRAN, PL/I, and some people used a new, state-of-the-art experimental
> > language called Basic, which actually ran on an interactive terminal (a
> > 10 character-per-second teletype that also accepted paper tape).
> 
> I can top that by a couple of years, since I started in 1965, but
> didn't have the pleasure of working with Unix, since I shifted into
> psychology (I'm now an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, and I
> won't explain because the explanation is proportionately as long as
> the label).  I'd hardly consider myself a hacker, but I guess it's all
> relative.  One of the things I particularly enjoy about this list is
> that relatively-unlearned guys like me have an opportunity to offer
> help to someone else.  If you've had to solve a problem, the odds are
> that someone else will shortly have the same problem.  You help them
> with it, and get to look like a genius.
> 
> Just for the record, I encountered Windows 1.0 at work, hated it, and
> haven't used it willingly since, unless you count having to install it
> so OS/2 could deal with M$-centric software.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cam
> 
> -- 
> Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych.
> >From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast
> cam@ellisonet.ca
> camellison@dccnet.com
cam@fleuryassociates.com

Y'know, I used Windows 1.0 as well, on an AT&T 6300 PC (the one built by
Olivetti, where you removed the bottom to get into the system) and only
once in over a year succeeded in crashing it, while running PageMaker
and scanner software on 640 KB of RAM. It wasn't the most
technologically advanced platform, and was well shy of the Macintosh,
but it was the most reliable version of Windows I used until NT 3.51,
and better running.

I went to OS/2 when DOS 6.0 blew up on my (yup, doublespace) - going
with Stacker for OS/2 on OS/2 2.1 and dual-booting to DOS 6.22/Windows
for Workgroups 3.11. Later, I replaced that 486 box with a Pentium,
where I started with OS/2 and after a year, also NT 3.51. OS/2 was
actually quite something in *certain* respects, mostly unleveraged,
unfortunately, such as the ability to make use of extended attributes
for whatever could be useful - what program(s) use the file, search
keywords, creator, icons, and any manner of things not yet envisioned.
Then I started seeing that Linux was to the point where you could find
distributions with accompanying software on CD.

In 1997, I got the first CDs, in 1998, got it working, and *evolved*
into using it between 1998 and early 2000, when the drive that had NT
(and the OS/2 boot manager) died and I replaced it without restoring NT
(hadn't used it in months,) devoting much more disk space to Linux. The
old OS/2 partition didn't work right, so it got a new one, too, but it
was never anything near the old system, and as the year finished out, I
got my current machine and made it a dedicated Debian GNU/Linux system,
while OS/2 was relegated to when I wanted to play Galactic
Civilisations. I have played with various BSD at points on a second
drive, but they aren't proving to be what I am looking for now, and I
don't want to be without my main Linux system in the time it would take
to make them usable. When I get the additional boards, I'll play there
;)
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I'm a GNOME newbie, and don't really use it.  I occasionally like to use "gmc",
but really dislike the color scheme for the icons used for the folders, arrows,
etc.  Is there some way I can change the icons used?  Are there any alternate
icon sets available, like they are for nautilus?

-- 
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I have a 40 pin ribbon on an ide drive (which supports udma100, at
least)

I know the board only goes up to udma66. do I need an 80 pin ribbon for
that?

looking at hdparm, I cannot see how to determine the present udma rate.
how is that done?

// George

BTW - this is a scsi box, just adding and ide for extra space... I can
do some hdparm experimenting at this point.

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I don't know if this is relevant, but when I installed X on my system
I had to remove the "UseFBDev" option from the "Device" section.

My system is much older and the video card is an old nVidia card that
uses the "nv" driver but it's something to try and can't hurt.

Adam

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Yea if you go to nvidias page and look under the install guide it tells you
to take those out
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From: "Adam Kao" <ack94598@yahoo.com>
To: <mas@uomphysics.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Can't start X with Nvidia


>
> I don't know if this is relevant, but when I installed X on my system
> I had to remove the "UseFBDev" option from the "Device" section.
>
> My system is much older and the video card is an old nVidia card that
> uses the "nv" driver but it's something to try and can't hurt.
>
> Adam
>
>
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Hi all,

I want to bind Ø to the capslock key on my keyboard. plusminus is
working but how to translate

$ man is0_8859_1
Oct   Dec   Hex   Char   Description

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