Re: Fw:Mewbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
I agree, close this thread. the main issue was resolved with a reinstall.
Thanks for the sources.list info.
Leonard Chatagnier
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Fw:Mewbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>
> >From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
> >
> >
> >>Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Well. finally achieved partial success. Modem, ppp,wvdial and gnome
GUI now working without error messages except Mozilla mail client still gets
mail from the wrong account.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Somewhere in the Moz menus will be an "Account Options" or similar item
> >>(on Thunderbird, it's "Tools" / "Account Settings"). Delete the wrong
> >>account; create the correct account.
> >>
> >>
> >Gee, I thought I made it clear that I have only one account set up and
have deleted it several times and restarted. I set up lenc@ruralcomm.com
but I get lchata@ruralcomm.com. User ID is lchata and I think Mozilla is
getting confused. Getting correct email set up with outlook express
> >worked the first time when I first changed addresses.
> >
> >
>
> Is Outlook Express responsible for the horrible quoting style I'm seeing
> in this email (which I've cleaned up in this reply)? If so, it's hardly
> a program to be praising, even if it is easy to set up.
>
> Perhaps you did make it clear that you only have one account set up and
> have deleted it & restarted several times in an earlier posting, but
> this list generates way too much traffic for most people to remember
> details not specified in the immediate context.
>
> At any rate, what you're describing is not being understood by me. Maybe
> you should start a new thread with an appropriate subject line to deal
> with just this one issue.
>
> >>>Dselect didn't run. The reinstall failed
> >>>everyltime I used my backup CD' so I turned to the originals to
reinstall
> >>>and it still didn't complete dselect as on the original installation.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm beginning to think you have bad/damaged CDs.
> >>
> >>
> >Ditto, I think the same. So I used the unused original disks and still
had errors. The originals from Linux CD-r's could be corrupt.
> >
> >
>
> Could be.
>
>
> >>In order to inform your system of newer stuff, like newer
> >>kernels, you'll have to point your system to a different source for
> >>packages.
> >>
> >>
> >Ok, I've changed sources.list from stable to testing and commented out
the CD entries and assume I will see Sarge kernel images to download when I
run `apt-get dist-upgrade. Right? Can I just upgrade the kernel to Sarge
to start instead of updating/upgrading the entire Debian distribution or
> >will that cause problems? I only have dialup modem service.
> >
> >
>
> Just changing "stable" to "testing" won't do the job, as your
> sources.list file is currently (presumably) only looking toward your
> on-hand set of CDs. You'll have to add appropriate lines for grabbing
> files off the network. "man sources.list" is a good reference, but to
> get you started, here's what my sources.list file looks like (I only
> pull from the net; no CDs, etc):
>
> > westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main
> > # deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
>
> PS: It's a good idea to prune excess material that's no longer needed in
your reply. It's also a good idea to not "top post", but rather to place
your response directly below whatever you're responding to. It's my
understanding that Outlook Express encourages top-posting by putting your
cursor at the top of a reply email; very bad, nasty habit.
>
>
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