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Debian Installation screen
by Craig 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Apparently a lot of people are sick to death with Debian main installation. However, someone I know on IRC decided to try build a basic "user friendly" installer. Good luck to him I say but I will try my best to report how he is getting on etc. Just thought it was worth a mention ;) -- Craig

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Let the questions begin!!
by Kelly Ash 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

I'm not entirely clear on how the file/folder system works in here. Keeping in mind I'm used to using the OTHER OS, is it the same sort of structure? Where are the best/worst places to create folders so that I can remember where things are? Looks like user and home but I'd rather ask before I start trying to add folders etc... #2 - I see some programs (in a brochure that came with the user guide) that I supposedly have available to me but apparently I didn't load during the install. Can I put the install CD back in and load them now without going through the whole install again? Don't know if they'd be on the first CD or the Comm. Apps CD....hmmm......... #3 - In anticipation of installing Linux I began buying Linux Format mag and The Linux Magazine. The cover CD's, (and this more than likely has to do with my first question to some point) if I pop in the CD, then what? Will it automatically put things where they're supposed to go? From what I can gather not having tried it yet, there will be some other 'work' to do to get some of them installed too and they seem to give good directions. #4 - While reading through the user guide that came with my 'boxed set' and also a book called Teach Yourself Linux in 24 hours (yeah right! *g*). When they go through different steps on how to do things it tells me different commands to type but not where or what I should be in to type them!! It seemed a stupid question so I had my fiance try finding out in the books with no luck, so I'm asking. #5 - Have you dozed off yet? lol. There's way too much "space" around my windows. Is there some way to fix this within Linux so that I don't have to keep changing my monitor settings as I go back and forth with Bills product? OK, guess that's if for today. Hope they aren't silly questions......honestly I am researching but can't get to the answers fast enough, could be just a bit excited and impatient. Maybe. Kelly

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Re: [Alug] Setting up nVidia GeForce 2 MX400
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

> If there are any ALUG members on the > mailing list who have managed to get an nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 video card > working with Debian 2.2r4 could they please let me know what settings they > used for XF86Setup. I could never get it to work with that version of X. (I think it's 3.3.6). However, Debian 3.0 has been released and it just works fine with X4.1.0. I'd highly recommend an upgrade to Debian 3.0, I could then send you my XF86Config-4 file. (I have the exact same card). The driver you want is "nv", although you can get proprietary drivers from nvidias website (although debian 3 has apt-gettable versions), which uses the "nvidia" driver, and also (regrettably) patches the kernel (so you need your kernel source handy). I upgraded over the weekend from 2.2r3 to 3.0 using a dialup. (took friday night until I came home from pub, and sat morning). For the debian release details, www.debianplanet.org has a good collection of links and mentions new X setup tools. (I haven't used them, though). Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Debian 3.0 Woody
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

OK, with debian 3.0 released, I'm wondering if I should now change my default release in my apt.conf to "stable"? At the moment it's still "testing", and I haven't noticed any changes when I apt-get upgrade. Congrats to the debian developers, and the users that have supported debian (bug reports, just plain using it). What a complicated project, and only 2.5 months late! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Debian 3.0 Woody
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

> It was never "late" it arrived when everyone said it would, ie when it was > finished :) I know. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Debian 3.0 Woody
by Ricardo Campos 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

>should you have changed > the "testing" to "woody" in apt-sources list so the apt moved with the > version? I tried that, but when I put woody instead of testing and did apt-get update, I got a shedload of 404 errors. Perhaps ftp.linux.co.uk was just broken at that point. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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which php version
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Hullo List, I installed php-4.2.1 last week by downloading and configuring the tarball, using the - - with - options. The system is still using the old version, however: php-4.0.6. Because I've upgraded postgresql using apt-get to v7.2.1 I needed to recompile php, you see, and so thought I may as well grab the latest version whilst I was at it. How does the system know which of the php's to use? If I brutally remove the v4.0.6 directory I assume php won't work at all. I feel like I've gone back a year in time, all this newbie fumbling about. Does my question make any sense at all? Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Debian 3.0 Woody
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Ricardo wrote: >OK, with debian 3.0 released, I'm wondering if I should >now change my default release in my apt.conf to >"stable"? At the moment it's still "testing", and I >haven't noticed any changes when I apt-get upgrade. > >Congrats to the debian developers, and the users that >have supported debian (bug reports, just plain using >it). What a complicated project, and only 2.5 months >late! > >Ricardo Ricardo - I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I mixed up testing and stable with very unpleasant results - should you have changed the "testing" to "woody" in apt-sources list so the apt moved with the version? That's what I did...I was using testing, then MJR said to do that before woody moved to stable. Yes - I'm constantly amazed what effort people put in to this open source thing. Jen.

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Re: VBScript Detected
by MJ Ray 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

postmaster(a)col-westanglia.ac.uk <postmaster(a)col-westanglia.ac.uk> wrote: > The College of West Anglia Mail Systems have detected VBScript in an email. I think we've just found another bug in the College of West Anglia Mail Systems, folks. I thought ddryden had unsubbed from there anyway. Oh well. MJR

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Re: [Alug] DVD Playing
by Ricardo Campos 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

> > Now so far no piece of software has offered me the choice of setting the > > region of the player. The player is an OEM one, :-/ Mine seems ready to play region 1 and 2 interchangeably without any problems. I'm sure I've played both more than 5 times. Steve- What terminal o/p do you get? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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