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wow, That got ugly quick huh? fsck didn't hose you had big problems if there were that many invalid inodes. sounds like you got some good expierience anyway.

It's boot option so it need to go in your lilo or grub config. LILO example append="nofstab" HolgerH correct me if I'm wrong on this one.

I got your PM. I'll reply here to keep the info flowing. sound like you may have some corruption on the disk or with the pkg 1. is it just frozen bubble that chokes? 2. Run dpkg -s frozen-bubble to check teh status of the pkg 3. install synaptic if you haven't and check the section labled "broken packages" 4. If none of the above works for you try to reinstall dpkg apt-get install --reinstall dpkg 5. Have you rebooted? try running fsck on teh root disk to see if it's got some coruption if the reboot didn't do it automaticly Knoppix is not pure Debian so there may be some weird knoppix thing I'm overlooking, like the fstab stuff .

Originally posted by ReFoRMaT: Quote: ...Are the Debian crowd elitists that want to keep the 'average' user out of their clique? Your posts crack me up. You have a way with words... oh and yes we are. Debian is the distro for geeks, no doubt I love that I have to basicly build a system from scratch and know every detail of hardware/software and evrything in between. Custom kernels , recompiles, and viewing logs is all part of the learning expeirence. If I documented all teh stuff I've had trouble with tehn fixed. I'd be much more helpfull here. Unfortunaly I hack, fix, then forget. suse is a great choice. I've used 9.1 on test box it was good ubuntu is very good, mepis I'm gonna try out soon just for kicks I guess I'll give KDE another shot too even thogh everytime I use it I feel like I'm on a windows box. It's too busy for a gnome user of five years. I like your honesty and it's more of a technicle ex-windows users viewpoint which is refreshing, it shows teh limits of linux on the desktop I think.

1. This is a problem with X. I have a hack for gnome but It looks like you wnat ot use or do use kde 2. Not sure what you mean by this. What desktop do you load when you log in, KDE or Gnome? X is not a desktop enviornment. 3. if you are using lilo become root... 1. cp -p lilo.conf lilo.conf.orig 2. open lilo.conf in you favorite text editor (vi) 3. change the boot order by switching the default=label looks something like this.... there will be more junk but this is the important stuff. Quote: default=windowsXP image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.egorgry" label="Linux-2.6.8" root="/dev/hdb6" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windowsXP 4. run lilo -t to test the config if all is well then run lilo and reboot to see the new boot order in all it's glory. If it bitches try to fix what it complained about or post teh error here. Alternativly you can cp -p lilo.conf.orig lilo.conf to be revert to you old settings if that's why we copied the config file in the 1st step.

I got a BFG OC geforce6800 "vanilla" 128mb ram, works no problems. BFG is a great american company that overclocks the cards out of the box. They come with real quality memory and fan/heatsinks. I strongly recommend teh company. Plus they give you a full retail version of farcry. http://www.bfgtech.com/

You can change out the fans. just buy the fan for your card or an after market one it's pretty easy to do. http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=012204

very possible. I had tnt2 card and the fan blew up I had a problem with X locking up. I don't remember if X was cpu hungry though?? I'd bet it's a hardware issue... Nothing else changed, right?

to see if you got any outside access try typing dig www.sony.com or ping www.sony.com google's ip is 64.233.161.104

Originally posted by iamroot: Quote: Debian is nice but what puts alot of potential users off are the outdated software and non-graphical installer.. I know that is contributes to stability but many people still like cutting-edge stuff. use sid. it's as current as it gets... well maybe not as current as gentoo.

Not 100% sure but I think this image is what you need. It has a fully operational sarge install. Once this is set up you should be able to configure the network. Notice it's about twice the size of a netinstall. http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/

Once you get a pure debian system installed you won't regret it. Plus you will never need to install again. Ther is a special kernel that allows you to install using ppoe I'm off to find it. I believe someone built an iso around it with the 2.6 kernel an reiserfs. Try google for netboot iso debian or something.

Pick up writting linux device drivers by oreily. I had this book and it was just beyond teh scope of what I do. between my real job and a life I couldn't pull it off. good book tho. btw, You're a better man than me.

ProMepis is very nice. Have you tried ubuntu? That's another great easy to install, easy to use debian based distro.

If you just want to chat with peeps on yahoo, or aim, or any other IM protocol I would install gaim it's a nice multi protocol IM client. To install in software in debian just open up a terminal type su root <enter your root passwd and hit enter> type apt-get install gaim and teh rest is done for you. While your at it if you don't have it already get synaptic, same deal apt-get install synaptic. then you can use synaptic to install virtually any debian pkg known to man. If this is no good and you have your heart set on using ymessenger I'll take a look to see if I can get it going and write up a tutorial for you. Let me know how you make out.

I always do a custom compile, but you could follow this. http://liminis.net/NvidiaDriver If you're interested in custom kernels here's some good stuff. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/intro-kernel-pkg.html.en http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/index.html Also nvidia has teh script thingy to help install the modules on the drivers page. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html

well I grabbed the promepis beta3 thanks DD. I'll give it a go. I'll try to write up a first impressions from a Debian/Sid users prespective.

I've been using this search engine with great results. I really like the cluster feature. You'll see what I mean it's the box to the right of your results. Anyways just thought I'd share it with all y'all. I'm a big google fan but this one is winning me over in a big way. http://clusty.com/

Nice. I've thought about using gentoo alot but my debian system purrs like a kitten, I don't want to change after all teh hard work I put in. My second pc runs ubuntu. very cool. Quiz result Distros you should try are (in the correct order) 1. Gentoo Linux 2. Free BSD 3. Open BSD 4. Debian GNU/Linux 5. Ubuntu Linux

I'm sure this is an older bonobo bug where the pkg is installed wrong or corrupt. HOwever it doesn't explain your segfault error as far as I know. what distro is this? if debian go to synaptic and see if you have any broken pkgs if rpm I think you can do a rpm -v pkgname or something... redhat gurus please help.

what are the results of /sbin/ifconfig -a if you don't have an ip assigned to that lancard and you are using dhcp try dhclient if you don't have dhclient installed I recommend installing it.

Yeah, this forum is great, freindly, no attitude, and everyone is strong in different areas. I know I have problems with trying to break things down into noob terms but someone usually bails me out... (the dans) and I still pick up tip, tricks, and better ways to do stuff from alot of the people on this board.

Strange indeed??? did you dig through /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log anything of note in there?

Originally posted by mainaa: Quote: ...Please create a newer boot floppy Doh! that stinks. where did you get the mandrake discs and can you get an exact version number? Maybe something like 10.1.0009 build.X I'm just guessing at this point I havent used mandrake since version 8.x. and I know they have all kinds of builds now. If you can get that info then you can search http://www.google.com/linux for a more current boot floppy image.

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