Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Vadik Vygonets
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. Where > does this get called from? I suspect that whatever is causing this > problem is also responsible for my xdm problem. /etc/X11/config also > looks OK. Oh I forgot... it must be calle

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Vadik Vygonets
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, James A. Robinson wrote: > .Xmodmap > keycode 22 = BackSpace > keycode 107 = Delete 107 is Delete by default. > Jim The .xresources and .emacs code is nice, thanks, I copied it to my configs. Vad. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nether.n

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Vadik Vygonets
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. Where > does this get called from? I suspect that whatever is causing this > problem is also responsible for my xdm problem. /etc/X11/config also > looks OK. I'm sending you my /etc/X11/Xses

Re: mirror of a site

1996-09-07 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Miguel A. Avillez wrote: > > Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? > Is there any howto? > > what are the procedures? Which files shall I configure? > If you get the mirror package, the instructions are all there but in a nutshell, you will need to configure t

Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?

1996-09-07 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! Yesterday evening i started installation of Debian-1.1.5 being well aware about the need to use the bad_links_fix_1.1.5.tgz for fixing some troubles related with the spoiled CD-ROM which i received like a few others too. Using the 1,44" diskimages in

seg faults with majordomo

1996-09-07 Thread Pure Energy
help help :/ i've been tring to setup majordomo and have done the following: 1 made '/etc/smail/lists' dir 2 did ln -s /var/lib/majordomo/lists /etc/smail/lists 3 added to /etc/smail/directors: aliasinclude: driver=aliasinclude,nobody; copysecure,co

Re: mirror of a site

1996-09-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Miguel> Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any Miguel> howto? No, but I've put a README with some documentation, as well as an example file for ftp.debian.org, into the Debian mirror package. The manual page for mirror is quite good. Miguel> what are the procedure

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Jim Worthington
Vadik Vygonets wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > > > (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian > > > > The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? > > Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: > keycode 22 = BackSpace > > Vad. I tried adding the line to /e

mirror of a site

1996-09-07 Thread Miguel A. Avillez
Hi all Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any howto? what are the procedures? Which files shall I configure? thanks miguel

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread James A. Robinson
> On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > > The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? > > Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: > keycode 22 = BackSpace I've found that I need to do a bit more then this because I use emacs. .Xmodmap keycode 22 = BackSpac

Re: iBCS-problem

1996-09-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dolgopolsky Igor writes: Igor> Hello. I have a problem with iBCS from 1.2.13 don't match 2.0.16. Igor> I downloaded iBCS 2.0 but cannot compile this. You can just ignore the errors. I usually do "make" after un-tar-ing the source, with no confih whatsoever and it works. The make breaks i

iBCS-problem

1996-09-07 Thread Dolgopolsky Igor
Hello. I have a problem with iBCS from 1.2.13 don't match 2.0.16. I downloaded iBCS 2.0 but cannot compile this. I get warnings like "function declaration isn't a prototype" and at the end of compilation Error after executing "cc -pipe -b i486-linuxaout -c -o boot.o boot.S" in the directory where b

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Vadik Vygonets
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: > (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian > > The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace Vad. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nether.net/~leg

Re: Dosemu

1996-09-07 Thread Lazaro . Salem
I had no problem in running dosemu (deb package 0.60.1?) that came with Debian 1.1 with kernel 2.0.6 (I recompiled the kernele for other reasons so I don't know if the standard in boot.bin could have give any trouble to dosemu) Write to me if I can help you. Lazaro

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

1996-09-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop: > Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then > "cd / > tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -)" > would copy some things to /mnt then copy /mnt/* to /mnt/mnt/ and so on. It doesn't. I've been using this a lot lately while reorganising fil

Re: hellish symlinks in archive

1996-09-07 Thread Lars Wirzenius
"Nathan O. Siemers": > You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries > mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: ... > Does anyone have a better config file for this purpose? Here's a sanitized version of mine: package=debian-rex site=ftp.l

Re: hellish symlinks in archive

1996-09-07 Thread Brian C. White
> You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries > mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: > > package=debian > site=ftp.caldera.com > remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian > local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian > get_patt=(binary-all/|non-fre

help with SCSI boards

1996-09-07 Thread Bruce Perens
> First, I switched to a > BusLogic Flashpoint; this was not detected though I typed "linux > buslogic=[iobase]" at the "boot:" prompt as directed. See the special notice for FlashPoint owners with Linux systems at the end of this message. > TMC-8xx/TMC-950 options: ARBITRATE SLOW_HANDSHAKE FAST3

A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Jim Worthington
I'm having the following problems, any suggestions woulg be greatly appreciated. Jim (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? I'm using TCSH shell (2) xdm - Debian 1.1.0 release The Debian login window appears, After a correct login

Re: Number of Linux processes allowed?

1996-09-07 Thread Bruce Perens
[User is getting a "too many processes" error] I am using "tcsh" for a shell, and when I run the "limit" command, I get "maxproc 30". This seems a bit low. Try becoming root, and in csh or tcsh running "limit maxproc 100", and see if you can actually run enough processes. This number is set to 25

Re: --largemem | --smallmem

1996-09-07 Thread Bruce Perens
[What do the dpkg --smallmem and --largemem flags do?] On a 4MB system, dpkg's in-RAM database is larger than your physical RAM. Thus, you use virtual memory for much of this database. Unfortunately, dpkg has poor locality-of-reference when accessing this database, so most of its execution time o

Re: help ?

1996-09-07 Thread shankar
>Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:33:01 -0400 (EDT) >From: Dale Scheetz >Subject: Re: help ? > >On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> My pentium is not booting after I installed Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0). The >> system hangs after configuring the serial ports. Here is what the last

Re: time to split the list?

1996-09-07 Thread Derrick Mckoy
This is a good idea. I would suggest: debian-install debian-user (instead of debian-technical) debian-novice (instead of debian-nontechnical). Derrick.

hellish symlinks in archive

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Zoikes. You know, it is not straightforward to keep *only* the intel binaries mirrored on another machine. I did write a preliminary mirror config file: package=debian site=ftp.caldera.com remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/debian local_dir=/usr3/people/nathan/src/debian get_patt=(binary-all/|non-free/bina

syslogd not starting up...

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello again... Since upgrading to 1.1, syslogd doesn't start up at boot. I have seen this problem brought up on the list before, but didn't see an answer. This only relevant things in var/log/messages (not too useful as syslogd isn't usually running) is perhaps: Sep 2 10:05:23 secura-9 syslogd

Number of Linux processes allowed?

1996-09-07 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Hello, I'm getting some "out of processes" errors lately in my debian 1.1 installation. Typically this is returned to the shell when I try to open a new xterm, etc. Linux secura-8 2.0.0 #3 Sun Jun 23 22:23:43 PDT 1996 i486 "top" says I only have about 50 procs running, and I doubt Linux would

Re: Debian Linux

1996-09-07 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi John -- You said: > The kernel needed is the "special kernel 6: special NCR53C8XX." This special > kernel is supposedly available from buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels > at any Debian FTP site. However, when I go the Debian FTP site the only > special kernels available are numbers 0 throu

Re: installing debian with initrd

1996-09-07 Thread Marty Leisner
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you write: >> and start installing? > >I am working on this for Debian 1.2 . Currently, you have to go through >the 5-floppy thing as detailed in my installation document on our WWW >site and also via FTP as >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/i

Re: eepro.c + question of my own

1996-09-07 Thread Alex Romosan
if you run eepro as a module try adding: options eepro io=0x230 in /etc/conf.modules. if you have it compiled in the kernel (as i do) add: append="ether=0,0x230,eth0" in /etc/lilo.conf. i've tried it both ways and it works fine for me (set at 0x210). now if i can only convince the card to show

--largemem | --smallmem

1996-09-07 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hello trying to understand the meaning of the following: - --- 'dpkg -help' [] --largemem | --smallmemOptimise for large (>4Mb) or small (<4Mb) RAM use [] - --- what exactly this future means , what it affects ? if anbd could