From: Mikko Suonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay
> Press spacebar to boot from diskette...
> ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected.
> Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information.
> Insert boot ...
>
> It seems to be a hardware problem. Or?
You are using
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> 2. Packages needing a new maintainer
> Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
> o aout-svgalib
> o svgalib1
> o svgalib1-bin
> o svgalib1-dev
I need a newer varsion of svgalib for a program (XaoS) I want to package
up for debian. Is this
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
> From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
> "libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
> install.
Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.9
doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)
|">Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
|">From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|">
|">Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
|">"li
When I go for my packages to install should I look in buzz, buxx-fixed, or rex.
Which way do I go, Which way do I go.:-)
thanks
Where should I look for a stable kernal? I have to make a new kernal so that
my Xwindows will work. (My mouse pad on the laptop freezes the keyboard). Is
there a Debian packaged kernal that will guide me through it or do have
kernal*.tar.gz from and make it myself? My gcc is working great and I jus
Hello Debians,
I compiled the kernel with the necessary requirements for DOSEMU. I
installed the debian package and just entered `dos' at the prompt. Result:
dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
Well, I do have the library, what went wrong and how can I adjust DOSEMU?
thanks in advance,
Marc
This is being handled by the 'mime.types' file. I don't really know
enough about it, but I'll take a shot in hopes that it will help.
The remote server has a mime.types file that tells it what
Content-type: line to write out. You should be able to fix the problem
by getting the site maintainer t
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Good day folks,
Ex Equo :-)
> Before downloading lynx shows the following (not exactly)
>
> (a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar
>
> (b) Content-type: text/plain
>
> The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files?
>
It's
Martin Stromberg wrote:
>[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
>
>>
>> BTW, if you look in the archives, you should find _tons_ on this topic.
>> :-)
>>
>> Casper Boden-Cummins.
>>
>>
>
>So where are the recent archives you're talking about, or are you joking
>(the smiley)?
>
>And before you say "http://ww
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes:
> This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended
> Real Time Clock support.
>
> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Actually I believe that on the Dell portable we have here, it still
segfaults, even without RTC support. If w
As Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:19:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David L. Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On F
> C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de "buzz-fixed" et ca ira.
>
> Amities, Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
>
>
Merci! Ca marche maintenant.
Translation: Thanks, now it works :-)
-->> Debian Linux, the choice of a GNU genera
Has /sbin/clock stopped working properly? On at least 3 of the
machines I manage "clock -w" is corrupting the cmos clock, and
"clock -r" just hangs.
Am I going crazy, or am I ignoring some fundamental change in
using /sbin/clock that occurred recently?
Behan Webster
--
Behan Webster
[EMAIL PR
> Tony Robinson writes:
Tony> Can someone help me to install Debian on a portable (PCMCIA,
Tony> no CDROM)? Is there a "how to install with PCMCIA mini-FAQ"
Tony> that I missed?
Tony> I've got as far as working out that the default kernel is
Tony> compiled with PCMCIA su
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote:
dlc>> I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP
dlc>> routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all
dlc>> routing information sent from the PPP link.
dlc>
dlc>I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing
dlc>protocols as muc
J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> > Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one.
> There was one: a "baby-gnu". It was decided to drop it following the
> troubles with the FSF (the "lignux" stuff).
>
> I still have copies:
> http://www.debian.org/attic/debian-small.gif
> http://www.debian.org/att
Gordon Russell writes:
> I decided to call the package tk-blt, as there is another public domain
> package called blt which does something completely different! I did not
> make two packages for this one, as the difference between a user and a
> developer version would have been less than a KByte o
Hi!
I finally moved from RH(2.1) to Debian(1.1.4) and I have to admit that this
looks promising! Just learned the first steps using dselect; hopefully
I learn to ftp the latest version of Debian with it someday!
Jep, I also run into three problems. First, I am only able to boot with
a
I am encountering an error formatting large partitions (2.8 gb).
Equipment is a pentium 100, Adaptec 1542CF, DEC DSP5300.
The drive partitions just fine, then when the debian install program
tries to read past around 2.1 gb I receive a message "badblocks: Cant
resolve symbol llseek".
Also, I r
Hiho,
Seems that I have found what I was looking for. Lynx reads
/etc/mime.types and the file from 1.1 didn't contain an entry for
*.deb files. The mime-support package from the unstable tree does.
Sorry for disturbing,
Joey
--
Individual Network e.V._/
As Christoph Lameter wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter)
> Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
> Date: 10 Sep 1996 18:12:22 -0700
> Organization: Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA 91182
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Resent-F
Good day folks,
I've been runnning into a problem with lynx and download of files.
In an ftp-listing I try to download two files
(a) x.tar.gz
and
(b) x.deb
Case (a) works without any problem, but the downloaded file (b) isn't
usable. I then took look at the ftpserver and found out that
> I think we've slipped a month, maybe a bit more. Sorry. Blame me - I have been
> busy moving into a new home (we get posession on Monday), etc.
I see a dangerous precedent here -- putting one's personal life ahead of
Debian. And I notice you wrote "we". Relationships tend to sap and impurify
a
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The documentation on how to make a Debian package is in the package
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.3.14.deb .
The documentation is also available in ps and html in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/{policy,
Casper> I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us.
My excuses! That mail was not meant to also go to the list.
"texbin" fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the
file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to
mfbasfnt
Gerd Bavendiek wrote:
>I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2
>Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing
>/lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in
>/usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took
>kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But t
Package: tk-blt
Woops, I just found it in unstable as "blt". Please ignore my last
posting.
Gordon
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
> I could install base, copy over the
> pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it -
> only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install
> the lot. Any pointers, I can't be alone with this pr
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I would like to set up a mail-to-fax gateway of some sort, so users would be
able to get a mail addressed to something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' send out to
a
fax machine at that number.
My system is running both the sendmail and mgetty+sendfax packages.
I have
Here is the first release of the blt extensions for tk/tcl.
I decided to call the package tk-blt, as there is another public domain
package called blt which does something completely different! I did not
make two packages for this one, as the difference between a user and a
developer version would
Dirk.Eddelbuettel writes:
-
---
Miro Torrielli writes:
Miro> I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to
retrieve
Miro> all necessary packages, from stable & unstable. Firstly, I
noticed
Miro> that w
Hi,
I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2
Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing
/lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in
/usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took
kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But there is
no psaux.o in t
John
The next copy of Linux world has a copy of Deb 1.1 on the
cover (and Quake ... whatever that is !). You can contect
them via
http://www.eurodream.com
or 0171 7716170
I'm not a subscriber (yet).
Hope this helps
David
P.S Judging by your e-mail address you're situated pretty
close to me !
|">Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
|">From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|">
|">Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
|">"libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
|">install.
|">
|"> I believe this just
|"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes:
|"> I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r'
|"> and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on
|"> 2 systems here... :(
|"
|"Yep... it segfaults for me too.
|"
|"An `strace' looked like it was cribbing on a
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one.
>
> If not, we could start a Logo contest, just as the Linux Logo Contest. I'm
> just an administrator and not an artist, but perhaps we have some on this
> list!
>
> An logo would be nice for
Casper BodenCummins wrote:
>
> Lazaro Salem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >The -print flag is not really needed as is executed by default.
>
> This isn't true of all systems. If you want portability, include the
> -print.
I believe that POSIX.2 mandates -print as the default. Can someone who
I don't think we have a package with the "Logo" programming language.
It's a good teaching language, and there are a few free ones around,
I think. Such a package would be welcome.
Regarding the Debian Logotype: We still can't use the baby GNU - I'd
like to reserve that for FSF's own product. I've
The documentation on how to make a Debian package is in the package
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.3.14.deb .
(The package version number will soon change, and the package may split
into base/dpkg* and devel/dpkg-dev* in the near future.)
Install that package, and the
I think we've slipped a month, maybe a bit more. Sorry. Blame me - I have been
busy moving into a new home (we get posession on Monday), etc.
Thanks
Bruce
Ed Donovan writes:
>
> I don't have the file around anymore, but in the last debian-changes
> announcement for xemacs, the maintainter noted that he had a problem
> with the installation of info files that both emacs and xemacs provide.
> He couldn't get xemacs to not overwrite the emacs-prov
Miro Torrielli writes:
Miro> I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve
Miro> all necessary packages, from stable & unstable. Firstly, I noticed
Miro> that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the
Miro> unpacking of some of them fail, compla
> bcwhite>You don't want to trace it. If you read the "debian.rules" (or
> debian/rules)
> bcwhite>file, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a
> directory
> bcwhite>("debian-tmp") and create a directory structure just like that of the
> debian
> bcwhite>system and place yo
Michael> How does one unsubscribe these lists?
$ echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
bcwhite>You don't want to trace it. If you read the "debian.rules" (or
debian/rules)
bcwhite>file, you'll see how a package is built. Basically, you create a
directory
bcwhite>("debian-tmp") and create a directory
> bcwhite>> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on
> creating
> bcwhite>> deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually
> figured out
> bcwhite>> how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg
> out),
> bcwhite>> but how do I make
> >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
> >From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
> >"libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
> >install.
> >
> > I believe this just ha
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Mike Coleman wrote:
>Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
>From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
>"libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will
>install.
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
bcwhite>> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on
creating
bcwhite>> deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually
figured out
bcwhite>> how to do it simply using tar, gz
> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating
> deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out
> how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out),
> but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after un
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Algirdas Kunigelis wrote:
algikun>
algikun>Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on
creating
algikun>deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually
figured out
algikun>how to do it simply using
I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to
retrieve all necessary packages, from stable & unstable.
Firstly, I noticed that when installing a large number of
packages on the system, the unpacking of some of them fail,
complaining that some lib or another is missing. This has
already
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Marc Weeber wrote:
M.Weeber>Hello fellow debians,
M.Weeber>
M.Weeber>Last week, I moved over from slackware 3.0 to debian 1.1. What a
M.Weeber>relief, really, except for one thing: my connection with the world.
M.Weeber>Everything installe
There was a major patch to the aic7xxx driver that was originally
applied to kernel 2.0.7. The patch became part of the regular kernel
2.0.13. I was having similar problems upgrading to the 2.0.0 kernel
until I sent mail to the aic7xxx maintainer and got pointed to the
patch. He (Dan Eischen) sa
It's happened a couple of times now that I've tried newer versions of packages
in hopes that they would fix some problem (I'm still experiencing frequent
system hangs :-( ), only to find that for some reason I needed to go back to
the earlier version. It would really be nice to be able to use dsel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes:
> I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r'
> and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on
> 2 systems here... :(
Yep... it segfaults for me too.
An `strace' looked like it was cribbing on a strange ioctl c
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.22 1996/09/12 22:26:04 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. What is Debian GNU/Linux
Please read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/deb
I've been watching for info about this but haven't seen any for
the past month.
How does one unsubscribe these lists?
PLEASE!
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I would like to install gimp.
>
> Pardon my ignorance ...
> I see that there are two versions.
>
> gimp-dmotif (dynamic)
> vs.
> gimp-smotif (static)
The Static version contains a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
|Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O?
No. It seems to work without a problem at all times. There
are no messages from the floppy drive even when the installation
fails - the base diskettes allways finish being read and fail only
when they ar
Algirdas> Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction
Algirdas> on creating deb packages?
Vadik> Please post it to the list,
New version of dpkg (<< 1.4.0) or dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.0) come with two html'ed
manuals in /usr/doc/dpkg/{programmer,policy}.html/ that pretty m
Can someone help me to install Debian on a portable (PCMCIA, no CDROM)?
Is there a "how to install with PCMCIA mini-FAQ" that I missed?
I've got as far as working out that the default kernel is compiled with
PCMCIA support, that there exists a pcmcia-cs*.deb package, but the boot
time network con
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