floppy problems?

1996-10-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol management and when I attempt to read from it under debian 1

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1996-10-12 Thread David Frey
[problem description elided] >I imagine that the memory used by X to store the picture of the >screen is overlapping in some way the memory where my ordinary text fonts are being stored. What should I do? I don't have any experience with your card, but you have basically two possibilities: a) con

Re: Debian + POSIX

1996-10-12 Thread David Frey
Hi Bruce, >Actually, until recently you could only be POSIX compliant by paying >a lot of money. You paid for copies of the standard, you paid for >validation software, and you paid for a POSIX compliance lab to certify >you. So it was a way for the well-funded commercial Linux projects to >differ

Wanted: pcmcia_cs in .deb format for 2.0.6

1996-10-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
If anybody has a .deb of pcmcia_cs compiled against the 2.0.6 kernel could they please get in touch. Cheers. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

latex_2e-7.deb almost ate my disk

1996-10-12 Thread Nick Busigin
I ran into some trials and tribulations when I tried to install the latex_2e-7.deb package... it almost used up all the space on my hard drive. Here's a copy of my installation notes that describe the problem: Running 'dpkg -i latex_2e-7.deb' produced the following error: Unpacking latex (fr

Glimpse search?

1996-10-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on www.debian.org? I'm trying to search the mail archives. File Not found The requested URL /cgi-bin/aglimpse/23/usr/ns-home/debian.org was not found on this server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

1996-10-12 Thread Dominik Kubla
Just copy the pcmcia-cs packages on a floppy, install them from there and you can access the network, but beware: NFS might still not work due to a bug in the kernel package, the versions didn't match the last time i tried... :( I used FTP to install enough to recompile the kernel, after the inst

FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

1996-10-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
HI folk, i've just installed 1.11 (buzz) on my notebook and I'd like to know how i can point deselect at my Solaris x86 desktop machine. I believe I need kernel support for the ethernet card and I don't think it's available in the "out of the box" kernel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: inews package conflicts with domestic convention

1996-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kazuhiro Sasayama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I found Debian inews package conflicts with Japanese domestic >convention about news articles. We have embedded raw ESCs without any >special encodings into articles to write Japanese, and the inews >package is programme

Re: mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-12 Thread Guy Maor
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: > So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? The proper way is with the .lock file. Policy manual 4.3 documents this. You should file bug reports against any programs that use a different method. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-12 Thread Loic Prylli
Hello, I have seen that smail use "file locking" to lock a user mailbox while manipulating it (it creates a /var/spool/mail/.lock file), like I suppose most others mail programs in debian. But a least the mail program from the mailx package do locking by calls to flock. I am not sure, if in som

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 11 Oct 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system. > >(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.) > > Ah I see what you want. > > You don't need NIS to resolve hostnames. In fact, I'm pretty sure the > This

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system. >(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.) >I can't seem to get it to work now. When ypbind is running, commands >that should tri

inews package conflicts with domestic convention

1996-10-12 Thread Kazuhiro Sasayama
I found Debian inews package conflicts with Japanese domestic convention about news articles. We have embedded raw ESCs without any special encodings into articles to write Japanese, and the inews package is programmed to strip these ESCs silently. So I finally removed the package and switched to

Re: resetting a virtual console

1996-10-12 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other > day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or > command? > > Thanks, Chris. If you are logged in, all you need to do is type 'reset'. And there

Re: [Linux-ISP] NCR 825 ctrler

1996-10-12 Thread Marty Leisner
> The 825 has a BIOS...but the 810 based cards do not, and can't be used to > boot from a SCSI disk unless your system BIOS has the appropriate BIOS > extensions built in. Most Pentiums do...but some don't. > I have an NCR810 card...it was in a Packard Bell...I knew nothing about PCI before (ex

Re: popclient and diald (fwd)

1996-10-12 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, This is a message I sent to the Eric, popclient maintainer. I tend to agree with Eric, this does look more like a diald problem. I have added the following lines to my diald configuration files accept tcp 30 tcp.dest=tcp.pop-3 accept tcp 30 tcp.source=tcp.pop-3 accept udp 30 udp.dest=u

Re: Apache requires a trailing slash on URLs

1996-10-12 Thread Bruce Perens
> I installed the Apache package. The only problem it's giving me is > that, when I specify a URL of a directory (like "http://www.blah.com/snot";), > it says that it's not found. If I add the slash, it does find it. The slash on the end of the name is required. Nobody supplies it, though, and mos