Going to single user, (was: how to boot single-user)

1997-03-28 Thread David B. Teague
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > At 08:02 AM 27/03/97 -0800, Ken Gaugler wrote: > > >A while back someone told me how to boot in single-user mode. I can't > > >seem to find that email, and there is no man page for boot or single. > > > > > >Could someone please refresh my memory? >

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Pete Harlan writes: Kai> ,- Kai> | M-p: history-search-backward Kai> | M-n: history-search-forward Kai> `- Pete> In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just Pete> like in emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules for bash it Pete> will use whatever horror

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-28 Thread Pete Harlan
> Alex> - In tcsh I can type anything on the command line and do a > Alex> search on the history list matching this input by pressing > Alex> ALT-P. How do I do that with bash? > > I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm > happy ever since 8-) > > ,- > | M-p

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

1997-03-28 Thread Bruce Perens
> the Intel 8244xFx PCI chipset Try the Triton driver support. I don't know about USB. Do you have any USB devices? I've never seen one. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Support for internal IDE Zip drive?

1997-03-28 Thread Mike L. Dickey
I've read the Iomega ZIP HOWTOs and noticed that they only mention 3 versions of the hardware (parallel external, SCSI internal, SCSI external). I've also browsed through the Debian website (noticed the facelift) ... there is no good site-wide search engine there, so I couldn't be as complete in m

Re: Israel www debian mirror is ready

1997-03-28 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Boris wrote: Boris> I am happy to announce that Israel www mirror is up and Boris> working stable. The address for reporting problems is me. Boris> Boris> thks borik Forgot to add that the site is http://www.il.debian.org. thks borik ---

pentium Pros and what about the USB?

1997-03-28 Thread m*
heya, i was digging about looking for support for the Intel 8244xFx PCI chipset that comes on Pentium Pro boards and found zip. this includes the .29 kernel source. are the Pentium Pro 200 chipsets supported yet? and what about the Universal Serial Bus? can we expect support for that any time

Israel www debian mirror is ready

1997-03-28 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
I am happy to announce that Israel www mirror is up and working stable. The address for reporting problems is me. thks borik --- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator [EMAIL PROT

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-28 Thread Jim Smith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > > > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > > I think you need both the line "start-xdm" and "xdm-start-server" in your > /etc/X11/config file. Well, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. Jim --

Re: Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple > of things > that could improve. I added to /etc/X11/config the line "start-xfs" with > the result that the Xfont server now starts up at boot time. I also > added the line "start-xdm"

Another dumb newbie question.

1997-03-28 Thread Jim Smith
I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple of things that could improve. I added to /etc/X11/config the line "start-xfs" with the result that the Xfont server now starts up at boot time. I also added the line "start-xdm", in order to boot straight into the GUI, but tha

Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-28 Thread Michel Beland
> >This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in > >files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by > >everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the > >password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files. > > It would ha

Unstable Packages file not up-to-date on ftp.debian.org

1997-03-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
The Packages file on ftp.debian.org has the date 214917 Mar 22 17:10 Packages.gz but there have been many recent updates since then that aren't in the Packages file, such as binary-i386/devel/tcl76-dev_7.6p2-2.deb 323310 binary-i386/devel/tk42-dev_4.2p2-2.deb 524238 and lots more (mo

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Eloy A Paris writes: Eloy> I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path Eloy> name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire Eloy> filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT Eloy> present. updatedb generates a database of all file names on t

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-28 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Alexander Lazarevic writes: Alex> - In tcsh I can type anything on the command line and do a Alex> search on the history list matching this input by pressing Alex> ALT-P. How do I do that with bash? I also came from tcsh, therefore I put this in my ~/.inputrc and I'm happy ever since

Re: how to make mtools useable by all?

1997-03-28 Thread digger vermont
Assuming you mean the floppy drive, I added users to the group floppy in /etc/group. > > I would like for mtools to be useable by everyone in the lab, not just > root. Is there a way to change this? > > -- > terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax:213-740-5687home:213-737-5096 > 2677 Ell

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1997-03-28 Thread Patrice LE LOUREC - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH
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[ANNOUNCE] pchat: Psychic chat was Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-28 Thread Carey Evans
pchat: Psychic Chat === This is to announce the upcoming release of the new _pchat_ replacement for chat(1), part of ppp 2.2.0f for Linux. There are still a few bugs to be worked out, but I'm confident that in a few days it will be

HELP: (x)emacs scrash my system

1997-03-28 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
Hi, I am using Linux Debian 1.2 with a P166+, 16Mb RAM. I've got a 2Mb mystique video card and AcceleratedX intalled. When I run emacs or xemacs, my system scrashes few minutes later and I can't do anything: no more mouse, no more keyboard (no ctrl-alt-supr). So I need to switc

Re: SWAP partition on a different HD

1997-03-28 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Leon Castellanos wrote: > I installed SOLARIS x86 2.5.1 and the identification number for the solaris > UFS partition is the same as the Linux Swap! > > My question is if it is possible to make the SWAP partition on another HD > so that it doesn't conflict with the SOLARIS o

SWAP partition on a different HD

1997-03-28 Thread Leon Castellanos
I installed SOLARIS x86 2.5.1 and the identification number for the solaris UFS partition is the same as the Linux Swap! My question is if it is possible to make the SWAP partition on another HD so that it doesn't conflict with the SOLARIS one? I can't make it on the same HD cuz then SOLARIS woul

Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-28 Thread Tim O'Brien
>> Following is [snip] >This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in >files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by >everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the >password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files.