RE: proper way to back-up both win95 and linux

1997-10-20 Thread George Bonser
You can use dump and restore to provide incrementals. One way of doing it is to do a dump level 0 first, this would do a full backup. Then you next do a level 1 which only backs up what changed since level 0. Then a level 2 which only dumps what changed since a level 1, etc. Dump also allows you to

Re: How to change E-mail address registered with Mailing Lists

1997-10-20 Thread Matt Thompson
there are instructions at: http://www.debian.org/support.html ...piece of cake. :) cheers, matty Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I

How to change E-mail address registered with Mailing Lists

1997-10-20 Thread yosiaki
I want to change E-mail address registered with Debian Mailing Lists. (ex. debian-private, debian-devel, etc.) But I don't know how to change it. Teach me, please. Thanks Yoshiaki Yanagihara +---+ Yoshiaki Yanagihara

fat32 in base-install

1997-10-20 Thread Matt Thompson
someone earlier this week had asked about a 'debian for dummies' type of install document that even someone with only a rudimentary understanding of computers could use to install debian. i thought it was an interesting idea, so i cleared out a partition and tried to see how it would be from scrat

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-10-20 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Why the heck doesn't Debian use the release number (e.g., 1.3, 1.3.x) as : the primary (canonical) name? Then when you seem 1.2 and 1.3, you can : tell which is newer and which is older. That was done one time: whilst 1.0 was being developed, it was stored on the archiv

proper way to back-up both win95 and linux

1997-10-20 Thread John Overton
I'm using a dual boot PC using 2 disks, debian on hdb and win95 on hda. To keep things simple, I want to backup both disks through a single (linux) mechanism, on a single tape. It would be great to avoid dumping disk images, as I'd like to provide incrementals, etc. Recommendations? Options?

xemacs and emacs

1997-10-20 Thread John Overton
Hi all, Installing from a Debian 1.3.1 CD: 1. I'd like to make both xemacs and emacs available on my system, but dselect prohibits both. Why? Should not there be an automatic way for coexistence? 2. Also, I'd like to make bbdb and auctex available to xemacs, but using dselect doesn't

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #890

1997-10-20 Thread Andrew Brigham
hello, well I've went through some considerable pains to install the latest samba on my system its there... everything seems to be working fine (seems to be) the client can see the server the server and the client like to talk back and forth... however when it comes to the issue of passwords..

Re: Fixing Bad Blocks

1997-10-20 Thread Bob Clark
You need to create a file containing the block numbers of the bad blocks. The badblocks program should work. Then run e2fsck -L on the *un-mounted* filesystem. See the manpages for badblocks and e2fsck. You may still need to re-make the filesystem on the affected partition. I would repeat e2fs

Re: gcc problem

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
Thanks alot! That's probably it... I'll have to get offline now in order to test this. BYE! Philippe Troin wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that > > gcc compiles? Is there some

More X setup fun!

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
I am having trouble getting X windows to run. I am *nix illiterate. The documentation that I found did not help. My system is fairly simple - I have a simple Trident Providia 9865 based board with 2 megs. After I setup using generic VGA / VGA16 base / afterstep I run startx and the screen goes blan

Compaq RAID drivers for Linux

1997-10-20 Thread Debian mail-lists receiver
I've already sent a message out about finding a driver for a compaq RAID, but now I'm not sure about the model number. Does anyone know about any linux drivers for compaq RAID controllers, in particular the Proliant 2500 series, or any compatibility issues related to these controllers? TIA

Re: Problem with LaTeX package?

1997-10-20 Thread joost witteveen
> > Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so > > > > $ latex usrguide.tex > > > >I get > > > > This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) > > I can't find the default format file! > > You do not have latex.fmt installed! > > You must sear

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good > >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > > > do even something simple correctly. This is why people call for software > admin tools: you can hope that the tool has the kn

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Al Youngwerth
At 09:57 PM 10/20/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote: >At 11:02 20-10-97 -0600, Al Youngwerth wrote: > >>No, you don't have to be running DNS but is this a demand dial link? If so >>you may have a problem with an Win95 TCP/IP bug that can cause Win95 >>machines to query DNS when they can't find a resou

Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Olaf Weber
Bruce Perens writes: > First, let me assure you that you can get it to work. It works great on > my Toshiba 440CDT. Also on my 430CDS. > Do not install the "apmd" package. "apmd" is not reacting fast > enough and it breaks resume on my system. The system resumes fine > without it. I must admit

Drivers for Hardware RAIDS

1997-10-20 Thread Debian mail-lists receiver
Hi all. I have a compaq box with a CPQ-5710 Hardware-RAID5 controller and would like to run the machine with LINUX. Does anyone know if there is a driver already written for LINUX for this type of RAID? TIA -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Bruce Perens
By the way, my Toshiba system runs the disk about 20% faster when I use "hdparm" to turn on 32-bit mode. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Bruce Perens
First, let me assure you that you can get it to work. It works great on my Toshiba 440CDT. Install the kernel-source package. As root, "make menuconfig" in the /usr/src/linux directory. Enable APM (it's under character devices). Enable the option for APM to blank the screen. This will work fine fo

Re: gcc problem

1997-10-20 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that > gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my > home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be >

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Michael Legart
At 11:02 20-10-97 -0600, Al Youngwerth wrote: >No, you don't have to be running DNS but is this a demand dial link? If so >you may have a problem with an Win95 TCP/IP bug that can cause Win95 >machines to query DNS when they can't find a resource they used to have. >The fix for this sucks: setup a

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > >Just my 2 cent on this. >Marcus This comment is spot-on. Linux is now so complicated (and varied) that, if you don't know it already

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Al Youngwerth wrote: > > At 05:30 PM 10/19/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I have a little problem with ip_masq. > > > >It's allmost working ... clients on the network can access hosts outside > >the LAN if they type the hosts ip instead of the domainname. I can access > >hosts via.

Re: X-Windows and Bash Settings

1997-10-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Will Lowe wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > > > I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows > > (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that > Do you mean these settings don't work if you (for example) start up an > xt

bo-updates & other updates

1997-10-20 Thread Otavio Exel
hi everybody, I really don't understand ftp.debian.org directory structure; is there a document explaining every bit of it? it fisrt happened with samba-1.9.17p2; I read in the newsgroups that it was available (and it was important!) but couldn't install it with dselect: dselect still showed 1.9.

problems w/ Lilo

1997-10-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
HI, I'm trying to install Debian on a PPro and I having problems with Lilo. I can use the boot floppy created at install step but if I compile a custom kernel, install it and run lilo, the boot process or hangs with "LIL-" or after the boot is completed there is a kernel panic wi

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 04:05:56PM +1000, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. > : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? > > I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK

gcc problem

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be run! Thanks all! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

upgrading ldso (because executor does not work)

1997-10-20 Thread Radu Duta
I'm trying to upgrade from ldso_1.8.10-2.deb to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb because I can't get executor to run. I can run it under slackware just fine, and one of the differences is the ld.so itself. I've tried preloading the various other libraries with copies from the slackware distro. No luck. Back

Many configuration doubts (PWD, colors, executions and the modules)

1997-10-20 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hello. I have just installed Debian 1.3.1 and have a lot of doubts about configurations By now I have been able to install the X windows. But for example : - How can I do for the files and folders' colours to appear? - How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'? -Something extrange: with '

DOJ charges Microsoft violations

1997-10-20 Thread Adam Heath
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,15418,00.html DOJ charges Microsoft violations.url Description: Binary data

Re: Fixing Bad Blocks

1997-10-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > You need to create a file containing the block numbers of > the bad blocks. The badblocks program should work. Then > run e2fsck -L on the *un-mounted* filesystem. See the > manpages for badblocks and e2fsck. You may still need to > re-make the filesyste

Re: Debian master maintenance

1997-10-20 Thread m*
hello there! Debian master maintenance completed. thanks, m* -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Debian master maintenance

1997-10-20 Thread m*
hello to all! tonight at 18:00 CST the Debian master will be taken down for system maintenance. estimated down time will be 1 hour or less. feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. thanks, mark -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: THANKS 4 - WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

1997-10-20 Thread Dima
JD Thomlinson wrote: > Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list! > Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant > flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner, > it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about > real code and what's goi

Fixing Bad Blocks

1997-10-20 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi. I recently posted a message about "Kernel Panic" that was due to bad blocks in my hard drive. My plan is to just start all over. What I need now is a way to fix bad blocks or to skip over them if neccessary. I received a message that told me to use e2fsck -c /dev/hda? ( where ? is any one o

modem

1997-10-20 Thread
Hola ,soy español. Tengo un ordenador IBM Aptiva 120MHz .Tengo un problema: Tengo un Modem-Fax MWave 28800 y el Debian Linux no me lo reconoció al instalarse ,¿Como puedo hacer que lo reconozca?. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Modules / depmod

1997-10-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 06:04:32PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help, > > I've been playing arround with the new 2.1.5x kernels. Now when I issue a > depmod -a, it does not update the modules.dep file. Any content of the > modules.dep is cleared. I've re-built the depmod / modprobe utilitie

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 08:10:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Bonser writes: > > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. > > So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? A

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Problem with dhcpd/dns - here's my dhcpd.conf

1997-10-20 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Michael Legart wrote: > > This is my dhcpd.conf. Can anyone see whats wrong? What appears in /var/log/daemon.log after saying: /etc/init.d/dhcpd start ? The configfile appears to be ok. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Michael Legart wrote: > At 08:17 20-10-97 -0600, you wrote: > > >option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1, 205.162.184.2, 205.162.184.3; > > I think a have that line. 192.168.2.1 is your box, right? I don't need to > be running a DNS server - or? Yes. You must. > I just c

Modules / depmod

1997-10-20 Thread debian-user
Help, I've been playing arround with the new 2.1.5x kernels. Now when I issue a depmod -a, it does not update the modules.dep file. Any content of the modules.dep is cleared. I've re-built the depmod / modprobe utilities (v 2.1.55) from source, but still no joy. Can anyone suggest what I've do

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx > > itself was > > pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it > > from > > /etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I > > screwed > > something up and wil

Re: ls colors

1997-10-20 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got > another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware > linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I > did an ls it showed all of the files in

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-20 Thread Jeff Noxon
The newer Yamaha CD-R drives are protected by an NDA. You can't get the developer information without signing one. The old CDR-100 information is available on their website. I used to own a CDR-100. I now have a CDR-400c. The 100 was more stable and better made, but the 400c has better feature

Re: xlib6_3.3-4.deb

1997-10-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote: > I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed > xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a > libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an > entirely bo system > right now. No, this is a libc5 package. The '6' stands

Re: X-Windows and Bash Settings

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Bauer wrote: > I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows > (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that Do you mean these settings don't work if you (for example) start up an xterm with bash in it? > get run

ls colors

1997-10-20 Thread Jason Bauer
Thanks for the alias settings help and the quick response! I've got another question while i'm thinking of stuff. I used to run Slakware linux until I heard about how much better Debian is. In Slakware, when I did an ls it showed all of the files in colors according to their type, while Debian does

Problem with dhcpd/dns - here's my dhcpd.conf

1997-10-20 Thread Michael Legart
Hi! This is my dhcpd.conf. Can anyone see whats wrong? # dhcpd.conf # # Configuration file for ISC dhcpd # # Hosts with more than one interface MUST specify a ``server-identifier'', # which should be the IP address of the server's primary network interface, # or if there is no interface that can

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Michael Legart
Hi! At 08:17 20-10-97 -0600, you wrote: >option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1, 205.162.184.2, 205.162.184.3; I think a have that line. 192.168.2.1 is your box, right? I don't need to be running a DNS server - or? >Also, you must have DNS enabled in the Win95 TCP/IP control panel. I just

Re: X-Windows and Bash Settings

1997-10-20 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Jason Bauer wrote: > I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows > (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that > get run in my .bash-profile when I login, and when i quit X the settings are > back to how they should be. Is this just a bug

Re: [PPP] pon and plog not working

1997-10-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon. > It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem > doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to > connect. When I do plog, i

Re: Pine and fvwm under hamm

1997-10-20 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often > when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying > 'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem > with smail, or my isp's ma

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Al Youngwerth
At 05:30 PM 10/19/97 +0200, Michael Legart wrote: >Hi! > >I have a little problem with ip_masq. > >It's allmost working ... clients on the network can access hosts outside >the LAN if they type the hosts ip instead of the domainname. I can access >hosts via. domainnames from my linux box. I use dhc

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote: > Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx itself > was > pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it > from > /etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I > screw

X-Windows and Bash Settings

1997-10-20 Thread Jason Bauer
I've got Debian Linux 1.3 using bash for a shell. When I go into X-Windows (Afterstep win. manager) I lose all of my aliases and other settings that get run in my .bash-profile when I login, and when i quit X the settings are back to how they should be. Is this just a bug or am I doing something wr

[PPP] pon and plog not working

1997-10-20 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon. It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to connect. When I do plog, it comes up blank. When I do a ps, it seems that pon h

Re: Pine and fvwm under hamm

1997-10-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often > when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying > 'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem > with smail, or my isp's ma

Re: modules/modutils (Re: Dselect: Obsolete packages really obsolete?)

1997-10-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman \(SBH\)
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 09:54:25AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Replacing modules by modutils will require some tricky dpkg stuff. Wichert? Actually it should be automic now: when you install modutils it replaces all of modules' files.dpkg will notice that and mark modules as removed. Gerno

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
At 09:19 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: >> >>Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >>truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >>same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but

Pine and fvwm under hamm

1997-10-20 Thread Matt Thompson
since i updated to hamm, two odd things are happening. one is that often when i send a message from Pine, it hangs for 20-30 seconds before saying 'message sent and copied to sent mail'. just in case there was a problem with smail, or my isp's mail server (mail.oz.net), i sent some mail from nets

Re: Problem with LaTeX package?

1997-10-20 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so > > $ latex usrguide.tex > >I get > > This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) > I can't find the default format file! You do not have latex.fmt installed! You must search for the latex.ltx file and

Re: Visio Like Program

1997-10-20 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: :Is there any debianized Visio like program ? Not as such, but you may want to try XFig, a structured drawing program. Bye, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/~bath0011/>Visit my Homepage! "The cowards never came, a

RE: Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Oct-97 Bill Moran wrote: > >I am having problems with my Toshiba laptop 410CS. Resume mode doesn't >work --- the machine just freezes. > >Bill I'm not familiar with Toshibas, but many laptops have a BIOS setup option to activate "Advanced Power Management". Turn this off and use at most bas

Re: Help! Any presentation graphics program in Debian Linux?

1997-10-20 Thread tibor simko
> "WZ" == W Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WZ> preparing small presentation about application of Linux in WZ> digital signal processing. I wouldn't like to have to present WZ> transparencies prepared with M$ PowerPoint... have a look at root.cern.ch: root does look like to

Re: 2.0.31 source

1997-10-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On 19 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I downloaded the .31 kernel and tried to do a make menuconfig and got the > > > following: > > > > > > rm -f include/asm > >

modules/modutils (Re: Dselect: Obsolete packages really obsolete?)

1997-10-20 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 11:19:16AM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Deselect tells me that there are obsolete packages in my debian system (I > use stable contrib non-free bo). One of the obsolete packages is the > modules-package. When I try to remove it, Debian tells me that I use a > modular kernal

Toshiba laptop --- resume mode

1997-10-20 Thread Bill Moran
Hi I am having problems with my Toshiba laptop 410CS. Resume mode doesn't work --- the machine just freezes. Any ideas Thanks Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Visio Like Program

1997-10-20 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Is there any debianized Visio like program ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with dhcpd/ip_masq

1997-10-20 Thread Carey Evans
Michael Legart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a program in win95 called winipcfg, which shows what the computer > have recived from a dhcp server. BUT in the field which should be showing > 193.162.146.9 (a dns server) is just empty... How are you setting the DNS server? The "Name Server"

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
Ok... I changed the server to XF_VGA16 and then I noticed that startx itself was pointing to xinitrc and xserverrc in /usr/X11/ - shouldn't it be reading it from /etc/X11? I have a feeling that the setup program won't work here because I screwed something up and will have to do it all by hand (not

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote: > Ok... I ran 'startx' and this time the bottom (lets say) 1/4 of the screen > flashed white for a second... and that was it. I mean, the HD gets accessed > here > and there, but obviously the display is no good. Even if the driver is not the > *exact* one,

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-20 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the AWE64 is the same as the 32, except for the extra 32 voices. Oh, and the

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
Ok... I ran 'startx' and this time the bottom (lets say) 1/4 of the screen flashed white for a second... and that was it. I mean, the HD gets accessed here and there, but obviously the display is no good. Even if the driver is not the *exact* one, shouldn't something come up, even garbled? The setu

Re: xlib6_3.3-4.deb

1997-10-20 Thread Rob MacWilliams
>> I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed >> xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a >> libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an >> entirely bo system >> right now. >> >> Thanks >> >> Rob MacWilliams >> I hate to follow up my own posts, but I sh

Re: XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Shaul Peleg wrote: > I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to > display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't > ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA > base... and I tried using both of the Jato

XFree86 setup!!!

1997-10-20 Thread Shaul Peleg
I have tried numerous installations of X and I can't get the monitor to display anything when I 'xinit'. I have a Jaton Video-67P card (don't ask!) based on the Trident Providia 9685 chipset. I used the SVGA base... and I tried using both of the Jaton drivers (neither for the 67P) and Trident 96xx

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread George Bonser
On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: > >Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but other >variants of unix as well. So knowing this is a ve

xlib6_3.3-4.deb

1997-10-20 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I just did a dselect of stable on my local mirror and it grabbed xlib6_3.3-4.deb. Is this a libc6 package, or is the version number confusing? I'm still running an entirely bo system right now. Thanks Rob MacWilliams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

RE: Problems installing--SOLVED sorta

1997-10-20 Thread George Bonser
Ok. I had some bad RAM in the system. Put the old 1MEG simms back in and it installed fine. Now I have a new problem. When dselect runs the first time and I try to install using the FTP method I get: Net:FTP:Unexpected EOF on command channel at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 137 FTP ER

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Cameron Lowe
At 10:49 PM 19/10/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > >> For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within >> minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No >> LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping

Problem with LaTeX package?

1997-10-20 Thread Britton
When I invoke lates on a .tex source file, like so $ latex usrguide.tex I get This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) I can't find the default format file! Also, when I try to run LaTeX from LyX, I get Missing log file: newfile.log Am I doing something wrong? Could this be

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Matt Thompson
> > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > > network unreachable > > cua1 is bad, don't use it. Not good with fi

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable Hi Stuart, I

PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable cua1 is bad,

malicious people subscribing others

1997-10-20 Thread Pete Templin
Hello, It has come to my attention that individuals are using the open architecture of the debian mailing lists to subscribe other individuals. The most recent incident which has come to my attention involves a victimized recipient who has several email addresses, some of which forward to

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
At 04:37 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> >>There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on >>debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to >>silence. >> >>However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu. >> > >Still,

Re: PerfectBACKUP now free

1997-10-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: > I just noticed that a FREE Linux version of PerfectBACKUP is now available. It > is not crippled and does not expire. > > Maybe someone could build a loader script like the one for Netscape? > > Have a look at www.unisrc.com Will this work with lessti