Re: smail

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Martin
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gerald Livingston wrote: > OK -- I'm ready to properly configure smail on my single user dynamic > ip system. > >Who knows where the best FAQ for that is? Big thing is, I need to > manage mail accounts from several different addresses. ([EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PRO

Re: unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I > > feel > > I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has > > moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right > > entr

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-19 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Shaul Karl. wrote: > Is there a postscript version of the book ? > And if not, is there an easy way to convert the html file to a nicely > formatted postscript file ? Try html2latex. Never used it myself, but that's what it's for.

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
Olivier THaran wrote, > > tells me that the x86 has no "ret" function. > > hmm, as i write this, the next one was a sig11. maybe i'm not coooled > > enough to run this 166 at 200 (el-cheapo fan that came with it). > It clearly means that, if you overclocked your K6, the hardware is so > stres

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-19 Thread Shaul Karl.
Is there a postscript version of the book ? And if not, is there an easy way to convert the html file to a nicely formatted postscript file ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

smail

1997-11-19 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK -- I'm ready to properly configure smail on my single user dynamic ip system. Who knows where the best FAQ for that is? Big thing is, I need to manage mail accounts from several different addresses. ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'll probably use procmail to

Re: sl0: transmit timeout, bad line quality?

1997-11-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which > I normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit > timeout, bad line quality?'... I just finished debugging it on my box. It's a known bug. See http://ww

Installation SONY CD-ROM

1997-11-19 Thread darren morin
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom fro

[no subject]

1997-11-19 Thread darren morin
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom fro

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-19 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Debian List wrote: > > Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains > object (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory > (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) This version of mgetty is in "hamm", which needs an upgraded dpkg

Re: Configuring dftp to get hamm

1997-11-19 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
As stated in the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO: When you run dselect, select "access" from the menu and anser the questions as follows: ftp site: ftp.debian.org debian directory: /debian dist. to get: dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/non-free dists/unstable/contrib This should fix the prob... -Bri

hello?

1997-11-19 Thread dpk
I haven't received any mail from the list in awhile... Is anyone still alive? Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: 100Mb networking

1997-11-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
RedHat Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a news machine that I am trying to put a KNE100 kingston network > card into. however when i try the card is recodnized and ifconfig works > but all the traffic goes to the lo device. How do I fix this ? > > I tryed the tulip.c 0.79 Have you

Re: how to reduce colors used by netscape?

1997-11-19 Thread Ranty
if your graphics card is not capable or more than 256 colors don't bother to keep reading. I don't know where that configuration is, but there is another solution,you can start the X server on 15,16,24 or 32 bits so there will be more than enoght colors for all your aplications.

Re: video cards

1997-11-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right now I'm thinking about the Matrox Millennium II (8 meg).. Good choice. > Are there > any other cards which have better proformence? Not right now. Matrox cards are (I am told) the fastest under XFree86. >and how well are these cards supported und

Re: TkSTEP...anyone done it?

1997-11-19 Thread Ranty
Well, it does exist a deb package, it's in the unstable(hamm) distribution, you need to have installed the older version of libc5, the one which came with the oficcial debian cd's so that it does not conflict with libc6 which you will have to install to have the TkSTEP package installed and happli

Re: screen problems

1997-11-19 Thread Ranty
Well, I think someone gave you the solution allready but for the sake of knowledge: stty sane #this may helps fix the terminal. Ctrl-L #usualy redraws any program's screen. On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm having trouble with console #1 . when

Re: Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Ranty
I don't know exactly about dial-up with a modem conections, but I have conected the abomination with my linux box through a serial cable making it think it was a modem via dial-up, and it does use standard, yes I am saying standard PPP, I made de conexion with pppd on the linux side, and it

problems with ioptions or ipppd.ippp0

1997-11-19 Thread Iztok Umek
Hello! I have problem nagotiating protocol it seems. Looks like I get autenticated with PAP but not nagotiating IPCP (what I gathered from cisco log on other side). My ioptions or ipppd.ippp0 looks like: debug user username require-pap my-ip-num:cisco-ip-num netmask 255.255.255.0 mru 1500 What

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Philippe Troin: > > Change the "network:" line of /etc/nsswitch.conf from "files dns" to "files". > That should make it. > Now this is what I call a useful pointer! Thanks!, that did the trick... thanks a million!

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > Yep, it's a bug in xaw3d. Not exactly making your system unusable, since > it is easilly fixed. > Nor was I saying that it was unusable... I was saying, that if one intends to upgrade to a libc6 system, one needs to upgrade the entire base system.

100Mb networking

1997-11-19 Thread RedHat Linux User
I have a news machine that I am trying to put a KNE100 kingston network card into. however when i try the card is recodnized and ifconfig works but all the traffic goes to the lo device. How do I fix this ? I tryed the tulip.c 0.79 thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
Bob asked, > Did you perhaps restore from backup? If for example you use > tar, permissions on files created (including /tmp) are > affected by umask. Root's default umask is 022 which blocks > out write permission for group and others. Two ways to > avoid this are: set umask to zero before res

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 11:16:22PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > How old is the K6, and how much RAM do you have Rick? > > > Some K6s made before a certain week this year had some trouble > > > with >32mb of RAM that co

Re: Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-19 Thread Christian Leutloff
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. > > So do I. When I install packages, I copy the debian/ tree to a jaz disk perhaps you want to have a look to dftp: Package: dftp Version: 3.1-2 Priority: optional Section: admin Main

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Antonio Marrosu wrote: > I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My > question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for > my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary > controller in the MB as a Master having a C

Re: TkSTEP...anyone done it?

1997-11-19 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > Now that my system is up and running stable, I thought I'd mess around > with it :) > > I'm interested in installing TkSTEP. I've got Tk4.1 and Tk4.2 installed > using the standard debian packages. I was wondering if anyone out there > in debian-land has

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > How old is the K6, and how much RAM do you have Rick? > > Some K6s made before a certain week this year had some trouble > > with >32mb of RAM that could cause problems like this. I have 64mb > > and mine seems fine; I think

Re: user questions

1997-11-19 Thread Sten Anderson
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A third proposal: > > > > 3) Write a "Debian Novice Guide" (lets get rid of that ugly > >n... word!), and make this guide a frequent posting to this list. > > Take a look at > > http://w

ISDN PAP and Debian

1997-11-19 Thread Iztok Umek
Hello! I have trouble with authentification it seems. Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: Local number: 0611421240, Remote number: 1691140, Type: outgoing Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: PHASE_WAIT -> PHASE_ESTABLISHED, ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 7 Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: sent

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-19 Thread Paul Huygen
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote that Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do almost everything with LaTeX via Postscript (Ghostscript). When I > bought an HP LJ5 printer with 1 Mb of memory I soon discovered that > that amount of memory was utterly insufficient for even simple tex

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-19 Thread Igor Grobman
> > > I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of > > > some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am > > > concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is stands, if someone has a > > > new computer formatted in fat32, they would have to form

Re: no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Bob Clark
Did you perhaps restore from backup? If for example you use tar, permissions on files created (including /tmp) are affected by umask. Root's default umask is 022 which blocks out write permission for group and others. Two ways to avoid this are: set umask to zero before restoring or use the -p o

Strange network

1997-11-19 Thread Mike Patterson
Problem: I try to telnet to my system, and after typing the first two or three characters of my username, my connection hangs. The system on the other end is apparently ok. System: "Hooked In" through an ISP called "WantWeb", the system is connected to a Hybrid modem act

video cards

1997-11-19 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for a PCI video card for Linux, which will allow me to do at least 1024x768 in 24bit mode.. and of course as fast as possible. I would like to spend around $300.. Here are a few cards I've looked at: Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (8 meg) - $250 Matrox Millennium II (8 meg) - $310 ATI [EMA

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:34:52 EST Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I > > normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad > > line quality?'...

debian 2.0

1997-11-19 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi Y'all, I think this question has been asked before and I'd like to bring it up again since it been a while. Is there a set day for the Debian 2.0 (or the next release after 1.3.1)? Where can I find the status of this beside posting this mail frequently! Thanks! -- --

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I > will be printing some large documents with lots of graphics in > them. The files will have the postscript format. For example one > file I recently printed was 6.2 Mb. The che

Re: Help needed intalling debian

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
David Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am brand new to linux and debian. I have been trying to intall debian > on my Toshiba T1910 laptop (intel 486sx33, 4mb ram). > > I have downloaded all the required files from > debian/stable/disks-i386/current. When I try to use rawrite to co

Re: patgen

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > As far as my knowledge go, there is no hyphenation-file for Afrikaans. > > I discovered "patgen" on my filesystem and want to try it out on a file > with hyphenated words I have built up. > > Unfortunately the man-page (Tetex on Linux) do

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nah, don't worry: > 1) Linux has already a patch against it (2.0.32-pre5, soon to be 2.0.32), I installed 2.0.32 and it works fine, especially in avoiding the bug. If Linux would behave better when the virtual memory is filled there is almost no way l

Re: user questions

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A third proposal: > > 3) Write a "Debian Novice Guide" (lets get rid of that ugly >n... word!), and make this guide a frequent posting to this list. Take a look at http://www.linuxpress.com/debuser.htm I havn't read the document yet but

Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-19 Thread Antonio Marrosu
Deal All: I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary controller in the MB as a Master having a CD-ROM as a

Re: help with mounting particular CD

1997-11-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, JD Thomlinson wrote: > I've got a CD that won't mount on FreeBSD 2.2.2 > (Yes, I'm working on getting them to install > Debian ;) ). > > Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and > reading the directory structure. > > Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian u

Configuring dftp to get hamm

1997-11-19 Thread Frere Roy
Hello, After having successfully upgraded from lib5 to libc6 following to the letter Scott Ellis's mini-HOWTO I am now trying to configure dftp to upgrade my whole system to hamm. Can someone help me with the configuration of my /~dftprc file it seems to keep wanting to look in binary-binary-

RE: Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 19-Nov-97 skrifar Oliver Elphick: > I have to connect to a client through their Win/NT network to get to their > Unix machine. They want me to use Dial-Up Adapter from Win95, but this means > that I have to drop all other useful work while I boot up that abomination. > I can't make it work a

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > > > The problem is that linking a program with both libc6 and librarys linked > > with libc5 will produce problems. Programs that are linked this way > > should have bugs filed against them if they haven't been a

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I > normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad > line quality?'... Okay, to be fair I never use diald, so I don't know what could be wrong here. >

Terminal setting: linux

1997-11-19 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
Hi guys I tried using gnuplot and treid to direct my out put to the screen but I got an error message that the svga library is not available. Does any body know what wrong with this. I don't think that the svga library is missing since I found it through find and I get output through the screen.

help with mounting particular CD

1997-11-19 Thread JD Thomlinson
I've got a CD that won't mount on FreeBSD 2.2.2 (Yes, I'm working on getting them to install Debian ;) ). Naturally, Debian (2.0.39) has no problem mounting and reading the directory structure. Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system type that Debian

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > The problem is that linking a program with both libc6 and librarys linked > with libc5 will produce problems. Programs that are linked this way > should have bugs filed against them if they haven't been already. Yes you > need to purge and reconstruct you

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-19 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > Maybe if you'd tell us what is unstable for you it could be fixed. I've > only experienced neglegable problems using hamm. > Ok, here is my system (Just for an overview, the latest in hamm). kernel2.0.30 xbase 3.3.1 xlib6g

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-19 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Debian List wrote: > Hi!! > > Thanks again... > > Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains object > (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) > > Help! ;) > >

IP Masquerading and the IP Masquerading kernel

1997-11-19 Thread Behan Webster
I just upgraded one of our servers from the 2.0 kernel to the 2.1.64 kernel. Unfortunately it wasn't as seemless an upgrade as I would have hoped for. The main problem being that IP Masquerading stopped working. I made no changes to any setup, just installed the new kernel. I've included the co

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-19 Thread Matt Thompson
> > I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of > > some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am > > concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is stands, if someone has a > > new computer formatted in fat32, they would have to format a fat

Re: unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel > I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has > moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right > entries into dpkg-ftp to download from it. What paths do I pu

TkSTEP...anyone done it?

1997-11-19 Thread Andrew Akins
Now that my system is up and running stable, I thought I'd mess around with it :) I'm interested in installing TkSTEP. I've got Tk4.1 and Tk4.2 installed using the standard debian packages. I was wondering if anyone out there in debian-land has installed TkSTEP. And if so, what steps are involved?

Re: how to reduce colors used by netscape?

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I am using a program that requires several colors available to operate > ptoperly. For example, if netscape is open and I use the other program, > whenever I enter its window with the mouse pointer, all the colors outside > that window change. do you need the programs at the same time? If you

no write permissions for /tmp

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
hmm. after putting my new pieces together, i've lost write permissions in /tmp lyx can't create its temporary directory, emacs sometimes gets a permission denied to make /tmp/emacs when sending mail, and exmh has similar problems: error while autoloading "Cache_Init": can't create director

Re: unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread Frank Barknecht
Brian Skreeg hat gesagt: // Brian Skreeg wrote: > > hi folks, > > I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel > I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has > moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the rig

Re: screen problems

1997-11-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, I'm having trouble with console #1 . when I > do an ls command the rows are not the same down the column. I know there > is a way to redraw the screen but i forgot how. > Can sombody help me. Try the "reset" command. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-19 Thread Frank Barknecht
Lukas Eppler hat gesagt: // Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > > > > "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > > > >

Re: how to reduce colors used by netscape?

1997-11-19 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, E Papantoniou wrote: > I have read that to correct the problem I must reduce the colors used by > netscape...does anybody know in which file are these defined? > Put this into "~/.Xresources": ! For Netscape 3.04: ! Reducing color usage number of colors:

screen problems

1997-11-19 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I'm having trouble with console #1 . when I do an ls command the rows are not the same down the column. I know there is a way to redraw the screen but i forgot how. Can sombody help me. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: > I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel > I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has > moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right > entries into dpkg-

Re: squid

1997-11-19 Thread Behan Webster
A thought. We run amd here which we use to remotely mount /usr/share (amongst others that probably don't make any difference to squid). Could that have anything to do with the problem we're experiencing with squid? (i.e. it fails to start at boottime but works fine if restarted by root from the

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-19 Thread John Goerzen
Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of > some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am > concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is stands, if someone has a > new computer formatted in fat

URGENT: strange floppy behaviour

1997-11-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I tried to mount my floppy, the mount failed. I had to press CTRL-C a number of times to get apropmpt and got the following messages in syslog Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy driver state Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: --- Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: now=359

Re: qpopper and qmail

1997-11-19 Thread iforbes
> I'm having a little trouble getting qpopper_2.2-4 to work with > qmail_1.01-1 on a bo system. > > I rebuilt the qpopper package with the changes suggested in the > qmail package for $HOME mailboxes. > > The problems I am having have to do with inability to create > and use the temporary maildro

how to reduce colors used by netscape?

1997-11-19 Thread E Papantoniou
Hi all, I am using a program that requires several colors available to operate ptoperly. For example, if netscape is open and I use the other program, whenever I enter its window with the mouse pointer, all the colors outside that window change. I have read that to correct the problem I must redu

suggestion for tape driver

1997-11-19 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Thanks for all the help on the question of printer memory. I was thinking at the same time of bying a tape driver fo backing up my system. Has anyone got any suggestion for a good tape driver which works with Debian ? The system I will be backing up is about 2 Gig. Any suggestions will be a

Re: Help needed intalling debian

1997-11-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, David Welch wrote: > Hi, > > I am brand new to linux and debian. I have been trying to intall debian > on my Toshiba T1910 laptop (intel 486sx33, 4mb ram). > > I have downloaded all the required files from > debian/stable/disks-i386/current. When I try to use rawrite to co

Re: Proposal on PPP

1997-11-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: > Hi, > > [Hope some developers are listening.] > > Could it be possible that all default windows manager in debian have an > Icon pointing to xisp (a graphical dialer, used to interface pppd/chat.)? > It's very easy to setup even for a newbie. > > I thin

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread ychim
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > How old is the K6, and how much RAM do you have Rick? > Some K6s made before a certain week this year had some trouble > with >32mb of RAM that could cause problems like this. I have 64mb > and mine seems fine; I think the magic date was some time in September. > I have my 1

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

1997-11-19 Thread Gertjan Klein
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext > regex/\.deb$ > Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/ > View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f Yes, that works! Great! It is really nice to be able to browse inside the packages on the CD-ROM, especially the

Just a Question..

1997-11-19 Thread msaavedr
Salut les amis , je suis un Chilien etudiant et amis des ordinateurs et IRC (internet Relay Chat) je voudrais seulement savoir si vous connaisais a Weck ;).. soy chileno y quiero saber si conocen al Weck de IRC Soy conocido como TheRazor en IRC y me dedico a visitar sites y ftp's etc etc... bueno

unstable. How?

1997-11-19 Thread Brian Skreeg
hi folks, I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right entries into dpkg-ftp to download from it. What paths do I

Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:38 +0800 Jieyao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Regarding patching the kernel source > > I tried to patch the debian kernel source 2.0.30-9 using 2.0.31 and 2.0.32 > from the usual kernel distribution sites but there are always error and I > can't complie correctly.

Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have to connect to a client through their Win/NT network to get to their Unix machine. They want me to use Dial-Up Adapter from Win95, but this means that I have to drop all other useful work while I boot up that abomination. I can't make it work anyway, and as usual with MS stuff I can't find

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 05:48:07AM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > If I tell it to make zImage again, it gets farther each time--until it > > tells me that the x86 has no "ret" function. > > > > hmm, as i write this, the next one was

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1997-11-19 Thread Rasmus Glud
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Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-19 Thread Rik Johns
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Re: Tracing Spoof IP's

1997-11-19 Thread Rik Johns
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Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-19 Thread Jieyao
Regarding patching the kernel source I tried to patch the debian kernel source 2.0.30-9 using 2.0.31 and 2.0.32 from the usual kernel distribution sites but there are always error and I can't complie correctly. Anyone has any idea how I can do it correctly? Normally I download the debian k

Re: upgrade woes

1997-11-19 Thread tko
Mauro Condarelli writes: > > Hi! > I'm trying to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.3 > I'm *sure* i saw a document specifying some manual operations > needed before dselect, but i seem to be unable to find it any > more. > Can someone send me a pointer??? > PLZ copy directly me, since i just subscribed to the

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-19 Thread tko
David Stern writes: > [snip] > My question is: What is a good method to go about checking for and > delivering messages? Is there some slick app (gui or otherwise) that > automates this procedure, or should I hack my chatscript to run > something (what are my options?) at connect time and schedul

Re: user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-19 Thread tko
John Scroggins writes: > > the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance > to me, as I am a > "that person" . John, everyone has to start somewhere 8-) > i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of > assistance out there i have well over 9

Re: DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM

1997-11-19 Thread Lindsay Allen
Darren, I saved this message some time back. I don't have one of these myself, but the argument you need seems to be 0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 19 13:50:03 1997 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:32:59 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMA

DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM

1997-11-19 Thread darren morin
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question involves installing the SONY CDU31A. I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom fro

Re: mp3 to wav

1997-11-19 Thread Carey Evans
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of something that does mp3 to wav conversion? For a free solution, something like: % mpg123 -s foo.mp3 | sox -t .raw -u -w -c 2 -r 44100 - foo.wav -- Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc "Trust Ivanov

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains object > (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) Reading the dpkg packaging manual: *3.4 Unpa

Re: compile problems on new k6

1997-11-19 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Rick Hawkins wrote: > If I tell it to make zImage again, it gets farther each time--until it > tells me that the x86 has no "ret" function. > > hmm, as i write this, the next one was a sig11. maybe i'm not coooled > enough to run this 166 at 200 (el-cheap

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

1997-11-19 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the > > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is > > pretty neat. > > How do you do this? My mc (3

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-19 Thread Debian List
Hi!! Thanks again... Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains object (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) Help! ;) Ricardo On 18 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Debian List <[EMA

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> we should have started with posting your files :) > > defaultroute /dev/modem 38400 persist > > for pppd being able to understand which line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets > to use. AH-HAH!yes, this did it. thank you, thankyou, thank you. I'm now connected through the isp. Should this be

Re: upgrade woes

1997-11-19 Thread Lindsay Allen
The info is in .../debian/1.3-Upgrading from your mirror. I will send it to you via email. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-19 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Rick, we should have started with posting your files :) > defaultroute /dev/modem 38400 persist You should add on the same line user hawk for pppd being able to understand which line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets to use. > and /etc/ppp/pap_secrets I hope you meant pap-secrets, not pap_secre

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> From the log you included in your message I see that another peer > does not respond to anything except echo-requests. I don't know what > stage you are on though, could you please send the complete log. > (I don't see, for example, how pap authorization came through) here's /e

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1997-11-19 Thread Tony D. Koehn
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Re: Pentium error

1997-11-19 Thread Adam Shand
> Umm -- isn't ^] your telnet client's responsibility? Err, I can't answer that decisivly but lets put it this way, I'm using Debian's standard telnet client which works with CTRL-] with everything else > Of course, since it's a mostly graphical OS (not many console > mode programs) telnet i

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