Re: Making a debian CD

1997-12-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : export MANOPT=-Pless > > Is there an advantage to this way, as opposed to setting PAGER to > /usr/bin/less ? no, not really. i do this only because if i set PAGER, then elm will use $PAGER instead of it's built-in viewer. since i don't use el

Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)

1997-12-16 Thread AJT60
How does one place gifs, jpegs into a LaTeX document? The book I have (The LaTeX Companion) mentions a graphics package but says its under development. However, the book is a few years old, so maybe it's been developed. Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how t

[no subject]

1997-12-16 Thread Eric Sessions
Whenever I try to boot the system I get the following message: Kernal Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs or 01:00 If you have any suggestions please tell me. Thanks, Eric ** *Eric Sessions * *[EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

3FA ???

1997-12-16 Thread Aaron Walker
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I rebooted, I got this message: 3FA: This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says the same message. Please help. Thanks. -- `

debian-user-digest not working???

1997-12-16 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I haven't received any debian-user digests now since about 9th or 10th of December! Does this mean there is some problem with the mailing of the digests? I tried resubscribing to the list just in case I had been accidently unsubscribed, but I still haven't received anything! Cheers, Mark.

Re: pdf to text converter

1997-12-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi again, I'm replying to your mail via debian-user list since there is something wrong with your nameserver right now and the mailer fails due to it. Here is the original message: Well, the only explanation I have is that we have different versions of xpdf and my verson has pdftotext and you

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: > I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists! > Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ? There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard that this restriction doesn't work somehow. Ciao,

Can't believe it

1997-12-16 Thread John Spence
I just ran 'alien' on a couple of .rpm packages and not only did it install them,they work! -- John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newave.net.au/~jspence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PRO

Teardrop Patch

1997-12-16 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- What's the scoop on the Teardrop patch found on www.linux.org? Anyone used it? What's the procedure to install it? Info already appreciated. -Ian _ .__. __ __ | |

Re: pdf to text converter

1997-12-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I have pdftotext installed, it comes with the xpdf package. If you are using the unstable distribution see non-free/text section and for the stable distribution see the text section. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere,

/etc/deliver directory is corrupted.

1997-12-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My /etc/deliver file seems corrupted: br-sr-xr-T 1 1035530496 49, 53 Jul 4 1991 deliver I see that Debian creates this directory in /var/lib/dpkg/info/deliver.postinst : test -d /etc/deliver || mkdir /etc/deliver chown 0.0 /etc/deliver chmod 755 /etc/deliver and the deliver ma

svgalib: Signal 11: Segmentation fault received.

1997-12-16 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm running Debian 1.3.1 latest stable revision, my svgalibs are numbered libvgaso.1.2.10 (package svgalib1 1.2.10-5) and I'm getting the signal in the subject when I try to play quake. :-( Can this be because I have a faulty svga card (it worked in another debianized computer

pdf to text converter

1997-12-16 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, Is there a package that will converts *.pdf files to text file format. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Brian White
> > Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. > > what is this "deity" project that i have heard of? i assume it will be > a part of debian 2. Deity is the code-name of the improved package interface. Brian

Re: CHoose OS v0.80 - Tale of Woe

1997-12-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Philip Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Sorry, I can't provide a fix, but I would like to find out more > about CHoose OS 0.80. Where can I get more info/download? ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/chos-0.8.tar.gz Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's

Error with as..

1997-12-16 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
Hi, I was compiling the kernel and got the following errors: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -traditional -c head.S gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c -o misc.o as: Incorrect relocation type in jump relocations

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-16 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi >> >> BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. >> >There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at >ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/ > >Maybe it will solve your problems. > >Ciao, > Martin I lost some mail, so sorry if there has been a solution in the mean time, but.

Re: kde?

1997-12-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> How can I install the latest kde on my machine? Just want ot play with > a few of its apps really. What do i need and where can I get it. I am > using bo presently. Bo-compiled kde packages are in project/experimantal on Debian ftp site. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-

Re: Debian wont pick up ethernet

1997-12-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hello Debian > > I'm back on debian list. I'm beginner of Debian user at the moment. > > i have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 R6 but it doesnt working with > SMC EZ 16bit ISA card. Is SMC 'Ultra' working with SMC EZ card? Yes, smc-ultra driver is the one to use with EtherEZ card. The only cat

RE: Real Audio

1997-12-16 Thread Mark Ciciretti
I got the Real audio player working. I just ran the install scripts that came with it and added it to my path. I had some problems with the real video player. Last month, or the month before there was some discussion on the list about Real Audio. Someone released a Real Video installer. I don'

Re: FAT32 To FAT16

1997-12-16 Thread Fenrick
There is also a program made by QuarterDeck called Partition-It! version 1.2 of this converts on the fly between FAT32 and FAT16. But why would you want to when the kernel patch works beautifully? > > If you are using win95 osr2 or osr2.1, you can use partition magic 3.0 > to do it. > > > B-Stu

kde?

1997-12-16 Thread Shaleh
How can I install the latest kde on my machine? Just want ot play with a few of its apps really. What do i need and where can I get it. I am using bo presently. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: radio link

1997-12-16 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
thanks I'll have a look at it Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > > > hello all, > > > > I am setting up new a local isp for dial-up access in Indonesia, and > > considering radio link to my upstream provider which is about 0.5 mile > > away from my place, will de

XF86Setup get error

1997-12-16 Thread K.Y.Lo
I have installed X11 packages it says XF86Setup Not all of the Configuration and application default files are installed. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is missing. What does that mean? help me, thanks alot -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Debian wont pick up ethernet

1997-12-16 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hello Debian I'm back on debian list. I'm beginner of Debian user at the moment. i have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 R6 but it doesnt working with SMC EZ 16bit ISA card. Is SMC 'Ultra' working with SMC EZ card? Thanks alot -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: radio link

1997-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > hello all, > > I am setting up new a local isp for dial-up access in Indonesia, and > considering radio link to my upstream provider which is about 0.5 mile > away from my place, will debian linux capable doing radio connection? > > My questions are:

Real Audio

1997-12-16 Thread hawk
Has anyone gotten this working? I have it happily playing local files, and it happily launches from netscape, but doesn't get any data from the broadcast site. I tried the suggestions for use behind a firewall, but no dice. I believe that there is a firewall here; mail cannot go out from ne

Re: ftp site

1997-12-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:08:28AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > Isn't there supposed to be an "unstable" directory (symlinked to hamm) > : > on the ftp site? > : > : In the dists dir, e.g. > :

radio link

1997-12-16 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
hello all, I am setting up new a local isp for dial-up access in Indonesia, and considering radio link to my upstream provider which is about 0.5 mile away from my place, will debian linux capable doing radio connection? My questions are: 1. what is the maximum bandwith available with radio lin

Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-16 Thread John Goerzen
At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K nonconformity). We have appro

kernel module question

1997-12-16 Thread Shaleh
I have some parport modules from torque.net that I would like for kerneld to automatically mount. The sequence is insmod paride; insmod epat; insmod pd. This works but is annoying. How do I make it so kerneld can do this. depmod does not realize the dependency. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: local mail is broken

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: > My $HOME/.forward looks like: > --- > |IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #kotsya > --- > Quote this line using "" and it should be all right. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
[snip] > i get; > > _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errho=2 > > what do i do to get into xwindows? Well, xf86config is not exactly the dream program to configure X. I'd install xserver-vga and xfnt-75 and use XF86Setup instead (it's a graphical config, and yields much cleaner conf

Re: ftp site

1997-12-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:08:28AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > Isn't there supposed to be an "unstable" directory (symlinked to hamm) : > on the ftp site? : : In the dists dir, e.g. : ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable : : HTH, :

Re: ksmbfs

1997-12-16 Thread Bill Hawes
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > >Who is changing the kernel driver and not keeping the userland utilities > >up to date? Unfortunately this happens all too often with Linux. > > I think it is Bill Hawes. I know he has been dealing with the userland > utilities but development is so fast that is hard to ke

Re: ksmbfs

1997-12-16 Thread Eloy A. Paris
[I am Cc'ing Bill Hawes just in case he is interested] At 05:26 PM 12/16/97 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >Thanks for your reply Eloy. No problem. I like to know and keep up with any problems with the packages I maintain. >Who is changing the kernel driver and not keeping the userland utilities

Re: ftp site

1997-12-16 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:08:28AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Isn't there supposed to be an "unstable" directory (symlinked to hamm) > on the ftp site? In the dists dir, e.g. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient

ftp site

1997-12-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
Isn't there supposed to be an "unstable" directory (symlinked to hamm) on the ftp site? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key avail

Re: Pager utility or script?

1997-12-16 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Sure! In hamm/hamm/binary/../net you will find the qpage package. We use it to send text to a beeper. It works via "pager central" which is a POP that the beeper company has to receive IXO/TAP protocol messages. Ciao! davew kc5xh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other computer runs Linu

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread hawk
> However, something bad seems to have happened to the smail postinst > script, resulting in the smail entry getting commented out in > /etc/inetd.conf. > Uncomment the smtp line and it will work again (maybe you > need to give inetd a HUP signal before it notices the change, not sure.) yep; t

Re: the root login problem; shadow bug?

1997-12-16 Thread Peter Kundrat
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 08:24:58AM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I located the problem with the root login without password with the help of > Mark Ciciretti. > > passwd and shadow were out of sync; they had different entries. This caused > errors that were not reported until trying to t

Re: local mail is broken

1997-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > What format are the /usr/doc/smail/guide/*.gz docs in? The formatting > is hard to read--lots of ".AE", ".NH", ".B", ".PP", .. at the beginning > of lines. Uncompress the contents of /usr/doc/smail/guide to another

the root login problem; shadow bug?

1997-12-16 Thread hawk
I located the problem with the root login without password with the help of Mark Ciciretti. passwd and shadow were out of sync; they had different entries. This caused errors that were not reported until trying to turn shadow off. It was necessary to delete all of the users, and remove all o

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo Hamish Moffatt > > Actually the latest update to smail in hamm did this for me. > It called (unconditionally) update-inetd to disable smtp in the postrm, > but there was no call to enable it in the postinst! > I filed a bug report. It is most annoying. > please check up the crontab entry fo

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo Hamish Moffatt > On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:32:47AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Uncomment the smtp line and it will work again (maybe you > > need to give inetd a HUP signal before it notices the change, not sure.) > > Actually the latest update to smail in hamm did this for me. > It calle

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:32:47AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > Uncomment the smtp line and it will work again (maybe you > need to give inetd a HUP signal before it notices the change, not sure.) Actually the latest update to smail in hamm did this for me. It called (unconditionally) update-inetd

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> xstart startx I presume. > > i get; > > _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errho=2 > > what do i do to get into xwindows? Obviously you server is not configured properly, starts and immediately dies. That's why it is not possible to connect to it. The only way to configure it more

Re: Making a debian CD

1997-12-16 Thread Carlos Barros
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: cas> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Carlos Barros wrote: cas> cas> > And Other thing is that by default 'less' use as editor other than cas> > 'vi' (I think that 'vi' is the standart editor in unix), may be 'ae'( cas> > don't remember). cas> cas> while you'

Exim setup

1997-12-16 Thread Randy Edwards
I recently switched from smail to exim as my MTA in the hopes of getting something a bit easier to configure and which can more easily handle spam blocking. However, I've run into some problems getting exim to process my local, user-to-user mail. I'm using the bogus domain name of "golgotha

Re: CD-ROM Problem

1997-12-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On 16 Dec 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert C. Russell) writes: > > > I've been told by an IBM mainframe guy that Linux is for "hobbyists" and > > may never > > run. > > Just a few years ago you could say the same about any computer that > would fit on a desk. Oh, yeah IBM.

gateway 2000 laptop pcmcia cards

1997-12-16 Thread Brad Roberts
I'm trying to get my new gateway 2000 with a telepath combo modem/enet card to be recognized by the pcmcia services package. Its seeing the serial side of things fine, but not the ethernet parts. Anyone ever setup one of these before? Thanks, Brad --- End of Forwarded Message -- TO

Re: CD-ROM Problem

1997-12-16 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert C. Russell) writes: > My problem is that when I get to dselect and choose CD-ROM and enter for > the block device "/dev/scd0" and return I get the following output: > > scsi 0: watchdog timer fired in NCR5380_() > scsi 0: switching target 1 lun 0 return code = 7000 > CD-

Re: installing xlib6g (libc6)

1997-12-16 Thread Joost Kooij
Using --force-depends is not necessary at all in this case; Just upgrade xlib6 to version 3.3.1-2 which is in directory oldlibs. Then you can install xlib6g version 3.3.1-2 without any problems. Don't use --force-depends unless you know very well what you are doing. It certainly isn't advisable t

Re: RAMDISK boot error

1997-12-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: > I just setup this experimental system to run Debian 1.3.1: > > 486SX/25 > 4MB RAM > CL3424 w/512K > > A real POWER-HOUSE!!! I just put this machine together to test Debian > 2.0 aka hamm. > Anyways... When I try to boot the rescue disk, I get the messa

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is > supposedly configured to do. > > /etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at? That you can't find /etc/init.d/smail is right, becaus

Re: Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Aaron Brick
>> When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? > Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. what is this "deity" project that i have heard of? i assume it will be a part of debian 2. aaron. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Sanyo 20x CDROM

1997-12-16 Thread Reiner Schnur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just got a Sanyo 20x ide/atapi cdrom drive and my kernel detects it > but I > can't seem to mount it to /cdrom, what /dev/... file is the sanyo cd > linked > to? every one I found I tried got the following message: > > the kernel doesn't recognize ... as a block

local mail is broken

1997-12-16 Thread David Stern
Hi, Today I switched from sendmail to smail, editted the configuration files fairly thoroughly, restarted smail, and everything works for non-local mail. I don't really know when I stopped receiving local mail, but I know I used to receive local mail when I was improperly configured as "satel

repost of problem

1997-12-16 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, I had to re-subscribe too. Now I receive again all mails from the list (since Friday or so). I don't receive responses though from mails I sent Friday or yesterday, so I guess there must still be some mail problems on the internet ? To be sure, could anyone of the following people show som

Re: A ( simple ? ) question about configuration

1997-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Cedric Bapst wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to use Debian Linux for two weeks and I have a small problem. >How can we reconfigure a package? For example I've installed xbase and I >would like to reconfigure it through the dpkg command. I tried with: > >dpkg --configure xbase > >

Re: failure notice (fwd)

1997-12-16 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 07:32:27AM +0100, Fleischer Gabor wrote: > Where can I found the public pgp key of the lists? I mean the mails on > the debian-changes are signed with. The package announcements are signed with the PGP key of the maintainer who is responsible. You can find the maintainer P

A ( simple ? ) question about configuration

1997-12-16 Thread Cedric Bapst
Hello, I'm trying to use Debian Linux for two weeks and I have a small problem. How can we reconfigure a package? For example I've installed xbase and I would like to reconfigure it through the dpkg command. I tried with: dpkg --configure xbase But it said to me that the status is installed.

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Alan Woo
okay, i've gotten much further now. i've seelected alll sots of options with dselect, and un xf86config, but now when i run xstart i get; _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errho=2 what do i do to get into xwindows? also, i have booted into dos. running windows provides the blue s

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-16 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Partitioning > > I doubt if you've spend as much time partitioning as I have developing >my boot manager ;-) I have very little experience w

Re: wu-ftpd

1997-12-16 Thread Alex Romosan
i have a wu-ftpd compiled for libc6 on caliban.lbl.gov in pub/debian (deb package + source and diffs). i've been using it on my system for quite a while. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously wi

Re: installing xlib6g (libc6)

1997-12-16 Thread Dana M. Epp
I've had that problem quite a bit, where things require lib6g, or standard lib6.. and I've had the other installed. (Depends which system I'm on). Anyways... I have found you can force the install... and in every case to date.. its worked fine. Try this... dpkg --force-depends -i package.deb So

Re: ksmbfs

1997-12-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 04:16:17PM +, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > I started to maintain ksmbfs that is now called smbfs. Last week I > uploaded the libc6 version. > > However, I don't know anything about the 2.1 kernels. For me, it is > too bloody to be in the bleeding edge of kernel development. I

Re: .xsession not executing

1997-12-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 07:06:44PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. > > > > After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man > > pages for x and xdm, but they don't

installing xlib6g (libc6)

1997-12-16 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
Hi all, I have made several attempts to install xlib6-dev_3.3-4.deb, yet i did not succed. dpkg complains: > . . . > dpkg: regarding xlib6g_3.3.1-2.deb containing xlib6g: > xlib6g conflicts with xlib6 (<< 3.3-5) > xlib6 (version 3.3-4) is installed. > dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.1-2.

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote: > > i have next to no experience with Unix. Now i installed debian, and > > let's say my partitions are completely messed up, i don't know how the > > file system works etc. > > the filesystem, 1 for swap, then only use these two. Why make things > har

HP DeskDirect 10/100TX PCI LAN Adapter

1997-12-16 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Are there Linux drivers for this card? I'm about to get one (if there are drivers) and would like to hear of experiences... TIA 8<--->8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phone: 07-838-4764 8<--->8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote: > AGH! okay all. i know this sounds terribly stupid, but as you all know, > i have next to no experience with Unix. Now i installed debian, and > let's say my partitions are completely messed up, i don't know how the > file system works etc. Starting off, unle

Re: FAT32 To FAT16

1997-12-16 Thread Lawrence
If you are using win95 osr2 or osr2.1, you can use partition magic 3.0 to do it. Lawrence > B-Stu wrote: > > How Do I Convert My Hard Drive For FAT32 To Fat16? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? I thought Debian was now > working on roughly a three month cycle time for new releases - are we > giving up on this strategy? Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. It doesn't look li

debian-user-digest ?

1997-12-16 Thread James D. Freels
what has happened to debian-user-digest? My subscription has stopped. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reacto

Compaq TLAN ethernet cards

1997-12-16 Thread mark
i'm trying use a couple of Compaq TLAN cards in a system and i noticed that when two cards occupy adjacent PCI slots they get hot and i mean HOT! this seems like a Bad Thing. has anyone else seen such behavior? thx, m* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" t

Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Mark Phillips
When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? I thought Debian was now working on roughly a three month cycle time for new releases - are we giving up on this strategy? Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\

Re: Mysteriously Unsubscribed

1997-12-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Mark Phillips; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Hi, > > Either this list has gone suddenly silent since about the 10th of > December, or I have been mysteriously unsubscribed from > debian-user-digest. I suspect the latter and have just sent off an email > to be subscribed again. > >

Mysteriously Unsubscribed

1997-12-16 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, Either this list has gone suddenly silent since about the 10th of December, or I have been mysteriously unsubscribed from debian-user-digest. I suspect the latter and have just sent off an email to be subscribed again. This isn't the first time it has happened, and last time I was unsubscri

Re: FAT32 To FAT16

1997-12-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, B-Stu wrote: > How Do I Convert My Hard Drive For FAT32 To Fat16? > The only way I know of is with the commercial program Partition Magic ver. 3.0 (or later). Otherwise, I suppose you could back it up, reformat as FAT16 and restore. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Installing

1997-12-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi James Scheiderich; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Pro Audio Spectrum 16 with Scsi port > Adaptec 2840 scsi controller > > Then it returnd this: > scsi0: BRKADRINT error (0x1): > Illegal Host Access > Kernel Panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1,seadd 0x

now i've done it (serious help now)

1997-12-16 Thread Alan Woo
AGH! okay all. i know this sounds terribly stupid, but as you all know, i have next to no experience with Unix. Now i installed debian, and let's say my partitions are completely messed up, i don't know how the file system works etc. I need to read a book, but i seriously need help to get out of th

RAMDISK boot error

1997-12-16 Thread Aaron Walker
I just setup this experimental system to run Debian 1.3.1: 486SX/25 4MB RAM CL3424 w/512K A real POWER-HOUSE!!! I just put this machine together to test Debian 2.0 aka hamm. Anyways... When I try to boot the rescue disk, I get the message: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 It hanges for

Re: FAT32 To FAT16

1997-12-16 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, B-Stu wrote: > How Do I Convert My Hard Drive For FAT32 To Fat16? I'm not sure it's possible without backing up the entire drive and refomatting (assuming you can find a copy of FDISK that'll do FAT16, which I don't think was included in Win95 OSR2). Why would you want to do

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
wnpp> o Removed perl documentaion from works in progress, as the wnpp> provided manpages are sufficient. There really needs to be a `perl-info' package, with the Perl TeXinfo docs in it. `cperl-mode' in the emacs editors has the ability to look up perl functions in the info. It's ind

FAT32 To FAT16

1997-12-16 Thread B-Stu
How Do I Convert My Hard Drive For FAT32 To Fat16? 

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread hawk
> On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 > > It responds, but I've manually started smail. The problem is that the > > init.d file doesn't seem to be run automatically. > But when it runs out of inetd, there is nothing for it to do on startup. > There is nothing running all the time. It's not that there's noti

Re: smail not starting on boot

1997-12-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 03:44:17PM +0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I believe that by default, smail is run out of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf). > > Telnet to port 25 of your box and see if it responds. > > It responds, but I've manually started smail. The problem is that the init.d > file d

Re: .xsession not executing

1997-12-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. > > After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man > pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than > to be executable.

Re: .xsession not executing

1997-12-16 Thread hawk
> Other than not being executable, all I can think of is that you may not > have allow-user-xsession in /etc/X11/config. that's it. I wonder why i didn't get one of those to start; I think i used to. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: .xsession not executing

1997-12-16 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out. > > After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man > pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than > to be executable.