I am installing applix 4.3 and have hit a snag. I converted the
rpms from the CD to debian packages using alien which resulted in:
applix-books-english_4.3-2_i386.deb
applix-clipart_4.3-2_i386.deb
applix-english_4.3-2_i386.deb
applix-libs_4.3-2_i386.deb
applix_4.3-2__i386.deb
I made /opt a symli
On 24 Jan, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well.
>
> It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and
> not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem,
> if possible?
>
I no longer have the space to test th
After my recent hared drive crash I am reviving my system
I unstalled Debian version 1.3 from a CD that I burned at work
from the offcial CD..here ar emy problems:
a) lilo doesn't work (minor concern...I have a boot disk that works..and
boots the kernel that I custom built)
b) pppd and named don't
Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well.
It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and
not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem,
if possible?
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Don't know about that end of things, please post something if you find a driver
that takes advantage of all of this card features. It really does a lot of cool
stuff...
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> Robert LaGrasse writes:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Ser
Hello,
The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for
thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". But while from
the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed to use it through
NFS.
I have a partial mirror of hamm on the NFS, containing only the
di
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:52:06AM -0500, Jeffrey Velez wrote:
> > I can't mount a print queue on a Novell 4.1 Server using:
> >
> > nprint -s umsm3 -p .Network_Services.dpg.Mednet.mednet
> > -q pq_mns_helpdesk_dpg_4
> >
> > I get the following Erro
Hi..
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can change this number using tune2fs(8) (in the e2fsprogs package).
As I understand it, you are changing the files system when you
adjust the parameters with tune2fs, and this like any change in
the file system should not be done on a read
"Michael A Jablecki" wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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>please help! i need to partition my drive -- i am currently
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can change this number using tune2fs(8) (in the e2fsprogs package).
If you want to see what the current settings are for this, and
other disk parameters, use "dumpe2fs /dev/hd__|less" as root,
inserting your disk designator. Piping through l
Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new
> disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm
> wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that
> /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in
> /e
Robert LaGrasse writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Server for the Mach64
> family of video cards found on "www.suse.de" will work with the ATI
> All-in-Wonder 4MB card, and lists this card specifically (along with
> every other Mach64 card you can think of).
Does anyone know of a logical volume manager (such as Veritas) for
Linux?
Thanks,
Greg Green
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Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that
> /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in
> /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist.
>
> Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a
> feature that I don't understand?
T
The behavior of the Focus command has changed in the version of fvwm2
provided in hamm.
/usr/doc/fvwm2/ChangeLog.gz says:
2.0.46
[snip]
37. Focus command no longer raises - use an interpreted
focus-and-raise function if that's desired
/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc (in both bo and
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really
asking "I would like to know why some people seem to prefer tar or cpio
to
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> Also there are some specific packages that depends in a particular
> kernel version (eg: lsof), It should be also specified... don't you think so?
>
> PD: should I send this criticisms t
Hi -
I've been trying to get Debian installed on my IBM Thinkpad 560 for a
couple days now and I'm still having some problems. Initially it wouldn't
boot, except with loadlin, but I looked through the mailing list archives
and used the Tecra boot disks and got it to work.
My problem now is that
I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new
disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm
wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that
/etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in
/etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist.
Can anyone help me sort
I had problems with my ATI card as well, www.suse.de has a bunch of Xfree86
based Xservers for ATI cards. Might want to look there...
-//-GtiMan-//- wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have a ATI Rage 3D and i haven't the drivers for this graphic card to
> configure Xfrr86...
>
> Somebody can help me ???
>
> T
-//-GtiMan-//- wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I have a ATI Rage 3D and i haven't the drivers for this graphic card to
> configure Xfrr86...
>
Within the xf86config program line number 24 is the 3D RAGE
Peter
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hello,
I have a ATI Rage 3D and i haven't the drivers for this graphic card to
configure Xfrr86...
Somebody can help me ???
Thanks.
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JJ> I'm using slrn's scoring to bring Debian-related postings to my atte
JJ> The organisation of the Debian community is very mailing-list orient
JJ> quite often, I answer Debian-related questions on newsgroups by refe
JJ> people to the mailing list. The disadvantage of mailing lists is tha
JJ> un
DAVID B TEAGUE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DBT> I counted the boots between max count fscks on my 1.3.1 system.
DBT> I got about 40.
You can change this number using tune2fs(8) (in the e2fsprogs package).
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 08:06:02PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote:
> > We wrote a simple C program which allows users to delete, rename (etc etc)
> > files in their home directory, and also gives them access to Z-modem (this
> > menu was written before PPP :-)
I have installed the boot-floppies and mkrboot packages, but cannot
find any documentation on how to use it. The README tells me only to
modify the top of the Makefile and type "make". Big help!!! Is there
any other documentation that tells me what is going on, short of
reading and understandin
Apologies if this has appeared in the past, I'm new to the list.
I have a compaq deskpro 4000 which has an LS120 drive instead of a
standard floppy. When I try to install Linux from the rescue disk it
boots up fine but then it can't read from the drive when it comes to
installing the OS. I've
Jonathan Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800 JJS wrote:
>
> > From: JJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800
> > Subject: question
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I have installed Linux. I am usin
On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 05:18:17AM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote:
> Each ext2 volume has a count of the number of times it has been mounted,
> and also a maximum number of mounts between checks, when the maximum is
> reached, a check is forced, this is to insure disk integrity, by checking
> the volume
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Gerald Wann wrote:
> Sometimes when i boot i get the message:
>
> /dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced.
>
> What exactly does this indicate?
Hi Gerald
Hitting max mount count doesn't indicate a problem. The boot mechanism
keeps track of the number of mounts
Regarding "max mount count?" of 7:23 AM -0500 1/24/98, Gerald Wann wrote:
>Sometimes when i boot i get the message:
>
>/dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced.
>
>What exactly does this indicate?
Each ext2 volume has a count of the number of times it has been mounted,
and also a maxim
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
> Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat. Maybe there are TOO MANY
> alternatives offered for a new install.
Well, dselect should perhaps start with "--newbie" switch :) o
Hi all -
Sometimes when i boot i get the message:
/dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced.
What exactly does this indicate?
Tanx
Jerry
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precisions on the cdrom problem:
George Bonser a écrit:
> I am thinking that you might need the old serialize trick.
> I seem to have forgotten the exact syntax but I THINK it is like this:
> append = "hdb=cdrom"
> append = "hdb=serialize"
>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 1998,
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have a Linux Box (with it's own monitor) and Tektronix X-terminal
> (XP217CH box +TXD1753R monitor, produced in Aug 1996). It would be
> very convinient for us, if we could boot X-Terminal from Linux box,
> rather than from central node.
It'
please help! i need to partition my drive
-- i am currently running win95 and wish to keep this os and all my files -- how
can i partition w/o a clean slate? thanx
adam
On 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will
> > almost certainly demand an unrestricted license on all changes, and
> > the talk of a "special site" makes me think that they will forbid
> > unauthorized distribution of
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 10:43:11PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
>
> I am really hurting for a set too. Is it safe to force the libc5-pic and
> ncurses3.0-pic?
hmm there is a libc6-pic and ncurses 3.4-pic, but as I have no idea what
those are for, the answer to yer question is: I don't know :)
On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 01:30:18AM -0500, Steve Hsieh wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me if there is a boot-floppies package for hamm yet? The
> current one depends on libc5-pic and ncurses3.0-pic -- neither of which
> exist in hamm.
not yet
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Can someone tell me if there is a boot-floppies package for hamm yet? The
current one depends on libc5-pic and ncurses3.0-pic -- neither of which
exist in hamm.
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 06:20:22PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>I'm trying to compile various things that want to use older libs --
>whether it's trying to link to stuff that wants libc5 or older versions
>of tcl. I have the older versions installed as well with the alt-dev.
>What do
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800 JJS wrote:
> From: JJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800
> Subject: question
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have installed Linux. I am using the BASH shell. After installing the
> things using Dselect,
> even if they do manage to fork a shell somehow, they'll just get their
> default shell which will source /etc/profile and end up with them
> in another instance of the menu. there are probably ways for clever
> users to get around this, but they all require the ability to execute
> arbitrary com
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 08:06:02PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote:
> We wrote a simple C program which allows users to delete, rename (etc etc)
> files in their home directory, and also gives them access to Z-modem (this
> menu was written before PPP :-).
Lynx does a reasonable file manager, but you can'
I have installed Linux. I am using the BASH shell. After installing the things using Dselect, I tried to mount my CD-rom drive using mount -t iso9660 /hdc/device /cdromI got an error message saying that mount can only be used by root. How do I fix this problem?
> if users can't be trusted with a shell, they can't be trusted with vi.
> give 'em pico.
Agreed :-)
> btw rbash is useful in situations like this. restricted shell, only
> programs in the PATH can be executed, and user can not change PATH or
> other variables. many other restrictions too.
What
> > Are you aware of the fact that any vi clone can give you a shell? Just
> > type
> >
> > :!sh
> >
> > in command mode and you'll get the prompt of whatever is called 'sh' on
> > the system.
> >
> > This is not only a problem with vi, but with many other programs as well.
Agreed that this is
I have Laptop-Accelx that I'm running on a Dell p166 with a neomagic
128ZV video card. I'm having the problem where when I run startx it
beings to load and immediately quits. It doesn't seem as if it's
quitting, rather than exiting as if it were killed -- there are no errors
generated. When I j
Why is there no version of apache 1.2 that I can see?
There is only 1.1.3 in stable (which is *way* old) and 1.3b3 in unstable
which seems a 'little quirky' yet.
It seems odd that we some how missed having a 1.2 package, I assume there
is a story here?
Adam.
Internet A
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:42:57 +1059 (EST) Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> ideas aren't copyrightable.
>
> ideas on how (and how NOT) to do things can be re-used at will.
>
Not quite so. There is something called intelectual property, which may
encompass ideas
Jonathan
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Hi all,
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Server for the Mach64
family of video cards found on "www.suse.de" will work with the ATI
All-in-Wonder 4MB card, and lists this card specifically (along with
every other Mach64 card you can think of).
Big "Thanks" to Florian Attenberger f
> Yes it is although not free in the GPL sense. dotshop.com has a
> perl-based CGI that will allow your users web based mail services. I
> think the url is www.emumail.com (or .net). The only problem I ran into
> is that you *need* perl 5.004_04 and if your running bo you don't have it.
>
I wrote:
> I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will
> almost certainly demand an unrestricted license on all changes, and
> the talk of a "special site" makes me think that they will forbid
> unauthorized distribution of derivatives.
Craig Sanders writes:
> ideas aren't
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by
> a bus error.
>
> It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of
> the buttons don't have images.
Which X server are you running? I had problems running t
Thanks for the info. I _think_ it might be a bug in ICEWM which I've just
started using. When I was using TWM before I never got this message even if
I clicked on the desktop and exited TWM - I suspect that TWM cleaned up
before dropping out - perhaps ICEWM doesn't
Ian W
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I downloaded Netscape from the netscape site and then installed it
using dselect and the Debian installation package.
Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by
a bus error.
It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of
the buttons don't have ima
On 22 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Craig Sanders writes:
> > possibly re-use parts of netscape browser in mnemonic. and
> > vice-versa.
>
> I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will
> almost certainly demand an unrestricted license on all changes, and
> the talk o
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On 24 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep
> > > resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means
> > > that I can't
On 24 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep
> > resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means
> > that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my
>
jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep
> resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means
> that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my
> bookmarks when I travel.
Does ln $HOME/.netscape/bo
Alexander Kushnirenko writes:
> Sorry I made a typo in previous messoge. Sending in again.
>
> > I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
> > this.
>
> > 2. What features would you add to the browser?
> >
> I'm running Netscape on different computers, and whou
When i upgraded from bo to hamm, X broke. The fix was to remove
the XF86Config file from /etc/X11 and recreate it using XF86Setup.
I specified the amount of video RAM on my card manually, overriding
the probe. This may or may not have had anything to do with fixing
the problem (SuperProbe corr
Maurizio Marini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > edu
> nslookup try to resolve edu (or any othe d1^ level domain)
> appending your default domain to edu:
> edu.aaa.bbb.com does not exist
>
> So, you have to close edu with a dot:
> > edu.
>
> and you will get what you expect to get.
No, this is t
Jeff Bisping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But modem doesn't dial the phone, never get any OK. Had problems with
> /dev/cua1 not existing but did 'mkmod -m 666 /dev/cua1 c 5 64' to take
> care of that( don't know if right). Modem is on COM2. I have minicom
> installed but just does the box a
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have
> > another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
>
> Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall
>
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
| this.
|
| What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make
| the browser better?
|
| 2. What features would you add to the browser?
I'd like the abili
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of
| this.
|
| 1. What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make
| the browser better?
|
| 2. What features would you add to the browser?
I don't current
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