upgrade from 1.1 to 1.3/dpkg and dselect

I have had 1.1 for awhile and have just tried to begin an upgrade to 1.3. I found a readme on ftp.debian.org which said: do dpkg --clear-avail, dpkg --install ldso_*.deb, dpkg --install libc5_*.deb, install dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb, dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin, and then to run

rumba package?

is there a rumba (ramba?) package? ..a program that allows users to mount shares over SMB...? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Termcap? Why is X failing?

Hi, I'm new to the list, and to Linux in general. I manually installed Debian 1.3 and XFree 3.3 (no CD-ROM or anything...just d/l and put on floppies). I've had some problems with X, but I think I've got most worked out. (Whoever mentioned the Microsoft ps/2 style ..*thanks*! that's one less pro

Linix

Hi, I am new to this Linix thingy I am interested in Debian, because I heard its very good. I want to know, can I have Win95 and Debian on my computer? And how, do I install and download the file(s)? Please advise... Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Janos Bujtar wrote: > I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live > machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this > way safe? yes, it works well. unfortunately, the ftp functions don't work, so you'll have to download the req

Re: desperately seeking installation

>From my logs: Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 30.00 BogoMIPS Memory: 39296k/40960k available (504k kernel code, 384k reserved, 776k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 Perhaps something with the memory ? > I appre

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

As usual YMMV but yes Autoup.sh is safe to run on a running machine. Personnally, I would suggest that you do 'shut everything down' since replacing something as critical as libc might be a bit 'chancy' while you have the possibility of tasks being launched. Janos Bujtar wrote: > > Hello ! > >

Re: partitioning strategy

Yeah, this is the right idea. However, rather than make a small root partition and then tons of others to mount in it instead just create a small partition called "/boot". Actually, the setup debian gives you by default stores the kernel, along with the other files lilo needs, in /boot. You'll note

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > With a ps2 style mouse, it is either use gpm for both consoles and X or > kill gpm to run X (for whatever reasons they will not co-exist on a ps2 > style mouse). > > > I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never > > had any problem

Re: more or less Newbies?

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > PS: After learning awk and shell cripting, you get perl nearly for free. > > PPS: I removed ls from my system and have an alias "ls" -> "echo *" ;) > > PPPS: I also have an alias "emacs" -> "cat >" Oh, no! What have you started? Now it's time to po

Re: partitioning strategy

Hi Robert, Here are the partitions on my 9.1GB SCSI drive: FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 99M 19M74M 21% / /dev/sda5 623M 332M 259M 56% /usr /dev/sda6 144M 15K 137M 0% /tmp /dev/sda7

Re: partitioning strategy

Robert Goodwin wrote: > hi there, > > a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that > does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a > problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the > kernel smaller in order to acc

Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow

Subject: Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:56:02PM +0100 In reply to:Martin Bialasinski Quoting Martin Bialasinski([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Helmut Leinfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've installed StarOffice 4.0 (German version) and both

partitioning strategy

hi there, a while ago i asked about installing linux on a large drive in a system that does not support LBA. somebody replied that such a thing would not be a problem but likely i would have to make the root partition containing the kernel smaller in order to accomodate lilo. what i'm wondering

Re: Removing Linux

Hi, > How can I remove Linux from my system and install a different OS? Do I > have to re-partition / reformat first? Thanks for all your help. Why would you want to remove Linux? :) Actually, you probably just need to repartition the drive using your new OS's partition utility and then format

ncpfs, pserver, getting the username with %u

Hi, Has anybody used pserver with the %u option for the username. I've tried it but %u gets mapped to the first line in the print file! Could it be a Netware config problem(banners?). I'm running ncpfs_2_0_11-6 on Debian linux 1.3.1 and can succesfully mount a Netware volume from a Netware 3.1

Re: Deebian / atalk revisited

Hi Greg, > What is the debian netatalk package expecting? Do I need to recompile > the kernel? Is there a atalk.o module around somewhere? Look in /lib/modules/2.0.(your kernel revision)/net. There should be an "appletalk.o" module. If there isn't you will have to compile the module. However,

Re: Removing Linux

Dennis Mohr wrote: > > How can I remove Linux from my system and install a different OS? Do I > have to re-partition / reformat first? Thanks for all your help. > > -Dennis Mohr II > Dennis: You should remove the partitions that have the OS you do not want. Then that will uninstall the

Removing Linux

How can I remove Linux from my system and install a different OS? Do I have to re-partition / reformat first? Thanks for all your help. -Dennis Mohr II -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deebian / atalk revisited

My main experience is installing and configuring Windows NT (not my choice). I am trying to get up to speed with Linux to have an alternative to NT. I am at the bottom of the learning curve and feel overwhelmed. I was encouraged by the way Debian has packages. I have become somewhat disheartene

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > I don't even know 'how far back' this was (bo, rexx?) but I do know that > at one time, I had to 'kill' gpm to run X and there was a note somewhere > in the gpm stuff about the problem. Umm, yeah, I think you're right about that. IIRC that was around "buzz

kernel-image-2.0.33_2.0.33-3_i386.deb

Hello: I am a new user to Debian Linux on my local computer, i have been playing with other distributions of linux via telnet for over a year but I tried to install debian linux on my computer, i suseeded, then i installed X windows and i suseded. But now i'm having a problem I want to update m

Re: millenium 2

Hi, > i can't get my Matrox Millenium 2 running under X11. > > I'm using an old X-Server date : Jun 1997 > > I think that's the problem, but where can i get a new one ? Several places: 1. ftp.XFree86.org and mirrors like ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors 2. The debian XFree86 3.3.1 package or better y

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

Hi, James > I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live > machine > with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this way safe? I would say it is safe, I upgraded 2 Debian 1.3 nodes with minimum problems. But if you don't want to do it with your eyes clos

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this way safe? Yes, from what I hear, it is safe, and works very well. But I haven't done it myself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

millenium 2

hi, i can't get my Matrox Millenium 2 running under X11. I'm using an old X-Server date : Jun 1997 I think that's the problem, but where can i get a new one ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks a lot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: install troubles continue

Thanks to Nathan and Scott for the correct information. Though I have used both zImage and bzImage kernels I had forgotten the comments (re bzImage). I also hope that my comments did not cause anyone a problem. The offset mentioned is just a (once handy anyway) means of putting a kernel on a dis

Re: 2 questions

hello again, this is a reply to my own message. I have found a way to overlap one image onto another on my web page. There is a program in the imagemagick package called combine. It did exactly what I wanted. If anyone had a similar experience try the combine command. Thanks for the help. Paul

Re: Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow

Helmut Leinfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed StarOffice 4.0 (German version) and both the installation > process and the program itself are EXTREMELY slow. Staroffice is a memory hog. I have 48 MB Ram and 32 MB Swap. When starting Staroffice it will eat all my memory+swap (I ju

Autoup script is dangerous?

Hello ! I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this way safe? Thanx in advance! james -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: smail postmaster messages

Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My doubt: when moving the messages back to /var/spool/smail I need >to do something more? Will smail take care of the msg and redistribute >them? > > No. Yes. (AFAIK.) ^^^ smail will retry to deliver them during the next ru

Re: Strange Network problem

Greg Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > machine since it is not acting as the router. Also, when I add a > certain host to my Debian /etc/hosts file.the access is great. The > I can also flood the machines on the network with ping -f and not lose > any packets > pop server = qpopper (2.2)

package dpendency command?

Hello, I was curios if there was a command to generate a listing of all the packages that depend on a given package. It might look like this: $ debpends zlib1 zlib1: libtiff3 $ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: What happened to the packages?

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi again, > > What happened to all of the hamm packages? I just upgraded my Package > list but now all of my installed packages are considered obsolete and > there the remaining available packages are no longer in the list. > > Does this have somethin

Re: Missing packages in hamm

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > Humm, I don't see xlib6_ at all. > Many of the packages that are 'missing' can be found in: > debian/project/orphaned Thanks for pointing this out, Bill. Unfortunately none of the packages I was looking for are there :-) I see that there is a new link

What happened to the packages?

Hi again, What happened to all of the hamm packages? I just upgraded my Package list but now all of my installed packages are considered obsolete and there the remaining available packages are no longer in the list. Does this have something to do with the hamm freeze? Thanks, -Ossama _

update-alternatives questions

Hi, I was messing around with update-alternatives since I had a bunch of dangling symbolic links in my man pages for some reason. I think the dangling links may be related to the fact that I removed emacs and installed xemacs. Basically I did the following really stupid thing: myhost:/

Re: Linux is damn robust !

Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just had my system reporting the following load: > > 6:35pm up 2:22, 4 users, load average: 23.37, 77.76, 47.23 > > How many commercial Unices would have supported that, without anything > crashing (syslogd still here - nothing in the logs) ?

Staroffice voll langsam

Hallo ! Ich habe StarOffice 4.0 installiert und sowohl die Installation als auch das Programm selbst laufen EXTREM LANGSAM. Weiß jemand, woran das liegen kann ? Danke, Helmut --- Accept the challenge! http://fbma.tuwien.ac.at/~e8

Staroffice 4.0 EXTREMELY slow

Hi ! I've installed StarOffice 4.0 (German version) and both the installation process and the program itself are EXTREMELY slow. I don't have a clue why. "top" shows that soffice (the program name) gets only about 1%-3% of CPU. Does anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks, please reply personall

Re: install troubles continue

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: : Unless I am misunderstanding something here (easily possible) the only : difference between zImage and bzImage kernels is the inclusion of the : boot sector code at the beginning of the file. Eh? /usr/src/linux/README says - if your kernel is too large

[SOLVED]Re: Create Special Boot Disks??

Thanks to everybody who replied... you all helped! I got the new rescue disk working... As the "readme.txt" says on the rescue disk I built a kernel with ramdisk and initrd along with the IDE, SCSI, and filesystem stuff I needed. I did a 'make bzImage' and renamed that kernel image "Linux".

Re: Multi-Boot

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: >So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use >the >NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your >linux partition and have it write the boot block there. Eg., if your linux >partition w

Re: sound

i got it to work, but unfortunately i don't have the laptop right here. i'll try to get my friend to email me sound.conf file and i'll forward that to you as soon as i get it. --alex-- That would be great. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Linux is damn robust !

I just had my system reporting the following load: 6:35pm up 2:22, 4 users, load average: 23.37, 77.76, 47.23 How many commercial Unices would have supported that, without anything crashing (syslogd still here - nothing in the logs) ? For the record, it was an unwanted recursive make, int

Re: sound

/proc/interrupts lists several interrupts and devices, but nothing is listed under IRQ5, nor is the sound card listed. David On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:01:18PM -0500, David B Wilson wrote: > Has anyone had success getting sound to work with a Yamaha OPL3-SA on > a laptop? The HowTo list

Re: install troubles continue

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > Unless I am misunderstanding something here (easily possible) the only > difference between zImage and bzImage kernels is the inclusion of the > boot sector code at the beginning of the file. You are misunderstanding. bzImage is the new kernel format deve

Re: Missing packages in hamm

Humm, I don't see xlib6_ at all. Many of the packages that are 'missing' can be found in: debian/project/orphaned -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the mo

RE: Multi-Boot

"Lewis, James M. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] | How you partition a system depends a lot on what you are going to do | with it. My system is just a local workstation and looks like this: [snip] | Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can | add some comment...

Re: Multi-Boot

I think you mean SCSI ID, not LUN. Logical Unit Numbers are a sub-division of a single SCSI device. Few SCSI devices use them, although an example would be a SCSI CD-ROM jukebox. Anyway, if you cared to read Manual.txt.gz which comes with LILO you'd see that the limitation on booting from other th

Re: smail postmaster messages

My doubt: when moving the messages back to /var/spool/smail I need to do something more? Will smail take care of the msg and redistribute them? No. Yes. (AFAIK.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-Boot

Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can add some comment... Personally, I have the following setup: Adaptec 2940UW 3 x 4.3 GB UW SCSI HDDs 3 x 128 MB swap, one per drive 128 MB root partition on /dev/sda RAID-0 across

Re: install troubles continue

Unless I am misunderstanding something here (easily possible) the only difference between zImage and bzImage kernels is the inclusion of the boot sector code at the beginning of the file. If you use lilo or loadlin then you don't want the bzImage but if you cat or dd the kernel image to a floppy t

Re: Win95 as a terminal

You can also configure HyperTerminal to use the "Direct to COMx" devices. This would make your Win95 a TTY device on the Linux box If you're going this route, though, download HyperTerminal Private Edition 3.0 (from Hilgraeve?, tucows, etc.) and use that instead of the stock HT that came with

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

I don't even know 'how far back' this was (bo, rexx?) but I do know that at one time, I had to 'kill' gpm to run X and there was a note somewhere in the gpm stuff about the problem. > Really, this has never been a problem for me. The only problem I had with > X11 and a ps2 mouse is related to Star

smail postmaster messages

Hi, I'm receiveing some messages from smail. --- Smail has detected new errors requiring your attention on the host curiango.ipen.br. Messages which failed can be found in the directory /var/spool/smail/error and should be moved back to /var/spool/smail when the situation wh

RE: Multi-Boot

What you want to do has been done by others. I don't use nt and debian together so I can't help there. There was a recent thread on the list that covered this. In the meantime, you can use the boot floppy that you make during the install process. How you partition a system depends a lot on what

Re: Some odd errors / compatibility questions.

>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Miller) writes: >> >> >So I swapped the sticks. The memory test *still* failed at >> > 11Mb. Reenabled the cache and it still fails at 11Mb. >> >> *sigh* Failed at *17Mb*. Succeeded at *16Mb*. I *will* remember >> to calculate in HEX, I *will* remembe

Re: Win95 as a terminal

Win95 supports a "Direct Cable Connection" as an Adapter when you go to network properties. That said, I tried arduously to get this thing to work between two Win95 laptops without success. I suspect that with the right configuration this would work. Bill Leach wrote: > The short answer is 'yes'.

Re: problems with vnc

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 07:45:51AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux > > box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as the vnc > > server didn't find any free sockets (I don't remember exactly what > > the error message was, b

Re: X fonts

Hi, Peter! I hope you took cyrillic fonts from Debian distribution, then it's already preorganised. One thing to check is that in your /etc/X11/XF86Config there is a line: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" After that you enable cyrillic font in Netscape thru preferences window

Multi-Boot

I'm trying to set up a dual boot system with Linux & NT 4.0. My NT system is configured like this: . Adaptec 2940UW . LUN(0) 2.1GB 100MB FAT-16 (C:) 2000MB NTFS (E:) . LUN(1) 3.25GB 3.25GB NTFS (D:) . LUN(2) 4.33GB Unpartitioned - Reserved for Linux . LUN(5) Zip

Re: Create Special Boot Disks??

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: [ snip ] : The kernel loads fine, but chokes when it gets to the RAMDISK. Here : is the final error: : : RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 : VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). : VFS: Cannot open root device 08:11 : Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to

Missing packages in hamm

I recently had to re-install hamm because of a disk error (and a botched backup tape). However, some of the packages which formerly were included are not there anymore: xlib6 netscape4 staroffice4 ... Many available packages cannot be installed because of dependency on xlib6. Downgrading to bo

Re: install troubles continue

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: : On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:58:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > Just for fun, try booting from the tecra disk set - they are built with : > a zImage rather than a bzImage kernel. : This is not true. They contain a kernel patch (having to do with

RE: X fonts

> Peter Shtinkov asked: > I installed cyrillic fonts in X. (Debian 1.3.1), but I can't view > cyrillic in Netscape 4.04. Please help me ! > Did you configure Netscape to use these fonts for viewing pages in Cyrillic encoding? In Preferences in the Edit menu, go to "Appearance", choose "Fonts" and

Re: NFS client for win95?

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: > does anybody know of a client for win95 that will allow me to map a linux > drive across the network? perferably something that is a free download. AFAIK there are only commercial implementations of nfs on windows. Of course, Microsoft didn't invent (and

Re: Win95 as a terminal

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Linux admin at alv wrote: > Is there a better solution for using my Linux resources from Win 95 computer? > Notice: no network card. Only null modem. It's not proven, but I think that there's two ways to do this: - the hard way: make sure that the modems either have init s

Re: NFS client for win95?

Rob Goodwin wrote: > does anybody know of a client for win95 that will allow me to map a linux > drive across the network? perferably something that is a free download. Use the built-in windows networking (with tcp/ip) and install samba on the linux box. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (hom

NFS client for win95?

does anybody know of a client for win95 that will allow me to map a linux drive across the network? perferably something that is a free download. thanks. rg <>

Re: NIS slows down login?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when I activate NIS on my (up to date) hamm system, logins and su >are rapidly slowed down even for local users. It takes several >seconds to su from root to a local user, i.e., a user listed in >/etc/passwd. The NIS maps a

Re: Reboot Cycle

You need to download the "special" Rescue disk image from: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/special/tecra Boot off this disk using "rescue root=/dev/hdaX" where X=partition number where Linux is installed. (i.e. 1 if that's all you've got installed on the machine.)

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will exim support different alias files for different domains? I've > got the hideous smail method for doing that installed -- duplicating > the configuration files in another directory and using dodgy > transports. This is an important requirement he

Re: compile error due to libc6 trouble?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: > I don't know what crtbegin.o is, or where to find it, I have a crtbegin.o file in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3 I'm using gcc_2.7.2.3-4. Which compiler are you using exactly? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > With a ps2 style mouse, it is either use gpm for both consoles and X or > kill gpm to run X (for whatever reasons they will not co-exist on a ps2 > style mouse). > > > I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never > > had any problem

Re: X fonts

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 05:27:41PM +0200, Peter Shtinkov wrote: > I installed cyrillic fonts in X. (Debian 1.3.1), but I can't view > cyrillic in Netscape 4.04. Please help me ! > Thanks in advance. Where you cannot see cyrillic? On web pages? In mail messages? Can you see yrillic in other X appl

NIS slows down login?

Hi, when I activate NIS on my (up to date) hamm system, logins and su are rapidly slowed down even for local users. It takes several seconds to su from root to a local user, i.e., a user listed in /etc/passwd. The NIS maps are rather large (about 5000 users). ypbind is bound to the local NIS slave

Re: Create Special Boot Disks??

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:29:40AM +, Jay Barbee wrote: > I created the image with module support but with out any modules > (everything was built into the kernel). Image was created with 'make > bzImage', then I copied bzImage to "linux" and then copied it onto a > rescuedisk. I mounted t

Re: Video card recommendations...

Hi Ben, > I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X great with 32-bit color @ > 1600x1200. I'd check your configuration if I were you. The Millenium II's chipset doesn't support [EMAIL PROTECTED], even though you can configure XFree86 to actually run the card at that resolution and color depth.

X fonts

I installed cyrillic fonts in X. (Debian 1.3.1), but I can't view cyrillic in Netscape 4.04. Please help me ! Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Create Special Boot Disks??

> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > > If the stock 1.3.1 Rescue disk will not boot up a system with an > > Adaptec SCSI controller, do I have any other options for getting this > > to work? Are there special rescue disks out there for this sort of > > thing? > > The boot (rescue) dis

Re: Keyborad Dead-keys

Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > Hi all. > > I am a brazilian SysAdmin and, in order to make the accents of my > language work, I tried to install Dead-keys on my Linux Box. > > All I did was change the (accent) -> (dead_accent) in the us.map > because my keyboard has Internat

Re: Win95 as a terminal

The short answer is 'yes'. One way would be to set up a ppp link on both the windoz box and the linux box (easy on Linux, don't know about windoz). Basically though, I would guess that if you can tell the Windoz dialer to make a connection without it issuing modem command then it should also be e

Strange Network problem

Hello, I am experiencing a strange network problem and I do not know if my Debian 1.3.1 kernel 2.0.32 machine is the problem, or an NT Server being the cause. I have an NT Server acting as a router with my Debian machine serving my web page and mail server. Here's the problem, when I hit the web

Re: 19980324 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux > >By Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * gv -- A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets Hi, i have taken this one from Karl. Marco (gs and

problems with vnc

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > I wanted to make my Linux-X-stuff available on a Win95 machine, > the two computers being connected via null modem. I thought vnc > might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux > box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as th

Re: minimum reqd. files to run X-win on hamm

There are probably better ways to do this (so I'll be watching for other answers too) but you can just do a 'more /var/lib/dpkg/available' and take a look at the 'depends' and 'recommends' sections for 'xbase' and the appropriate 'xserver'. You can also just run dselect. Make sure that it is a 'c

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

With a ps2 style mouse, it is either use gpm for both consoles and X or kill gpm to run X (for whatever reasons they will not co-exist on a ps2 style mouse). > I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never > had any problems getting my mouse to work correctly in X11. YMMV >

Re: ncr 53cXXX, once again.

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, tony mollica wrote: > Can someone provide some info. I've found three types of > ncr scsi cards (pci), the 810, 860, and 875. Only the 875 > claims to have onboard bios. How does one find out whether > the motherboard bios supports the other ncr cards? It seems > that I

Re: Video card recommendations...

Currently i'm building a machine and am down to the last piece of hardware, the video card. i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the pro's/con's of the following cards: ATI all-in-wonder Diamond Viper Matrox Millenium II I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X grea

Win95 as a terminal

Hello. I have one Linux box at home (with unstable Debian) and null modem cable, by which it's connected with Win 95 computer. Now I can use Win95 as a terminal. Is there a better solution for using my Linux resources from Win 95 computer? Notice: no network card. Only null modem. Can I, for in

Trouble posting with Knews and leafnode

Greetings, I currently use leafnode to periodically grab articles for the usenet groups I am interested in for later reading off-line. I then use Knews to read them and have knews configured to look to localhost (leafnode) as its news server. It had been a while since I had tried to post or fo

Re: problems with vnc

> might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux > box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as the vnc > server didn't find any free sockets (I don't remember exactly what > the error message was, but something like "you might have already > an x session running"?!). >

Re: How to design a LAN network

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, law rebecca wrote: > Hello there, i would like to get some help for the solution on design a > LAN network for a company which have the following situation : (the > design must suite it present and future need) [snip] > 8)Please include the benefits/drawbacks of each. The

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Soenke Lange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.101-3, something I've been dreading. > > With good reason; even though I haven't enabled any anti-SPAM > > features it says nobody is al

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just upgraded to smail 3.2.0.101-3, something I've been dreading. > With good reason; even though I haven't enabled any anti-SPAM > features it says nobody is allowed to send it mail. > > Can someone please help me urgently :-) >

Re: install troubles continue

On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:58:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just for fun, try booting from the tecra disk set - they are built with > a zImage rather than a bzImage kernel. This is not true. They contain a kernel patch (having to do with initializing ram above 1M) that enables Tecras and s

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > Hamish, > > Forget smail unless you are doing UUCP. Go to exim. I was a long-time user > and supporter of smail but have given up on it except on this lone system. > The upstream maintainer has gone mad. If you need smail for UUCP, copy > your

problems with vnc

Hi, I wanted to make my Linux-X-stuff available on a Win95 machine, the two computers being connected via null modem. I thought vnc might be the appropriate software, so I tried to set up my linux box as a vnc server. This was not possible couldn't as the vnc server didn't find any free sockets (

How to design a LAN network

Hello there, i would like to get some help for the solution on design a LAN network for a company which have the following situation : (the design must suite it present and future need) Company B have a main site on the outskirts of the city, with an area of 6 areas, but, also have a small desig

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