Re: Where is telnet and ftp ?

1998-04-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Can I telnet and ftp to my own computer? I tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (which > is this computer) but a ftp will not log me in, and a telnet either ? > > Do I have to start a special demon ? And how should I do that ? No, you just need to al

tm gone?

1998-04-06 Thread William R. Ward
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa C

ckermit gone?

1998-04-06 Thread William R. Ward
Apparently ckermit is no longer provided - I believe it used to be in either non-free or contrib. Why is this? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Emacs 19.34

1998-04-06 Thread William R. Ward
I am using the "emacs" package (19.34) and am finding that increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that depend on either "emacs19 or emacs20" and for some reason the "emacs" package doesn't provide "emacs19" as I would expect it should. --Bill. -- William R Ward Ba

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > > using root. Like this one: > > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > > > I thought I could at least run it and get an

Re: How to install linux

1998-04-06 Thread Quan Tran
Checkout the user document from Debian web site, http://www.debian.org/doc/ There's an installation FAQ. Christopher Kern wrote: > > Actually I am not a debian user, (yet) but I am hoping to become one soon with > some help. I have an old 486/50 that I want to install it on, but I have > never

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-06 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Ray Schultz wrote: > I am reading all these messages with Eudora 3.05 on a Win95 machine > and I don't think Eudora has a way to thread the subjects. Eudora does allow you to sort by subject, though. As for me, if there's a subject that I particularly want to watch, I have

Re: pine

1998-04-06 Thread Colin Telmer
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Usman Roshan wrote: > Hello everybody, > Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. As other have mentioned, use procmail. This is a debian pacakge and along with it is two other packages worth noting - procmail-lib, which is a collection of useful procmail re

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-06 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Run xf86 config again. When you get to the section that asks if the > following displays resolutions are correct, pick a color depth to change > and change/keep your existing resolutions but when asked if you want a > virtual desktop select "No." > > If you don't adjust your color-depths per re

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Bradley Bell
Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too when installing fortune. Afte

DECNET and Linux.

1998-04-06 Thread shaul
A friend of mine is considering connecting a Linux machine to a DECNET network. Are there any www resorces, READMEs HOWTOs etc that are relevant ? Is it considered something unusual ? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Netgear 10/100tx nic

1998-04-06 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi all, I'm trying to use a few netgear FA310TX 10/100 cards ('cause they're cheap!). Although they are based on the DEC 21140-AF chip (tulip) they don't seem to work well (or at all) with even the most recent tulip driver. I tried a Genuine DEC nic (500tx) with a 21140 and it worked fine. A

Re: Xlib6g conflicts with X Win 3.3.2?

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Christopher J. McNicholas" wrote: >I installed a bunch of packages this weekend. Among them was Xlib6g. >Now when I try to start X, I get the message: > >Can't load library libXmu.so.6 > >What do I need to do to get X running again? $ dpkg -S libXmu.so.6 xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu

Where is telnet and ftp ?

1998-04-06 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, Can I telnet and ftp to my own computer? I tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (which is this computer) but a ftp will not log me in, and a telnet either ? Do I have to start a special demon ? And how should I do that ? Gabrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Unable to start program

1998-04-06 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm using root. Like this one: -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command not found. I had this too when installing fortune. After logging in as a user I could r

dpkg: motifnls error

1998-04-06 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, I'm quite new to debian and having some problems with installing the severall *.DEB files. 1. I noticed on the CD I bought there is a dir called /bo/msdos-i3 full off *.deb files of 0 bytes. This must be a mistake, not ? 2. When trying to install X-server, I got a few complaints about the pa

Xlib6g conflicts with X Win 3.3.2?

1998-04-06 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
I installed a bunch of packages this weekend. Among them was Xlib6g. Now when I try to start X, I get the message: Can't load library libXmu.so.6 What do I need to do to get X running again? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > the problem: > > my X desktop is 4 time wider than my available space on the monitor and > the resolution is not good either. Run xf86 config again. When you get to the section that asks if the following displays resolutions are correct, pick a color depth to change and change/keep your ex

Re: pine

1998-04-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Usman Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. You mean "filter my email into different folders" ? pine doesn't have such facility. Use procmail or filter to do this. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: pine

1998-04-06 Thread David S. Jackson
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Usman Roshan wrote: > Hello everybody, > Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. > > Usman Take a look at this URL: http://acsweb.ucis.dal.ca/fsg/notes/procmail.html These are instructions for setting up Pine with procmail already installed on a Universi

X configuration problem

1998-04-06 Thread Alain Toussaint
the problem: my X desktop is 4 time wider than my available space on the monitor and the resolution is not good either. what i tried: i played a bit with XF86Config making only a change at a time (and keeping a backup of the last configuration that worked too),this hasn't worked,i know what is t

Re: Modem Help Wanted....

1998-04-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Brandon wrote: : Can someone tell me howto use my and configure my 56k modem under linux?? : its a Zoom 56k flexthanx in advance!!! Hmm ... this sounds suspiciously like a WinModem. Can it be configured in DOS or NT? If it only works under Windows 95, you're probably SOL

Re: Laptop Sound

1998-04-06 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Does anyone have experience with setting up sound in a laptop under > linux? I'm on a Dell Latitude 166M with an ESS SB16Compatible sound card. > It appears to be a PnP card (Looking at it from Windows) but pnpdump > doesn't find it. > I recently installed sound support for my old Austin 13

Modem Help Wanted....

1998-04-06 Thread Brandon
Can someone tell me howto use my and configure my 56k modem under linux?? its a Zoom 56k flexthanx in advance!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pine

1998-04-06 Thread Usman Roshan
Hello everybody, Does anyone know how to create filters in pine ? Thanks. Usman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-06 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Ray Schultz wrote: > > How are all you guys handling the subject threading deal? > In pine I set my sort order to "Ordered Subject" and it sorts them by the subject line, thus putting everything with the same subject together. It's not 'real' threading but it gets the job d

Re: HP Deskjet 672C

1998-04-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a 660Cse and performance is good, but color printing doesn't quite > > reach the quality level you get under windoze. :( > > Well, that's ok. > > Does it print at 600 dpi, or at 300dpi ... the specs show 600 dpi with > "REt", which I was af

Re: Debian Beowulf

1998-04-06 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would greatly appreciate any advice from the readers of this list on > > what hardware would be best for this project. > > This is the first time I've seen somebody mention putting together > a debian beowulf system. I suspect you'd do better asking

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Ray Schultz wrote: : Hello All, : : I am new to the list. I have been on for only few days and already have : 75 messages from the list. Great content!! : : I find it difficult to follow the subject threads without them being : grouped together like a newsreader. : I am rea

Re: Problems creating a bootable Debian installation on a Jaz drive (fwd)

1998-04-06 Thread Nils Lohner
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maria Ri ghtley writes: > > >Hello all -- > >I have recently been trying to make a bootable Debian installation on a >Jaz drive. I did this by using 'cp -a' to transfer files from my scsi >hard drive to the Jaz drive. I then changed the Jaz drive version of >/etc

Re: Any problems w/ psaux & xfree?

1998-04-06 Thread servis
On 6 Apr, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > Has anyone had any problems with a "psaux" (PS/2 interface) > mouse and Xfree? > > I'm using bo, no hamm at all. I can live with this, but > I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it. > > If I switch *into* an X-tty using, for instance, Alt-F7, and > I move t

Threading list subjects?

1998-04-06 Thread Ray Schultz
Hello All, I am new to the list. I have been on for only few days and already have 75 messages from the list. Great content!! I find it difficult to follow the subject threads without them being grouped together like a newsreader. I am reading all these messages with Eudora 3.05 on a Win95 mach

Re: Debian Beowulf

1998-04-06 Thread Raul Miller
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would greatly appreciate any advice from the readers of this list on > what hardware would be best for this project. This is the first time I've seen somebody mention putting together a debian beowulf system. I suspect you'd do better asking the beowulf

Problems creating a bootable Debian installation on a Jaz drive (fwd)

1998-04-06 Thread Maria Rightley
Hello all -- I have recently been trying to make a bootable Debian installation on a Jaz drive. I did this by using 'cp -a' to transfer files from my scsi hard drive to the Jaz drive. I then changed the Jaz drive version of /etc/fstab so that it would mount /dev/sdb1 (the jaz drive) as / and

Any problems w/ psaux & xfree?

1998-04-06 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Has anyone had any problems with a "psaux" (PS/2 interface) mouse and Xfree? I'm using bo, no hamm at all. I can live with this, but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it. If I switch *into* an X-tty using, for instance, Alt-F7, and I move the mouse *right away*, the server will crash. If I

Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-06 Thread Johan Wilhelm Kluwer
Hello, I have a problem that should have a really simple answer that I nevertheless have not been able to find. I have an old, powerweak computer into which I have just been able to fit emacs and latex. This works fine, but: How to print DVI files? The printer I dispose of is an old Citizen dot-ma

Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > > > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: > > > > > Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably > > > obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? > > > > Yes, I am still working on it. The n

Patience, this will get longer

1998-04-06 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Since January I am trying to learn a bit about Linux, and beeing lucky to find answers to most questions either in the online documentation or else searching the www. There are still two thing that bother me, 1st: though I´ve read all install files, manpages and docs of fvwm2 several times I just c

Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: > > > Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably > > obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? > > Yes, I am still working on it. The new version of communicator4.05, and > netscape4.05, all

Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: > Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably > obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? Yes, I am still working on it. The new version of communicator4.05, and netscape4.05, allow for redistribution. They won't

Debian Beowulf

1998-04-06 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I work for a company which has decided to attempt to replace its SGI Power Challenge with a Beowulf type Linux system. The primary reason behind this decision is the expense of SGI support and maintenance of non-commodity hardware. We have an eventual budget of 10 to 20 thousand dolla

Intallationproblems

1998-04-06 Thread Uwe Forner
Hallo, at first please excuse my very bad english, but i have a big problem by installing the DEBIAN-Linux on my new Pentium. In the last years i have used a 486DX2/80 machine with 32 MB RAM. Its works very good. There ar no problems with Linux. Now i have additional an Pentium 166 with 32MB RAM

Re: hamm state

1998-04-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: : How can hamm go into frozen when dselect-over-FTP hasn't been fixed yet? : When will it be fixed (I recently tried the 98-03-29 disk set)? It's frozen so those problems can be fixed. Frozen means "no more changes other than bugfixes", not "ready for pri

Re: Time problem

1998-04-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this problem once before also. I am not aware of any tools to > correct it(are there any?). If you edit /etc/init.d/boot on the GMT= line > you should be able to accomplish what you desire. This is correct for bo. For hamm the GMT variab

Re: Using sendmail for outgoing mail to ISP

1998-04-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Just in case you didn't know, "sendmail" and "smail" are two _different_ mail transport agents. I am mentioning this because you said you wanted to configure sendmail but are using smailconfig. Presumably you mean "smail" and not "sendmail." :) -Ossama > > How can I configure sendmail und

hamm state

1998-04-06 Thread Jonas Bofjall
How can hamm go into frozen when dselect-over-FTP hasn't been fixed yet? When will it be fixed (I recently tried the 98-03-29 disk set)? Also, selecting keyboard layout (swedish) does not work (says it can't find the keymap-file). Sometimes it complains about the user 'root' not being found, but i

Fw: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
>> I suggest a new list for this second purpose - tracking bugs and problems >> with the unstable (or, currently, frozen) release. Things like 'package X >> has broken, or is it just me?'. Like the recent grep problem, which >> caused me to post this (and also the xlib6 thing of a week ago, which

Re: pgp

1998-04-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is probably off the topic, but I was wondering what the > difference is between the international and "America only" versions > of pgp are? Which is better? Why? (Not that I am allowed to use > the america only version - I'm just interested in why there

Re: Using sendmail for outgoing mail to ISP

1998-04-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Pierre Sarrazin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I configure sendmail under Debian 1.3 so that it can > send my outgoing mail to my ISP on demand (when I have > established a PPP link with my modem)? > > I wanted to configure /etc/smail/routers myself but I did > not find the information I w

Re: DPKG question.

1998-04-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a > package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the > manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. You could use "dpkg --contents filename.deb" for this. It will list the f

ATI 3D Rage Pro vx Xfree (and a comment)

1998-04-06 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I know this can be done, but can't find the answer in the old digests... Have a Compaq Presario with the ATI 3D Rage Pro card. Installed from CD, set up X, used the listed Mach64 servers (for the Rage and Rage II) and X dies with the message that it can't start the server. The VGA setup comes up fi

Netscape Communicato

1998-04-06 Thread Ian Watkins
Have you tried the package wvdial that is in _some_ of the Debian distributions? (Certainly in frozen). Very easy to configure and it seems to work. IMO the ppp stuff is a nightmare - before finding wvdial I had ended up with a one-line script with all my ppp options in it as I couldn't get ppp

dselect-ftp Question

1998-04-06 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Is there a way to configure dselect-ftp to automatically retry downloading packages during an FTP error? For example, this weekend I did an install of hamm(frozen) using dselect-ftp. Before bed I started things rolling, then went to sleep hoping I would have a whole distribution w

Would Like to know more about debian 2

1998-04-06 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, i saw a few teasers,however, is there a published list of debian 2 salient features? allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bo to hamm and libc5 vs libc6

1998-04-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Chip, I believe that the XFree86 sites/mirrors contain sets of binaries for both glibc/libc6 and for libc5. Someone correct me if I am wrong. If you are willing to install things manually instead of using Debian's nifty packages, then you can download the XF86-3.3.2 binaries and just untar th

Re: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > Hi! > > Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated > purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each > others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. > > On the other hand, it also serves to monito

Re: linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Valerie CAYOL wrote: >A old version of linux is already installed on my computer >and the disk is partitionned between linux and dos. >I would like to install a new version of linux (debian linux 131), keeping >my dos partition untouched. Is this possible and if so, could anyone tell >me

Re: Time problem

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Glenn Scherb wrote: >I just got my Debian system up and running. It's dual boot with WinNT. I >goofed when I set up the time on the Linux side. It now believes that the >real-time clock is GMT instead of local. I tried tzconfig, but it doesn't >provide a way to change the time base.

Re: pgp

1998-04-06 Thread Stephen Carpenter
A while back I was looking through the PGP source code thinking of maybe porting it to the Apple II GS (the computer I used at the time --I shutter to think how long key generation would take on a 2.6 MHz machine) There seem to me to be ONLY _2_ differences between the international and US versions

How to install linux

1998-04-06 Thread Christopher Kern
Actually I am not a debian user, (yet) but I am hoping to become one soon with some help. I have an old 486/50 that I want to install it on, but I have never really used linux or unix so I am completely lost. I have it (the 486) connected to my main computer with a serial link so I can load stuff

Re: Newbie - Setting display color

1998-04-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
"chee seng gnoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can set the display > color. I used the following command in my .bash_profile to change the > foreground color to green > > setterm --foreground green > > but the display r

Re: -- MARK --

1998-04-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the PROPER behavior of syslogd. This informs you that syslogd is > running. Check the documentation for changing it. Why do you want to > turn this off? Why? Because it bulks up the log and makes it hard to look for something meaningful.

Static ip address

1998-04-06 Thread Thomas J. Malloy
I have just arranged to get a static ip address from my isp. Does this mean I should now reinstall debian as though I were on a network? also what do I change in my ppp configuration to account for the static address. And lastly this isp uses an automatic ppp so there is no login script ( alt

bo to hamm and libc5 vs libc6

1998-04-06 Thread Chip Grandits
My ultimate purpose is to get Xwindows to work for my Matrox Millenium II. Ben Pfaff and Ossama Othman, both of whom successfully use the Matrox Millenium II video card, both suggestion what amounts to an update of the SVGA server. I was unable to get this to work. Ossama Othman, noted in his

Re: AMD K5 PR 100 & Linux

1998-04-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gabor Kontur wrote: > > About a week ago someone with an AMD K5 processor left a message > (unfortunately i erased it from my system) > stating that he he had to recompile the kernel with the 386 option in order > for Netscape > to function properly. > > Since i have been having and still have e

Re: aic7xxx + IBM DCAS 4.3GB = LI

1998-04-06 Thread Tim Sailer
Jay Barbee wrote: > > > before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda > > I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the > > system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again just > > to get this problem solved. > > > I was not sure if you had gotten

Re: aic7xxx + IBM DCAS 4.3GB = LI

1998-04-06 Thread Jay Barbee
> before changing boot=/dev/sda1 to boot=/dev/sda > I got 1FA: instead of LILO. Now I'm getting LI - I've had Suse on the > system and no problems at boot. I don't want to re-install Suse again just > to get this problem solved. I was not sure if you had gotten a reply... The LI problem is not

Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably > obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? Well, first off, there is no .deb package of netscape itself, period. What there are are .deb installer packages - these are

RFC:WWW Design for Linux Browsers

1998-04-06 Thread Adam Edwards
I have no idea if this request is relevant to the list or not but I need a nice variety of browsers to look at a sample I've created. It *should* look okay in most browser but I don't have them all. :) I took the debate about the Debian site as fodder. (Nice collection of content for me to jugg

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread Stephen Carpenter
from what I understand GNU litterally stands for "GNU's Not Unix" its a redundant acronym ie the G in GNU stands for GNU I personally think its rather humerous...but thats just me :) -Steve Norbert Pabis wrote: > HI, > I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? > > GPL

Re: pgp

1998-04-06 Thread john
Chris wrote (of pgp): > I assume that it is just that the US prevents it's citizens from using > the better system We are allowed to use it. We are just supposed to pay RSA for the privilege. We don't all do so. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI --

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, IIRC, as long as you keep your boot sector/partition within the lower 1024 sectors of your hard drive you should be alright. I've got a 9.1 GB SCSI drive that works fine with my Debian system. As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone would have bothered impleme

Re: linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > A old version of linux is already installed on my computer > and the disk is partitionned between linux and dos. > I would like to install a new version of linux (debian linux 131), keeping > my dos partition untouched. Is this possible and if so, could a

Re: Information

1998-04-06 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 04:57:16PM +0200, Saud Rifat wrote: > I`m a user from spain and i`ve heard very good things about debian. The > only problem is that I have had problems in the installation; is it > posible for you to send me detailed instructions for the installation??? Installation docum

RE: kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-06 Thread Lewis, James M.
I tried using my old .config file from 2.0.30 and menuconfig did not show me the NLS and code page options. I had to use the default .config file and go from scratch. Also, if you don't say Y to the NLS support, the kernel won't compile. (Why have a choice if there isn't any?) jim -- F

Information

1998-04-06 Thread Saud Rifat
Hi, I`m a user from spain and i`ve heard very good things about debian. The only problem is that I have had problems in the installation; is it posible for you to send me detailed instructions for the installation??? I would apreciate it very much. Thanking you in advance..Saud -- To UN

Re: Time problem

1998-04-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > I just got my Debian system up and running. It's dual boot with WinNT. I > goofed when I set up the time on the Linux side. It now believes that the > real-time clock is GMT instead of local. I tried tzconfig, but it doesn't > provide a way to change the time base. Is there a tool o

Hard Disk Size

1998-04-06 Thread Mike Acklin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am about to buy a new hard drive and would like to know what the max size Debian/Linux can recognize. I have looked over the documentation and FAQs but could not make out exactly what all they meant. I know it says 1024 sectors and 16 heads by 512 bytes

Time problem

1998-04-06 Thread Glenn Scherb
I just got my Debian system up and running. It's dual boot with WinNT. I goofed when I set up the time on the Linux side. It now believes that the real-time clock is GMT instead of local. I tried tzconfig, but it doesn't provide a way to change the time base. Is there a tool or config file

xmem in hamm?

1998-04-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Does anyone know what happened to xmem in hamm? I made a hamm CD a few weeks before it was frozen and upgraded several packages. In bo I had xmem on my system, now it has disappeared. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Tec

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread Marco Anglesio
> I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? It's not April 1 again, is it? GPL = General Public License (iow, copyleft) GNU = GNU's Not Unix FSF = Free Software Foundation (um, RTFM is ...) The jargon file is available as a package for hamm, fyi. Regards, marco -- [EMAIL

Re: How to make multiple IP address within one physical network card..

1998-04-06 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Won-Ho Kye wrote: > It seems that linux does not support this feature, right? > Thanks for any small helps.. Compile your kernel with network aliasing (either in-kernel or using the ip_alias module). To specify various ethernet IP's, assign them to eth0:0, eth0:1, etcetera, a

Re: ram question

1998-04-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > My system has 32 megs of ram, however free, and top report only 30'ish, is > that the way it should be? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 30652 30020632

linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-06 Thread Valerie CAYOL
A old version of linux is already installed on my computer and the disk is partitionned between linux and dos. I would like to install a new version of linux (debian linux 131), keeping my dos partition untouched. Is this possible and if so, could anyone tell me how I can do that ? thank you, Valer

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Re: files

1998-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Adam A. Davis hat gesagt: // Adam A. Davis wrote: > What files do I need to download and copy to disk in order to install Debian > and X Windows? > I would recommend to buy a CD-ROM. But for a ftp-install, take a look at http://www.debian.org (the main debian-webserver) for a mirror near you (h

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread John Boggon
-Original Message- From: Norbert Pabis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 6 April 1998 09:01:pm Subject: A simple question > >HI, > I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? > > GPL is General... and what is GNU > Pabis Norbert I think it's,

java swing

1998-04-06 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know if anyone has debianized the java swing package? Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backspace key under X in vim

1998-04-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Stuart Marshall hat gesagt: // Stuart Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > There have been previous discussions on this topic but I never quite > understood them. As near as I can tell, an "out of the box" hamm/frozen > system has the backspace key configured differently than it was in > Debian 1.3. You c

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread Liran Zvibel
If I'm not mistaken GNU stands for GNU's not Unix. Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Pabis wrote: > > HI, > I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? > > GPL is General... and what is GNU >

Re: A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Pabis wrote: > I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? > > GPL is General... and what is GNU You will find the answer here: http://www.gnu.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin

weird menu problem

1998-04-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just installed the fvwmconf package, which includes a menu entry /usr/lib/menu/fvwmconf, which looks fine to me, but it hasn't made it into menudefs.hook for fvwm2 or fvwm95. Just to be sure I can update-menus again as root and it still didn't make it. Why might this happen? thanks, Hamish --

Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-04-06 Thread shaul
Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A simple question

1998-04-06 Thread Norbert Pabis
HI, I have one little question. What does GNU stands for? GPL is General... and what is GNU Pabis Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-package difficulties

1998-04-06 Thread Sen Nagata
thanks for the response -- at some point around Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:43:23 -0400 Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 10:19:46PM +0900, Sen Nagata wrote: > > Symptoms: > > > hello- > >=20 > > i've been trying to build a custom kernel package using > > the kern

THANKS Re: libm.so.4 not found

1998-04-06 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 01:33:20PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > I have installed the ucbmpeg_play package, version 2.3_patched, from > > the Debian 1.3.1 packages. When I try to run it I get an error message > > saying that it couldn't find libm.so.4. According to find, there is in fact

svga headers are where?

1998-04-06 Thread Britton
I have a package __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: genclass, C++ and the new (GNU?) egcs stuff

1998-04-06 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 03:45:14AM -0300, Kevin M.Bealer wrote: > I have been using the old G++ for some time and recently found that > upgrading has caused the genclass script, String library, and other GNU > stuff to disappear. Is there a package I am missing? Do I need to switch > over to the S

Re: kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-06 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, tko wrote: > Since I've upgraded to this kernel(2.0.33), whenever a "vfat" partition is > mounted, the kernel complains about not being able to find "NLS charset > cp437" > module. I haven't found anywhere in the "menuconfig" options a listing for > that module. Any hints

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