Re: serial troubles

1998-07-02 Thread Chea Prince
i suspected the modem too so tried a us robotics (usually have a gdc connected)...both behave the same. seems to be related to warnings at bootup re: PCI ... there is a serial USB controller on IRQ 10 that is one of the PCI devices that isn't recognized (identified by number)... i tried disabling

slrnpull + trn?

1998-07-02 Thread Trevor Barrie
Can anybody point me to some info on how to get trn to read from the news spool created by slrnpull? I thought trn was capable of reading from a local spool, but the documentation only seems to talk about reading from an NNTP server. Failing that, could anybody tell me how to get _any_ newsreader

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-02 Thread Tom Kuiper
> From: Brian Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Adrian Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? > > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > > > The various office suites for Linux have slide presenters in them.

Re: Intent to take over the xisp package

1998-07-02 Thread Shaul
I am using xisp. I think that Debian should have an updated AND bugfree version of it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: changing/adding/using fonts and ttfonts

1998-07-02 Thread Shaul
Not directly answer your questions, but might be helpful. 1) There is a (quite old) Hebrew HOWTO 2) I am sending you, (on a private mail) a compressed tared 24k file. In there you'll find, among other things, a makefile and a readme. I hope that they will assists you in some way. BTW: If you'll f

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
Did anyone else get this problem? Perhaps it should be reported as a bug. Eric. On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Tom Robertson wrote: >Eric, >Thanks. That did the trick. > >Tom > > >On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: >>I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled >>and >>saw

Re: The Driver Install Disk...

1998-07-02 Thread Shaul
sector 19 ? Doesn't a normal MS-DOS floppy contains only 18 sectors ? Are you using some special floppy and / or a special drive ? Perhaps you should try other floppies and and / or format one before you use it ? > ok here's the message that I get every time I stick a drivers floppy > into my fl

Vim embedded python

1998-07-02 Thread Mike Orr
[in vim 5.1-0.4] :python import vim Sorry, this command is not implemented :version VIM - Vi IMproved 5.1 (1998 Apr 7, compiled Jun 16 1998 16:49:40) Compiled with (+) or without (-): -python Was there some problem getting vim-with-python to compile, or was it just a feature nobody has asked fo

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote: >I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this >weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has >already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized >that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway..

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Paul Miller
There is a mini FAQ on this.. basically, to boot linux from NT's boot leader you need to do the following: 1) dd if=/dev/hda3 of=bootsect.lnx /bs=512 count=1 (assuming your linux root partition is bootable and /dev/hda3) 2) copy bootsect.lnx to C:\bootsect.lnx 3) add 'C:\bootsect.lnx = "Linu

wierd error

1998-07-02 Thread Tod Detre
Does anyone know what this error means? AIEE scheduling in interupt 001260b1 I get this whenever I try to run install in dselect. It gets repeated all across the screen, the locks the system. I left the machine run all day with no problems, ran dselect and it died. Any ideas? I think it's got to

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > > I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading > something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support > this. They didn

Re: SMP, again

1998-07-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > and I did a > > make dep clean bzImage bzlilo modules modules install > depmod -a > shutdown -r now > > and top still shows no signs of a second processor :( > > Am I still missing something? It's dual P-II's (gateway ns7000) > > rick Telling lilo to boot your ne

PIM Recomendations

1998-07-02 Thread servis
Hi all, Are there any good Personal Information Managers(PIM's) available for Linux preferably for Debian? I would like todo lists, calendar, notes, etc. I know about ical but I would like something a little more robust. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [

Smail problem.

1998-07-02 Thread ...
I'm having a confusing problem with the latest smail package in hamm. One of my users is trying to send mail using Netscape 3.02 under windows 3.11. Every time she tries to send a message Netscape returns with an error from my mailserver informing her that 'HELO or EHLO' must be issued b

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Tom Robertson
Eric, Thanks. That did the trick. Tom On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: >I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled >and >saw that there was a subdirectory called compiled there (is that an error in >the >package?) and it has the README in it. Simply copy the

Re: X hates me after hardware upgrade

1998-07-02 Thread Justin Maurer
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Jason Wright wrote: > Since the Nitro was easily outperforming the 771 for me, I'd like to get it > working again in the new machine. Any ideas why it might not be working? The > motherboard is an ASUS PE5NP4 with dual P133's installed. is it possible one of the chipsets is

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-02 Thread Kendrick Myatt
I'm not sure if my plan will work, but hopefully I'll find out this weekend. Feel free to save me the trouble if someone else has already tried this and it doesn't work... Actually I just realized that I may not have time this weekend... but anyway... My first hard drive has DOS and Win98 on it.

Re: kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???

1998-07-02 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > my hamm, 2.0.33 system, so that a lot(!) of smail processes were > > started. Soon I couldn't start any more processes and saw this > > error message on the console: > > Unable to load interpreter > > > > And in the /var/log/kern.log: > > Jul 1 16:5

Re: Quake 2 ref_soft problems

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
>>> > Upgrade your svgalib to the slink version, or compile your own package. >>> > >>> > --j >>> >>> The slink version is the same package as the hamm version. I suppose I'll >>> get >>> the source and compile, but I wish there was some easier way...it doesn't >>> make >>> much sense that it

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
Young, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran the autoup.sh script on my 1.3.1 system and used the option of having > the files in the current directory. The script went along and returned some > errors, but finaly ended successfully at the part where it discusses > upgrading to frozen via ftp. I b

RE: Current Mirrors? Was deselect wont ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
I'll be surfing the mirrors looking for one which has some recent dates on the files. Seems that the most current is June 27th or so. Can you recommend one? What do you mean "Using dselect with the apt method on a mirror which supports http is quite fast."? I'm pretty confused

Re: mp3 decoder

1998-07-02 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is x11amp for X11, that works in hamm the deb is sitting in the > /Incoming directory. There is also a way to get it working under libc5, > but I'm not sure if there is a deb. Just go to x11amp homepage and find > it up there. X11amp is kinda

Re: Is anacron right for me?

1998-07-02 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am wondering if anacron is the right package for me? My primary > concern is the proper execution of the /etc/cron.*/ scripts. Anacron is a script that does this: 1. Checks a list of tasks to see when each was last run; 2. For the tasks that have

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote: : >kepler:/usr/annex $ ldd erpcd : > libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4000a000) : > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40018000) : > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d6000) : > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > kepler:/usr/annex $ ldd erpcd > libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4000a000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40018000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d6000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib

Re: Atapted AIC-7890 controller

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Does anyone know how to get Debian(the hamm version) to recognize the >> Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I need to install Debian to a SCSI drive >> connected to the 7890(built in to my motherboard), but when Debian boots >> up, it >> says 'no scsi controlers found.' Obviously, this is a pro

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How >> can >> I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-02 Thread Shaleh
Nathan E Norman wrote: >kepler:/usr/annex $ ldd erpcd > libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4000a000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40018000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d6000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40179000) Do an ldd on libdb.so.2. I fi

Re: RedHat questions (relative to debian)

1998-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Telmer wrote: > 1) Is rpm somewhat similar to dpkg? I'll need to put a bunch of stuff on > there and I want to be aware of any pitfalls. Yes. See rpm's man page, the usage is quite similar. > 2) I think the front end to rpm is called glint - can it jump out to an > ftp site and download pa

RE: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
Thanx for the fast reply. Are you saying that if I just do ACCESS, UPDATE, and INSTALL it may add packages that I don't already have and that this is dangerous? And that if I run SELECT I can check out what is proposed and eliminate unecessary packages from the install? Or in other words, I c

Re: ie. kernel recompile

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Babs wrote: >When ever i use make-kpkg while tring to recompile the kernel i get the >error message command not found. Well, either you don't have the kernel-package installed, or your path is not set properly. Do a 'whereis make-kpkg'. If /usr/sbin/make-kpkg doesn't show up

Re: ie. kernel recompile

1998-07-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "B" == Babs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: B> When ever i use make-kpkg while tring to recompile the kernel i get the B> error message command not found. Do you have kernel-package.deb installed? Check with "dpkg -l kernel-package". If not, it is in the misc section. If you have it installed,

Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi there, I've got an odd problem ... I'll ask the questions first: What can I do about a binary that is linked against libc5 and libc6? It (of course) segfaults every time I try to run it. Now, the explanation: We recently purchased a Bay Networks 8000 Remote Access Concentrator. This box ne

Re: serial troubles

1998-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chea Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >have included serial support in the kernel and on bootup shows serial >devices being assigned to /dev/cua0 /dev/cua1 and /dev/ttyS0 >/dev/ttyS1 but 'cat /proc/interrupts' shows no serial devices at >IRQ 3 & 4. That's OK; the

ie. kernel recompile

1998-07-02 Thread Babs
When ever i use make-kpkg while tring to recompile the kernel i get the error message command not found. Anyone have an idea why this is... I would like to recompile my kernel but being so new to linux (im running debian 2.0.34 fairly resent fresh install), im chicken to until i know why the kpkg

Re: path environment under x

1998-07-02 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Not changing it in the non-login shell script (.bashrc, .cshrc, ...) was your | problem. When you start X, the shells that run in the xterms aren't login | shells...therefore your path must be set in your non-login shell script. I have | mine setup so that my p

Audio/Video Broadcast

1998-07-02 Thread The Gecko
I have a problem, I'm looking for the solution and I'm wondering if Debian has the software packaged to solve it... and if not if someone could point me to the software I would need. I need to broadcast video (say, from a capture card) and audio (ie.. from the microphone) and data (say, a NFS moun

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-02 Thread Will Lowe
> On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > >(2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the > > isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) > > Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using loadlin from > windows > or something wierd like that.. The sound how

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
I too got this error, I went and checked out /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled and saw that there was a subdirectory called compiled there (is that an error in the package?) and it has the README in it. Simply copy the README from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/compiled/README to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

RE: The Driver Install Disk...

1998-07-02 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Since I haven't seen any other replies, here goes. Humor me - I've had similar problems in the past, and have found this to work well. 1. Download a fresh copy of the disk image (the image you have may be corrupt) 2. If possible, boot the machine you are installing to with some version of M

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: >(2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the > isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using loadlin from windows or something wierd like that.. The sound howto will tell yo

Re: path environment under x

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
Not changing it in the non-login shell script (.bashrc, .cshrc, ...) was your problem. When you start X, the shells that run in the xterms aren't login shells...therefore your path must be set in your non-login shell script. I have mine setup so that my path gets set in my non-login script and I

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread timothy
locate xkb/compiled/README returns it stored in /var/lib This may be a bug in the current X11 package since it seems to be looking in the wrong place. I copied the README file to /usr/X11R6/ and it gave some warnings, but otherwise worked fine. Tim On 02-Jul-98 Tom Robertson wrote: > Same res

Re: KDE problems

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
I believe an easier (and more debian-proper) way to do this is edit /etc/X11/window-managers and altering it so that /usr/X11R6/bin/kde is at the top of the list. Eric. On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: >On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nick Gilliam wrote: > >> How is KDE started? I would really like to

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Young, Ed wrote: > > I ran the autoup.sh script on my 1.3.1 system and used the option of having > the files in the current directory. The script went along and returned some > errors, but finaly ended successfully at the part where it discusses > upgrading to frozen via ftp.

Re: Deselect won't connect via ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Young, Ed wrote: > > I ran deselect to ftp.debian.org to do a dry run on the upgrade after > running autoup.sh and could not get connected. I passed all the other info > and after choosing directory /debian > and > dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib

Deselect won't connect via ftp

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
I ran deselect to ftp.debian.org to do a dry run on the upgrade after running autoup.sh and could not get connected. I passed all the other info and after choosing directory /debian and dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib the deselect session kept telling me it couldn't

HELP: mailx and binary attachments

1998-07-02 Thread dave oswald
Hello all ... got me an automated cron script that sends mail to various users. Recent requirements for this script are to attach a binary file to this mail. (i.e. I am to send a pkzip/zip2exe file to a specified group of WinBlowz luser(s). THE ISSUE: I am using mailx, how does one attach a biner

Re: ftp, telnet & ping

1998-07-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
> Alex Kwan wrote: > > I have installed the Base System of Hamm > and configured the ppp, can I use ftp, telnet > and ping command right now or needed to > install other packages to do that. > > > Thank You Those progs are in the netstd package. Install that and the other things it r

ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-02 Thread Young, Ed
I ran the autoup.sh script on my 1.3.1 system and used the option of having the files in the current directory. The script went along and returned some errors, but finaly ended successfully at the part where it discusses upgrading to frozen via ftp. I believe the errors are normal as the script br

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Tom Robertson
Same results here but would prefer to use XF86Setup because of the graphical interface. I know a couple of other people who have had the same problem. Any sloutions? I'm using Debian 2.0. Tom On Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:10:15 -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote: >I got the same error ("Not all of the

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-02 Thread matthew tebbens
I am running Debian with 1 IP address and like 20 or 30 virtual hosts, and EVERYTHING works. :) On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jieyao wrote: > > > > I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have > > > got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this > > > ser

RedHat questions (relative to debian)

1998-07-02 Thread Colin Telmer
My brother recently set up a linux machine in Pittsburgh and decided to choose RedHat over Debian as some other people in his department use it. I firmly recommended against this, but he failed to listen:) Now, it seems that these other people aren't as knowledgable (sp?) about RedHat or linux as f

Re: Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Actually, SyQuest hasn't released the SparQ in SCSI. Just Parallel > and Internal EIDE. Right. Th 1.5GB SyJet comes in SCSI and IDE. The 4.7GB Quest will be SCSI only, due out at the end of the year. http://www.syquest.com/products/index.html I've been thinking of gettin

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-02 Thread Jieyao
> > I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have > > got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this > > server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: > Why do you want to give the machine 256 ips? It's pointless unless you do

RE: Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> If it is a SCSI disk, on a SCSI controller, you treat is like any scsi > disk... /dev/sd* I have a smaller SyQuest, works that away. > > Someone else addressed the parallel port and IDE cases. > > Luck to you, Eric. Actually, SyQuest hasn't released the SparQ in SCSI. Just Parallel and In

RE: Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
'Erik Mathisen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > I am new to this list and to Debian. I have a computer with a Syquest > SparQ drive on it. Each cartridge holds 1GB. I was wondering > if any one > could tell or point me to detail instructions on how to install Debian > onto this disk. > Thanks > Eri

Re: ASUS SC875 and debian 1.3.1 install problems

1998-07-02 Thread Lawrence Walton
This might be a kernel thing; last time I installed Debian on a box with the 875 I had to compile a kernel with newer drivers, grab the Debian- HOWTO install for instructions, and compile a newer kernel for this box, and go for it. The 875 is a great card. Bonnie ( a benchmark program ) has given m

Re: dump & restore

1998-07-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the scoop. Dump wants to know how much capacity the tape has. Traditionally this information was given to dump by passing it the density *and* length. Linux dump allows you to specify the tape capacity in bytes with the 'B' option. Apparently some very old tape systems could not detect th

Re: Bulletin Board SOftware

1998-07-02 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi , >> >> I am working to develop a Intranet for my company and one of the >> suggestions >> is to use Debian. One of the features needed is a bulletin board. Is there >> any >> software available to implement it(esp. in Debian).. A local news-server and discussion areas. Or www-serve

serial troubles

1998-07-02 Thread Chea Prince
have included serial support in the kernel and on bootup shows serial devices being assigned to /dev/cua0 /dev/cua1 and /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 but 'cat /proc/interrupts' shows no serial devices at IRQ 3 & 4. can dialout fine from minicom but ppp script fails (can't initialize the modem). same scr

ftp, telnet & ping

1998-07-02 Thread Alex Kwan
I have installed the Base System of Hamm and configured the ppp, can I use ftp, telnet and ping command right now or needed to install other packages to do that.     Thank You

where is ipfwadm in hamm?

1998-07-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just upgraded to hamm and now need to setup my two privates networks again. Can I use the old ipfwadm? How to setup masquerade in hamm? The ipmasq(8) program doesn't have man page. Please I need urgent help, since my division is off. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes

NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-02 Thread Lee W. Glenn
Hi, After spending many hours last night and today searching the net I found a few references to other people having similar problems to me. (The system hangs on my NCR53c875 SCSI controller when I try boot from the rescue disk to try and install debian "bo" 1.3.1. Incidently Caldera works...)

Re: mp3 decoder

1998-07-02 Thread ssnow
Hi Hamish There is x11amp for X11, that works in hamm the deb is sitting in the /Incoming directory. There is also a way to get it working under libc5, but I'm not sure if there is a deb. Just go to x11amp homepage and find it up there. I am using it and it works fine Nikhil On Thu, 2 Jul 1998,

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support this. ---

Re: Installed kernel-source 2.0.34 package and half the filesystems are not supported.

1998-07-02 Thread servis
*-Ian Stuart ( 2 Jul) | On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: | | > I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package and did a make menuconfig | > and when it comes time to select the filesystems to include support for, | > a ton of them appear to be missing, most notably msdos and vfat. When I

RE: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I got the same error ("Not all of the X keyboard extension programs are installed. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README is missing"), so I just used /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config and it works fine. Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: KDE problems

1998-07-02 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nick Gilliam wrote: > How is KDE started? I would really like to give it a try. The last line of ~/.xinitrc (or .xsession, if you use xdm) is probably something like exec fvwm95 find the "startkde" command (via locate or whereis or whatever) and change the above to exec s

VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-02 Thread Alex Kwan
(1) Does the Hamm has package of the VCD Player for X-Window (like Xing for MS Windows)?   (2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm)     Thank you very much!

RE: Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> Hello, > I am new to this list and to Debian. I have a computer with a Syquest > SparQ drive on it. Each cartridge holds 1GB. I was wondering > if any one > could tell or point me to detail instructions on how to install Debian > onto this disk. > Thanks > Erik If It's the Parallel-port versi

KDE problems

1998-07-02 Thread Nick Gilliam
I installed KDE on the Debian 2.0 Beta. During configuration, dselect indicated that KDE was being installed as one of the Window Manager options. However, this apparently failed. How is KDE started? I would really like to give it a try. Thanks in advance for any help. Nick Gilliam -- Un

Syquest

1998-07-02 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hello, I am new to this list and to Debian. I have a computer with a Syquest SparQ drive on it. Each cartridge holds 1GB. I was wondering if any one could tell or point me to detail instructions on how to install debian onto this disk. Thanks Erik -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

some newbie questions - plz help

1998-07-02 Thread Kari Brown
Hi I've just set up debian hamm and i have few problems with it. It seems that i'm not able to create working accounts. I've tried to create them with "adduser whatever" -command, but when i try to logon, it says "could not cd to /home/whatever". Then it throws me back to the login prompt. Any id

Re: changing/adding/using fonts and ttfonts

1998-07-02 Thread jdassen
Hi Micha, On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 04:37:12AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: > also How do I use fonts. Change the fonts deferent programs use > (especially xterm), You can specify this through the X resources mechanism, e.g. by putting XTerm*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 in m

Re: kde

1998-07-02 Thread Greg Norris
Thanx! Sure enough, running ldconfig took care of it. I'll have to remember that little tip. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

changing/adding/using fonts and ttfonts

1998-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
first question: How do I add new fonts I downloaded (hebrew ones) to the other fonts (font.dir etc.) Whts the procedure, And is there a FAQ about fonts? also How do I use fonts. Change the fonts deferent programs use (especially xterm), and if anyone knows if there is an editor, or/and preferable a

path environment under x

1998-07-02 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i set the path environment under X? I need to set a general path environment and also a specific one for each use. I tried in the files for the shell but it didn't work ( I changed in the file for login shells I'm not shure If i also changed it for an interactive shell) Thanx

[Debian] Urgent: how to create Debian CD from non-debian UNIX system

1998-07-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, we have a local mirror of the debian distribution that we use to install our Debian PC's. However next week we will have to install Debian on a PC which has no access to our network so we want to create a CD starting from the current mirror. unfortunately the mirror is located on a SUN an

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Brederlow
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > a product on top of Linux but now face the problem of having to > install Linux every time we give a demo to a potential costumer > (when running on the customer's PC). Being ab

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-02 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
I had a look at it. It doesn't seem to be 'powerpoint like' since, as I understood, it use command file - not direct drawing using the mouse. The same thing could be done using latex. Am I wrong ? Franck >mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 >I can't seem to find vflib >Can anyo

source code

1998-07-02 Thread guest
Hi , Where can I find the source code for Debian linux . Regards , anil . -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. Probably yes, if a system has sufficient RAM. One would have to combine some things: - The capability to boot directly from CD; the Debian CDs already do this. Andreas Jellinghaus <[

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:53:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > and the line 'source ~/bash_functions' in both .bash_profile and .bashrc. I was using . ~/... I like that better, it seems more Right. pgpQzbJMYTwtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > > The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by > > default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that > > says "alias ls="ls --color=auto". This wll make ls give colored >

[Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created a product on top of Linux but now face the problem of having to install Linux every time we give a demo to a potential costumer (when running on the customer's PC). Being able to boot and run linux completely from CD would make

Re: egcs includes

1998-07-02 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:14:23PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > There seem to be (at least) four files not installed in the > > ../include/g++ directory that is produced by egcs that _are_ part of the > > GNU g++ includes, namely > > > > Regex.h Pix.

Re: Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:24:48AM -0500, Eric wrote: > I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three > partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really > silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't > figure > it out.

Re: Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread fantomas
-> I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three -> partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a -> really silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and -> can't figure together. i.e. how much space all the files in /usr and all

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by > default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that > says "alias ls="ls --color=auto". This wll make ls give colored > output. You can also put that l

Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread Eric
I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't figure it out. How do I figure out the size of all the files in a particular d

Re: Why make xconfig, but not make menuconfig or make config?

1998-07-02 Thread Shaleh
It is time you were introduced to a very nice tool -- kernel-package. This package will make kernel debs for you. This way you only make config then make-kpkg binary. This will leave the normal kernel-header/source/image debs. Save time, effort and hassle. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscri

Real Audio Encoder

1998-07-02 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I have hamm and Real Audio Encoder, and I want to encode from "Line In" of my soundblaster, but real audio encoder doesn't recognise it as capture device. Can anyone help me ? begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;int

Re: Installed kernel-source 2.0.34 package and half the filesystems are not supported.

1998-07-02 Thread Ian Stuart
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > I installed the 2.0.34 kernel source package and did a make menuconfig > and when it comes time to select the filesystems to include support for, > a ton of them appear to be missing, most notably msdos and vfat. When I > installed hamm, I configured

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-02 Thread fantomas
-> > I've wondered a lot why Debian doesn't use minigetty, but haven't bothered -> > to install it myself. -> -> I (and others) have asked for this a few times. In general too many -> people complained about changing the status quo. It is rather easy to -> change your getty (although you can NOT

Re: e2fsck

1998-07-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ian Eure wrote: >On a similar topic, what do directory sizes mean? I can't seem to see any di >rect >connection between the size of a directory in an ls -l and it's contents, or > the >size of it's contents. A directory is created with enough slots for a standard number of files.

Re: e2fsck

1998-07-02 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On a similar topic, what do directory sizes mean? I can't seem to see | any direct | connection between the size of a directory in an ls -l and it's contents, | or the | size of it's contents. A directory is internally just like any other file. Tha data it contai

Why make xconfig, but not make menuconfig or make config?

1998-07-02 Thread Jesse Bethel
For a long time now, I have been using make xconfig to compile a new kernel, and I've compiled about 100 times that way. But I recently messed up the configuration, and can only use the console. But whenever I try to compile with menuconfig or config, everything compiles okay, but the sys

X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-02 Thread Christopher Barry
I've installed X under bo just fine without any problems, but under hamm, during the dselecting process when it asks if you want to create the xfree86 configuration file, and I type y, I just get an error message about a missing X related file, not a missing or corrupted *.deb file or anything, and

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