Re: cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

1998-08-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, here's an even better script for printing all partitions. Just run it like 'showpart.pl /dev/hda'. Nebu John Mathai wrote: > Has anone got this error? > > On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The > first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after

Sendmail Help

1998-08-18 Thread Harry Tuttle
Hello Everyone, I have changed my ISP recently and do not have a static IP any longer. I have tried setting up Sendmail to send and am using Fetchmail to retrieve messages. Fetchmail gets the messages Ok, but I never get the messages in my /var/spool/mail/htuttle mailbox. Here is the log message t

Re: cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

1998-08-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nope, I looked at the source and cfdisk won't show you anything about the partition table if it doesn't make sense to it. However, this perl script will (all one line, my mailer my break it up): perl -e 'open(IN," Has anone got this error? > > On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition

smail configuration problem

1998-08-18 Thread count zero
hi to all , every 20 minutes linux give me this message Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:03:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> runq runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted what's that mean ? where is the problem? wh

Re: modprobe

1998-08-18 Thread count zero
hi to all, when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 does anyone know what to do to eliminate this annoying message ? i don't know what is this module for . thanks samuele tonon

Re: FAQ-o-MATIC

1998-08-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
[this is cross posted to the user list, as I want to get some of our kind users to help with the FAQ-O-MATIC. The idea is that it is "their" FAQ. Please snip the CC list as appropriate] Hello, On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 07:23:38PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > As you might have noticed, today I po

Re: boot from an extended partition?

1998-08-18 Thread Paul Miller
I got it to work. My problem was that Debian's defaults for lilo.conf from the installation where set to boot off the extended partition instead of the root partition... Thanks -Paul On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998,

Re: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

1998-08-18 Thread shaul
> I've just downloaded and installed Debian, the following problems were > encountered: > > 1. My PC have 2 harddisks and 1 CD-ROM: >Primary IDE Master:4.3G (hda), LBA MODE >Primary IDE Slave: NONE >Secondary IDE Master: SONY CD-ROM(CDU611) >Se

Re: Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders

1998-08-18 Thread servis
*- Jay Barbee wrote about "Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders" | Does anyone have a script that will automatically archive or remove mail | messages out of a folder so that a list such as this one could be more | managable? | | I invision a cron job simply coping ~/Mail/debian-user to debian-user-

Re: Where can I find bo packages?

1998-08-18 Thread servis
*- Chris Fury wrote about "Where can I find bo packages?" | Yeah, yeah, I know, upgrade to 2.0. I will, eventually. :) | Right now I need to get some proggies for the gateway at work, and it's | a 1.3 machine. Where can I find a mirror of the old stuff? | Check http://www.debian.org/, there

Linuxmusicface=2

1998-08-18 Thread phillip Neumann
>Linux isn't the "crap", you should be refering to the lack of >applications that exist. If you need one so bad you should start a >project to create one, join debian-devel., learn C, etc... That's how >the Linux/GNU thing works, everyone pitches in. If you don't like it >improve it! > >Mark Panz

Re: SCSI IOMEGA Zip

1998-08-18 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 12:49:16PM -0700, Marlon Urias wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my kernel to see a scsi zip > drive. I understand that there is a special module (ppa) > for parallel drives, but what about scsi drives? Nope, mine comes up just fine as /dev/sda on one machine, and /dev/s

Re: identd

1998-08-18 Thread Adam Lazur
search for cidentd on the web, it makes use of a .authlie file in the user's home directory I believe . . . .adam -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajl4 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GE d(--

Re: boot from an extended partition?

1998-08-18 Thread Michel \\'ZioBudda\\' Morelli
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as > System Commander? hmmm... i think no. I think (IMHO) that linux can boot only in a primary partition if you want to boot it via a Linux Loader. Have you tried loadlin ? A SI BIRU -

Re: I forgot... Re: Big-endian/little-endian

1998-08-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi again, > > > // "number" is the size of the array being byte swapped > > swap4(void *dest, void *src, int number) { > > I forgot to mention that the code excerpt I posted was meant for swapping > variables that are 4 bytes in size, e.g. fl

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > cool > xfstt is lgpl'd...I dunno about the programs you use > you mind if I use your code in it? Please consider my code to be public domain. Wojtek Zabolotny

Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

1998-08-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > Hi All! > > > > I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor > > for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided > > to install the dosemu.

RE: boot from an extended partition?

1998-08-18 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Yes, so can LILO. I have linux installed on a logical partition on a second drive and with either LILO or System Commander installed as MBR it boots fine. On Tuesday, August 18, 1998 2:03 PM, Paul Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use

RE: SCSI IOMEGA Zip

1998-08-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
Several things come to mind: Termination - if it is the last one in the chain, is the termination switch on? Does some other device have termination turned on before the zip drive? Disk partition - those disks come formated for partition 4 (for whatever reason). It would

Re: identd

1998-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: >> This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using >> such identd will be K:-lined. Paul> hey that's not very nice. Asking for help to subvert th

Re: To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 03:31:12PM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: > What do you think? Is the upgrade process to 2.0 solid? Or should I > start with a fresh disk? I dunno about hamm stable but...before stable I had to do the upgrade a few times...worked great every time (except those few times... but

Updating the system using dselect->dists/stable-updates?

1998-08-18 Thread Ruud Janssen
Hi, I've just tried to update my Hamm system (using the ftp method in dselect) by appending "dists/stable-updates" to the list of distributions ("/dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib") to get. The result was that dselect also selected the m68k version of mutt, although my

Re: To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

1998-08-18 Thread Jason J. Simas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (209) 222-9072 Dear Chris: Upgrade if you have a lowmem system [6 MB or less] I can't do a lowmem installation with 2.x. I hope your havin

SCSI IOMEGA Zip

1998-08-18 Thread Marlon Urias
I'm having trouble getting my kernel to see a scsi zip drive. I understand that there is a special module (ppa) for parallel drives, but what about scsi drives?

To Upgrade or Reinstall completely?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
What do you think? Is the upgrade process to 2.0 solid? Or should I start with a fresh disk? -- This space for rent.

Problem with KDE

1998-08-18 Thread Stefan Stefan
I have a problem with KDE an I try to describe it so exactly as possible. I have installed on my Debian Linux 1.3.1 the .deb packets from ftp.kde.org. These packets were: kdesupport0g_980710-1_0-1_i386.deb kdelibs0g_980710-1_0-1_i386.deb kdebase_980710-1_0-1_i386.deb I could install this pac

Re: runaway man processes and cron emails

1998-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"M" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent M> directories Check permissions for /; /home; (essentially the whole tree for `pwd`), and make sure there the permissions are 0755 for all directories (re

Where can I find bo packages?

1998-08-18 Thread Chris Fury
Yeah, yeah, I know, upgrade to 2.0. I will, eventually. :) Right now I need to get some proggies for the gateway at work, and it's a 1.3 machine. Where can I find a mirror of the old stuff? Thanks, Chris -- This space for rent.

Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders

1998-08-18 Thread Jay Barbee
Does anyone have a script that will automatically archive or remove mail messages out of a folder so that a list such as this one could be more managable? I invision a cron job simply coping ~/Mail/debian-user to debian-user- and then gzipping it. That way it would not take so long to open a m

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
> How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > find any way to create one. The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use "ps2pdf," found in the ghostscript package or by using u

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Shaleh
To the best of my knowledge only Adobe Acrobat (the actual 300 dollar app) is the only thing capable of making a pdf. You are better of using postscript or the like. If I recall there may be apps to convert one to the other. Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file?

Problems with upgrading ncurses-base

1998-08-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to upgrade my X on a mainly hamm system. I tried to install xbase. It complains that it needs ncurses-base (>= 1.9.9g-8.6). So off I download ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.8.deb and tried to install it. The installaltion fails because: dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.8.deb (--inst

PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to find any way to create one. Thanks...

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:11:15PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: > I may be speaking out of turn here. nah ;) > I don't know much about X fonts > but they used to be server specific. That was back when the fonts > were .snf files. If you used different versions of the xserver on the > same sy

RE: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Lewis, James M.
I may be speaking out of turn here. I don't know much about X fonts but they used to be server specific. That was back when the fonts were .snf files. If you used different versions of the xserver on the same system they might take fonts in a different format. You might check if .pcf fonts are

boot from an extended partition?

1998-08-18 Thread Paul Miller
Can Linux boot from an extended partition if I use a program such as System Commander? Thanks -Paul

Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

1998-08-18 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All! > > I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor > for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided > to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS I experi

Re: identd

1998-08-18 Thread Paul Miller
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using > such identd will be K:-lined. hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is not possible without other account names, etc. So if the users wa

Re: (no subject)

1998-08-18 Thread Lazaro D. Salem
Thanks Robert, Are you sure need to recompile the kernel? Why? cannot I install the modules? By the way, How can I know the options the custom kernel was compiled with? -Original Message- From: Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lazaro D. Salem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-u

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:22:53PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > The solution is to always run hton before putting stuff on the wire and > > > running ntoh when pulling stuff b

X and keymaps weirdness

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I have been working on a HOWTO fo rusing linux to turn old computers into XTerminals. I know this has been done before so I read up on it before I started. My doc is really comming along great...and for i386 systems...so far works grand! I have run into a snag tho...but it may just be part of the

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > The solution is to always run hton before putting stuff on the wire and > > running ntoh when pulling stuff back. That way you can be sure that the > > stuff on the wire is always

Re: identd

1998-08-18 Thread Rivaldo Moreira - Suporte
Does anyone knows any lists about irc-servers and security in ircservers? []'S Rivaldo Moreira irc.cyb.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> Are there any other identd programs? I'm looking for one that will allow > -> users to modify their handle (in a

Aplixware and debian hamm/slink

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I have been thinking of getting some sort of "Office Suite" for my own use at home...and have an early version of StarOffice 4 and have had mixed sucess with it (ok little to no success but...I could play with it more too...) Anyway... Has anyone here tried Applixware from RedHat? I understand its

Re: DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18

1998-08-18 Thread Jens Ritter
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Greg Vence wrote: > What happened to the FAQ-O-MATIC? Did it die? No. It still exists, but is nowhere mentioned on debian.org (the main pages --- i.e. there is no link to fom under support). You can still reach it at: http://www.XY.debian.org/fom/1.html XY = your favorite

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-18 Thread Shaleh
Apt does work in Hamm. The package is in slink. In the base dir if I recall. Once installed you use the apt method in dselect rather than ftp or CD. All there is to it. As for kernels, grab the "kernel package". This has a script called make-kpkg. This will create Debian style kernel package

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > > do the swapps... > > I suggeste

Apt how, why, where

1998-08-18 Thread Mark Panzer
Question, Apt is supposed to be a better replacement for dselect/dpkg right? Can you install it on a HAMM system, and if so how? I guess I kinda got left behind on the Apt thing. Does Apt use the same .deb's as dselect? Also what is the proper way to compile and install a kernel in debian? I'v

Re: popt.h (whiptail)

1998-08-18 Thread Shaleh
It should be in the popt package in the devel/ section. it is an argument parsing routine. I found this by using the package search on www.debian.org. Always hunt there first (-: C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > Hello again everyone, > I am trying to build whiptail on an alpha and the build faile

Re: popt.h (whiptail)

1998-08-18 Thread servis
*- C.J.LAWSON wrote about "popt.h (whiptail)" | Hello again everyone, | I am trying to build whiptail on an alpha and the build failed | with the message | | [robin:newt-0.21:<04:23:35 PM>]make whiptail | gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/home/me/fx942976/local/include -L/home/me/fx942976/local/lib -c

popt.h (whiptail)

1998-08-18 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hello again everyone, I am trying to build whiptail on an alpha and the build failed with the message [robin:newt-0.21:<04:23:35 PM>]make whiptail gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/home/me/fx942976/local/include -L/home/me/fx942976/local/lib -c whiptail.c -o whiptail.o whiptail.c:4: popt.h: No such f

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Mark Panzer
phillip Neumann wrote: > > Hi debian, > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here > could exist very better app. that fo

Lowmem Installation problem (fwd)

1998-08-18 Thread Jason J. Simas
Dear Brave Debian Users: With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my HD for Linux; I can't install. After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk, initializing swap, copying

Re: OK so maybe I should have stayed in bed today - but where is the source for packages kept on the ftp sites?

1998-08-18 Thread Shaleh
Look in dists//{main,contrib,non-free}/source M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Sorry guys, > > Header says it all - flames to /dev/null and the obvious answer (I > just have forgotten, and didn't write it down) please. > > Thanks > > Matthew :( > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward

Re: saint & netscape

1998-08-18 Thread Peter Granroth
> Dear Debian Users, > > i just tried to get saint running. It tells me that I should run it as > root (what is ok) and it will start netscape (which seems to be not > okay). The problem is, that netscape will not be started as root saying > > /usr/bin/X11/netscape: Cannot be run an root (for sec

Re: arguments against Linux I have heard and just my two cents worth

1998-08-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
matthew wrote, >Indeed - WordPerfect is a recent release for Linux, and IIRC both it and >Startoffice support MSWord (though which versions I'm not sure - see their >websites for details). use a lot of quotation marks areound "supports" when speaking about staroffice. Some documents convert fin

Re: X-windows

1998-08-18 Thread Eric Marsden
> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> BTW: There may be a better way to find out what resolution KW> you're running once you're in X, but the only way I've found so KW> far is to run xvidtune; it'll tell you at the top what res KW> you're in. xdpyinfo gives lots of usefu

Re: Yet another WindowMaker question...

1998-08-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Waldemar ¯urowski wrote: > I'm sorry for such trival question, but I'm really stuck. I just deleted > my ~/GNUstep directory, and now I don't know how to customize popup menu. Hmmm... you start WindowMaker with "wmaker", right? If you take a look at /usr/

I forgot... Re: Big-endian/little-endian

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, > // "number" is the size of the array being byte swapped > swap4(void *dest, void *src, int number) { I forgot to mention that the code excerpt I posted was meant for swapping variables that are 4 bytes in size, e.g. floats and such. -Ossama

Re: Big-endian/little-endian

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > do the swapps... You could just cast the address of the variable to a "char *" and swap things around using pointer arithmetic or arrays. Here is

Re: Can apt-get do proxy-http req?

1998-08-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Tony Crawford wrote: > Apt-get wants proper URLs, but I have a proxy server on a Windows > machine on the LAN, and the Linux box at this stage of the game > staunchly refuses to see anything on the Internet, by name or by > IP number (I've compared the route table and t

cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

1998-08-18 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Has anone got this error? On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after writing the partition info and initializing my root partition) and so rebooted the machine (by going into the installation option to reb

Re: X-windows

1998-08-18 Thread Kent West
At 05:54 PM 8/17/1998 +0100, you wrote: >> I really don't know what I'm talking about, but my understanding is that >> you need two things different in your XF86Config file. >> >> 1) A modeline in the monitor section for the resolution you want to run >> (not just 320x200), along with the correc

Re: PPPstats in Debian 2.0

1998-08-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun 16 Aug 1998, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Sergey Imennov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > However, there is one thing that I don't like about > > the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) -- > > pppstats. > > > > - No totals every 20th line

Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-18 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun 16 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wonderful. I'm happy that Cheap*Byte is there. They are cheap, and I heard > many good things about them (I also heard bad things about other CD > vendors). They are also sending free CD's to Debian developers (I hope they > are

Lowmem Installation with Hamm

1998-08-18 Thread Jason J. Simas
> > Dear Brave Debian Users: > > With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary > partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my > HD for Linux 2.x; I can't install. > > After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk, > initializ

saint & netscape

1998-08-18 Thread Michael Symalla
Dear Debian Users, i just tried to get saint running. It tells me that I should run it as root (what is ok) and it will start netscape (which seems to be not okay). The problem is, that netscape will not be started as root saying /usr/bin/X11/netscape: Cannot be run an root (for security reasons)

trouble with Debian 2.0 installation

1998-08-18 Thread Axel Schlicher
Hello there! My problem is that I can' t install Debian 2.0. .Every time i boot the Kernel from CD, the display shows a lot of messages and suddenly the it keeps black. I think the installation works, but I do see the black display. When I shut Linux down, than the display shows me an installati

Re: Kernel-WhyTo

1998-08-18 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: > I am curious about why there are 9 Million different kernels. I was > examining the 2.1 kernels and they number all the way up to .115. What is > the point of this? If .95 is obviously an improved and better version than > .94, why are people still tr

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > do the swapps... > I suggested a union first (like below) but...whats the "proper" way of > doing it?

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
> > phillip Neumann wrote: > > > > > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > > > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > > > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. PLEASE have a look at Dave Phillips's w

Debian Knowledge Base ?

1998-08-18 Thread Hank Fay
re: a place to search for software What I think would be helpful would be a Keyword search which then provided the title and link for results; on the order of the MSKB. That way, when you searched on kernel you'd come up with 'make-kpkg' in a couple of locations. I responded to RMS on his artic

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:03:11PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi! > > Some of my programs have to work on big-endian and little-endian systems, > knowing what kind of system they are runing on (they are exchanging data > in binary format). To recognize the kind of the system I use the foll

Re: /var/spool/mail --> ~/Inbox migration: how with smail?

1998-08-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: : I have a pretty vanilla Debian 2.0 setup as of now. I installed smail as : my mta (or is it mda?). I would like to change the default inbox from : /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Inbox. Smail is a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). procmail/deliver a

Re: Why am I no longer on this list?

1998-08-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Howard S. ('Sherm') Ostrowsky wrote: : As of about a week ago, I have stopped getting any new messages from the : Debian-user digest, to which I have been subscribed for over a year now. : I sorely miss my daily fix of information and interesting odds and ends. : I tried

Re: newest distribution?

1998-08-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : What is the newest unstable Debian distribution? I've lost trake of : everything since all the ftp sites were trashed... : : Where should I point apt? Here is what I'm currently using: : : deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

mbr package

1998-08-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx to everyone who responded to my request about removing mbr. Since Linux is the only OS installed on the machine in question, I have reconfigured LILO to install in the MBR. Seems to have had the intended effect. Thanx!

Re: DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18

1998-08-18 Thread Greg Vence
What happened to the FAQ-O-MATIC? Did it die? Jens Ritter wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux > System. > > Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 > > (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. > You may want to apply o

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:38:54AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:43:23 -0400 Stephen J Carpenter writes: > > >> Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel) > >> big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 64 bit boxes)? > > > > I dunno

Re: Network printing in linux.

1998-08-18 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>I solved this by bypassing the server entirely (though it's a DU, not NT, server). If the printer has an IP adress, simply set up your own print spool. Mine happily coexists with the university spool. The difference is that mine is usually up :) Having worked in universities and non-profit bef

Re: Where's the mouse (in X-windows)?

1998-08-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > I did previously go to /dev and run MAKEDEV mouse. > > Even though this must be something very basic and obvious, can someone > please shed some light on what to do? Yes - but /dev/mouse needs to point to wherever your mouse really is - probably a serial port (try /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttys1).

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 06:36:08AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: > > [stuff snipped] > > > > "bring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts > > > > yikes no...ok=20 > > package version 0.9.7 : /var/ttfonts > > > > latest packages of 0.9.9: /usr/share/fonts/truetype > > > > > the

Where's the mouse (in X-windows)?

1998-08-18 Thread Hersh, Harry
In trying to start up the X server, I get the following error output: -- XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: Micr

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > phillip Neumann wrote: > > > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I foun

Re: Linux as OS course.

1998-08-18 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Liran Zvibel wrote: > > Hi. > > The OS course here is going to become more OS specific. > If professors didn't decide yet whether they want it to be Linux or NT > (blahh...) specific. > > If I can find some course material about Linux, they'll probably take it > (and make the course Linux specif

Re: Kernel-WhyTo

1998-08-18 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Matthew Myers wrote: > > I am curious about why there are 9 Million different kernels. I was > examining the 2.1 kernels and they number all the way up to .115. What is > the point of this? If .95 is obviously an improved and better version than > .94, why are people still trying to work bugs o

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
phillip Neumann wrote: > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here > could exist very better app. that for win/Mac. Linux

Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi! Some of my programs have to work on big-endian and little-endian systems, knowing what kind of system they are runing on (they are exchanging data in binary format). To recognize the kind of the system I use the following routine: int TestByteOrder() { union { unsigned char c[2];

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

1998-08-18 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi debian, > > Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i > get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people > cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here > could exist ve

Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

1998-08-18 Thread Frank Barknecht
Michele Bini hat gesagt: // Michele Bini wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: [...] > > Slab seems an interesting program. A Debian user recomend me this > > program. Might have been me ;) > > I forgot his name. but i didnt forgot the addres where i got > > sla

DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18

1998-08-18 Thread Jens Ritter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux System. Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. You may want to apply one of the Gnu Public Licenses to this document. Questions: 1) Soundbalster AWE/16/32

Re: Latex Postscript

1998-08-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Does anyone know of any program/method to convert M$ PowerPoint > > slides to decent ps or eps files > > > > I do not know M$ Powerpoint but Wordperfect's Presentations has an export > facility that can

OK so maybe I should have stayed in bed today - but where is the source for packages kept on the ftp sites?

1998-08-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Sorry guys, Header says it all - flames to /dev/null and the obvious answer (I just have forgotten, and didn't write it down) please. Thanks Matthew :( -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Ar

Re: Sound Problems

1998-08-18 Thread Jens Ch. Lisner
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Lars Steinke wrote: > > Well, I configured my kernel for SB 16 first, then patched it with awedrv, > redid make menuconfig with AWE32 support (see auxiliary devices at the > bottom). Then I did a pnpdump and uncommented the normal Soundblaster > settings I set before when g

route

1998-08-18 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have moved my computer to a new subnet and need to reconfigure, but I have forgotten how route works. First I set my new ip with ifconfig, then I tried to set up the routing with route, without success. Can any one please tell me which commands to issue. /Tomas Petersson

Can apt-get do proxy-http req?

1998-08-18 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi! Newbie here struggling with updating. And I never did get dselect to work consistently during the bo installation. Anyway: I "manually" collected the packages demanded by autoup.sh and ran it. Now the readme says I need to update ALL installed packages. For that volume, it should be wo

Re: Sound Problems

1998-08-18 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: > > Hi! > > I've tried to get my AWE64 PnP to work, but there seem to be > massive problems with the sound driver. I configured the card with > isapnptools as suggested in the HOWTOs (the parameters are set to the same > values as in w95, and it works

Is this list still active?

1998-08-18 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I did not receive any messages from this list for 3 days now. Thinking that I may have been unsubscribed because of email problems as has happened in the past I send a message to subscribe again and I also did not get any reply from that source. Johann ---

Re: How do I configure two ethernet cards ?

1998-08-18 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Guenther Koerbler wrote: > I have two 3Com Etherlink III 3C509B !! > I do not know how I configure the cards ??? Ain't hard at all: Have a look at /etc/init.d/network, then copy the three last lines, change the eth0 to eth1 for the second card and use the right IP address, n

Sound Problems

1998-08-18 Thread Jens Ch. Lisner
Hi! I've tried to get my AWE64 PnP to work, but there seem to be massive problems with the sound driver. I configured the card with isapnptools as suggested in the HOWTOs (the parameters are set to the same values as in w95, and it works fine there). After "insmod sound" I get immediatly a fast a

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