sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to
Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need info
on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web sites I
found are all dead. Did someone take them over?
___
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually
>to convert it to a .gif file.
>
>I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a
>screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything c
I'm even more confused now :-)
For some reason, I couldn't get rawrite to write the 1.44 files to my
last box of KAO disks. I tried the 1.2, and it worked fine.
I booted off the LOWMEM.BIN floppy and was able to set up the three
partitions and initialize the swap. The second step was to initializ
I recommend using the 'convert' from the ImageMagick package. With 'convert'
you can
use:
convert X: .gif
If you don't know what the window's name is use the 'xwininfo' command.
Eric House wrote:
> I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually
> to convert it to a .gif
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0500, Brian Morgan wrote:
> Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect
> several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of
> laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works
> great.
>
Ok. Can you ex
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted
>to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that
>I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large
>root
I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted
to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that
I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large
root partition (primary), two smaller logical ones (for /home and /etc)
and a swap
> My question(s): Has anyone else purchased
> the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being
> distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout
> etc as that which DebIan have on the net?
The non-free, contrib and non-US sections are on a different CD from
the main distribution---that's the
>
> Recently picked up a copy of Debian 2.0 from
> CheaperBytes discount place, 4 cdrom set.
>
> My question(s): Has anyone else purchased
> the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being
> distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout
> etc as that which DebIan have on the net?
I have t
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on a model 35 PS/2, using the
lowmem option. The boot messages indicate the "standard" ide0
interface is found (0x1f0, irq 14), but the system never is able
to read the drive (message "status=0xff", times out).
I've tried two different drives, both of which I know
Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect
several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of
laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works
great.
1 problem now: All of a sudden, nobody can print with the existing
windows printer se
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Tremblett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first
>time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in
>general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debia
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the
>newer kernels?
Yes, I have ;) You mean the 2.1.x kernels I presume? I'll talk about that.
BTW, there is a backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> Greeting everyone,
>
> Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do
> not want to have my home computer on-line all the time.
Hmm well
personally I DO want my computer online all the time whether I
I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually
to convert it to a .gif file.
I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a
screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything comparable to
Snapshot (on Solaris), for example?
Thanks,
--Eric House
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Christopher Fury wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a local lan at my house with a firewall to allow
> access to the outside world. I've followed the Firewall-FAQ and I
> can't seem to see what I've done wrong... Maybe somebody can tell me.
> I'm running Debian 2.0.
>
> I h
I'm trying to setup a local lan at my house with a firewall to allow
access to the outside world. I've followed the Firewall-FAQ and I
can't seem to see what I've done wrong... Maybe somebody can tell me.
I'm running Debian 2.0.
I have the following network options set in my kernel:
x x [
I want to change my login message to host login:
but rightnow my host is my full ip dns entry, jkeatnig.static.execpc.com.
I would like it to jsut show up as jkeating. If i change it with the
hostname command it works but then when i sned mail it says [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and not the whole address, i
I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first
time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in
general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debian
2.0 doesn't install any default runlevels - just /etc/init.d. I've always
> Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do
> not want to have my home computer on-line all the time.
>
> Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say
> two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did
> it alrea
Me too. What I considered is using CallerID(ANI). However, if you call
from inside a PBX, anybody calling the house could do it. If you've got
a cell phone, this could work. I've also got ISDN,
therefore, I get DNIS (which line was being called). Using the
'unlisted' nubmer would also give a
Mark,
I haven't done a 1.2MB install so please bear with me :) I think that
you need the 6 1.2 images plus the 1.2 rescue image and lowmemrd (which
I think is ram disk) and rawrite.exe if you're writing the floppies from
DOS. I think (though the install guide is pretty vague about the 1.2M
Quick qustion. What is the size of your floppy drive? If you have a
1.44MB drive then use the lowmem.bin floppy image. There are problems
with this (as you may have seen from the many recent postings re: the
lowmem installation problems - check the archive.)
If you are using the 1.2MB install do y
I have been contemplating this. If you could get a program to answer
the modem line, when you call it picks up and then hangs up, it launches
ppp (similar to using something in the ip-down script). Should be
do-able.
Lazar Fleysher wrote:
>
> Greeting everyone,
>
> Very often, I have to work o
Greeting everyone,
Very often, I have to work on my home computer from other places and I do
not want to have my home computer on-line all the time.
Would it be possible to configure it in such a way so when I call home say
two times in a row, pon would be executed automaticaly and ip-up ( I did
Recently we had the problem that the smail server did not properly
mount /var/spool/mail/ from the spool server. This caused all incoming
mail to either be lost or put into the errors directory. My question is:
How did smail know not to use the local /var/spol/mail and what did
smail do with the em
*- Jieyao wrote about "Copying files over samba"
| Hi,
|
| I am thinking of doing something as follows...
|
| I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running.
| I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want
| some data files on the win95
Recently picked up a copy of Debian 2.0 from
CheaperBytes discount place, 4 cdrom set.
My question(s): Has anyone else purchased
the Cheaper Bytes CD's? And is the version being
distributed by Cheaper Bytes the same in layout
etc as that which DebIan have on the net?
When installing I run in
Anyone know how to change resolution/screen size on a laptop that doesn't
have a separate numeric keypad? I can lock the number keys on that are
imbedded in the alpha keys, but that still doesn't let me do the
Ctrl-Alt-Minus key combo. Nothing I've tried has worked. Is there another
way to change r
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version
> did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in
> 3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July).
>
> It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2
> From: Tim Sailer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 9:18 AM
> Subject: Serial Console
>
>
> Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the
> newer kernels? It works to a point, with lilo allowing input from
> the serial port, and the initial kerne
> Dear Debian users,
> how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I
> can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base system installed)
> to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM) using the FTP or the NFS
> access methods?
ppp / slip links are very slow.
If you
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote:
> Hi,
Hi. Can you shorten your lines please.
>
> I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot
floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps
> giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure
what t
Hi,
I am thinking of doing something as follows...
I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running.
I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want
some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa.
I was thinking of w
Hi,
Can anyone give a clue on the following error in /var/log/debug
The whole file is filled with this error and it's taking up a big chunk of the
disk
space.
Sep 8 18:01:13 radon kernel: ARP: arp called for own IP address
Sep 8 18:01:57 radon last message repeated 24 times
--
Jieyao <[EMAIL
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
> Pete> I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be...
>
> Odd isn't it.
>
> I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the
> distribution. I had
>
> *VT100.Translations: #override Delete: str
Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the
newer kernels? It works to a point, with lilo allowing input from
the serial port, and the initial kernel messages going to the port,
but right after it initializes the swap, all I/O stops at the serial
port. When the system is re
Thanks bunches!
The system is up and running.
I think something to this end should be put in the installation guide, or one
of the
many faq. I had a little trouble using vi, but after an hour of trials, i
finally
convinces vi to display a "/". all went well, and now I am looking for the man
>
> Configuring root file ...
> MINIX-fs: bad root directory '.' entry
> Unable to mount the temporary root partition!
I"ve never used a lowmem setup, but as a wild guess, does it need a
mkfs.minix run on it first?
--
As a member of the local Linux Users Group, I am writing a course outline for a
12-week Linux course that our group is sponsoring. It is aimed at producing
Linux-qualified entry-level personnel for corporate IT departments.
I am looking for input from IT department administrators as to what the
I hope someone can give me an idea what I'm doing wrong:
I inherited an old Toshiba T1850C notebook. (80386)
I used the lowmem rescue disk to start the process.
I created three partitions on the hard drive:
hda1 = 90 Meg type 83
hda2 = 20 Meg type 82
hda3 = 6 Meg type 81
Following the prompts, I
Hello!
I wonder to know what is a group administrator (seen in passwd man page)
and wether it is supported by debian.
--
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Tel.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 80 155 rue Jules Delcenserie, Bat B3
Fax.: +33 (0)3 20 65 85 81 59700 MARCQ en BAROEUL, FRANCE
> "Rick" == Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> No problem... add this to your sendmail.mc and regenerate:
Rick> FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl you may also wish to
Rick> add FEATURE(accept_unqualified_senders)dnl to allow those
Rick> b0rked clients usin
> I have made a package of VIM with GUI and python support. You can grab it
> for download at ftp://ftp.shorelink.com/pub/software/
>
> Let me know if you would like any additional options and if it works ok
> for you.
>
> You can invoke it as gvim or as vim -g to get gui support.
>
> George Bon
> I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory.
> I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux.
> Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the
> minimum required packages (to ask as mailserver) and MS-dos.
> Which packages do i need ???
M
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:30:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org,
Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: sendmail rejecting bad domains
>
>
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Person, Rod wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm haveing major problems. After I decided to switch to KDE, I've had
> nothing but problems. For one binutils 2.9 will not install now matter
> what I do and it would uninstall either. When I try I get the error.
> write error locking
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brian Sheehan wrote:
> i would be glad to hear from people who have gotten (or not) X running
> with a gateway monitor (in particular an EV700)
Unlike Viglen's Envy 17ES, it's unable to perform adequately at
1280x1024, managing only 60Hz which is really flickery. 1152x864
is j
> "Rick" == Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> The sender will need to setup sendmail to masquerade as his
Rick> firewall.
In my case, telling my customer to change his configuration is not and
acceptable option. I need my sendmail to be more forgiving.
> "Peter
Hi all,
I'm haveing major problems. After I decided to switch to KDE, I've had
nothing but problems. For one binutils 2.9 will not install now matter
what I do and it would uninstall either. When I try I get the error.
write error locking to directory!! directory or file does not
exist.
bmorgan writes:
> I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows
> machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've
> got several users connecting to the samba server for IP printing to
> jet-direct boxes. Right now, I've got my SMB.CONF file set so that i
What exactly does not work?
peloy.-
Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I accidentally renamed my server and now ,Samba in particular, does not
> work anymore. I removed Samba and reloaded it but it still does not work.
> Any suggestions.
>
>
> Keith
Hay Will.
no dos - But if this young man goes out and gets a used 40 - 100 meg HD he
can
put the swap area on the second HD, therefore having enough space for DOS.
Thats what I think, but I have known to be wrong on more than
a few occasions.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Will Lowe <
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, W.N. Beukers wrote:
> dear sirs,
>
> I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory.
> I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux.
>
> Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the
> minimum required packages (to ask a
Hello:
You have enough space.
My recommendation would be to setup a 32 megabyte swap
partition and use the rest for linux and the packages.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: W.N. Beukers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 7:10 AM
Subject:
dear sirs,
I have a 486 pc with 248MB harddrive space and 16MB Ram memory.
I want to turn this pc in a mailserver running under linux.
Can you tell me if i have enough space on my harddisk to fit both the
minimum required packages (to ask as mailserver) and MS-dos.
Which packages do i need ???
> _X11 TranSocket UNIX Connect:can't connect: err no=111 giving up
> XINIT:connection refused (err no. 111): unable to connect to X
> server
> XINIT: no such process (err no 3): Server error.
Looks to me like you haven't configured an X server at all.
> 1. What do I do?
What kind of motherboard are you using ??
(brand)
Peter Barbera
Horacio M.G. wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic,
> but I can find no solution to it:
>
> I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip
> drive (also IDE)
I'm not sure what all the relevant files are, but I expect you could locate
all of them using the "rgrep" (recursive grep) package. Something like:
cd /etc
rgrep old_host_name *
At 09:20 AM 9/11/98 +0200, you wrote:
>I need to change the name of my machine.
>
>I changed `/etc/hostname'
Hi there,
my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic,
but I can find no solution to it:
I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip
drive (also IDE) as a secondary slave. Both seem to be recognized
and detected by the BIOS, and even detected by Linu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just
>make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = "blank".
>What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper?
Read /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz
It might have to do with
Rich wrote:
> I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a
> boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps giving
> me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what
> the error is and I know the floppy is good because I just formatted
> it under Wi
I need to change the name of my machine.
I changed `/etc/hostname' and during startup it waits for several
minutes after having displayed:
starting printer spooler: lpd
(finally it reboots, but it suggests something is wrong...)
BTW:
During hamm installation I was asked several times about the f
I AM NEW. It is getting
better. I see more than the "S" prompt once in a
while!
Installed the Linux system (CD's) again
tonight that I configured with dselect configure. I am using an Intel 740
2D/3D Graphics Accelerator chip (set).
Under dselect configue I tried to set the
video ad
Hi all,
Your mission should you have nothing else going on is ..
I just installed various GNOME packages. Every one of the GNOME progs
gives me the error /etc/im_palette.pal does not exist. I installed just
about everything on the planet
for GNOME not to mention that dselect was happy with t
Andreas Nolda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so
|> that I can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base
|> system installed) to the other (with access to a Debian CD-ROM)
|> using the FTP or the NFS access methods?
|>
Hi,
I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy.
Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps
giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the
error is and I know the floppy is good because I
just formatted it under Win98 and can crea
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
[ snip ]
: > : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
: >
: > First, install the doc-iana package.
: >
: > I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book)
: That book was copyright 1994, i imagine it was pri
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
>
> : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
>
> First, install the doc-iana package.
>
> I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book)
That book was copyright 199
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
: Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
First, install the doc-iana package.
I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book)
but if you are referring to the Type Of Service field, 0xc0 is not a
valid choice.
[ fr
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
>
> > interface to manage/interpret/flag all the logging coming in.
> >
> > Has anyone heard of such a package? Especially a debianised one?
> >
>
> There are two that I know of, XLogMaster and XLogMonito
*- Default Debian Reader wrote about "kde"
| Can someone tell me where i could find the .deb of kde?
|
Try going to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and using the
package searches. I entered kde and got back about 20 packages with kde
in their name. You should find what you are looking fo
Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
Can someone tell me where i could find the .deb of kde?
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