Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-21 Thread Kent West
At 06:32 PM 9/21/1998 -0500, you wrote: >At 08:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0200, you wrote: >>On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes: >>> >>> I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm >>> box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kent West wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > > > >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't > > >have > > >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all,

Can't connect to Samba box from NT ws

1998-09-21 Thread Kent West
I've posted a similar message detailing difficulties connecting to an NT server from a Samba box; now I'm having problems connecting to that Samba box from an NT workstation. I've got an account on the Linux box (westk), but when I try to connect to it from my NT ws, it asks for a username and pas

Re:

1998-09-21 Thread Kent West
At 04:30 PM 9/21/1998 -0600, you wrote: >How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want >to change it to unstable from stable. If I understand what you're asking, just go into the Access item in dselect and choose FTP and it'll ask you several questions, one of which

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-21 Thread Kent West
At 08:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0200, you wrote: >On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes: >> >> I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm >> box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as >> guest. My username on the Debian box is

RE: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread David Karlin
Hi, Backing up to a partition on the same disk provides you no protection against a disk-crash. If the drive fails, you will most likely lose date on *all* partitions. Better to have another drive, be it tape, HDD, zip, or whatever. --David > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security > patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the > better, however we

Re: Shared Lib problem

1998-09-21 Thread technical
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 21 06:47:01 1998 >> I'm having problems using some software downloaded from the net (netscape, >> StarOffice etc etc). > >Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. I did for netscape, and that doesn't work, mind you i converted it from an

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread Ralph Winslow
When JonesMB wrote, I replied: I assume that your 2Gb. is on a different spindle, 'cause if it isn't, it won't do you a hell of a lot of good in the event of a disk failure. I've enclosed the perl that I use to backup some essentials that I'd need to re-build from a Debian CD. I save only essent

Hard drive woes...

1998-09-21 Thread Adam Lazur
The fan on my power supply recently siezed up, I have since replaced it, but it was not working for 2 days without me noticing. This allowed my box to get HOT, and as a result my hard drive isn't too happy anymore... In my MS-DOS partition (have to use Visual Cafe for work) scandisk found several b

[no subject]

1998-09-21 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want to change it to unstable from stable.

Bootup error

1998-09-21 Thread Shane S.
I've got a 1gig SCSI HD which linux fails to see it. Right now it is installed on the 1st SCSI drive which is 540meg. The SCSI controller is set to IRQ14 and I get errors about this. I have search alot of documentation on to solve this problem, but I can't find any. Can someone out there help? In

backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread JonesMB
Hello, I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again. I currently have about 2 GB of drive space that I am not us

Network Card alias

1998-09-21 Thread Tomt
I've been messing around and got IP Masquerading working on my ppp connection. Now I want to get it working on a network connection to the inet like a T1 or other dedicated line. I've heard that there is two ways I can go about this 1. 2 network cards in my Hamm box or 2. Create an alias to my ex

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Immanuel Yap wrote: > append="mem=128M" > > in your /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo, and reboot. Note that your system > can get seriously fscked if you don't actually have 128M. Read lilo(8) > and lilo.conf(5) before trying anything. There's also some stuff in > /usr/doc

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Ryan King said > > >Using the dinstall system I'd go in and say "activate existing swap > partition" > >(or whatever the actual wording is...) and then I'd do the same with your > >root partition. Using existing partitions is not destructive and it > should > >then write the proper information to

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > > > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons wh

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread David Z. Maze
Default Debian Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Default> I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize Default> anything over 64M of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this Default> is what top reports... Install the doc-linux-text package, if you haven't already, and read /usr/doc/HOW

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I love tar it works great... > > > I think that last phrase should be qualified. > I've had two instances where a physical error on the disk was not caught > by tar. On both of those scenarios tar kept witting even though it was > not possible to restore past that poi

xmcd

1998-09-21 Thread Default Debian Reader
I asked this question yetsterday buy didnt have mail running so might have missed the response. But could someone mail me the config.sh script the xmcd seems to need. I can't get mine to work because that script is not there so it doesn't recognize my cdrom device and such.. thank you.

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-21 Thread Shaleh
May be an easier way but how about making an XDM group? Put the users in that. Then let group xdm be a member of floppy. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: One last chance

1998-09-21 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>Linux box(hal). I was reading "Another FAT 32 question" and it sounds >like I can install I must have missed the initial thread - you have two machines? If so, use a laplink cable, load Minicom on the Linux box, and terminal on the 95/NT box, and you can "cheesily" send a few files back and for

Re: One last chance

1998-09-21 Thread Shaleh
Maybe this is too easy but. Have you considered using a boot disc on the win95 box? There are some rather full featured ones out there. Another option is to install on a umsdos directory. There is a nice Linux called Dragon Linux which can be installed in a directory on your Windows box. Lo

xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, Am I missing something obvious? I like it very much the way I can put CONSOLE_GROUPS in login.defs because I want the person sitting on the console to be able to read the floppy drive with mtools and *only* that person. Problem is I had to set up a couple of boxes to use xdm against my

[off topic] finding a replacement pcmcia modem cable

1998-09-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
does anyone have an idea where to [inexpensively] find a used pcmcia modem cable? I need the kind that has two inline plugs. I've found that I can get one with a 14.4 modem attached for $20, but this seems a bit extreme. rick --

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan King
>Using the dinstall system I'd go in and say "activate existing swap partition" >(or whatever the actual wording is...) and then I'd do the same with your >root partition. Using existing partitions is not destructive and it should >then write the proper information to disk... Okay, I tried that

One last chance

1998-09-21 Thread john mcpeek
Hi all, O.K. no one can write a driver for a network adapter to use the LPT in w95. (I know I can't) This is what I want to do. I want to plip some files from my win95 box(bob) to my Linux box(hal). I was reading "Another FAT 32 question" and it sounds like I can install Debian to a FAT32 parti

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 03:26:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter said > > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Hi, > > >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > > > questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and i

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Immanuel Yap
Default Debian Reader wrote: > > I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M > of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports... > CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle > Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd,

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of > RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run > above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 > M

Re: Where is XF86Setup?

1998-09-21 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 21 Sep 98 12:40:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It's part of the svga server. It only appears in the VGA_16 server, I'm afraid. Why is it not packaged separately, or with all servers? Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sle

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Shaleh
The mem=??? is not needed in 2.1.1xx kernels. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: [CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Horacio M.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how can I make a key combo work? > ># What to do when CTRL-ALT-END is pressed. >ca:12345:ctrlaltend:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now > >which was just a guess, and obviously didn't work. I suppose I >should first of all configur

Re: kerneld problems

1998-09-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Damn, C-x and C-c are to near to each other on the keyboard. I solved it with help from #debian: kerneld 2.1.121 is broken. Downgrading to modutils 2.1.85-11 solved the problem. Sorry for the inconviniencee. Jens Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo all, > > I have a strange probl

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Ryan King said > Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right... > WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap). > Ok. A starting point. > (So now, hda2 is the main partition and hda3 is the swap) > > After I realized that they were switched, I then realized I w

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread stick
Stephen J. Carpenter said > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > Hi, > >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > > questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it > > is why is it not the defacto standard > > > > --

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: > I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of > RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run > above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 > Mb and using the

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Default Debian Reader
I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports... CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd, 17160K buff Swap: 130748K av, 1416K

kerneld problems

1998-09-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo all, I have a strange problem with kerneld 2.1.121 with a 2.0.34 kernel. hilbert:/etc# mount -t isofs /dev/scd1 /cdrom -85800:job (0804b960) scheduled, type request_module ('s') -85800:job (0804b960) stored, pid=361 -85800:finish_jobs -85800:SIGCHLD: job=0x804b960, pid=361, status=1 -85800:

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes: > > I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm > box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as > guest. My username on the Debian box is westk. My username on the NT box > is West K

Re: No subject given

1998-09-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:40:50 +0200 Michael Schmidt writes: > > Hi fellow debian users (:-), > Netscape 4.5PR1 (glibc version) gives strange errors for the > XmTextFields: > > Warning: > Name: Text > Class: XmTextField > Character 'h', not supported in font. Discarded. > > And

Re: Netscape cannot load LibXpm.so

1998-09-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:19:56 +0200 Dirk Melchers writes: > > Hi, > I've just got my Linux box up and running with X-Windows and > Netscape, but when I try to get Netscape 4.05 running, it just tells > me that is cannot load LibXpm.so.4 even though the file is present > in one of the X11 directori

Re: Backups

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, >This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your > questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it > is why is it not the defacto standard > > --Jonathan Well...I use tar... In fact I

generic sendmail problem(relaying not allowed)

1998-09-21 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I have sendmail 8.9.0 running on a Debian 2.0 machine. When I boot the system, and have mail sent to it, I receive messages that state relaying is denied. If I /etc/init.d/sendmail stop ; /etc/init.d/sendmail start, everything works correctly. Shouldn't the first invocation of /etc/init.d/sendma

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-21 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:39:48PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: > > > I > >certainly wish > >to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to > >completely > >seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss > >the Fat16 > >format these disks have in favor of the fa

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > > could not use the device drivers written fo

Re: [CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-21 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:28 +0200 Horacio M G writes: > > Hi there, > how can I make a key combo work? > In etc/inittab I get the following line: > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > which is ok for shutting the system down and

Re: complex syslog facility daemon

1998-09-21 Thread Juergen Nagler
> Yes, Juergen, using LOCAL? facilities is exactly what you want. > Unfortunately, the > facility used by services is, in general, compiled in. There's no "standard" > way to > split daemon.log though you could certainly write a perl script to do it. In > general > since the format is ' ' writi

Mach64

1998-09-21 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Are there any problems known with the Mach64 driver? I am getting segfaults when running Quake2 and LinCity... Regards, Ruud.

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan King
Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right... WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap). (So now, hda2 is the main partition and hda3 is the swap) After I realized that they were switched, I then realized I wasn't to sure what I needed to do with that informa

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread David Warnock
> Now what do you guys say I try? Ryan, I don't know enough about Linux to suggest a rescue procedure. But I have a sugestion to use instead of Lilo. I have a floppy disk to boot for Linux (yes I know ancient technology and slow to boot). There are some real advantages. 1. I don't have to play

Re: fips etc.

1998-09-21 Thread Joe Stewart
fips does support fat32 after version 1.51 or somewhere close to this. I downloaded a fresh copy from sunsite and it worked great. Joe On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: > At our school we are planning to have a 'linux-install' day where students > will > bring in their home machines

Re: complex syslog facility daemon

1998-09-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yes, Juergen, using LOCAL? facilities is exactly what you want. Unfortunately, the facility used by services is, in general, compiled in. There's no "standard" way to split daemon.log though you could certainly write a perl script to do it. In general since the format is ' ' writing such a scri

Re Help

1998-09-21 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Thanks for previous help. This time what I want to know is 1. Can you set up a dns server and dhcp server on as one computer. if so how do you go about it. 2. I got the floppy mounted with the following command mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt one you do this you can only see the files in th

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Shaleh
Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond me). Also the 2.1.x series of kernels has done a LOT of work on large mem handling. T

using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-21 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello, I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 Mb and using the upper 64 Mb as a swap area would be more efficient because I woul

fips etc.

1998-09-21 Thread Richard Sevenich
At our school we are planning to have a 'linux-install' day where students will bring in their home machines and we'll repartition hard drives and install linux. Last I heard (some months ago), fips was not able to handle fat32 and there were no plans to do so. Is this still the case? Is 'Partition

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hey all, | | My wife has taken a liking to KDE's kpoker. I added her as a user, but | she can't grasp the shutdown process. She is very computer impaired (I'm | being nice...she just plain computer stupid.) Anyway is there a exit | manager available to go fr

RE: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Person, Rod
That's exactly what I'm looking for. If anyone has a copy of this, please let me know. thanks. Rod.. > -- > From: Daniel Martin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 12:48 PM > To: Person, Rod > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re:

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-21 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir J. Naden) wrote: >Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: >> >> > I will support that. I have tried maybe a dozen times to get exim running >> > without success. The documentation mo

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Daniel Martin
"Person, Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > > My wife has taken a liking to KDE's kpoker. I added her as a user, but > she can't grasp the shutdown process. She is very computer impaired (I'm > being nice...she just plain computer stupid.) Anyway is there a exit > manager available to

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Ares
I've got a couple of machines which dual-boot Debian and NT (though on one of them, NT is going away very soon). I initially had NT installed on them, and later installed Debian, which if I understand correctly, is the case here. Both will boot either OS just fine. My server machine at home has no

Re: complex syslog facility daemon

1998-09-21 Thread Juergen Nagler
>Is there any reason that you can not look in dhcp.log or whatever rather >than daemon.log? Out of the man page of my dhcpd: To have dhcpd log to the standard error descriptor, specĀ­ ify the -d flag. This can be useful for debugging, and also at sites where a complete

Re: Unable to create a boot disk for hamm install

1998-09-21 Thread Roger Franz
At 09:16 AM 9/15/98 -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > "Problem -- Creation of boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the > floppy was not write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive. > Try another floppy if the problem persists." > >I've tried several disks and they all give me the s

Netscape cannot load LibXpm.so

1998-09-21 Thread Dirk Melchers
Hi, I've just got my Linux box up and running with X-Windows and Netscape, but when I try to get Netscape 4.05 running, it just tells me that is cannot load LibXpm.so.4 even though the file is present in one of the X11 directories. Could somebody please help me? Dirk

Re: complex syslog facility daemon

1998-09-21 Thread Shaleh
Juergen Nagler wrote: > Ok, more descriptive: All programs have a log, that's not the problem. > The problem is, they all use the same log file. All daemons (dhcpd, > sshd, in.telnetd, in.xntpdm, cfingerd, in.qpopper) for example use > /var/log/daemon.log because of the line > > "daemon.* /v

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan King
Okay, here's some more info that might help, or just convince you that I need to reinstall. When Linux boots, it recognizes my physical disk, and then later, yes, all partitions... hda1,hda2,hda3. Also, it is still type 83. And I looked at the error message again, and it actually says this: Ke

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>Linux's equivalent (I don't even know what the name of it is), so I'll just FDISK believe it or not :) >Linux loaded fine... until it tried to mount the disk: >Kernel Panic: Unable to mount /dev/hda3 >Now what do you guys say I try? Hey Ryan. First, don't feel bad. I did that myself and ende

Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-21 Thread Person, Rod
Hey all, My wife has taken a liking to KDE's kpoker. I added her as a user, but she can't grasp the shutdown process. She is very computer impaired (I'm being nice...she just plain computer stupid.) Anyway is there a exit manager available to go from X to system halt state, or is this going to be

losing 10s per day?

1998-09-21 Thread Shane Hynes
Hi, I've recently upgraded to Hamm and have started noticing that my clock is consistently losing 9.5 sec per day. This wasn't happening under the bo release. I update my clock with netdate daily so the the error isn't cumulative & isn't really a problem but it is curious. Any ideas where I sh

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Ryan King wrote: > I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on > getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current > WindowsNT O/S. An extremely delicate procedure, Windows NT gets moody when you share you sys

Re: none

1998-09-21 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi fellow debian users (:-), > > Netscape 4.5PR1 (glibc version) gives strange errors for the > XmTextFields: > > Warning: > Name: Text > Class: XmTextField > Character 'h', not supported in font. Discarded. > > And then for t and t and p etc. and t

LANtastic network protocol?

1998-09-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Is this supported under linux? if so, what options/packages do I need? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societi

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread John Larkin
> > Linux loaded fine... until it tried to mount the disk: > > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount /dev/hda3 > > Now what do you guys say I try? > > BTW, cfdisk is a text program with a pretty nice interface. A couple of things: (step 1) when you boot, after linux recognizes your IDE drives, w

Re: Best software to mirror debian ftp sites..

1998-09-21 Thread vaidhy
> Hi, > > What's the best software (for debian.) to mirror debian ftp sites? > the software mirror? or wget? > I am happy with rsync. Make sure you get the one from slink.. Cheers, Vaidhy ** Alike for those who for Today prepare And those that after a

Re: Samba

1998-09-21 Thread Juergen Nagler
>I'm running bo, and I've installed samba. When, from the command line >I type > >smbd -D > >and then >ps -aux | grep smbd > >I do not see the smbd running. When I look in /var/log I get > > Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 > bind failed on port 139

Best software to mirror debian ftp sites..

1998-09-21 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, What's the best software (for debian.) to mirror debian ftp sites? the software mirror? or wget? regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : ht

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Kent West
At 03:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0100, you wrote: > >> I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on >> getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current >> WindowsNT O/S. >> >> I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course, >> had to

Re: adding SCSI disks

1998-09-21 Thread David B. Teague
Marco Mea culpa. I missed the fact that you have TWO controllers. I didn't read carefully enough. I am curious about the bios being enabled for various drives. I don't think a drive can boot at all if the bios is not enabled for that drive in the card's firmware. So I'd look at the firmware set

Re: your mail

1998-09-21 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi fellow debian users (:-), > > Netscape 4.5PR1 (glibc version) gives strange errors for the > XmTextFields: > > Warning: > Name: Text > Class: XmTextField > Character 'h', not supported in font. Discarded. > > And then for t

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
mjv wrote: > BTW - Someone posted that it would be unwise to reformat for Linux > because of the lack of Iomega disk tools causing data loss. Seems bogus to me.

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on > getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current > WindowsNT O/S. > > I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course, > had to make it active. I figured, "Well, I'm more fa

Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan King
I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current WindowsNT O/S. I set up lilo so that my linux partition was bootable, and then, of course, had to make it active. I figured, "Well, I'm more familiar with f

Re: Where is XF86Setup? - solved

1998-09-21 Thread Jens Ritter
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sorry! > > > > Netscape died at the moment of sending my last message so I repeat it > > (abbreviated - have no patience to retype as it was)! > > > > Thanks for the quick answers. > > > > Eric was right - it works now. > > > > I think

Re: Apt with two dists

1998-09-21 Thread vaidhy
> > Hi All, > > > > I have a local mirror of debian with hamm and slink for binary-i386. > > When I point apt at my mirror and ask it to update the packages, it > > gets confused with hamm and slink. > > > > For eg: kernel-package 5.06 is in hamm and 5.07 is in slink. apt tries > > to read 5.

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1998-09-21 Thread Michael . Schmidt
Hi fellow debian users (:-), Netscape 4.5PR1 (glibc version) gives strange errors for the XmTextFields: Warning: Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character 'h', not supported in font. Discarded. And then for t and t and p etc. and the URL field comes up empty. I can input some

Re: Network tracing software

1998-09-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I did not receive any responses to this inquiry, but I was able to find a couple of windows 95 applications that did the job (gag). They are: lantrend and lanstat from www.intellimax.com. They have a demo version that did what I needed. The fee for the full version is kind of steep. Doug Dou

Re: Apt with two dists

1998-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a local mirror of debian with hamm and slink for binary-i386. > When I point apt at my mirror and ask it to update the packages, it > gets confused with hamm and slink. > > For eg: kernel-package 5.06 is in hamm and 5.07 is in

gzip problems...Newbie! - solved?

1998-09-21 Thread Person, Rod
Just in case anyone wanted to know. For some reason, of which I'm not sure, the problem was with the leap-1_2.gz file. It would not created the directories. After I manually made the directories gzip worked fine. I was logged in a root. So why the it did not created the directories escapes me.

Re: Samba

1998-09-21 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hi, It looks like something else is bound to port 139. Maybe something listed in inetd.conf? -Remco On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, King Lee wrote: : Hello, : : I'm running bo, and I've installed samba. When, from the command line : I type : : smbd -D : : and then : ps -aux | grep

Re: WMaker

1998-09-21 Thread Lawrence Walton
Make sure that the package 'menu' is installed, it should fix your problem. On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > Hi all. > > I think I've almost got my hamm installation finalized but I've run into a > few small problems. This one involves wmaker. When I click on a blank part > of the

Re: Where is XF86Setup? - solved

1998-09-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Sorry! > > Netscape died at the moment of sending my last message so I repeat it > (abbreviated - have no patience to retype as it was)! > > Thanks for the quick answers. > > Eric was right - it works now. > > I think there should be a possibility of seraching not only trhe headers > but

Re: Q: MIPS machine + Linux?

1998-09-21 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:32:38AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > I seem to remember that there is a Linux port for MIPS anyone know > anything about it? See http://lena.fnet.fr/ > Debian doesn't apear to have a MIPS dist (yet :) - we seem to have almost > everything else). >From http://ww

Apt with two dists

1998-09-21 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I have a local mirror of debian with hamm and slink for binary-i386. When I point apt at my mirror and ask it to update the packages, it gets confused with hamm and slink. For eg: kernel-package 5.06 is in hamm and 5.07 is in slink. apt tries to read 5.06 from slink. What should I d

Re: Where is XF86Setup? - solved

1998-09-21 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Sorry! Netscape died at the moment of sending my last message so I repeat it (abbreviated - have no patience to retype as it was)! Thanks for the quick answers. Eric was right - it works now. I think there should be a possibility of seraching not only trhe headers but also the descriptions (in

Re: Staroffice 5

1998-09-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > After the information comming with Staroffice 5, every user has to > start the Staroffice 5 setup program after it has been installet with > the /net option. Is there a way to automate this? Is there a Debian > package that does this? > Where

Printer support - HP 670C injet?

1998-09-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, is this supported - i.e. not only will magicfilter &c. print to it, but are there any utilities to print test pages &c. (i.e. the things that the 'DOZE drivers let you do as there are only 2 buttons on the printer)? if there's a relevant FM to R, then that would help as well Yo

Q: MIPS machine + Linux?

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I went to the MIT flea market yesterdy. (last one this year is next month!) I only bought 1 thing, a DECstation 5000/133. I was told this is a MIPS machine,it has some RAM (NFI how much) and no hard drive (yet). No video card but I got a vt320 terminal for it. I seem to remember that there is a

Re: Need help with resolution

1998-09-21 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:43:35AM -0500, Ken Archer wrote: > You are right. That SHOULD work, but I had already tried that and it didn't > solve the problem. From what I can see, it seems to be a problem with the > system only seeing 256k of videoram when it has 2 meg. I should normally be > ab

RPC: Port mapper failure

1998-09-21 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I have a Debian 1.3.1 Machine where I started /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and updated /etc/exports. If I want to nfs mount from the host I put into /etc/exports (this host runs Debian 2.0), I get the following error after some time: mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive Any ideas, what

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