Re: Help with Install

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Take a look at the following emails posted a few days ago:     downloading kernel image by Mark     Re downloading kernel image by joseph     Re downloading kernel image by Peter     Re downloading kernel image by Bob     Re downloading kernet image by Alan If you don't have

Updated installation disks/images?

1998-11-18 Thread Amanda Shuler
Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 with a kernel version 2.0.36 or greater? I have 2.0.34 and I am having trouble with booting... it freaks out when it detects my SCSI card. It's an Adaptec AIC-7xxx; I was told that the newer kernels have better support for Ad

RE: Update to Slink ate itself

1998-11-18 Thread Trevor Glen
Hi Sean, On 18-Nov-98 Sean Hollingsworth wrote: > ... > From I what I could get out of the (many) error messages, ncurses is the > problem. My system was so hosed that I had to do a hard-reboot just to get > out of linux. Has anybody else ran into this? If this has already been > brought up her

Installing KDE

1998-11-18 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I've installed KDE 980312-8 (stable) with QT and the libs. When I startkde I get the following error messages: kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libmediatool.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kfm: error in loading shared libraries libkhtmlw.so.0: cannot

Re: can't install on IBM

1998-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: : A friend of mine have a problem installing Debian 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad : 380xd: : every time I boot from CD, lilo loads 'root.bin' and 'linux' and then : reboot my machine. : : Some suggestions? Yes. You need a disk with a zImage kernel rathe

Bay Area debian meeting

1998-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
I'd like to thank everyone who came to the BALUG meeting last night - it was great to meet all of you! For those who didn't get to come, Corel didn't show up, and some debian people got scattered around the room and didn't get to sit at the main debian table and I didn't get to meet them until la

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 18 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote: : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I : > have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives, : > but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're

Re: use a cd-r

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "cp" == cornette philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cp> How can i configure my my CD-R in order to use it with linux. I don't own a cd-recorder, but there is the CD-Writing-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Maybe this document will tell you more. Ciao, Martin

Update to Slink ate itself

1998-11-18 Thread Sean Hollingsworth
I recently had to reinstall Debian 2.0, and wanted to update back to Slink. I Dselected from Debian's ftp site, and installed, and got the mother of all dselect error messages. I thought, since I had had a very intermittent connection, that perhaps some of the .debs might have been corrupted

System wide data type system?

1998-11-18 Thread Klas Lindberg
Is there any kind of system wide data type system in the works for linux (like the ones found in AmigaOS and BeOS). Such a mechanism would essentially eliminate the need for programs like c2p (by introducing modular translators) and be a very handy desktop functionality (drop this icon for that

Re: hypercard like program

1998-11-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:21:15PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > It occurs to me that one thing I haven't seen is a hypercard-like > program. I don't need anything fancy; the features of the original > release would be more than enough (aside from taking over my whole > screen :) >

Help with Install

1998-11-18 Thread Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd
I have recently downloaded from ftp the necessary installation files. All went well except for the linux (kernel image) which my browser insists on saving as a .txt file. Is this ok? Regards, Stephen Lavelle Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.110 Heales Road,Lara, Geelong, Australia3212Tel:++(03)5

hypercard like program

1998-11-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It occurs to me that one thing I haven't seen is a hypercard-like program. I don't need anything fancy; the features of the original release would be more than enough (aside from taking over my whole screen :) Basically, a free-form database, with the notion of a backround that cards can sha

RE: can't install on IBM

1998-11-18 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Use the tecra boot and rescue disks. Look at http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html It explains how to download the disk images and how to install using the floppy. On 18-Nov-98 Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > A friend of mine have a problem installing Debian 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad > 380xd: > every tim

Problems installing ncurses-base

1998-11-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install ncurses-base. dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb How can

Re: libXt

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
xlib6g On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Netscape4 using the Debian installer. I installed > all the dependencies, but Netscape complains it can't load libXt.so.6. > > I'd be grateful to know which package contains this. > > Thanks, Mark > > > -- >

PCI Modem?

1998-11-18 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Hi! I'm new to this list, but I've been using Debian (bo) for about eight months. I hope you can help me with a question I haven't been able to answer. Can anyone point me to information about setting up a PCI modem card to work with PPP and/or SLIP? I've been trying to find information about

Re: Is the aladdin ghostscript 5.50 available as debian package?

1998-11-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:08:12 +0100 (EET) Wojciech Zabolotny writes: > > Hi! > I've just tested the aladdin ghostscript 5.50, and stated that it has > fixed some annoying bugs in pdfwrite driver. > I'm just wondering if it is available somewhere as the debian package? Yes, it is at least part of

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, wb2oyc wrote: > Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is > completely within the limits of the 504MB. The problem comes from the > BIOS being old and not permitting access to cylinders beyond the 1024 > limit. > > Linux doesn't have any problem w

Re: security thru checksums?

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CD" == Cliff Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CD> Is there an option to dpkg (or it's friends) to verify that what's CD> currently installed is the same as what should be installed? In other Another option would be to use the package tripwire, which can monitor files for changes. Ciao,

Re: perl linked with gdbm?

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From the exim mailing list: MH> |Perl keeps around the various compiler and library MH> |options that are necessary for building Perl extensions. If "-lgdbm" MH> |is included in there then Perl itself was compiled with "-lgdbm" and MH> |I would

libXt

1998-11-18 Thread mark . lake
Hi, I've just installed Netscape4 using the Debian installer. I installed all the dependencies, but Netscape complains it can't load libXt.so.6. I'd be grateful to know which package contains this. Thanks, Mark

Re: perl linked with gdbm?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 19:18:20 +, Marc Haber wrote: > Should I try to shut the compiler up by installing gdbm? For now, yes. Quite likely perl's dependency on gdbm will be remove in a future version of the perl packages. > |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl

Re: Repost: Which Xserver pkg for old Diamond Viper (VLB)

1998-11-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 02:31:56PM -0800, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > Hmmm. Found xserver-p9000 and tried to install it. Get the same problem > as I did with xserver-vga16 and xserver-s3. It asks to go into graphics > mode during the install process and goes to a grey screen. There may be > tex

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 08:34:43PM -0400, wb2oyc wrote: > >If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS > >to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack > >Disk Manager. > > > Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is

perl linked with gdbm?

1998-11-18 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! I am trying to compile a testing version of exim on my Debian/hamm system. This particular exim version happens to be the first version that uses embedded perl. The compile fails because I don't have gdbm installed on my system. exim itself is configured to use dbm and doesn't need gdbm. The

Re: x3270

1998-11-18 Thread servis
*- richard wrote about "x3270" > Hallo all, > a while ago someone mention x3270 for connection to IBM mainframes. > Well, I finally found it (x3270-3.1.1.6) but I just cannot get the thing to > compile. OK, > I know I need to learn C, but I could use some help to sort this out. > Useful info

Re: staroffice 5.0 still hanging

1998-11-18 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > Where should I look for incompatibilities? The app. just freeze, > > didn't answering to anything but kill -1/9. > > I switched from xserver-s3 to xserver-svga hoping something good > ^^ > -s3 or -s3V? there are known

Re: Dselect using CD.

1998-11-18 Thread Dana M. Epp
You must set up which device its on. You can find this out by looking in dmesg. They are looking for something like /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc, based on where your cdrom is located on the machine. Bret Craw wrote: > > How do you use the CD rom for installing the packages through Dselect. In > the sc

Re: staroffice 5.0 still hanging

1998-11-18 Thread Will Lowe
> Where should I look for incompatibilities? The app. just freeze, > didn't answering to anything but kill -1/9. > I switched from xserver-s3 to xserver-svga hoping something good ^^ -s3 or -s3V? there are known problems with s3v, and a patch at www.sta

Dselect using CD.

1998-11-18 Thread Bret Craw
How do you use the CD rom for installing the packages through Dselect. In the screen to select the device to be used, it asks for the block id. What is that? Bret Craw Maintenance Renewal

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rainer Clasen wrote: > > Hi! > > Eric House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? > > > > My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode > > it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even > > though there's room on th

Re: security thru checksums?

1998-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:57:32AM -0800, Cliff Draper wrote: > Is there an option to dpkg (or it's friends) to verify that what's > currently installed is the same as what should be installed? In other > words, if random cracker person decides to break into my system and > change login, ls, and p

Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
david wrote, > > I need to know *exactly* where the partition lies. Is it the whole > > disk? It seems to me that there's a tiny bit left for some reason, > > that isn't used in the partition. And since I only get one shot at > > this, if I lay the partition wrong . . . > I'm not sure wh

x3270

1998-11-18 Thread richard
Hallo all, a while ago someone mention x3270 for connection to IBM mainframes. Well, I finally found it (x3270-3.1.1.6) but I just cannot get the thing to compile. OK, I know I need to learn C, but I could use some help to sort this out. Useful information. OS: Debian 2.0,

Moving computer without losing things

1998-11-18 Thread Jose L. Gomez Dans
Hi! I have been using a debian system for a couple of months now, and I am extremely happy with it. However, since this isn't my computer, I have been told that I'll have to leave this computer, and take a newer one. I was wondering if there is a way to actually send all the files I've got

can't install on IBM

1998-11-18 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
A friend of mine have a problem installing Debian 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad 380xd: every time I boot from CD, lilo loads 'root.bin' and 'linux' and then reboot my machine. Some suggestions? Thanks, Giuseppe

security thru checksums?

1998-11-18 Thread Cliff Draper
Is there an option to dpkg (or it's friends) to verify that what's currently installed is the same as what should be installed? In other words, if random cracker person decides to break into my system and change login, ls, and ps, can I compare from a .deb file that those programs are correct or n

Re: 1st time configuring samba

1998-11-18 Thread servis
*- Eugene Sevinian wrote about "1st time configuring samba" > Hi all, > I am trying to configure samba following smb.conf comments > but can not understand where should I look for > BROWSING.txt according to which I have to set some parameters. > I looked at w95 side by in vain, the same wit

staroffice 5.0 still hanging

1998-11-18 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, My staroffice 5.0 is still hanging. I using "slink" almost up-to-date with my mirror. Some versions are: xserver-svga: Version: 3.3.2.3a-7 xbase: Version: 3.3.2.3a-7 xbase-clients: Version: 3.3.2.3a-7 libc6: Version: 2.0.7u-5 xlib6g: Version: 3.3.2.3a-7 xpm4g: Version: 3.4j-0.

pt_BR or br_BR locales in Xlib

1998-11-18 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
Hi, I have my locale set to pt_BR in profile. After upgrading to the new xlib6g, netscape is giving me this message: netscape: locale `pt_BR' not supported by Xlib; trying `C' Looking at the locale directory, I found that the locale.alias file list pt_BR as: pt_BR

use a cd-r

1998-11-18 Thread cornette philippe
Hi,I`ve a PHILIPPS CD-R 2600 1.07,and i would like to use it under linux.But unfortunatly i don`t know,what to do.I mean i don`t know how to recognize my CD-R.I was about to forget,my CD-R is connect to my chipset is with a advansys scsi card on a pci port.So my questions are the following. How can

1st time configuring samba

1998-11-18 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, I am trying to configure samba following smb.conf comments but can not understand where should I look for BROWSING.txt according to which I have to set some parameters. I looked at w95 side by in vain, the same with linux. TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerP

Re: Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Kenneth wrote, > > > Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition > > number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no > > partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for > > Bern

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-18 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Joseph, > I confess to my "Linux" typo when I meant Linus (Torvalds). By > "facts confused" are you referring to this typo? If not, I would > like to know to what. >From what I understood from your message, you were implying that Richard Stallman started Linux. Looking back at your messag

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 17:02:27 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: > configure:554: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} > configure:583: checking for gcc > configure:660: checking whether the C compiler > (gcc ) works > configure:674: gcc -o conftestconftest.c > 1>&5 > ld: cannot open crt1.o: No s

Re: Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Dont Panic !!! There is nothing wrong with your laptop, except that it has the same feature as all the other toshiba laptops (and a few other brands). The Toshiba laptops require special rescue and drivers and these are located in the tecra folder in the boot disk directory. If you are

Re: partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Kenneth wrote, > Try to re-partition that zip disk again, but ONLY make a partition > number 4. All zip disks are partitioned with one partition 4 and no > partitions numbered 3,2, or 1. Why? This is a Mac thing. (Same for > Bernoulli's too BTW). I'm probably not being clear enough here. Wha

bash completion

1998-11-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
(using slink + some potato): I went through the X11 fiasco with the locales (fixed it for X, thanks!), and around the same time, had my file-completion under bash "break" (it completes with garbage). Has anyone had this problem? tcsh still completes well, so I was wondering if it was a bash pro

Re: Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 16:37:48 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: > I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais > to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): > > "C-compiler cannot create executables" > > What's wrong with gcc ?? That's difficult to te

Re: Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting wb2oyc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >If you need to use DOS you'll have to upgrade the BIOS, twiddle the BIOS > >to work (try something like CHS=1023/64/63), or use a hack like Ontrack > >Disk Manager. > > > Not so. Just make sure that your DOS partition and any Linux root is > completely within

Install NTFS drivers (Debian 2): gcc not OK ?

1998-11-18 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi there, I am trying to install NTFS driver on Debian 2.0 .The INSTALL sais to do ./configure which checks the gcc compiler (2.7.2.3-2): "C-compiler cannot create executables" What's wrong with gcc ?? Marc __ Marc Fleureck Ministry of

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want the cookie security so other users can't do anything wrong. > I also want "root" to be able to use the X display no matter > who is running x. What is the simplest way to > achieve this? At the command line in the user's session, type:

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Moore, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | >Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by | >xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you | >have to have that key. | | That's a bit odd - I don't use

startkde cannot connect to X server

1998-11-18 Thread Stephan Böni
Hi   i have installed kde on debian linux 2.0. commands like startx or startkde return the error "cannot connect to x server". what's wrong?   steph  

Installing Debian 2.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

1998-11-18 Thread Lahitte Paul
Hi everybody! I'm trying to install the Debian 2.0 on my laptop Toshiba satellite Pro 440 CDT and when I boot either directly on the CDROM or on the floppy with 1440tecra.bin I got the following messages: boot: loading root.bin .. loading linux .. and then the system reboot itself withou

Re: lpd problem

1998-11-18 Thread W. Paul Mills
Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remi Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I've got a little problem, trying to use lpr with my HP laserjet > > 6L. Although I configured printcap and filters with apsfilter (the > > printing of the test page worked fine !), each t

Desktop Publishing.

1998-11-18 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and what they recommend using. My wife has a home based business and I would like to create some flyers, tri-fold pamplets and such for here. So ideally it has to be easy for her to use,

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The newer fips 1.5c and 2.0 supposedly handle fat32, but I haven't had any opportunity to try this. Bob On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Martin Waller wrote: > > >Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools > sub- > >directory... > > > > Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, o

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
Do you have gs (or preferably gs-aladdin) installed? That is necessary for the man -t output to print, since -t converts it to PostScript. Keep at it and you will soon learn the Unix/Linux commands. Most of us started from a DOS background. Bob On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi Bob, >

Always my problem with X

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
I still got that problem running X : waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. immediately after the graphical screens comes up... and down ! according to some friends it's a matter of file references count - but I sti

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread PERALVO MUnOZ MIGUEL ANGEL
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" spake thus: > > > You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when > > > mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fsta

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
Leon Breedt wrote: > > > You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when > > mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). > how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to > have executable permissions? or is that the way the msdosfs filesyst

Re: kernel 2.1.128 & sound

1998-11-18 Thread Helge Hafting
> On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading > > sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this > > error message: > > > > [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /de

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 15:35:55 +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" spake thus: > > You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when > > mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). > > how can i specify that i don't want any files on

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Nov 18 1998, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" spake thus: > You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when > mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). how can i specify that i don't want any files on the dos partitions to have executable permissions? or is that the w

Re: Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 14:11:44 +0100, Marc Fleureck wrote: > I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following > error: > > dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb > "mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries" > "libz.so.1: cannot open" > > Of course libz.so.1 doesn't ex

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
** Reply to message from Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 17 Nov 1998 23:57:15 +0100 > Let's not talk about the food :-) I quite agree, we have far too many Macdonalds and Burger King. -- There was this scene in the movie 'time after

partition table on dos zip disks

1998-11-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:57:44 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: partition table on dos zip disks this may seem like an odd question, but could someone send me the partition table for a dos

Error in loading shared libraries (libz.so.1) from xbase_3.3.2.3-2

1998-11-18 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, I try to install X11R6 (xbase_3.3.2.3-2.deb) on Debian2.0 with following error: dpkg -i xfntbase_3.3.2-3.2.deb "mkfontdir: error in loading shared linraries" "libz.so.1: cannot open" Of course libz.so.1 doesn't exist in /usr/X11R6/lib because it's not part of xbase. Also, just runni

Default font specified incorrectly, where ?

1998-11-18 Thread Lars Steinke
Whichever X program you start, the system complains about a missing font: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--*" to type FontStruct Emacs: No fonts match `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*--* It will occur to the enlightened reader that in both

Re: lpd problem

1998-11-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Remi Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've got a little problem, trying to use lpr with my HP laserjet > 6L. Although I configured printcap and filters with apsfilter (the > printing of the test page worked fine !), each time I try (as root or as > normal user) to use lpr , it

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system > > Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM + > > [..] > > Actually, I had decided to use Slackware for this project even before > postin

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 13:06:22 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: [how to have user write access to a DOS/windows partition] You can specify the uid=value, gid=value and umask=value options when mounting, or in /etc/fstab; see mount(8) and fstab(5). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
John Stevenson wrote: > I created a dos group and tried to assign the win98 > partition as belonging to the dos group, but this did > not work, only assigning the mount point to dos and not > the file hierachy underneath that mount point. I even > tried to chmod it, but no luck. I solved this at

IPFW works a little to well...

1998-11-18 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Looking for a little help with ipfwadm. Got a good machine running 2.0, two nics and the system is passing traffic wonderfully. Now I would like to put in packet filtering. IPFW sounds as though it will fit the bill. The HOWTO regarding IPFW suggests a script, which I ha

Re: [ale] /dev/audio: Device or resource busy

1998-11-18 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake Wandered Inn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Make sure you don't have an irq conflict. Shows below it's taking 7, > > > isn't that what the parallel port normally takes?? > > > > Thanks for the idea. Hadn't thought of that. Um, I don't think I've > > got a conflict, but here's some /proc

Permissions for vfat mounted drive

1998-11-18 Thread John Stevenson
Hello Debian Land, I have a question about access permissions. I can access my vfat mounted windows98 partition as any user, however I can only get write access when I am root. My linux and win98 partitions are on the same harddrive. I used to be able to get the desired access by adding users to

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-18 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: > Have ip-up call a setuid program to specifically edit resolv.conf or > named.conf, if they exist. This is the obvious way to do it, but there is a policy question about messing with these files. > Just an Idea. I'd have a go at it.. Anyone object? I'll have a go at the

resizing ext2 partitions

1998-11-18 Thread Leon Breedt
hi apart from Partition Magic 4, are there any programs to resize ext2fs partitions? i recently did away with windows on my drive, and i dont want to backup everything/reinstall to make the whole drive ext2... thanks, leon -- Leon Breedt | Codewarrior | Debian 2.0 | Linux 2.1.128 PGP

/etc/ppp/options comment incorrect was: Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-18 Thread Carey Evans
Carey Evans: > -> > Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. John Hasler: > -> Yes, It is an undocumented synonym for 'noip'. Matus "fantomas" Uhlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are right, thankyou. But what is this ? > > # Disable IP address negotiation (with this option, the

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it. > > That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which > support it; it is available in the "to

Re: leased line problem again

1998-11-18 Thread fantomas
Hi all -> Carey Evans writes: -> > Presumably -ip disables TCP/IP over the PPP link. -> -> Yes, It is an undocumented synonym for 'noip'. You are right, thankyou. But what is this ? # Disable IP address negotiation (with this option, the remote IP # address must be specified with an option on

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it. That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which support it; it is available in the "tools" directory of Debian mirrors. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Martin Waller wrote: > > >Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools > sub- > >directory... > > > > Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it still only fat16? > Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it.

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Waller
>Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- >directory... > Does it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it still only fat16? Martin __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Moore, Paul
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by >xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you >have to have that key. That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm, just startx from the console... Nevertheless, thanks

RE: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Martin Waller
try: http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.framed.html This has lots of good X links, including beginner programming ones. Martin >Actually, is there any good (beginner's) documentation on X (either >online or in book form)? The only books I've ever seen are the O'Reilly >ones, which seem to be

Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:36:32PM -0500, Joseph Hartmann wrote: > > I know it is called fips, but I don't know where you can get it. > Fips is available on your convenient local Debian mirror in the tools sub- directory... Regards, -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @

Re: kernel 2.1.128 & sound

1998-11-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:10:40PM -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading > sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this > error message: > > [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio > bas

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-18 Thread Helge Hafting
> Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by > xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you > have to have that key. > > RedHat and SuSE probably don't enable their use. Under Debian you can > disable them via the xdm configuration file in > /etc

Re: Is the aladdin ghostscript 5.50 available as debian package?

1998-11-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 09:08:12PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi! > > I've just tested the aladdin ghostscript 5.50, and stated that it has > fixed some annoying bugs in pdfwrite driver. > I'm just wondering if it is available somewhere as the debian package? In slink: gs-aladdin 5.5

Re: imap server and ssl

1998-11-18 Thread Carey Evans
Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you set up an imap server so that the connections are encrypted with > ssl? There's a program called stunnel at http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/ that might do what you want. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/page

Re: Sendmail configuration

1998-11-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > > I have to do some tricky sendmail configuration. Can anyone give me a > > guide as to what to do with all those .m4 files? > > yep, choose the ones you want and stick them in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > file and then run /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig Like: FEATURE(genericstable)dnl ? > > Th

RE: [Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-18 Thread Leandro Dutra
> Your Absolutely right !! > > If I had the CD I would of used it ! > It was just a suggestion... it's so much easier, and many people do not know they can boot from it, so they install the operating system from floppies in order to be able to use the CD later. Anyway, there is so

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Bob, Thank you for your info, but the command ' man -t printcap|lpr ' didn't work. With your hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly without any stepping at all. Thanks anyway. Since I am new to Linux, I don't know the command style in Unix/GNU/Linux. Now

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Hernan, Thank you for your info, but the command ' man printcap | /etc/filter.pcl > /dev/lp1 ' didn't work. I got a permission denied error. With you and Bob's hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly without any stepping at all. Thank you. Alan

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Joseph, Thank you for your suggestion. I've solved my printing problem from the hints given by Bob and Hernan. There is a dj550c-filter in the magicfilter package from Debian and replace the last command with ' default text ' as instructed by the installer and that is it

Re: downloading kernel image

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Tam
I had the same problem before. After that I used Getright (in Win95) to download it or as Bob said use an FTP client if you are familiar with the FTP software. Alan Mark wrote: > I downloaded all the files necessary (from debian homepage) to install > Linux on my computer, but when I tried to d

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > You can do this in a default mode if you use the 'append vga=x' > in your /etc/lilo.conf where x is the mode you want > Or put "vga=x" in the global section of lilo.conf Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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