Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

*- Marc Haber wrote about "smbmount via /etc/fstab?" > Hi! > > My Linux box does not have a CD-ROM drive (and it's stacked away in > the closet anyway, so I'd not want to use a CD-ROM drive connected > there directly if it had one) so I usually access CDs by smbmounting > the CD-ROM drive from my

Using CFDISK - Help Required Urgently

Thanks to all who offered help with getting files for install. I am installing from floppies and am stuck at partitioning with cfdisk; the screen display: /dev/hda1 boot  primary    linux 335.18(MB) /dev/hda5 logical  linux    0.50(MB)   drives have 16

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

I managed to catch one last part of the error message before it restarts. It says: /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device Does this change anything? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to

DE220 Ethernet Card

Hi it's me again Has anyone experience with a D-Link 220 E-Card ? I tried the de200 de201 and so on kernel mods. and also the de600 and de620, but none of them seem to work. oh .. it's a pnp , maybe this part of isapnp will help: # Card 1: (serial identifier 42 41 48 7d c8 01 22 8b 11) # Vendor

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

Err.. no.. The cdrom is IDE the hardrive is SCSI I'm installing from the IDE. sorry if I didn't make this clear. - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... ---

Re: Exim Header Rewriting

*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Exim Header Rewriting" > > Hello friends, > > I have trouble with exims header rewriting feature. This is rather off > topic, if anybody can tell me where the exim list is located, I will happily > repost my question there. Thanks! > http://www.exim.org/maillis

Re: RTF converter/reader

> Does anyone know of a program in which I can either read or convert > RTF files? If so, where can I get it? staroffice? a little overkill maybe but for a full office suite compatible with ms office try: http://www.stardivision.com/ adam. Internet Alaska

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

Amanda, Don't you want /dev/sda if it's the first SCSI drive? 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/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel

How do I get smail to deliver immediately?

It seemed to happen when I upgraded the smail package... probably to .101 smail no longer delivers mail immediately. It queues it up in /var/spool/smail/input until runq is run. I've tried setting "delivery_mode=foreground" and "delivery_mode=background" in /etc/smail/config and I've also

RE: aha2740 installation

Well Installation was NOT a success. I've got some problems with >1Gb drive and the floppy controller is acting funny(cant make boot floppy) > From: Amanda Shuler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does this kernel support regular ATAPI cdroms and that ISO9660somthing > filesystem?

RE: aha2740 installation

Does this kernel support regular ATAPI cdroms and that ISO9660somthing filesystem? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... -

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

Are you sure the CD is on its "master " selection? The physical switch/jumper is what I'm referring to. -Ian > Thanks for responding so quickly, but I'm pretty sure that /dev/hda is the > cdrom because I have only one SCSI harddrive. > Besides, it won't let me use any of the others because it c

Re: I don't believe this,

> But I'm about ready to try microsofts netplayer instead of realplayer. > When the network feed get's patchy, rvplayer brings down X. Not merely > brings it down, but with enough corruption that X can't restart short > of a reboot. I've never had a non-hardware crash, but I've had to > re

RE: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh* (fwd)

Thanks for responding so quickly, but I'm pretty sure that /dev/hda is the cdrom because I have only one SCSI harddrive. Besides, it won't let me use any of the others because it can't find the drive, then. :) - Amanda Shuler | I don'

Re: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh*

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian 2.0. > I am at the point where it says to "Install operating system kernel and > modules." > It asks you what medium will be used to install the system. I choose > cd-rom on /dev/hda. It

Re: Downloading the Linux file from ftp -Help!

Hi David,     Use your browser (Netscape) to download it and save the page as *.txt. But normally Linux is an image file, if you save it as a text file you can't boot your system in text format.     Alan "David B. Teague" wrote:  Can anyone can give me some advice on how to get the kerne

Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh*

I'm trying to install Debian 2.0. I am at the point where it says to "Install operating system kernel and modules." It asks you what medium will be used to install the system. I choose cd-rom on /dev/hda. It is just a normal Atapi drive. It asks for the directory where the Debian archive resides.

Exploring the recent QT open source issue.

Before I go on, first allow me to make this note. If you have any biased, like to flame, argue or debate without merit or fact to hold your position, please do NOT read any further. I would like to ask a serious question about KDE vs. Gnome without futile debates and idiotic tangents based on one's

Re: emacs, PATH, trailing /

FWIW, (getenv "PATH") doesn't yield trailing slashes for me with hamm and emacs20. So I don't think it's a simple hamm bug. Sorry I'm not more helpful. miket On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:54:49PM -0500, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variabl

Re: web design question

On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 10:47:57AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in : HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like : that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the

Re: Modem connection speed

At 04:14 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: >On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > >> Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better >> connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard >> another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm

Re: SQL Database performance

See http://www.tcx.se/benchmark.html for some interesting benchmarks comparing several common db systems including oracle, ms-sql, pgsql, and others. For a pretty comprehensive comparison of database system limitations and capabilities, see http://www.tcx.se/crash-me-choose.htmy I use MySQL for

Re: can't make Linux bootable

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote: > I have made it almost all the way through an installation, but I cannot > make Linux bootable from the hard disk. The error message I get is > "/target/sbin/lilo: not found". The file is, in fact, there, but I get > the same message even when I try to r

Re: Help with booting NT

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I used to boot NT but now I cannot after playing with upgrading my system. > I need NT to use SAP R/3 (the only thing I still need from Bill Gates :)) > > Unfortunately the file /boot/any_d.b was erased. How it was erased I do > not know, but all I know

slink: German Vendor

Hi Is there a way to optain the current version of Debian somehow on CD ? It would take me about 6 to 8 evenings to download it over ISDN ... :) /me knows that it's not stable right now, but that's why I actually joined debian-test Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LaTeX and PDF question

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:40:33AM -0600, Maria Rightley wrote: > This is not a strictly Debian question, but I know that you all are > knowledgable users, and I was hoping someone might be able to help > me out. Try posting to comp.text.tex. They'll know. I can only ask some questions to clarif

Help with booting NT

I used to boot NT but now I cannot after playing with upgrading my system. I need NT to use SAP R/3 (the only thing I still need from Bill Gates :)) Unfortunately the file /boot/any_d.b was erased. How it was erased I do not know, but all I know is I need that file to be able to boot NT. This is h

web design question

I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the website now. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of

New respect for mutt...

---Mutt: =from-mailer-daemon [27487 msgs, 27487 new, 173M]---(threads)-- 26058 postmast 2416M 14M sleep 16:59 0.00% 0.00% mutt 27487 messages, 173Mb. Wow. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morphe

can't make Linux bootable

I have made it almost all the way through an installation, but I cannot make Linux bootable from the hard disk. The error message I get is "/target/sbin/lilo: not found". The file is, in fact, there, but I get the same message even when I try to run lilo manually from the other console. In fact,

Re: upsd

Kenneth Scharf wrote: > [snipped long and interesting tale of ups woes..] > Have you tried redirecting the output of shutdown or backgrounding it? Do something like shutdown -c >/dev/null 2>&1 or shutdown -h +2 "message" &

Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:15:43 + (GMT), Marc Haber wrote: >How can I do smbmounts via /etc/fstab? To the best of my knowledge, this does not (yet) work. Mount doesn't know about smbfs, you *must* use smbmount. :-( -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-

groups better than setgid/setuid, but remember to re-login

Gary is correct about both the typo in etc/group (see below if you care)and the general philosophy of using groups to solve permission issues. I had tried that at the beginning and made a typical newbie mistake I did su root adduser chipg audio exit Didn't work! My (chipg's) new status as a membe

drv1440.bin for 2740

Now that I've got a kernel for the rescue disk that works with my aha2740 cards, do I need a special driver disk to complete my install or should I use the current one? Loving this list already, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: aha2740 installation

Thanks Peter, That was the ticket. I used the stable resc1440.bin and replaced linux with your linux from the directory you specifed (below). Beautiful install it found both cards - reported all drives accuratly. Thanks again. > "Alex McCool" wrote: > > > Hi, > > Has anyone gotten

Exim Header Rewriting

Hello friends, I have trouble with exims header rewriting feature. This is rather off topic, if anybody can tell me where the exim list is located, I will happily repost my question there. Thanks! What I want to do is exactly what is in the Exim FAQ, Question 1003: I want to rewrite local addres

Re: aha2740 installation

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote: : Hi, : Has anyone gotten a EISA adaptec 2740 (2 cards) system installed using : the boot floppies? : I get the lovely Aiee, killing interrupt driver. : I havent tried the slink dist, should I? Compile your own kernel using ONLY aic7xxx SCSI suppo

Re: aha2740 installation

oh MAN.. I have the exact same thing. If you find a a solution, PLEASE let me know. - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... -

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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

emacs, PATH, trailing /

Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable as seen from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on each entry: /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin/ This doesn't really hurt, but has the annoying side-effect that if I type `

Re: Problems installing ncurses-base

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > 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 s

Re: kde seems to be missing in slink?

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 01:30:07PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: : Someone may have asked this before (I did search the archives but : couldn't find anything) but... Is there a reason there aren't any kde : packages in slink? Because of licensing problems with the Qt library (which KDE makes

resc1440.bin for slink?

Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink? All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is) Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upsd

I installed upsd and made up a cable as per the README.gz file. (I have an APC Back-UPS 400VA). I commented out the required line in /etc/init.d/ups and added the line '/dev/ttyS1' where my ups is plugged in. After rebooting the computer I decided to test it. (Only had the monitor plugged into

Re: How to work with dpkg --set-selections?

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 01:06:56PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: : Is there any way to erase all previous selection before setting my own : with `dpkg --set-selections'? Or how is the use of this parameter : thought? box1# dpkg --get-selections > tmpfile box1# scp tmpfile box2: box2# echo

Re: kde seems to be missing in slink?

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 13:30:07 -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Someone may have asked this before (I did search the archives but couldn't > find anything) but... Is there a reason there aren't any kde packages in > slink? Yes. See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 . Note that the Qt li

Re: where'd my cd go?

Rainer replied, > does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? > Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't cooperate under drdos, either, though I have no idea wheth

kde seems to be missing in slink?

Someone may have asked this before (I did search the archives but couldn't find anything) but... Is there a reason there aren't any kde packages in slink? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smbmount via /etc/fstab?

Hi! My Linux box does not have a CD-ROM drive (and it's stacked away in the closet anyway, so I'd not want to use a CD-ROM drive connected there directly if it had one) so I usually access CDs by smbmounting the CD-ROM drive from my Windows NT box on my desk. To do so, I currently have to sudo sm

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:03:19AM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >Yes, xmodmap is one of the solutions. >The second is xruskb. You can find it in Debian as a package. > >But this two solutions are "Nasty hacks (tm)" :) > > and what so "nasty" (tm) in xmodmap ? i

aha2740 installation

Hi, Has anyone gotten a EISA adaptec 2740 (2 cards) system installed using the boot floppies? I get the lovely Aiee, killing interrupt driver. I havent tried the slink dist, should I? Alex McCool Cadscape Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I don't believe this,

But I'm about ready to try microsofts netplayer instead of realplayer. I'll take one last desperate try of installing the X stuff from slink, but this has got to stop. When the network feed get's patchy, rvplayer brings down X. Not merely brings it down, but with enough corruption that X can

Re: Setting up a Panasonic KX-P6100 Laser Printer

James R. Lunsford wrote: > > Has anyone gotten one of these to work under Linux, or can someone give > me a hand in getting mine setup? I've looked everywhere that I know of > for help but have run out of resources. > > Thanks. > FWIW, have you checked 'magicfilter' program to see if

sorting russian text

Hi, As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the LANG variabale is responsible for local language setting. Assuming ru_RU is appropriate variable I set LANG=ru_RU; export LANG, but :(( nothing had changed

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:03:19AM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >Yes, xmodmap is one of the solutions. >The second is xruskb. You can find it in Debian as a package. > >But this two solutions are "Nasty hacks (tm)" :) > > and what so "nasty" (tm) in xmodmap ? it was quite blessed >

Samba File Locking

I've set up a server running Samba 1.9.18p5. I'm having problems with some WinNT clients running NT4.0 and MS Access databases. Access stalls and reports that a network error (unspecified) has occurred when accessing databases on the Samba box. It happens most to the faster P-II machines, the P-

LaTeX and PDF question

Hello all -- This is not a strictly Debian question, but I know that you all are knowledgable users, and I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. I need to get a paper, produced in LaTeX, into pdf form for a set of proceedings. Everything is fine in doing that (I use pstoedit to con

md5sum error while installing pine3.96

I have tried to install pine 3.96 twice. Once from a cd; when that gave a md5sum error I downloaded the .deb file and did dpkg -i on it. I then went to /usr/src/pine and did dpkg-source -x pine_3.96M-1.dsc and got the message dpkg-source: error: file pine_3.96M.orig.tar.gz has md5sum f

Re: SQL Database performance

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:58:00PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: > Does anyone have a feel for the relative performance of the various > SQL databases in Debian ? I'd also be interested to know how these > compare to something like Oracle (under either NT or Linux). > > I'm looking to manage two d

Problems updating squid ?

I have installed squi V 2.0Patch2 (debian package) on my proxy. Today i wanted to update squid to a newer version. I configured and compiled the source then i finally installed it. After restarting squid, the tasks ran normally but i wasn`t able to make a cache connection from my workstation. Error

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Rainer Clasen wrote: > Hi! > > Ehren Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello I just recently started running slink and I have run into a a > > problem with X or Windowmaker. XDM starts up fine, but when I log in, > > the screen goes black and then returns me to the login scree

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Re: How do you use su under X?

Hi! Sorry, for hiding this to you - my direct reply to Chip Grandits should have gone to the list ... Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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

Re: Problem!

Hi! Andreas Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ...some people still use modems, I do! :-( ie. you can't install directly from ftp/http? > A friend of mine downloaded and created the 3 Debian ISO-CD-IMAGES from > you're mirrors... > > Everything works fine untill I come to the "dSelect" program..

Re: Weird behavior with Tcsh

Hi! Ossama Othman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The prompt in my "xterm-1" still shows "~/test/me." When I do an "ls" in > xterm-1 I get no error. Shouldn't I get an error since the directory > isn't supposed to exist anymore. Is this some behavior in tcsh that I > wasn't aware of? In the past I used

Re: where'd my cd go?

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Unless my memory has faded even more, a possibility I won't rule out, I > used to be able to mount cd's with > >mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660 > > I now get, > > mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only > mou

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ehren Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello I just recently started running slink and I have run into a a > problem with X or Windowmaker. XDM starts up fine, but when I log in, > the screen goes black and then returns me to the login screen. I have > included my .xsession-error file to see if

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

Hi! John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 > partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. I use this in my fstab: /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 gid 110 is called dosfs, but you may use dos's gid. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901

Re: IPFW works a little to well...

Hi! Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > below. The problem, when I execute the script nothing comes in, nothing > goes out, the perfect firewall. The bad news is I need some traffic to > pass. The network behind the firewall is a subnet of a class B network with Uhhm, it seems you mixed som

Re: startkde cannot connect to X server

Hi! Stephan Böni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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? If running startx says "cannot connect to xserver" this usually indicates that your Xserver isn't configured proper

Re: pt_BR or br_BR locales in Xlib

Hi! Mário Olímpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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' according to another post, you are running 3.3.2.3a-7,

Re: Moving computer without losing things

Hi! Jose L. Gomez Dans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 th

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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 t

Re: Cyrillic input in X

Hi, Alexey On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 04:54:35PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > I see ... I only once set up reading cyrillic web pages for some > Bulgarian colleagues of mine, but never configured cyrillic input. > Maybe you could have a look at the xmodmap man page. I think

SQL Database performance

Does anyone have a feel for the relative performance of the various SQL databases in Debian ? I'd also be interested to know how these compare to something like Oracle (under either NT or Linux). I'm looking to manage two databases: one of roughly ten thousand records a few k in size, the other 1

Re: wmaker problem after update

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:57:33AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: > After updating to the latest frozen (slink) packages wmaker won't start. > > /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: X server does not support locale > /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: cannot set locale modifiers > /usr/X11R6/bin/Wind

Re: linux operating system

Hi, > Clarification: "Debian GNU/Hurd" is not "our own" Hurd distribution. > It will be also FSF's GNU 0.3. Yeah? Wow, that's great. I didn't realize that Debian was creating "official" FSF Hurd distributions. Cool. :) Thanks for the clarification. -Ossama ___

Re: Problem starting X for first time

did you run xf86config? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... - On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote: > I am new to Linux

Problem starting X for first time

I am new to Linux and was installing Debian 2.0 last night. It seemed to go well. Dselect gave me some problems, but with the help on this list, I was able to get that working. Once I log in as root and get the prompt, I type "startx" and it blanks the screen, then comes back with

Re: autofs

*- Jiri Baum wrote about "autofs" > Hello, > > I tried to use autofs, but it says "Error: autofs support not available". > > I assume it can't find /lib/modules/2.0.34/fs/autofs.o which is correct > because it doesn't exist. > > Where would I get one, please? > > > BTW, is there any difference

Re: permissions on /dev/dsp /dev/audio

Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Mark Elissen wrote: | | > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | > | > I've just installed Debian 2.0 after using Slackware for some year of 3. | > I'm very pleased with the "debian" way, but I have 1 minor problem: | > Whenever I am using a program that o

Re: [ Michael Beattie ] Retract stupid question about linux-java - a permission issue

>> To be honest I must not really understand permission >> the application appletviewer, which comes with a jdk is really a symlink to a file >> called >> .java_wrapper >> # ls -l .java_wrapper .java_wrapper is a shell script. setuid or setgid on a shell script may or may not work depending

Installation problem.. HELP!@

I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on this older server. It is a dual-pentium 60 with 64 megs of memory and one 2.1 Gig SCSI hard drive. The SCSI controller is an onboard controller and is an Adaptec AIC-7770. The bus is entirely EISA. I've made the boot installation disk from the ezdisk program o

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:15:46PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:57:53 +0300, Vad Ivanov wrote: > > Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in > > setting up of cyrillic input in X? > > There's a Debian-derived distribution at http://e

Debian2.0/XFree86 3.3.2.3 on TOSHIBA 4400: X does not start

Hi, Installed all relevant packages (xbase, xbase-clients, xlib6, libc6, and xserver-vga) without errors. When we do: startx It complains: "X: exec of /usr/bin/X11 failed." BTW, if you type /usr/bin/X11/X it's the same result. So the X- server is not a good one ?? I suppose on

Re: How big is my H/D ?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > So everybody has says, but what can I say? I had Linux installed on > the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; booted lilo no problem. > My current root partition is 700mb; another box I have has a 600mb root. > > Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE di

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:57:53 +0300, Vad Ivanov wrote: > Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in > setting up of cyrillic input in X? There's a Debian-derived distribution at http://eugene.mplik.ru/doc/lys/ which I suspect has improved support for Russian. It

Re: permissions on /dev/dsp /dev/audio

Mark Elissen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've just installed Debian 2.0 after using Slackware for some year of 3. I'm very pleased with the "debian" way, but I have 1 minor problem: Whenever I am using a program that outputs to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp as a non-root user than the soun

Re: Problem after compiling the kernel !!!

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:19:07AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi Franz, > After compiling a new kernel (2.0.34) msdos and iso9660 is not mountable > anymore. > Errormessage: filesystem is not supported !!! > There is no question about msdos and iso9660 filesystem on compiling the > kernel. >

Re: where is crypt?

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:32:02PM +1100, Matthew Parry wrote: > > When I try to compile a program with libpq I get the message > If You use postgres You must add -lcrypt to You lib-line > /usr/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `crypt' you should have installed it under /usr/lib/libcrypt.a

Automatizing installation on several machines

Dear all, I want to install Debian on a couple of brand new workstations (15) and servers -- is there a convenient way to automatize the installation procedure in some way? The workstations should get their home directories from one of the servers. Would it be advantageous to install the differen

How to work with dpkg --set-selections?

I have saved my current package selections with `dpkg --get-selections' and now I thought I could use this set to configure a new workstation. Unfortunately, there seemed already to be some preset selections from the installation procedure, which got merged together with mine. Is there any way to

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 04:54:35PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > I see ... I only once set up reading cyrillic web pages for some > Bulgarian colleagues of mine, but never configured cyrillic input. > Maybe you could have a look at the xmodmap man page. I think you > should be able to reas

Re: Cyrillic input in X

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 05:21:21PM +0300, Vad Ivanov wrote: > > I probably described my problem not clearly. I already installed cyrillic > fonts and they are mentioned in XF86Config file. My problem is I can't > type in Russian. However I choosed Russian keyboard during XF86Setup. > Hello! Yo

Re: How big is my H/D ?

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:26:13PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are you telling me that EVERYBODY with IDE disks makes their root < 504mb > > > and at the start of the disk, or has a small /boot? I'

Re: help!

nbrown wrote: > i am trying to use apt and typing ... in pon..'apt-get' without the > ' of course > i get msgs about not being able to contact host. It seems to be looking > on the web for debian and just is not able to connect can you tell me > what is wrong? I'm confused. Are you inserting '

Re: /etc/mailname

Groumph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could someone say me what the /etc/mailname file is made for ? Which > program uses it ? > And when ? I could not find any doc on it ... >From the Debian policy manual: => 4.5. Mail transport agents => -- => => Debian pack

console fonts

HI, there are 3 kind of files in /usr/share/consolefonts: *psf, *.cp and without extention. What is the difference among them? As I understand the conventional format is PSF. Am I right? TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ P

Re: Downloading the Linux file from ftp -Help!

Can anyone can give me some advice on how to get the kernel (linux) file from a ftp site with downloading it as a .txt file? Thanks Stephen Lavelle Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd.   110 Heales Road,Lara, Geelong, Australia3212Tel:++(03)52742232Fax:++(03)52742350mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/mailname

Hi, Could someone say me what the /etc/mailname file is made for ? Which program uses it ? And when ? I could not find any doc on it ... TIA ! vdb -- \\|// VDB g (O O) OOO~(_)~oOOO~~~ <:o) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-xxx ooO~Ooo ~~:-)

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