RE: Help! I need to de-install a custom kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Alex McCool
> -Original Message- > From: Rodrigo Moya [mailto:Moya_Rodrigo/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >How do I de-install my custom kernel > > I am not really sure about this, but I think this creates a > vmlinuz.old file > (FIXME: located in /), so you should copy this file into > vmlinuz, which must

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Or, if you can not call the xf86config, just change the modes in the setup file to 480x320 and see if it runs. Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> > Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist. > Entry deleted from path. > Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist > Entry deleted from path. This is fine, just it can not find some of your fonts path to which is specified

Netscape Calendar Server for Linux

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
My campus is toying around with getting either Microsoft Exchanger Server (yech!) or Netscape's Calendar Server. I'm afraid the decision makers are leaning toward M$'s product, but in order to give Netscape a fair shot, we need to load Netscape's server on a spare test box. That box is currently ru

first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-02 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, however I will try to discribe the problem shortly. At the very initial stage of communication chat script is getting NO CARRIER and exit. At the same time I use this line by mi

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
At 04:27 PM 12/2/1998 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Since I've been told this might help out others in the group... >This is what I get when I type startx > >[bunch of stuff scrolls by and then the screen blanks out for a second >and then the screen says] > >Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/li

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-02 Thread wax_man
On 2 Dec, George Bonser wrote: > > I have noticed that Debian rolls unstable to frozen and then to stable in > its release cycle. In order to more accurately reflect reality, I suggest > that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call > this "broken". A release candidate

Re: Config X

1998-12-02 Thread Thomas Holmes
Here is my file that was asked for. # XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), # to deal in the

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1998-12-02 18:24, Ralph Winslow wrote: > .profile is read by all the shells that I know of (including bash when > invoked > as /bin/sh (usually a link to bash on Linux systems)) csh/tcsh does not read /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile (as this shell script flavor is incompatible with the "Bourne

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How would one check to make sure the terminal is capable of ANSI escape > sequences? > > -brad I'd do this by not coding in the escape sequences directly, but by using tput: export PS1="\[`tput setaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] sgr0`\]:\[`tput setaf 4`\]\w\[`tput sgr0`\]\$ "

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: > > What's the difference between naming the file .bash_profile, .bash_login, or > .profile? .profile is read by all the shells that I know of (including bash when invoked as /bin/sh (usually a link to bash on Linux systems)) > BTW, I copied the /root/.b

Re: Laptop (ThinkPad) Mouse & GPM

1998-12-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I can't get the little-red-dot-of-a-mouse on my ThinkPad 755C to bring up > any kind of cursor... Neither from the VC's using GPM, nor in my half-way > installed X86 (with gpm -k'd or no). > Here's the things that confuse me: > When the psaux module loads during the boot-up, it says it's detecte

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > The problem of needing *some* sort of terminal can be solved by having > > > both xterm and rxvt provide the same "terminal" capability, and have > > > x-base suggest the "terminal" stuff. It shouldn't depend on it though, > > > one can imagine an useful x-installatio

Re: Logging bootup sequence

1998-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:43:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a new Debian user, I'd kind of like to see what Linux is doing when it > boots up. Is there a way to log the boot up sequence (before the syslog takes > over) so I can peruse it? Unforunately, the Pause key doesn't seem to wor

Re: Logging bootup sequence

1998-12-02 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:43:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a new Debian user, I'd kind of like to see what Linux is doing when it > boots up. Is there a way to log the boot up sequence (before the syslog takes > over) so I can peruse it? Unforunately, the Pause key doesn't seem to wo

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since I've been told this might help out others in the group... > This is what I get when I type startx We also need /etc/X11/XF86Config Matthew > [bunch of stuff scrolls by and then the screen blanks out for a second > and then the screen says] >

Logging bootup sequence

1998-12-02 Thread MallarJ
As a new Debian user, I'd kind of like to see what Linux is doing when it boots up. Is there a way to log the boot up sequence (before the syslog takes over) so I can peruse it? Unforunately, the Pause key doesn't seem to work... I'm booting from a floppy if that matters.. Thanks, Jay

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread homega
Santiago Vila Doncel dixit: > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > [...] > > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > > root's correct path. > > Are you sure that /bin/bash is

Laptop (ThinkPad) Mouse & GPM

1998-12-02 Thread Ryan King
More Questions: I can't get the little-red-dot-of-a-mouse on my ThinkPad 755C to bring up any kind of cursor... Neither from the VC's using GPM, nor in my half-way installed X86 (with gpm -k'd or no). About a year ago, I somehow got a Slakware box running with the mouse working fine. (I don't rem

Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since I've been told this might help out others in the group... This is what I get when I type startx [bunch of stuff scrolls by and then the screen blanks out for a second and then the screen says] Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist. Entry deleted fro

ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot

1998-12-02 Thread Frankie
I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer.   The reason I have it on the 3rd ide channel, is that my old 486 had no problems with drives > 2.1M, but my (second-hand) pentium does. I have an old western digita

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
At 03:40 PM 12/2/1998 -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm having problems configuring the X server. Instead of going into >> detail and cluttering up the list could one of you Linux Gurus email me >> to lend a

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:39:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting J.H.M. Dassen Ray"([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [regarding gcc 2.8.1] > > Why? We have EGCS. > > Yep, and slink is screwed up because of it. Congratulations on succeeding to raise my blood pressure. The problems we have in slink c

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: | | $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" | | in my /etc/profile? Chuck explained what was going on. Your prompt could be: PS1="[\[\e[31m\]\h\[\e[m\]:\[\e[34m\]\u\[\e[m\]:\[\e[31m\]\w\[\$\e[m\]

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems configuring the X server. Instead of going into > detail and cluttering up the list could one of you Linux Gurus email me > to lend a hand. Thanks a bunch. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is probably e

Missing file error

1998-12-02 Thread Curt Howland
Good afternoon, folks. After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade to slink. I'm getting the following error: Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file r directoryg There's nothing in that directory but on

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:46:04PM +0100, Michele Bini wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Yes, but does this use my wavetable? I tried this, using the sound > > | banks installed on my Windows partition from

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Michele Bini
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:00:32AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Yes, but does this use my wavetable? I tried this, using the sound > | banks installed on my Windows partition from the Creative Labs disk, > | and playing midi files sounds AWEFUL. It

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-12-02 Thread Michele Bini
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Dana G Haugli wrote: > Hi! > > I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. > I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the > HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? >

Configuring X

1998-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello again, I'm having problems configuring the X server. Instead of going into detail and cluttering up the list could one of you Linux Gurus email me to lend a hand. Thanks a bunch. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-12-02 Thread Dana G Haugli
Yep, it's resolved. I put the line append="mem=128M" at the beginning of lilo.conf and then ran lilo. After that, lilo recognized all the memory. Thanks for all the help! Dana

pine.deb package

1998-12-02 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
you can download the newest Pine deb packages from the experimental directory on any mirror site /debian/project/experimental There are 3 files you need. pine_4.05-0.diff.gz pine_4.05-0.dsc pine_4.05.orig.tar.gz you then run dpkg-source -x pine_4.05-0.dsc then cd pine-4.05 debian/rule

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread maximill
How would one check to make sure the terminal is capable of ANSI escape sequences? -brad On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ryan King said > > Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: > > > > $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" > > > > in my /etc/profile? >

Re: Linux mirror on a second hd

1998-12-02 Thread Kevin Traas
>I'm looking for a software utility to mirror my Linux hd on a second hd ? > >I've two 4.2 Go IDE HDs. The first one contain the linux root partition, >a second partition for data and the swap partition. The second is free to >use for backup. Simply use dd `man dd' for more info. Basica

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:56:58AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: > [snip] > | I suspect you just haven't loaded the synth up. Do the following and > | then try MIDI (via drvmidi) again: > | > | /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/synthgm.sbk > [sni

pine.deb/servername

1998-12-02 Thread AJ
hey anyone know if there is a pine.deb file for pico/pine for the new version? and whats its name i was asking on #debian but noone knew.. my other question is when i start apache it says. Unknow Servername please specify manually.. how do i do that? im a dialup user but i want to be able to have

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-02 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Resent-Date: 1 Dec 1998 20:01:43 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [209.149.174.75] From: "Brant Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
>Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's >already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are >removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. >Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero. T

Re: Something with Pine.

1998-12-02 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > Okay, It has now REALLY gotten to me. I like pine, but my only gripe is > > that I cannot get rid of those annoying pauses when you go to open another > > folder. Can anyone alleviate my anger/lack

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread stick
Ryan King said > Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: > > $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" > > in my /etc/profile? > Not stupid at all!! > It looks really nifty until I try to do commands that wrap around, in which > case the first line returns, but keeps going o

ncurses link

1998-12-02 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
In /usr/include there is a softlink called ncurses pointing to . I want to make a backup of the whole machine, so I connected to it via ftp as root, cd'ed to / and said: get ..tar But now tar gets stuck with that softlink pointing to itself: Its still transfering, but a tar -tf just shows more and

Re: Samba

1998-12-02 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Jiri Baum wrote: > Hello, > >> I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the man-pages). I might be >> missing something but I can't figure out how to get a list of what Wimpdos >> calls "the entire network". Can this be done without knowing any >> server-names? > > Hmm, can't find that! Th

Re: ip aliasing

1998-12-02 Thread Jeff Katcher
Babs wrote: > error on boot is: no dependancy information "ip_alias.o" > and then mod-prob error on each eth0:1, eth0:2, eth0:3 > > Any ideas??? > try looking at your /lib/modules/2.0.34/modules.dep look for the section where your ip_alias module is and follow the general format and add ip_a

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ryan King wrote: > Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: > > $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" > > in my /etc/profile? > > It looks really nifty until I try to do commands that wrap around, in which > case the first line returns, but keeps going on the current spot.

ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-02 Thread Ryan King
Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this: $PS1="[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]" in my /etc/profile? It looks really nifty until I try to do commands that wrap around, in which case the first line returns, but keeps going on the current spot. The real disaster, however, occ

Re: Xemacs 20.4

1998-12-02 Thread Michael Procario
> Xemacs 19 paid attention to the line in .Xdefaults : xemacs.geometry, > why doesn't Xemacs20 pay attention too? > thanks > Use xemacs*geometry. It works for me. There must be more elements between the xemacs and geometry than there use to be. _

Re: Slink features

1998-12-02 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: > I like the overall setup of Red Hat > and the sound card setup is particularly painless but I think that the > Debian distribution better serves my needs overall. I'm a new debian user as well. I had earlier some time RH and later suse. In my opinion

Re: Samba

1998-12-02 Thread Patrik Magnusson
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Ok, I went and found it for you. Look at: > http://samba.org/samba/smb2www/ > > "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > Somebody wrote a cgi which would give you a web interface to the > > network which I > > believe included the "network neighborhood" type of functionali

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-02 Thread Dale E. Martin
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that Debian rolls unstable to frozen and then to stable in > its release cycle. In order to more accurately reflect reality, I suggest > that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call > this "broken". I think "s

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:33:13AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: | > | > | I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard. I cannot get it | > | to play midi! | | > /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/s

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: [snip] | I suspect you just haven't loaded the synth up. Do the following and | then try MIDI (via drvmidi) again: | | /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/synthgm.sbk [snip] Just realized that synthgm.sbk isn't in the hamm version of the AWE driver p

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:33:13AM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: > > | I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard. I cannot get it > | to play midi! > /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/synthgm.sbk Yes, but does this use my wavetable? I tr

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
George Bonser wrote: > > I have noticed that Debian rolls unstable to frozen and then to stable in > its release cycle. In order to more accurately reflect reality, I suggest > that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call > this "broken". A release candidate would roll

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: | I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard. I cannot get it | to play midi! | | I am using the SB awe 32 drivers (that you patch into the kernel). | I've got my /etc/isapnp.conf file (for isapnptools) working | well-enough that my card works for

SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard. I cannot get it to play midi! I am using the SB awe 32 drivers (that you patch into the kernel). I've got my /etc/isapnp.conf file (for isapnptools) working well-enough that my card works for "normal" sound duties (i.e. anything non-midi). I

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > [...] > When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I > change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get > root's correct path. Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not /bin/sh?

Re: Something with Pine.

1998-12-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Okay, It has now REALLY gotten to me. I like pine, but my only gripe is > that I cannot get rid of those annoying pauses when you go to open another > folder. Can anyone alleviate my anger/lack of patience/stupidity?? You may use Maildir folders with D

Re: My binaries won't run

1998-12-02 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I've downloaded emacs and g++ and it seems to work fine. I've created a | mytest program and it compiled fine. When I try to execute mytest I get | | bash:mytest: command not found | | So how do you invoke your c++ binaries? Thanks. Is it possible

Re: My binaries won't run

1998-12-02 Thread Gary Singleton
I'm kinda stupid so take what I say with a grain of salt but I think it is either the file is not set executable or it's not in the path. For the first do an ls -l on the file and make sure it is executable (duh). For the second type ./filename and see if it works then. HTH, G.S. ---"[EMAIL PROT

Re: My binaries won't run

1998-12-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
> bash:mytest: command not found > > So how do you invoke your c++ binaries? Thanks. ./mytest HTH, 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/So

Re: Linux mirror on a second hd

1998-12-02 Thread Jay Barbee
At 12/2/98 04:31 PM -0500, Stephane Leclerc wrote: >Hi Folks! > >I'm looking for a software utility to mirror my Linux hd on a second hd ? > >I've two 4.2 Go IDE HDs. The first one contain the linux root partition, >a second partition for data and the swap partition. The second is free to >use fo

Re: sb 32 PnP

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Garman
When I do a pnpdump for my SoundBlaster AWE32, I get info on "Card 1" which is supposedly a "OPL3-SA3 Snd System." What is this? The pnpdump info on "Card 2" matches the info I've seen people use for their Awe32 PnP cards. I remember having weird troubles setting this card up under Windows beca

My binaries won't run

1998-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. Thanks to everyone who helped with my ftp problem. I got every thing running now. I've downloaded emacs and g++ and it seems to work fine. I've created a mytest program and it compiled fine. When I try to execute mytest I get bash:mytest: command not found So how do you invoke your c

Slink features

1998-12-02 Thread Cristov Russell
Is there a list of proposed new features for slink? I'm mostly interested in what improvements may have been made to make sound utilization easier. I have yet to be able to successfully rebuild a working custom kernel (no sound, no network and a host of errors I don't understand) and the only rea

Re: Somehow I lost include files such as /usr/include/stdio.h

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > Some how I managed to lose these files. Where are they so I can get them > back into /usr/include? Spoke too early. The answers is in lib6c-dev packages. I apparently lost the files when I upgraded to slink libc6*u version since it was the only one that c

Re: Can't boot with new kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Erik Maxwell wrote: >I recompiled my kernel to enable some different filesystems and now >whenever I boot xdm starts up but my monitor doesn't show anything. It >just sits there sounding like someone keeps pushing the degauss button. ... >I tried to reboot from a repair floppy, but it stil

Re: Linux help !

1998-12-02 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
(Redirected to debian user list) At 01:11 PM 12/2/98 +1300, you wrote: >I've just got Debian Linux 2.0 set up on my system, and I can't even >figure out how to unpack *.deb files because when I create my user >account Dselect the package frontend program bombs out and gives me the >excuse saying

Somehow I lost include files such as /usr/include/stdio.h

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
Some how I managed to lose these files. Where are they so I can get them back into /usr/include? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape To

Linux mirror on a second hd

1998-12-02 Thread Stephane Leclerc
Hi Folks! I'm looking for a software utility to mirror my Linux hd on a second hd ? I've two 4.2 Go IDE HDs. The first one contain the linux root partition, a second partition for data and the swap partition. The second is free to use for backup. Stef... ..

Re: about the HOWTO's

1998-12-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: about the HOWTO's Date: Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 07:46:05AM +1100 In reply to:Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd Quoting Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >Can I read the HOWTO's in html or text on the www somewhere, I cannot >as yet get them on my linux sy

Re: Samba

1998-12-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, I went and found it for you. Look at:  http://samba.org/samba/smb2www/ "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: Somebody wrote a cgi which would give you a web interface to the network which I believe included the "network neighborhood" type of functionality. You may want to check out the samba web site to

Re: Boot problems

1998-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: : Reply-To: : Hi : : A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel : distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying "loading : Linux .". I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36 sourc

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jameson Burt wrote: : I see no upgrade notes for slink. : For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in :.../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade : Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the : upgrade distribution. For example, I might install a

Can't boot with new kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Erik Maxwell
I'm having a major problem right now... I recompiled my kernel to enable some different filesystems and now whenever I boot xdm starts up but my monitor doesn't show anything. It just sits there sounding like someone keeps pushing the degauss button. I'm not sure where the problem is, but I can

Sound Card Support

1998-12-02 Thread Matt Kopishke
I have a Aztech 2320 (az2320) PnP Sound card, I was wondering if any one might now what I need to compile it into the kernel as (as a module, so I can use isapnptools). Any help would be GREATLY aprecheated, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.1 Date: Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:49:57PM +0100 In reply to:J.H.M. Dassen Ray" Quoting J.H.M. Dassen Ray"([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 23:17:32 +, Richard Deighton wrote: > > Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? > > There are debs o

Re: No more C++ ?

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Martin
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory > > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > > > > > I heard some people ha

superformat:floppy not transferable?

1998-12-02 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am using Debian 2 Linux, installed recently. The new version has superformat instead of fdformat. I am able to use superformat to format floppy disks ( superformat /dev/fd0 ) and use the disks, but I am unable to mount the disk on the machine at home ( or vice versa ). The fl

Re: Install issue

1998-12-02 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Philippe Dal wrote: > Hi, everybody.. > > Here is a question for you. I'm rather new in LINUX (but not in UNIX), > and I encountered a major issue trying to install it, in a multi-OS > environment. > > My system is an AMD cpu with all needed to run well (!?)... I have a > 8.6

RE: programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. Welcome to Linux! > Does anybody know if there are programmes to assure compatibility between > emacs (or another editor) and MS Word ? Even under licence, not only free. First thing to learn is that Emacs isn't a wo

Re: programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. > > Does anybody know if there are programmes to assure compatibility between > > emacs (or another editor) and MS Word ? Even under licence, not only free. > > Or maybe somehow usi

RE: motherboard ???

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> i dont really have a debian question but i have a motherboard question.. Well then this question shouldn't have been sent here... Althought we will be pleased to help you with any Linux related question, hardware questions would be better answered in hardware-specific forums.

Re: programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-02 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi everybody, > > I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. > Does anybody know if there are programmes to assure compatibility between > emacs (or another editor) and MS Word ? Even under licence, not only free. > Or maybe somehow using Netscape as text editor ? > After al

motherboard ???

1998-12-02 Thread AJ
hey im a debian user, and just signed up on this list and wanted to see if it works.. i dont really have a debian question but i have a motherboard question.. I have an abit BX6 mobo does anyone Know if it supports PC100 SDRAM?? thanx, AJ

programmes to turn emacs text in WinWord

1998-12-02 Thread Cristian Carnutu
Hi everybody, I want to work with Linux but where I am, I am the only one. Does anybody know if there are programmes to assure compatibility between emacs (or another editor) and MS Word ? Even under licence, not only free. Or maybe somehow using Netscape as text editor ? After all we can not buil

Re: subnetting/debian router Q's

1998-12-02 Thread Paul Miller
Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > I am using ppp to connect to my ISP, so that means xxx.33 will be my ppp0 > interface's IP rite ? What about my eth0 interface ? Will I also need to > give > it one IP of its own since its the only interface my LAN (of windoze > puters)can > directly see ? Your pp

Boot problems

1998-12-02 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying "loading Linux .". I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36 sources and though well there you go a 2.0.34 bug. Not so I am afr

Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?

1998-12-02 Thread John Lines
> Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by > hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve > this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server. > There have been some published patches to the ISC DHCP server (the one which is in th

Re: gcc 2.8.1

1998-12-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 23:17:32 +, Richard Deighton wrote: > Is anyone working on debs for gcc 2.8.1? There are debs of 2.8.1 in project/experimental. They're unsupported of course. > It'd be nice to have soon. Why? We have EGCS. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages

RE: Festplatte partitionieren

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> Hallo ! I can't understand a word of German (only English, Portuguese and a little bit of Spanish), so only thing I can do to help you is ask that you subscribe to the German-speaking Debian users' list. debian-user-de This mailing list is the main mailing list for German spea

pb Tekram dc390 SCSI card

1998-12-02 Thread Francois chevrollier
I can't boot with the rescue disk because it can't initialise my scsi card, so I can't install debian 2.0 I downloaded the files 'linux' 'root.bin' 'resc1440.bin' 'drv1440.bin' from debian.org in order to boot from floppies or hard disk, but it didn't work the system hook after the message :

Re: If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be released with it?

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Podlejski
F. Fernandez napisal(a): : Hi all! : : The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include : kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? No. Why ? Look at archive of debian-devel list. : If slink comes out with kernel 2.0, will the binutils and other be able : to work wit

RE: If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be releas ed with it?

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include > kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? No! Slink is frozen, that is, can get only bug and security fixes. New features and new versions must be included only in unstable distributions. > If slink comes o

RE: beginner: mouse jitters

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> I am trying to get the mouse running on an NEC powermate 486 sx-25 i. > When installing the mouse driver from floppy, a message says, > No module parameters. > Depends on misc.o > and the driver installation usually fails. > When the driver does install and I run vgacardgames the

Re: R:Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD

1998-12-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:28:01AM +0100, Gualtiero Dellarole wrote: > I have not yet found a solution. > I can only say that sometimes the system is able to boot > and other times not (the most!). > I continue to wait if someone else has found a solution. Did you try the tecra floppies? Did you t

RE: about the HOWTO's

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> Can I read the HOWTO's in html or text on the www somewhere, I cannot as yet get them on my linux system? http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX.html But I hear SunSite will become MetaLab, so in some months expect the URL to change to metalab.unc.edu >   > > Leandro Gui

RE: recommendations for an X news client?

1998-12-02 Thread Leandro Dutra
> I'm looking for something better than knews and netscape's news client -- > any suggestions? Try GNUS... runs under EMACS or XEmacs. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

If kernel 2.2 gets out before christmas, will slink be released with it?

1998-12-02 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi all! The subject says all. I'd like to know if there is any plan to include kernel 2.2 in slink or will we wait for potato? If slink comes out with kernel 2.0, will the binutils and other be able to work with kernel 2.2 when it's released? Thanks in advance, Fernando -- Fernando Fernandez

Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-12-02 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said > > something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't > > know what to do with them or how. Can anyon

What does the number of supported visuals depend on?

1998-12-02 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff) is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals. The same on the DEC (wi

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