installation frustration

1998-12-23 Thread Bill Newman
I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. I ordered the most recent CD Cheapbytes had -- 2.0 (hamm). Booting from the CDROM fails -- the console announces that Linux is being loaded, but then the system sudden

Ram problem (i think) win/linux

1998-12-23 Thread AJ
ok i just got a 128meg PC100 8ns SDRAM for xmas.. theres some problems though.. lets start off.. the RAM is good and the place i got it is legit. i have an abit-bx6 motherboard and a p2 400. heres my problems: after i installed it i pico /etc/lilo.conf added the line: append="192m" even though the

SupraSonic II Dual Line Modem

1998-12-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Does anyone know if this modem works under Linux? Diamond's web site lists Win9x as requirement Is this WinModem crap or otherwise? If you have any experience with this board, your comments would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Kevin Oh, and. Happy Holidays!

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but the version > number that comes up at boot still says 2.0.34 (which I think is hamm). That looks suspiciously like a kernel relase number, not a Debian release number. slink uses kernels from the 2.0.x series. -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/s

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1998-12-23 Thread John Greer
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apt-get... how to peruse list of packages?

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks Although I think that apt-get does a better job at installing new and maintaining current packages, I find I still need to use dselect to view the list of what's available. (Not a big deal, but I get tired of looking at the help screen everytime.) Is there a simpler meth

Re: mount -r -t iso9660...->fs not supp by kernal

1998-12-23 Thread wtopa
Subject: mount -r -t iso9660...->fs not supp by kernal Date: Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:17:41AM -0700 In reply to:Eric Drayer Quoting Eric Drayer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I recompiled my kernal to support two chips. When I went through > the make config i did not see any thing that

inc in exmh misbehaving (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)

1998-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
> > It seems that there are some messages, which I can't fully characterize, > > that cause Inc to terminate its action. > [etc etc...] > > There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including > myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's > some "corrupted

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks Regarding the upgrade to slink, I used apt-get dist-upgrade and got a whole bunch of new stuff (took me about 3 days at 28.8 :-). All seemed to go well, (except I had to grab xdm manually) but the version number that comes up at boot still says 2.0.34 (which I think is hamm). Is

Re: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

1998-12-23 Thread Mark Phillips
> The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc > method of my exmh sometimes get stucked. > > To be more specific, It seems that there are some messages, which I > can't fully characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its > action. Where this termination does not seem to be norma

Re: bison/ld problem?

1998-12-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks Henning, everything is working now. On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:22:05PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex > > package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contai

Re: scsi-errors: wrong free-blocks -count, need help, please

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:21:40PM +0100, Peter Berlau wrote: Hi, [..] - I partition the disk before making the filesystem: mkfs -V /dev/sdc5 for example the scsi timed out and the sytem hangs, there where no change to reboot so I hard-reset the box. slow down the datatransfer rate rom 10m to

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-23 Thread stick
Carey Evans said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Well it's just gone from a weird, bothersome pain to a real problem. > > I was upgrading some packages when I got some familiar error messages about > > some file operations - "operation not allowed" or whatever... [...] > > So someone ***PLEASE**

In-Reply-To...

1998-12-23 Thread Steve Lamb
A few weeks back I was in a discussion with several people regarding what a "proper" MUA should and should not do. During that discussion several people complained that PMMail98, the email client I normally use, did not put in a proper In-Reply-To field. Because of that I switched to using mu

Re: Problems with Pine (set term?)

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 04:00:06PM +, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > When I try and start Pine and get an error > > Terminal type 'linux' us unknown Try TERM=vt100 pine, if that works you can alias pine="TERM=vt100 pine". > Does anyone know what this error message is telling me and how can I fix >

Re: screen package

1998-12-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 01:44:38PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > For example, when I create a window or switch windows, there's about a one > second delay before it does anything. I tried using a libc5 binary and it Ungh, there was a discussion about this on the list a while back. I can say t

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Ralph! Could you please specify more details: when it happens? Did you succeed in installation of APT? Which version of APT are you running? Did you select it in you access method? Could you please include your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Thanks, Sasha. > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.or

scsi-errors: wrong free-blocks -count, need help, please

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, to X-mas I got me a new ibm-scsi-drive :) therefore I have a Adaptec 2940 AU Controller and, unfortanelety, the drives for this (65 pin) ? are outsold. So I buy a IBM 4,5 GB UW trapezoid connector looks () \---/ is smaller, than the Drive - Connectors i usualy have, so

xbase install problem solved - now another question

1998-12-23 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi Debian users, I solved my xbase installation problem by installing several packages before trying to install it. They weren't depends but they goofed it up somehow. Now I have a question about this dangling link I have in /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config that is supposed to be going to /etc/X11/XF8

Problems with Pine (set term?)

1998-12-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When I try and start Pine and get an error Terminal type 'linux' us unknown Does anyone know what this error message is telling me and how can I fix it. The reason I am using Pine is because I wish to have a command-line mail reader that will connect to the same Inbox and folder directory that N

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Ralph Winslow
Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > Hi, Brian! > > APT is quite useful for package installation. I would recommend to install it > by hand. Get apt, libc6, libstdc++2.9 from slink for example. Install them > with "dpkg -i" (first libc6, after that libstdc++ after that apt). Now you > have apt.

Re: Sound, HELP!

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
"Jeff Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've compiled a new Kernel with all the features and settings. But > when I looked in /dev I couldn't find "audio." Think of /dev as a regular directory containing "pseudo symbolic links" (the unix term is "special files") pointing to driver code in

screen package

1998-12-23 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I am having a problem with the screen package. I installed the Debian package which links with ncurses, libc, libcrypt, and libutil and it is slower than the binary I had running on a slackware libc5 based system. For example, when I create a window or switch windows, there's about a one seco

Re: Sound, HELP!

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 12:24:44AM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: > Howdy all, > > I have been trying to get sound working on my Debian box all week. I've > compiled a new Kernel with all the features and settings. But when I > looked in /dev I couldn't find "audio." Yes I have added /dev/audio

Re: BitchX: Scripts

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Stef Hoesli Wiederwald, Stardate 231298.1613: > I try to load and use the autoop script in BitchX. Si within BitchX I say: > > /load autoop > > Then I say: > > /addchan #channel > > But BitchX tellx me: Unknown command. What do I do wrong? IIRC autoop is just an ircii scrip

Re: question about ip-up

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Peter Kovacs, Stardate 231298.0930: > I've got a quick question... > > Do the scripts in ip-up.d run whenever the network goes up (say on boot > with ethernet, or when I dial in) or only when I dial in. I'm trying to > make the transition from campus ethernet to dial in over

Sound, HELP!

1998-12-23 Thread Jeff Browning
Howdy all, I have been trying to get sound working on my Debian box all week. I've compiled a new Kernel with all the features and settings. But when I looked in /dev I couldn't find "audio." Yes I have added /dev/audio support to the kernel. I don't know what to do. If I don't figure out wha

Re: Learning about/modifying drivers

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I need a crash course on Linux drivers. > > > >I'm frustrated with the fact that the driver for SCSI CD-ROMs doesn't > >allow direct access to audio tracks. > > Well, it does. I've created my own audio CDs under Li

Re: bison/ld problem?

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex > package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contain > /usr/lib/liby.a. I checked the latest contents file I could find and > there is no liby.a. What is gcc -ly suppos

Re: Two Questions

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:28:12PM +, David A. Lee wrote: > > Does Debian 2.0 come with Netscape on the CD's, or do I have to download > > it? > > Netscape is not part of Debian, therefore it can't be on the official CD. > Some vendors do include it on the Debian CD's they are selli

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Alexander Kushnirenko hat gesagt: // Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote: > > > I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. > > > In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a > > > new one while > > >

RE: bison/ld problem?

1998-12-23 Thread Shaleh
On 23-Dec-98 Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex > package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contain > /usr/lib/liby.a. I checked the latest contents file I could find and > there is no liby.a. What is gcc -ly suppo

bison/ld problem?

1998-12-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contain /usr/lib/liby.a. I checked the latest contents file I could find and there is no liby.a. What is gcc -ly supposed to link with? Thanks -- Lee Bradshaw

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, just a comment > On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote: > > I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. > > In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new > > one while > > ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ?

Re: Can't remember program name...

1998-12-23 Thread Allens
Shaleh wrote: > > On 23-Dec-98 Allens wrote: > > Hi, > > What is that program to combine too partitions to behave like one. I cannot > > remember it and I need that 500mb extra hard drive (Doubling my > > capacity). > > > > Are you thinking maybe software based RAID? Ahh yes, mdutils, thanks.

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Brian! APT is quite useful for package installation. I would recommend to install it by hand. Get apt, libc6, libstdc++2.9 from slink for example. Install them with "dpkg -i" (first libc6, after that libstdc++ after that apt). Now you have apt. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to select slin

Re: machine seems to pause for a few seconds

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:58:35AM -0500, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: > What else do I have to change to move to the 2.1.12x kernels ? Most likely nothing, the binutils etc should be up to date in 2.0, but check the README just in case. Also, use kernel-package to do the compiles, saves some effort. -

RE: Can't remember program name...

1998-12-23 Thread Shaleh
On 23-Dec-98 Allens wrote: > Hi, > What is that program to combine too partitions to behave like one. I cannot > remember it and I need that 500mb extra hard drive (Doubling my > capacity). > Are you thinking maybe software based RAID?

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
> How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while > ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ? One way to do this is to use tar: ( cd /old/location ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /new/location ; tar xpf - ) > What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ? To create a file

Can't remember program name...

1998-12-23 Thread Allens
Hi, What is that program to combine too partitions to behave like one. I cannot remember it and I need that 500mb extra hard drive (Doubling my capacity). Thanks, Peter Allen

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:49:46AM +0100, root wrote: > I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. > In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new > one while > ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ? Symbolic links are just names of f

upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm currently running debian 2.0.34 (hamm) and would like to upgrade to slink. How do I do this? I have seen the apt files in the /dists/slink/main/upgrade-i386 section, but am not sure what to do with them. Can someone help? Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Printing troubles

1998-12-23 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hello! I have a HP Deskjet 890C that I'm trying to get to work. I upgraded my Ghostscript to 5.10 (stable/non-free) to get the hpdj driver. Then I created a new magicfilter by copying the dj500-filter, and changing the PS and PDF filter lines to include the 890C options from the hpdj driv

mount -r -t iso9660...->fs not supp by kernal (fwd)

1998-12-23 Thread Eric Drayer
currently the sugestion is to say yes to _NLS but there might be another fs that has somthing to do??? with iso9660. ORIGINAL message I recompiled my kernal to support two chips. When I went thro

Re: Picture display in netscape

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
I'm just guessing here, but maybe kde grabbed all your colors? Try having a maximized netscape session with the -install flag (note that other stuff when netscape is in focus will look very wrong). On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:25:22AM -0700, John Greer wrote: > I have a Debian 2.0 system with KDE 1.

Installation Partition Problem

1998-12-23 Thread Nils Lorvick
I am a newcomer to the Linux arena. I've been a MS boy for pretty much all of my life. I just downloaded the base and rescue images for debian, and I do have all the necessary images on floppy to install debian. I'm trying to install on a Toshiba T4400C laptop. It has a 120 MB hard drive, 12 MB o

How to restore original conffiles?

1998-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
Hello. (I just subscribed; apologies if this subject has come up recently. The archive search at www.debian.org did not know anything about "conffiles", though). The short story: How do I tell dpkg to re-install the conffiles in a package, overwriting any changes I've made myself? The long story

Re: sending mail : how does it work ???

1998-12-23 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 06:13:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know : How my mail are sent > > On my system, I have sendmail and fetchmail installed. procmail package is > installed but > I am not sure that it run (I can't see procmail when I do a ps -a). >

Re: sending mail : how does it work ???

1998-12-23 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my system, I have sendmail and fetchmail installed. procmail package is > installed but > I am not sure that it run (I can't see procmail when I do a ps -a). > > If I am offline and I send mail, they are save in /var/save/mqueue. > > What soft

Re: [THANKS: Now Segmentation Fault] Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-23 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > 2. I'm trying to use terminfo with success *but* when using tigetstr() I > get "Segmentation Fault" ! :( After rest a little (I've been for on his project at least 11h/day) I saw the code and found the problem! I needed to compare itgetstr with -1 a

Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian

1998-12-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Installing RPM package sometimes is not working quite well. (Different libc library warnings, whatever...) You can get directly XFCom_Matrox.tar.gz from ftp.suse.com (NOTE not from Web page, they don't have links there). After that you just extract 1 binary XFCom_Matrox and you are all

Re: diald and pon

1998-12-23 Thread john
Marcus Geiger writes: > I'm trying to get diald running. The diald example configuration comes > with a connect script. But isn't it a better idea to use pon as the > program to establish a connection from within diald ? Does this work? You can't use pon as it will start pppd with the options in /

Re: Networking on/off-line.

1998-12-23 Thread john
jd? writes: > ...i would also like to setup an internet connection via a modem on > a debian box with ip masq but the ip that this box obtains is dynamic from > my dialup. ip-masq will handle that just fine. > This is where my confusion ariseshow do i need to setup the other > non-deb boxes s

Re: question about ip-up

1998-12-23 Thread john
Peter Kovacs writes: > Do the scripts in ip-up.d run whenever the network goes up (say on boot > with ethernet, or when I dial in) or only when I dial in. pppd runs ip-up when a ppp link comes up. It has nothing to do with ethernet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hi

Gateway problem...

1998-12-23 Thread Tun Yang
Hi... I'm having problems with routing for a gateway... I have a gateway machine that works with the win9x setup, and used to work with debian... but it no longer works with debian for some reason.. Here's what I do: route add default gw tom (tom is in hosts) I also tried a: route add default gw to

Re: Quick fix + reliable editor?

1998-12-23 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:15:37 GMT, Martin Wheeler wrote: > > Can anyone help me with a quick fix? > > For various inane reasons, I'm demonstrating the possibility of using > multiple, mutually-inclusive mail-readers under Linux -- mail, mailx, elm, > pine, mutt, tkmail, exmh, etc. > > So far, so

[THANKS: Now Segmentation Fault] Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-23 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Daniel Martin wrote: > echoed. I have attached below a transcript of a simple telnet session > to show you what's going on. Thanks alot ! :) It's great. Explain all the steps. > Looking at your mail again, it appears that you are writing both the > client and the server p

RE: mount -r -t iso9660...->fs not supp by kernal

1998-12-23 Thread Shaleh
> _SYSU_FS > _UFS_FS > _XIA_FS > _NLS > _NFS_FS > _NCP_FS > _SMB_FS > _HPFS_FS While doing make {menu,x}config you need nls support and something else but my mind blanked. If you read thru the fs listed in menu or x config you will see what you missed.

mount -r -t iso9660...->fs not supp by kernal

1998-12-23 Thread Eric Drayer
I recompiled my kernal to support two chips. When I went through the make config i did not see any thing that looked like it might belong to the iso9660 file system. I need this fs to mount my cdrom. I looked in /proc/filesystem and sure enough iso9660 was not there. Also looked at the modules file

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread root
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ? What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ? Thanks Franck >> On Tue, Dec 22, 1

ASCP package

1998-12-23 Thread frleg
Hi, Is there any ASCP (AfterStep Control Panel) package for debian or plan to do one? I am unable to compile it from sources... Thanks Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED

sending mail : how does it work ???

1998-12-23 Thread frleg
Hi, I would like to know : How my mail are sent On my system, I have sendmail and fetchmail installed. procmail package is installed but I am not sure that it run (I can't see procmail when I do a ps -a). If I am offline and I send mail, they are save in /var/save/mqueue. What soft hav

Re: GNUcash

1998-12-23 Thread Will Lowe
> Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I > couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). > Or even any other debianized alternative? > You can use xacc. I was going to debianize gnucash a few months back, but at the time it didn't build with our gtk

Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?

1998-12-23 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - > > Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only > correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: > > shutdown now > I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. Jim.

Re: turning off X accelleration [wasRe: that hp kayak/CLG5465 again

1998-12-23 Thread Stefan Hueneburg
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > Simply add ´Option "noaccel"´ into Section "Device" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. > > yep, it's stable after this, at least at 8 bit. 32 crashed, though it > took a while. But it's slow as molasses . . . Take a look at /us

diald and pon

1998-12-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
I'm trying to get diald running. The diald example configuration comes with a connect script. But isn't it a better idea to use pon as the program to establish a connection from within diald ? Does this work ? And when how ? Also can't the ip-up scripts shared between diald and pon.. ? This wou

Re: How do I set up process on login?

1998-12-23 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:55:11AM +, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It > reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If > I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the > script will run b

Re: machine seems to pause for a few seconds

1998-12-23 Thread Geoffrey Deasey
What else do I have to change to move to the 2.1.12x kernels ? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Jeff | E I / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / (FidoNet 1:3644/9) | D N/___

How do I set up process on login?

1998-12-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the script will run but then the login process stops and goes back to "login: ". How do I set

Re: machine seems to pause for a few seconds

1998-12-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: : I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop : for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ? : : Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o : .| R L / /

machine seems to pause for a few seconds

1998-12-23 Thread Geoffrey Deasey
I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Jeff | E I

BitchX: Scripts

1998-12-23 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I try to load and use the autoop script in BitchX. Si within BitchX I say: /load autoop Then I say: /addchan #channel But BitchX tellx me: Unknown command. What do I do wrong? Stef

Networking on/off-line.

1998-12-23 Thread jd?
Greetings all, Here's the scenario five machines, 1 - dedicated debian box 2 - dual boot (one laptop w/debian&win95, 1 box w/debian&win98) 1 - win nt 4 workstation box 1 - win 98 box this is the desired mode of operation: i would like to setup an intranet of sorts. I've gone through mos

RE:Picture display in netscape

1998-12-23 Thread John Greer
I have a Debian 2.0 system with KDE 1.0 installed my video card uses the clgd5428 chipset so I am stuck with running the system in 8-bit color mode for the time being. The question i have is that it seems that when I am using Netscape (4.5b2) for web browsing the images that it displays do not

Web mirroring software

1998-12-23 Thread Cagdas Ogut
Hi all, Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on debian, preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the basic functionality. Thanks already, Cagdas Ogut

Re: Advansys SCSI & Iomega Jaz drives

1998-12-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I believe the previous solution was something like: mkdir jaz; mount /dev/sd? jaz With ? being where linux finds your drive. See the output of "dmesg" for more help. Brandon On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am trying to

Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login > and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine > when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( > > Could someone

question about ip-up

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
I've got a quick question... Do the scripts in ip-up.d run whenever the network goes up (say on boot with ethernet, or when I dial in) or only when I dial in. I'm trying to make the transition from campus ethernet to dial in over break. Thanks, Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-23 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 21 Dec 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote: > Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > > files, viewed with xv. Hmmm. I seem to recall that xv defaults to some kind of color dithering and only displays 256 colors (8bit color).

Re: truncated inode numbers in cpio

1998-12-23 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >When creating a cpio archive, cpio sometimes gives the message "inode nuber >truncated". > >Do I need to be concerned about this? It means that the default output format (the "old c" format) can't handle those inode numbers. Cpio uses the inode number inf

RE: Advansys SCSI & Iomega Jaz drives

1998-12-23 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have one of those advansys controllers sold by iomega. I only have an external zip on it so this may be off base. Try using ctrl-A during boot to go into the board bios setup. Then look at the termination. It should be under adaptor setup (I think). It's the first option. If you have both ex

Quick fix + reliable editor?

1998-12-23 Thread Martin Wheeler
Can anyone help me with a quick fix? For various inane reasons, I'm demonstrating the possibility of using multiple, mutually-inclusive mail-readers under Linux -- mail, mailx, elm, pine, mutt, tkmail, exmh, etc. So far, so good; except that yesterday I demonstrated exmh without first making a c

Unidentified subject!

1998-12-23 Thread Helen_J_Lawrence
Does anyone know how I can load Linux onto a Toshiba Prestege 300CT?? I created a copy of the bost disks from the web site (along with the base files on disk) yet I cannot get Linux to start. Everytime I try to boot, the computer restarts. I tried the other Toshiba boot files and got the same pr

Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian

1998-12-23 Thread Gianluca Della Vedova
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: > I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box > next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can > only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: > > 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox

Re: Why?!

1998-12-23 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Christian Lavoie wrote: > > Guys, don't worry. In the next 5 years, will see the fall of Microsoft's > > empire. M. So you don't think that the total absence of Open Source Software products in the palmtop market (a la CE) -- not to mention the fact

Re: Postgres and php3 don't like each other

1998-12-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: > > On 21-Dec-98 Frank Barknecht wrote: > > I am playing around with Postgresql and php3 and I cannot make a database > > connection this way. The most simple script fails: > > > > > $database = pg_Connect ("", "", "", "", "template"); > > ?> > > > > Pass

Re: xbase-3.3.2.2-4 installation problems

1998-12-23 Thread Conrado Badenas
Gary Singleton wrote: > I check dependencies myself and install necessary files and it works > pretty good. I have only had one problem doing it this way and that > is when I try to install xbase after installing xlib6g and all the > other dependencies I get the error: > > "ln: cannot symbolic li

Re: How to use scp through a crontab

1998-12-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> You have no controlling tty and no DISPLAY. Cannot read passphrase. MS> This was fine with Debian bo which came with a different version of MS> ssh. MS> What do I need to change in order to make this job work again. This is a release c

Re: mail filtering

1998-12-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RK" == Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RK> What is everyone using for mail filtering that is using smail. procmail. You can set it up either as the MDA (so it is caled automaticaly for every user), or you can call it in a user's .forward file. Ciao, Martin

RE: killing off the *)&@ NT bootloader

1998-12-23 Thread Chang, FKK
Once the c:\bootsect.lnx file exists, you can put in /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/win95/bootsect.lnx (assuming c:\ is mounted on /win95, which in my case always is) and you won't have to do the dd thing ever again. Saves a lot of trouble *especially* when you forget the dd thing! HTH Felix >

Re: Why?! [way offtopic]

1998-12-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Considering what I hear from this group and the 'debates' in c.o.l.a., > > and elsewhere on the Net, WinNT isn't that stable as it is now. If they > > really are going to break compatibility with their

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-23 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:53:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong > because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. > > when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: > > libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no suc

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice...

1998-12-23 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > just as a follow up note here. don't even bother with the patch from > stardivision, it's a waste of time (imho of course). star office still > crashes and behaves erratically even with the patch, and if the problems > are as bad as mine were (the install

Re: GNUcash

1998-12-23 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:23:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I > couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). > Or even any other debianized alternative? Take a look at the 'xacc' package. Adam

Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian

1998-12-23 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
Thanks ... I had forgotten all about alien; I usually do.

Re: Why?! [way offtopic]

1998-12-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Considering what I hear from this group and the 'debates' in c.o.l.a., > and elsewhere on the Net, WinNT isn't that stable as it is now. If they > really are going to break compatibility with their predecessor OSs then > that wil

Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade

1998-12-23 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
I have Gnome from slink working. I did an upgrade to 2.2 last night, however, and that broke Gnome. Since, at this time, the newer versions of gtk are incompatible with many progs compiled with the older versions, letting apt/deselect update gtk to 1.1.5 is a very bad idea; I had the same error t

canot startx as user/libpcap/libnet problems

1998-12-23 Thread pjintel
Error msg when i startx as normal user, however startx as root has no problems. Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! When reporting a prob

Re: X help

1998-12-23 Thread WuArMy490
ok I recently installed Debian on my computer and when I set up X I set the resolution and everything right in xf86config and I did the xf86setup also But then I do startx and my resolution is way to big for my screen I tried changing the resolution about 10 times then I finally gave up and asked

Re: X help

1998-12-23 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok I try all that I edit xf86config and all that > > but it still doesnt change my resolution > you have any other suggestions on how to do this? I may be getting in late on this thread; at any rate, I don't recall what your specific problem is or w

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