upgrading problem

1999-01-22 Thread Lonnie Sauter
I am having a problem upgrading. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the output which is similar for all packages: (88) # dpkg -i oleo_1.6-15.deb Selecting previously deselected package oleo. (Reading database ... 38163 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace oleo 1

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 21 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. > > > partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS > > partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory > > How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 06:38:13PM +, Pere Camps wrote: > > No, there is probably not. It comes from the fact that cp tries to set > > some permissions on the destination file. That is actually not possible > > for VFAT. > > That's a sensible explanation. > > > (I would prefer VFAT to

Graphic WWW browser for a slow machine?

1999-01-22 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! :-) My potato system: i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM powered by Linux Debian 2.0. Which graphic browser may/must I use? I want it has HTML 4.0 and Java. And be fast. Does I ask too much? Things that I can live without: email, telnet or ftp access. I prefer that the browser calls external

Re: Desktop manager for X Window in a slow computer?

1999-01-22 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:41:56PM +0100, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > > I have a potato i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM running > > X with Linux Debian 2.0. Which desktop manager for X > > Window may/must I use? > > You mean "desktop environme

Re: X manager installation changes /dev/mouse from psaux to ttyS0

1999-01-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
BOHICA wrote: >I tried re-symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux >BOHICA:/dev$ rm mouse >BOHICA:/dev$ ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/psaux >but for some reason this causes /dev/psaux to link to /dev/ttyS0. You got the command back-to-front. >So now I have: /dev/mouse => /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/psaux

Re: SQL packages

1999-01-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Greg Frye wrote: >I have PostgreSQL loaded on a Redhat box (I couldn't get the Debian >package running, Debian 1.3.1). Was that postgres95? If you have problems with the current PostgreSQL packages, please let me know about them. The latest version is 6.4.2-2, in unstable. frozen has 6.3.2-1

Re: debian installation

1999-01-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi rod, you wrote on: 21 Jan 99 at 23:15 (received 22.01.99) about : _debian installation_ >my system started blinking every half second. It was locked up so I = >rebooted. Same thing. Now, I have selected the packages for home = Try the following: install Debian, after reboot only sel

X manager installation changes /dev/mouse from psaux to ttyS0

1999-01-22 Thread BOHICA
For both hamm and slink installs: On installing the X11 packages (WindowMaker -- hoping to follow it with fvwm2 or Gnome), my mouse and my modem stopped working. When I looked into possible causes I discovered that somewhere in the install, /dev/mouse => /dev/psaux is changed to /dev/mouse => /de

Re: MD5sum in Packages (was: No ldd?)

1999-01-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 21 Jan 1999, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin > >mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got > >the bad .deb > > Does apt check the MD5sum of the package agai

Re: Non-us mirrors

1999-01-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Since non-us.debian.org is down, does anyone have recommendations for > other non-us mirrors easily accessible from the central US? http sites > preferred but I can live with ftp. Down? Hmm.. http://www.debian.org/~jgg/Mirrors has my list. Jason

Non-us mirrors

1999-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
Since non-us.debian.org is down, does anyone have recommendations for other non-us mirrors easily accessible from the central US? http sites preferred but I can live with ftp. Thanks, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: rcvd [0][LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ] You want the other end to authenticate. Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: peer refused to authenticate It refuses. Jan 22 22:33:33 oxygene ipppd[177]: sent [0][LCP TermReq id=0x3 70 65 65 You hang up. # AUTHENTICATION nam

gnome dependencies problem

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm trying to install gnome from one of it's mirrors, and having some dependecy problems I can't figure out. Dselect allows me to select all the required base files, except when I select the "orbit" package, dselect gives me a dependency error saying that liborbit0 is required by orbit. The only p

Re: Install new programs

1999-01-22 Thread Richard Hall
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Nuno Donato wrote: > I have mount the Cd Rom to access som CDs, but now nothing > on them work. Is it because I am in Linux or what. I have > Netscape 4.05 in a Mag Cd, But the install file won't work. > What can I do. Nestcape doesn't need Windows to work, does > it? No

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick Mauritz
> PM> There are two possibilities what happens (depends on kernel > PM> (2.0.35/2.0.36, version of isdnutils and configuration): > > 1. You need the isdnutils 3.0 package > 2. uncomment "debug" in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 > > You will then see more output in syslog. > > You can send us the relevant pa

Install new programs

1999-01-22 Thread Nuno Donato
I have mount the Cd Rom to access som CDs, but now nothing on them work. Is it because I am in Linux or what. I have Netscape 4.05 in a Mag Cd, But the install file won't work. What can I do. Nestcape doesn't need Windows to work, does it? Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __

Re: SQL packages

1999-01-22 Thread Greg Frye
Adam Keys wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > All, > > Does anyone know if there are any SQL database servers that are MS > > SQL 6.5 compatible and work with Debian? Also, would it support integrated > > security and if not how hard do you expect it to be to write something like

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread servis
*- Michael Stenner wrote about "Re: xdm" > New xdm question: > > My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without > xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the > screen. > > Reason I care: > > I had a video card go bad and I wasn't sure that my new

Re-partioning a ext2 disk without loosing data

1999-01-22 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, Here is my situation. I had windoze installed on a second hard drive that crashed recently. Now i would like to re-intall it on my first hard wich is partioned and formated with linux on it. I have a spare partition for backups purpose at the end of the drive on /dev/hda8 that i can split and

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:38:54 +0100, "J.H.M. Dassen" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 20:26:12 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to > > > Debian lists and give their feedb

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Jan-99 Michael Stenner wrote: > New xdm question: > > My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without > xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the > screen. > xdm either runs or it does not, xdm starts the Xserver. What you can do is make

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Kent West
At 03:09 PM 1/22/1999 -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: >New xdm question: > >My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without >xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the >screen. > >Reason I care: > >I had a video card go bad and I wasn't sure that my ne

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Michael Stenner
New xdm question: My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the screen. Reason I care: I had a video card go bad and I wasn't sure that my new video card could handle what xdm was going to automatically

Re: ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PM" == Patrick Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PM> There are two possibilities what happens (depends on kernel PM> (2.0.35/2.0.36, version of isdnutils and configuration): 1. You need the isdnutils 3.0 package 2. uncomment "debug" in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 You will then see more output i

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Brian Morgan wrote: >>> There is no /etc/X11/config file on my machine. Is something >>> wrong? I'm running slink. >> >> Hmm, I don't have my machine handy so I can't check. Could be >> called "Config" or "X11Config" or something else... >> >> You can try to grep for it: >> >> grep start-xdm

Re: help with bash script

1999-01-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:18:40PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I am just starting to use small bash scripts on my system and I enjoy it. > > I am using the following bash script to query my postgresql database using > "van" (surname) as search field: > > time echo "select noemnaam,va

RE: Trackball in X

1999-01-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Jan-99 Brian Morgan wrote: > Now trying to use a built in trackball from my laptop as the mouse, and > can't seem to make it work. A serial mouse attached to the back works just > fine. Is there another device name (other than /dev/ttyS0) that I need to > use from the XF86Setup? I haven't

RE: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Morgan
There is no /etc/X11/config file on my machine. Is something wrong? I'm running slink. Brian > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > debian-user@lists.debian.org > Su

Star Office 3.1 install problem

1999-01-22 Thread dennisco
I'm running the XF86_SVGA X server under Debian 2.0. I downloaded Staroffice31-common.tar.gz, StarOffice31-english.tar.gz and StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz to /usr/local. When untarred they installed to /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1. When I try to run ./setup (X or not X) I get: StarOffice3.1 Instal

Trackball in X

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Morgan
Now trying to use a built in trackball from my laptop as the mouse, and can't seem to make it work. A serial mouse attached to the back works just fine. Is there another device name (other than /dev/ttyS0) that I need to use from the XF86Setup? I haven't tried all of them, but is there a particu

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/22/99 1:43:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with "start-xdm" in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there a way to change that? All I've done to make this happen was install the

help with bash script

1999-01-22 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am just starting to use small bash scripts on my system and I enjoy it. I am using the following bash script to query my postgresql database using "van" (surname) as search field: time echo "select noemnaam,van,adres1,telefoon,werktelefoon,selfoon,faks from lidmate,besoekpunt where lowe

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Brian Morgan wrote: > > I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with > "start-xdm" in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there > a way to change that? All I've done to make this happen was install > the xdm package. I believe the file is /etc/X11/config ... >

ISDN PPP

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick Mauritz
Hello debian-users I have got some probs with ISDN with linux I'm using the AVM A1-Classic (aka Fritz!) and it is found by the kernel (2.0.36 orig. DEB-Kernel) The logging of incoming calls works, so the card seem to work fine. :-) But connections via ipppd dont work :-( There are two possibilities

dpkg broken?

1999-01-22 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all. OK, so yesterday, in the process of updating my system to the newest slink, I broke dpkg. I cannot install packages anymore. The error messages are as follows: Preparing to replace modconf 0.2.23 (using modconf_0.2.24.deb) ... Unpacking replacement modconf ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe d

RE: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Morgan
I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with "start-xdm" in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there a way to change that? All I've done to make this happen was install the xdm package. Also, is there any way to quit the xserver while using xdm without it automatic

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-22 Thread Pere Camps
Tino, > No, there is probably not. It comes from the fact that cp tries to set > some permissions on the destination file. That is actually not possible > for VFAT. That's a sensible explanation. > (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) Me too. Thanks for your

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > I'll have to give it a try later... Thanks. > > People have suggested the 550c filter, but all it seems to do is spit out > blank pages and partial print jobs when I print from a Winblows system to > the Linux box using Samba. Someone else sent a modifie

Re: debian installation

1999-01-22 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:15:06PM -0800, rod peters wrote: > I need some help. I have been trying to install debian for severl weeks. > Today got me the most progress so far. I had my installation almost running > but I think I put in a wrong video or monitor value and my system started > bl

Errors in 2.2.0-pre8

1999-01-22 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I got the kernel pre5 and applied patches till pre9. However, after applying pre8, the compilation gave an error in the program fs/autofs/dirhash.c pre9 does not fix this problem. The actual error is at the end of dirhash.c and has the following lines.. struct auto_fs.. *ent,*nent;

RE: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Dan Willard
I have a Canon 4200 setup on my linux box and print to it from win98. The shared printer doesn't have any local filters on it and the win98 box uses the driver for the printer. Works just fine (and all the setting , ie color et al). You might want to try just setting the samba shared printer wi

RE: lilo.conf~ syntax question??

1999-01-22 Thread Dan Willard
Also don't forget that win98 writes its own stuff to the MBR during the install process and will take out lilo. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ivanov [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: lilo.conf~ syn

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe if you link .Xsession to .xinitrc in your home directory you get > the > sanme results. > > It will, however you'll be starting the manager mentioned in window-manager AS > WELL AS the one you mention i

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > > to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the > > graphical xdm login? > > /etc/X11/config file has one/more lines, depending on the version you

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/22/99 12:24:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > /etc/X11/windows-managers holds a path to window manager that gets started > at the startup. I also modified the Xsession file in there, at the very > end, where it executed twm in some cases. I belie

Re: Applying kernel patches

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:34:26AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I have the source for 2.2.0-pre2 and all the patches up to pre9. When I > try to apply these patches with patch-kernel, I just get the result > > Current kernel version is 2.2.0 > > I assume this is because the patch-kernel script won

Applying kernel patches

1999-01-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have the source for 2.2.0-pre2 and all the patches up to pre9. When I try to apply these patches with patch-kernel, I just get the result Current kernel version is 2.2.0 I assume this is because the patch-kernel script won't handle the 'preX' suffix. It there a patch anywhere for the patch sc

Re: lilo.conf~ syntax question??

1999-01-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> olleh< > i am trying to configure Lilo to give me a choice between booting NT,win98, > and Linux...first, how do i determine what partition the MS O.S.'s (i.e. > hda2,3, etc...) reside on...once i have determined where they dwell, should i > use the following syntax in lilo.conf to give me the ch

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Shaleh
> > /etc/X11/windows-managers holds a path to window manager that gets started > at the startup. I also modified the Xsession file in there, at the very > end, where it executed twm in some cases. I believe if you link .Xsession to .xinitrc in your home directory you get the sanme results.

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Alec Smith
I'll have to give it a try later... Thanks. People have suggested the 550c filter, but all it seems to do is spit out blank pages and partial print jobs when I print from a Winblows system to the Linux box using Samba. Someone else sent a modified filter more specific to an 870 and it just plain d

RE: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Jan-99 Brian Morgan wrote: > Thanks to all who have helped me get X up and running. I'm using xdm to > start my X sessions (not sure if I'll keep it). A few more questions: > > 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > to I need to modify to get to a c

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/22/99 12:11:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the > graphical xdm login? You should already have bot

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Jean, you wrote on: 20 Jan 99 at 13:14 (received 21.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ >> That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the >> first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in >> DOS-/Win-terms). > >This is clearl

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the > graphical xdm login? /etc/X11/config file has one/more lines, depending on the version you use, that mention xdm. For example, start-xdm If yo

Re: xdm

1999-01-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/22/99 12:05:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the > graphical xdm login? You should already have both - sta

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Jay Barbee
At 1/21/99 04:21 PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: >Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For >example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever. > My Djet 870Cxi is on a NT system that Debian still accesses via LPR. But I did at one point have it hooked up and shared from

xdm

1999-01-22 Thread Brian Morgan
Thanks to all who have helped me get X up and running. I'm using xdm to start my X sessions (not sure if I'll keep it). A few more questions: 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the grap

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-22 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, > I've mounted a vfat partition with these options: > > /dev/hda2 /mnt/dos vfatdefaults,gid=101,umask=0007 > > and whenever a user in the 101 group tries a copy a file within > the filesystem it gets the following error: > > cp: file: Operation not

Re: ..de.debian.org

1999-01-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
Thomas Adams wrote: > What's up with the ...de.debian.org servers? A DNS problem perhaps? No, there is no DNS problem, but apparently their uplink is broken at the moment. Please try other mirrors for the time being. bye, -Remco

..de.debian.org

1999-01-22 Thread Thomas Adams
What's up with the ...de.debian.org servers? A DNS problem perhaps?

Re: libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

1999-01-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > What should I do to avoid the following error? > > Chris > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gtop > gtop: error in loading shared libraries > libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg --status gtop > Packa

vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-22 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've mounted a vfat partition with these options: /dev/hda2 /mnt/dos vfatdefaults,gid=101,umask=0007 and whenever a user in the 101 group tries a copy a file within the filesystem it gets the following error: cp: file: Operation not permitted

libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

1999-01-22 Thread Christophe Broult
What should I do to avoid the following error? Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gtop gtop: error in loading shared libraries libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg --status gtop Package: gtop Status: install ok installed Priority: opt

floppy disk multitasking problems

1999-01-22 Thread Sasha Gutfraind
Hello fellow users! I've a rather general technical question. Floppy drives have been around for who knows how much time. But even more, it seems that they originated not from multitasking OSs like UN*X and Linux, but from Macs and PCs running DOS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that whenev

Re: Mount cd

1999-01-22 Thread frleg
>> Henrik Hundebøl wrote: >> > How do i mount cd and floppy in debian >> > and how do i get my internet to work If you have got IDE cdrom you have to do : mount /dev/hdx /cdrom where x=a primary IDE master x=b primary IDE slave x=c secondary IDE master x=d secondary IDE slave (the /cdrom

gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have been meaning to ask this for a while; I have installed what I believe are all the most recent gnome libs and apps from potato. The apps that I would like to use the most are gnomecard and balsa both range from moderately broken to just broken. I got the cvs versions of both and tried to com

Re: lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 12:51:30PM +0100, Thomas MANGIN wrote: > As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows > partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file > If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it > any more. Wha

[kirk@braille.uwo.ca: question on keyboard menu choice.] (fwd)

1999-01-22 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends, can somebody on this list help me and/or us. Paul -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kirk Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: question on keyboard menu choice.] --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Kirk Reis

Re: Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of > the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile > it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular > install path (eg /usr/lo

Debian on a ThinkPad 380Z

1999-01-22 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Has anyone installed Linux on a ThinkPad 380z ? Any problems, suggestions...? Matthew

lilo.conf~ syntax question??

1999-01-22 Thread FUNKLORDZ
olleh< i am trying to configure Lilo to give me a choice between booting NT,win98, and Linux...first, how do i determine what partition the MS O.S.'s (i.e. hda2,3, etc...) reside on...once i have determined where they dwell, should i use the following syntax in lilo.conf to give me the choice betwe

Re: Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Pat, > I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of > the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile > it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular > install path (eg /usr/local/gnome) so the apps that come with

Gnome

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi people I want to install Gnome on Slink but don't want to scatter new versions of the libraries (eg gtk) arround anywhere. Does anyone know if you can compile it like KDE where it looks for all libraries relative to a partciular install path (eg /usr/local/gnome) so the apps that come with Slin

Re: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-22 Thread Lawrence Walton
I hate to disagree but... the symbios cards are great and they are generaly cheaper, faster and less trouble. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - -

Re: lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows > partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file > If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it > any more. What can i do !! > > Thomas Say again? It's kind of hard to und

Re: Mount cd

1999-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Henrik Hundebøl wrote: > How do i mount cd and floppy in debian > and how do i get my internet to work Please ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to > Debian lists and give their feedback and advice, which developers are > free to follow or ignore. But they do n

Re: debian installation

1999-01-22 Thread Kent West
rod peters wrote: > I need some help. I have been trying to install debian for > severl weeks. Today got me the most progress so far. I had my > installation almost running but I think I put in a wrong video > or monitor value and my system started blinking every half > second. It was locked

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-22 Thread Jernej Zajc
I wrote: > > [...] > > Only if we let it. We're not animals. We're human. We can control > > ourselves. Just because it rarely happens doesn't mean it can't happen. > > It can happen, of course, it's just that it's different. Such a > situation most likely deteriorates into "soem are more equal t

AWE32_SYNTH

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, Im upgrade my Debian/GNU 2.1 (slink) to kernel 2.0.36-2, unfortuanelety I lost sound-support for my SaoundBlaster AWE 64 (plug and pray) ISA-Slot-Card, however. I could restore the awe-drv and rerun the install.sh script Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Thu Jan 21 16:31:02 CET 1999 root, Linux pmur

Re: jdk1.1 java and Swing (JFC1.1)

1999-01-22 Thread Michael and Diana Finney
I tried the SwingSet and another example. I could not do the windows look and feel. The windows.tar file is there, but it did not work. It said that look and feel is not supported. Ever have that happen? What's the solution? Thanks, Michael

Re: slink vs. staroffice 5.0

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:05:35AM -0800, Ben Messinger wrote: Hi Ben, saw Your message "false alarm" sorry, -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slink vs. staroffice 5.0

1999-01-22 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 07:50:49PM -0800, Ben Messinger wrote: > I had staroffice 5.0 working under hamm, but it broke when I updated to > slink. I am assuming due to differences in libc.so.6 between hamm and > slink. Is this right? Is there a way to keep slink and still get > staroffice working ag

part 2 of what is /dev/rvndiptcomsk

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick
Ok sorry guys, i think i've found just after sending the email... i forgot to tell you i installed iptraf also and /dev/rvndiptcomsk seems to be used by rvnamed which is used by iptraf to do reverse DNS lookup without blocking if that was written somewhere in the documentation of iptraf so

lilo config

1999-01-22 Thread Thomas MANGIN
As far as I noticed I didn t see any to to config lilo with a windows partition. I done it by hand few month ago but I needed and initrd file If I am right. On my actual installation which is lighter I don t get it any more. What can i do !! Thomas --    Today's thinking : I'am not able to think

what is /dev/rvndiptcomsk

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick
Hi, yesterday i installed mtr on my debian 2.0 hamm system today (as reported by Tripwire) i see a new file on my system: /dev/rvndiptcomsk ls -al /dev/rvndiptcomsk gives : srwxr-xr-x root root 0 from where did that file come ? what is it's use ? (it's not in dpkg -L mtr nor in Contents-i3

Re: bash programming question

1999-01-22 Thread Jiri Baum
> You could put the find in a separate script: > > find . -print0 | xargs -r0 somestuff.sh If you go that way, you can just find . -exec somestuff.sh {} \; (You might need quotes around the {}.) Jiri

Compiling my own kernel

1999-01-22 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I finnaly did it! I compiled my first kernel! Everything went (sort of) smoothly except for one thing. I got the kernel-source package from potato (2.0.36) and kernel-headers (is this one necessary?). I also got kernel-package! I made make xconfig. make dep; make clean. and then make-kpgp --

Re: unix98 pty system

1999-01-22 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Jonathan P Tomer, Stardate 210199.1948: > ok, so if i grab glibc2.1 i can use unix98 ptys? or will everything break on > glibc2.1? > I have it swiched on for quit a while (2.1.*) without a prob. I use libc 2.0.7v right now. Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner[EMAIL PROTECTE

HotWire Fax software

1999-01-22 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
I was looking for some decent fax software that I could use in the X enviroment and came across the HotWire link at http://www.linuxresources.com Good I thought and downloaded the file into my home directory. I tarred the fileand did ./lxinstall, then started x and did ./HotWire. The programme see

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 20:26:12 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, > >even if they can't or do not have the time to

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "ChL" == Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >ChL> Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. > >What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-22 Thread Mamoun Alissali
Andreas Sliwka wrote: > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > I don't know, I think if there were a language to start newbies out on, > > it is perl. Don't have to worry about many of the things that other > > languages force upon you yet gives you a good gounding in how those other > > languages work.

video_TV cards help

1999-01-22 Thread Joze Kovacic
Hello For few days now, I've been honted by a 'need to upgrade' video out of my PII engine... I would like to know some of Your views/experiences on my list of 'would_be' solutions: (ASUS P2L97 AGP Mainboard rev 2.04; I am looking for AGP card with optional TV tuner and/or grabb./video_conf.

Re: Netscape Toolbar Icon

1999-01-22 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Fri Jan 22, 1999 at 06:54:05PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:27:58AM +0700, UF Marpaung wrote: > > I've installed Netscape and Navigator45 in my Debian system. > > I use WindowMaker and Enlightenment. But why icon images > > in Navigator's toolbar look bad ? only 2 co

Re: DB2 progress - success!

1999-01-22 Thread Colin McCormack
DB2 success! Joey Hess clued me in, the RPM scripts weren't being run, so I changed the /bin/rpm hack script to this: #!/bin/sh alien --to-deb --scripts -i $2 With the noted symlinks: > /bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk > /bin/basename -> /usr/bin/basename > /bin/compress -> /usr/bin/compress > /bin/g

Re: slink vs. staroffice 5.0

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Messinger
Ben Messinger wrote: > > I had staroffice 5.0 working under hamm, but it broke when I updated to > slink. I am assuming due to differences in libc.so.6 between hamm and > slink. Is this right? Is there a way to keep slink and still get > staroffice working again? Everything else I use is working f

Re: SQL packages

1999-01-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:51:28PM -0600, Adam Keys wrote: > a) compatible with sql server? so far as odbc, mysql and postgreSQL offer > odbc, > which is probably how you connect to your server. the tables, however, are > stored in a binary format in sql server (AFAIK), while mysql stores the da

Re: Netscape Toolbar Icon

1999-01-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:27:58AM +0700, UF Marpaung wrote: > I've installed Netscape and Navigator45 in my Debian system. > I use WindowMaker and Enlightenment. But why icon images > in Navigator's toolbar look bad ? only 2 color (black and white) > Any suggestion ? What color depth are you usin

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