Re: Is there a Logon Log?

1999-02-13 Thread KTB
After you boot up dmesg | less will let you view the text. That isn't exactly what you asked for but it will get you the info. Take care, Kent Alex wrote: > Is there a way (or is it already done) to direct the text printed to > the monitor during the logon process to a file. If such a file is >

where is /usr/src.linux???

1999-02-13 Thread rich
I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! What's up here? So I just tried to go to /usr/src and type "make xconfig" and I get t

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread root
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on >both. > >I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why >would this be? > Hardware problem somehwere...thats for sure...but I have no idea where you should look

ipportfw under kernel 2.2: Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw

1999-02-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi, I need to get IP port forwarding working ASAP on my 2.2.1-ac5-kernel system. However I'm new to the 2.2.x masq and/or port fw stuff and I can't find a solution to my problem myself. The installed version of ipportfw is 1.11-7, ipfwadm's version is 2.3.0, and ipchains' version is 1.3.8, 27-

GDB Problems

1999-02-13 Thread Philip Thiem
I have recently been expriencing problems with GDB. I will compiling a program with the -g symbol and run it in gdb. After setting a break point(typically line one worked in the past) and running the program I get this: Cannot insert breakpoint 1: Cannot access memory at address: some memory add

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-13 Thread Steve Hsieh
> In a message dated 2/13/99 1:44:40 PM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I can't mount my zip drive. It is a scsi zip drive and I think my isa-to- > > scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines (among others > > ofcourse): > > > > "scsi : 0 hosts. > >

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > treff.uni-koeln.de writes: > > > Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have > > to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some > >

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-13 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/13/99 2:31:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect > > because of the huge number of packages you must look at. > > You can mix and match dselect and dpkg. > The reason you can do th

Re: slink install and libc6

1999-02-13 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/13/99 2:22:59 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't know what I'm talking about, but I was under the impression that > dpkg thinks that 2.0.7t is newer than 2.0.7.19981211-1, even though the > other way 'round is right. Or at least I have a vague memo

Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-13 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/13/99 1:44:40 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I can't mount my zip drive. It is a scsi zip drive and I think my isa-to- > scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines (among others > ofcourse): > > "scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected t

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-13 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: > Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have > to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some > soundcard, whereas others have to be etc. >

Re: Upgrading to 2.2.1

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Ok, I figured I'd upgrade to potato from hamm. > What packages/libraries will need to be upgraded, except downloading the > kernel? > > TIA, > Andrew > Well I would use the apt method of dselect and pick both the slink distribution as well as potato as the upda

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > I posted my pnpdump output in a previous message to the mailing list. > There seems to be a TON of options in this file. I see some lines: > # Card 1: (serial identifier 8d 01 00 01 00 01 00 a9 0d) > # Vendor Id CMI0001, Serial Number 16777472, checksum 0x8D. > # Ve

Upgrading to 2.2.1

1999-02-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Ok, I figured I'd upgrade to potato from hamm. What packages/libraries will need to be upgraded, except downloading the kernel? TIA, Andrew

Re: Recompile for 3com lost CDROM

1999-02-13 Thread Kent West
At 09:38 PM 2/13/1999 +, Matt Folwell wrote: >On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 03:25:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >> Well, recompiling my 2.0.34 kernel got my 3com NIC working, but now my >> CD-ROM that was on /dev/hdc won't work. When I try to mount it I'm told >> that the iso9660 fs type is not suppor

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on > both. > > I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why > would this be? Maybe an incorrect irq or an irq conflict? You may want to post the output of i

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the reply. Questions below! :) Jiri Baum wrote: > > Doug Thistlethwaite: > > Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do > > not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from. > > In that case, you need isapnp and pnpdump. > > The latter gives yo

Re: Recompile for 3com lost CDROM

1999-02-13 Thread Matt Folwell
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 03:25:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Well, recompiling my 2.0.34 kernel got my 3com NIC working, but now my > CD-ROM that was on /dev/hdc won't work. When I try to mount it I'm told > that the iso9660 fs type is not supported by the kernel. > > When I run "make menuconfig"

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the help! I may get this working yet! :) > > [snip] > > Also, if I want to move to the 2.2.1 kernel, what will I need to do? Is > it as simple as using dselect to get a pre-compilied kernel, or will I > need to remove a bunch of stuff and load

Recompile for 3com lost CDROM

1999-02-13 Thread Kent West
Well, recompiling my 2.0.34 kernel got my 3com NIC working, but now my CD-ROM that was on /dev/hdc won't work. When I try to mount it I'm told that the iso9660 fs type is not supported by the kernel. When I run "make menuconfig" I see nothing about the iso9660 fs type under the "Filesystems" item,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Network problem - 3Com card]

1999-02-13 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Kent West wrote: [cut] > And to you, Heikki, thanks for the input. I stuck with the 2.0.34 kernel > though, cause it was over my head to download the 2.0.35 kernel from > another machine and copy it to my Linux box and etc, etc. But now that I > have a working network, maybe I'll upgrade to 2.0.35

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks everyone for the help! I may get this working yet! :) I tried the pnpdump -c >/tmp/foo and got the following message: Port address -c (0x) out of range 0x203..0x3ff I did a standard pnpdump >/tmp/foo and the output is listed below. In reading the docs on pnpdump, I need to edit this

Re: [Fwd: Re: Network problem - 3Com card]

1999-02-13 Thread Kent West
Whoo-hoo! Thanks Frankie! Although the instructions you gave didn't match exactly what I was seeing, it got me about half-way there, and along with some instructions on custom kernel's from www.debian's documentation page I got another 45% of the way, and I just tinkered and explored my way through

Re: Installing Linux 2.0

1999-02-13 Thread Tom Persons
Did you create a second partition on this disk? Is the partition something other than "unformatted"? You need to make sure that these two conditions exist for a succesful install. The second partition need not be more than 128MB (thats all the linux kernel uses) but it must be unformatted when you

Re: 2940UW installation problem

1999-02-13 Thread Avi Schwartz
Gregory, Thanks for your help but I am afraid this didn't work either. The installation process hangs up right after the following line is displayed: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code...419 instructions downloaded. I know there is a driver that works since I found a RedHat installation disks th

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on > both. > > I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why > would this be? > > On both machines there is a fast ethernet NIC, and I have a fast > ethernet 3Com hub. > > When I tel

Re: chmod on vfat

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote: ... > : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat > : partition? > Nathan E Norman: > Yeah, use an fstab entry like this (this is ntfs but applies to > vfat/msdos also afaik) > > /dev/hda1 /ntdrv1 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,

Re: Losing Linux (Again!)

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Kent West: > Here's what I'd try: > 1) Boot off a Win98 floppy that has the sys.com (or is it sys.exe?) and > the fdisk.com (or is it fdisk.exe?) commands on it (or alternatively, you > can run these commands from the hard drive). > 2) Run "fdisk /mbr". This will "partition" the master boot recor

Re: Ping run-away

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
> Dean wrote: > > > > Just got debian up ( bare bones) and went to internet and to check I > > first pinged IPS, then debian.org and ping wouldn't stop. Finally got > > off internet by poff in another vc, ping cont. to try to send. Any > > suggestions on ping? Also what can I do to stop a run away

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Eliezer Figueroa: > Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english? It means that the US government would like to keep cryptography out of the hands of its citizens and the only almost-legal way they have is to pretend that they are worried about foreign terrorists. Well, either that or th

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Helge Hafting: > You wrote: > > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > > > ppp.log: > > ... > > > send (ATZ^M) > > > expect (OK) > > > ^M > > > NO CARRIER > > > -- Failed ... > > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? > >

Re: fax software?

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Daryl Williams: > does anyone know if there are any fax server software that will run on > linux? I use mgetty-fax, so now you have a complete set of responses (AFAIK). We use it for both sending and receiving, no problems. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when eve

Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Peter Ludwig: > error connecting to 192.168.0.11:139 (No route to host) What does route tell you? That's "/sbin/route" from the netbase package. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one rememb

Re: minor problems

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Darknight: > Another thing in X is that I can get the mixer set so that the sound is > absolutely perfect, however when I reboot the system the settings all > return to default. Is there anywhere to force it to save the settings, > or some file I could manually edit to force them? Don't know how

Re: PGP sigs..........

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Forwarded message - Steve Lamb - with PGP clearsigning markers removed: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:37:50 -0500 (EST), Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: >On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: >>-BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- >> >>-- >>No signature could be found. >>-END PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE-

Re: dselect, dpkg, apt, gnome-apt???

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
MacKenzie, Andrew: > My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install > packages using dpkg -i . ... > Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect > because of the huge number of packages you must look at. You can mix and match dselect and dpkg. So you

Re: slink install and libc6

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm still at a loss as to why this is giving me problems in the first > place. From all I've read and ran across, 2.0.7t is less than > 2.0.7.19981211-1. Why is dpkg having such a problem with this file? I don't know what I'm talking about, but I was under the impression tha

Re: pppd deamon dies unexpectedly

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
eferen1: > I have tried setting up an internet connection with no success. > > Every time I try connecting, I get the message "pppd daemon died > unexpectedly". > > It does dial, I hear the initial connection made, and then it quits. > > I've used the terminal window to see what the problem is,

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Doug Thistlethwaite: > Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do > not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from. In that case, you need isapnp and pnpdump. The latter gives you an initial file to work from, you just need to decide what IRQ etc you want

Re: Removeing N lines from a file

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Lance Hoffmeyer: > How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines > from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines > from a file As others already wrote, use tail +11 > but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any part of the > f

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
> > How about suggesting some improvements, rather than "I don't like the > > Debian install"? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I find deselect as the only problem with debian. The update section > really needs work. Actually, I'd say the `Access' and `Select' screens need work, especially Select. >

Re: More help needed!

1999-02-13 Thread Kent West
At 04:02 AM 2/14/1999 +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: >Hello Friends, > >With the help of some of you, I have solved some problems but I am >encountering ever more new problems. Here is the description of my system: > >I installed Red Hat package on my Pentium 200 MMX from local cdrom. > >A few days a

Re: creating boot disks

1999-02-13 Thread Kent West
At 07:57 PM 2/12/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm trying LINUX for the first time, and was attracted to the straight to >the point FAQ on installing this program on low memory machines. > >The machine is an old Compaq 4/25 Contura laptop with 4 Megs of ram - 130 >Meg of ram. I simply want

96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on both. I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why would this be? On both machines there is a fast ethernet NIC, and I have a fast ethernet 3Com hub. When I telnet my desktop from my laptop, a prompt com

More help needed!

1999-02-13 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hello Friends, With the help of some of you, I have solved some problems but I am encountering ever more new problems. Here is the description of my system: I installed Red Hat package on my Pentium 200 MMX from local cdrom. A few days ago I installed Debian from scratch package by package on 48

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> I'm not sure if vboxgetty was running correctly ... i've got from syslog : NC> Feb 13 17:35:20 cavern init: Id "I0" respawning too fast: disabled NC> for 5 minutes ps ax must show it. $ ps ax | grep vboxgetty 427 ? S0:00 /usr/sbi

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I've had absolutely no luck with sounds cards and Linux. I'm in a position to > where sound isn't really important on the machines I use, but I want to hear > what a penguin sounds like. eh? > I used to have an Awe64 but didn't hit on the trick of patching the drivers > into the source and c

Can't Mount a Zip Drive

1999-02-13 Thread Alex
I can't mount my zip drive.  It is a scsi zip drive and I think my isa-to-scsi host adapter is working. During boot I get these lines (among others ofcourse):   "scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total."   Does this mean my host adapter is working? I remember reading somewhere that a scsi zip s

Re: 3com 3C905B

1999-02-13 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
> I apologize for asking the question when it's been addressed so often, but > the answers I've found in the mail archives haven't been simplistic enough > for me. > > I have a hamm box freshly installed from CD. It has a 3COM 3c905B-TX NIC in > it that doesn't seem to be recognized. I've about de

Is there a Logon Log?

1999-02-13 Thread Alex
Is there a way (or is it already done) to direct the text printed to the monitor during the logon process to a file.  If such a file is automaticly created, what is it?  If not is there any way to set one up. -alex

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > I don't know if vbox works with non-hisax cards. If you have set up > vboxgetty to listen to the MSN that gets called, and vboxgetty is > running (check with ps ax), then it should work. I'm not sure if vboxgetty was running correctly ... i've got from syslog : Feb 1

Re: question about xawtv

1999-02-13 Thread Dave Swegen
Had one running a few months back (with a 2.1.125 kernel). I just followed the docs and it worked fine (with a VCR that is - didn't have an aerial to try it with). Read the docs in usr/src/linux/Documentation. You will probably have to set up the proper device (which is also in the docs somewhere).

question about xawtv

1999-02-13 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I just install a Hauppage (sp?) tv card. I compiled 2.2.1 to enable video4linux, and for this card. I also installed xawtv. Does anyone have this stuff working? If so please relay some war stories. Thanks -- NatePuri Certified Law Student & GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I had no luck with it, but just couple of days ago I ran across an old SB16 card. One that comes with 2xCDROM, that has an IDE interface on the card itself. That card worked perfectly with kernel compiled to SB support. Dunno where you can get one of those antiques, though. I got it from a DX2 comp

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RE" == Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RE> into the source and configuring it properly. I then ran across RE> one of those SB16 Vibra cards, but I guess you have to first RE> configure its ISA PnP in Windows/DOS before one could use it. RE> Well, I don't have Windows/DOS and it If

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> It seems mgetty-voice it's for analog modem and not for my ISDN NC> cards (PCBIT) Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> vbox is part of the isdnutils package. [...] NC> As I'd a "kernel problem" it will never use vbox, rigth ? I don't know if v

Sound card suggestion

1999-02-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've had absolutely no luck with sounds cards and Linux. I'm in a position to where sound isn't really important on the machines I use, but I want to hear what a penguin sounds like. I used to have an Awe64 but didn't hit on the trick of patching the drivers into the source and configuring it pro

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "r" == robbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> Why does debian not include sound modules in the default kernel package? Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some soundcard, whereas others have to

Which dirs to nfs-mount

1999-02-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I'm trying to set up my brothers computer so that it just boots by itself, and then mounts /usr and friends from my computer. The question is: Which directories should I mount and what files need I take special care of? Currently, I've tried to mount /usr /lib /bin /sbin and /etc. I've also had to

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NC> It seems mgetty-voice it's for analog modem and not for my ISDN > NC> cards (PCBIT) > > vbox is part of the isdnutils package. I tried but it still don't work. PCBIT seems not to support it. I get always a

SOLVED: Diald "obsolete" error

1999-02-13 Thread Ted Behling
Thanks to the help of many people on the debian-user and linux-diald lists, I seem to have my diald issue resolved! I re-compiled my 2.2.1 kernel with SLIP support, and it now works like magic. I still have a few minor issues to work out with it, but on the whole it's fantastic! (Cross-posted to

/bin/open

1999-02-13 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hi! Now i have installed Slink. But I have a problem: /bin/open does not work properly. If I say: /bin/open -v -- /bin/bash I see Using VT /dev/tty12 but I see that there is nothing like bash started on tty12 If I use open from Hamm distribution there is no problem. Is this a bug? Thank

Debian 2.0->2.0r4 upgrade

1999-02-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! After I have installed 2.0, how do I upgrade it to 2.0r4? Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Inf

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Well, basicly, it's all been said how to get the card working. I hope you succeed at that. I was never able to get my card working, though. What you can do is this: WHenever setting up the sound options in kernel, do the loadable module support. As I was explained before, kernel will initialize th

domain;mx

1999-02-13 Thread Horacio Saenz
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Re: Diald "obsolete" error

1999-02-13 Thread lantz moore
Ted> I'm trying to run diald to automate my PPP connection. I don't Ted> recall the exact sequence of events when I upgraded from kernel Ted> 2.0.34 to 2.2.1, but it now generates the following lines in Ted> /var/log/messages: Feb 8 15:36:22 salsa kernel: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKE

Re: sendmail 8.9.2 & Verisign

1999-02-13 Thread Richard A Nelson
In the changelog for sendmail 8.9.3, there is a notice about possible signature problems due to reordered mime headers. sendmail-8.9.3-1 is in incomming, slated for frozen and unstable, please let me know if it solves your problem -- Rick Nelson

[pekka.siitoin@pp.inet.fi: Vs: Easy way to make a packages.gz file?]

1999-02-13 Thread homega
Now, could anyone from the Debian-user list tell me what's going on with this? I posted a reply to someone's on the debian-user's list, and I get this message to my private address with a 3.4MB!!! time wasting attached file. I don't care whether he's a nazi, a communist, or else, nor do I care for

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: NE2000 PCI Card Date: Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:55:49PM -0700 In reply to:Ming Hsu Quoting Ming Hsu([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask for help on this, but > it may be something in Debian that's tripping me up. I'm trying to set

smail -> exim = mail now broken

1999-02-13 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
Hi I am in the middle of setting up my internet mail on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I was using smail set for "local mail delivered" , and fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP at school. So local mail worked and ISP mail was delivered to me too. In looking through the mailing list archives I got t

Help with lilo.conf and booting

1999-02-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to setup my system to run a zipdrive and printer using kernel2.2.0. I have installed ppa directly into the kernel and it was suggested that I add the lines to append below. Dmesg gives me the message below. Any suggestions on getting printer and/or zip support on boot? I have the fo

Re: Problem Mounting CDROM

1999-02-13 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> Where can I get a good Debian CDROM? This one was part of the > InfoMagic Linux CD set which came with 6 CD's. I just want Debian. CheapBytes is one place - their service is usually excellent. http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart Tom

Re: slink base Disk Files Too Large?

1999-02-13 Thread servis
*- On 13 Feb, David B. Teague wrote about "Re: slink base Disk Files Too Large?" > On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> *- On 13 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "slink base Disk Files Too >> Large?" >> > I recently tried to copy the slink base disk downloads >> > (the ones fo

Also dpkg, dselect...

1999-02-13 Thread orco
Hi, I´m new on the list and with Debian, please forgive my english from now on :-) First, I'm having trouble to reach debian ftp's site from dselect. My machine is behind a firewall and a RH5.2 proxy server running squid. It simply doesn't connect! Second, I've installed libc6 running dpkg -i ,

apt-get question.

1999-02-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I run apt-get update, I got the following error: Get ftp://ftp.au.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages Get ftp://non-us.debian.org frozen/non-US Packages Error ftp://ftp.au.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 550 /debian/dists/f

Re: slink base Disk Files Too Large?

1999-02-13 Thread David B. Teague
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 13 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "slink base Disk Files Too Large?" > > I recently tried to copy the slink base disk downloads > > (the ones for 1.44M floppies) to 1.44M floppies, but the floppie > > images were too large. ...anyone e

Re: slink base Disk Files Too Large?

1999-02-13 Thread servis
*- On 13 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "slink base Disk Files Too Large?" > I recently tried to copy the slink base disk downloads > (the ones for 1.44M floppies) to 1.44M floppies, but the floppie > images were too large. ...anyone else have this problem or know > what might have caused

Re: mysql password problems

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GA" == Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GA> I seem to be lacking the one important piece of info, and that's GA> the password for the 'root' user. You could remove the mysql tables in /var/lib/mysql/mysql. This should wipe the access system. Restart the database afterwards. Ciao,

Re: Easy way to make a packages.gz file?

1999-02-13 Thread homega
> Assuming I have a directory with many .deb files, is there an easy way to > generate a packages.gz file for this directory? I'm not sure about this, though I believe .deb files are actually files which are already archived and compressed (sort of .tgz's with a debian installation script?). If t

slink base Disk Files Too Large?

1999-02-13 Thread art
I recently tried to copy the slink base disk downloads (the ones for 1.44M floppies) to 1.44M floppies, but the floppie images were too large. ...anyone else have this problem or know what might have caused it? Art

Re: fax software?

1999-02-13 Thread Shao Zhang
is it possible to use these software to send mutilple faxes while staying connected to internet(ie. without costing of any extra money) thx. On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote: > > > folks, > > > > does anyone know if there are any fax server s

autofs question

1999-02-13 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I just decided to try out the autofs package, so I installed it and recompiled my 2.2.1 kernel. I set up the map file per the examples and rebooted. Everything seems to work great. I accessed one of the file systems in the map file, and had no problems with it. I happened to do a 'ls -l /

SSLTelnet question

1999-02-13 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I just installed SSLTelnet on my site and it seems to work fine. One thing though, it stopped displaying /etc/issue.net to people logging in. Has anyone gotten around this bug | feature? -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (604) 930-0530 Sysadmin, Continuum Systems: http://www.cm.nu Per

Re: raplayer deb package?

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BM" == Ben Messinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> Is there a deb installer for the realaudio player? If so what is BM> the package name/path? It is called rvplayer and is in contrib Check http://packages.debian.org/rvplayer Ciao, Martin

Re: apt/dpkg/dselect rtfm

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MA" == MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MA> On the subject of how to maintain a Debian system (and thanks to MA> those who responded previously), I am looking for the best source MA> on how to become a power user of apt / dpkg / dselect. Is it the MA> unfinished Admin guide in t

Re: SB16 ISA/PNP

1999-02-13 Thread Daniel Elenius
Stephane Boyer writes: >Hi! > >i saw your message on the debian-user-digest mlist. and you cannot use >dma3 for anything other than the floppy controler > >SB16's use irq5,dma1 and dma5(sometimes dma7) by default > >if you have the pnp-utilities installed just generate a new isapnp.conf >file > >p

Re: Ensoniq ES1370 configuration

1999-02-13 Thread Daniel Elenius
David Webster writes: >./MAKEDEV audio did the trick. Seems to be working OK now. I now have a >dsp, dsp1, /audio /sequencer, and other stuff under /dev I used to not >have. That's nice :) -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-

raplayer deb package?

1999-02-13 Thread Ben Messinger
Is there a deb installer for the realaudio player? If so what is the package name/path? -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.

Re: Xconfigurator ans sndconfig

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MJ" == Marant Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MJ> Are there projects to convert RedHat utilities called MJ> Xconfigurator and sndconfig to debs, in the short term ? Someone (in debian-devel) said he wanted to take a look at the Xconfigurator. MJ> If not are there similar projects with De

Re: Voice Answering Machine

1999-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "NC" == Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> It seems mgetty-voice it's for analog modem and not for my ISDN NC> cards (PCBIT) vbox is part of the isdnutils package. Run isdnconfig to create a sample config and edit the conffile in /etc/isdn Read the docu in /usr/doc/isdnutils Cia

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> The problem I have right now is that the kernel won't recognize the NE2000 > PCI card. A friend and I tried autoprobing it, and making it a module and > loading it after compile, but neither has worked. We also tried to forcing > recognition by putting an append line into LILO, but that didn't

Re: Installing Sound Card

1999-02-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to > windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux > directly > onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it. Gain 100karma points! :) I am also pure in this regard ;), so I

Problem Mounting CDROM

1999-02-13 Thread Doug Dine
Hi All, Thanks to everyone who responded to request for help on mounting my CDROM. I discovered the problem and it was the CDROM itself. Apparently not mastered correctly. Where can I get a good Debian CDROM? This one was part of the InfoMagic Linux CD set which came with 6 CD's. I just want Debi

Re: root disk

1999-02-13 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:58:25 EST, Pete wrote: o, I figure, I'll make a root disk that my boot disk can load as a ram > disk. Now, I realize I have no clue where I might find the various thing I > may need to be part of this root disk. Is there anywhere I can find such a > root disk, or is there som

Re: NON-US means?

1999-02-13 Thread Julian R Fondren
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > I think that it is still an export thing: the difference is that the > international version has weaker encryption, which is not covered by > the export laws (and is less secure: probably the which ever agency it > is can crack it). > However, I'm Engli

Re: Sound configuration not in initial install

1999-02-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Webster wrote: > > Well Windows and OS/2 don't seem to have a problem with letting you > configure your sound stuff right up front. How hard is it to add a > sound item to modconf screen used in in the "Drivers Configuration" > phase of the install?. Afterall, these drivers are all modules

Have a look at this!!!

1999-02-13 Thread John Gay
Have a look at this link! http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/rio.cfm Currently, their drivers only support Windows 95/98. How long will it be till the Linux/UNIX drivers are working??? I know the recording and playback software is available for MP3, but we need software to download the MP

Re: [Revert to dos]

1999-02-13 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Nils Lorvick wrote: > Well...as usual it didn't work. I tried the fdisk /mbr command. And it > didn't do ANYTHING to my computer. I still can't change my partition > information at ALL. So the Fdisk /mbr option didn't fix it. My computer still > locks up at the beginning. I d

NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-13 Thread Ming Hsu
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask for help on this, but it may be something in Debian that's tripping me up. I'm trying to set up network support with Debian 2.0 running Linux 2.2.1. The machine is a K6-266MMX with 64MB of RAM. So far the Win95 side of the computer has the net

Thank you - Invisible files smbfs W95

1999-02-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I wrote: > I have a weird ongoing problem: I connect to a W95 box, smbmount a share, > but some files on the share do not show up on directory listings Thank you for your suggestions - I recompiled the kernel and switched on the Win95 option and it works now. (I coincidentally upgraded to

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