Thanks for your help, I am going to set that up. I have the 2.2 kernel
compiled and about to go, and I have downloaded the XF_FBDev. Next thing is
how do I configure it? XF86Setup doesn't seem to have the FB listed in the
drivers. Do I need to edit XF86Config manually? Can you send me an
examp
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> I was doing a "apt-get dist-upgrade" to update to the latest versions, when
> installing the xserver-common package didn't work. This has now trashed my
> X installation completely, so it doesn't work at all.
>
> This is what happen
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Like George Bonser has said previously, I think the only way that
> Debian is going to grow its market share better than its currently
> growing is for the creation of a commercial company which adopts
> Debian as its base distribution. This company c
"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file,
> directory or symlinks. Is there anyway to correct this problem.
>
> I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of.
Checkout lsattr and chattr (ext2fs), especially the immu
I can't wait, I can't wait
please, someone tell me they'll be out any time...
NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ompages.com
http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html
When I can get around to getting UW to extend distribution permission to
debian.org, it will likely be available in non-free.
NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ompages.com
On Wed, 3
Frankie wrote:
>
>
> > You are perhaps referring the "Linux Standard Base" that RH and
> > Deb have, for the moment, agreed to? The problem is that the
> > greater RH's dominance becomes, the greater the chance that they
> > will no longer see this kind of cooperation as desirable, and i
I know a maximal mount check is a normal system check but, is there any
percentage of non-contiguous files worrying? Last check I had 1.0% on / and
/opt, and 7.3% on /home.
TIA
Horacio.
> I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
> keep getting empty gif files.
Your right! It's actually the transfig package as a whole which appears to
have no support for the generation of gif.
If you look at the source code you will find there is support for readin
I am running Debian 2.0 and am expriencing problems
with my CDROM. Previously all was going well and I could add packages via the
2.0 CD, however recently my CD player has been giving problems (when I power up
the active light is flashing constantly and never stops).
When I boot into debian
Can someone try to duplicate this problem please?
I have 2 Debian boxes with 3c905b NICs. Both are running 2.2.2 but with
netbase 3.1-1.21 the ip-aliasing stuff "works", as in the ip alias is
created but ifconfig will not show the alias unless you call it explicitly
with the interface name.
Whe
> > Hey! UW has given me permission to distribute PINE. COOL.
So Pine will be included in the Debian distro now? *excited look*
btw, i usually got pine from debs.fuller.edu but it refuses ftp connects
now, can someone tell me where i can find it please?
Regards
Sarel botha
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> I don't believe I saw anything like that. The errors are about modules such
> as IP forwarding, the modules I installed when I recompiled the kernel.
> I believe another error is about SLIP or PPP but both seem to work.
If you compile something into the ke
Our users are using newest version of Outlook 98 and netscape mail on win95
/ 98 stations. Thanks.
> -Original Message-
> From: Aras Paskus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 2:14 PM
> To: Brian Morgan
> Cc: Debian User Group; recipient list not shown:
> Subject:
the nfs server continues not to respond, still causing the same problems.
Trying to umount /sunsite gets:
Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
umount: /sunsite: device is busy
The kernel logs also contain:
nfs_revalidate_inode: /// getattr failed, ino=2, error=-512
Is
> I've also been having problems with a Quantum... this one is detected
> as Quantum BIGFOOT_CY4320A. It was first installed as a Win95 drive.
> Wasn't long before Windows started detecting errors at the beginning
> of the drive, and it finally became unusable. I'm using it for linux
> now. When
> I am forced to use a lo-res X server (basically, a VGA server with
> 16 colours). Recently, I have had need to use xfig.The problem is that
> xfig enjoys using hi reesolution servers, and I am left with only a handful
> of icons on the left hand side toolbar, and none underneath. I have been
> tr
> Hey! UW has given me permission to distribute PINE. COOL.
>
You sure are a dedicated dude. I am getting sick of exmh, so I think I switch
back to pine.
I have sunsite mounted via nfs on sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
I've lost the connection to sunsite (network problems elsewhere in the
university), but whenever mcv21 tries to do anything that involves running
a shell, I just get the error
nfs: task 358 can't get a request slot
and the thing just hangs:
On 03-Mar-99 Shaleh wrote:
>
> On 03-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote:
>> I have Debian 2.0 (Hamm) installed (2.0.35 kernel) and I have one small
>> problem that might not really be a problem. If I reboot the machine, I get
>> several errors about not finding modules, yet everything (including IP
>> Masque
Hi!
Does anyone know how to make smail put your local time in the
emails and not the GMT time plus your time. For example, to put 22:00 CET
and not 23:00 GMT-1.
Thanks in advance for your help!
-- p.
Thanks to all who helped me with the pine "FOLDER INTERNAL DATA" issue. Got
that taken care of.
1 more question that doesn't necessarily directly relate to Debian:
POP users on our Digital Unix system (on an Alpha box) often have trouble
receiving attachments. If an attachment appears in certai
>Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:38:53 -0500 (EST)
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: module errors
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
>On 03-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote:
>> I have Debian 2.0 (Hamm) installed (2.0.35 kernel) and I h
There's a FAQ on pine's website that answers your question.
http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/non-UW.html
Regards
Sarel Botha
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:
> This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help me with a
> problem I'm having in pine. We recently pu
"Brian" == Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> cryptic messages, and often swarm the help-line with fears of
Brian> viruses and other nonsense! Can anyone help?
The only fix I know of is to use the pop3 daemon that comes with
imapd -- unlike other poppers Debian has, it quietly supp
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote:
This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help
me with a problem I'm having in pine. We recently put the new
version of pine on our Digital Unix machine which supplies email
accounts for about 1000 users. Many users use POP c
This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help me with a
problem I'm having in pine. We recently put the new version of pine on our
Digital Unix machine which supplies email accounts for about 1000 users.
Many users use POP clients to access their mail, while our students use
pi
I am running slink with the 2.2.2 kernel and I can't seem to download
more than about 120M of data at once. Downloads just stop and do not
start up again. If I abort and resume then things pick up where I left
off but only for another chunk and it stops again. An example is when
I am trying to
On 03-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote:
> I have Debian 2.0 (Hamm) installed (2.0.35 kernel) and I have one small
> problem that might not really be a problem. If I reboot the machine, I get
> several errors about not finding modules, yet everything (including IP
> Masquerade) is working. Why do I see thes
I have Debian 2.0 (Hamm) installed (2.0.35 kernel) and I have one small
problem that might not really be a problem. If I reboot the machine, I get
several errors about not finding modules, yet everything (including IP
Masquerade) is working. Why do I see these errors? I would copy the errors
if
I just read the Bob Young essay linked on slashdot. It made me think.
How come no debian folks have attempted to take RH's GPLed install app and
make it work in debian. Or does debian have other plans to develop an
equally good install app?
If debian had an install app that autodetected hardwa
First, try to get it to work with SVGA server. It might work better. (S3v
doesnt work for me, I have S3 ViRGE/DX card).
As to your problem: it just doesnt find any valid modes to run in.
I've got the little walk-through on my homepage, (URL underneath), but
basic idea is to change the order of mode
I was doing a "apt-get dist-upgrade" to update to the latest versions, when
installing the xserver-common package didn't work. This has now trashed my
X installation completely, so it doesn't work at all.
This is what happens when I try to install it:
# dpkg --install /tmp/xserver-common_3.3.2.3a
With regard to mounting cdrom filesystems, I believe there is something
called "amd" that can automate this so that you do not have to type
"mount..." each time. Maybe someone has the details??
"Markus M. Schneider" wrote:
>
> Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote:
>
> > If I boot right from the linux flo
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote:
> I am using Debian 2.0r4 and trying to boot my brand new PC since 4 days
> with several rescue disks I prepared with dd on my good old Linux PC.
>
> I even tried to boot with a self prepared root.bin disk but a reader
> of this list told me that I don
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Corey Ralph wrote:
|I have been trying to get XFree86 to work with a Trio3d AGP card, and it
|doesn't seem to be supported.
indeed, it isn't
|Somebody sent me a link to an update for red hat to support it, but I would
|prefer to stick with Debian.
no, redhat doesn't support.
Hi all,
I just installed Debian2.0 from official CD. The installation went ok
except problems with serveral packages(defualt chosen). One problem is
that when I install I saw no 'xinit' and I couldn't write anything to X
config file.
I start XF86Setup manually and get it worked ( I know all the d
Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote:
> If I boot right from the linux floppy disk, when it gets to the point of
> mounting my CD-ROM drive I get this:
>
> MCD=0X360,11: init Failed. No mcd device at 0x360 irq 11
>
> But if I let the system boot up using MSDOS, it then loads everything
> encluding my cd-r
Greetings,
I know I've seen this addressed before, but for the life of me I can't
seems to find it, so I will ask the group. I have several machine, now
running DOS 6.2. The system BIOS doesn't support large drives, 540MB is the
max. I have several 630-1000MB drives and wish to use them o
Be careful. The Motorola SM56 is a winmodem but it does not say so
anywhere on the box! At the web site, it is called a "software modem" or
a HSP The AOpen FM-56 is also a winmodem but it does not advertize
it in big letters on the box. I discovered this at the web site in a
footnote. These are
In a message dated 3/3/99 12:25:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> that user info like home directory is stored.
>
All home directo
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> > > What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> > > partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> > > that user info like home directory is stored.
> > The home directory of a user is written i
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Pablo Cernadas wrote:
> I need help to choise a modem that works on debian
> can somebody tellme about?
Avoid any modem that is a "win modem" These do not and can
not be made to work under Linux. Primarily because the CPU
does most of the work, and the specifications are kept
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> > partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> > that user info like home directory is stored.
> The home directory of a user is written in /etc/passwd.
I need help to choise a modem that works on debian
can somebody tellme about?
thanks
good day
The link does work if you take off the 's...
http://web.horde.org/
Will
- Original Message -
From: Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: web based mail
>On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:17:10 -0500
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:17:10 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > i was wondering if there's anyone here who gives web based mail services
> > to their customers. if so, what package/application can you suggest w/c,
> > based on ur experiences is proven to work in a nice and stable way.
>
>T
>
> What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> that user info like home directory is stored.
The home directory of a user is written in /etc/passwd. In that file
you can change the directory, then co
I was able to shoot down to SJ to make the last 2 hours of the exhibits.
The RedHat, LinuxCare, and Compaq booths were all very flashy and cool.
I was gawking at this really cool Compaq display, when I realized the
crowd was not for the servers, but for Linus. Very Cool. I didn't get an
autograp
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:39:15PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote:
> I just got myself an old 270 MB hard disk...to supplement the 120Mb I have
> on my current disk. I've got debian Linux installed on it..Anyone knows how
> I should go about it.
> Also, I have about 72MB of free space left on the cur
Why not add a kind of VIEWPATH environment variable to the install tool.
(like in some compilers) The package that is found first in the list of
directories
will be installed
Joop
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
> > Just to reassure everyone, I am quite happy to support the
> > enlightenment-cvs package.
>
> I've just installed it, and it removed the Enlightenment option from the
> Menu/WindowManagers that enlightenment_0.14 put there.
Yeah.
I haven't integrat
> I agree with Ben here - the binary distribution should remain _at least_
> 486 compatible, if not 386 compatible.
It should be compatible with anything Linux can run on...
say a i386, 4M RAM, 20M(?) flash drive and late '80s video.
- Bruce
Note: If you have no interest in the package tree but use GIT,
or are interested in a file system centered interface to dpkg,
you may want to skip to the end of this message.
What I am about to describe is not feasible for initial installations or
system upgrades... but if you are ch
On 03-Mar-99 Mark Yobb wrote:
> What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
> that user info like home directory is stored.
cp -a /home /wherever/
mv /home /home.bak
ln -s /wherever/home /home
... TEST .
> What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
> partition/drive?
Try cp -a ..
Mark.
_/\___/~~\
/~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips
/~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
__
"Robert V. MacQuarrie" wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> >Hi Micha Feigin; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> >> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote:
> >> > Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian?
> >> > there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (l
> From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [ Sorry about the massive crosspost, last one I swear. Please honor the
> Reply-To. ]
>
> For those attending LinuxWorld expo in San Jose:
>
> Wednesday night starting at 7pm, we will be having a debian dinner at
> Chili's in San Jose. [...]
Ahem. That'
[ Sorry about the massive crosspost, last one I swear. Please honor the
Reply-To. ]
For those attending LinuxWorld expo in San Jose:
Wednesday night starting at 7pm, we will be having a debian dinner at
Chili's in San Jose. This event is open to both users and developers
alike. Developers: brin
What do I have to do to move my user directories to a different
partition/drive? I have looked around but I can not find what file (?)
that user info like home directory is stored.
Also I was wonder what the most dependable way to mount a drive on boot
was? Can you do this with in a stan
The location I suggest for the party tomorrow night is at Chili's. The
atmosphere is good, not too loud, not too soft, and the food is fairly decent.
>From the show, it's also fairly easy to get to. Directions to the one I'm
the most familiar with are as follows:
>From the Expo Center, take 280
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Graham Ashton wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > I've just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Fetchmail seems to work the
> > same as before, except that now, only the first 10 messages get to my
> > mail box straight away.
>
> I've got the same problem. Stra
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
> I've installed each version of SO and have never had any problems using
> the provided 'setup' utility. I really only have 1 minor complaint with
> SO5 and thats the fact that it takes up so much disk spack in the users
> account. I remember one
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
> underneath or not, they can't get to underneath. The superuser can get
> in, but root can always get in. Preventing that requires rethinking the
> concept of "root".
Hopefully root will stay as it is. I hate this message "Acce
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:12:08AM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
> remember to install the -dev packages too.
Why? All you need to run programs that require libm.so is in libc6 (which is
in base). You might need libc5 for old programs and you will need libc[56]-dev
for development.
cu
Torsten
pgp
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:39:30PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I found vim-rt on the debian site. It mentioned syntax highlighting in
> the description. I downloaded it and installed it. The error is gone
> (cuz I let it overwrite my /etc/vimrc), but I still get no syntax
> highlighting :(
>
> C
I have been trying to get XFree86 to work with a Trio3d AGP card, and it
doesn't seem to be supported.
Somebody sent me a link to an update for red hat to support it, but I would
prefer to stick with Debian.
I am using Debian 2.0 I have upgraded to the XFree86 from slink, and have
download the S3
> Hi,
Hi.
> I just got myself an old 270 MB hard disk...to supplement the 120Mb I have
> on my current disk. I've got debian Linux installed on it..Anyone knows how
> I should go about it.
Ok, one thing to do if you are running out of space is partition the new
disk and make it your /usr
For th
Hi,
I just got myself an old 270 MB hard disk...to supplement the 120Mb I have
on my current disk. I've got debian Linux installed on it..Anyone knows how
I should go about it.
Also, I have about 72MB of free space left on the current disk. Add to that
the 270MB(if I pass the smoke test!)..can some
Folks,
Thanks to Daniel J. Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I was able to
solve my problem by running smailconf.
Thanks to all who offered their help! :-)
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999, William Park wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> So
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:36:27PM -0600, Eric wrote:
> I was trying to install from the rpms which I converted to debs using
> alien. I didn't try installing from the source...I didn't really want
> to because I don't really want it to take the place of my normal
> gcc...I'd like to be able to r
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 05:16:51PM -0600, Eric wrote:
> That's true, it would most definitely be a "symlink farm," but what's
> so bad about that? Priorities in apt would definitely be cool. Is
> that something that is definitely going to be incorporated?
>
> eric.
>
> On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 0
If you proceed into the installation process, it will mount the root under
/target. If you switch immediately to a VC and mount it manually, it will
mount it where you specify with the mount command.
Bob
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, rich wrote:
>> This is a good application for the rescue disk (of the
I just got the VNC to work by setting the font paths in the vnc.conf file
to use ';' instead of ',' . Once that change was done it thing accually
worked, now I just need to figure out how to use it...
--Dano
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent:
> Just to reassure everyone, I am quite happy to support the
> enlightenment-cvs package.
I've just installed it, and it removed the Enlightenment option from the
Menu/WindowManagers that enlightenment_0.14 put there.
Pedro Guerreiro
--
Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
You're not by any chance running a CD player? Some of them have a habit of
hogging the eject function. Just a thought...
Cheers
Dave
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 00:32 +0100, Björn Elwhagen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a strange problem. Even tho my cdrom is unmounted i can't get it
> to eject the
I was trying to install from the rpms which I converted to debs using
alien. I didn't try installing from the source...I didn't really want
to because I don't really want it to take the place of my normal
gcc...I'd like to be able to remove it from my system easily.
How much of the pentium optim
On 02-Mar-99 Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:24:43PM -, Pollywog wrote:
>> I just found out that in RedHat, .profile is called .bash_profile
>> Is the same true in Debian? When I used OpenLinux, they were separate
>> files.
>
> If I remember correctly, bash will look fo
> This is a HUGE difference. The multiuser patch was great! 12M for 4.0 to
> 140M with 5.0. Does anyone know if there was a multiuser patch for SO5
> aswell? I like having a 12M user dir as opposed to a 140M dir.
I haven't seen one. But at home here I'm only running the personal version
and ha
humm on my birthday, do I get free cd's :)
cool
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So if the party was yesturday, when will the 2.1 be released ?
The web page still says that 2.0 is the current release.
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On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:41:03PM -0600, Eric wrote:
> I figure that they could have the important processor-intensive
> packages actually recompiled with PGCC and the rest of the things in
> binary-i686 would just be links to the packages in binary-i386.
Definately. Pentium optimised vi or cp
At 01:17 PM 3/2/99 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I get this I switch sites in sources.list. Fixes it for me.
I tried to do that but couldn't seem to find a site that would work for me.
Does any ftp site work or do I have to use a http site. I couldn't get ftp
sites to work and couldn'
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:24:43PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> I just found out that in RedHat, .profile is called .bash_profile
> Is the same true in Debian? When I used OpenLinux, they were separate files.
If I remember correctly, bash will look for .bash_profile first, and
will "fall through" to
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