Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Jeff Katcher
Mitch Blevins wrote: > No, it's not your system. I just checked and ftp1.us.debian.org > is just an alias for http.us.debian.org. > Also, when I try to update from http.us.debian.org I get errors > almost identical to yours... and I am running apt_0.3.0 > > My best guess would be a mirror prob

Re: what is texinfo?

1999-03-11 Thread mike shupp
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Yesterday I was reading a man page that told me that the official info I > was looking was in texinfo. What is that? , Cause I searched in dselect > and I did not found any program called texinfo Texinfo files are processed by Tex or by info to pro

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Have you tried playmidi -e ??? Yup. I get nothing. But I _can_ play to hte external midi port in Windows95. > > > > > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > > Load type: Driver compiled into kernel > > Kernel: Linux gondolin 2.2.1 #4 Sun Feb 14 18:21:24 EST 1999 i586 > > Config options: 0 > > > > Inst

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Matt Garman wrote: : It appears to be my system :( Same errors: : : Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages : 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line : Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages : 0% [Packages `Connecting to http

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Will Lowe wrote: > Has anyone had any luck connecting an external midi device (say, a tone > generator) to the midi port on an SB16? I've got the card working ok, > but I can't get any programs to send output to it. Sending > anything to /dev/sequencer or /dev/sequencer2 results in the crappy SB

Re: what is texinfo?

1999-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:12:43AM -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Yesterday I was reading a man page that told me that the official info I > was looking was in texinfo. What is that? , Cause I searched in dselect > and I did not found any program called texinfo texinfo converts special tex fil

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread rich
>I don't know what kind of statistics you do, but try >Octave which is GNU >clone of MatLab. For graph, I use >Python to analyze the data, and PiCTeX to >plot and >typeset the graph. > >Yours truly, >William Park Actually, I looked at Octave and it doesn't seem to be what I'm lo

Re: Installing X to Debian for a Newbie

1999-03-11 Thread Richard Hall
You don't actually have an a.out system do you? Which version of Debian are you running? It's bound to be an elf system since you call yourself a newbie and a.out went obsolete years ago. So, anyway, you ought to be installing .deb packages from a debian mirror rather than source code from x.org

Re: which package provides ldd

1999-03-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Wed, 10 Mar, 1999 à 10:46:59PM -0500, dyer wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility > > used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal > > disaster mentioned in an earlier post). > > > > base/ldso And what abou

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread Jameson Burt
> The best statistical pagacke is IMHO R. > > -Egon > > On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Park wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, > > > and I have have several large databases essential f

Re: what is SGML? [long]

1999-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:11:01PM -0800, Henry Kingman wrote: > > Besides HTML, two really important DTDs are CAL, used by the US Defense > Department, and Docbook, used in publishing and elsewhere. There are > some other important ones that I can't remember. One is TEI, for sure. At least in L

Re: what is SGML? [long]

1999-03-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Mar-99 Henry Kingman wrote: > "J.H.M. Dassen" wrote: > > This might be a little off, as it was a couple of years since my SGML > class, but here goes: > > SGML was created in the 70s by an IBM lawyer, Charles Goldfarb, ... Thank you for that story ... enjoyed it with great interest. Ted.

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Richard Hall
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Any body know some *working* mirrors to test? You can try sunsite.utk.edu/pub/debian. I believe that it is working; however, there were some problems on the fiber between here and Atlanta today that may not be fixed yet, so it might be slower than no

Re: Installing X to Debian for a Newbie

1999-03-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Robert Aisenberg wrote: > I am trying to install X with great difficulty. I downloaded X from > XFree86 and ran the setup script preinst.sh. It said that I had an A.out > system and that my a.out binaries where not available for that releas

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-11 Thread Kent West
At 02:33 PM 3/11/1999 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:40:35 -0500 (EST), Michael Stenner wrote: > >>But it shouldn't be an "exclusive or". As time has passed, I have come >>to respect the people who view computers as tools. They d

Installing X to Debian for a Newbie

1999-03-11 Thread Robert Aisenberg
I am trying to install X with great difficulty. I downloaded X from XFree86 and ran the setup script preinst.sh. It said that I had an A.out system and that my a.out binaries where not available for that release. What should I do. Thanks in advance - James

Re: size of swap

1999-03-11 Thread mike shupp
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Apparantly Linux can't use more than 128 M in a swap partition, even if it happens to be larger, so... You can apparantly have _several_ swap partitions, however, if you want to s

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Matt Garman wrote: > > I am trying to update from that mirror without much luck. > > Try changing the line to be > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > It appears to be my system :( Same errors: No, it's not your system. I just checked and ftp1.us.debian.

Re: Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Andreas Kremer wrote: > > > kmedia: error in loading shared libraries > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual > > I also got this problem. Downgrading to qt1g-...-1 solved it. But now, > with the old version I g

Re: CDROM problem

1999-03-11 Thread Craig T. Hancock
I thought the standard name for all cdrom devices was /dev/hdc check your /dev drirectory to see if you have a hdc device and I bet my bottom dollar that is your cdrom device Jean-Georges Carbonnier wrote: > hello, > > when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM > eveything

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:40:35 -0500 (EST), Michael Stenner wrote: >But it shouldn't be an "exclusive or". As time has passed, I have come >to respect the people who view computers as tools. They don't want to >have to learn, they don't want to have t

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > > Which apt version are you using? Which distro? (hamm, slink, potato) > > > > I'm using apt version 0.1.9 in the slink distribution. > > I am trying to update from that mirror without much luck. > Try changi

Re: Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-11 Thread Andreas Kremer
> > kmedia: error in loading shared libraries > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual I also got this problem. Downgrading to qt1g-...-1 solved it. But now, with the old version I get a segmentation fault e.g. with karchie. Before I got the error message as described abo

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Matt Garman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:56:23PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > > > > I still can't get "apt-get update" do do anything useful. Anyone have > > > a clue? > > > > > > Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > > > # Use for a local mirror

Re: what is SGML? [long]

1999-03-11 Thread Henry Kingman
"J.H.M. Dassen" wrote: > "predecessor" might suggest HTML replaces SGML. It most certainly does not. This might be a little off, as it was a couple of years since my SGML class, but here goes: SGML was created in the 70s by an IBM lawyer, Charles Goldfarb, who wanted a format that could be easil

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:56:23PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > > I still can't get "apt-get update" do do anything useful. Anyone have > > a clue? > > > > Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the

Re: mail filtering

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying debian after using redhat for awhile and have a question about > procmail. > > With redhat I use fetchmail to download my email and as long as I have a > procmailrc set up in my home directory my mail would be filtered > automatically. I am usi

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > I still can't get "apt-get update" do do anything useful. Anyone have > a clue? > > Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list > > # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits > # your mirror contains. > # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable ma

Compaq Prosigna 500

1999-03-11 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Hi all, anybody has a Compaq Prosigna 500, and can tell me what type of network card is there? I've tryed to install an "empty" one, but I cannot make the network. Any hint? thanx, fab -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 8

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the java version from Mirabilis or one > of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also good ICQ > clones for UNIX and Linux. Java version of ICQ is extremely buggy and extremely slow. Clones, on the other hand, are much better. I use mi

Re: Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: > I recently installed the potato version of qt1g (1.42-2) on my > system in order to use the new version of licq. It appears to have > damaged KDE in some way, because now several K apps give a strange > error, f

mail filtering

1999-03-11 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying debian after using redhat for awhile and have a question about procmail. With redhat I use fetchmail to download my email and as long as I have a procmailrc set up in my home directory my mail would be filtered automatically. I am using smail with debian since it was the default a

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-11 Thread Pollywog
On 11-Mar-99 steven walsh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know where I can download the Linux version of ICQ? I've been >> looking around but can't seem to find it. Thanks for any help in advance. >> >> Shawn >> > Try www.freshmeat.net

Wierd KDE Library error...?

1999-03-11 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hello all, I recently installed the potato version of qt1g (1.42-2) on my system in order to use the new version of licq. It appears to have damaged KDE in some way, because now several K apps give a strange error, for example, when trying to run kmedia: kmedia: error in loading shared l

Booting linux with a file as root??

1999-03-11 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I'm new to this list, and to debian/linux in genereal. I installed debian from a CD and am having a great time, mainly due to the amount of great documentation available from the cd and on-line. Anyway what I wanted to know was if there was anyway to boot a kernel (using loadlin.exe) and make

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I don't see Deb spending a lot of time playing politics. I don't > > see Deb developers spending a lot of time on other mailing lists > > or newsgroups proselytizing Debian over other dists. For the most > > part, we do

still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Matt Garman
I still can't get "apt-get update" do do anything useful. Anyone have a clue? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for mor

Re: How to upgrade to slink?

1999-03-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
tboy wrote: > > Hello! > > I have been using hamm, and now want to upgrade to slink via FTP for apt, > gnome and some new key libs, etc. Which packages do I need? How to upgrade > in a most economic way? Would anyone mind giving me some suggestion? > > Please detail your suggestion because I'm n

jre & checkVersions

1999-03-11 Thread Brett Wuth
Hi, A friend of mine is trying to install some Java course material that comes as a shell archive. The installation fails when it says it's testing jre, saying that it can't find the checkVersion class. We're both newbies to Java so please tell me if we have something fundamentally wrong. He's

Re: what is texinfo?

1999-03-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:12:43 -0800, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > Yesterday I was reading a man page that told me that the official info I > was looking was in texinfo. What is that? The preferred format to write documentation in within the GNU project. From it, formatted versions in several for

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread Michael Beattie
On 11 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: [snip] > > Although it might seen as a logical conclusion to say that 12:00 pm is noon, > > the argument doesn't hold, because `pm' has a precise definition. It means > > "when any given star has _crossed_ the meridian" > > Which it will have by the time you

Re: what is SGML?

1999-03-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 15:03:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SGML is standard general markup language. It is the predecessor of HTML. "predecessor" might suggest HTML replaces SGML. It most certainly does not. Check out http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ for introductions to SGML, XML and re

Re: ICQ for Linux

1999-03-11 Thread steven walsh
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know where I can download the Linux version of ICQ? I've > been > looking around but can't seem to find it. Thanks for any help in advance. > > Shawn > Try www.freshmeat.net and search for ICQ "See you on the flip

ICQ for Linux

1999-03-11 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Does anyone know where I can download the Linux version of ICQ? I've been looking around but can't seem to find it. Thanks for any help in advance. Shawn

Re: what is SGML?

1999-03-11 Thread shaleh
SGML is standard general markup language. It is the predecessor of HTML. You can read it as plain text, like html, but the whole is not shown. Rather most people convert SGML to something else.

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-11 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: >On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Richard Lyon wrote: > >> Yes I am new to linux and like dselect. Gives one a good grasp on what is >> going on and makes installing packages a breeze. Maybe we should form the >> dselect self-help group to try and convince ourselves

what is texinfo?

1999-03-11 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Yesterday I was reading a man page that told me that the official info I was looking was in texinfo. What is that? , Cause I searched in dselect and I did not found any program called texinfo Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

what is SGML?

1999-03-11 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
what is SGML? and how can I read it? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

what is SGML?

1999-03-11 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
what is SGML? and how can I read it? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
You may try scilab (which is a clone of matlab written by INRIA) for plotting graphics and so on. But if you are looking for some scientific application, please don't forget to consult SAL (http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml) it has a good summary of linux scientific applications. Paulo. --

S3 Virge/GX2 + AGP

1999-03-11 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is this supported by hamm? If so, do I have to install anything special? I've tried choosing the video card directly from the list of xf86config, but it doesn't work. Thanks for your help! -- p.

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread Mario Bertrand
On 11-Mar-99 Kent West wrote: > At 09:03 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >>Say "noon" and "midnight", or use 24 hour notation. > > > One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter? > > -- >>John Hasler >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >>Dancing Horse Hill >>Elmwood, W

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 > > > hours > > > after noon, or midnight. > > > > No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12 hours and one minute after noon. > > > > 12:00 PM is noon, because the time switche

Re: Debian

1999-03-11 Thread homega
I think he's looking for some badges or pins with the logo. Sweden, hey? would you give them away if I sent you pins with my phone number? =;-) Person, Roderick dixit: > Are you sure your mailing the right list or am I just missing the question. > > Are you looking for an app to help design badg

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread homega
Marcelo E. Magallon dixit: > John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he > explained, am means 'ante meridiem'. This `meridiem' [ ... ] ¿"meridiem"? are you sure it's not meridian? or is this the Latin form? I knew I should have never burnt my Latin dictionary... m

vim and the control keys

1999-03-11 Thread keyoz
Hi folks! This is my last resort after reading the archive and the manpages. My problem is that when vim is in insert mode the control+arrow keys doesn't work as expexted in an xterm or the console. It works fine while in GUI mode. Is there any solution to this? Being a DOS/WinXX immigrant, I'

Re: boot floopy

1999-03-11 Thread Kent West
At 10:20 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, Craig T. Hancock wrote: >I want tto install debina off ftp how to I make a boot floopyu I think I >look at all the doocumentation but still could't find anything PS to my previous message: Once you have the base install done, then you can use the ftp method in dselect

Re: boot floopy

1999-03-11 Thread Kent West
At 10:20 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, Craig T. Hancock wrote: >I want tto install debina off ftp how to I make a boot floopyu I think I >look at all the doocumentation but still could't find anything You'll actually need to download and create several floppies -- 7 to 10, depending on which version of Debi

DPKG with long-name packages

1999-03-11 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hello ! when I type dpkg -l, only the first portion of the pkg's name appears. But when I want to remove the pkg, I must have the full package name. So, HOW to view entire names ? -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: mp3 encoder packaged for debian?

1999-03-11 Thread Sami Dalouche
The best I found is lamer. (no deb package) It says that it's not an mp3 encoder but it is ! It's the dist10 src pkg (found on a link (Which ?) on www.8hz.com, if I remember...) with a patch (dist10patch-2.1f) I don't remember where I downloaded this but compiled with PGCC, it's the quickest mp3 e

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/11/99 11:31:55 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Say "noon" and "midnight", or use 24 hour notation. > > > One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter? > Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it change

Re: Potato soon to be frozen?

1999-03-11 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, sepp_r wrote: > I read on slashdot.org that potato will soon be frozen. Is this true? It depends on the definition of "soon" :-) We don't know yet when we will freeze potato, if this is what you refer. Debian 2.2 will include Linux 2.2 and glibc 2.1 among other things. Even

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread Kent West
At 09:03 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >Say "noon" and "midnight", or use 24 hour notation. One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter? -- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, WI > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [E

Re: kernel Image Size.

1999-03-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
What are you putting in that kernel? I have my 2.0.34 compiled with vfat/dos/iso9660 support, SB16, some other options, and it's 360K only, in the bzImage format. GO through the kernel and unmark all the stuff you don't need. I think the kernel size limitation is in the docs. If my memory serves m

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread Egon Schmid
The best statistical pagacke is IMHO R. -Egon On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Park wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, > > and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. >

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread William Park
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, > and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. > For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing > my data, I use SigmaPlot

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/11/99 10:48:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 12:00 PM is noon, because the time switches from AM to PM at noon. > > Simple, eh? > > John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he > explained, am means 'ante meridiem'. T

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:17:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wrote: > > > 12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight... > > > > Pann McCuaig writes: > > > I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon > > > > PM stands for post meridiem, which means after no

Re: kernel Image Size.

1999-03-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Justin Akehurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: | | > Ok, | > | > I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to | > mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still | > too large. So I tried to make bzI

RE: Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Are you sure your mailing the right list or am I just missing the question. Are you looking for an app to help design badges and pins or are you looking for a Debian logo or something all together different? > -Original Message- > From: marfe98 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, Ma

Re: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Kirk Hogenson
I wrote: >> Here is another, much simpler, and probably better, idea. Stay up >> late one night and start "apt-get dist-upgrade" yourself, and once >> downloading starts, go to sleep. Use cron or at to automatically >> hang up the phone when the expensive rates begin again. (i.e., just >> put

Re: kernel Image Size.

1999-03-11 Thread Justin Akehurst
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > Ok, > > I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to > mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still > too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! > > What FF is the larges si

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1999-03-11 Thread Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
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Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread MallarJ
This is a goofy topic, but, what the hey > > I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon > > PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours > after noon, or midnight. By that logic, 12:01pm would be 12 hours and 1 minute after noon, or 1 minute after midnight. :)

Debian

1999-03-11 Thread marfe98
Good Day. My name is Martin Feldt an I am a study at media and communicatios at the mid-university of Sweden. The students in Sweden has a sort of a "national costume", a plain workers overall. The idea is to embellish it with textile badges and pins. The more the better! So my questions to you i

majordomo problem unsubscribing

1999-03-11 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I'm running a potato system with majordomo installed. The mailing lists work ok, but when I try to unsubscribe (by sending an appropriate e-mail), I get this in the log file: ABORT chown(0, 31, "/var/lib/majordomo/lists/risiko.new"): Operation not permitted feri.

kernel Image Size.

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok, I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so fa

Re: Default passwd file entries

1999-03-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Justin Akehurst wrote: > I am trying to tighten the security on my linux box. I noticed a bunch of > entries in my passwd file for things/users I don't even have, like a bunch > for qmail, one for postgresql, etc... > > Why are these there

Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > According to Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp > > method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an > > older version of apt. The http method works very well and th

Re: does WINE work well enough?

1999-03-11 Thread servis
*- On 11 Mar, rich wrote about "does WINE work well enough?" > Hello all, > > I have recently become interested in installing WINE to run some > essential WIN-based programs... Anyway, I would like to be able to run > them under linux instead of having to reboot to my ever-crashing Win95 > system.

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (solved)

1999-03-11 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
"Dr. Andreas Wehler" wrote: > > Hello. > > There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th > disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo > says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with "Unable to open /dev/sdf". > strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives > >open("/dev/sdf", O_RDWR

Spreadsheet capable of opening CSV files?

1999-03-11 Thread rich
Hello all, I would also like to be able to use a GUI-based spreadsheet that can import tab- or comma-delineated files (as far as I can tell, gnumeric canNOT?) like corel quattro or excel... Is there anything out there? Thanks, Rich

does WINE work well enough?

1999-03-11 Thread rich
Hello all, I have recently become interested in installing WINE to run some essential WIN-based programs... Anyway, I would like to be able to run them under linux instead of having to reboot to my ever-crashing Win95 system. Will the debian package of WINE work? The WINE webpage makes it sound li

Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-11 Thread rich
Hello all, I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there - are there any na

Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had no problems with floppy drives, and in the quest for the perfect Deb Box something when wrong, I guess. It seems that I can format ext2 fs on floppy. At first I thougth m

Re: IP forwarding & chat problem

1999-03-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bal K. Paudyal wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > I just installed ppp server in one of my machines. When I connect from > Win95, the ppp connection between the server and win95 is established. But > I can't connect from another Linux. It could be a chat script problem. I > have used almost the same scri

Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???

1999-03-11 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp > method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an > older version of apt. The http method works very well and the number of > sites which support it is i

Re: Telnet and Debian 2.1?

1999-03-11 Thread Nils Grimsmo
Karola Risto wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't get telnet working after installing Debian 2.1. > I think that telnet (client and server) in 2.0 was included in some base package, but has nov been moved into their own packages: telnet (client) and telnetd (server or daemon if you want). You can get the

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> playmidi -e blues.mid Doing this doesn't work. I just don't get any sound. Everything's plugged in, turned on, and works fine from windows. > if You automatically `postinstall` the 'sfxload-command' > this will not work. I installed the debian playmidi package. I don't think it asked me if

Re: size of swap

1999-03-11 Thread Frankie
Armin Wegner wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? > > Thanks, > > Armin > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null hi, the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times your memory, but at 128MB you

Re: network help

1999-03-11 Thread Paul Miller
"G. Kapetanios" wrote: > > Thanks for the reply > > ifconfig gives the followng > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 > Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0

Re: Backgrounds in X/fvwm2

1999-03-11 Thread servis
*- On 11 Mar, Alec Smith wrote about "Backgrounds in X/fvwm2" > I know I can use xsetroot to set a solid background color in X under > fvwm2. However, I'd like to use a bitmap background I have saved as an > .xpm file. How would I go about doing this? > If you are using the Debian hooks setup to

size of swap

1999-03-11 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin

Re: debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:46:02 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] >>I don't understand this. Why don't you just download the ready-made CD >>images? I did it the day before yesterday, and it worked fine. >> >>What is the advantage of downloading the packages and then building an image >>of yourse

Re: Telnet and Debian 2.1?

1999-03-11 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Karola Risto wrote: > > What has been changed concerning telnet since 2.0? Any ideas? Netstd has been split up into several packages in Debian 2.1. See the list below. Telnet and telnetd are now separate packages. net/netstd_3.07-2.deb split into 10 packages: mail/vrfy net/bwnfsd

CDROM problem

1999-03-11 Thread Jean-Georges Carbonnier
hello, when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the source and I tell it CDROM, after it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I try some things like this: /dev/hdb but it sa

Telnet and Debian 2.1?

1999-03-11 Thread Karola Risto
Hi, I can't get telnet working after installing Debian 2.1. It worked easily with Debian 2.0: just install netstd right after Debian installation and other PCs in the LAN were able to telnet into the Debian box. Now with Debian 2.1 the other PCs can't get connection (or it is lost immediately

Re: dselect removed (almost) everything

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:34:52AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Matt Garman hat gesagt: // Matt Garman wrote: > > > > > I was using dselect, and I hit the remove unwanted software option. > > And it went through and started removing almost EVERYTHING I had > > installed -- stuff I thought shou

Re: Help with PAP!

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:11:15AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: > Helllo, > > I am now connecting to a different server from my ISP for X2 V.90 > dialup. > > Previosly, to dial in all I had to do was change > /etc/chatscripts/provider with my username and password and the number > to phone (th

Re: Help with PAP!

1999-03-11 Thread Hamori Andras
> > Helllo, > > I am now connecting to a different server from my ISP for X2 V.90 > dialup. > > Previosly, to dial in all I had to do was change > /etc/chatscripts/provider with my username and password and the number > to phone (there was no PAP/CHAP authentication). > > Now allegedly the

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