Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Guest Account
Jay Barbee wrote: > > At 3/18/99 11:28 AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > >ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on > >another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all? > >Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainbo

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

1999-03-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: help me to undertand GMT time Date: Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:14:18PM -0500 In reply to:Colin Telmer Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > > > Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it

Re: dhcp

1999-03-18 Thread shaleh
> > hi > > I have to install dhcpclient.(on slink) Has anybody a working > configuration ? > I got it working yesterday, but today it's not working > anymore??!!?? > How to configure? > For the client all I did was install the package. No config

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1999-03-18 Thread Anton
where can i get free linux??? monk e-maul:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with starting Linux when a CD-R is connected

1999-03-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Please reply to debian-user only! TIA, Jens. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 04:46:27 -0800 From: www-data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Faq-O-Matic Moderator Mail [This is a message about the Faq-O-Matic items you moderate.] Who: [EMAIL

diald and ip address

1999-03-18 Thread Chris Hoover
I was wondering what file I should modify so that diald will email me my ip address when it goes on line? I've tried adding it to the /etc/diald/ip-up file (I believe that is where it is, but I'm not at my machine right now), and it did not work. Is there another file I can modify so it will

help w/ installation

1999-03-18 Thread Jayson Baird
anyone ever encountered a problem while installing, it suddenly reboots the entire system around the point where you partition your drive? Other times I'll repartition the drive, will initialize them, and then it will reboot...any ideas?

Re: General questions

1999-03-18 Thread scratch
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > You could download individual .deb files and install them by hand ("dpkg > -i package.deb"), or point apt at your friendly potato mirror and then > use "apt-get install " to install and upgrade the packages you > want. To do this, is it necessary to manu

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:42:32 PST, fockface dickmeat wrote: >Could you tell me how? pppconfig - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to t

TIOCSER?WILD ??????????

1999-03-18 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Having upgraded from Kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.3 I get a mesage that says TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored. when the machine boots. The message is printed twice and I can see it with dmesg. I thought it might be an option in a config file so I searched the whole harddrive for files contai

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

1999-03-18 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes > > to > > 00:00:00. > > Midnight is 2400 hours. After 24:00:00 it changes to 00:00:01 > > I'm as authoritative on this subject as you are, so who's correct? Here's a so

dhcp

1999-03-18 Thread tino
hi I have to install dhcpclient.(on slink) Has anybody a working configuration ? I got it working yesterday, but today it's not working anymore??!!?? How to configure? thx tino

Re: Use the source luke

1999-03-18 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any opinions are welcome :) > > > > How about the best of both worlds, download the orig.tar.gz, the dsc > and the diff.gz files and make your own packages. > > dpkg-source -x packagefoo.dsc > cd into the created directory > debian/rules binary > > Then y

Re: Drop-in-Debian

1999-03-18 Thread stick
First, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my request - Ray, Dale and Bob Hilliard. This list is great! Dale Scheetz said > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:54:54 -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > > I've spent way too much time looking for a ref

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

1999-03-18 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/11/99 11:31:55 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 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 changes to > 00:00:

Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-18 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:10:20PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > > > > If you need your machine for "real work" then you shouldn't be running > > > unstable. > > > > If debian unstable isn't tested on machines used for real work, > > debian i

Re: General questions

1999-03-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > 4) Someone says that slink directory is now frozen except for security > patch. Yes - it's been released now. > How found new software that are in potato but are stable, > without downloading all potato ? You could down

Re: installing debian

1999-03-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Juan Revollo wrote: : -No, when looking at the partition table, no extended partitions exist : : -The original partition was Dos. When the rescue floppy could not : repartition, I deleted it. The rescue floppy sill cannot partition. : : -The rescue floppy runs a men

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-18 Thread John Hasler
debianuser writes: > Could you tell me how [to set up ppp]? Run pppconfig as root to configure ppp. Use pon to bring up the connection and poff to shut it down. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

proftpd permissions

1999-03-18 Thread Max
I have a strange problem with proftpd. I can ftp in OK with my username and password but can't get any files, even when they are owned by me and have the right user permissions. It actually looks like the user ID isn't being set correctly but the group ID is because if I set the group read permis

Re: KDE Questions

1999-03-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession > file I do: > > if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults > fi > > before I start KDE but these resources don't seem to b

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a low-level mem 386.

1999-03-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Wed, 17 Mar, 1999 à 09:22:06PM -0500, Francois-Nicola Demers wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install Debian on a 2mg memory 386? I know that > Debian offer a low-level memory installation for PC under 5mg. Is > this offer is also for 2mg memory 386? > Hi, It should be done but you'll pro

Re: How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread servis
*- On 18 Mar, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote about "Re: How to create /dev/eth*?" > Benoit Joly wrote: >> you dont need to create the device. >> >> the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is >> probably not what you did. >> >> so compile your kernel to support th

KDE Questions

1999-03-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've just upgraded to KDE 1.1 and have a couple of questions. I should probably ask on the KDE mailing lists, but I'll try here first. 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession file I do: if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults fi before I start

Re: How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Benoit Joly wrote: > you dont need to create the device. > > the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is > probably not what you did. > > so compile your kernel to support the ethernet card and everything should be > fine. Thanks. I will try it out later today wh

RE: How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread Benoit Joly
you dont need to create the device. the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is probably not what you did. so compile your kernel to support the ethernet card and everything should be fine. Benoit On 18-Mar-99 Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I recently got a DS

How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I recently got a DSL connection at home. When I first installed Linux in this machine at home it did not have an ethernet card. I used to use ppp to connect to the net. This machine is running slink from the mid-feb time-frame. I copied over /etc/init.d/network from another Debian box and edite

Re: Accelstar graphics card

1999-03-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, If anybody uses Accelstar II graphics card could you tell me the right Xserver for this card ? Any other tips for X use wiould be appreciated TIA George 3dlabs server from xfree 3.3.3.1 works for me just fine if you're using slink it is enough to get binary server and put it

modprobe sysem log entry

1999-03-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am still a Linux newbie, and I try to make sense of error messages logged. Every time I check mail with my email client (XFmail) the following is added to my system log: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 last message repeated two times What does this mean? TIA

Re: General questions

1999-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 18:13:12 +0100, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > 3) Why don't we found KDE1.x and koffice in potato ? We concluded we couldn't legally distribute KDE binaries (http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008). Since then, Troll Tech have indicated they're going to change Qt's license ter

Re: Time track for X similiar to gtt?

1999-03-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lorina Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | titrax is the package you should check out. [Time Tracker 1.98 is the | version I have.] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the author; I can't find the URL for the | location that I got the source from. Thanks Lorina! I found it via ftpsearch. If anyone else is

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-18 Thread fockface dickmeat
vi works best. There are few things worse than editing WSIWYG produced html. >From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Paul Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: what's the best html wordprocessor? >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:55:4

Accelstar graphics card

1999-03-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, If anybody uses Accelstar II graphics card could you tell me the right Xserver for this card ? Any other tips for X use wiould be appreciated TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS

Re: Time track for X similiar to gtt?

1999-03-18 Thread Lorina Poland
titrax is the package you should check out. [Time Tracker 1.98 is the version I have.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the author; I can't find the URL for the location that I got the source from. Lorina Poland

Re: diff.gz file size

1999-03-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting XRDLAB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > I am facing some problem with regard to gzip. I dowmloaded the > icewm-0.9.33 files from debian archive. Netscape, unzipped the diff.gz > file while downloading. To get on with the compilation, I just gzipped > the diff file. But, the size in the ds

Re: Obtain hostnames from IP addresses

1999-03-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Conrado Badenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know how to obtain hostnames (e.g., skywalker.termol.uv.es) > from IP addresses (e.g., 147.156.6.236). I've written this program: > [...] > int l; > char addr[]="147.156.6.236"; > struct hostent *ph; > >

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-18 Thread fockface dickmeat
Could you tell me how? >From: Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: I can't believe this >Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:07:23 -0800 (PST) > >Well I have to say that setting up ppp in debian was the easyist, of all >t

CPAN upgrade -> oops

1999-03-18 Thread Graham Ashton
I just upgraded to CPAN 1.48 on my slink box (fully up to date), and now the CPAN shell won't work. It says this; cpan> i /Zlib/ Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz perl: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined s

Netbeans (IDE for Java)

1999-03-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hello, I download netbeans from netbeans.com, but when I want to install it (like a user not root) with : java nbd2.1.class it says me that I have not a jdk1.1 but a jdk1.0 I use kaffe, jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev packages from potato. Bye.

General questions

1999-03-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hello, Some questions : 1) Is there a conflict between : tya kaffe jdk 2) Did someone use an IDE for java ? I am looking for one to debian. 3) Why don't we found KDE1.x and koffice in potato ? 4) Someone says that slink directory is now frozen except for security pa

RE: Can Debian run in IMacs?

1999-03-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Ares wrote: : No chance. The Imac is a PPC based distro, which won't be available : from Debian as a stable release until potato is stable, or so say the : plans @www.debian.org. More to the point, USB support needs to be fleshed out in the kernel before it'll run on the I

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-18 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Richard Lyon wrote: > Logically it may be better to spend some money on an os which doesn't require > specialist training to understand. Right. Which one might that be? (I've used dozens of OSes and I haven't yet come across one like that.) -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PRO

Unidentified subject!

1999-03-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am still a Linux newbie, and I try to make sense of error messages logged. Every time I check mail with my email client (XFmail) the following is added to my system log: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 last message repeated two times

Re: installing debian

1999-03-18 Thread Juan Revollo
I Did delete partition with Dos fdisk. On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:36:32 -0800 (PST) mike shupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Try the MS-DOS fdisk. Think of it as a professional courtesy: fdisk >programs are reluctant to remove partitions put up by other OSs. > >--

Re: Quasi-mirror for local net

1999-03-18 Thread Michael Procario
I would like to something similar. I have downloaded the i386 branches and have them nfs mounted on one of my systems. I copied the package files and that has caused me some problems. How do I build the package files correctly for myself? Mike

Re: Drop-in-Debian

1999-03-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:54:54 -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > I've spent way too much time looking for a reference to Drop-in-Debian (or > > DiD). > > http://www.linuxpress.com/001002.htm > > If I'm not mistaken, "Drop in Debian" is the name of t

Re: Drop-in-Debian

1999-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:54:54 -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > I've spent way too much time looking for a reference to Drop-in-Debian (or > DiD). http://www.linuxpress.com/001002.htm If I'm not mistaken, "Drop in Debian" is the name of the Debian (derivative) distribution included with "The De

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/18/99 09:35 AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > >>> First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR >Courier > >>> v.everything 33.6k bps. > >>Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same >setting you will > >>get > >>nothing. >

OT: 95MHz system problem SOLVED

1999-03-18 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I finally tracked down the issue with my system. It turns out that the memory and my motherboard wouldn't play nice together. My parents have a PII-450 system, which also has 128MB of PC-100 SDRAM. (They wanted a computer that they wouldn't have to upgrade for many years. My dad mostly

Re: menus in debian

1999-03-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, I was wondering how debian automatically generates menus when you > install new stuff. Point your web browser to file:///usr/doc/menu/html/index.html, and try man update-menus Please don't send mime-encoded messages to the list. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

audible notification for caps/num -lock, etc.

1999-03-18 Thread servis
Hi all, Is there a program or a way to have an audible notification if the caps-lock or num-lock key have been toggled? Or for that matter any key? I know that xset can set a 'click' option but that is not what I am looking for since it will affect all keys. Thanks, -- Brian

Re: none

1999-03-18 Thread Peter Makholm
Steve Przepiora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I was wondering how debian automatically generates menus when you install > new stuff. Read: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator på den eneste modererede g

ndbm.h

1999-03-18 Thread Mikael Vidstedt
Ahoy there! I recently installed slink on a Sparc Classic. One of the programs I'm compiling now requires a file named ndbm.h. As far as I can tell, the "only" place this file can be found is in /usr/include/db1/ndbm.h, but usually this file is placed in /usr/include/ndbm.h. Why the difference?

Drop-in-Debian

1999-03-18 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Howdy All!! I've spent way too much time looking for a reference to Drop-in-Debian (or DiD). Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA, Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road

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1999-03-18 Thread Steve Przepiora
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Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
At 3/18/99 11:28 AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: >ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on >another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all? >Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainboard >on only half of the pins

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
>>> First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier >>> v.everything 33.6k bps. >>Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will >>get >>nothing. > Hummm, are you talking about the modem's

Forcing Modules

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
i'm trying to force old modules into a new kernel. Specifically kernel 2.0.36 modules into kernel 2.2.3. I tried i nsmod -f modulename not luck. It tells me that module was compile for kernel 2.0.36. Now, the reason is that my 2.2.3 was an image I downloaded. I

Re: Lilo lanunching NT Loader

1999-03-18 Thread Ralf Doering
Jeff Beley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a dual boot NT / Debian box and would like to be able > to have lilo boot NT instead NT loader boot lilo. Does anyone > know how to do this? > The following works for me: (NT installed into hda1) - install lilo into the linux root partition - ma

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Jay Barbee
>At 3/17/99 07:58 PM -0800, Shanta McBain wrote: >>Jay Barbee wrote: >>> First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier >>> v.everything 33.6k bps. >>Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will >>get >>nothing. > Hummm, are you talking about

Re: gnome library

1999-03-18 Thread Adam Lazur
Khalid EZZARAOUI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I have a probleme when I run a gnome application, like gnome-stones. > I have this message : > > gnome-stones: error in loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions > > Do you know, what I have to do.

Adaptec SCSI Card 1505

1999-03-18 Thread Martin Stenzel
Hi there, I am not new to Linux, though, new to Debian. Yesterday I installed the base system from floppies, everything went fine, except I had no chance to tell the dbootstrap program the kernel parameters for my SCSI card. It was not listed with other SCSI cards when doing the kernel/modules s

RE: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev.

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
We have a winner. Broken CD . I guiess I've been hackin' too hard Roderick P. Person aka Roddie Rod ? 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 4:14 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sub

Possible to drive an Exabyte ``tower'' ?

1999-03-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Our remote-sensing lab is considering swithing over to Linux, but they need to use an Exabyte Tape tower (model EXB-10 CHS) to handle multiple tape cartridges. Does anyone know of Linux software to handle this? Or of any supported tape towers on the market? Thanks! -- Peter Galbraith, resea

Lilo lanunching NT Loader

1999-03-18 Thread Jeff Beley
I have a dual boot NT / Debian box and would like to be able to have lilo boot NT instead NT loader boot lilo. Does anyone know how to do this? --Jeff -- --- Jeff Beley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Administrator PGP Key Available upon request

Re: dependency problems

1999-03-18 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, John Cuson wrote: > someone last week told me about the pc magazine article that was > placed on zdnet and led to the spate of discussion we've just seen. > my response at the time was "it's not for weenies". that was, of > course, before i began setting up a series of libra

Re: rivatnt slink

1999-03-18 Thread David B. Teague
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, tino wrote: > > can I get a working SVGA-server with my rivaTNT chipset > on the slink release the easiest way? Do I have to uninstall > xfree86-3.3.2packages and then download and > compile all the xfree86-3.3.3 sources ? > Are ther no packages/patches for? If you are usin

gnome library

1999-03-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hello, I have a probleme when I run a gnome application, like gnome-stones. I have this message : gnome-stones: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Do you know, what I have to do. Bye.

Re: /etc/localtime and glibc 2.1

1999-03-18 Thread eric Farris
I am having the same problem after upgrading to potato. /etc/localtime is a symlink to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern . There isn't a /usr/share/zoneinfo anymore, and there isn't a file called 'Eastern' on my system. dselect tells me that the "timezones" package conflicts with, libc6. it also say

Re: -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages

1999-03-18 Thread L. Besselink
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Steve Haslam wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:37:19PM +0100, Paul Lemmens wrote: > > I recently started wondering what the -- MARK -- lines in > > /var/log/messages represent. I cannot explain them logically, nor have I > > found a daemon that's responsible for these line

Preparing source packages.

1999-03-18 Thread Kamil Jonca
One day I tried to debianize compiler (egcs) I wrote lines Replace: and Provides; but after preparing, compiling and installing it , I had to install package libc6-dev and I got a message like libc6-dev needs gcc and gcc is not installed. What is going on. Where in Debian{Policy,packaging} manua

Re: removing OnTrack DDO

1999-03-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I have no direct experience with Ontrack, but it sounds like you have a vaild (non-ONTrack) partition table in the MBR sector of that disk since you can access it as a slave or after booting from a floppy. But the OnTrack DDO code is still residing in that sector, which comes into play when you boo

Re: -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Haslam
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:37:19PM +0100, Paul Lemmens wrote: > I recently started wondering what the -- MARK -- lines in > /var/log/messages represent. I cannot explain them logically, nor have I > found a daemon that's responsible for these lines. > > Can anybody help out? the MARK lines are cr

rivatnt slink

1999-03-18 Thread tino
hi can I get a working SVGA-server with my rivaTNT chipset on the slink release the easiest way? Do I have to uninstall xfree86-3.3.2packages and then download and compile all the xfree86-3.3.3 sources ? Are ther no packages/patches for? thx tino

modconf - eepro100

1999-03-18 Thread Csejtey Gabor Zoltan
I have an Intel network card and the module is eepro100.o How can I install it with modconf to the kernel, what parameters do I need? I used modcnf but it didn't work: installation wasn't succesful Gabor

Re: error - SIOCADDRT

1999-03-18 Thread Ralf Doering
"Asokan P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My machine has suddenly started displaying this message > SIOCADDRT - invalid argument. > The network card is dtected and while booting up it shows up correctly > I traced it to the two route commands in /etc/inet.d/network > They are correct - as per the

Re: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
ioports and interrupts look ok. What about the cable? Does it work on another computer? Wiring could be wierd. Does the serial port work at all? Sometimes when I assemble a computer I put the little plug on the mainboard on only half of the pins, or in the wrong orientation,... It is an external mo

Re: Slink upgrade - problems with X.

1999-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Debian, unlike most linux distributions, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a >symlink to the `real' X binary. It's a wrapper-program which reads a >configuration file /etc/X11R6/xserver to find out which X server to >run (and some other things). >In hamm (haven

cdrecord,/dev/pg0 & /usr/include/linux

1999-03-18 Thread John Carter
Greetings Debi-one's, Are you trying to compile the "cdrecord" or some other thing that makes use of the "pg" driver? Are you having no joy? Does the @#%$%$! cdrecord merely say "Cannot open SCSI" and then exit? Are you losing your hair by the fistful whilst you beat upon your breast and keyboar

Re: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev.

1999-03-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > My cdrom has worked fine for months - after i figure out it was a > goldstar. Now Debian claims it is not a valid block device. > > On boot, I get the cdrom detected, happy goldstar message. which is good. > I try to mount it and I get not a valid block dev. I tried to MAKEDEV and > it seem t

Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg

1999-03-18 Thread Michael Bonetsmueller
ahem. mea culpa. I overlooked kernel-package and now everything is up and running, including the 'mca_' problem. Thanks to Laurent and Wayne for your help! Michael. -- Michael Bonetsmüller The least we can do is wave to each other [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Van der Graaf Gene

Re: Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]

1999-03-18 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that > completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine, > mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even > cut and paste some text into an xterm w

problems upgrading 2.0 to 2.1

1999-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Package: dpkg-multicd Version: 0.14 I am trying to upgrade a Debian 2.0 system to 2.1, using dpkg-multicd. I have encountered a few problems. Firstly, I went in, had it mount the second disk ok to read the packages file; then I quit. Another process was in the directory (a shell I was using) so i

removing OnTrack DDO

1999-03-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Summary: is it possible to remove OnTrack Disk manager/Dynamic Drive Overlay without trashing everything on the disk? Long version: I have two disks in one PC; /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. hdb has DDO installed on it from when it served in a DOS PC with old BIOS. When I installed, I needed the data in

Re: iso9660 module in kernel 2.0.34

1999-03-18 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:12:34PM -0600, Paul Miller wrote: > "G. Crimp" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Anybody know what an unresolved symbol is ? I've just compiled a > > This is a function call or variable that the modules wishes to use but > cannot find. > > > kernel making iso9660 su

dbackup (was: Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...)

1999-03-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 01:10:44PM -0800, David Bristel wrote: > This is a good point, and it actually leads to an interesting idea > for a package that would take care of this issue. Now, this is NOT > an easy project, but, what about a package that has a list of the > config files for ALL the pa

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Re: error - SIOCADDRT

1999-03-18 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Asokan P wrote: > My machine has suddenly started displaying this message > SIOCADDRT - invalid argument. > The network card is dtected and while booting up it shows up correctly > I traced it to the two route commands in /etc/inet.d/network > They are correct - as per the man

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1999-03-18 Thread Asokan P
In the office we have a WIn NT machine connected to the INternET and that is running WinGate. What should I do to use this sort of a connection, to upgrade debian, by using apt-get? I cannot wait to run slink. P Asokan

error - SIOCADDRT

1999-03-18 Thread Asokan P
My machine has suddenly started displaying this message SIOCADDRT - invalid argument. The network card is dtected and while booting up it shows up correctly I traced it to the two route commands in /etc/inet.d/network They are correct - as per the man, ifconfig looks alright ping 192.168.3.208 ( th

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a low-level mem 386.

1999-03-18 Thread John Galt
Them ny first experience with bo didn't exist? I had a 386 w/ 2M of memory and a MFM hd and installed bo with no real problem. The result won't be pretty, but it should work as well as anything else available today. You might wish to get an old bo distribution, tho. On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Robert

Re: Decompressing Mac .sit.hqx files

1999-03-18 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Dpk wrote: [snip] > Try the package macutils. Although I have never used it, from the > file /usr/doc/macutils/README.unsit: > /* > unsit - Macintosh StuffIt file extractor > Version 1, for StuffIt 1.31 > This program will unpack a Maci

Re: [off-topic] auto-replies

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:13:14 -0600, Mike Merten wrote: >Yep, I'm getting them too :/ Me three, and this concludes our class on why posting to -user gets you spammed. Thank you, and good night. So how do we nuke the SOB? - --

Re: mailing list software

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:59:59 -0600, oneiros wrote: >> berolist, majordomo or smartlist? >majordomo definatly. Only if one is masochistic enough to run a Windows wannabe. IE, hack piled upon hack piled upon hack piled upon hack. Majordomo'

Re: mailing list software

1999-03-18 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:24:13 +0100 (CET), Pere Camps wrote: > berolist, majordomo or smartlist? Listar. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | mai

Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-18 Thread Robert Woodcock
Seth, If you want support information like this sugar-coated, you can write it yourself, you can run it through debian-publicity first, you can make it however you want. I really don't care. Just so *someone* writes it and posts it to the appropriate lists. That's being part of the solution. -- R

off topic: PL/I compiler

1999-03-18 Thread D'jinnie
not a question I really expect an answer to, but: I'm looking for a PL/I compiler preferably cheap or free. Noone except IBM seems to be making them anymore. For obvious reasons I prefer Linux, Unix, or Win platform :) --- Life is complex: part real, part imaginary. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on

dtv2000 with kernel 2.2.1

1999-03-18 Thread benoit
hi, I want to setup a dtv2000 to run with my 2.2.1 kernel... I compiled the kernel for bttv and modprobe bttv works. The problem is when I run xawtv. Im getting a channel but I cant change it. I dont have sound... On the xterm im getting a lot of warning from ioctl... what's wrong... on the xawt

Re: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev.

1999-03-18 Thread Ed Slocomb
What is the output for a particular mount command, e.g.: mount -t iso9660 /dev/gscd /cdrom ? It looks like you have "cdrom" (a string) instead of "/cdrom" (a mount point) somewhere. -Original Message- From: Roddie Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday

Re: slow connection

1999-03-18 Thread Chuck Lackey
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:31:43 +0100, Juha wrote: >Hello everybody! >I need help to troubleshoot my Internet-connection. I have new 3com. >U.S.Robotics modem and it works well with Windows. I can get connnected in, >but transfer-rate is extremly slow. Netscape-homepage takes 2-3 minutes to >downloa

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