RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-23 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the >> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message >> "A20 gate not responding!"... >[snip] >> The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, i

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamori Andras wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel > > config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the > > kernel, they must be built as modules. With sb16, for example I > > need a config li

[Fwd: Network driver problem]

1999-03-23 Thread Kent West
--- Begin Message --- Thanks: Right I was not using root, but when I used root I got the following error message: ne.c: No PCI Cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" Value(s) of ISA cards /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: init_modules Device or resource busy > -Original Message- > From: Kent West [SM

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, steven walsh wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel > > > config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the > > > kernel, they must be built as module

RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-23 Thread Alan Bailward
> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > "A20 gate not responding!"... [snip] > The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info > about the hardware, please let

Re: package-tool?

1999-03-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ralf Mueller wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there a tool to maintain the installed deb-packages like 'kpackage', with > > wich I can install, deinstall, configure deb-Packages? > > Thank you very much. 'dpkg' is the command-line manager (like rpm). 'dselect' is a front-end for dpkg; this i

Re: Communicator email & security

1999-03-23 Thread Chuck Lackey
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:19:12 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Dear Friends: > >I'm having a variety of problems with Netscape Communicator & >Debian. In my Hamm installation I tried installing Netscape both with >& without the installer .deb package. In both cases I experienced very >fla

!modem init ?

1999-03-23 Thread Chuck Lackey
I have just installed slink on a 486/66 with 25 meg ram. I have an internal modem that works fine with it, I'm trying to replace it with an external. The external and com card work on another machine. I've tried 2 external modems, and 2 com cards. The result codes are not getting passed back to t

Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-23 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi everyone. I've got 2 old 486 machines here that I'm trying to install slink onto. One of them is a Compaq Deskpro 486/33M and the other is built out of off the shelf parts. I've managed to install onto the Compaq machine with no problems whatsoever, but when I try to boot the rescue/install dis

Need help - Kensington Expert Mouse (Trackball)

1999-03-23 Thread Allen J. Fulleton
I can't seem to get this trackball to work no how, no way.. I don't want to go back to Bill's mouse unless I REALLY have to.. I note that Linux PPC supports this device. How can a newbie use this info to get my superb Kensington to work with Debian? This is Kensington Expert Mouse V5.0 on /dev/

Re: Less DEB Package

1999-03-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 09:43:17PM +0100, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I'm surprising by the number of Deb package because all Softs are splited for > ? Debian Policy reasons. > But why do not, for example the pkg : > tetex-bin > tetex-base > tetex-extras > > Why not spliting These 3 pkg into one and ma

Less DEB Package

1999-03-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
I'm surprising by the number of Deb package because all Softs are splited for ? Debian Policy reasons. But why do not, for example the pkg : tetex-bin tetex-base tetex-extras Why not spliting These 3 pkg into one and making new options to dpkg common to all package like this -install-base -install

Re: Find contents of inode

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, you can always use: find / -inum N -ls Bob Hilliard wrote: > Is there any command that does the opposite of `ls-i'? That is > take an inode as argument and return the file name. > > Bob > -- >_ > |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |_) (_) |_) Pa

=20 and such in the email messages.=20

1999-03-23 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Hi! Recently I started to see those =20's (blank spaces?) and other quote-printables in some of the emails. Now I figured I am not the only one. Debian bug reporting system also sees them. Check this out: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/34/34923.html What is happening and how to fix it?

Problems to set up a NFS-server

1999-03-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I have problems to install a NFS-server in a Linux-only local intranet: kernel 2.2.1 w. NFS compiled; nfs-server_2.2beta37-1.deb installed, looks ok; /etc/exports file edited. When I say 'rpcinfo -p',the mountd, nfsd and portmapper look up as usual, but when I say 'rpcinfo -u (or -t) loca

Re: Netscape 4.5 non-free package

1999-03-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Csejtey Gabor Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Warning: > Name: openOrBringUpBrowser > Class: XfeButton > Creating an active drop site with no drop proc. > > Error: Cannot perform malloc > I (and some other persons here on the list) got the same problem. I think that the communic

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Olaf Rogalsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would be wonderful!!! Only one single point from where to search for > documentation. If you ever executed a command like > find /usr -type f|xargs egrep -li 'proxy|squid' > then you know, that a central point for documentation would be a great time

Re: SB PCI 64

1999-03-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Have you compiled a new kernel? When you do, make sure to check [Y]es on the first option which asks if you would like do add support for "experimental" stuff. Then go to the sound section and select [Y]es for the es1370 support. That's it. Hope that helps. -Ian On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Tuv- OK!

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 22 Mar, 1999 à 06:13:13PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Jeff, > [...] > I was never able to get my PC (a 3 year old pentium) to access more than > 8.4GB. Even > that was only after flashing my ROM to the latest version. I could access the > entire > drive from both Win98 and Linux if

SB PCI 64

1999-03-23 Thread Tuv- OK!
I tried everything, but nothing worked. Who managed to get the PCI64 working with an ALSA driver please tell me how to do this. I don't know how to edit modules.conf for my SB (ES1370) Please Help! Willem (== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==)

Re: defrag

1999-03-23 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: > I just want to know how to use defrag on a system. I don't want to make > floppy disk or something else. > Is it possible to remount / in ro mode without rebooting ? > Thanks Why do you want to use defrag? Linux's standard filesystem (ext2) does not

Re: Aliases

1999-03-23 Thread shaul
> > > > Hi > > I have add several aliases to my .bashrc file ,but the file would not > > be consulted while starting up. > > What I am doing wrong > > You need to put them in your .bash_profile file, and you need to make > sure you are running a `login shell'. To get a login shell in an xterm,

Re: out of ptys

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:51:53 -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogind cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal, which is necessary for an interactive terminal session like "rlogin". This can e.g. happen if you've switched to glibc2.1, run a 2.2.x kernel compiled with UNIX98 support, b

Re: Second plea for help getting KPPP to work.

1999-03-23 Thread MallarJ
Thanks for the response. ;) Unfortunately, switching to chap didn't help any. I'm pretty sure my ISP uses PAP, at least when I connect via the console instead of KPPP I see PAP authentication. -Jay

Re: defrag

1999-03-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Sami Dalouche wrote: > Is it possible to remount / in ro mode without rebooting ? If you don't have any files opened for writing, this should do the trick: mount -n -o remount,ro / HTH, -Remco

Re: Colors in X Windows Software

1999-03-23 Thread Sarel Botha
> I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors. 2^8 = 256 colours 2^16 = 64 K colours 2^24 = 16 M colours 2^32 = 4 G colours You could also have a DefaultColorDepth entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config like... [...] Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "S3 Trio64V2/DX (generic)"

Re: Device detection?

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I'm not sure I see why checkpointing every test should be particularly > slow. Michele Bini writes: > Because you have to wait after every test for the checkpoint to > be written to disk and the disk to be flushed I'm not convinced that has to all that slow. > and disk's builtin cach

Find contents of inode

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Is there any command that does the opposite of `ls-i'? That is take an inode as argument and return the file name. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9

Re: kde is no longer in debian

1999-03-23 Thread Carl Mummert
I just finished installing four user machines with the kde .debs; you can try ftp.us.kde.org for a US mirror. These are the qt packages you need; install them, then install all of the KDE debs. .../debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/devel/qt1g-dev_1.42-2.deb .../debian/dists/potato/non-free

Samba + User level access control

1999-03-23 Thread Sarel Botha
Hi all I'm trying to get User-level access control on a windows client machine working. The client logs on to the NT domain fine, but when I right click on a resource, click enable sharing and click Add I get: "You can not view a list of available users at this time.". It's probably something very

Re: kernel upgrade

1999-03-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Mar, Matthew Cocker wrote about "kernel upgrade" > I installed hamm on my machine, but have since upgraded to slink (using > dselect) and kernel 2.2.1. Problem is I have just got this error > message: > >>Whoa, something is wrong with the system include files on your machine! > The file

Re: Colors in X Windows Software

1999-03-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Chances are, you are running X at 8bpp. Thats the installation default. To run it with a different depth use startx -- -bpp 16 or 24 or 32 I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov

Xfree and Frame Buffer

1999-03-23 Thread Nicolas PROCHAZKA
Hi, I'm using XF86_FBDev as X11 Server for frame Buffer system. My problem is that I don't succeed to configure any mode in 16,24, or 32 bits, can anybody help me ? My configuration is : Graphic Card : ATI RAGE 2C AGP 4Mo My /etc/fb.modes mode "test" geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 timings

Re: Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread frankie
Shawn Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just installed gnome on my system but nothing seems to be > happening. I am running the WindowMaker Manager. The tool box shows > some gnome stuff like the gnome panel but when I click on it nothing > happens, it's the same with everything else. Doe

I/O errors on CD-ROM after upgrade

1999-03-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I upgraded my hamm installation to slink smoothly (I think) but now I get numerous I/O errors when running dselect from the CD-Rom. Is this a hardware problem or is there something I can do about it in slink? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Logging htaccess protected accesses.

1999-03-23 Thread Matthew Myers
Does anyone know how to log which user logs into an .htaccess protected directory?

Re: Device detection?

1999-03-23 Thread Michele Bini
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:38:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Rob Browning writes: > > > Presuming that most people won't have lockups, the overall inconvenience > > might be less this way, particularly if it dramatically cuts the time to > > run successful tests. > > I'm not sure I see why chec

kernel upgrade

1999-03-23 Thread Matthew Cocker
I installed hamm on my machine, but have since upgraded to slink (using dselect) and kernel 2.2.1. Problem is I have just got this error message: >Whoa, something is wrong with the system include files on your machine! The file is for a 2.0.36 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.1 kernel. Thi

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > Actually, my wife and kids use Win 95. And sometime I have to go in and fix > there messes (Play sysadmin). Sometime I download stuff (in Debian) for > them, the logout and install it into Win 95. I would like to do all that > without leaving Linux an

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Jay writes: > the output of pppd is already stored in your /var/log/syslog. That will not help him find if his script is running. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Diald & kernel 2.2.2 [SOLVED]

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Oh, you don't want to forget to put: > > # enable forwarding > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > into /etc/init.d/network. Hi. The problem was on the forward chain that deny everything. THANK YOU very much.

defrag

1999-03-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
I just want to know how to use defrag on a system. I don't want to make floppy disk or something else. Is it possible to remount / in ro mode without rebooting ? Thanks -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM : linh

Colors in X Windows Software

1999-03-23 Thread Fred Perry
Hi folks, Anybody out there displaying Cerius 2 output on a Linux box? This may be a problem with other software as well, I'm not sure. When I use a Debian Linux 2.0 machine to display this software, it gets the colors all mixed up. I was able to fix the same problem on a Mac using X emulator

lyx and fonts

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
Allo all, anyone know of a way to get lyx to use ttf fonts?

very stable AGP or PCI video card

1999-03-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I need a very stable and cheap AGP video card for my system. I currently have a S3 Virge GX/2 AGP which curruntly crashes the whole system every once in a while. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- p.

Problem with a PCI to SCSI Host Adaptater

1999-03-23 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Did somone manage to make a AVA-2902E card work under debian ? My computer does not see the SCSI peripherics. I'm running potato, with a 2.2.3 kernel. Thanks in advance, Greg -- \\|// VDB gTRY Atlantis BBS. Free BBS under GNU licence (O O)

Re: Diald & kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, you don't want to forget to put: # enable forwarding echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward into /etc/init.d/network. Guido Bozzetto wrote: > Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. > > Messages > > there should

Re: xterm TERM environment

1999-03-23 Thread Kirk Hogenson
scratch wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been asking myself this question: why is it that whenever i use > the Xterm Debian package, the debian-xterm TERM environment is > exported, in stead of "xterm"? > > I use a lot of accounts with no "debian-xterm" termcap entry. How can > I change this behaviour

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread L. Besselink
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I > think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it > is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb > suffix slightly fr

xterm TERM environment

1999-03-23 Thread scratch
Hi, I've been asking myself this question: why is it that whenever i use the Xterm Debian package, the debian-xterm TERM environment is exported, in stead of "xterm"? I use a lot of accounts with no "debian-xterm" termcap entry. How can I change this behaviour and/or what is de Debian policy on t

remote X programs

1999-03-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=... Thanks in advance for your help, -- p.

Re: Diald & kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. > Messages > there should give a better indication of what's going wrong. I use diald > 0.16.5-3 also Nothing, on the ppp.log there is nothing :-( When I fire-up line with: echo up > /var/

Re: no kernel source

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
> > Question 1.. How do I unpack the source code so that everything > falls down to the appropriate directories?? Grab a kernel tarball, untar it in /tmp, then move the created linux dir to /usr/src/kernel-source-. Then make a symlink in /usr/src called linux and point it to the source you inten

out of ptys

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
Can anybody tell me what this means, and how to fix it? rivendell[502] [~]> rsh gondolin rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogin: connection closed. Will -- | [EMAI

no kernel source

1999-03-23 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
With the distribution that I used to install Linux (Linux Press 2.1) after the installation was complete I realized that the source code had not been downloaded ! Question 1.. How do I unpack the source code so that everything falls down to the appropriate directories?? Question 2.. I am curren

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/23/99 8:18:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what > > is happenning. > the output of pppd is already stored in your /var/log/syslog. -Jay

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux s ystem

1999-03-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Mar, Colin Rowat wrote about "installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system" > Hi all, > > I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I > think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it > is to download that and u

Re: Diald & kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. Messages there should give a better indication of what's going wrong. I use diald 0.16.5-3 also with kernel 2.2.3 and it works fine (although I get some messages about obsolete ioctls being used). Guido Bozzetto wrote:

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
a deb is an ar archive containing two tar.gz files. Simply do: ar x filename.deb then tar zxvf the data.tar.gz. A better solution however is to use alien. It understands most packagers.

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: [snip] > It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum > possible > size the bios can accept larger. I haven't tested EZ-Drive with Linux yet, > but I > can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Check www.westerndigital.com for

Re: Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I > gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the > web and used it to set up my HP laserjet 1100 printer. I finally got it > working. I wishe

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
Actually, my wife and kids use Win 95. And sometime I have to go in and fix there messes (Play sysadmin). Sometime I download stuff (in Debian) for them, the logout and install it into Win 95. I would like to do all that without leaving Linux and of course I like to play some of my games link Orion

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: > > I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I > think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it > is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb > suffix slightly frightens me f

Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > > Hello. > > I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer > connected via LPT. > The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine > running Bill's stuff. > It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the > doc com

installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Colin Rowat
Hi all, I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view. If you could pleas

Re: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
> I was wondering if it was possible to use SAMBA connect WIN95 and LINUX on > the same machine sort of a pseudo network thing? Has anyone tried this. Not unless you can run both of them at the same time (actually, you can ... see http://www.vmware.com). Linux can mount Windows drives, so wha

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
This is cool! this seems to be exaclty what I'm looking for! Finaly I can play my Darksun games in Linux!! I guess I can do my work at home to. > -Original Message- > From: Shaun Lipscombe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:02 AM > To: Egon Schmid > Cc: Person,

recovering trashed /var

1999-03-23 Thread Robin Stephenson
I trashed my /var partition (doh!) and now the machine won't boot. Now I really wish that packages would do something sensible when they can't find what they're looking for in /var (be it a checkpoint file, a directory to put logfiles in, or whatever). *sigh* Is there some way I can reconstruct i

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Eric Ravelomanantsoa wrote: > > > In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to > > > enable sound > > If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same > > card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a > > diff

Re: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Egon Schmid
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible to use SAMBA connect WIN95 and LINUX on > the same machine sort of a pseudo network thing? Has anyone tried this. > > Roderick P. Person Have a look at www.vmware.com. Run Win95/Win98/NT/Linux conncurrently on th

package-tool?

1999-03-23 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, Is there a tool to maintain the installed deb-packages like 'kpackage', with wich I can install, deinstall, configure deb-Packages? Thank you very much. Bye Ralf (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de) ** * Thank you for not using

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Mashao writes: > Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what > is happenning. Sure. Put this in your script: echo Running > /etc/ppp/running and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp/running if the script executes. -- John Hasler

RE: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
Thanks for all the answers you all have sent. Now I know it will not work with more memory, thanX Lieberman's Law: Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Eric Ravelomanantsoa wrote: > > > In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to > > > enable sound > > > > If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same > > card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a > > d

Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hello. > > I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer > connected via LPT. > The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine > running Bill's stuff. > It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I

Diald & kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Hi, using diald with kernel 2.2.2 connections don't start (while with 'up request ' line goes up). Everything works correctly using kernel 2.0.36. Diald .deb version is 0.16.5-3. Netbase package is 3.12-2 With the 2.2.2 kernel giving a 'route -n' I got: Kernel IP routing table Destination G

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-23 Thread Dan Hugo
Sarel Botha wrote: > > > Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since > > that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, > > this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing > > would run once the kernel finished starting. Co

Re: broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:12:38 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > deb ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/debian-non-US/ non-US main contrib non-free This should be one line: > deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ non-US main contrib > non-free In any case, non-us currently doesn't have separate

Re: Network configuration

1999-03-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
True. Not compiling network support in might cause the same problems as not compiling in the device for the root file system, IE: not being able to boot. What I meant was that at some point, it is possible to make the kernel too big and then SOMETHINGS need to be left out. But this is probably n

Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've just installed gnome on my system but nothing seems to be happening. I am running the WindowMaker Manager. The tool box shows some gnome stuff like the gnome panel but when I click on it nothing happens, it's the same with everything else. Does anyone know where I can get infor

Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer connected via LPT. The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine running Bill's stuff. It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the doc comming with Samba and tried to configure smb

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Mar, Daniel Mashao wrote about "Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed" > On 22 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > >> Daniel Mashao writes: >> > My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. >> >> Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. > Thanks for

Re: Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 12:24:22AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. > What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can > no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's > to go th

apt-get weirdness

1999-03-23 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Could someone explain me this? marvin:~# apt-get install libgnome-dev Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: libtiff3g-dev libglib-dev libungif3g imlib-progs libungif3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev libjpeg62-dev libgtk1.1

broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-23 Thread debian
I was using dselect and trying to add ftp://ftp.rising.com.au as a location to get non-US packages from & have apparently distroyed my /etc/apt/sources.list. Could someone point out the errors in the following? (Or send me a copy of the default file?) deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Sarel Botha
> >> Q2 > >> My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have > >> the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 > gb > >> hardrive? > > It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum possible size the bios can accept larger

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-23 Thread Harald Weidner
Hello, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph F. Dries III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all >fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart, >qpage, gives an error 100. An error message like that often comes fr

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-23 Thread homega
J.H.M. Dassen dixit: > On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:56:16 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I can't comment on mutt-i, since it doesn't show up in any of my Packages > > files. > > mutt-i no longer exists. That explains why I couldn't find it in the potato directory at ftp://non-us.debian.org ... what'

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Holger Schauer
"MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100: MB> ->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route MB> for those that want a standard interface at present. I am strongly against having a _single_ interface to documentation. Diversity is a good thing, IMHO, especially in this

Re: Give diferents permision to several groups?

1999-03-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I have a Folder name folder1 an 2 groups, group1 and group2. > I want group1 to be able to change all the files inside folder1. But at > the same time I want group2 to only read the files in folder1. I do not > want to give any permission to any other users. You cannot do this directly with

Re: Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread Alec Smith
I believe apsfilter is included with Debian 2.1. At 08:48 AM 3/23/99 +, Shawn Nguyen wrote: >Hello, > > Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I >gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the >web and used it to set up my HP laserjet

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Eric Ravelomanantsoa
> > In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to > > enable sound > > If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same > card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a > different sound card, SB16. It wasnt pnp, and after a quick ker

Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hello, Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the web and used it to set up my HP laserjet 1100 printer. I finally got it working. I wished that debian had included this package, or at least

Debian on a Compaq Presario Laptop

1999-03-23 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have you looked at the Linux-Laptop page at > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ > There is a link to a page for the 1210. You might want to compare > notes with its author. On a sidenote, has anyone implemeted a patch or a program

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread Hamori Andras
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel > config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the > kernel, they must be built as modules. With sb16, for example I > need a config line like: > > options sb io=0

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:56:16 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I can't comment on mutt-i, since it doesn't show up in any of my Packages > files. mutt-i no longer exists. mutt-i was essentially identical to the current mutt packages; not containing cryptographic code, but containing hooks for PGP &

kernel patch for ppp-demand

1999-03-23 Thread Andreas Rapp
Hi, do someone know how to patch kernel 2.0.34 to make the pppd-2.3.5 demand option work ? Andy

Re: /usr/include/linux -> eh?

1999-03-23 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having > > updated my kernel to 2.2.3. What I did a couple of minutes ago is to: mv /usr/include /usr/include.bak ln -s /usr/src/linux/include /usr/include (assuming that your kernel

Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's to go through the entire install? When I select the multi-cd ins

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 22 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Daniel Mashao writes: > > My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. > > Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. Thanks for responding. But why don't I see the programs running? I even put in xload script that runs

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