Make Linux bootable directly from harddisk step is not well done.

1999-05-18 Thread beitch
Hello, I have some problem while installing debian on my LC475. Make Linux bootable directly from harddisk step is not well done. It says LILO is still unavailable for m68k... and bootable floppy is also unmakable - writing protection error is occured. I try to install LiNUX on a external S

RE: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Mein Name wrote: > How about a separate list for those of us (like me) who are having problems > setting up debian with the stable elements? There are just so many e-mails > coming in that I often have to remove them without reading them and I'm sure > I lose a few that would be valu

Re: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-18 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
> Mein Name wrote: > > How about a separate list for those of us (like me) who are having problems > setting up debian with the stable elements? There are just so many e-mails > coming in that I often have to remove them without reading them and I'm sure I > lose a few that would be valuable. I

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-18 13:53, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > What does VAX have to do with color printing??? Hehe... what about wax then? As in "thermal wax" - see for instance: http://www.ryerson.ca/acs/labs/General/faq/printer-tek.html 300 DPI is actually deceiving as the wax melt together on the paper t

Separate list for newbies

1999-05-18 Thread Mein Name
How about a separate list for those of us (like me) who are having problems setting up debian with the stable elements?  There are just so many e-mails coming in that I often have to remove them without reading them and I'm sure I lose a few that would be valuable.  I must say that I'm not

Re: Exim and Return-Path

1999-05-18 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
George Bonser writes: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want my outgoing mail messages have a return path different to my > > e-mail address, with smail one can define > > return_path_field="Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", how can I do

Re: potato+slink

1999-05-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > I read before that potato is a duplication of slink, and the potato's > tree are just link to slink. > > And each time a new application is generated to potato the link to this > become a new file. > > So if this is true, why using slink+potato but not just potato in

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-18 Thread David B.Teague
Hi guys! ABSOLUTELY, you are right, "Whence you are down loading...". is to be preferred. I should have read that post aloud before sending. I appreciate the correction. Too few are concerned with correct English (so abused by most speakers and writers.) --David On Mon, 17 May 1999, John Pe

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-05-18 Thread Alec Smith
Look on ftp.debian.org and its mirrors under unstable. QT 1.42 can be found there, and does work with Slink. On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michael Friddell wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get QT 1.42 that I need > for KDE 1.1.1? I've been to Troll Tech but his RPM > link does not work and none of

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi again, Michelle, You'll find attached the most important file (html, s'cuses) I found using http://www.goto.com, searching: "matsushita kotobucki cr-563-b manual"; there's a lot of'em! -- "Jean-Yves BARBIER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles so

Unidentified subject!

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Friddell
Does anyone know where I can get QT 1.42 that I need for KDE 1.1.1? I've been to Troll Tech but his RPM link does not work and none of the servers it finds on Lycos work. === Michael Friddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sticks and stones may break my bones but I'll still ride on them." ___

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: > I bought the CDROm from an auction. The seller did not provide the > manual. There is just one IDE drive. > Aîîîe! Try to check your way, I'm gonna try mine! WE MUST find the manual, or at least the jumper settings! We'll keep in touch. JY -- "Jean-Yves BARBIER"

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Michelle Coelho wrote: > > > > > Yes, the hard disk is auto-recognized by the BIOS when it it alone. > > > > So, now, check the manual about the CD-ROM jumpers (don't you have secondaries > IDE I/F?, check in the bios setup) > JY > -- I bought the CDROm from an aucti

Re: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MB" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> In foo.debian-user, you wrote: >> How can I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file >> I can edit? MB> Look at the "equivs" package. But please take the version available in potato, as equivs has been completely rewritte

Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SB" == Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a fairly old Logitech three-button mouse. /dev/ttyS1 and mman protocol for gpm and Logitech protocol in XF86Config. SB> Could I need to add a kernel module for this? Or might I have SB> added one which conflicts? (I might have added PS

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Michelle Coelho wrote: > > Yes, the hard disk is auto-recognized by the BIOS when it it alone. > So, now, check the manual about the CD-ROM jumpers (don't you have secondaries IDE I/F?, check in the bios setup) JY -- "Jean-Yves BARBIER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce q

Re: possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Preston Landers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well, try backgrounding it and let us know if it works: > /sbin/shutdown -h 9m "!! Power is Failing !!" & My god, you're a genius! That works! I'm in heaven! Thank you so very much! A thousand blessings to you and your kine! ---P

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread Michelle Coelho
On Wed, 19 May 1999, jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > The position is different from one manufacture to another; even from one serie > to another! > > > Are you sure the CD-ROM doesn't need a second jumper to be set in slave mode? > Is your HD (alone) well auto-recognized by the bios? > Yes, the ha

Netscape in unstable ??

1999-05-18 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
I've been running unstable for too long: I've forgotten whether the version of Netscape in stable requires you to download the tarballs from Netscape's ftp site. I've installed all the Netscape packages for a colleague from the stable distribution: the Netscape binary seems to be missing. I'm fai

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Michelle Coelho wrote: > > The BIOS setup has provisions for 2 IDE drives, but when I set the second > to auto-detect, it can't sense the CDROm. Uhu, quite old no? > I put the jumper in all 4 positions abd connected the CDROm to the first > IDE drive as slave to the hard disk, but in all cases t

Re: net-pf-19

1999-05-18 Thread Brad
What version of modutils are you using? According to the changelog, this was fixed in 2.1.121-20 Otherwise, just add the line "alias net-pf-19 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases, then run update-modules. On Tue, 18 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot

[Fwd: Configuring X server]

1999-05-18 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
-- Michelle Maria Coelho Department of Computer and Information Science Purdue School of Science Phone: 1-317-278-2948 Fax : 1-317-274-9742 --- Begin Message --- Hello Rod, I changed the protocol but now the mouse moves in the same column. But atleast this time, I get the menu when I left cl

CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-18 Thread Michelle Coelho
This seems to be more of a hardware problem thanan OS problem. My BIOS is very old, so all I see when the PC is powering up is just the amount of RAM, extended memory and some other stuff on the memory. No mention of the drives detected. The BIOS setup has provisions for 2 IDE drives, but when I se

Re: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

1999-05-18 Thread Jeff . Lessem+Debian
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE > > installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get > > "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can > > I convince my system that QT is inst

lprng and magicfilter

1999-05-18 Thread Craig Hancock
Hello all I have a question, I am I have a HP Laserjet 5M printer and I am trying to print a normal text file. It sends the job to the printer but it scrols to the right hand side of the page. I can print a postscript file just fine. I tried using the magicfilter file file for laserjet but it stil

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-18 Thread David B.Teague
On Mon, 17 May 1999, R.Feenstra wrote: > Sorry for jumping right in but you seem eager to help :) > Where exactly can i find the option for turning ppp on in the kernel using > make menuconfig ? > I've looked till my head hurts but am not able to find it ! > I'm using kernel-source-2.2.1 is that

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-18 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>Robert Vollmert wrote: > A safer solution would be to do (as root): > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 > # export XAUTHORITY=/home/yourname/.Xauthority That worked until I started to work in a networked environment. Then I don't like all clients to have root access to the users home directory so t

Re: [DEBIAN] Dell Latitude CPi A366XT

1999-05-18 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for repying on the answer, missed (probably deleted) the original question. > > is there anybody who has experience with the > > Dell Latitude CPi A366XT portable. > > Is the Neomagic 2200 graphics board supported? The Label in front of me, well actually Fn-S

Re: HTML formatter

1999-05-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, > is there a program that formats html source code. I would like to have > a pretty printer for HTML just like 'indent' does with c source code. for interactive work the Emacs's "html-helper-mode" may be an option. Select the entire buffer and run "M-x indent-region" (forgot the keystroke, so

RE: need help with g++

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Pollywog wrote: > What is wrong with this picture? > I am guessing I should 'dpkg --purge libg++272-dev, but what else is wrong? > > > bash-2.02$ dpkg -l | grep g++ > ii g++ 2.91.66-1 The GNU (egcs) C++ compiler. > ii libg++2.8.2 2.91.61-1 The GNU C++ ext

Re: WordPerfect can't open ~/.wprc/.wp8x.set

1999-05-18 Thread Alec Smith
Someone suggested I remove .wp8x.set and then try running WordPerfect. Once I did this, I still had the problem. Any other ideas? I've had WordPerfect running on Debian 2.1 before a system reinstall, but mow it won't 'just work' like it did last time. Alec On Mon, 17 May 1999, Alec Smith wrote

RE: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 William R Pentney wrote: > > I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE > installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get > "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can > I convince my system that QT is installe

need help with g++

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
What is wrong with this picture? I am guessing I should 'dpkg --purge libg++272-dev, but what else is wrong? bash-2.02$ dpkg -l | grep g++ ii g++ 2.91.66-1 The GNU (egcs) C++ compiler. ii libg++2.8.2 2.91.61-1 The GNU C++ extension library - runtime vers ii libg++27

Dosemu config

1999-05-18 Thread Peter Allen
Has anyone had any problems configuring dosemu 0.98-6, as whenever I try to execute the setup-dosemu script I get an "couldn't read file "/root/.dosemu/tmp/readin_browse1605.01" If I create that it then goes on to readin_browse1612.01 and on and on going up in sevens (I know that would be a dodgy

Re: AGP video on motherboard?

1999-05-18 Thread Peter Allen
It should work fine. http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html lists your card in x 3.3.3.1 so you may have to upgrade. Peter Allen Chrisopher D. Judd wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning on upgrading my home system, starting with the > motherboard/cpu. How well do motherb

unexplained segmentation faults on Potato

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
I am getting unexplained segmentation faults with two programs I installed from source. How can I find out exactly what is causing them? It has to be a problem with my system, because I was using these programs (kget is one) with no problems before I had to reinstall Debian. thanks -- Andrew

Re: possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread bmitch
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Preston Landers wrote: > Hello, > > I think *maybe* I've found a bug in sysvinit but I'd like a sanity > check before filing an official bug report on it. > > The problem is this: > > I've got a UPS daemon (mgeupsd, not debianized, but I might work on > that if I can get th

learning X programing

1999-05-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking to start learning programing for X (using C and C++ mainly). I was wondering about sugestions as as to how and from where to start. Also, what toolkit (lesstif, mottif, athena, gtk, ...) is best to start oyt with? Any links to online documentations, or to sugestions for good books?

Re: possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > The problem is this: > > I've got a UPS daemon (mgeupsd, not debianized, but I might work on > that if I can get this problem resolved.) > > It works fine when the power fails: it writes FAIL to /etc/powerstatus > and sends SIGPWR to init. init then looks at thes

Alpha 1000 4/233 Server install problems.

1999-05-18 Thread James Simmons
Hi! I created the debian boot disk for a Alpha 1000 4/233 Server. I finally figured out to use boot dva to get the boot disk to work. Then I get this at boot time from the floppy disk. aboot:Loading plain... aboot:unexpected object file format 13 about:loading compressed unzip:unknown co

Re: Can one "fake" a Debian package?

1999-05-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE > installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get > "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can > I convince my system that QT is installed? Is th

Re: AGP video on motherboard?

1999-05-18 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, I am planning on upgrading my home system, starting with the motherboard/cpu. How well do motherboards with video on the motherboard work with linux (specifically debian). In particular, I've been considering the Eurone EM-5598 motherboard. This has AGP video on the motherboard (embed

Can one "fake" a Debian package?

1999-05-18 Thread William R Pentney
I have QT 1.42 installed from the source tarball. Unfortunately, my KDE installation was in the form of Debian packages, and now I get "kde-whatever depends on qt-142" errors from dselect and apt-get. How can I convince my system that QT is installed? Is there a file I can edit? - thanks, Bill

printing true type fonts????

1999-05-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, thanks to all that helped me set up true type fonts, it works nice, netscape shows now the correct fonts. But now i wanted to print those pages, unfortunately it seems that ghostscript doesn't know anything about those fonts is there a way to tell it to use also the truetype fonts? ci

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-18 Thread Kris
In reply to John Pearson: >These [Exim things in ps ax output] should run briefly when you start >your session, and then be gone. > >If they are still running it may be that there is a problem with exim's >setup that is preventing it from quitting in a timely manner, or it may >just be a further s

AGP video on motherboard?

1999-05-18 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, I am planning on upgrading my home system, starting with the motherboard/cpu. How well do motherboards with video on the motherboard work with linux (specifically debian). In particular, I've been considering the Eurone EM-5598 motherboard. This has AGP video on the motherboard (em

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 1999-05-18 09:27, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > The only reason for having ink jet printer is the color (color laser > > printers are extremely expensive :-(. > > Entry level color laser printers are ~$2k and prices are dropping > fast. Just checked pricewatch for

Re: downloads...burst, then nothing

1999-05-18 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Thanks for the reply :) the NIC in the linux machien was set to half duplex. However, the setting on the Windows machine is "Auto", and it doesn't work when I manually set it to half fuplex. The card is an Intel Etherxpress 10/100. downloading form the web/ftp from a computer not on my netw

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread Sean
If you just want access from your user account and root, just change the group of the folder to the same group as your user account & type (as root) chmod g+rw foldername. If you have a bunch of user accounts that you want to be able to access the folder, just change the folder's group to somet

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>>

Re: Zip Drive & Printer

1999-05-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 May 1999, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote: > Hi! > > I have some problems in configuring my zip drive and my printer. I have > compiled the > kernel > 2.2.9 with Zip Drive support. But, after some tries, I lost the contact with > my printer. I > have a > script that mounts the Zip Drive

possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Preston Landers
Hello, I think *maybe* I've found a bug in sysvinit but I'd like a sanity check before filing an official bug report on it. First of all, I am running slink, so please don't berate me for running a stable distribution. If compiling the sysvinit source from potato will help, so be it, but I'm no

Re: kde apps as .debs??

1999-05-18 Thread Dave Dash
I use them. I would suggest doing this before using them. Download the debians off the KDE site and keep them in a safe place. If anything goes wrong with the debs here then go back to the backedup KDE debs. I've had only one problem and that is where I'd start KDM and log in and it would run t

Re: kde apps as .debs??

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Dave Dash wrote: > Yes, for slink add this to your sources.list file in > apt: > > deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty > > for potato just change "slink" to "potato" By the way, did anyone try the KDE debs from this site and did you have any problems with them? -- A

Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread J Horacio MG
I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for it) which I use to store several documents and other stuff; I'd like to be able to read and write to it just from my user and from root, so I thought of making a new group and changing that directory and files group permissions

Re: loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card

1999-05-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Karlin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 > > ethercard. > > > > When I do: > > # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o > > I get: > > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open > >

Re: kde apps as .debs??

1999-05-18 Thread Dave Dash
Yes, for slink add this to your sources.list file in apt: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty for potato just change "slink" to "potato" Hope that works for you, -dd --- Mark Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got KDE installed on my slink system but I'd > like to add s

Re: PPP with IP masquerading over a null modem

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hi Nathaniel, As nobody seems to be responding to your question, I'll give it a try. I'm using IP masquerading the other way round (with a masqueraded ethernet connected to the Net via PPP) and I'm by far no expert at networking, but maybe this helps. On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 04:52:18PM -0500, tig

RE: stable "gnome" window manager

1999-05-18 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Oz Dror writes: > I am looking for a gnome "stable" (or almost stable) window manager > > any ideas? > > -Thanks > Oz Dror > -- Take a look at wmaker 0.5 + wmaker-gnome at potato (unstable release). I have installed it this weekend and it seems to work (at least I can use gnome-pager).

Re: slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Haber
On 18 May 1999 13:18:34 +0200, you wrote: >>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >MH> However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it >MH> can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel >MH> (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed b

Re: compiling and installing lib's

1999-05-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: | Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) | | and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker | | or programs. | | You just put them in a directory

Re: stable "gnome" window manager

1999-05-18 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-17 23:33, Oz Dror wrote: > I am looking for a gnome "stable" (or almost stable) window manager > any ideas? I use fvwm 2.2 with gnome, this is probably less gnome than you want. Englightment (E) is not stable or fast enough for me to get some work done (while the fvwm folks finish gno

Re: laser postscript BW printer versus ink jet printer.

1999-05-18 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-18 09:27, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > The only reason for having ink jet printer is the color (color laser > printers are extremely expensive :-(. Entry level color laser printers are ~$2k and prices are dropping fast. Just checked pricewatch for the fun of it: HP DeskJet 200

Re: loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card

1999-05-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 > ethercard. > > When I do: > # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o > I get: > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open > /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init > /li

Re: Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
in your bios you can set some information irq to your parallel,mouse port. and you can set your bios to be : not plug and play or reserve the irq 3 to your modem but forget the old setting to come back if nothing of this work

loading module for NE2000 Ethernet card

1999-05-18 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I have a box running slink and am trying to install an NE2000 ethercard. When I do: # insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o I get: /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ei_open /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ne.o: unresolved symbo

Re: can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Alec Smith
Take a look at the xfstt package. I'm currently using it to gain access to Windoze TrueType fonts without difficulty. xfstt is part of the Slink distribution. On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > a friend send me some fonts taken out of his windows system, for me to be abl

Re: compiling and installing lib's

1999-05-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) | and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker | or programs. You just put them in a directory somewhere. Generally /usr/local/lib is a good location i

RE: net-pf-19

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints > > modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 > > two times. What's missing? I have the same problem. I am getting rid of the messages by editing /etc/conf.modules and setting net-pf-19 (and

net-pf-19

1999-05-18 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 two times. What's missing? Armin

HTML formatter

1999-05-18 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, is there a program that formats html source code. I would like to have a pretty printer for HTML just like 'indent' does with c source code. Armin

Debian server install needed (Atlanta, GA)

1999-05-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, my company (Opera Software A/S) has a server placed at the Mindspring operational center in Atlanta, GA. We need to get Debian installed on this box. It is going to be our web server. As the company is Norwegian, we are willing to pay someone to set up our server in Atalanta, GA, since this

html to prolog mode in XEmacs

1999-05-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, anyone knows why when I open a .html file in XEmacs and it enters in html mode, if I press Tab key XEmacs enters in prolog mode? Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique PS: I'm using an older potato (2 months without update, because glibc2.1 a

compiling and installing lib's

1999-05-18 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker or programs.

Re: compiler in PATH ?

1999-05-18 Thread Pollywog
On 18-May-99 E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: > The 27 and 272 packages provide support for older versions of g++. You > don't want to use these for compiling programs unless the program > depends on the bugs in the 2.7.2 compiler. For slink, you need to get > the following packages: > > g++ > libst

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and > like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like > FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered... > > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > You will need to set it

apt-get: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6

1999-05-18 Thread Debian Mail
Doing apt-get update I get the following error: Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6 But I just installed libc6_2

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-18 Thread Debian Mail
> Any other suggestions? OK, I compiled my own 2.2.7 kernel and went through the docu: It seems, that the module parport_pc was missing and therefore causing all the trouble... Thanks for you help! Stef

Re: Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has > ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside > from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got: > > IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8 > IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3 > > These, ob

Re: can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > now he send me true type fonts (suffix .ttf) and i looked a bit around but > noticed that nowhere on my system were such fonts, mkdontdir does not > recognize this suffix, so is standard X not capable of using tr

Re: syslog: "----MARK----" ?

1999-05-18 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : The above message keeps popping up in my syslog every 20 minutes, and : I couldn't figure out from where it originated. My guess is smail, but : smail's configuration files did not provide any clues either. It's from the logging program, it put those in

potato+slink

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
I read before that potato is a duplication of slink, and the potato's tree are just link to slink. And each time a new application is generated to potato the link to this become a new file. So if this is true, why using slink+potato but not just potato in apt-source? in fact i understood

Wine (unstable)

1999-05-18 Thread Ratki Tamas
Hi, I tried to install the newest wine (wine_0.0.990508-1.deb) but it doesn't work: > bash-2.01$ wine > sigaltstack: Function not implemented I have installed on my Debian 2.0 the packages: wine_0.0.990508-1.deb libwine0.0.971116_0.0.990508-1.deb libc6_2.1.1-5.deb libncurses4_4.2-3.2.deb mesag

about xfstt an freefont

1999-05-18 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Today I made my truetype fonts accessible by X by changing the /etc/init.d/xfstt and changing this line : portno=7101 to this : portno=127.0.0.1:7101 or by : portno=inet/127.0.0.1:7101 I hope this will help you. but I have a probleme with the freefont package. the font that it

Re: root password?

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
You can log in as root, but it doesn't prompt you for a password, right? Login in as root, type "passwd". Enter your new password (twice). Log out. Log back in as root. Does it prompt you for a password now? Re-boot the machine and try it again. Still working? If this isn't working, look in the

Modem went poof...GRRRR

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Rati
I have a Boca Research 33.6 PNP (unfortunately) ISA modem which has ceassed to work recently. I had it working fine with isapnptools aside from a few errors I got at boot time. I always got: IO Resource Conflict -- Error allocating 8 bits at 0x2f8 IRQ Conflict -- IRQ 3 These, obivously, were th

Re: Newbie & X (no @ on kbd)

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
Jean-Yves: I am not running X on my Debian machine, and my X manual is at home, so I am lacking resources, but I'll try to offer some tips... Look in the directory /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols. Is there a file called fr-latin0 in this directory? If so, is there a section in this file that looks li

Re: EDI?

1999-05-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 02:07:43PM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > Looking for a pointer to a GNU EDI environment/project. EDI == EDA? http://www.geda.seul.org/ There are packages in potato for it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread budi w
i've got that problem too and then i recompile apache,mysql and php3 (all in source) and all works fine regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED] jeb wrote: > I'm using the latest Debain versions of PHP3 and the PHPMysql module. > I'm also using the latest version of Mysql. It works fine. > > PHP3

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered... Bob Nielsen wrote: > > You will need to set it up on the remote computer for NFS. > > On Thu, May 13, 19

can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, a friend send me some fonts taken out of his windows system, for me to be able to view some web pages he converted for me from a word-document... now he send me true type fonts (suffix .ttf) and i looked a bit around but noticed that nowhere on my system were such fonts, mkdontdir does

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Beattie
> > > perhaps from whence you are down loading) > >^^ > > Sorry about the excess bandwidth killer, but is it whence or whom? > > Hi Michael > > Never say bandwidth killer about an English language issue. It is > "from whence" or "from where", as "whom" refers to a person. I

apt-get from a CD

1999-05-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have just copied a load of KDE for hamm onto a CD and want to install on slink. Is there an apt-get install command to get the whole darn thing from the CD in one go? I don't hace Qt instaslled. BTW, are there any issues with installing debs for hamm onto slink? Advice, war stories,

KDE and my $PATH

1999-05-18 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
> Starting KDE 1.1 in my debian slink I get another PATH (and not the one I > want to get) as when I login at a console or another WindowManager. I have > the .bash_profile and .bashrc files in my home directories pointing as > links to /etc/bash_profile and /etc/bashrc. > Any idea??? > Thanks >

Re: 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7 .config file

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "KE" == Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KE> is it safe to use the old 2.2.5 config file (to compile the KE> kernel) in the 2.2.7 configuration ? Yes. Just copy it to the new directory. If there are new options, make-kpkg will ask you for the values (actually it is make I believe)

Re: slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it MH> can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel MH> (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the MH> install system from /install) doe

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Alien can be used to install binary packages, but > it does so outside of > > the dpkg database. > > That's completly wrong. Alien converts things into > debian packages which may > be installed and manipulated just like any ot

Re: Asking for information

1999-05-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Check out http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ . There is lots of information there. Peter "José L. Redrejo - ITAIS" wrote: > HI, I'm a linux beginner who comes from de world of Windows NT and I'm > getting a little crazy.I have installed liinux without many problems, > KDE and apache and I am working w

Re: Does cdparanoia swaps channels?

1999-05-18 Thread Dale E. Martin
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before I reopen the bug, could anybody having a test CD confirm/deny this > behaviour? I'm the maintainer of cdparanoia. As was mentioned previously about this bug, there are many opportunities for the channels to be swapped aside from the software. I

Re: A file's permission controler

1999-05-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Khalid EZZARAOUI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "David B.Teague" wrote : > > > Could you be asking about chmod? That file utility sets > > No I'm speaking about an other application. > > As you see in mailing list some people speak about problem to configure > their sound card. > in fact a part o

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