Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

On 05-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Ross said: > > There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp > > package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in > > sync with another clock continuously. > > Right, but, as I said in my o

Re: kernel upgrade options

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, John wrote: This may be a dumb question but are you linking your "kernel-sources-2.2.xx" directory to "linux"? The kernel patch system expects a directory of "./linux". > on 05 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote... > > > > >On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:07:31PM +, John wrote: >

PING error

Hello, I think I screwed up something. Has anyone ever seen the error : "sendTo: Operation not permitted. wrote localhost 64 chars, ret=-1" Or "sendto: Network is unreachable. wrote hostname.bla.bla 64 chars, ret=1" ? when pinging to localhost or hostname ifconfig gives: lo: Inet addr 127.0.0.

Help: dhcp client problems

Several times in the last little while, Netscape and ping have had problems, either hanging or responding with Unknown.  I then booted up in Windows95, and no problem.   Then returning to Debian (1.3.1 still!) and the problem is solved.  I am on @HOME cable. They tell me that their modem is in 

richiesta driver

mi scuso anticipatamente per il disturbo, vorrei sapere se potresti fornirmi i driver per il touchpad del mio vecchio notebook PMD 5000 ( 486 DUAL SCAN) anno 1995 fornito dalla DUAL PENTIMEDIA GROUP, ti ringrazio anticipatamente comunque;la mia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

[thaths@netscape.com: Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?]

I compiled it into my 2.3.24 kernel the other day. I haven't messed with it yet since I run linux on a separate drive and just have the 'doze partition on the ata/66 drive. It detected the drive anyway. -Hellatio - Forwarded message from Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Dat

Re: October GNOME for slink.

Hi Folks, I am trying to install Debian 2.1 in my computer. I have an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Host adapter and Linux is hanging right after detecting it... Any help?! Thanks, Daniel.

Re: kernel upgrade options

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 05:57:58PM +, John wrote: > I couldn't get this to work. My patches were in /usr/src and I got 'no > such file or directory', so I moved them into the kernel source dir. > and did -p0 thinking that should be right. No luck, so I did -p1 - > there was action, but only 33

Re: installing KDE

http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc/rman.html That's just from a simple search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. --- Michael Hammonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im tyring to install kdebase.1.1.2.xxx.deb but im > grtting a dependency error saying that the rman package > was'nt i

Re: Scrollback default in terminal emulators?

be careful how big your scrollback buffer is. once upon a time i increased kvt's (KDE's vt based on rxvt i think) scrollback buffer to some insane amount each kvt consumed like 40megs of memory once enough stuff was in the buffer. ever since i stuck with the default buffer. nate On Fri, 5 Nov 1

Re: y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

thanks for the tips! i can now rest pretty easy :)) nate On 5 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john >aphro writes: john >> also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the john >> date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as john >> opposed to date). john

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

i cant say off the top of my head, ive only seen reports of it being included in 2.3.x kernels, i think it would be more of a loader issue (LILO in most cases) then a kernel issue. worht a try tho if you really want ata/66, i wouldnt risk using ata66 on my bp6 though)(or on any system of mine) nat

CR-563 CD-ROM error

I get the following error installing from CD-ROM under dselect: sbpcd-0 [1]: sbp_data: CDi-status loop expired. sbpcd-0 [2]: sbp_data: CDi-status timeout (timed_out_data) (FB). sbpcd-0 [3]: sbp_data: read aborted by drive. sbpcd-0 [4]: !st_diskok detected - retrying. sbpcd-0 [5]: !st_diskok detect

Re: system fubar after attempted upgrade to unstable, what now?

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:43:52 -0900, Britton wrote: > can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/ > 5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site-perl/i386-linux ^ > What should I do first to try to fix my system? If you have perl5.005 installed, make sure /usr/b

depmod puts on wrong time stamp.

We are running Potato on one of our servers. We did some updating of the files yesterday (using dselect). We are now having some problems with depmod putting the wrong time stamp on the /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep file when the machine is booting up and the /etc/init.d/modutils runs. It will

Re: Scrollback default in terminal emulators?

Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent >terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here >to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a secret >environment vari

Re: Having trouble with acrobat reader and wordperfect

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 14:55:52 -0500, James Carscadden wrote: > xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > or > /usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread; can't load library > 'libXt.so.6' Check the mailing list archives. Both are still libc5 binaries; they need the 'xlib6' (note: no 'g')

system fubar after attempted upgrade to unstable, what now?

Like the idiot that I am, I didn't read things beforehand since I hadn't heard any buzz about not using dselect, and I know people who are using unstable happily. So I pointed the ftp upgrad option to unstable, downloaded everything, tried to install it, and apparently really screwed things up ba

Printing with a Laserjet 1100

I've got a Laserjet 1100 here, and under Windows it prints things like photos and other such dithery stuff wonderfully, with barely a trace of dottiness. While magicfilter does a good enough job for text, its graphics performance is shocking. It's like it's doing it at 150dpi. I'm stuck with the L

installing KDE

Im tyring to install kdebase.1.1.2.xxx.deb but im grtting a dependency error saying that the rman package was'nt installed. anybody know where I can find the rman package?

Re: October GNOME for slink.

Vincent Renardias wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:18:10 - > >I've just compiled the lastest GNOME release (October GNOME) for slink >(i386) and uploaded it on www.debian.org. >The corresponding apt line is: > >deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ unstable main > >It's been somewhat tested. >Comment

Re: Good books to learn python

Joe Block said: > I like and still use _Programming Python_ by Mark Lutz. I hear they > came out with _Learning Python_, but haven't read it. _Learning Python_ by Mark Lutz & David Ascher is out, I've bought it, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Just flipping through it looks good, thou

Having trouble with acrobat reader and wordperfect

Right, hopefully this is a simple problem. I am running a recent version of Potato, with 2.2.12 kernel. When I try to run Acrobat reader or wordperfect I get the following error: xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' or /usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread; can't load library 'libXt

Re: y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

aphro writes: > also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the > date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as > opposed to date). Zero. > i don't want to feel rushed to shut down the main server if the danger is > not that great. It isn't. Linux onl

Re: kernel upgrade options

on 05 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote... > >On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:07:31PM +, John wrote: > >> I've obtained patches 2 to 5 but now have a problem in applying them. >> My /usr/src had only 'kernel-sources-2.2.1' (and the .tar.gz source which >> I'm leaving there for the time being) until I mo

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

aphro proclaimed: > use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 Does it support booting off a ata/66 drive? The patches for 2.2.13 say that booting off of ata/66 drive is not supported. Thaths -- "Now, what is a wedding? Well, Webster's Dictionary describes a wedding as, 'The process of removing weeds f

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

Charles Lewis wrote: > Speaking of laptops, I have a Compaq Presario 1920 that I have been dreaming > for a long time of installing Debian on it, but I've been too chicken. > Anyone else had a successfuly experience with one of these? See http://members.xoom.com/joey/linux.htm Seems to have worke

Re: notifying

Interesting... Here are some thoughts: Do you manage your own mail server? You could use the "user+" convention, by configuring exim appropriately, to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then use the .forward file to pipe the message to a script that sends a sound file to /dev/audio. /home/wi

motherboard temperature alarm beeps during screen-saver activity

I have a "SuperMicro" motherboard with a temperature alarm. The alarm beeps intermittently during screen-saver activity. There is no temperature problem. Either there's some I/O port being touched that should not be, or the beeper is going off due to some motherboard-detected error. I have parity e

Re: notifying

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Brian Schramm wrote: > I would like to set it up so I can send an email or some other message > from a machine over the net or locally to another user to tell them to log > in a check for messages. I know if they are on I can get their attention > but a lot of times I would li

Scrollback default in terminal emulators?

Hi I've been spoiled by the OpenStep UI, and Terminal.app. I would love to set a (large) default scrollback buffer for a decent terminal application -- something like rxvt or kvt. Is my best option here to find and compile the appropriate sources, or does someone know of a se

Re: Printers..

*- On 5 Nov, David Wright wrote about "Re: Printers.." > Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >> A long standing question though is which postscript printer driver to >> use on the windows machine? I usally choose an Apple driver since they >> tend to stick to the true postscript format

Re: what a hack (dselect solution)

That happened to me. I symlinked them instead :-D Seems harmless enough, but those are famous last words. Nothing has died on me (yet) On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:08:10AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with > dselect. It was complaing

notifying

I would like to set it up so I can send an email or some other message from a machine over the net or locally to another user to tell them to log in a check for messages. I know if they are on I can get their attention but a lot of times I would like to have my wife log in when I send her a messag

Questions on X

I run Debian Slink 2.2 fully updated from debian.org. I have 2 machines setup on a network in my house. One of them has a lot of ram and HD space for use and the other is very limited in both. I have my home directory maped by nfs to the large machine. What I want to do is use xdm to act as a x

How to use my modem as a phone

Hello everyone ! I'd like to use my Olitec Speed Voice 56000 as a phone, just as I can under Windoze. Is it possible ? Which software must I use (I prefer packaged in .deb, but I can compile the sources too.) Thank you very much. -- E II A NN N LL II NN

y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

was curious if anyone knew if such stuff exists. my main server, claimed by one of the admins is not y2k compliant (the mainboard, which is an ASUS P2B-D). I don't know the bios rev, and i dont want to reboot the machine, i'm also 2000 miles away from the machine with the only people that have ac

Problems during installation of LINUX

German part see below. I want to install LINUX on my PC. For this I created a rescue floppy disk (LINUX) under DOS to be able to boot the PC. After I have booted the PC and I answered some questions the step appears to select a harddisk for partitioning. Now the problem occurs. I have connected o

diald won't connect a second time

Since the latest potato update to diald 0.99.1-0.1, I have found that after the link goes down, I have to kill diald and restart it before it will dial again. /var/log/ppp.log shows: Nov 5 07:05:36 nielsen diald[9081]: Closing down idle link. Nov 5 07:05:36 nielsen diald[9081]: start sl0: SIOCS

Re: Booting from floopy slow

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say arodri >redirect it to hdb1? When I made the installation I also enabled booting arodri >from hard disk. boot to dos, and use loadlin, which boots linux from dos, be careful th

Re: HD problem/kern.log.3gz

the hard drive is dieing..recover data from it while you still can. i had a root drive fail in a server a couple months ago(running slackware 3.2) it ran for about 3 weeks (barely, no new processes would spawn) while the drive was clanging away ..(i was astouneded) then it finally died and remaine

[Fwd: I: messaggio assoleader]

  Original Message Subject:  I: messaggio assoleader Date:  Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:38:51 +0100 From:  "Promovalsesia S.r.L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:  "Zamboni Giancarlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Gianmario Nava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Moni

Re: Printers..

Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *- On 5 Nov, Joe Block wrote about "Re: Printers.." > > Brian Servis wrote: > >> Samba will make this possible. Just make a local printer available that > >> passes the print data from the win machines directly to the printer > >> without using a filter

Re: Apache & Listening on another IP...

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Brant Wells wrote: dafyre >computer while it's running Debian) has the Apache web dafyre >server. How can I make Apache listen to the IP address of you dont. if the ip is bound to another machine you cant listen to the http port on that machine from another machine. you may

Re: Printers..

andrew >Also is it possible to set a printer on a Linux box on a LAN and have andrew >the Win9x/NT machines print on it? If so is it really hard to setup? print sharing in samba is a snap, for me it was much harder getting my deskjet 500 to work in linux then getting it to print iover a network.

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:57:07AM -0600, Brian Boonstra wrote: > > Ingo wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > > > How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 make sure there is no device on the 2nd channeln for the ata/66 or the machine will crash nate On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: thaths >How do I compile ATA/66 support into the kernel? And what version of the thaths >kernel should I use? The sli

Re: Printers..

*- On 5 Nov, Joe Block wrote about "Re: Printers.." > Brian Servis wrote: >> Samba will make this possible. Just make a local printer available that >> passes the print data from the win machines directly to the printer >> without using a filter. That way you can install the printer driver on >>

what a hack (dselect solution)

Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with dselect. It was complaing about not finding /usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving out the .sh, to appease dselect. It seems to have w

Re: Printers..

Brian Servis wrote: > Samba will make this possible. Just make a local printer available that > passes the print data from the win machines directly to the printer > without using a filter. That way you can install the printer driver on > the win machines and take full advantage of the native win

Re: Snapshot for debugging network problems

Hmmm, 'ipchains -L' or 'ipchains -L -v' could be useful here. If the i/o chains filter or accept packets that could be (part of) the problem you're a step closer to the solution. I use ipchains sometimes to block/accept packets to see what will happen in some circumstances. I'm very curious what

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:57:07AM -0600, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Ingo wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on > > > Pentium or Pentium-II or else? > > Does that mean that gcc nor

Re: printing to shared remote printer (Win95) using lpr

*- On 5 Nov, Charles Lewis wrote about "printing to shared remote printer (Win95) using lpr" > I apologize if this has been discussed already or if this is off topic, but > I'm still learning samba and I can't figure out this problem. I'm trying > configure my samba/debian box to allow printing t

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

Ingo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on > > Pentium or Pentium-II or else? According to the docs, this Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build with penti

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

Speaking of laptops, I have a Compaq Presario 1920 that I have been dreaming for a long time of installing Debian on it, but I've been too chicken. Anyone else had a successfuly experience with one of these? === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Comp

Re: Good books to learn python

Andrew Clark wrote: > > Any recommendations for good books to learn python for a programmer with > a background in C/C++ ? I like and still use _Programming Python_ by Mark Lutz. I hear they came out with _Learning Python_, but haven't read it. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System

printing to shared remote printer (Win95) using lpr

I apologize if this has been discussed already or if this is off topic, but I'm still learning samba and I can't figure out this problem. I'm trying configure my samba/debian box to allow printing to a shared printer on a win95 machine. Any help is appreciated. In printcap: ljsaturn|HP Laserjet 6

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

Peter Ross said: > There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp > package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in > sync with another clock continuously. Right, but, as I said in my original question, ntpdate is a package unto itself. I don't know abou

Snapshot for debugging network problems

While tracking down network problems of any kind, it's quite handy to take a snapshot of the networking parameters so you can look at it after the event. I have a bash function which is currently: /bin/uname -a /sbin/ifconfig /sbin/route -n /usr/sbin/arp -n -a /bin/netstat -n -

How do I enable gnome environment?

I am setting up a new unstable installation. I have X configured and working with xdm. I have run dselect and installed a the gnome packages, and enlightenmnet. How do I enable this to be used? In the past Debian distributions usally had a very nice set of d

Forcing Netscape to use MTA

My slink box is using a dial up connection with exim. When I enter localhost as the outgoing server, Netscape complains. I've configured exim as a `satellite' system -- is this the problem? Is there any way to force Netscape to use exim configured this way? Thanks, -- Matthew Roberts

Re: Booting from floopy slow

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there > are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard > drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to > accelerate

potato install and boot floppies

hello, I have to repartition my disk (completely) and have potato system there now, but would just like to install it directly this time since upgrading from slink did not go very well the first time. I downloaded the boot floppy and root disk and the base2_2.tgz files et al, I intend to in

Re: Printers..

*- On 5 Nov, Andrew Clark wrote about "Printers.." > Does anyone have a recommendation for a good printer? (I can get a HP > DJ 550 off my dad, will that work ok with Linux?) > No problem. Install the gs-aladdin package which is compiled with the hpdj driver and has a specific driver for the 5

Re: gtk+ 1.2?

libgtk++ is one of a few 'moving targets' that debian can't keep up with. Another is wine. Also VDK and gEDA. So I have been downloading sources from their home sites and building my own in /usr/local/src. This works but you must include /usr/local in your path. Also add /usr/local/lib to your

Booting from floopy slow

I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say redirect it to hdb

Re: SB Live

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:29:44AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( Sorry, forget it: the PB was comming from the include directories as many people, I began with 2.0.36, which is always set in /usr/include; so I just changed, in Makefi

Re: Menus in X Windows

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:11:38PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > Just how is it that all my window managers can essentially show the same > menu entrues, such as when I click on the root window? For instance, in E I > can click Debian, and I see all the selections that I'd see with Window > Maker

Re: Obscure Hardware

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:50:51PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe > with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output. Hi Andrew, You can call HANNA INSTRUMENTS, they have a Ph-meter with RS232 Sorry I don't have t

Re: uninstall/reinstall

On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Corey Edwards wrote: > Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just > installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i > package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the > dependencies correctly, so if you want to download t

Re: Bug in smbmount?

Thu, 04 Nov skrev Debian Mail: > I again have an > ls: n: Input/output error > Now I'm quite sure smbmount is causing these troubles. Anyone > experienced similar problems with smbmount? We have the same problems with several linux-boxes here. umount once a day keep the problem away... -- Åsmun

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: > > I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have > > any recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? > > > > Regards, Andrew Clark. IBM ThinkPads are marvelous ... I by myself

Re: scsi boot install

This is an old slink bug, there are install disks for the Adaptec SCSI controller you have, look at the mail archives. The potato indtall disks seems to work fine... Regards, Onno At 10:04 PM 11/4/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: At 05:10 PM 11/1/99 -0500, Joe Miklojcik wrote: >Failed initiali

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

Christian Dysthe writes: > On 2 Nov, Joey Hess wrote: > > > console-tools does different things depending on if debconf is installed or > > not, but the bug is in console-tools. Nope, it's in console-data ;) > I just want to make sure I understand this. If I install cosole-tools > without

Re: Driver for Compaq Netelligent network card

What chipset does it use??? Some Compaq cards use the intel pro 100 chipset, you could try that one... Regards, Onno At 09:16 AM 11/4/99 -0500, Tim Ayers wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell

Re: (no subject)

At 05:38 PM 11/4/99 -0400, marin fernandez wrote: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Not quite yet ;-) Regards, Onno -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Installationsproblem bei Linux

To read German is easy for me (I'm Dutch) but to write in German is not my best side so the answer is in good ol' plain English: Go to the second console with , hit enter, and use: 'fdisk /dev/sda' for the first SCSI drive. Make your Linux partition(s) here and a swap partition. Make sure you mak

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

On 05 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: > I would like to get a laptop and run Debian on it. Does anyone have > any recommendations for machines/manufactures to buy or avoid? > > Regards, Andrew Clark. > I'm using a Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT which is working very well; in fact I use it in place of a

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1917

At 10:35 AM 11/4/99 -0800, Glen S Mehn wrote: > The things: Lilo must be on a primary, and bootable. Or at least shoudl be on a primary. It can point whatever. NT can be on whatever, but if you're using the NT bootloader, it needs to be on primary. Highly suggested to use NT with FAT and not N

Re: Menus in X Windows

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:06:38PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > Just how is it that all my window managers can essentially show the same > menu entrues, such as when I click on the root window? For instance, in E I > can click Debian, and I see all the selections that I'd see with Window > Maker

Re: What 'keeps back' packages from apt-get?

Mark Zimmerman wrote: > > Lately, I've been doing a 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' every day > to check up on how far I've drifted from the current potato baseline. > There has been a gradually increasing number of packages that are > 'kept back'; currently I get: This should answer your quest

Re: debian installer and adaptec 2940

At 09:25 PM 11/1/99 -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: >Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch) >rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial >install-disks setup specifically for this situation.  You can snarf >them from

What 'keeps back' packages from apt-get?

Lately, I've been doing a 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' every day to check up on how far I've drifted from the current potato baseline. There has been a gradually increasing number of packages that are 'kept back'; currently I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

fvwm2 question

How can I get an xterm to start on a specific virtual desktop in fvwm2? I've got this in my init-restart.hook: + "I" Exec xterm -xrm "*Page:0 2 1" but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using the default Debian system.fvwm2rc with one desktop but a 3x3 virtual set up. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROT

HD problem/kern.log.3gz

I was running the [EMAIL PROTECTED] program a month or so back and got up in the morning and found my X screen completely frozen. Ctrl-alt-delete or Ctrl-alt-backspace had no effect. So I did a hard reset. I got the forced check as expected but in the final stages of the boot routine I received e

Can't change window managers "on the fly"

I used to be able to change window managers "on the fly" by selecting a manager from the Window Managers menu. But after updating a few managers to the Potato version, selecting a new manager from the Window Manager menu kicks me out to the xbanner login. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROT

Menus in X Windows

Just how is it that all my window managers can essentially show the same menu entrues, such as when I click on the root window? For instance, in E I can click Debian, and I see all the selections that I'd see with Window Maker, fvwm2, etc. How does this happen? Is there a central menu file that al

Re: Sources of linux documentation

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 03:50:55AM +, Chris Schleifer wrote: > > Now you can compile the file debian-tutorial.tex by using latex. In my > > linux box the > > compiling process stops because the file "html.sty" is not installed. Where > > can this > > file by obtained from? Is it available in

Re: Sources of linux documentation

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 03:50:55AM +, Chris Schleifer wrote: > > > > Now you can compile the file debian-tutorial.tex by using latex. In my > > linux box the > > compiling process stops because the file "html.sty" is not installed. Where > > can this > > file by obtained from? Is it available

Re: scsi boot install

At 05:10 PM 11/1/99 -0500, Joe Miklojcik wrote: >Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! >scsi : 0 hosts. >scsi : detected total. I don't know if your problem is related to mine but I also cannot boot Debian 2.1 with an Adaptec SCSI controller.  Redhat works fine for me too.  I was advised in

Re: Sources of linux documentation

Hi, I don't know a thing about the debian-guide package and this answer seems obvious so forgive me if I'm offbase here. I see html.sty in the directory you listed but the permissions are wrong. Doing a 'chmod o+r html.sty' in that directory should fix your problem. Chris Schleifer Manuel Arena

Apache & Listening on another IP...

Hi all I have apache installed on my Linux boxI need to get apache to listen on another ip address in order to be my web server... Can someone tell me how to do that? TCP/IP is working. This is a home network, btw My main Server, DaHouse is running windows 2000, with the dialup

eql

i've been trying to get eql working on a potato box without much luck. the two ppp links come up fine (and i've set nodefaultroute in the options), i do and ifconfig eql up ip, eql_enslave eql pppx 57600 for each of the links, then route add default eql, and it refuses to route. the isp is set up

fvwm beta packages

Does anyone know if the beta fvwm2 2.3.x have been packaged for Debian. I have tried to find this information but have had no luck. If so could someone point me to where I could find these packages. Thanks Dale

Re: Printers..

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:23:24PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for a good printer? (I can get a HP > DJ 550 off my dad, will that work ok with Linux?) Yes, I used to have one and it worked fine. > Also is it possible to set a printer on a Linux box on a LAN and

Obscure Hardware

I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output. -- Regards, Andrew Clark.

Problems printing from one box to another

In the past I've been able to print from one Debian 2.1 box to another Debian 2.1 box without difficulty. However I recently reinstalled Debian 2.1 on the server machine, and can't do any printing from remote machines unless I'm using Samba. I'd like to know what's going on so I can get back to a "

Re: Minicom and LISP

Randy M.Kaplan writes: > Does anyone Minicom or LISP are included with the Debian distribution? Minicom is in Debian, as are several dialects of the computer language lisp. Look for clisp. > I am trying to get my machine in a state where I can connect it to the > web and download stuff onto it.

Printers..

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good printer? (I can get a HP DJ 550 off my dad, will that work ok with Linux?) Also is it possible to set a printer on a Linux box on a LAN and have the Win9x/NT machines print on it? If so is it really hard to setup? Any info is appreciated. -- Regards

Re: SMTP with password on Pine?

Uurcus the Swale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does Pine work with SMTP servers that require login/password? That is not SMTP. First, find out what protocol it's really using (some proprietary extension to SMTP, perhaps?). Normally, pine does not communicate via SMTP at all. It should be invoki

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