Re: Where is cfdisk gone?

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: > does anybody know, where cfdisk out of util-linux has disapared suddenly? (Ops, I forgot to say, I use potato) Martin -- Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

enlightenment themes

I have the unstable version of enlightenment install. It does not however want to use the backgrounds when I select a new theme. can anyone think of a reason for this. Thanks, Justin

Where is cfdisk gone?

Hi, does anybody know, where cfdisk out of util-linux has disapared suddenly? Martin -- Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa with audiopci1370

Hi Ken, I don't know if this will help but .. I have a Soundblaster PCI 128 which works perfectly on my system. I took the board out of the machine and found a Creative es1373 chip. I compiled the kernel with es1371 support, the driver is with the kernel source, and then added the following to /et

problem with ssh

Hello all; Ever since my connection puked out once and I had to kill ssh connections I had to two machines, I get this error message: "Cannot stat authentication socket directory /tmp/ssh-rbf" [rbf is my username] Any ideas how to fix this? TIA, Ron -- = = Ronald B

finger userlist-only doesn't work

hi, Since I upgraded to slink, the command 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]' doesn't work any longer, it simply says [localhost] and then returns without error messages. I use cfingerd v1.3.2-18 and I didn't make any changes to /etc/cfingerd/cfingerd.conf, the line +ALLOW_USERLIST_ONLY is present. Any

Re: packages of LDP?

Nitebirdz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ron, > > > As far as I remember, you can download the package (tarballs in > different formats) from the ldp site itself. I just do that every once in > a while to update the docs on my system. Yeah, that's what I was planning to do. I just thought

cron messages

What does the following mean and how do I fix it?? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EM

StylewriterII

Do you know of a way to interface a stylewriter II inkjet printer to a 486 computer running debian through the serial ports? I have obtained this working inkjet for free and am interested in getting it working under debian. Thanks, Sean McIlwain

sblive and speak-freely

Hi all, Does anyone succeeded to run speak-freely on an sblive? I can't even have it to work in loop mode (local). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.

MiroPCTV and ATI 128

Hi all, I wonder if I'm alone with the following problem: When I watch TV (xawtv, KDE 1.1.2, kernel 2.2.12), sometimes, it hangs; evrything is stuck for # 7-12 seconds, then it goes on; I really mean goes on, because if I have a clock opened, the hand of seconds don't jump: it go fast from the sec

Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No idea about scsi, for your G400, upgrade to teh latest X, and then use teh SVGA server, add this to your /etc/apt/ources.list, then do apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade deb http://debian.oftheinter.net/ x335-slink/ - --dave On Sun, 7 Nov 1999,

Re: Obscure Hardware

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. (Note: I am not an expert on such matters. The information below I obtained from my father, as he does water analysis - among other thi

Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

Hi All! On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I've got an unofficial installation diskset for slink that's setup > specifically for the Adaptec SCSI controllers. You can snarf it from > . > > Basically you'll need to boot fr

Re: Help: dhcp client problems

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > 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 retu

I'm looking for a good ftp server.

Can anyone tell me a good ftp which supports ratio and is easily configurable?   I would apreciate your help.   Thanx   Alexander P. Barkey Hypnotic Noise

Re: KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 08:30:11PM +0100, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > Hello! > > I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system > without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. > Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory >

Re: cal-tex-mouse-... not working on emacs20 - solution found

Sorry to bother you. I found the solotion. Johann -- | Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/Faks 033-346-1310 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 | -

vrml

I need a good program for vrml, both a viewer for netscape and an editor. any sujestions? thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xswallow

How do I configure netscape to work with xswallow? I need vrml support thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nis

I am trying to install NIS under potato. I have the following result: (Reading database ... 49955 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nis (from .../archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > where did u get such drivers? i have the latest Xanim and stuff and it > only suports indeo 3. http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html Since Indeo 4 and 5 are protected by Intel, only binaries for those encodings are available. > > http

stdio.h: no such file or directory

hi, i upgraded to potato from slink thru apt-get method. when i try to compile my kernel, i get stdio.h: no such file or directory and other header files are missing. I thoroughly searched the disk using locate as well as find but these devel lib header files seem to be missing. which package con

install-info in potato

I keep having problems upgrading packages because of install-info. I keep getting this error: install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory Is this a problem with the dpkg package or something on my system? Is there a way to force dpkg to go ahead and install the packa

Re: updating of CMOS clock

"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure how the time on my system got so out of hand! I have been having a similar problem on my Debian system - the clock strangely loses a half hour or so a day. This has happened since I did a recent apt-get upgrade of unstable. I have made no oth

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > pbruts >It sounds like you need to upgrade you XAnim. I can very happily play > pbruts >Indeo 5 .AVIs under Linx with the latest XAnim. Note that I'm a known > pbruts >bigot for compiling stuff by hand - there are n

KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient

Hello! I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory on KDE Desktop (my home directory from icon on Desktop or any other directory)

Re: ymf724

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:48:12PM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > anybody using yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card? > I can't seem to use opl3, opl3sa or opl3sa2 modules. > Use alsa sound driver (from deb packages, but they are so old in slink that dosn't support this card, or directly from www.alsa-

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

use dpkg -l nate On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: staron >Hello, staron > staron >I have some trouble with dpkg because I need staron >a listing with ALL installed Packages. staron > staron >What are the parameters to do that ??? staron > staron >I know only: staron > staron >$ dpkg

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: pbruts >It sounds like you need to upgrade you XAnim. I can very happily play pbruts >Indeo 5 .AVIs under Linx with the latest XAnim. Note that I'm a known pbruts >bigot for compiling stuff by hand - there are no known (to me, at least) pbruts >Debian sli

Re: Lynx and .deb

Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. and alas, quite nonfunctional ... But I did get the source files and compiled it eventually. -Todd On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > > [long, comp

Re: Lynx and .deb

> Which web page are using? If http://debianpine.tripod.com, don't > bother. Use http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine the .debs there are known > to be good. With netscape you have to right click on the link and select > save as... If you still have problems let me know. I am the maintainer > o

question about "downgrading" with dselect

I have manually installed the newest version of gaim, via rpm and alien. This is version is 0.9.10. The version in dselect is 0.9.9. Dselect thinks its version is newer, but it isn't. So each time I upgrade anything, it upgrades, well, downgrades my gaim. How do I fix this? Can I manually edit

Re: Mouse

Eric Hagglund wrote: > How may I get the wheel on my Intellimouse to work in > a Linux environment? I have never been able to get it > to function. Does anyone know of a way to enable this > hardware? > > = > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell

fdisk, libraries, and linking

Yesterday I discovered that the fdisk in /sbin (potato) is not statically linked. Neither is cfdisk. I thought that all programs in /sbin were supposed to be statically linked. Why is this not the case? This put me in a poor position installing Debian for an old Slackware user. Neither program fro

Mouse

How may I get the wheel on my Intellimouse to work in a Linux environment? I have never been able to get it to function. Does anyone know of a way to enable this hardware? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

ymf724

anybody using yamaha YMF724 PCI sound card? I can't seem to use opl3, opl3sa or opl3sa2 modules. -gnana

XOSVIEW

Hi! Did anyone got problems with running xosview? I'm running slink and GNOME 1.x with e-15.x. When I call xosview nothing appears but 'ps ax' says that yosview is running... Can anybody help me? Bye, Sven

Re: Where is sound.h?

You have to download the Linux-Source or install the Debian package. Then you'll find sound.h under /usr/src/linux/include/sound... Before you can now run make you have to edit the Makefile and replace INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include with INCLUDEDIR=/usr/src/linux/include... Also compile a new kernel with

HTML and MySQL

Hi! I'm writing a HTML-based interface with PHP3 which connects to y MySQL database. The access is no problem but I'm in trouble with the authentication. My site has two columns, one for the data and so on and one for the navigation. In this column I want to place two text fields (Username & Pwd).

Re: saving X session?

On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 04:02:39PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > When I log out all my settings are lost; window manager (WindowMaker), > themes, etc. How can I make it so that these things 'stick' when I > logout and back in? I'm using slink and xdm to load X. KDE has excellent session management bu

Re: Lynx and .deb

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 > web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, > they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. > > They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, > and e

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

John Miskinis writes: > So should I persue trying to get my system to authenticate my ISP's > connection to my machine? No. They won't do it. > Or is this not typically used for systems that connect TO an ISP? Right. You called them, so you know who they are. > I'm hoping that it's OK to live

Re: Lynx and .deb

On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: [long, complex conversation about downloading .debs from Lynx snipped] Wow, has everyone forgotten that you can press "d" on any link and download it instead of displaying it? This includes viewable files like HTML and text, so should w

apache-ssl or mod_ssl

Hi! Can anybody give me some advice/hints/personal opinion about which SSL http server to choose? Thank you! -- p.

Re: managing multiple ISPs

Nitebirdz writes: > As far as I know, DNS servers are public. Not always, though public ones will always work. > I have been configuring my resolv.conf for DNS servers that do not belong > to my ISP all the time. This will work, but it is a bit discourteous to use servers you aren't helping pay

Mirroring

Is there a way to mirror directories in a two way fasion? I want to update the directories that have older files in it with it's counterpart on another machine. This way my mini network will always act the same no mater what computer it is on and I can still have some private stuff for that c

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, So should I persue trying to get my system to authenticate my ISP's connection to my machine? Or is this not typically used for systems that connect TO an ISP? I'm hoping that it's OK to live without out it, and not open my system up to possible intrusion. Thanks again, John ___

Re: Question about dselect

Chia-Sheng Chang wrote: > Hi, all, > > With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without > automatically upgrading all packages? > - > Thanks. > You can put all installed packages on hold by selecting "=" on the major heading lines - it shouldn't take more than 4 or 5 to

Re: Problems with Display

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 07:41:43AM -0800, Eric Hagglund wrote: > I am running Debian 2.1 on a Gateway PC (200Mhz > pentium pro) with Crystal Scan Monitor and an S3 Virge > Video Card. > > Although the Debian OS is for the most part very > stable, I have never been able to get the monitor to > dis

Re: apt questions

> does anyone know where I can find source URI's for apt? Apt complained > when I tried to get a source that I didn't have any source URI's listed. Here's what mine has (split for readability): deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://nonus.debian

apt questions

Hallo all, does anyone know where I can find source URI's for apt? Apt complained when I tried to get a source that I didn't have any source URI's listed. second, If I do and apt-get update then does this filter through to dselect? How do I know which packages are available through apt-get? The re

Problems with Display

I am running Debian 2.1 on a Gateway PC (200Mhz pentium pro) with Crystal Scan Monitor and an S3 Virge Video Card. Although the Debian OS is for the most part very stable, I have never been able to get the monitor to display colors with the same intensity as is normal when it is running on the Wi

Re: SIOCADDRT

I had the same problem upgrading from kernel 2.0.x to 2.2.13: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument I solved the SIOCADDRT error message updating the /etc/init.d/network script. Just to be safe I installed also the netbase_3.12-2 package for Slink (http://www.debian.org/~rcw/2.2/warnings.html). BTW, just t

Re: managing multiple ISPs

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 09:13:14AM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote: > Salman, > > As far as I know, DNS servers are public. In other words, you can > contact them to resolve domains no matter which ISP you are connecting > with. I have been configuring my resolv.conf for DNS servers that do not unf

Re: managing multiple ISPs

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am > > having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf. > > Ok. > > > Currently there are two entries in

Re: starting named

Luis, Yo estoy usando Red Hat Linux 6.0 en uno de mis computadores, y el script se encuentra en el siguiente directorio: /etc/rc.d/init.d Por supuesto, es posible que Debian lo haga de una forma diferente. Creo recordar que en el web de Debian hay algo de documentacion sobre el

Re: managing multiple ISPs

Salman, As far as I know, DNS servers are public. In other words, you can contact them to resolve domains no matter which ISP you are connecting with. I have been configuring my resolv.conf for DNS servers that do not belong to my ISP all the time. To be more precise, depending on the n

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

Michelle Konzack writes: >Thanks, > >but now a new question: > >MK>Hi, >MK> >MK> dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed > ^^ > >What is this with 'grep' ??? > 'man grep' DESCRIPTION Grep searches the named input files (or standard input if no files are named,

Re: Where is sound.h?

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:11:58PM +, richard newton wrote: > I've been trying to compile up the SB Live module from creative but > whenever > I try and `make' the module it returns the error > In file included from hwaccess.h:44, > from audio.c:43: > platform.h:42: linux/sound

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

> I have some trouble with dpkg because I need > a listing with ALL installed Packages. dpkg --get-selections

Re: printing specific pages

On Wed, 1999-10-20 at 23:29:36 +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:12PM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote: > > Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it > > > possible? > > > > Probably. How to do i

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the parameters [to make dpkg list ALL installed Packages] ??? $ dpkg -l Paul Huygen

cal-tex-mouse-... not working on emacs20

I am trying to make a Latex calendar and have done it in the past with emacs 19.31 and latex. When (in calendar mode) I try the alt-cal-tex-mouse-month-landscape command, I get the error message: wrong argument type: listp, return. What does that mean? How can I get it to work? Johann

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 15:33:51 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > MK> dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed >^^ > > What is this with 'grep' ??? grep selects lines, in this case '^': start of line, followed by '.': any single character, followed by 'i': the character 'i'

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

Thanks, but now a new question: MK>Hi, MK> MK> dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed ^^ What is this with 'grep' ??? Thanks and have a nice day Michelle Note: If this E-Mail comes from a mailing-list, please do not CC me. +---

Re: Lynx and .deb

Todd Suess writes: >I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 >web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, >they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. > >They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, >and even using my windows machi

Re: updating of CMOS clock

On Sat, 06 Nov, 1999 à 07:46:38PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "LP" == Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LP> For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time : > > I am being a bit daft but do you mean that I should go into my BIOS and > change the time to whateve

Where is sound.h?

I've been trying to compile up the SB Live module from creative but whenever I try and `make' the module it returns the error udio.c -o audio.o In file included from hwaccess.h:44, from audio.c:43: platform.h:42: linux/sound.h: No such file or directory make: *** [audio.o] Error 1

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello, > > I have some trouble with dpkg because I need > a listing with ALL installed Packages. > > What are the parameters to do that ??? > > I know only: > > $ dpkg -s packet-name > $ dpkg -L packet-name > Hi, dpkg -l | grep "^.i" >pkgs-installed This will g

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, What I meant, was that if it I run with "auth" than the CHAPS authentication fails. If I run with "noauth", all works OK. I saw a note in "options" stating that the "auth" should not be disabled, and I'm not sure I should worry about this or not. I changed this in "options" prior to rerun

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

Ookhoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Debian with the new bootfloppies on the HPT366 controller. > You just open the second virtual console, fdisk the /dev/hde, mkfs it, > and mount the partitions. Then go back to console 1, choose unmount, say > cancel there (you see them mounted) and yo

Re: W?

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:20:36AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > OK, can someone tell me which package from potato owns w? I've got a > runaway /usr/bin/w that isn't owned by any package. Kind of disturbing, > really. ;) > OK, not so easy: convert:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/w dpkg: /usr/bin/w not fou

W?

OK, can someone tell me which package from potato owns w? I've got a runaway /usr/bin/w that isn't owned by any package. Kind of disturbing, really. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the swi

Re: packages of LDP?

Ron, As far as I remember, you can download the package (tarballs in different formats) from the ldp site itself. I just do that every once in a while to update the docs on my system. Nitebirdz On 28 Oct 1999, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there a package of the Linux Progra

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

> I've been tailing ppp.log and it still rejects a negotiation for > compression, but everything is working though. Don't worry about the compression negotiation. That just means that you and your ISP have no compression method in common. Software compression doesn't make much difference anyway,

Re: RPM

yes, packages called rpm and alien. _oO" Kecsi "0o_

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

dpkg -l| more _oO" Kecsi "0o_

RPM

Does Debian have RPM utility? Where can I get it? I have already have useful packages in RPM. It would a shame if I can't use it and have to download tgz version all over. Thank you very much!

How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

Hello, I have some trouble with dpkg because I need a listing with ALL installed Packages. What are the parameters to do that ??? I know only: $ dpkg -s packet-name $ dpkg -L packet-name Thanks for your Help Michelle +--+ .~. |

Re: PPP stuff continued... (Up and running w apt-get, netscape!)

Hi, I don't know what let me to think that pon and diald were related. I probably installed diald a while back in preparation to get PPP working after I got an ISP that supported PPP. In any case, I don't think there is anything wrong with any documentation at all. I just had a lot of new thing

Re: Is there a replacement for Dselect??

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read somewhere, I for get where, that when version 2.1 (this was an old > article) of Debian came out, it would have a new program called APT that > would replace Dselect. Well, I have version 2.1, and I can't find that > program. Was this false i

Re: Lynx and .deb

On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 > web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, > they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. > > They are not available via ftp from the web site

Re: Question about dselect

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:37:47PM +0800, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote: > With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without > automatically upgrading all packages? You should use apt-get rather than dselect for this. apt-get install --Dylan Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lynx and .deb

On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 > web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, > they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. > > They are not available via ftp from the web site

Server error message

I apologize if this not a pure Debian matter but the slink server on my small LAN gives the following error messages from time to time. When this happens the network is unusable and I need to reboot the server. Does anybody know what these mean? Is my network card broken? Or could somebody point me

Question about dselect

Hi, all, With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without automatically upgrading all packages? Thanks. -- Chia-Sheng Chang Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0,0; likewise for /dev/ptyxx

The slink -> potato saga continued (Chapter X): Doing xinit on my upgraded potato system yields an xterm without fonts, that is, where the characters should be, there are just colored boxes. However, the messages from the X server all look reasonable; the font path is shown as: (**) FontPath set t

Re: Lynx and .deb

On 06-Nov-1999, Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 > web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, > they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. > > They are not available via ftp from the web site in qu

Serial IO Aiee

Hi All, Using Debian 2.1 on a P166, 64 M RAM, Adaptec 2940W, Cheetah 4 GB, Asus P55T2P4 MB. All was well until I tried to setup UUCP which resulted in the Aiee at the end of this message. I thought UUCP was the culprit but cu and mgetty cause the same problems. Man.., I thought serial port driver

Re: PPP - almost there, but stuck on routing table :(

John Miskinis has no clue of pppconfig: > I tried "pon" but it complained about some things > that I have not yet configured (in diald?). > AFAIK 'pon/poff' are in no way connected with diald. Have U installed 'pppconfig' package ? If not do it and I find it such an elegant one for ppp dial-up

Re: installing KDE

Michael Hammonds queries about Polyglot man: > anybody know where I can find the rman package? > 'rman' package is in the /dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/doc dir of the ftp server tree. I use ftp://samosa.debian.org/ as my primary server. ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 10

Re: Is there a replacement for Dselect??

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read somewhere, I for get where, that when version 2.1 (this was an old > article) of Debian came out, it would have a new program called APT that > would replace Dselect. Well, I have version 2.1, and I can't find that > program. Was this false information??? > man a

Re: CD-ROM error (i think i found the cause)

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Peter Ross wrote: > On 06-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible that the reason my CD-ROM drive has trouble reading the CD > > is > > because the CDs are CD-Rs??? My CD-ROM drive is a CR-563 made by a division > > of Panasonic (I think).

Re: Where, who, what?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I'm confused. I have looked at all the ftp and FAQ's and I still don't > get the steps to > download your version of Linux. What are the exact steps to download form > the site > http://www.debian.org/? Add "releases/slink/i386/install" to the above web address

Re: Is console-data 1999.08.29-4 supposed to get installed correctly ?

I went through this same nightmare last night. I tried many things, and finally found that by removing console-tools, then installing kbd, console-data was able to install. John Shaul Karl wrote: > > [01:27:53 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree

Is there a replacement for Dselect??

I read somewhere, I for get where, that when version 2.1 (this was an old article) of Debian came out, it would have a new program called APT that would replace Dselect. Well, I have version 2.1, and I can't find that program. Was this false information??? -Scott

Re: Lynx and .deb

I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to d

Re: CD-ROM error (i think i found the cause)

On 06-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible that the reason my CD-ROM drive has trouble reading the CD is > because the CDs are CD-Rs??? My CD-ROM drive is a CR-563 made by a division > of Panasonic (I think). It is 2x and uses the sbpcd driver. It is not an IDE

fdisk isn't in util-linux! but should be ...

Ciao, I think there is a problem in util-linux: there are non more fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk! $ dpkg -s util-linux Package: util-linux Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 908 Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.10-2 R

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