On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Eric Hagglund wrote:
eahagg >I'm curious to know: is there yet a stable version of
eahagg >Wine that accesses all or most 32 bit Windows
eahagg >applications without stalling, thrashing, crashing or
eahagg >otherwise behaving badly? The closest I've gotten this
i do not belie
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
arodri >How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
arodri >without the funny ~1 thing?
arodri >I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
use -t vfat
nate
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At 08:28 AM 11/10/99 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> : does anyone know what is broken? is it apt-get or is it the non-US
> : site, it looks to me like the non-US site is in order...
>
>non-us.debian.org was unreachable (at least from here) yesterday -
>a
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:59:47AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
I used apt via dselect, too, and the upgrades have been smooth
since slink with very few forced overwrites. IMO, the move from
hamm to slink was much more difficult.
Art
> Last night I decided I'd attempt to upgrade a simpl
>
> Also, how can I install shadow passwords in potato? I need them because
> my other machines use them, and I use NIS to share passwords. The users
> can't log in to the potato machine because there is no /etc/shadow. Would
> it be enough to create a shadow file that contains nothing but "+::
On 10-Nov-99 Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
> I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
> I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the
> linux p
I'm running a straight Debian potato system. Everything is up to
date. gdb works just fine. xxgdb returns the following, always:
Error: Cannot perform malloc
Ideas?
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On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:56:35AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
> I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
> I have a few linux files that I want to be able to
Hello all,
I have got a problem. Today I compiled a new kernel. Now I'm not able to
get my CD drive to work anymore.
When I try to mount the device (/dev/scd0) the system says:
"mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?)"
In fact I compiled the
Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 3:56:35 AM, Antonio wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
-t vfat
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> > (2) Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell
> > checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in facility
> > or is it accomplished by ispell as well? And how do I get addi
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Be sure to reply to that address.
Hi, I'm experience a very weird networking
problem with my two Debian Slink machines.
They're both installed "Basic", except for
the "server", which has bind, telnetd, proftpd,
having some difficulty connecting to the university where I work and go to
school
aix.unm.edu 129.24.8.1
have done
1)pppconfig
2)wvdial
probs
,,,
1) pon runing.., plog says
connect 38400^M or two ^M depending on changes to etc/chatscripts
alarm
failed
On 10-Nov-99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
> how do i mount a mac format floppy?
just like any other floppy. If you compiled your own kernel, make sure you
enabled Mac support.
Then do:
mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
as root.
On 10-Nov-99 David J. Kanter wrote:
> I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm
> not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get
> a relatively solid Potato build?
>
Unfortunately, upgrading to potato is mostly all or nothing. Lots
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
gnana >how do i mount a mac format floppy?
what format/filesystem is it ? FAT ? HFS ?
nate
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Hi!
I'm trying to find out if the /dev/dsp interface for
playing/recording sound is full duplex if the Sound Card is.
Can anybody confim it and/or give me some references on where to
find the specifications of the /dev/{dsp,mixer,etc} devices?
TIA!
please email replies t
>
> But the book should be a Debian package. (You do know there are
> other books packaged, right?)
>
I can only find debian-guide. Am I missing something ?
> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:27:53PM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote:
> > is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
> > of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
> > activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
> > would
> Hello Debian GeeKs !
>
> I have such a problem :
> weak machine i486/8MB RAM/2x200MB HDD/3com905B/512Kb video
>
> I want to change the kernel on my slink machine from 2.0.36 -> 2.0.38 and as
> a result of make menuconfig i have the following:
> lfxdialog.o no such file or directory somethi
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:21PM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote
> Hello Debian GeeKs !
>
> I have such a problem :
> weak machine i486/8MB RAM/2x200MB HDD/3com905B/512Kb video
>
> I want to change the kernel on my slink machine from 2.0.36 -> 2.0.38 and as
> a result of make menuconfig i ha
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:25:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I get the following error when using the multi-CD "install" feature of
> dselect.
>
> Wrong disk. I need "Debian GNU/Linux Slink (2.1) 1/4 main binary-i386 section
> 1 SAM19990306", but i found "Debian GNU/Linux Slink (2.1) 1/4
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:40:12AM +0200, Jocke wrote
> Hi all,
>
> I did ask this a while ago but never got any real answers
> so I will try again with some more information.
>
> I am using fetchmail, exim, mutt to handle my mailing and
> I have one .forward file to redirect all my debian list
>
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Does the version of X included in potato support the 3dfx Voodoo3 card?
It wasn't included in the list of cards supported in XF86Setup. If it is
supported, which server do I need? I have the special 3dfx beta server on
my slink installation (the one that's only
Hi,
I put Internet at my home with cable 24 hours by day. There is now a
server at my building and I have to get an IP number with DCHP and I installed
dhcp client but it doesnt work. There is an error now.
ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:31:00:1F:F
>
> I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink !! Too late ??
> hope not
>
> Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any
> suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in
> once??
> The problem is I'm connecting via modem, so it will take
> until Y2K until I get all those new package
Hi
I have a firewall server which i did not set up and i want to set up a
Virtual Private network between our company and a neighbouring company who
i believe is on the same network. The sever is running Debian 1.1 with a
stripped down kernel 2.0.33.fw.
Are there any major concerns in what i wan
I was looking to find out what package hwclock belongs to but could not
find it listed in the dselect program. Does anyone know what package this
belongs to? Also it looks like timezone is no longer a package under
Potato, what has replaced it?
Thanks,
Ken Rea
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Brad wrote:
Thanks to you all for the tips on ping (ICMP)! I don't
understand it well enough but will be reading more about it.
The problem here was solved (turned out to be a bind misconfig.
that was not a syntactic error, thus hard to find with all
the bind differences in doc. examples out there).
Hi there,
ProFTPD comes with a default setting of ftp.nogroup for anonymous ftp.
Unfortunately there isn't a user "ftp" on my system. Because I was too lazy to
create the user (and didn't know either which uid to give it) I tried to use
"nobody.nogroup," but to no avail. ProFTP doesn't accept "
Newsgroups: local.debian-user
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rick)
Subject: Re: apt-get difficulties
Date: 10 Nov 1999 18:18:41 GMT
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References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Gets Too Spammy, Move On
Lines: 25
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990927 ("Nine While Nine") (U
Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here: xcdroast)?
Which scripts change suid.conf?
Where can I read about suidmanager?
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My syslogs from perl broke after upgrading perl to potato.
#/etc/syslog.conf
#
local6.*/var/log/perl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
use Sys::Syslog;
openlog('testing! testing! ', 'cons,pid', 'local6');
syslog('info',"is perl talking?\n");
closelog();
I have successfully setup apache, but even though apache-ssl has been
configure very similar I still can't get to it from a browser (on port 443).
After looking at errors.log, it seems that it is seeing the request but
denying access. Here is an excerpt from the log file:
[error] SSL_accept faile
Getting the following debconf frontend errors periodically:
Gtk-WARNING **: Cannot init gtk at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Gtk.pm line 53
debconf: failed to initialize Gtk frontend
debconf: falling back to Dialog frontend
This is a minor problem really, but it's annoying because I have
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 7/11/99 Sami Dalouche wrote:
>
> >While I was cleaning my home directory, I saw this program that I compiled.
> >After that, I launched it and... My X became frozen and then crashed
> >( I executed the program in an Xterm). I think it's because it us
Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with
> ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit
> characters. Same problem with running ispell from the command line,
> but I can't find anything in the docs (on
How do I use cvs over a network?
I have a telnet and ftp conection to the computer who is supposed to host
the cvs repository.
Also, will it work if the versions of cvs on both computers is deferent?
I couldn't find an answear to this in any of the cvs menuals.
The local system is debian
the forain
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BC895 >I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are NOT CD-Rs.
BC895 >CheapBytes seems popular, but they sell R2...where can i get R3 while
not
BC895 >being ripped off?
cheapbytes sent me a curropted CD(I ordered a pack that had a bo
easiest way is to copy the data over, delete the partition and re make
it. or you can grab powerquest partition magic 4 or above.
nate
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
alisda >I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
alisda >and it only recognised about 8G
I just installed Debian 2.1
After it completed the 1st part of the install when it reboots to complete
the process an install the packeges it seem to hang.
The last message it says during the boot up process is...
mounted local file systems...
not mounted anything
If I hit control-c I can ge
I'm curious to know: is there yet a stable version of
Wine that accesses all or most 32 bit Windows
applications without stalling, thrashing, crashing or
otherwise behaving badly? The closest I've gotten this
program to running is when it is enabled in the
background through dfm and then it will on
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote:
> I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
> vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
Nobody mentioned atdot. Get the original from www.atdot.org or the one
I helped tweak and get in
greetings,
before upgrading the kernel i went for the first time to use my tape
drive to back up my box. the dmesg output contained these lines:
hdd: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive
...
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline,
190ms tDSC
but neither dump nor mt recog
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
djkant >I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem.
I'm
djkant >not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get
to get
djkant >a relatively solid Potato build?
Wait till its final, and get a CD ;)
nate
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
alisda >> Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation
alisda >
alisda >Oh, right.
8GB barrier is a not a limitation in at least 2.0.36 ..doubt it is in
earlier ones too, i believe it is a LILO issue, it is not detecting the
parameters of the drive correctly. Upgrad
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Last night I decided I'd attempt to upgrade a simple slink base
installation to potato, just to see how well it worked. I installed the
base slink system and used apt via dselect to upgrade everything. I am
truly amazed at how easy it was! Everything just work
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
alemas >I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf but did
alemas >not find any icmp port.
I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though, the
'ping' command uses ICMP type 8
Are you sure that turned off there DHCP servers? I still run DHCPcd
here in Montreal, and it works fine.
In anycase, search freshmeat for PPPoE. There are 2 user programs
that implement PPPoE for the 2.2.x kernels. I didn't find them very
good though. Lots of problems getting dropped, by one
How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
without the funny ~1 thing?
I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the
linux partition.
Thanks,
antonio.
John Hasler the developer of pppconfig doubts:
> I would appreciate some test reports, particulary
> on the new features and on changing authentication methods.
>
With the previous Beta of pppconfig, I had serious issues of
connecting with 'pon'. The error reported was 'authentication
failure'
Change your last entry in your filter file to look like this:
# Default entry -- for normal (text) files. MUST BE LAST.
default filter /usr/bin/recode latin1:cp437 ; echo -ne \\f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Farrer) writes:
> Hello all;
>
> I have my printer (Epson Stylus Color Pr
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Philip Lehman wrote:
> Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode
> is nice, but some features related to word processing still pose
> some problems to me:
>
> (1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with
> ispell under emacs
I finally got Wordperfect to work on my newly installed
Slink system - thanks primarily to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I needed to install xlib6 out of the oldlibs directory
(as well as libc5 - which I knew about), and libXpm (I think
it was) also from oldlibs.
Thanks also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PR
ICMP doen't use ports, it uses types.
type as root: ipchains -h icmp
for all(?) the icmp types, your
intrest is in the echo-* types.
Regards,
Onno
At 05:01 PM 11/9/99 -0700, Art Lemasters wrote:
Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
> I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf but did
> not find any icmp port.
it is ICMP
it doesn't need port
>
> Art
>
OK
how do i mount a mac format floppy?
-gnana
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Chris Mayes wrote:
cmayes >So, do you all think these will take Debian? I still need to get a
NIC, a
cmayes >monitor and my Debian CD from home before I can even try to do anything
with
cmayes >'em anyway, so there's no big rush.
There is nothing different between a backpla
On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 23:18:03 -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> I seem to have lost the 'fixed' font or whatever it's aliased to. X no
> longer starts for me, and I have heard reports from other users of this.
> Anybody got an idea?
>
I've had no luck with X under potato: see post late on 1999-11-06,
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote:
> This is what you want to do:
>
> 1. get qmail source and build a deb:
>
> apt-get install qmail-src
> cd qmail-src-*
> fakeroot debian/rules binary
> cd ..
>
> ( 1a. maybe do the same for ucspi-
Can't help you with your problem, but the news group
'can.internet.highspeed' does have some Linux users. You might try
there, if you haven't done so already.
Regards,
Dean
Calgary
-
> Sorry if this is offtopic for this list, but I'm at my wits' end.
>
> I'm from Tor
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
: does anyone know what is broken? is it apt-get or is it the non-US
: site, it looks to me like the non-US site is in order...
non-us.debian.org was unreachable (at least from here) yesterday -
apparently there was a routing loop in the Netherlands.
--
Hi,
could anyone help me! Suddenly my Linux Debia2.1 box (2.2.3) cannt boot. It
worked for couple of mounths perfectly. Now, the last what I get is:
.
.
.
INIT: version 2.76 booting
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast
On 10-Nov-99 Paul Miller wrote:
>>
>
> My guess is that these debs it complains about are made for slink, but
> you have potato. I assume the ae, jed, most, newt, and rgrep packages
> are available at any debian ftp site. As for the Gnome stuff, I don't
> know.
All the debs I attempted to insta
Dear Philip:
I use GNU emacs rather than Xemacs, so I hope my answers won't be
misleading. I don't think they will
|> Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell
|> checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in
|> facility or is it accomplished by ispell as
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:05:14PM -0700, James Pullman wrote:
> Apple has steadfastly refused. So bug Apple some more.
It might be worth bugging those, who produce QT movies. Usually they
want people to watch them; certainly if they produce them for advertising.
It would be in their interest, t
I am trying to set up GAG, the multiboot package. It requires that I invoke
lilo to install a boot sector on the partition containing the Linux system
system to boot. When I did this, the boot process terminated before
completion. The last two lines on the screen were:
VFS: Mounted root(msdos
Sorry if this is offtopic for this list, but I'm at my wits' end.
I'm from Toronto and I use Sympatico's High Speed Edition ADSL service...
Recently they've switched to PPPoE and today they disabled their DHCP servers.
Argh... what a long day... what's worse, they officially do NOT support Linux,
Pollywog wrote:
>
> I managed to install some packages manually but apt-get still complains when I
> try to install esound or do an upgrade:
>
> lilypad:/home/pollywog#apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' t
On 7/11/99 Sami Dalouche wrote:
While I was cleaning my home directory, I saw this program that I compiled.
After that, I launched it and... My X became frozen and then crashed
( I executed the program in an Xterm). I think it's because it used
all the memory available...
I don't want to try
Scott Henry wrote:
>I did a recent apt-get upgrade, and now atd fails. It used to work
>fine. It seems to only process items when restarted, and leaves
>defuct children around. I have "at" version 3.1.8-7 installed. I am
>running various 2.3.x kernels with various patches, but atd isn't
>working ev
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote:
> However, when adding a
> word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to
> re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico.
It's M-q
--
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Humans have an inna
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:10:09PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
> Just a question... why are you trying to do this? You can ping out so
> obviously you have connectivity.
I want to make sure that the nameserver is answering remote
servers on this hostname and IP. Sendmail is not recieving
frenche wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > But the book should be a Debian package. (You do know there are
> > other books packaged, right?)
>
> No, but if you'd be so kind as to explain that, it would help me out a
> lot. : -)
These are in potato (but there are onl
I apt-get'ed the task-gnome-desktop package to try it out with Sawmill, but
using it really messed things up. For root, everything was fine but for me
(user david) it couldn't have been worse.
I changed my .xesession to have only exec gnome-session. But only
Enlightenment would display. I got no G
I've been using this for awhile...
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
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I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm
not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get
a relatively solid Potato build?
Thanks.
--
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anom
syslogd-listfiles uses the wildcard to decide if the log is rotated
weekly or daily.
syslogd-listfiles will return debug as rotated weekly.
*.=debug;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
but if you change entry to below, syslogd-listfiles will reuturn deb
I use the following:
deb http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 05:28:52PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 9/11/99 Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> >1. Point /etc/apt/sources.list to "unstable" instead of "stable".
>
> This does not appear
I'm having trouble loading a module while installing slink on a new pc.
It uses the P6SET-ML mainboard with a built in LAN which is numbered
PCNet DM 9102. My light lights up in my hub, but it seems that any
module
I try to load fails. I have tried to search the net for info on this
card,
but aft
One may easily log an apt-get session,
by starting a script beforehand, then using the --quiet option to apt-get
to suppress the periodic progress reports on downloads.
But when I try to operate dselect within a typescript situation,
all the cursor control characters (ncurses or whatever),
while t
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
> why is non-us.debian.org still broken?
It isn't.
lynx http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ works entirely as expected.
Jason
On Mon, 08 Nov, 1999 à 11:44:11AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:19:56PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> > afterstep and kernel 2.2.10. never had the freeze you are referring
> > to. It may be a hardware issue..anything show up in the logs during that
> > freeze ? some kind of
On 9/11/99 Bob Nielsen wrote:
deb http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
thanks, this works perfectly.
why is non-us.debian.org still broken?
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to
> re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico.
>
M-q
--
A well-known friend is a treasure.
On 9/11/99 Bob Nielsen wrote:
1. Point /etc/apt/sources.list to "unstable" instead of "stable".
This does not appear to work on the non-us.debian.org site, i still
have to add the lines like so:
... non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/
does anyone know w
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Yes, I can ping out to the rest of the world. ...looking through
> the documentation for the device again to see if I can find something
> missed before, but doubtful...
Just a question... why are you trying to do this? You can ping out so
obvious
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:53:10PM +0200, Andreas Meyer wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> After installing Gnome with all dependencies and the
> xserver-fbdev3.3.2.3a-11.deb and doing a 'panel' I get a "Gdk-warning:
> Can´t open display". Same with 'gnome &panel'.
I you have a video card that can be accele
On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 13:44:06 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> > Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm
> > line305
> >
> > What do I need to (re)install to cure this,
> > without (further) breaking my system?
>
> Your system isn't broken at al
I am trying to set up GAG, the multiboot package. It requires that I invoke
lilo to install a boot sector on the partition containing the Linux system
system to boot. When I did this, the boot process terminated before
completion. The last two lines on the screen were:
VFS: Mounted root(msdos fi
*- On 10 Nov, Philip Lehman wrote about "emacs and word processing"
>
> Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode
> is nice, but some features related to word processing still pose
> some problems to me:
>
Can't help on the ispell issues, sorry.
> (4) I turned on auto
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
> If you are using single address NAT, it should "just work". If you are
> using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out
> from the Linux system to the rest of the world?
Maybe the command syntax for
Running windows and linux dually, is quite easy, you can just use lilo as
a boot loader and run windows from it or loadlin and use windows as a boot
loader (or whatever it does which looks like a boot loader).
Mounting windows partitions from linux is also posible with mount,
although I am not shu
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
> If you are using single address NAT, it should "just work". If you are
> using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out
> from the Linux system to the rest of the world?
Yes, I can ping out to the re
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Thanks, William. I've learned. But I am trying to ping
> this machine through a Cisco 675 router/modem (yeah, still messing
> with this thing) from a remote server, so the problem is yet to
If you are using single address NAT, it should "just work
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:22:28PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> > Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
>
> It doesn't. Ping uses ICMP, which does not have ports.
Thanks, William. I've learned. But I am trying to ping
this m
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB:
>
> there's no free space left at the end of the drive.
>
> Why's that?
That's a good question. The best thing I can come up with is that the
kernel, when it read the
Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode
is nice, but some features related to word processing still pose
some problems to me:
(1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with
ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit
cha
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
It doesn't. Ping uses ICMP, which does not have ports.
Ciao Micha Feigin,
> I am looking for advice on how to best partition the disk to allow for
> flexability when I need to change configurations/add programs.
/smallest as possible (100 : 200 Mb) **
/usr at least 1 Gb (better 2Gb)
/usr/local local program and data (it depend
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