apt-get question---

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Warfield
Where does apt-get download the files from? Tom

Re: Questions

1999-12-06 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 11:09:35PM -0800, Andy Thomas wrote > The mouse isn't coming up in XWindows. I've never seen it in text Emacs > before either so should it be there? I've got a MSFT Bus mouse on IRQ4. > The gpm is set to /dev/inportbm and the busmouse type. Still it doesn't > seem to wor

Telnet client choices?

1999-12-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in the telnet package? I'm running ii telnet 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet client. ii telnetd 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet server. and according to the telnet man page BUGS The source code is not

Re: Howto sincronize password files?

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I want to use one single source for password for use with Apache, > qpopper and ftp. > > I need a simple and secure solution. > > using /etc/passwd with Apache seems not to be very good. Is this for one computer, or for many comput

Re: apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Nathan York
i tried that and got a new error fixed:~# dpkg -P lm-sensors dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: lm-sensors and when i try to reinstall it i get

Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)

1999-12-06 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi, I just got hold of an old Sparc IPC that nobody used anymore and tried to install Debian on it after swapping the defective first hard disk with an old scsi disk lying around (with an old i386 Debian on it..) The installation worked quite well (it /is/ fun seeing tux for the first time on a S

Re: ADSL

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. they are > giving an internal pci adsl modem card. what are the linux compatible > adsl cards? There are none at this time. Try to get an external ADSL modem - they're platform

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: >* Eric G Miller writes: > >> If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can >> display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 >> fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
At 07:47 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: > >* Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it > >What are the features you are missing? It won't include EPS files, and lays out some files in a broken way completely

Re: potato openssh

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:52:18PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > The developers have changed the default configuration for ssh. What is missing > especially is X-forwarding. You will need to enable on a pr. host basis. This > can be done either systemwide in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or in ~/.ssh/config f

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> the big battles and then mop up the little ones later. Get Linux on every > webserver first ... then worry about the applications and pick them off > one-by-one. I think the same logic can be used to point to the need of getting Linux to the desktop. Until serious headway is made on the d

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
aphro wrote: > > > i believe the key to linux expansion is pre installed machines. users will > be very hesitant to change their OS from something that works for them, > even if it means upgrading from win95 to win98 or nt or win3 to > win9x. this isnt something that can be blamed on linux but on

RE: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Paul McHale
Nate, > saw a mac install once, looked nice. but at the same time they dont have > a tenth(or even a hundredth?) amount of hardware to support, and with > their closed arch. its quite easy to ensure compadiblity. A little long and historical, but bear with me. I don't think it's that bad. I th

Re: xterm title bar change and prompt change

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 03:32:56PM -0600, ktb wrote: > This may be hard to explain but I'll try. I have this in my > /home/kent/.bashrc, > > case $TERM in > xterm*) > PS1="\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ " > ;; > *) > PS1="\w\$ " If you check, you'll

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Nate" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> i believe the key to linux expansion is pre installed Nate> machines. users will be very hesitant to change their OS from Nate> something that works for them, even if it means upgrading from Nate> win95 to win98 or nt or win3 to win9x. this

Howto sincronize password files?

1999-12-06 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
I want to use one single source for password for use with Apache, qpopper and ftp. I need a simple and secure solution. using /etc/passwd with Apache seems not to be very good. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware.

Re: ADSL

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Goulet
>i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. >they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. >what are the linux compatible adsl cards? I don't think they make ADSL modem cards yet. (My ADSL modem is about as large as a kleenex box.) But they will probably give you an ethernet ca

ADSL

1999-12-06 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
i am planning to go for ADSL bellsouth fastacess account. they are giving an internal pci adsl modem card. what are the linux compatible adsl cards? -gnana

Re: Need some help with a Install.

1999-12-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Tom Warfield wrote: > 1) Make sure you have the latest version. The latest version of QuickPage > can be found at http://www.qpage.org/ > format and extracted it to a folder that i made. Not a specific folder and > not sure if it needs to be either> No, it can be any folder you choose,

Re: I made it to X !!!!

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Brigette Heffner wrote: briget >Now, how do I config the mouse to work in the all to familiar gui briget >environment? briget >Brigette You need to find out what kind of mouse it is, since your laptop is modern i bet it is a PS/2 mouse, and you are probably using the wrong pro

Re: potato openssh

1999-12-06 Thread Sven Esbjerg
The developers have changed the default configuration for ssh. What is missing especially is X-forwarding. You will need to enable on a pr. host basis. This can be done either systemwide in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or in ~/.ssh/config for the individual user. The configuration looks like this: Host some

apt-cache and package dependencies

1999-12-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I read a thread a little earlier where the postor (is it postER or postOR?) wants to download all the required files to install X. He wanted to know what files to download. That prompted me to search for an answer. I poked around, and the closest thing I could find that would give the dep

Re: compatible?

1999-12-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hope this is the correct e mail address for my question. No, the correct address is debian-user@lists.debian.org > Can the debian software run on a Toshiba Satellitte > 2100CDS notebook pc ? Yes, it is slightly challenging but I have done it just

I made it to X !!!!

1999-12-06 Thread Brigette Heffner
Thanks for all the help with the install With the second disk of Slackware 7 I can login as root and startx. The mouse (track pad and external) go nuts and don't go through the middle of the screen. When I do manage click on something it does work...and the install using the Slackware and menu

compatible?

1999-12-06 Thread hinkson
Hi Hope this is the correct e mail address for my question. Can the debian software run on a Toshiba Satellitte 2100CDS notebook pc ? It has. AMD K-6.2/400mhz/4GB/90V 56K/32Ram. I would use a portable Ericsson T18s telephone with office suite kit & run windows98 along with linux to administer

need help with gdb

1999-12-06 Thread Pollywog
Is there some online reference for gdb? I consulted a Linux programming book but it did not help. I tried the command 'gdb licq core' but this got me nowhere; no 'core' file is created. I have used gdb before but for some reason, I cannot get it to work. Perhaps I have forgotten how to do this.

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
i agree that linux makes a great replacement for NT but that doesn't mean that people are trying to move it into win9X world. Corel seems to be pushing it that way. Red hat and Mandrake are now being sold on shelves right next to win9X. I think that there is a push to move it into the home user dom

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
At 08:16 AM 12/6/99 -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: >On 12/05/99, Ron Hale-Evans addressed "Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?": >> Any help with getting Type 1 CM fonts to work with LaTeX will be much >> appreciated. > >Caveat: I use potato, but maybe this will work on slink too. >Look for an

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > But through Microsoft's efforts. That should read "But not through Microsoft's efforts". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
The problem seems to be with a compressed or encrypted PDF format, which xpdf and gv have failed to read. I believe there was a plugin type of package that would enable reading encrypted pdf in one of the above, but it wouldn't work for me. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of

Re: molassus after bios reset & massive ipx collisions

1999-12-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Richard Replied, > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 05:13:52PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > On alot of MB there is a jumper which if shorted resets the bios, probably > thats what they did. When you do this you lose _all_ your settings. > Make sure internal and external cache are turned on in th

xterm title bar change and prompt change

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
This may be hard to explain but I'll try. I have this in my /home/kent/.bashrc, case $TERM in xterm*) PS1="\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ " ;; *) PS1="\w\$ " ;; esac This displays user name or [EMAIL PROTECTED] name:directory. For example:

Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-06 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? No, but why not use ghostscript? (eg, gv). --Dylan Thurston

Re: Potato Boot message problem

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a pretty stable recent install of potato. There seem to be 2 > things that I want to know how to eliminate. > 1. the boot message (menu) that asks if I want to use the default > network installation or enter the specs for a new o

Re: X install

1999-12-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Dec, Attila Csosz wrote about "X install" > I've had got a working X window system with some window manager like icewm. > I got a new card(Asus v3800 riva tnt2). I've the X source 3.3.5 . > I succesfully maked the X source( 'make World' ) . My question is: when I > 'make install' does som

X install

1999-12-06 Thread Attila Csosz
I've had got a working X window system with some window manager like icewm. I got a new card(Asus v3800 riva tnt2). I've the X source 3.3.5 . I succesfully maked the X source( 'make World' ) . My question is: when I 'make install' does something wrong? Which new programs will be installed? Then ca

Potato Boot message problem

1999-12-06 Thread John Foster
I have a pretty stable recent install of potato. There seem to be 2 things that I want to know how to eliminate. 1. the boot message (menu) that asks if I want to use the default network installation or enter the specs for a new one. 2. when the xwindow login apears. I can not use the number pad a

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
I don't think people should concentrate too much on making the installer easier, at least with the people *I* know they very rarely reinstall windows and those that do always need help. case in point a co worker just got his first pc a couple weeks ago(with advice from me he got an athlon 550 from

Need some help with a Install.

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Warfield
Okay im very green. So green that the grass is jelous. So with that in mind here is my problems: I am trying to install a program called Qpage. Everything i have comments about is in <> brackets. After downloading it, here are the instructions that are given that i dont understand (This is the

Re: isapnp problems?

1999-12-06 Thread Paul
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:07:01PM -0500, Marshal Wong wrote: > You may want to remove the (CHECK) from the end of the lines which > configure the IO addresses. If you could send me the error messages, > I could tell you for sure. Actually, you're whole isapnp.conf file > would be helpful too. >

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
Here is what I would like to do until I can get a modem which supports linux. Download the packages necessary to upgrade my XFree86 on my windows partition...boot into my linux partition...mount my msdos partition...and upgrade it this way. Will this work? And if so, which files specifically do

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, * Ron Hale-Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it What are the features you are missing? > I have all the Blue Sky fonts, and pdflatex uses them, but LaTeX still uses > the ugly Type 3 CM fonts. Everything I have read ab

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Eric G Miller writes: > If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can > display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 > fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman, > Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will r

ttysnoop w/ win98 ptmx

1999-12-06 Thread Darxus
Has anybody gotten ttysnoop to work w/ Unix98 PTYs ? __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous:

Mirroring a Server

1999-12-06 Thread Ricardo Jardel Nunes da Silveira
Any one can suggest me softwares for mirror a server (Backup) ? Thank You ! ___ linux, a oitava maravilha do mundo :) __

RE: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Paul McHale
Evan, > > Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of > all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers This has been true for some time. Apple has always offered superior ease of use. They screwed up with the closed architecture. Talk ab

Re: Mule for emacs20

1999-12-06 Thread Jinsong Zhao
In emacs20, you don't need mule: it's part of emacs20. However, I'm not sure if Debian version contains the leim package. You can download and compile your self and make sure to include the leim package. For GB, you need add one line in the .emacs: (set-language-environment 'Chinese-GB) and the f

Re: bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Dec, Marcin Kurc wrote about "bootpd" > Is there bootpd in debian distribution? > Sure. In Debian 2.1(slink) it is in the netstd package. In Debian unstable(potato) it is has been split out into the bootp package. You can use the "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" search engin

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Ross wrote: > On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group > > memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to > > local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mai

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers and much nicer than a windows based installer. You can get full blown 24 bit color at full resolution with their installer. the UI is nice and easy to u

Re: XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming the binary is compadible with the version of XF86 you have > installed the easiest way is to do this: > > copy the binary to /usr/X1R6/bin > > change /etc/X11/Xserver's first line to point to that filename, and it > should work, or, just see what file

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Rick Dunnivan wrote: rdunni >drive from the controller and plugged it into the IDE rdunni >on the mother board and it works fine. My question: rdunni >"Is there a way for debian to recognize the hard drive rdunni >while it is plugged into the Ultra66 controller?" install usin

Re: LILO

1999-12-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dietrich Clauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I tried to change boot=hda3 to hda4 > > Did you move the 'bootable' flag from hda3 to 4, too? > Otherwise, the MBR tries to start your old LILO on hda3. > > You can also install LILO in the MBR using > boot=hda > > that makes the 'bootable' fl

Re: Partion sizes - recommendations pls

1999-12-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the > following usage: > > Apache *only local* for designing my database and HTML (not sure which > mods), PHP, Mysql... > > GUI heavweights : X, KDE or Gnome, Star Office or Word Per

RE: RE[2]: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
> hope Bill hasn't thought of it... After all, they did invest in apple. yes 150 million worth, but it was on-voting stock, and was a sort of "payment" for the keeping quite about microsoft stealing quick-time source. If the CEO at the time (Gil Ameleo) had any nuts he wouldn't have let apple be

bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Marcin Kurc
Sorry, iI found bootpd, misspeled grep before. -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there bootpd in debian distribution? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
i prefer the ncurses based installer myself, but people comming from the "other" OSs probably prefer something a little more familiar. before linux i was one of those "command line? eek!!" people aswell. now when i use one of the "other" OSs i keep wanting to bring up a prompt. On Fri, 3 Dec 1999,

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
i have heard of there being probems running linuxppc on new macs, but on the 8600 in runs perfectly (well close to). The buggiest thing that i ran accross was messing in the open firmware (my 8600 had old firmware), but bootx came along and i never had to deal with that again. With bootx a person

Re: XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
Assuming the binary is compadible with the version of XF86 you have installed the easiest way is to do this: copy the binary to /usr/X1R6/bin change /etc/X11/Xserver's first line to point to that filename, and it should work, or, just see what file Xserver points to and copy the new binary on to

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/05/99, Ron Hale-Evans addressed "Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?": > Any help with getting Type 1 CM fonts to work with LaTeX will be much > appreciated. Caveat: I use potato, but maybe this will work on slink too. Look for an ae package, i.e. \usepackage{ae}. This sets up posts

Apache DBI problems

1999-12-06 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a very recent poptato installation on a new server and I am supposed to migrate all my web applications from the old server to this new one. However as soon as I load the Apache::DBI or the DBI perl module form httpd.conf or from my startup perl script, Apache dies without sayi

Unidentified subject!

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I have an Ultra66 ATA hard drive controller card on my computer. When attempting to load debian onto it, it would not recognize the hard drive. I unplugged the drive from the controller and plugged it into the IDE on the mother board and it works fine. My question: "Is there a way for debian to

potato openssh

1999-12-06 Thread hservoma
Hi all, After upgrading to potato I found that (open)ssh does not work with tcp_wrappers and X-forwarding. Trying to connect from my machine yields the following bit of error with the -v switch. .. ... debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug: Requesting authenticatio

Can't type in X

1999-12-06 Thread Raphael Clancy
Here's my sad story. To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so any calls to memory have to be routed around the graphics, which is slooo

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george/et.al i think that debian might or might not suffer the same fate as all the other linux's - being absorbed into a commercial company or not ... ( at least the major players will be... - linux could also become the "shareware/freeware" compared to old world of

Re: SMP

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Blazej Sawionek wrote: B.Sawi >> support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). B.Sawi >What do you mean by that? I have a default Slink installation, I recompiled the kernel for SMP, and it _seems_ to work correctly (e.g. MATLAB benchmark shows a signi

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb >A MIRO PCTV (w/ bt848 chipset); that's why I think that the motherboard jybarb >fault (well, in fact I think its the HPT366 controler fault, everything jybarb >goes wrong, even under w$98, since its drivers are installed). ahh ok. My BP6 has t

Re: Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: grep >Well, LinuxLaptops.com has systems that ship with Debian on them. grep > grep >http://www.linuxlaptops.com/ll/attache1.html grep > grep >But it is a bit out of your price range at $2488 They look kickass, i will try to get one! wonder what kinda mo

Re: apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Dec-1999 Nathan York wrote: > tried that and i get the following errors: > depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > returned error exit status 255 > > this disallows me from getting any farther in the upgrade... How about ins

Re: Broken web browsing

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Allard
> > My problem is that I can't get any web browsers to work. I use wvdial > > to connect to MindSpring and the ppp connection seems fine. I can use > > telnet, ssh and ftp to connect to sites on the internet. My resolv.conf > > seems to work fine and I can use "nslookup" to find the IP addresse

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Allard
> Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? > I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer > on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. I had trouble installing Windows 95 on a machine with a Diamond Stealth II video card. Turns

XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread gilles . fenoll
Hi, Could anyone tell me how to install the Xbanshee server that I got by creative. I have more practice of other distribution, like Mandrake (RedHat) and SuSE, Ididn't found any problems for install and setup of X on those distrib. Maybe th XF86Config, or any file is not at the same place. and if

Re: SMP

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Expect few to no problems if you upgrade to 2.2.x as soon as possible (SMP > > support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). > What do you mean by that? I have a default Slink installatio

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
This is what I think I'll try. Download to my windows/dos partition...reboot into linux...mount my dos partition...use the downloads directly from my dos partiton to upgrade XFree86. Is there a bundle of somekind I can download instead of downloading all these files one at a time? Actually, what

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
This is what I think I'll try. Download to my windows/dos partition...reboot into linux...mount my dos partition...use the downloads directly from my dos partiton to upgrade XFree86. Is there a bundle of somekind I can download instead of downloading all these files one at a time? = rick __

Re: Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > I am looking into getting a new laptop and wanted to know what you all > reccomend in terms of linux compadiblity. > > I think my best bet is to go with the "linux certified" laptops from > www.affordablecomputers.com they had

problem with e2fsprogs

1999-12-06 Thread F . Roccato
Hi all, i'm trying to configure a scsi disk: I have 3 primary partitions the command mke2fs /dev/sdb1 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb2 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb3 don't. Here the output: mke2fs /dev/sdb3 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 mke2fs: Device not configured while t

Undo in dselect

1999-12-06 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi, I'm back to debian after a couple of years with Redhat/Mandrake. What triggered the change was the possibility to upgrade certain packages, without having a to perform a full reinstall. Anyway, here is my question: How do I safely revert to a previous status. To be specific: I installed a few

Re: lpr problem [SOLVED!]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. > > Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support, > they are different options in kernel co

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-99 Bart Szyszka wrote: >> My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same >> lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) >> ... If this is the case then the x-based setup >> routines should be written for a standard 640x480x16 mode, >> regardless of which

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > dark side? :-) I consider them all new Debian users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elm

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:08:42PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. > > Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support, > they are different options in kernel co

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > jybarb >I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). > jybarb >I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. > > What kind of TV card? I have been using

Re: Desktop Install Quandry

1999-12-06 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 08:46:23PM -0600, dan sampsel wrote > Folks- > Problem A. > I'm attempting a reinstall on LibraNet Compilation of debian/linux from > cd.I have a secondary master HD, which is dedicated to linux. when I > attempt to partition it, I can get the primary partion installed,

Re: SMP

1999-12-06 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Phil Brutsche wrote: > Expect few to no problems if you upgrade to 2.2.x as soon as possible (SMP > support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). What do you mean by that? I have a default Slink installation, I recompiled the kernel for SMP, and it _seems_ to work correctly

Re: ipmasqadm

1999-12-06 Thread Onno
Where do you want to use it for ??? Regards, Onno At 11:38 PM 12/5/99 -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: >could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't >seem to have a man page for it and 'usage: ipmasqadm MODULE [opts] ' >doesn't help me much. i don't have a lot of experience wi

Re: ipmasqadm

1999-12-06 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:38:48 -0800 (PST), Dave Wiard wrote: >could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't Use it e.g. to forward accesses to a port on your firewall to an internal machine like this: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP ssh -R $INT_HOST ssh T

Vincent and the Potato CD

1999-12-06 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Several times last week Brian Servis had an opportunity to show us the way to www.debian.org/~vincent for some x11 upates within slink. Thanks, Brian. However, the Megabytes involved are more than I would like my telephone to listen to. Another option are the potato CDs. According to the latest ma

Re: Make a network firewall with real IPs

1999-12-06 Thread Onno
Don't forget to set your internet interface in promicuous mode ;-) Then do your route and ipchains stuff... Regards, Onno At 09:30 AM 12/2/13 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I have a computer (486 SX 33 - 16 Mb - 2 ethernet cards) that I want to >put to

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Godric
George Bonser wrote: > Embracing commercial software at first is the path to eventually winning. > Let the commercial vendors in ... let them penetrate deep into linux. Then > surround and destory them with free alternatives once you have them > committed to your platform or convince them of the b

Re: apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Nathan York
tried that and i get the following errors: depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented returned error exit status 255 this disallows me from getting any farther in the upgrade... craz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote:

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Godric
George Bonser wrote: The computer is a tool. People often use it to get real work > done with real deadlines. Real money depends on this work. Debian offers > the best ENVORONMENT, so far, for maintaining and supporting software for > Linux in the enterprise. Not so cut-and dried. Debian offers

apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Nathan York
whenever i do an apt-get install or anything for that matter it tries to remove lm-sensorsthis causes apt-get to stop due to errors received. how can i tell apt-get that lm-sensors is removed and that it need not remove it for me. craz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to enable logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user?

1999-12-06 Thread Jens Lautenbacher
Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The shutdown/reboot functionality in the logout dialog > is based on a package called 'usermode' which build on top of > the PAM authentication system. On a related note, I think it is very inconsistent and not understandable from a normal users point of

ipmasqadm

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Wiard
could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't seem to have a man page for it and 'usage: ipmasqadm MODULE [opts] ' doesn't help me much. i don't have a lot of experience with loadable modules and such. -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions

1999-12-06 Thread Andy Thomas
The mouse isn't coming up in XWindows. I've never seen it in text Emacs before either so should it be there? I've got a MSFT Bus mouse on IRQ4. The gpm is set to /dev/inportbm and the busmouse type. Still it doesn't seem to work. Is there a configuration file where it could accidentally be set

Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
I am looking into getting a new laptop and wanted to know what you all reccomend in terms of linux compadiblity. I think my best bet is to go with the "linux certified" laptops from www.affordablecomputers.com they had a beta program and have a couple lines that are tested compadible. At good pri

Re: trapped in an xdm loop?

1999-12-06 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: b- >i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it. b- >btw, to provide streaming audio (i.e., realaudio, u

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