Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
try make zImage or bzImage or zdisk or bzDisk i dont know if zdisk or bzdisk (bzDisk?) are valid options but i know zImage and bzImage is, vmlinuz is not as far as i know. zImage is used for kernels that can load in the 640kb of memory, bzImage will load in 'high' memory (above 1MB i believe) for

Re: Real Player???????

2000-02-02 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> Is anyone using this? and if so how did you get it to work. I was You don't say whether you are using slink or potato, but for potato the package is named realplayer. It's basically a wrapper that asks you to download the real player RPM file from the real audio web site (http://proform

Re: hardware problems

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
it would be helpful to know if the machine has ever been running good under another distro/OS or if its a 'new' machine.. install lm_sensors on the machine for some additional info about the mainboard like voltage and temp and stuff. i also find running X on the screen with status monitors is goo

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use wget instead Other answer: Try shift-mousebutton Regards, Joey -- Whenever

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread Lee
I did download and install Communicator, several different ones (see below). FILE SIZE 16,573 KB. There is still no Messenger that I can see, just Navigator. aphro wrote: > corel is using the standard netscape, you gotta download communicator > which has the mail/news/html composer clients. >

Re: Real Player???????

2000-02-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:14:31 -0600, Tom Warfield wrote: > Is anyone using this? and if so how did you get it to work. I was > thinking i could apt-get install it but i havent found any packages for it, > does anyone know if there is and if so what is the name of the latest > package? T

Re: Real Player???????

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Tom Warfield wrote: > Is anyone using this? and if so how did you get it to work. I was > thinking i could apt-get install it but i havent found any packages for it realplayer.deb -- see shy jo

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:59:35AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmunix > > make: *** No rule to make target `vmunix'. Stop. > > > > Also > > > > meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmlinux > > make: ***

Re: Pink text on white ground?

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > dkphoto wrote: > > > > > How do I change the color of text? My Debian/68k Mac has pink text on a > > > white ground. I can barely read it! > > > Willl someone please tell me how I can change it? > > > > I've you've got a bootable M

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm not too sure. If you print to a remote printer then the file must be sent over the network. I'm not sure why the daemon would complain then about the file not being linked. "Joseph A. Martin" wrote: > Hello, > I found part of the problem. I added my brothers' computer to > /etc/host

Re: printers

2000-02-02 Thread Leslie C. Miller
I just bought a few months ago an HP LJ1100 It is totally perfect. This model replaces the LJ6, and is fully lj4, 5, and 6 compatible. No onboard Postscript, but gs has drivers which work perfectly. This printer is so slick! Fastest printer I have ever used on any system. No hassles. And the

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
Thanks, Wouter. It becomes clearer that I need to use as recent a version of Debian as possible to deal with booting Linux from the the 34GB hard drive I have installed Another thought I had is to use the old 1.2GB hard drive from my old Gateway, but I observe (at least in Windows) a lot of system

Enlightenment Configuration

2000-02-02 Thread AU,SCOTT CHUONG
Hi, Just installed the Enlightenment package (main, docs, and theme packages). Enlightenment runs fine except: 1. I cannot get dox to run (pops up an error window saying it could not find the dox program). 2. I cannot run ConfigEdit (pops up an error windows saying it could not find the program

Shaazaaam!!! Success at last!

2000-02-02 Thread dkphoto
Ran dselect 'configure packages' for about the 6th time this morning. It finally finished doing its thing and had the "Quit dselect" line selected when I came back. This may be the longest install on record of any consumer system anywhere! When I try to run xinit, I get: "Could not find the co

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
Many thanks, Paul Professor Brouwer's Large Disk HOWTO is great (really an understatement), highly readable, and quite thorough, and in fact specifically discusses the issues of my 34GB IBM hard drive DELL has done something in the current BIOS to restrict access to 32.x GB as a general workaroun

Re: Pink text on white ground?

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > dkphoto wrote: > > > How do I change the color of text? My Debian/68k Mac has pink text on a > > white ground. I can barely read it! > > Willl someone please tell me how I can change it? > > I've you've got a bootable Mac System floppy/CD, try booting off

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting davidturetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In response to below suggestion, I repartitioned as follows: > > c: 5,004.6 meg > Extended: > / 2,502.3 > swap 502.0 > /usr 5,004.6 > e: 19,618.4 > > The Debian install takes me to the same proble

Re: Technical problem -- please help.

2000-02-02 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:06:44AM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Jérôme Loisel wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I am having a rather technical problem with my GNU/Linux system. I have > > tried really hard to resolve this on my own, and am out of luck. > > > > The sad thing is I'm not running Debian,

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I found part of the problem. I added my brothers' computer to /etc/hosts.lpd and it gave them access. However I have another problem. After they print a message is sent by the lpd on my server back to the user account on their machine. The message says: "Your printer job ((stdin)) w

Re: Squid Proxy server-

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
this may not be the 'right' way but i think it would work, just delete the directory /var/spool/squid and run a squid -z to re make it .. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Tom Warfield wrote: TWarfi >Okay i have done this before but cant remember what i typed to get it to TWarfi >work. I need to clear o

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
Well, I just got up from a well-deserved (and overdue) nap and it occurred to me that even though Partition Magic took a long time (and therefore I assumed it was also formatting the new partitions), it might not in fact have formatted the partitions and that might be an underlying cause of my prob

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread Bruce Sass
Michelle, What do you expect from pre-release software. The latest version of the potato boot-floppies are due out today, at the usual place ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current The most recent test build, done yesterday, is at http://lully.debian.org/~tausq/ Why don't you

.gz in Netscape

2000-02-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All stupid question: what i have to do in order to prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? thank you OK

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Thus spake Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > > > Ok, > > > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > > > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have > > > 98 on /dev/hda1

Real Player???????

2000-02-02 Thread Tom Warfield
Is anyone using this? and if so how did you get it to work. I was thinking i could apt-get install it but i havent found any packages for it, does anyone know if there is and if so what is the name of the latest package? Also if you didnt use apt-get to install your version then how did

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I > was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. For all intents and purposes they just work - you just need to make sure you have the right driver

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmunix > make: *** No rule to make target `vmunix'. Stop. > > Also > > meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmlinux > make: *** No rule to make target > `/usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/param.h', needed by > `

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:02:01AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > In response to below suggestion, I repartitioned as follows: > > c: 5,004.6 meg > Extended: > / 2,502.3 > swap 502.0 > /usr 5,004.6 > e: 19,618.4 > > The Debian install takes m

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > Ok, > > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have > > 98 on /dev/hda1. I run this one nativly(sp?) and don't wan

installing problem

2000-02-02 Thread J K
Hi, I am installing Debian 2.1 on my old laptop with floppy disks, using the lowmem disk, and having a problem. When I press enter at the boot: prompt, the system uncompresses the root.bin, uncompresses linux, but when it tries to start linux, the computer reboots. Does anyone have an idea

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Jason Christensen
Read the docs at the vmware site. They discuss using hardware profiles in windows to keep resources separate for when you boot win98 straight or when you're booting it inside a vmware virtual machine. Read about booting an OS from a prexisting partition as opposed to the standard 'virtual partition

Re: Odd screen

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why is the display for the install process set to pink letters on a white > background? This is nearly impossible to read. I realize there is > probably a way to change all that, but for a beginner, it is no doubt out > of reach. > > Is it just my machine

Re: VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > Ok, > Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The > 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have > 98 on /dev/hda1. I run this one nativly(sp?) and don't want to run it > under vmware as it will trash my drivers,

gpstrans 0.34-2

2000-02-02 Thread Rami Cohen
I am interested in receiving data about gpstrans 0.34-2. Loaded the file but I can't open DEB file. Can you submit cost and delivery time Please advise Rami Cohen Micro-Beat

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmunix make: *** No rule to make target `vmunix'. Stop. Also meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmlinux make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/param.h', needed by `/usr/local/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h'. Stop. Whats wrong here? -Aaron

Re: Technical problem -- please help.

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
Jérôme Loisel wrote: > Hi! > > I am having a rather technical problem with my GNU/Linux system. I have > tried really hard to resolve this on my own, and am out of luck. > > The sad thing is I'm not running Debian, but RedHat... However, I don't have > commercial support, and the people on this li

hardware problems

2000-02-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
Hi, My debian (woody, 2.2.14) box is crashing after 24 to 48 hours of operation. The screen goes black but keeps sync, no network connectivity. Tried with two different motherboards (EPox EP-MVP3C) with the same behavior. Don't have the spare parts to replace the other components (SCSI card, dr

Re: problems after upgrading

2000-02-02 Thread Clyde Wilson
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:28:54PM -0200, Carlos H. S. Laviola wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been having some problems here and would like to hear of your > > thoughts. The latest pppd gives me the following message after a first > > pon : > > >

dpkg --(get|set)-selections

2000-02-02 Thread Ian Alexander
#include What defines a package as being 'selected'? I would think that it would mean those packages that have been selected via the dselect 'Select' stage. However, output seems to suggest that the --(get|set)-selections only print what's installed, not what's been selected. Is my understand

Re: Pink text on white ground?

2000-02-02 Thread dkphoto
>I've you've got a bootable Mac System floppy/CD, try booting off of it to >check the >colors. I three-quarters expect that you've got a dead gun in your monitor or >something similar. Dead gun isn't it. The monitor works just fine when booted into the Mac OS and the same thing happens with anot

Re: Stumble near the finish line?

2000-02-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* dkphoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is this Slink (Debian 2.1)? If yes, teTeX has a date problem in the >> original release. If you care about TeX, you should get the package >>> from the 2.1r5 release (somewhere on www.debian.org) and install >> that afterward. > Thanks. Would that have ca

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lee Chapelle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > cd to /usr/src > > and run this: > > > > wget http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.3/linux-2.3.41.tar.gz > > that's cool! > > > mv linux linux-OLD > > no such directory or file It's no longer normal to

Setting GMT="-u"|"" has no effect!

2000-02-02 Thread Georg Colle
Hi, In order to maintain compatibility to Windows I set GMT in /etc/default/rcS from "-u" to "". Nevertheless the Linux clock remained early by 1h with "Europe/Berlin" set with tzconfig. Only when setting time zone to GMT-0 Linux time is correct, but displayed as "GMT". How can I persuade Linux to

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread paul
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive as > >follows: > > c: 6,997.0 mb > > / 39.2mb > > swap 258.8mb > > /usr 5,004.6 mb > > e: 20,332.2 mb

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting davidturetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive as > follows: > c: 6,997.0 mb > / 39.2mb > swap 258.8mb > /usr 5,004.6 mb > e: 20,332.2 mb > > When I tried to install D

StarOffice query

2000-02-02 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I just installed StarOffice on my slink system. Seems to work fine, but I cannot get the BACKSPACE key to do anything. Anyone know how to make it move left and delete as it goes? Thanks, Dean Provins

Re: dselect

2000-02-02 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:57:20 +0100 (CET) Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody tell me where the list with packages that are selected > in dselect resites? dpkg --get-selections -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)

Squid Proxy server-

2000-02-02 Thread Tom Warfield
Okay i have done this before but cant remember what i typed to get it to work. I need to clear out the cache on my proxy server so that it wont keep showing some items that i have changed. how do i do this? Basicaly I think what im looking to do is clear out my proxy cache, but i cant remember h

ZIP drives

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Meskes
Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it "just" work? I was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. Thanks in advance for your help. Michael Please CC me on replies. -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz

Re: Pink text on white ground?

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
dkphoto wrote: > How do I change the color of text? My Debian/68k Mac has pink text on a > white ground. I can barely read it! > Willl someone please tell me how I can change it? > > David Kachel I've you've got a bootable Mac System floppy/CD, try booting off of it to check the colors. I three-

Re: Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Symbolic links work fine across separate filesystems, NFS or otherwise. Hard links cannot be made to files outside the filesystem where the file linked to resides. I would guess rather that the link failure refers to an inability to connect (or a connection which terminates). Look at the lpd man

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
Lance Heller wrote: > What experience good, bad, or otherwise have Debian users had with > VMware? I have a requirement to use an application that only runs on > one or another flavor of a Redmond virus and am deciding whether to > convert my laptop to dual boot W98, or use VMware instead. > > Th

VMWare, 98 and Linux

2000-02-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, Here's the scenario, I have a 6Gig windows drive and 4 Gig Linux. The 6 is divided into 1 and 6 (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 respectivly). I have 98 on /dev/hda1. I run this one nativly(sp?) and don't want to run it under vmware as it will trash my drivers, etc. I can't blow it away as Rog

Re: Technical problem -- please help.

2000-02-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jérôme Loisel wrote: > Hi! > > I am having a rather technical problem with my GNU/Linux system. I have > tried really hard to resolve this on my own, and am out of luck. > > The sad thing is I'm not running Debian, but RedHat... However, I don't have > commercial support, and the people on this li

Problem to burn cd with cdrecord

2000-02-02 Thread Markus Jaekel
Hallo! After creating an ISO-Image with mkisofs I would like to burn it on CDR. I start a test with cdrecord dev=6,0 speed=4 -v -dummy -multi image.iso without any errors. When I do it without the -dummy option I get the following output: ---

Re: Odd screen

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
dkphoto wrote: > Why is the display for the install process set to pink letters on a white > background? This is nearly impossible to read. I realize there is > probably a way to change all that, but for a beginner, it is no doubt out > of reach. > > Is it just my machine this happens on, or does

Re: compiling an old kernel

2000-02-02 Thread hubert . fauque
thanks to all who answered my question. I have installed gcc272 and could compile the kernel; Hubert

Re: My Netscape Woes

2000-02-02 Thread Kent West
Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am having the worst time with netscape. It worked beautifully for a > while, but now the toolbars are all monochrome. The Webpages look fine, > but the toolbars are monochrome. Quake is also monochrome. The Debian > Online Help is monochrome too.

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
In response to below suggestion, I repartitioned as follows: c: 5,004.6 meg Extended: / 2,502.3 swap 502.0 /usr 5,004.6 e: 19,618.4 The Debian install takes me to the same problems as before: When I permit partitioning: "FATAL ERROR:

WG: Library-Probs with Gnome

2000-02-02 Thread chris Günther
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately it didn't work. So I decided to download potato in the hope that my particular problem might be already solved there. chris +-+ | chris | | --- | | database design &

Re: Using Mylex RAID ctrl with debian 2.2

2000-02-02 Thread Olivier CARRERE
Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Olivier CARRERE wrote: > Hello! I installed a slink system on a Mylex AxxeleRAID 250 only sustem > just a couple of months ago, and I can help; in this case, however, it > just seems like you didn't compile the minix file system in your 2.2.14 > kernel.

Re: looking for Nvidia GeForce X server

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
upgrading to XF86 3.3.6 should do it .. see www.debian.org/~vincent now getting 3D acceleration under geforce may be a different story. you could try the drivers on this page too, 3D acceleration binaries for geforce and other riva cards http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Developer/OpenDrvDwn.nsf/

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
corel is using the standard netscape, you gotta download communicator which has the mail/news/html composer clients. see netscape's homepage or ftp sites for it. nate On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Lee Chapelle wrote: canuck >I'm looking for "Messenger" I'm using corel-linux which has an earlier Netscape

Re: TV Cards....

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
i use a hauppauge wintv/pci and it works great, just make sure to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernel if possible they are outdated, go to the bttv homepage if your using a bttv-compadible card.(i dont have the link, go to yahoo.aphroland.org and search for bttv) i use kwintv to...used to

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
vmware/linux screams because of the kickass memory management linux has. i tried an early release of vmware for NT, on a k6-2 450 with 256MB of ram and because of NT's memory management the 64M i allocated for VMWare was 99% in swap !! the machine had about 190MB free ram and vmware was taking al

Re: 501 .... Sender domain must exist errors.

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
the problem is the SMTP mailer cannot resolve one of the domains the mail is sending from, either the domain itself, or the domain that the email tells the mailer it is comming from. one of the anti spam things. nate On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Tom Fuchs wrote: TomF >Christopher, TomF >I am having the

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
provided u got a decently fast machine it should run great..i have had no complaints about it thus far, been using it off and on since it first came out. run win95/98/nt/win2k/caldera openlinux/freebsd in it sofar. running on a dual 466 with 256M. it also ran good on my p200mmx with 128M on ultra

dselect install errors (mailcap/mime-support-compat)

2000-02-02 Thread Marc Sherman
I'm installing potato using dselect, and I'm getting two errors (during the setup for tar): Warning: could not open file '/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat' -- No such file or directory Warning: could not read '/etc/mailcap' (update stopped) -- No such file or directory Are these warning

Problems Mirroring Debian

2000-02-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I've setup a local mirror of Debian for our development (yes, I do work for Sony :-). Unfortunately lately I started getting lots of errors like: Scanning local directory /mirror/debian Scanning remote directory /pub/linux/debian compare directories (src 48187, dest 35740) Cannot create

Re: Corel Linux debs

2000-02-02 Thread Alfred Munnikes
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anybody tried installing the Corel debs from > ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/dists/corellinux-1.0/corel/binary-i386/ > ? I've tried them, but they depend on libapt-pkg2.5, which I can't seem to > find > anywhere... > > Does anybody know where libap

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread John Foster
Lee Chapelle wrote: > > I'm looking for "Messenger" I'm using corel-linux which has an earlier > Netscape 4.x in it already but no sign of Messenger Composer etc.. I > downloaded the correct update from the FTP site as stated in the package > manager in linux the one with -linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz

Remote printing with lprng

2000-02-02 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I have a system set up for my family that is networked with the rest of my systems. I want their machine to be able to print to my machine. I have lprng installed on their system and a printcap entry setup. This printcap entry works for network printing from my laptop also running l

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am trying to compile a new kernel on a sparc, running debian. I make > menuconfig, make dep, make clean, but after that I don't know what to > do. zImage, bzImage, zlilo, bzlilo do not work. What do I do? YOu need to do 'make vmuni

RE: Installation Debian 2.1

2000-02-02 Thread tschmid
> i used the potato 2.2.5 boot disks because of a problem of the boot-cd > within the debian 2.1 package with the initio-SCSI-host If you only run into trouble when booting from CD, you should use the Debian 2.1 bootdisks. There is a tool on the first CD to create them (rawrite, AFAIR). Also have

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:02:21AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I am trying to compile a new kernel on a sparc, running debian. I make > menuconfig, make dep, make clean, but after that I don't know what to > do. zImage, bzImage, zlilo, bzlilo do not work. What do I do? # make vmlinux # gzip

Potato broken...?

2000-02-02 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi I have used Poatato on a lot of different machines for a long time now (app. 7 months.) and I have never hard a harder time than now. After fighting with kernel 2.3.40 on potato with a lot of OpenGL stuff included I decided it was to unstable (reboot every 3 hours or so) and wanted to reinstall

HELP: Mirror/wget over http-proxy with authorisation won't work

2000-02-02 Thread Mark Caspari
Hi, the situation: I want to mirror potato on my local maschine. Direct ftp and http requests don't go through our companies proxy und firewalls. For using our proxy I need authorisation (username/passwd) for any http-application which accesses the proxy. ftp via netscape is working After instal

Re: Which packages are new in potato

2000-02-02 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'm looking for a list of all packages that are new (not only a newer > version) in potato compared to slink. Is something like that available > somewhere? Just take the Packages.gz file from slink and potato, make a list of the package names by doing som

Lots of errors and page faults

2000-02-02 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, I've got a bit of a problem with one of my servers and I was wondering if anyone could offer a suggestion. I've got a slink system with a 2.2 kernel, and I'm getting lots of page faults, and kernel errors, and so on. My kern.log file is full of errors, sometimes happening every couple o

Re: 128 MB but only 64 MB

2000-02-02 Thread dyer
Ron Rademaker wrote: > My computer (Athlon 500) has 128 MB of memory, but linux says that there's > only 64 MB. At bootup the bios says 128 MB... > I want to use the other 64 MB as well... how??? > > Ron > > in /etc/lilo.conf add: append="mem=128M" run lilo, reboot dyer

Re: TV Cards....

2000-02-02 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Feb-2000, Cyrus Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS I'm in Oz so quoting prices probably wouldn't help ;-) > I am in Oz and would like to know some prices.

mounting the floppy

2000-02-02 Thread debian
Something's wierd with mounting dos floppies under my current installation of slink debian. It worked before I had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall. I can read vfat hard drive partitions just fine. mtools isn't helping, either -- it cannot open the floppy device. I've tried mounting the fl

maxima, gcl

2000-02-02 Thread Thomas Walter
Hello, I use Debian Linux (potato) and I want to ask if anybody has tried to compile 'maxima'. This is a package to do symbolic math in can be found on any GNU mirror. The general recipe to go is: get and unpack 'gcl-2.3.tar.gz' configure and compile it get and unpack maxima-5.4.tar

128 MB but only 64 MB

2000-02-02 Thread Ron Rademaker
My computer (Athlon 500) has 128 MB of memory, but linux says that there's only 64 MB. At bootup the bios says 128 MB... I want to use the other 64 MB as well... how??? Ron

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Guys, The Bootdisks vrom Debian 2.2 sucks. I have downloaded the base2_2.tgz and all neccesary files last year and taken an installation from ZIP-Disk... It was working great. Now I have downloaded the last version of it (27.01.2000) and now I can run install from the ZIP-Disk (Booted wi

Re: forwarding X11 over ssh

2000-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Miller) wrote: >"Joseph A. Martin" wrote: >> I maintain a Linux system at our office. Quite frequently I >> administer this system remotely via ssh. Today I wanted to try running >> an X app over the SSH link. I passed the '-X' option to ssh which the > >Just in case

Re: dselect

2000-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Rademaker) wrote: >Can anybody tell me where the list with packages that are selected in >dselect resites? >I'm currently installing debian on my new computer and want to install the >same packages as installed on another computer (that the computer where I >want to get that

Re: Based On

2000-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (TroPeek) wrote: >Is it there any other Linux Distribution based on Debian, besides Storm >Linux 2000? Corel Linux, Linux by Libranet, and Prosa Debian (Italian). See http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTE

dselect

2000-02-02 Thread Ron Rademaker
Can anybody tell me where the list with packages that are selected in dselect resites? I'm currently installing debian on my new computer and want to install the same packages as installed on another computer (that the computer where I want to get that list) and some more that I'll do manually. Ro

looking for Nvidia GeForce X server

2000-02-02 Thread Kovács Tamás
Hi Everybody!   I look for an X server to Geforce Chipset. Nvidia says: under construction Can somebody help me, to find an useful X server? ( I can't enjoy the 320X200 resolution... :-/ ) Thanks!   Tamás

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread Philip Lehman
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive as >follows: > c: 6,997.0 mb > / 39.2mb > swap 258.8mb > /usr 5,004.6 mb > e: 20,332.2 mb Is this a typo or

possible netstat bug

2000-02-02 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm running Debian Slink with the 2.0.38 kernel on a AMD K6 and I found a weird problem. When executing 'netstat -a', I get (from other usual stuff): tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* CLOSE That should mean that the SMTP server (exim

Re: Possible convert

2000-02-02 Thread hypnos
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have thinking for sometime switching over to linux. Before I do a total > conversion I want to test the waters a little bit. I have an old Gateway, > 486 66 machine with about 16 megs of RAM, 1 gig of hard disk and 8X cd > player. Could iLinux

Based On

2000-02-02 Thread TroPeek
Hi,   Is it there any other Linux Distribution based on Debian, besides Storm Linux 2000?   TIA-Pee

apt-get error

2000-02-02 Thread Thomas Braun
hello list! i have a problem with apt-get ! i want to upgrade my slink to potato and i try apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade it downloaded many file but than he hangs ! i trryed another time and then i get the message try apt-get -f install i tryed but then there comes the message e:

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
I followed Joe's recommendation and partitioned my 32gb IBM hard drive as follows: c: 6,997.0 mb / 39.2mb swap 258.8mb /usr 5,004.6 mb e: 20,332.2 mb When I tried to install Debian, avoiding any further partitioning within the Debian in

Install problem SMC etherpower II network card

2000-02-02 Thread J.B. Huijsmans
I have tried to install debian several times and every time it fails, because I can't get connected to the network. I don't have this problem with any other distribution I have tried (redhat, mandrake, slackware). The epic100 driver seems to detect my card properly - a least ifconfig shows the ID c

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 02-Feb-2000 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > On 02-Feb-2000 Bernhard Rieder wrote: >> Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >>> >>> I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. >>> >>> It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed >>> up. >>> At the moment, vmware causes my system to lo

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
On 02-Feb-2000 Bernhard Rieder wrote: > Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> >> I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. >> >> It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed up. >> At the moment, vmware causes my system to lock up. It brings up the gui and >> the wizard jus

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread Bernhard Rieder
Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > I HAD good experiences with VMware under Debian. > > It worked fine for me last summer, but somehow somewhere something messed up. > At the moment, vmware causes my system to lock up. It brings up the gui and > the wizard just fine; however, just before it brings up the g

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