Re: Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Anthony Green wrote: ninja >I havent read much about ipchains .. but know how to use ipfwadm, is ninja >there a backward compatability? not much backwards compadiblity, i havent gotten around to learning ipchains too well yet thats one thing thats kept my servers at 2.0.36 ni

gdm's Gtkrc doesnt work

Hi, I tried to change gdm´s look by setting Gtkrc=/usr/share/themes/Exceutive/gtk/gtk.rc in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf but I see no difference to before. Did I overlook something ? mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ goff:13961062

Re: AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

You're trying to get GTK+ from potato, correct? You'll probably have to upgrade all of your major libs to the potato versions... I would try this: make sure you have frozen (potato) in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free deb-src http://htt

Re: cran-md5

Hello > /etc/cran-md5 is a useful file that allows you have different passwords for ... > Anyone know what it is and how I can install it? At least wu-imapd uses /etc/cram-md5. > Patrick bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

Re: ZIP drives

> > 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. > AFAIK parallel ZIP-drives are *dead* slow! My 100MB Zip used to have 100kb/s IIRC, but it has a hardware defect since a couple of days so I am not sure.

Schedule-like app for Linux

Here on campus where I work we've managed to stay away from MS-Exchange by running the older MS-Schedule+. Now that W2K is upon us, with it's integrated Outlook that breaks MS-Schedule, the campus will have to find an alternative or install an MS-Exchange server and allow the Evil Empire to gain an

Re: reading rtf files: I shouldn't talk nonsense.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Paul Huygen wrote: > Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read [rtf files]. > > Sorry, I should not talk nonsense. I mistook "rtf" for "PDF". > > Paul Huygen > try to get abiword.*.deb from www.abisource.com looks like it i

Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

Hello, I have a debian linux box running 2.0.38 Ive just updated all the packages from hamm to slink but I also want to now upgrade to kernel to 2.2.14 ? .. What I am wondering is what problems if any am I faced with .. I am running IP Masquerading .. linux box connected to net, local network

Re: incorrect time on boot by 6 years???

> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyway, the problem: After rebooting the computer, the year >> resets from 2000 to 1994. The rest of the date and time looks >> OK. I don't Henrique> Looks like Y2K bug in the BIOS or the RTC. Try forcing

Re: What is apt-get

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I'm a somewhat experienced Linux newbie (if there is such a thing), so I know about apt-get. I tried to use it to get something, and it suggested that I might want to run "apt-get -f install". Trying to be open to suggestions, I told it to go ahead. Well, i

Re: reading rtf files: I shouldn't talk nonsense.

Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read [rtf files]. Sorry, I should not talk nonsense. I mistook "rtf" for "PDF". Paul Huygen

New libc6, locales (+gconv-modules+libc6-bin) --> deinstall almost everything

Hi, I've found nothing the archives (strange). So I've (re)subscribed here: Since last libc6, locales potato 2.1.2-12, dselect insists to set most packages to remove. I set gconv-modules and libc6-bin to purge but still the same. But what's strange when I now want to leave the 'Select' with I ge

Re: ISDN and Debian

I've been using ISDN under Debian for since August last year with a dynamic IP adress and all works fine. (I'm using another card as the BT Speedway, but if it's supported I shouldn't make a difference.) I've never had any trouble with having a dynamic ip-adress, the hardest part were the scripts

Web Jetadmin under Debian 2.1

Anyone gotten Web Jetadmin running under Debian 2.1? I downloaded 5.6 from HP. It finds all it's librarys. I had to tweak the install (it want's to put startup scripts in /etc/rc.d). And it even starts up, but it doesn't appear to answer http requests. Ideas? -- Richard W Kaszeta

Re: Scary bugs

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > Please, remove this command (--systohc). I disagree. I run several Debian servers, each synced by NTP. Each of them is rarely rebooted, however, when it happens, I can't risk that the RTC time went haywire during their long uptime. The --systohc is a m

AGHHHH! I ruined Linux!

Hey everyone I have a huge crisis. I was trying to get the current version of GTK+, along with a c++ wrapper, but I needed a bunch of new libraries and stuff to install. I started getting them, but each of them depended another library, until finally I needed the new version of libc6. I got

Re: quake-svga signal 11

another thing to check is the cache on the board/chip, disable one at a time thru the bios and see if it does the same, its gonna run like a 386 but it'll be a decent test to see if the cache sometimes gives bad hits. worth a shot anyways ... nate On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Remco van 't Veer wrote: rw

Re: Problem to burn cd with cdrecord

you using the latest version of cdrecord ? check freshmeat.net for a listing, if its a newer drive u prob need the latest release..i've never ever had a problem with cdrecord, i can burn while playing unreal and its fine :) i love it! nate On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Markus Jaekel wrote: markus >On Thu,

Re: ISDN and Debian

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Does anyone have any experience of ISDN and Debian. I have been doing a > lot of reading, but would like someone who actually uses ISDN to offer > some advice. > > In the docs I have read, I have seen nothing about setting up an ISDN > connection with

Re: Isn't there anybody who knows anything about this?????

> > A few days ago I posted this: > > > > > > I've made it, from a windows pc I can call in to my linuxserver that uses > > ISDN but, there's a connection but theer's no communication. The type of > > connection on the window

I should not attache files! (Re: Extraneous endif on make-kpkg)

My apologies for attaching a file on a public maillist. -- Khaddafi Zimmermann General Javier Solana charge FBI Cthulhu XTC MI5 mutageen RAF Lebed alarm GSM munitions Croatian strategic

Re: Corel - Debian

> while corel is working on a setup/install program to give a graphical > front end to debian's install i haven't heard any reports of it being > completed ..corel has sourcecode and docs for it on their site. i > dont > see how you could install debian with a corel front end. unless your > just

Re: quake-svga signal 11

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 09:30, aphro wrote: > quite possibly a quake-svga problem. it also could be a mainboard > problem..is the ram that you scanned that was 'bad' in any particular > socket? i've had ram sockets go bad on me before when the ram was ok. I cycled my "good" SDRAM's through all s

Re: TkMan

Unless I am mistaken it will not be in potato since it is orphaned by the maintainer and because of the freeze. I already contacted the maintainer and I am preparing a package for woody. > "David S. Jackson" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't see the TkMan package anywhere in Slink. Is that beca

Out of date packages

If I find a package that is out of date with the actual version out on the net, what should I do? Example: games/nighthawk (Debian version: 1.0 -- Upstream version: 2.2.1 or something like that) I have also found packages that are in need of updating because of upstream bugfixes. Example: devel/b

Re: Problem to burn cd with cdrecord

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > I have the same problem, however, it does not occur when the cdr is in the > drive for at least 4 hours before starting to write (its a bit warmer then, > so I guess its a problem with the laser not calibrating right when to cold). > since this also app

Re: Kdevelop working?

"David J. Kanter" wrote: > I keep getting this error after apt-getting kdevelop: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > kdevelop > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > What can I do to fix this? > -- > David J. Kanter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail

Re: Extraneous endif on make-kpkg

Here's a patch for the kernel-package 6.30 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules file: --- rules.orig Thu Jan 27 07:14:24 2000 +++ rules Thu Feb 3 22:01:34 2000 @@ -427,7 +427,6 @@ debian := 1.00 endif endif -endif @@ -633,7 +632,7 @@ test -f .config || (test -f .config.save &&

ISDN and Debian

I am considering having a BT Home Highway (ISDN) line installed here in the UK. I understand the BT Speedway ISDN card is supported by Linux. Does anyone have any experience of ISDN and Debian. I have been doing a lot of reading, but would like someone who actually uses ISDN to offer some advice.

Re: Installation Question

Craig Churchill wrote: > > While trying to install Debian from CDROM onto a PentiumII 400, I get the > following message when trying to install the kernel etc. > > "Floppy Error." > "The attempt to extract the Drivers floppy failed". > > I'm using Debian version 2.1 > > Regards > Craig Churchil

Re: Extraneous endif on make-kpkg

Remco van 't Veer wrote: > > A bug in kernel-package: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 13:33, Kent West wrote: > > > I'm trying to "make-kpkg clean" from within my > > /usr/src/linux directory and I'm getting the following > > error: > > /usr/share

Re: Mount w98 partition

> I'm trying to mount my Windows98 partition from Linux > > Cannot seem to work out the command > Make sure you got vfat in your kernel (as module or not) and do: mount -t vfat /dev/ / eg. mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt Ron

Re: Mirror using http

Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a package that is functionally equivalent to mirror that > uses the http protocol instead of ftp? There are two that I'm familiar with, and I'm sure a lot more that I'm not familiar with. If you want a very broad idea of what's available I'd

3-Com NIC support

Does the Debian port have a driver set for the 3-COM family of NICs? I am working with Solaris 2.5 in support of a legacy CAD system and am having little luck finding older 3C509B Combo cards at an assembly number before 03-0021-000, rev. A. Sun has indicated that this assy # or later will not

Mounting Novell Drives for Linux

I have a question for you: I am trying to mount a novell network where I work. I have created a mount point: /mnt/netware I then issue the following command: /usr/bin/ncpmount -S BINC-MSN -A binc-msn.binc.net -U username /mnt/netware This works for my colleagues using Redhat. However,

Mirror using http

Is there a package that is functionally equivalent to mirror that uses the http protocol instead of ftp? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9

Re: Extraneous endif on make-kpkg

A bug in kernel-package: On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 13:33, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to "make-kpkg clean" from within my > /usr/src/linux directory and I'm getting the following > error: > /usr/share/kernel-package/rules:430: *** extraneous > `

Re: What is apt-get

Dselect uses /var/lib/dpkg/available to show the available packages. 'apt-get update' does not update this file, only the *Packages and *Release files in /var/state/apt/lists. Bob On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:18:59AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > "David Z. Maze" wrote: > > > > > APT also integrate

lpr stopped working after upgrade

After the following upgrade (certain potato packages on slink) my lpr stopped working. Is there a way to get it back again? Installing lpr from potato did not help. Apt-get reports the following: --- The followin

HP880c printing from (i.e.) GIMP

Hello, I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work. Arnout [EMAIL

Installing printer on stripped-down machine

Hello,   I am trying to install a printer (HP deskjet 510) on an old machine. I have removed a lot of packages here, especially much of the networking. 'echo hallo >/dev/lp1' as root works. I installed the lprng package. 'echo hallo | lpr' gave some confusing error messages (sorry, don't rem

Re: Mount w98 partition

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 02:24:24PM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > I'm trying to mount my Windows98 partition from Linux > > Cannot seem to work out the command mount -t vfat /path/to/win98/partition /path/to/mount/point For example if the Win98 partition is /dev/hda3 and you want it mounted as /mn

Re: Mount w98 partition

My Windows drive is /dev/hda1, I mount it with the following command. mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /cdrive where cdrive is a mount point I created in the root of my Debian Filesystem You would just have to find out which drive and partition your windows drive is. Good Luck, Todd At 02:24 PM 2/3

Problem with X on Slink after apt-get update

Hi. I just changed my video card to an ATI Xpert 2000 8MB and used apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade to fetch the XFree 3.3.6 for Slink from http://www.debian.org/~vincent. All downloaded and installed OK - except for error with xterm which was left unconfigured with message "unable to make

Extraneous endif on make-kpkg

I'm trying to "make-kpkg clean" from within my /usr/src/linux directory and I'm getting the following error: /usr/share/kernel-package/rules:430: *** extraneous `endif'. Stop. Anyone have a clue what's happening? Thanks.

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

some controllers may require some configuration in the scsi/raid bios before using it in the OS. did u try that ?? nate On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Manfred Knoke wrote: Manfre >We want to use one of this servers as a webserver. And we have to decide betwen Linux and NT. Manfre >When trying to install

Mount w98 partition

I'm trying to mount my Windows98 partition from Linux   Cannot seem to work out the command   I presume the idea is to mount the entire partition and then access the files there through ordinary Linux resources   David

Re: libxpm4, libz1 - not found

matthschulz wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. > It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... > I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? > Any ideas? > > Matth > > They're libc5 based libs. You can find them in oldlibs/ dyer

Fwd: libxpm4, libz1 - not found

Never mind to that, I found it. The trackin over Grace -> and then the related packages brought me to the right point. BTW, why is xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb named libxpm4 and zlib1g_1.1.3-5.deb is named libz1 ? Matth -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: libxpm4, libz1 - not found Date: Thu

libxpm4, libz1 - not found

Hi all, I tried to upgrade grace 5.01 by grace_5.0.5-1.2.deb. It says it depends on ...,libxpm4, libz1,... I couldnt. find those packages at debian.org packetsearch? Any ideas? Matth

http://www.dk.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9806/msg01810.html

I had the a problem a little same like that, but if you try to reinstall linux linux instalation can recognice the previus linux partition (if exist), you can reinstall (upgrade) and see what do.. ok... bye

TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

We want to use one of this servers as a webserver. And we have to decide betwen Linux and NT. When trying to install Linux for performance-testing ( to demonstrate, why linux is the preferred OS) we ran into trouble with the initialization of the disks ( six 9,6 gig HD in one raid-5 container )

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, paul wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the > > .gz

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, paul wrote: > I find this behavior rather odd, as my netscape 4.7 does not strip the .gz > when I SHIFT-leftclick. Are you sure its not something in your settings? It doesn't do it all the time and I haven't had it happen for a while so it could be due to an older version of

TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

We want to use one of this servers as a webserver. And we have to decide betwen Linux and NT. When trying to install Linux for performance-testing ( to demonstrate, why linux is the preferred OS) we ran into trouble with the initialization of the disks ( six 9,6 gig HD in one raid-5 container )

Re: .gz in Netscape

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the > .gz extension. I've always experienced this. Bizza

XF86Config but NOT for a mac

Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >That means that /etc/X11/XF86Config is missing (or maybe has > >the wrong permissions). As root, try running "XF86Setup" or > >"xf86config" which will build the file for you according to > >your choices. > > Linux returns, command unknown. > Do I need to go

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Telmer wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the > .gz exten

Re: quake-svga signal 11

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Remco van 't Veer wrote: rwvtve >Could it be a quake-svga problem or am I still experiencing memory rwvtve >problems? Could my video memory be faulty? Some BIOS setting? quite possibly a quake-svga problem. it also could be a mainboard problem..is the ram that you scanned t

Re: Beep?

Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've lost track of how many Unix/Linux/???ix books I've bought now and > none of them seems to be very thorough. It seems every author assumes you > are using his/her particular flavor of Unix and don't need to know > anything at all about any of the others

quake-svga signal 11

Hi, I've been having memory trouble.. A month ago I go new computer (a PIII450 with 3*128Mb). One SDRAM modules was broken, the machine didn't pass the kernel compile test. So I swapped till I found the broken one and traded it for a new one. This configuratie passes a 1000 kernel compile test

Re: Shaazaaam!!! Success at last!

dkphoto wrote: > > >That means that /etc/X11/XF86Config is missing (or maybe has > >the wrong permissions). As root, try running "XF86Setup" or > >"xf86config" which will build the file for you according to > >your choices. > > Linux returns, command unknown. > Do I need to go to the directory wh

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the .gz extension. I've always experienced this. Bizzare. -- Colin

Re: Beep?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dkphoto) wrote: >I've lost track of how many Unix/Linux/???ix books I've bought now and >none of them seems to be very thorough. It seems every author assumes you >are using his/her particular flavor of Unix and don't need to know >anything at all about any of the others. Yep

Re: searching files for patterns

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? Nope :) >for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is >scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 >million files. Even though the server is fast, it is sti

Re: Shaazaaam!!! Success at last!

>That means that /etc/X11/XF86Config is missing (or maybe has >the wrong permissions). As root, try running "XF86Setup" or >"xf86config" which will build the file for you according to >your choices. Linux returns, command unknown. Do I need to go to the directory where it is located first? If so,

Re: .gz in Netscape

Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:12:58PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > Hi, All > > > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > > > > > thank you > > > >

Re: What is apt-get

"David Z. Maze" wrote: > APT also integrates with the traditional Debian package > manager front-end, dselect That's what I always thought, but maybe I've got something configured weird on my boxes, because I've noticed on several occasions that I can do an "apt-get update" and then go into

Beep?

I've lost track of how many Unix/Linux/???ix books I've bought now and none of them seems to be very thorough. It seems every author assumes you are using his/her particular flavor of Unix and don't need to know anything at all about any of the others. The one I am reading now says that the ^G

Re: reading rtf files

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 03:52:24PM +0100, Paul Huygen wrote: > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf > > files? I only found a few that can generate them. > > As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read them.

Re: Shaazaaam!!! Success at last!

dkphoto wrote: > > >Try: startx > > > >xinit is not intended as a user level program. > > Thanks. But when I did use startx, I go this: > > Fatal server error. > No config file found! > > I must have missed something. Any suggestions? > > David Kachel That means that /etc/X11/XF86Config is mi

Re: Wearnes CDD110 cdrom driver

Nam-Anh Pham wrote: > > I have an old Wearnes CDD110 cdrom on my PC. I cannot get Debian Linux to > recognize the drive so that I can install the operating system. Is there a > built-in driver to recognize this old type of cdrom? If so, what would be > the loadlin parameter to use during the in

Re: reading rtf files

> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf > > files? I only found a few that can generate them. > > As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read them. No it cannot. I looked around a bit further, and found T

SCSI Config

Greets ppl, I have a Adaptec 152x card which is attached to an Archive Python DAT Drive, the setup works great under windows, however Debian wants to detect the card as using IRQ 12 instead of IRQ9 which the card is set to.  I have all the correct Kernel Modules loaded for the card and for the tap

Re: Corel - Debian

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Lance Wearmouth wrote: lance >I am a new user of Linux and have not even installed it yet. Have lance >been around with Windows for a while tho and use NT4 W. I have lance >obtained distributuib of Debian and also the download cd from Corel. lance >My intention is to finish u

Re: problems after upgrading

From: Eric G . Miller > > > > I have the same problem but I don't have /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. Any > > ideas? > > > > Okay, you upgraded to potato, yes? And you have a kernel with UNIX 98 > ptys? dpkg reports: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -S devpts.sh > libc6: /etc/init.d/devpts.sh > > So, I c

Re: VMWare and lilo

i've had that problem when the partition was not marked as active. that could be your problem, boot offa disk and check fdisk, in linux utilities active is the same as 'bootable' typically only 1 partition at a time per drive can be active, any more *may* cause problems. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 200

Re: crc error, system halts when trying to boot debian cd

probably a bad cd, i got a few of those from one site, forgot the name it was really cheap ... linuxmall has given me lots of good quality cds tho nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Angelstar73 wrote: angels >when I try to boot the debian cd I get the crc error, then the system angels >halts.. angels >any

IP masquerading - connections persist too long

I have recently switched my ISDN card to a firewall machine, running kernel 2.2.13 and slink. I am now finding that connections remain open for up to 10 minutes. I think that the masquerading part of the kernel has opened them in order to fulfil connection requests, but is not closing them when th

Please Reply: Kernel compilation straight from the base install...

Hi, I recently installed the potato base system, and wanted to compile my own kernel straight from there. I was wodering what all packages I'd need to download from the debian home page to be able to do this. The reason I have to get them from the debian home page is becuase all I have right now is

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > Just hold down the shift key when you click on it. That seems to do > the trick. no, it doesn't i'm getti

Re: .gz in Netscape

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:12:58PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > > > thank you > > > > OK > > Shift + Left-Click saves the lin

Re: StarOffice query

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > 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? Howdy, Dean! Works on my slink system. What does xev show for

Re: reading rtf files

"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf > files? I only found a few that can generate them. As far as I know, at least Ghostview can read them. Paul Huygen

Re: What is apt-get

nther writes: CG> what is all this apt-get about? CG> CG> What is it good for and how does it work APT stands for "A Package Tool". It's essentially a wrapper around the Debian package manager, dpkg, that provides some useful functionality. You tell APT where Debian packages can be downloaded

Re: Someone must know sparc debain

I always used kernel-package to build my sparc kernels. No problems. Unfortunately I have an IPX, so it's rather slow on the build. I also had to blank out the hard drive (doing Potato boot floppy tests) and for some reason I can't get my NFSroot mounted. And I can't get the cross-compiler to comp

Re: Yehaw!

Quoting Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > > You'll be left with a package called /kernel-image-2.3.41_foo.1_i386.deb > > in the directory above you (i.e. in ..) which you can then install > > like any .deb file. > > I follow up to that point but my Windows brain

Re: [WARNING] powstatd does currently work with new CyberPower UPS

It turns out that the current version of powstatd _does_ support the new PowerSL line of UPSes from CyberPower Systems. False alarm. A new version of the package that says so was uploaded to potato and woody yesterday. Thanks, Peter On 13 Jan 2000, I wrote: > I've been recommending the purchas

Re: sparc kernel, got it to build... now what...

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I built a 2.2.13 kernel, finally.. make boot worked. I edited silo.conf > and ran silo, all seemed ok.When I rebooted it complained that the > image was too big to fit in the destination. What can I do about this? > Should I st

Corel - Debian

I am a new user of Linux and have not even installed it yet. Have been around with Windows for a while tho and use NT4 W. I have obtained distributuib of Debian and also the download cd from Corel. My intention is to finish up with a Debian installation with the Corel front end. Not sure how I sh

reading rtf files

Hi. Is there any utility/program in debian that assists in _reading_ rtf files? I only found a few that can generate them. TIA, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)

Re: searching files for patterns

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is this the best/fastest way to search through 800,000 hl7 files? > > for each file i am grepping for 6 names... thus each file is > scanned/grepped 6 times over. Basically i am searching for 1 name in 4 1/2 > million files. Even though the server is

Re: Possible convert

From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 02 08:15:22 2000 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:15:22 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Received: 2 Feb 2000 01:52:29 GMT Resent-Date: 2 Feb 2000 01:49:59 - Resent-Cc:

ppp authentification problem

Hi all! I'd like to configure a dial in server with linux and ppp. The dial-in stations are Win95. I use debian slink linux kernel 2.0.36, ppp-2.3.5, mgetty-1.1.18 I want to authenticate the dialing in connection, but nor PAP nor CHAP does not work. I try with, without system passwords. The PAP

Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem

Hi, Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. Any ideas on how to fix it? Pete

Re: kernel upgrading problems (2.0.36->.38)

On 03 Feb 2000 00:32:37 CST, Manoj Srivastava writes: >>>"Robert" == Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> Hello, > Robert> I have a problem upgrading to the recent 2.0.38 kernel, > Robert> according to the debian-faq I try to to make-kpkg --revision > Robert> bla.1 kernel_image

Re: remote ip

depending on which kind of access-server your provider uses, at least with cisco as5xxx and livingston pm[3,4] they can easyily configure them to all pretend the same ip-address on their end. if they dont, some configurations (eg dialer-maps on ciscos) will have serious troubles connecting, so they

Re: NeoMagic Graphics cards

>> Original Message << On 2/3/00, 11:14:57 AM, "eyrie murru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding NeoMagic Graphics cards: > Hello, > I have a neomagic graphics adapter, and I do not know how to configure my system to >use the server specifically for my card.

Re: Problem to burn cd with cdrecord

I have the same problem, however, it does not occur when the cdr is in the drive for at least 4 hours before starting to write (its a bit warmer then, so I guess its a problem with the laser not calibrating right when to cold). since this also applies when using the drive with WinOnCD, it doesnt lo

Re: VMware

Quoth Lance Heller, > 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. I r

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