Is ppp still active when ip-down is called?

2000-02-06 Thread Marc Sherman
When pppd is shutting down and calls ip-down, is the ppp interface already dead, or can the network still be used from that script? The man page for pppd isn't explicit about it, but it sounds like it might be too late already. I'm using dyndns.org, and I'd like to have my ip-down reset my dyndns

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Bart Szyszka said > > Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as > > xfs. > > I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'd appreciate it if you guys would > be more specific. What's "similar" What should I do same as xfs? Like I said, > I

Re: Swap space newbie question

2000-02-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:55:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all. > > I've just done a fresh install of slink and forgot to initialize the swap > > partition I made (hda2) > > Is there a way to initialize it? Or do I have to reinstall? h

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as > xfs. I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'd appreciate it if you guys would be more specific. What's "similar" What should I do same as xfs? Like I said, I installed xfs-xtt. I don't have xfs (it asks me to remov

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread ferret
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, > > and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can > > anyone recommend a particular board? > > Not rig

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread ferret
There's a Dual-slot 1 board I've seen at work from Intel that has integrated everything, and I'm pretty sure the video is supported. This board has seperate video memory instead of shared, if I remember right. Er, speaking of integrated boards, what's a sound modem slot? I've seen them on Soltek

Re: Swap space newbie question

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:55:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. > I've just done a fresh install of slink and forgot to initialize the swap > partition I made (hda2) > Is there a way to initialize it? Or do I have to reinstall? hda is divided > into / (hda1) and swap. Add this to /

Swap space newbie question

2000-02-06 Thread photius
Hello all. I've just done a fresh install of slink and forgot to initialize the swap partition I made (hda2) Is there a way to initialize it? Or do I have to reinstall? hda is divided into / (hda1) and swap. ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as xfs. Chanop Once upon a time, I heard Bart Szyszka said > Hello, > > Someone here suggested getting xfs-xtt to add True Type font support > to Linux. I did that and am getting trouble setting it up. Here are the > ste

libkvutils

2000-02-06 Thread Kendall Shaw
I am trying to install ecasound. It complains that it can't find libkvutils.so.0. Where can I find libkvutils? Kendall

Re: "Fake" package for Wordperfect 8?

2000-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Gregory" == Gregory T Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gregory> I haven't used it myself, but I believe that the package name Gregory> is equivs. Gregory> On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:04:58PM +0100, Jonas Steverud wrote: >> >> I downloaded WP8 for some months ago and the idea struck my earlier

Re: "Fake" package for Wordperfect 8?

2000-02-06 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I haven't used it myself, but I believe that the package name is equivs. On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:04:58PM +0100, Jonas Steverud wrote: > > I downloaded WP8 for some months ago and the idea struck my earlier > tonight that it would be a good idea to build a fake package for WP8 > that depended o

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?ISO- >hello everybody: =?ISO- > =?ISO- >i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i found my debian run =?ISO- >xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use redhat,edit the file =?ISO- >/etc/initab, and set

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: jpleja >Yes and I know that nothing available is that small. The NLX form jpleja >factor is the smallest I've seen: 20.3cm x 28.7cm (8" x 11.3"). jpleja > jpleja >The board that looks most promising to me is the Asus MES-N jpleja >(http://www.asus.com.

Re: YAMAHA OPL3 SAx2 in Linux

2000-02-06 Thread Heikki Henriksen
John Foster wrote: > I could ONLY get this card to work using OSS from 4Front Technologies. > Cost me $20.00 US to do so. Works great! If the other instructions do > work for you please let us know. I would prefer to use open source > software when possible. Thanks. I had no problem getting it to

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:49:58AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everybody: > > i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i found my > debian run > xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use redhat,edit > the file > /etc/initab, and set ini

Getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, Someone here suggested getting xfs-xtt to add True Type font support to Linux. I did that and am getting trouble setting it up. Here are the steps I've followed so far after installing xfs-xtt and also fttools: mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype cp /mnt/c/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/local/s

Re: email

2000-02-06 Thread mcclosk
|> As far as I can tell, after entering in pon msn, the system never |> dialed = out. That seemed to be confirmed by a quick exit in |> /var/log/messages |> |> Suggestions? There should be a file ppp.log in /var/log/ which contains a detailed log of what happened in response to your entering th

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:10:32AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: >> It would appear the french babel package is broken. Changing the >> language makes the error go away. >great :D >and now what? I am supposed to produce my documents i

Re: cant't upgrade libc6 using atp-get

2000-02-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Johann Kallinovsky wrote: > I have Debian 2.0 installed. > I want to upgrade to 2.1. > > I'm using apt 0.3.4. > > I did copy all the files from my Debian-2.1-CDs onto my harddisc and edited > sources.list accordingly -> It seems to work. > > When I want to upgrade some packa

Re: LaTex - Adding packages

2000-02-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Stephen A Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > subordinate files in that directory. But in my latex source file, a > \usepackage{titlesec} causes an error that the file titlesec.sty is not > found. titlesec.sty is of course in > /usr/lib/texmf/local/titlesec/titlesec.sty and it is also mentioned i

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:10:32AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > It would appear the french babel package is broken. Changing the > language makes the error go away. great :D and now what? I am supposed to produce my documents in french -- ciao bboett ==

Re: dselect

2000-02-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Nikos Voutsinas wrote: > I have already installed debian starting with an old version having it on a > CDROM, but I have updated it thanks to dselect and apt . > Now I would like to install debian on another system using exactly the same > pa

Re: [*] about gcc

2000-02-06 Thread Brad
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:38:32AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > you need to do > > gcc -lm > > to link the maths library. > > Don't ask me why. Because the actual code for the sqrt function is in the math library, and the math library isn't linked in by default. -- finger for GPG publi

Re: [*] about gcc

2000-02-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:38:32 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > you need to do gcc -lm to link the maths library. > > Don't ask me why. Because the linker and the preprocessor are independent programs involved in the compile process. #include causes the compiler to know about the prototypes (arg

Re: [*] about gcc

2000-02-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On 7 Feb 2000 01:09:00 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) was crying out from somewhere about: [*] about gcc maths> hello everybody: maths> maths> i am using debian 2.1r4, i install it use deselect's preselect "scientific maths> workstation". i found my gcc doesn't allow me to use

dselect

2000-02-06 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello, I have already installed debian starting with an old version having it on a CDROM, but I have updated it thanks to dselect and apt . Now I would like to install debian on another system using exactly the same packages. Is there any way to install the whole list of packages to new system wit

Re: Tex permissions?

2000-02-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I got problems runing xdvi and similar as user. For the moment I > found giving write permission to all in /var/spool/texmf makes > everthing work, but this does not quite, uhm, feel right? Try to do this with the `texconfig' utility (as root) -- i

Re: Beep?

2000-02-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many things make the system beep when > you type the "wrong" thing in. Typically, pressing up- or down-arrow > (bash shell, command recall) too many times will make the system beep, > but most of us have probably got a ~/.inp

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:37:26PM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote: > >i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i > >found my debian run xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i > >change it? when use redhat,edit the file /etc/initab, and set init 3 > >to default will be ok, b

Re: email

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 04:47:29AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > Well, I went to Network Solutions and got msn's IP number and then > fired up pppconfig (which did not again ask me for the DNS) > > I used emacs to edit in the IP numbers in /etc/resolv.conf > > As far as I can tell, after entering

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
It would appear the french babel package is broken. Changing the language makes the error go away. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +-

Re: [*] about gcc

2000-02-06 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:49:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everybody: > > i am using debian 2.1r4, i install it use deselect's preselect "scientific > workstation". i found my gcc doesn't allow me to use "sqrt", for example: > > this is a c file: a.c > > #include "stdio.h" > #in

Re: Capture Text Console screen

2000-02-06 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 12:47:55PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Did somebody knows about program to capture/grab > > text console screen ? Normally you can do it by GPM, > > but on my laptop it does not work with

Re: Capture Text Console screen

2000-02-06 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > Dear All, > > Did somebody knows about program to capture/grab > text console screen ? Normally you can do it by GPM, > but on my laptop it does not work with 2.2 kernels > (bug posted). Sorry there is no X on my old computer. Tak

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread Philip Lehman
>i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i found my >debian run >xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use redhat,edit >the file >/etc/initab, and set init 3 to default will be ok, but debian is quite >different. If I remeber correctly, there is

Re: Tracking Web Page hits

2000-02-06 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 04:28:20 EST TKWJ3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to track people that come to my webpages. Install webalizer. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: HELP: FTP through squid proxy wants to get ENTIRE area under /

2000-02-06 Thread ferret
Actually, the point was that when proxied, wget decends through the parents, and when not proxied it doesn't. I'm suspecting something to do with squid, but I'm not sure what I should look for, since I don't know HOW wget decides where to recurse. On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On F

[*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D5=C5=CF=FE=C0=DA
hello everybody: i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i found my debian run xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use redhat,edit the file /etc/initab, and set init 3 to default will be ok, but debian is quite different. thank you math 2000.

[*] about gcc

2000-02-06 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D5=C5=CF=FE=C0=DA
hello everybody: i am using debian 2.1r4, i install it use deselect's preselect "scientific workstation". i found my gcc doesn't allow me to use "sqrt", for example: this is a c file: a.c #include "stdio.h" #include "math.h" main(){ printf("%f\n",sqrt(2)); } and execute "cc a.c" i get: /tmp/c

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, > > and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can > > anyone recommend a particular board? > > Not right

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> > when trying to compile my files i still get the same error: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...l \mathchardef [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > \spacefact > > l.21 \begin{document} > >

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, > and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can > anyone recommend a particular board? Not right off hand - all the decent motherboards I know of don't

cant't upgrade libc6 using atp-get

2000-02-06 Thread Johann Kallinovsky
I have Debian 2.0 installed. I want to upgrade to 2.1. I'm using apt 0.3.4. I did copy all the files from my Debian-2.1-CDs onto my harddisc and edited sources.list accordingly -> It seems to work. When I want to upgrade some package e.g. wwwoffle: # apt-get -f -s install wwwoffle Sorry, but the

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, John Krueger wrote: > >From personal experience with that particular board, I highly recommend > spending a few extra dollars and purchase a different motherboard, sound and > video card. The PC100 boards use the SiS5xx series chipset, with SiS530 > video and a more or less ge

Re: YAMAHA OPL3 SAx2 in Linux

2000-02-06 Thread John Foster
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Anyone knows how to do to this sound card work in Linux? > Thanks I could ONLY get this card to work using OSS from 4Front Technologies. Cost me $20.00 US to do so.

Re: Debianのイ ンストールについて

2000-02-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Translation : he's installed debian on Toshiba 660 pro (notebook) with boot floppy (resc1440.bin), but it resets with the following message (unspecified) I think he should try "-safe" and "-tecra" versions of the floppy. --

Re: HELP: FTP through squid proxy wants to get ENTIRE area under /

2000-02-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:27:00 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] was crying out from somewhere about: HELP: FTP through squid proxy wants to get ENTIRE area under / You should try wget -r --no-parent ftp://. --- Junichi U

Re: Debianのインストールについて

2000-02-06 Thread Ron Rademaker
Suggestion: Place your question in English in good old ASCII, that makes it readable for most people! Ron == MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU == On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, H. Shig

My First Debian Install

2000-02-06 Thread Lane Lester
Thanks to everyone who coached me on this during my adventures following the "destruction" of the MBR. I ended up reinstalling Corel Linux, which again gave me a lilo in the MBR capable of booting either Corel Linux or Windows (actually NT's boot manager which allows me to select either NT or 98).

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > i just made an upgrade to the latest potato, and unfortunately i still cna't > compile my latex-files. i have to go onto a very old slackware3 system to > compile them... a shame.. > > when trying to compile my files i still get the

Re: libz1

2000-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > -- > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-mach64: > > xserver-mach64 depends on libz1; however: > > Package libz1 is not installed. > > dpkg: error processing x

Re: ISDN with Debian

2000-02-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:51:22 +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Can anyone explain how I set up Debian for ISDN Install the isdnutils package, and configure it similar to the setup scripts at ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/cistron/linux/isdn/ . Personally, I dislike having to become root for opening a

Re: Ssh?

2000-02-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 13:48:32 +0100, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: > Can it be that there is no ssh-package in debian (frozen)? There is an SSH for frozen. > Where would it be located...? ftp://nonUS.debian.org:/debian-non-US/dists/frozen/non-US/main/binary-i386/ssh_1.2.1pre24-1.deb HTH, Ray

ISDN with Debian

2000-02-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
I am about to get an ISDN line installed at home, and will be using a BT Speedway TA card (Fritz). What I would like to do is have a log on and log off system like I have with my V90 setup (pon and poff). I *don't* want a dial-on-demand setup. Can anyone explain how I set up Debian for ISDN,

Ssh?

2000-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Can it be that there is no ssh-package in debian (frozen)? Where would it be located...? Gery -- - Gernot Bauer, University of Linz, Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The answer is yes, me.

email

2000-02-06 Thread davidturetsky
Well, I went to Network Solutions and got msn's IP number and then fired up pppconfig (which did not again ask me for the DNS)   I used emacs to edit in the IP numbers in /etc/resolv.conf   As far as I can tell, after entering in pon msn, the system never dialed out. That seemed to be confir

HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i just made an upgrade to the latest potato, and unfortunately i still cna't compile my latex-files. i have to go onto a very old slackware3 system to compile them... a shame.. when trying to compile my files i still get the same error: ! Undefined control sequence. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Tracking Web Page hits

2000-02-06 Thread TKWJ3
I would like to be able to track people that come to my webpages. Information like where they came from ie search engine, directly typed in address, and etc would be nice. But also to know what domain names there coming from including IP's would be nice. This would help in marketing and is i

Re: how to burn 80 min CD ?

2000-02-06 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello > What's the trick to burn 80 minutes CD with Linux/Debian?? I did it with cdrecord and xcdroast using a TEAC R45W(?) cdrom writer. bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http:/

Debianのインストールについて

2000-02-06 Thread H. Shigematsu
前略 既にメーリングリストに登録しましたので、質問をしても宜しいですか? confirm 22061618496594747790863 Hiromasa Shigematsu 若し、その他の手続きが必要ならば、連絡願います。 質問事項: 東芝の660 proなるノートPCにLinuxをresc1440.binなるfloppy を使用してインストールしていますが。 下記のメッセージが出てPCがresetされてしまいます。 起動optionの指定で解決出来るのでしょうか? 以上

Capture Text Console screen

2000-02-06 Thread Pavel Epifanov
Dear All, Did somebody knows about program to capture/grab text console screen ? Normally you can do it by GPM, but on my laptop it does not work with 2.2 kernels (bug posted). Sorry there is no X on my old computer. --- Regards, Pavel Epifanov. [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mylex RAID booting?

2000-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Garamszegi Karoly wrote: > Is there anybody who managed to boot a Debian system with Mylex > Acceleraid 250 raid controller? Please cc to my mailbox, thanks You'll have a lot better luck with the unstable boot floppies, which have partial support. You may need to run MAKEDEV by hand during t

Re: Xfree86

2000-02-06 Thread paul
Peter said, > May sound like a stupid question but what's the quickest way to install > XF86 on a machine, like it does on an original install from cd without > selecting all the packages manually?, i've got a server here that needs x > on it now, and it wasn't previously installed. > Use dselect

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Thanks to all who've made suggestions. Several suggested the fix I > think will work for me: add a Debian stanza to Corel's lilo.conf. I > installed Debian Linux today using a boot floppy to avoid destroying > the MBR again. So as soon as I figure out wh

IP Chains

2000-02-06 Thread Steve Anderson
Since there are some on the list that occasionally send an email about IP Chains, I thought I would drop the URL for a IP Chains GUI that I wrote. I realize that most establish their IP Chains rules at boot. But I created this GUI to change the rules on the fly. If you have Perl/Tk installed, the U

Xfree86

2000-02-06 Thread spongy
May sound like a stupid question but what's the quickest way to install XF86 on a machine, like it does on an original install from cd without selecting all the packages manually?, i've got a server here that needs x on it now, and it wasn't previously installed. Peter Good.

Re: K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

2000-02-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I > downloaded the 0.94 verson from: > http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/ > , but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague. > I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions >

Re: disk is crashed

2000-02-06 Thread cZ
Thank you. I didn't know that sync is called during shutdown. I observate starting for a while without sync. Katsumi > > Hi,all > > > > I often find message (/ is busy) after execution command (sync;shutdown > > now). > > And when I restart Linux,Linux runs FSCK. > > > > I just run SYNC before S

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-02-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Brendon B wrote: > Okay, what about md v.90 in kernel >= 2.3.40 or 2.4? I checked 2.3.40 and > the old raid is in it. Where can i get a kernel that has new raid that is at > least 2.2.14 or better? If you're satisfied with 2.2.14, just get the RAID 0.90 patch at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/rai

Re: email

2000-02-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am new to Linux. Just installed slink after resolving large disk > issues. Answered setup questions as best I could and now would like to > use email facilities. Setup asks for IP address, but not for telephone > numbers for my provide

email

2000-02-06 Thread davidturetsky
I am new to Linux. Just installed slink after resolving large disk issues. Answered setup questions as best I could and now would like to use email facilities. Setup asks for IP address, but not for telephone numbers for my provider, msn, and seems to behave as though it is directly hooked u

Re: libz1

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:56:49PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > -- > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-mach64: > xserver-mach64 depends on libz1; however: > Package libz1 is not installed. > dpkg: error p

Re: gcc/egcs

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:10:35PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know which debian package is the egcs? > Thanks You want the old egcs? gcc-2.95 == egcs. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | G

Re: Is Gnome getting more UNstable?

2000-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:01:48PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I upgraded to the latest frozen Gnome packages, and Gnome is crashing more > than ever before. I wanted to give it a shot, but wound up just sticking > with trusty fvwm2. > > For instance, I may run the configuration tool launcher,

libz1

2000-02-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I've just finished a fresh installation of potato on my Pentium-90 machine with a ATI card that I used to use Xserver-mach64. I tried to install the xserver-mach64 and got this message: -- dpkg: dependency problems preve

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread John Krueger
>From personal experience with that particular board, I highly recommend spending a few extra dollars and purchase a different motherboard, sound and video card. The PC100 boards use the SiS5xx series chipset, with SiS530 video and a more or less generic sound codec. These boards are difficult to

gcc/egcs

2000-02-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I'd like to know which debian package is the egcs? Thanks --- tcp

Is Gnome getting more UNstable?

2000-02-06 Thread David J. Kanter
I upgraded to the latest frozen Gnome packages, and Gnome is crashing more than ever before. I wanted to give it a shot, but wound up just sticking with trusty fvwm2. For instance, I may run the configuration tool launcher, nothing will happen and I cannot log out using the foot menu. The window m

Re: grub install

2000-02-06 Thread Lindsay Allen
On 5 Feb 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Dear all, > > because lilo couldn't boot my new drive (an IBM DNES 18 GB SCSI disk), > I began to try out grub, which can. However, I'm stuck halfway with > the installation: According to the info pages I made a boot disk and > installed grub on the hard

gs-aladdin 6.0 debs? rpms?

2000-02-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
If there are no debs for the newly released gs-aladdin 6.0, would the rpms install cleanly with the help of alien? TIA Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent."---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt),

Re: Put Debian on Slave?

2000-02-06 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe you can but am not sure. I have a similar setting with Win 95. [04:15:02 /tmp]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=MS table=/dev/hda image=/vmlinuz label=

Re: modem trouble and "Configuring serial ports failed"

2000-02-06 Thread Shaul Karl
Perhaps it is a Plug & Play modem? > > I have installed Debian 2.0 (hamm) on my computer > in addition to Windows95. The problem is that altho the > modem works fine on the Windows side, it doesn't work at all > (or I haven't configured it properly) on Debian/Linux. Having > monitored this news

lpd won't run on my unstalbe box.

2000-02-06 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, tried to print but lpd isn't running. I have tried to start the daemon several times, but no go. What might be wrong? lpd isn't giving me any error messages either. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndn

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread Lane Lester
Thanks to all who've made suggestions. Several suggested the fix I think will work for me: add a Debian stanza to Corel's lilo.conf. I installed Debian Linux today using a boot floppy to avoid destroying the MBR again. So as soon as I figure out what to put in the stanza, I should be ready to go.

Re: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread natet
On 5 Feb 00, at 11:12, Lord Kyusix wrote: > Hello guys! > > I am about to buy a PC100 Systemboard M598MR mainboard with a super > socket 7 wich cames with an AMD K6-III processor. This board have > built-in sound (about which the manual says "meets PC98 audio > specification, full-duplex playba

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

2000-02-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I downloaded the 0.94 verson from: http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/ , but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague. I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions on

Re: MBRs Are Dangerous Things

2000-02-06 Thread Martin Bishop
I don't know if this will help or not, but here it is anyway.. When I first mess around with multi boot, I mucked up the MBR as well. One solution was to boot up the system with a DOS bootup disk, and runt "fdisk /mbr". That will put DOS back in control however. Use this method if you use loadlin