Autoloading modules with kernel 2.2.14

2000-04-10 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey,   I want to be able to automatically load modules at boot-up, but I'm not sure how I would do it.  I edited my /etc/modules file, but none of the modules load, so I don't know what else to do.  Is their another configuration file I need to edit?  My current file looks like this:   # /et

PERL or grep help pls (search replace)

2000-04-10 Thread Rupe
Hi, Re your 1 files. Here is a quick answer in two parts Part 1 - for an individual file, you can search and replace text by cat |perl -e 'while (<>) { $_=~ s/http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif/http://www.cproda.com/smile.gif/g; print $_; }' (All on one line) Part 2. Now you need to pump

Re: Autoloading modules with kernel 2.2.14

2000-04-10 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 05:23:01PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I want to be able to automatically load modules at boot-up, but I'm not sure > how I would do it. I edited my /etc/modules file, but none of the modules > load, so I don't know what else to do. Is their another config

unresolved symbols

2000-04-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I can't figure out what the problem is with my sg.o module. At this point I have running kernel 2.2.13 with sg.o fine, but without pon; and kernel 2.2.14 with pon, but without sg.o. Everytime I insmod sg I get bunches of unresolved symbols (I need it to roast cds). So, if I pon don't roast, and if

Re: svga modes

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:40:11AM -0300, Mark Small wrote: > > Yesterday I tried using vga=ask as a bootup option (from loadlin) and chose a > different video mode (80x28 instead of 80x25). It looked fine when I was > booting, but after I switched from a x (auto started with XDM) to a VT, I wa

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Thanks for the info. I searched the Netscape.ap file for all occurances of Courier and Helvetica and stuck those lines in my ~/.Xdefaults, but with the font sizes reduced by 10 (100 instead of 120 mostly). Now things look a little better. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Ron Rademaker wrote: > PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these > kind of situations. Huu? How so? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/

Re: Linux only sees half my RAM

2000-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > PS. Editing your lilo.conf could also make your system instable in these > > kind of situations. > > Huu? How so? I assume by getting something wrong in there, or by some quirk of your hardware. For example, I have a lapt

Re: compiling spice from src

2000-04-10 Thread Attila Csosz
Thanks, that was the wrong. Thanks Attila On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:39:23PM -0700, aphro wrote: > if i remember right, termcap is really old and kinda obsolete. > > edit the make file and change -ltermcap to -lncurses > > that should work. > > nate > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Attila Csosz w

Re: CVS question

2000-04-10 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 05:17:39PM -0400, Brian Lavender wrote: > Here is how I backed up. I was on version 1.7, so I deleted the file I had. I > then > did a cvs checkout -r 1.6 which warned me that the current file had been > deleted, > but gave me 1.6. > > I made my changes, but now and can't

Re: CVS question

2000-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been using cvs to track development of the my latest tk/perl > application. I have been coding along starting with version 1.1 > cruising along and making commits along the way. I got up to version > 1.7 when I realized that I wanted to back up to

win95 dialin to linux ppp server

2000-04-10 Thread dodjee
Hello everyone, I'm trying to dialin from a Win95 pc into a linux PPP server. After numerous attempts changing 'conf' files I managed to log in but then Win95 times out. I've also tried the no-dtr option in the inittab; '-m '"" AT&C1". No luck. I'm running Slink with a 2.0.36 kernel Anyone

Re: Telnet problems

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
You should check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and your ipchains. Ron Rademaker PS. I would recommend using ssh instead of telnet because of security issues. (ssh is encrypted and therefore lot safer, telnet eg. sends passwords over the network as plain text) On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Le

Re: compiling spice from src

2000-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to compile spice 3f5 from source but I got the following error [errors snipped] > What is wrong? You need to install the termcap compatibility package, termcap-compat and then you may need to create the link: ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.2 /lib/libte

compiling spice from src

2000-04-10 Thread Attila Csosz
I tried to compile spice 3f5 from source but I got the following error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [spice3] Error 1 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [nutmeg] Error 1 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find

Re: 2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-10 Thread John Hasler
John Anderson writes: > I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: > dip:x:1000:1001 > still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I > configure it incorrectly? Yes. Run vigr as root and make the dip entry look like this: dip:*:30:robin,john

ppp problem

2000-04-10 Thread Sandy Shapiro
I installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have missed something in setting up the ppp connection. I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a site, I get the error message: unknown host. When I use Mozilla, it says: Unable to locate the server

RE: Partitioning

2000-04-10 Thread Chan Chee Seng
> > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > > > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still > experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" Is 2.4 supported in potato?(Meaning just download the kernel and recompile it) or it's going to be in

3 identical NICS on 3 Networks - configurating confusion

2000-04-10 Thread Josh Kuperman
I have 3 AT1500-BT NICs using the lance module, I want them to get set up as follows. I had wanted to complete the install from my RoadRunner Connection but I couldn't get the DHCP Client to work so I used a fixed IP connection on my private network - currently running on RedHat and handling masque

Re: Sound problem after upgrading to woody

2000-04-10 Thread Ippei Tamura
Hi. I am using deb packages of Gnome and sawmill in woody. And same problem occured to me. Some related message are shown in my ~/.xsession-errors file as follows. >Audio File Library: error 3: Unix open failed >** WARNING **: Couldn't load sound file /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/ as >sample gn

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Debian Linux User Gary L. Dolan
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > I agree about

Re: using wwwoffle

2000-04-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On Mon, 10.04.00 01:28 +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > I'd like to use the wwwoffle program but I think it does nothing. You have to ensure that it is actually running ("ps fax") and that you enabled it as http proxy. It's in Netscapes advanced options or "export http_proxy=http://localhost:80

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-10 Thread Ben Collins
> > 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > You can try getting rid of this and use NTFS support in the kernel. The read support under linux is supposedly without bugs, however the write support is problematic (i.e. it can corrupt your NTFS data). Ben -- ---===-=-==-

CVS question

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Lavender
I have been using cvs to track development of the my latest tk/perl application. I have been coding along starting with version 1.1 cruising along and making commits along the way. I got up to version 1.7 when I realized that I wanted to back up to version 1.6 make some changes, and continue from

Re: Partitioning

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) > remark: kernel 2.4 will support ntfs write access (even though still experimental, i think). so you would not need a "share partition" > 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink) > which is broken down to > > 150MB / > 150MB /var > 100MB /home >

Re: slow sending mail

2000-04-10 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:31:25PM -0500, ktb wrote: -- snip > get mail. I have two isp's and both were the same in that regard. The > messages I did send didn't arrive for an hour or two later. All the while I > could send and receive email almost instantaneou

Partitioning

2000-04-10 Thread Chan Chee Seng
Hi, Hope I'm not asking a stupid question.. I am setting up my laptop with debian slink.. I have a 3GB harddisk.. I split them this way.. 1GB NTFS(for WinNT) 1GB Fat(for file sharing between NT and Linux) 1GB ext2 (Debian Slink) which is broken down to 150MB / 150MB /var

Re: Telnet problems

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I am having problems telneting to a Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 machine. > I can telnet to it from itself 127.0.0.1 and from a box with the IP of > 209.240.44.14, I determined that the 14 IP works by reconfiguring 2 > other boxs to to use that IP (one at a time of couse), one was RH 6.1 > and other Win

Telnet problems

2000-04-10 Thread Lee Trotter
I am having problems telneting to a Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 machine.  I can telnet to it from itself 127.0.0.1 and from a box with the IP of 209.240.44.14, I determined that the 14 IP works by reconfiguring 2 other boxs to to use that IP (one at a time of couse), one was RH 6.1 and other Window

slow sending mail

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I have exim, fetchmail and mutt working. It was great this morning and then early afternoon I began to have trouble. When I would send a message sometimes mutt would tell me it was in the "outbox" at other times it would tell me the message was "sent". Fetchmail would hang when I would try to ge

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any > idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the > menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a > X resource for that too. > karsten already mentioned it: the Netscape.ad file. in the

Re: 2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: > > dip:x:1000:1001 > > still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I > configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? > you must use user names, not numeric id-s. at least my man-page says

2 ?'s, Pon & normal users, colour in config programs.

2000-04-10 Thread John Anderson
I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this: dip:x:1000:1001 still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working? If, not is there any text-mode dialers that don't need root clearance? Also, I wa

ftp but no apt

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the fi

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file > /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: > Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for d

PASS MCSE

2000-04-10 Thread PASS MCSE
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Re: sending mail with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
Sorry for the confusion and the double post. I don't know what happened but when I tried to send the messages mutt said "new message in outbox" not "message sent" so I thought the other message hadn't been sent. It took forever and then they came through. I don't get that. I sent a bunch of tes

ftp.us.debian.org upgraded

2000-04-10 Thread Dpk
The host ftp.egr.msu.edu (or ftp.us.debian.org) has been upgraded to a Pentium Celeron 450 w/384 MB of RAM. An additional 18 GB of storage was added and it is now directly connected at 100 Mbps full-duplex to the MSU Gigabit backbone (with an OC-3 Internet link). The Debian archive is available v

sending mail with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I have two isp accounts. I just got exim, fetchmail, mutt working last night. I've got fetchmail set up so I can download from both isp's ok but the problem I'm having is sending. I can send just fine from isp #1 (inebraska) but the messages I sent from isp #2 (peoplepc) didn't get out of my sys

sending with 2 isp accounts

2000-04-10 Thread ktb
I have two isp accounts. I just got exim, fetchmail, mutt working last night. I've got fetchmail set up so I can download from both isp's ok but the problem I'm having is sending. I can send just fine from isp #1 (inebraska) but the messages I sent from isp #2 (peoplepc) didn't get out of my

Re: Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I get the same error when trying to create a boot floppy. Your floppy disk may be bad? I usually skip this step and reboot the system. I would recommend making a boot disk of your finished system anyway. It is more valueable after your system is up and running. Dan I know this is just a wor

Video cards? - impressions, not necessarily facts

2000-04-10 Thread jin
> interesting :) and have trouble deciding on a video card. > I thought 3dfx was supposed to be a good choice (looking > at the 3000), as was Matrox (the G400). I would go foor 3dfx and Matrox based cards, when comes need to buy new videocard. 3dfx has good base, they have released specs, and ha

pseudo-image

2000-04-10 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I want to use pseudo image to make a cd image of debian i386. I tried using the binary-i386-1.lst file from one url, but it didn't seem to be correct and pseudo-image didn't get pulled correctly. There were way to many missing files. Now, I'm trying again. However, I'm looking at: ftp://

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread sam
If you use KDE, you always have the option of using it's file manager (kfm) as a web browser. It's pretty speedy. I don't use KDE but I have it installed and sometimes use kfm with WindowMaker. ~Sam On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg

Re: I won't be asking another!

2000-04-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Tim wrote: >After asking a simple yes or no question and geting >20 answers I'm sorry I even thought of using Debian!! >Now I'm geting unwanted e-mail of your members calling me >names because I asked them to please stop!! What follows >is the last unwanted e-mail that just ca

Re: apt-get error ("Couldn't configure a pre-depend")

2000-04-10 Thread Chris
> (snipped) > > I'm trying to upgrade from slink to the latest unstable using apt-get > > dist-upgrade, and > > after a 180MB download (14 hours!) I got this error message: > > > > "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend." > > > > What does this mean, and how can I fix it (or better yet

Potato Installation Bug ?

2000-04-10 Thread Shane
Hi, I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. Each time I select "Make a Boot Floppy" it fails with "Creation of a boot floppy failed..." I have tested this on two different machines and several floppy diskettes. This used to work few weeks ago. Has anyone seen this before? Is this a bug?.

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Do you need to run X windows inorder to use armodilla or mozilla,etc.. Dan John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Hutchinson wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for > some

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, April 06, 2000, 11:30:20 PM, Damon wrote: > him sit down and practice, and now both our lives are a lot easier (vi, > over the phone, is even less fun than vi in person!). Yeah, but in what other editor can you say "ou812" and have it be legal? :) -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: installing packages on Mac IIci

2000-04-10 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:34:42 -0500, Joshua Holland wrote: > I'm very new to Debian and Linux. I got Debian running fine on my > Mac IIci. I downloaded the Debian base system install files, but I > don't want to install packages by download (my IIci is not connected > to net yet and this seems s

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > > > > > Wow! I just installed [console-apt] and it looks MUCH nicer than > > dselect. However, > > > after marking something for installation, how do you actually tell capt > > > to install it? Neither the man pages nor the help screen indicated

Great work Xmame team!

2000-04-10 Thread Radim Gelner
I just couldn't keep myself from installing new release of xmame from woody. Although I have to install few new sound libraries, the result is worth it! Sound is incredibbly crisp, few games that segfaulted in a previous version (e.g. Robocop) now run without the flaw. Those who do not know what I

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for > > something > > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.

help on multiple search/replace

2000-04-10 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello, i dont know whether i successfully sent the first email i wrote. anyway. can someone please help me on writing a script or whatevers best in order for me to perform multiple search and replace on thousands of small files ? that is, these small files contain (some doesnt) the text

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > I love lynx, but when I n

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread John Carline
Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > > Dan You might want to take a look at gzilla (name just changed to

Re: Questions about Debian

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Lachlan Robinson wrote: > To whom it may concern, > I am considering using Debian on my computer, but I have a question, is > Debian a GUI (Graphical User Interface)? I have installed and are using the > 'basic' installation (from the 7 1.44 meg images), and it resembles an > x-term or DOS enviro

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. Well, Lynx will show graphi

Re: bootup message and ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup > mean? > that means, that a boot script cannot be executed. you have to "chmod u+rx /etc/init.d/serial" (the file names may be a bit different. i'm not sure ...) > The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attemp

[no subject]

2000-04-10 Thread ak
  Bonjour ça fait un bon moment que  j’entends parler de LINUX par la LINUX pas si .  J’essaye  de faire  l’installer sur mon système, et voilà les problèmes qui commence . J’es essayé plusieurs version dont :  Est rien ne marche. meme que j es perdu tout mes partition a deux reprise .  Tout

PERL or grep help pls (search replace)

2000-04-10 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello, i have like 10 thousand small files, some containing the text "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif"; inside it while some dont. can someone please help me with a script w/c views all these files and if it sees a "http://209.155.163.97/smile.gif";, will replace it w/ a "http://www.cprod

apt-get usage

2000-04-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is silly, I should know this. How do I tell apt-get to forget about a past forced installation. For example, I install `smtm' from potato on slink. It depends on perl5 but I know it'll mostly work anyway. But then, any later usage of apt-get tells me: # apt-get install eperl Reading Packa

Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. Dan ___ To get your own FREE ZDN

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread John Hasler
C. Falconer writes: > Licensing - you can not charge more than a nominal fee for a > disk/cd/tape... This is entirely wrong. You can charge whatever the market will bear. Read the DFSG and the GPL. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
root wrote: > we are company from Lithuania and the are looking for new > products to our market. > PLease send us your full catalogue with prices, discounts, and > license conditions. "C. Falconer" wrote: > Linux is free, almost every item of software is free. There are no charges > for the

Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
Where is your root partition, try booting with the boot option root=/dev/ (possible /dev/hda1). And see what happens. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > Help!!! > > I got the following messages when I was booting up: > > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" > > followed

Re: usb keyboard + mouse and xfree86

2000-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe somehow linux can use the keyboard, but I am SURE usb is NOT > supported in the 2.2.14 kernel, so you will NOT be able to use that mouse > under X using a 2.2.14, about the keyboard: I don't think you can use > it in X but I'm not sure. You can als

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-10 Thread Kent West
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > Wow! I just installed [console-apt] and it looks MUCH nicer than > dselect. However, > > after marking something for installation, how do you actually tell capt > > to install it? Neither the man pages nor the help screen indicated this > > (or at least I didn't

kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread John Kiff
Help!!! I got the following messages when I was booting up: "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" followed a few lines later by: "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my boot floppy. What should I do? My fi

RE: Two modems

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Warfield
Its called Multi PPP. I am working on doing the same thing and have been told by several people that it can be done. Here are dome links; http://mp.mansol.net.au http://www.xteamlinux.com.cn/lxr/source/Documentation/networking/eql.txt http://linux-mp.terz.de/ There are some posting on FreshMe

Re: /etc/gateways

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent Nyberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just found the file "/etc/gateways" in my debian slink system. > What is that file for? man gateways is in potato. It's to do with routed, so I'd not bother. > Im just a Linux beginner.. but shouldn't gateways be configured > with the command "route ad

Dial on demand (pppd, diald, ???)

2000-04-10 Thread Manuel Zabelt
ello! I managed to get pppoe working, so I can uses ADSL. Now i want to use the demand option of pppd or the diald. Can anyone helb me getting one of these two progs to work? I think diald is what I need. I need a programm, that creates a dummy-networkdevice (e.g. sl0) and listens an this devic

apt-get error ("Couldn't configure a pre-depend")

2000-04-10 Thread Chris
Hi, this is my first post (fresh-off-the-farm newbie). Hope someone can help. I'm trying to upgrade from slink to the latest unstable using apt-get dist-upgrade, and after a 180MB download (14 hours!) I got this error message: "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend." What does this

Re: apt-get and personal data

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does it mean that if I want to download software -- like Sybase or Oracle, > dev. version -- from the Internet in which I have to provide my personal > information on their websites, basically the procedure is unlawful. Or > there _is_ a difference between p

Re: welcome

2000-04-10 Thread sauer
Was soll diese SCHEISSE? si ju Mischel S aus P /\ __/\ ___/ \/\ ___/\ _ \/ \ / \/ \/ \/ _ __...---'-`---...__

Re: want only 1 lp

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've posted this question before, but the digest lists > went down for a few weeks before I could get any > answers to this question. > > I have 3 lp cards in my computer at dos addresses > lpt1, lpt2, and lpt3. I only want the one at lpt1 to > be att

Re: Do I need modify lilo.conf after install new kernel image ?

2000-04-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alex Kwan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > After I using dpkg -i to install kernel image > (kernel-image-2.2.14-ide_2.2.14-3.deb), > Do I need modify the /etc/lilo.conf to config the system to use this new > kernel? Only if the parameters are now wrong, and need changing. What *is* important is

Re: [*] GDB question

2000-04-10 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Zhang, On 10 Apr 2000, maths wrote: > by the way, where can i find good tutorial of GDB? > IMHO the info pages provide a pretty good introduction to gdb. But there may be far better documentation about it somewhere on the web. Regards, Daniel

svga modes

2000-04-10 Thread Mark Small
Yesterday I tried using vga=ask as a bootup option (from loadlin) and chose a different video mode (80x28 instead of 80x25). It looked fine when I was booting, but after I switched from a x (auto started with XDM) to a VT, I was back in standard text mode. Also, I couldn't see the bottom thre

Re: slink and /usr/share/man/

2000-04-10 Thread John Kuhn
I made the following changes in /etc/manpath.conf MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man MANDB_MAP /usr/share/man /var/catman/share I did not add a MANPATH_MAP for this. This has worked for me. John Kuhn On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Pann McCuaig

Re: Sound problem after upgrading to woody

2000-04-10 Thread Florian Bartels
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:47:28 +0200, Florian Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > I' have installed a new woody some time ago but I have the same > > problem now. > > (it worked fine for a long time) > > Did you upgrade some gnome, enlight

bootup message and ppp

2000-04-10 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi! What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup mean? The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails, but sometimes the following attempt does not work either. Communication with the serial interface seems to work, but sometimes it does not establis

Re: Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote: >Dear friends, > >I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along >time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . > >Several problems: > > * I downloaded 16 MB from > ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicaotr/english/4

Re: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"C. Falconer" wrote: >Please don't send email messages ad-hock - its called spam, and gives you a >*very* bad name. > >(cc'd to the list cos it might start a topic) I don't think an enquiry like this is spam. Spam is unwanted advertising, whereas this is a relevant enquiry, even though

Re: Java IDE

2000-04-10 Thread John Stevenson
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of Tog

Re: boot prob

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> from there, i log in as root and type "fsck," i'm prompted to > run "e2fsck."when i do, i get this message: > > e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > Using EXT2FS Library version 1.12, 9-Jul-98. > > // > > at this point, i'm stumped. but my suspicion is that inode >

boot prob

2000-04-10 Thread pplaw
debs, my only stable lapbox won't boot slink anymore. (i hit the off button before a complete "halt" was achieved--( a bonehead move, i know)).here's the last portion of the script before it hangs: /dev/had5 was not cleanly unmounted; check forced. /dev/hda5: unattached inode 37071

Re: running shell in emacs

2000-04-10 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Hi Sven, On 04/09/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] addressed "running shell in emacs": > I've got a problem with emacs. When I run "M-x shell" all escape characters > for setting colors in ls are expanded. That looks a little strange... I'm > running potato and emacs 20, my shell is bash. Try M-x term inst

welcome

2000-04-10 Thread veny
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Re: apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb

2000-04-10 Thread Marek Andricik
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:40AM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > Do you have suexec enabled? (It is enabled by setting it suid, and is > located at /usr/lib/apache[-ssl]/suexec . If it is, and I usually get > error messages like that when suexec rejects the cgi, then you can look at > its quite e

Two modems

2000-04-10 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hi! I have two modems and I want to increase my bandwidth. There are some way to share Internet trafic through two ppp interfaces? Thanks, Camilo Alejadro -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que a mi se refiere, ni entonces ni ahora * perdi mi libertad. Infor

Help installing Netscape

2000-04-10 Thread J. Hartzelbuck
Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Several problems: * I downloaded 16 MB from ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicaotr/english/4.72/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:14:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would > like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server > and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. > That's f

RE: reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Dear Sir/Madam Linux is free, almost every item of software is free. There are no charges for the operating system. Licensing - you can not charge more than a nominal fee for a disk/cd/tape - I don't think there has ever been a maximum price suggested, but if you're charging more than twice t

New Install causes reboot

2000-04-10 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello,   I am trying to install Debian potato on my PC. Before the past weekend, it was already running Debian potato, but I decided I didn't like the way my HD was partitioned, so I re-partitioned and now I can't get the Linux kernel to boot.   I have tried the boot set from potato, slink, a

Re: apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb

2000-04-10 Thread Robert Varga
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Marek Andricik wrote: > Hello, > > I have the problem with the apache_1.3.9-12_i386.deb package. Before the > latest > upgrade I did not experienced the problem. I have .cgi programs in directories > which are directly there or symlinked. > > After upgrade .cgi programs s

Re: Ted RTF editor

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Davina Armstrong wrote: > Do any of you use Ted, the RTF editor? I'm researching using it as a > basis for a project, and I'm interested in any feedback you might have. > As I do not subscribe to this mailing list, please cc: me on your > responses. What

Re: password

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 04:47:40PM -0700, Beavis wrote: > how do u change passwords? Generally for information on how to do something, try the apropos command, with a keyword: apropos password ...will list password-related commands. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of

reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread root
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Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:58:07AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > What xterm? There shouldn't be any xterm until after you've logged in Sorry, should've been more clear. For testing purposes, i started an xterm from /etc/gdm/Init/Default. > I suspect a deeper X problem first. Kill gdm and make

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