On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:37:45PM +1000, Peter Good wrote:
> You need to change /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdc
>
> That's what i have here
> /dev/hdc (ide DVDROM) is now /dev/scd0
> /dev/hdd (ide Burner) is now /dev/scd1
>
> This is if you've enabled scsi emulation like i have in
yes it works on stable. this i did:
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib
non-free
thanks for the pointers.
- Original Message -
From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: security update us
> Why can't you? Have you made the appropriate change to your
> sources.list? IIRC, APT should work just fine with FTP. (Also IIRC,
> APT slightly predates the widespread appearance of HTTP Debian
> mirrors...)
um, because security updates works only with HTTP. i know all what one can
do with
You need to change /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdc
That's what i have here
/dev/hdc (ide DVDROM) is now /dev/scd0
/dev/hdd (ide Burner) is now /dev/scd1
This is if you've enabled scsi emulation like i have in the kernel
Peter.
-Original Message-
From: Francois Fayard <[EMA
Hello Debian-users.
Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it
running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm
after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me?
--
@=@
"You can't have e
Hello Debian-users.
--
@=@
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
-- Steven Wright
Tor Kjemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@=@
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:39:50PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally
> until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to
> enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but
First question
Hi,
Apols for the offtopicness of this post, but does any one know of any
open source bpm simulation programs?
If not, would any optical people or physicists be interested in working
with me on this? At this stage I am not really interested in sophisticated
GUIness, more a fast and flexible impl
On 7 Oct 2000, mike wrote:
-> Sorry about that, its all lower case 'xfce' in apt-get.
->Although dpkg -s is not case sensitive. Any way, if you
->install 'xfce' you can still run the gnome task bar and any
->gnome apps, but i prefer the XFce panel.
->
[SNIP]
What URL do I need in my /etc/
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:13:20PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
Please ignore this message, I have found the post in the archives after all.
Thanks !
> know I asked this before, but I can't seem to find my post in the archives.
>
> I reinstalled Debian last week, and I just finished recompiling
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:59:20PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to get a Geforce 2MX card working with unstable.
> I cant get X to work, not even fb.
> Do I have to install XFree86 4.0.1?
>
Yes.
I own a GeForce2 GTS that runs under Potato + XF401.
You need nvidia drivers
know I asked this before, but I can't seem to find my post in the archives.
I reinstalled Debian last week, and I just finished recompiling and installing
2.2.17. Now, apt-get upgrade wants to reinstall 2.2.17-something. I remember
using something like --revision:3.0 when using make-kpkg to pre
> What is the content of /var/lib/dpkg? What is the output of dpkg -L eterm?
> Perhaps you should purge it and then install it again?
/var/lib/dpkg has the following:
(this doesn't format well when it's pasted)
alternatives diversions-old status
status.yesterday.3.gz
available info
I do this with XFig. Open a new document and import your landscape PS
file using the "picture" tool (the photo camera button). When doing this
use any picture size you want. You'll get a dialog where you can browse
and pick up the desired file. Just before clicking "done" click "use
original size"
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 09:44:35AM +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down
> dramatically.
>
> At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens:
>
> Fetchmail starts to read the first message and sa
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:30:18AM +0200, Willi Dyck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i wanna backup my whole system. which method do you recommand?
> should i zip / or should i write an image of /dev/hdax?
> i also want to keep all the file/user/group permissions including hidden
> files.
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:59:20PM +0200, Marc Maute ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> hi,
> I dowload galeon for Debian and wanted to install it,
> but it doesnt work. OK i changed MOZILL_FIVE_HOME
> but i didnt worked, too.
> So I looked for galeon.deb and found it, but
> I dont know how I can install
My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally
until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to
enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but
then it couldn't read the cd in hdc, which had been able to so far,
since I made the ins
script ?
>
> --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I remember years and year ago, when I first installed debian (bo, I
> think), the install instructions recommended that you run this little
> program that
>Hi. I have recently acquired an old 386 sx computer with an 82 meg HDD. I
> want to put Debian on it.
>A long time ago, I had gone online and asked around for this before, and
> someone had pointed me to 7 floppies worth of files from the www.debian.org
> ftp site, and I actually did ma
Sorry about that, its all lower case 'xfce' in apt-get.
Although dpkg -s is not case sensitive. Any way, if you
install 'xfce' you can still run the gnome task bar and any
gnome apps, but i prefer the XFce panel.
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:41:40 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken said:
> On Sat, Oct
> My ISP is Telerama.com in Pgh. Pa. When I set up
> exim, I used telerama.com as the smtp. I also said
> to use "telerama.com" as the domain name after the "@"
> on outgoing mail. Now when I send email to anyone
> at telerama.com it gets sent back because the "name"
> is not found at telerama.c
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:47:26PM -0400, mike wrote:
-| I run Debian potato with XFce from woody. This is such
-|a great light weight desktop that i dont use gnome-helix
-|anymore.
-| So just point to woody in sources.list and apt-get install
-|XFce.
-| Tkgoodstuff is available as a
> I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try
> to install a package I get the following message:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tre
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:21:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
> > > --report
> > > /etc/cron.daily
> > >
> > > /etc/c
Hi. My debian installation hangs at some point when (afaik)
trying to detect scsi devices.
The last message i see before it hangs is 'aec671x_detect:
'.
I have searched usenet and found some references to http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/
which contains two links to different rescue flo
I run Debian potato with XFce from woody. This is such
a great light weight desktop that i dont use gnome-helix
anymore.
So just point to woody in sources.list and apt-get install
XFce.
Tkgoodstuff is available as an rpm so you can d/l and
run alien to convert to a .deb. Jus
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:15:05PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> My ISP is Telerama.com in Pgh. Pa. When I set up
> exim, I used telerama.com as the smtp. I also said
> to use "telerama.com" as the domain name after the "@"
> on outgoing mail. Now when I send email to anyone
> at telerama
I think I found both in lg-issue 11 and the other in 45?
I searched with gnome-apt ...
But I dont know how to go on.
--
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"A.J. Rossini" wrote:
>
> > "AW" == A Wrasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> On www.citrix.com is a newer version of the ica client which is
> >> linked against glibc, so you do not need the libc5 packages.
> >>
>
> AW> And it supports ESD.
>
> and it's scary as heck hea
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
> hi,
> I want to install xfce and tkgoodstuff on my
> debian system. OK so I installed lg-issue11 /45?
> But I must say: I dont really know what lg-issuel is.
> And now I must ask you what is lg-issuel and
> how can I install xfce and tk
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:21:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
> > --report
> > /etc/cron.daily
> >
> > /etc/cron.daily/exim:
> >
hi,
I dowload galeon for Debian and wanted to install it,
but it doesnt work. OK i changed MOZILL_FIVE_HOME
but i didnt worked, too.
So I looked for galeon.deb and found it, but
I dont know how I can install it,
so please help me!
Marc
Sorry about my english
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hi,
I want to install xfce and tkgoodstuff on my
debian system. OK so I installed lg-issue11 /45?
But I must say: I dont really know what lg-issuel is.
And now I must ask you what is lg-issuel and
how can I install xfce and tkgoodstuff?
Marc
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Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 6 Sep 2000 Kai Weber wrote:
>> has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) HelixGnome
>> and Sawfish:
>>
>> The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained
>> under "programs" the whole Debian menu with apps ... S
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
> --report
> /etc/cron.daily
>
> /etc/cron.daily/exim:
> Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim
> Failed to open database file retry:
> "AW" == A Wrasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On www.citrix.com is a newer version of the ica client which is
>> linked against glibc, so you do not need the libc5 packages.
>>
AW> And it supports ESD.
and it's scary as heck hearing the Windows "default" startup
sound/s
Hello!
X cannot handle the ttf dir although xfs is installed. Instead, you must add
"unix/:7100" to your XF86config, because, I think, xfs-xtt (you must install
THIS VERSION, not normal xfs!!!) serves the fonts to X via this tcp port.
And you have to create xfonts.scale etc. etc. etc. in the dir w
I got the following error at the end of the process:
make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
---
dpkg --build debian/tmp-image ..
dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`scsi') doesn't contain any
digits
dpkg-deb: 1 errors in control file
make: *** [ker
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:19:36AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Maybe your mount defaults to noexec? Try mounting it with defaults,rw,exec
> and see if that works. (The 'user' option just allows non-root users to
Thanks. That was the problem. Mounting it with the exec option solved
the prob
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 02:22:52PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> * Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Quoth Tony Holroyd,
> > > Has anyone successfully installed the Citrix ICA client on a Debian 2.2
> > > box.
> >
> > I run it on such a box at work. It needs the libc5 version of l
I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try
to install a package I get the following message:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Packag
Hello all,
I've recently started using Debian 2.2, and I'm having a few weird mail
issues popping up. If anyone could provide some assistance, or nudge me
in the direction of some specific spot in the documentation, I'd
appreciate it greatly.
1) Added the sources for the online repositories to
Christopher W. Aiken writes:
> Why is this? Should I be stopping wvdial in another manner that a
> "Ctrl-C" ?
Sounds like a bug in wvdial.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
I'm trying to help my gf set up Pine on a server at her college (since
those silly students actually prefer it over mutt), and we're both
running into the same compilation problem (with Woody on my box and
Potato on the server).
Using the pine4-src and pine4-diffs packages, after running
"debian/r
My ISP is Telerama.com in Pgh. Pa. When I set up
exim, I used telerama.com as the smtp. I also said
to use "telerama.com" as the domain name after the "@"
on outgoing mail. Now when I send email to anyone
at telerama.com it gets sent back because the "name"
is not found at telerama.com. What di
I generally use "xterm -e wvdial &" to fire up my
dialup connection. I noticed that "/dev/ttyS1" has "rw"
permissions for the "dialout" group. A lot of times
when I hit "Ctrl-C" to stop "wvdial" the permissions
on "/dev/ttyS1" are set to "r". The next time I run
wvdial, it fails because of the
Hi
I'm trying to get a Geforce 2MX card working with unstable.
I cant get X to work, not even fb.
Do I have to install XFree86 4.0.1?
/nisse
Has anybody been able to get connected to WorldShare
using wvdial? It can be done with kppp but I would
prefer to use wvdial.
I downloaded kppp from the Freshmeat site. During the
configure/make process I get the error:
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt >= 1.42 (headers and libraries) \
I set up true type font server according to the Debian
mini-HOWTO which adds support for true type with xfstt in
addition to xfs for regular fonts.
With this set up you have two font servers on port
7100 and 7101.
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:45:16 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken said:
> I k
[snip]
>
> alias midi awe_wave
> post-install awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/synthfm.sbk
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>
> to the /etc/modules.conf file, but executing:
>
> modprobe -a sound
>
> doesn't install the drivers. At least they are not reporte
Xcdroast:
There seems to be a problem in my setup that I can't figure out. My
Cdwriter is the second in the second controller, the reader is Atapi
36-x (first in second controller).
I start it, but it seems unable to read the Cd to be copied sitting in.
Scsi support is present in the kernel image,
I guess try to look through the mime types in Netscape adn see whether
there is any conflict there between several mimes, maybe there is one
there that wants to save it instead of executing it.
Andrei
--
First there was Explorer...
Th
On 07-Oct-00 Thomas Halahan wrote:
> Rafael
>
> Nice summary. The only thing is there must be an easier way that
> editing the PS file. I will investigate.
>
> Tom
I've had the same problem of converting Landscape PS files to PDF
so that they can be viewed right way up in Acrobat Reader.
Th
Hi,
I'm trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE 64 (Isa PnP) to work on a new
installed Potato system, but just can't get it. I think I did everything
I read in the Sound-AWE mini-HOWTO and Kernel-source documentation.
My isapnp.conf file look as follows:
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote:
> Greetings from a very frustrated "newbie." After numerous attempts, I
> finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what
> seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can
> actually use the ne
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/exim:
Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim
Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1
I get this cron
Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BE> (1) What all do I have to configure if I want to use gnome as my gui ?
There are a couple of different things you can do. One is to install
the GNOME Display Manager (gdm), and select "GNOME" off of its menu.
Another is to create a $HOME/.xsession file
Greetings from a very frustrated "newbie." After numerous attempts, I
finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what
seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can
actually use the new system I saved for months to purchase.
(1) What all do I have to c
I know how to set up "xfstt" for true type fonts, but I
see that Debian 2.2 uses "xfs" as a default font server.
How do I set up "xfs" to use my truetype fonts? This is
what I did:
1) Installed the fttools package.
2) Created /usr/share/fonts/truetype
3) Copied my 1132 fonts to the above dire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
>/dev/hda8 /home/jsext2defaults0 2
Bah - insecure. I meant:
/dev/hda8 /home/jsext2nodev,nosuid0 2
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/dev/hda8 /home/jsext2defaults,rw,user 0 1
>
>and it left me with a ~ directory where I can not run any binary -
>even if I create it as js.
mount(8) notes that user implies noexec, nosuid, and nodev. You'll need
to add 'exec' to the lis
"Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way to get security updates using ftp instead of http via
>apt-get?
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
(Untested - I'm not running stable here - but should work judging from
the directory structure of security.de
* David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> RM> heh. just want we need someone from #linux recommending RTFM. if
> RM> you read my message right, security updates are done via http in
> RM> /etc/apt/sources.list what i'm looking for is if someone has done
> RM>
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
>This doesn't say much to me. I've been using ISDN for 5 years, now, and to m
>e it's
>always been just another external modem - albeit a fast one that know when t
>o run at
>64kb/s and when to run at 128kb/s.
>
>I've never seen or used any special
* Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hey Guys,
> I would like to be able to use ethereal without having
> to start X from root. I've never really understood what
> tells the xserver who can display, but if anyone could tell
> me what I am doing wrong, much appriciated!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/et
Hi all,
I apt-get installed php4 and apache recently (running potato, by the way).
Apache works fine, but when I try to display a simple php page, Netscape
wants to download it as a file. :-(
Here's what I have as part of /etc/mime.types...
text/html html ht
Rafael
Nice summary. The only thing is there must be an easier way that
editing the PS file. I will investigate.
Tom
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
> Damn, I had to make a presentation using a laptop and a projector.
> I could not use a PDF file because acroread would not show
Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RM> heh. just want we need someone from #linux recommending RTFM. if
RM> you read my message right, security updates are done via http in
RM> /etc/apt/sources.list what i'm looking for is if someone has done
RM> it using ftp as i can't.
Why can't you? Have
heh. just want we need someone from #linux recommending RTFM.
if you read my message right, security updates are done via http in
/etc/apt/sources.list what i'm looking for is if someone has done it using
ftp as i can't.
- Original Message -
From: "Julian Stoev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
* Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoth Tony Holroyd,
> > Has anyone successfully installed the Citrix ICA client on a Debian 2.2 box.
>
> I run it on such a box at work. It needs the libc5 version of libXaw,
> which can be found in the xlib6 package (which probably depends on
> libc5,
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 03:07:43PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
|Is there a way to get security updates using ftp instead of http via
|apt-get?
|
man sources.list
Is there a way to get security updates using ftp instead of http via
apt-get?
hi,
I take the /etc/resolv.conf file from my redhat
system and copyed it to the debian.
Now the debian system tried to get a ping or...
Before that it immediately told me: ping: Unknow Host ...
Now it searched and searched but nothing happend.
maybe, the problem is that my provider gave me
a chan
i think i missed the storm. anyway, i read that article about Debian not
being user-friendly but who says user-friendliness is Debian's topmost
priority? Randy should have read Debian's social contract first. if anyone
wants a friendly Debian distro they should try Storm Linux.
my 2cents.
--
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:36:26AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote:
> I can't play .wav or .mp3 files on my system.
> I can play cdroms.
> cdparanoia seems to work and encodes cdrom-tracks to .wav files, but
> when I try to play them no sound at all (splay, mpg123 ...)
>
> I have a Creative VibraX c
Hi all,
i wanna backup my whole system. which method do you recommand?
should i zip / or should i write an image of /dev/hdax?
i also want to keep all the file/user/group permissions including hidden
files.
what else should i think over? thanx for any help.
Hi to all!
I can't play .wav or .mp3 files on my system.
I can play cdroms.
cdparanoia seems to work and encodes cdrom-tracks to .wav files, but
when I try to play them no sound at all (splay, mpg123 ...)
I have a Creative VibraX card installed.
Question:
1. Is the VibraX card the problem ?
2.
Thanks for the additional help, I will try it this weekend!
ta,
=wl
--
Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer
"They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of
SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Thank you very much Mr.Matthew Dalton of your excellent details
information of LILO configuration.
I select your Choice-1 and I sucessfully configure LILO.
but sir now I face again same problem of my friend's machine.
My friend have Slackware 3.5 kernel version - 2.0.34 and few days ago
insta
Has anyone ever seen the following situation:
There are three machines on this 10bT LAN:
iansbox (linux 2.4.0-test8, woody)
crapbox (freebsd 4.0)
caseylaptop (windows 98 SE)
caseylaptop can upload and download from crapbox with no problem. FTP,
SAMBA, WWW, whatever. caseylaptop can download but
> > I tried Mozilla M17-3 on Woody (mozilla_m17-3_i386.deb) and when i want to
> > start it, it says:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ mozilla
> > Starting Mozilla
> > Could not obtain CmdLine processing service
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $
>
> Does rm -r ~/.mozilla help?
> BTW: The Mo
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