Re: trimming the logs

2001-03-16 Thread kmself
Please set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters. on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:28:41AM +, Pollywog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My drive was about 55-60% full yesterday, but today it was 98% full, > so as an emergency measure, I 'rm -rf /opt/kde' but that only got me > to 96%. Then it hit

sound with 2.4.1

2001-03-16 Thread ktb
I'm running kernel 2.4.1. Just bought a sound card today - Sound Blaster 16. I can't see it is even being detected in dmesg. Seems like I read once there is some issue with the new kernel and sound. I've been searching the docs for an hour now and can't find anything. If someone has a hint or

Re: How best to install a TrueType font on Debian?

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
I have Xfree86 v4 already; I am running (almost) the latest unstable. Therefore I do not use a separate TrueType font server. I guess then I am wondering what the best Debian way is to install a new font. There are, if I remember correctly, some TrueType-specific steps (something like ttmkfontdir b

Re: dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:00:04PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I thought if you have -dev package, you do not need -dev less package. Nope. The -dev packages have things like header files and static libraries, but you'll still want the shared libraries for the runtime. > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10

Re: conflicting clocks w/ win & linux dual boot machine

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:12PM -0800, Nick wrote: > Hello List > > I have win2000 loaded on one partition and linux on another. > I am using lilo as the boot loader. > > My windows os is set to PST which seem to keep the correct time. But the > linux os is 8 hours behind. The timezone is s

conflicting clocks w/ win & linux dual boot machine

2001-03-16 Thread Nick
Hello List I have win2000 loaded on one partition and linux on another. I am using lilo as the boot loader. My windows os is set to PST which seem to keep the correct time. But the linux os is 8 hours behind. The timezone is set to PST in linux as well Using the 2.2.18pre-idepci kernel w/

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Sorry about that. I noticed (too late) that I had replied to an old message which had somehow been resent to the list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:49:15PM -0800, nielsen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > > > 3. This isn't really related to the installa

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:52:20PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > 3. This isn't really related to the installation procedure, but I was > just wondering why Woody still uses XFree86 3.3.6 and not 4.0.1 (for the > video cards that are supported), or am I missing something? Woody has XFree86 4.

Re: dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
I thought if you have -dev package, you do not need -dev less package. On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error > resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How > can I just

Re: (no subject)

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:27:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can Debian be installed without a floppy drive? Do you have a bootable CD drive? If so, the answer is yes. Even without that, the answer still may be yes. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think some thing wrong with time stamp,... Anyway: > installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go > directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the > rescue and root disks? Install woody using potato boot disks ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enabl

(no subject)

2001-03-16 Thread vanfenial1
Can Debian be installed without a floppy drive?

dpkg fails to allocte memory ?

2001-03-16 Thread B Thomas
I get the following error when I try to use dpkg or apt for any purpose install or remove packages : Selecting previously deselected package netscape-base-4. (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netscape-base-4_1%3a4.76-1_i386.deb (--unpack): malloc failed (65552

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:27:27PM -0600, Zac Epkes wrote: > NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels > Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] > > u MUST have the kernel source and headers in /usr/src/ > leave the kernel header folder alone... i would rename the kernel-source* > folder to lin

Re: Sound Volume in Gnome

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Oh okay. I did find a pretty good workaround, but your solution sounds good also. Whichever you prefer I guess. My solution is in my Gnome Startup Programs I put gmix -i as one of the programs. gmix is the gnome audio mixer program, but when called with the -i option it just initializes the mixe

GDM background image

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm looking for a way to set the background image for gdm. I know it is set in /etc/gdm/Init/Default using xsetroot, but I want to set it to an image not a color. As far as images goes xsetroot apparently can only handle bitmaps, my question is: How do I set the background of gdm to a jpg (or s

Sound Volume in Gnome

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I just moved over from RH and when I used gnome on there it used to save and restore my sound volume settings when I logged in and out. I sort of have that working in Debian (Woody), except it only restores my sound settings after I run the gnome mixer program once. When I reboot it resets the

dselect

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I'm trying to install gdk-imlib-dev package and I'm getting an error resulting from dependancies between libungif3g and libungif3g-dev. How can I just force the installation without worrying about the dependancies from within dselect? I tried Q, but then it wouldn't install them. Thanks. -Jeff

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi All. Just wanted to say that I've finally got my AWE 64 working, say thanks to those who helped me out and document how I got it working. The first thing was that I had my BIOS set to PnP OS installed (dumb I know, now I wonder how it worked on RedHat?) so once I fixed that I could play waves,

Questions About dpkg and friends

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few things in the debian package management system. 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need? 2) Once you install a package, how can you

Re: Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Okay. But if the 2.2.x tree used to support the card (mine was fine under RH 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12) then that functionality shouldn't have been removed for 2.2.17, should it? Could explain what you did to sb_card.c? I hope there's a better solution than kernel hacking, though! Thanks. -Jeff "Kasa

Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to work. It is an IS

Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions: 1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:15:52PM -0400, Roberto Rosario wrote: > Try lspci it might give you some more info. Tried it, but it's not there. The current version available for download off debian.org depends on a later version of libc than was installed off my CD and I don't want to mess with snea

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > Does this mean "diald" is no longer needed? Diald has filtering: you can control what kind of packets will bring up the link, what kind keep it up, etc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:27:27PM -0600, Zac Epkes wrote: > NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels > Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] I'm another user running 2.4.1, with NVidia driver, GLX, and quake3 running just fine. :) (oh, and tux racer works good to - and is a great game)

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap partiti

Re: E-mail configuration

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:39:34PM -0300, Hammurabi Mendes wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives > some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: > > From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (hmendes is my u

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Forrest English
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:27:27 -0600, Zac Epkes whispered to the router: !!NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels !! Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] i'm sorry, yes it does. i'm running 2.4.1, nvidia .96 works just great. just download from kernel.org, and make sure it's in /usr/src

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:34:11 -0800 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The > trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will > configure your network to listen for outgoi

Re: [bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote: > I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination > with exim and procmail. Could you explain what it is you don't understand? [snip...] -- Eric G. Miller

Re: why wget is behaving this way..

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:28:13PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 > ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso > > --18:25:50-- > ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso >

Re: need help with dialup mail config

2001-03-16 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, You can also use pon since the new pppconfig will support dial on demand. The trick is to issue the pon statement following your boot up. That will configure your network to listen for outgoing packets and start the link automatically (like windoz does) and stop it at a preset time yo

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Zac Epkes
NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] u MUST have the kernel source and headers in /usr/src/ leave the kernel header folder alone... i would rename the kernel-source* folder to linux/ and then build the GLX package then the NVIDIA_kernel package... H

trimming the logs

2001-03-16 Thread Pollywog
My drive was about 55-60% full yesterday, but today it was 98% full, so as an emergency measure, I 'rm -rf /opt/kde' but that only got me to 96%. Then it hit me that the idiot who has been portscanning me for hours might have filled up the drive. I checked the logs and that is what it was. Th

Re: ide-cd(re)writer HP8250i --> crash

2001-03-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:40:05PM +0100, Matthias Gasser wrote: > if i do a # cdrecord -scanbus i'll get the correct answer. (sorry, i > can't post, i'm writing from another PC...) > i made the symlink of /cdrom -> /dev/scd0 It should be /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 So do: # cd /dev ; ln -s sc

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Thanks for the clarification. Bob On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:16:17AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:34:45PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error > > light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr wa

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't for

apt problems and why?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I get the following error message home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed E: Error,

Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Michael J. Micek
If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? -- Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

E-mail configuration

2001-03-16 Thread Hammurabi Mendes
Hi all, I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (hmendes is my username and carbona is the hostname of my machine) when I would like to use : M

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Rosario
Try lspci it might give you some more info. Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:04PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > Look for Realtek, 3com, intel, i.e. > > something with a ethernet card name and model number. Once you have > > identified the chipset you can recompile the kernel

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010316 15:44]: > home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are > using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't > work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages. Well, I too thought once upon a t

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:34:45PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error > light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was sending data to > the printer and nothing was printed although there were no error > messages. I used pdf

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #65

2001-03-16 Thread William Presho
REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST 7TH REQUEST. ...

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:03:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > > > Because the combination apac

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:46:26PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Do I need dnsutils or are dig and host in some other package? dig is in dnsutils, host is, surprise surprise, in host package =) (at least on sid, hope this applies to potato as well) -- Tommi Komulainen

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:01:31PM -0800, peanut butter wrote: > > can you print the file in question if you have acroread direct its > > output to a file, which you then send to the printer manually? > > Can you view the resulting PS-file in ghostscript? > > Yes to both. Sorry not to mention thi

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Forrest English
home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no r

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Simmons-Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to > run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. Some guidelines. - 4 M: bare minimum for Linux

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help > > would be appreciated. > > As a side note, nslookup is deprecated[1], you might want to learn to use > host and dig i

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Yup... There was a (mostly useless) article a little while back about it here: http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=140 -Nelson On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:21:51AM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've got a Dell box I'm installing debian on with an intergrated > NIC on the motherboard. The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB. So, try "cat /proc/pci" and look for an "ethernet controller" line. It will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pr

Re: cdrecord problem solved

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you to all of you who replied to my question. The problem was my removal of the Standard Generic SCSI driver from the kernel. When I recompiled and added that back, all worked fine. Thank you for the help! Regards, Randy

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help > would be appreciated. On my system running woody, it is in the dnsutils package.

Re: Scripting help

2001-03-16 Thread Robert Cymbala
Scott E. Graves wrote: > If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use > suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: ... Shell scripts give you awesome leverage Shell scripts consist of one or more statements that specify C programs and other shell

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Daniel Freedman wrote: > > Hi, > > 'apt-cache search nslookup' shows 'dnsutils' as the Debian package on my > potato machine which includes nslookup. apt-cache is a good one for the tool box. Thanks.

Re: Scripting help

2001-03-16 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:50:27PM -0600, Scott E . Graves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use > suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: > > man > man > ls > df > find > find > find > > This would be obtaining using `sa

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
John Galt wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > There's a "Search the contents of the latest release" at the bottom that > tells me that it's in dnsutils and a builtin in zsh. It can tell you that > as well... > I tried this once and now I tried again with the package descriptio

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help > would be appreciated. As a side note, nslookup is deprecated[1], you might want to learn to use host and dig instead. I've found host quite handy in f

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, 'apt-cache search nslookup' shows 'dnsutils' as the Debian package on my potato machine which includes nslookup. Use 'apt-get install dnsutils' to get it, as I'm sure you're aware. You can also always search for it on the debian website under the 'packages' navigation link on the left-hand

Samba and inetd

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I installed Samba via the Debian installer and it recommended starting it via inetd. I'm on a laptop and the network is very slow to start. Here are my questions. Should smbd and nmbd be running? If yes, how do I start them since /etc/init.d/samba does nothing if samba is setup to start from

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread csj
On Saturday 17 March 2001 07:06, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any > help would be appreciated. > Eric :-) apt-get install dnsutils

Re: Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages There's a "Search the contents of the latest release" at the bottom that tells me that it's in dnsutils and a builtin in zsh. It can tell you that as well... On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: >Hi, >I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and upda

Re: CIPE requirements

2001-03-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a box w/ 2.2r2 installed w/ stock 2.2.14 kernel. I download the > cipe.tar and unzipped. Ran ./configure and got the message that there is > no suitable configured kernel include tr

Where is nslookup?

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'd like to have nslookup. I installed and updated Debian 2.2. Any help would be appreciated. Eric :-)

Re: Debian tutorials

2001-03-16 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hello all. I have decided to make the jump from RedHat to Debian but I > am having some problems. If any of you know of some rather informative > web sites, howto's, tutorials, and anything else that would be of help, > I sure would love to check them out. I have been around linux for just > o

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
Upon further investigation, I believe I found what makes home/end work with xterm and Eterm on my system. In /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xterm, the bottom of the file contains the following: *VT100.Translations: #override ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\ ~S

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-16 Thread Erik Steffl
if you have enough $$ go with ibm 390 (or whatever the number is) otherwise try wmware (or other similar product), if you require completely virtual machines (hw and all) you need a virtual machine, I guess there's no way around it, chroot and I suspect jail (I don't know jail) would not cut it.

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
home/end work fine for me in Eterm and xterm. I'm running unstable. I think the problem may be with your keyboard or X settings rather than with the terminal emulator. Someone on here can probably give you more specific places to look. I think there's a keyboard mini-howto. That might help. gerry

ide-cd(re)writer HP8250i --> crash

2001-03-16 Thread Matthias Gasser
Hi! I've got a ATAPI/IDE CD(RW)Writer. So, i want it to work, on my debian box (i dont use M$ prducts at all) my first step was to recompile my 2.2.18 kernel, for the scsi-emu and the other things, are writen in the how to of linuxdoc.org if i do a # cdrecord -scanbus i'll get the correct answer

Re: cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver - repost

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Have you compiled your kernel to include scsi support and if it is an ATAPE IDE drive have you included ide-scsi emulation? Does dmesg give any information related to SCSI? Bob On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:41:30PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > Sorry for the reposting... > > I have recently sw

Re: How do I create a boot floppy for an installation?

2001-03-16 Thread pplaw
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:06:53AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > If I want to create a floppy to boot a system (so that I can > burn it into a bootable CDROM during a subsequent step), > do I use the mkboot utility? > > The documentation on mkboot is a little sparse and it is > not clear if

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I've seen this a number of time, when resuming downloads. I imagine it's > a wget bug. In any case, it never caused me any problems :) The files > were always uncorrupted. Thank you very much, since now I have this: 316100K -> .. .. .. .. .. [124%] 316150

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread pplaw
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:17:11PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Greetings folks; > > I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out > there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be > nice, BTW.) > > xterm doesn't let home/end work. > aterm doesn't let ho

Re: changing from twm to ??????

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:16:03AM -0800, Simon Harvey wrote: > hello : > does anybody know what file tells X11 what window manager to use, ive looked > around and i cant find it. > thanks > simon > ~/.xinitrc controls which window manager is loaded by X11 on startup -- Matthew Sackman Notti

RE: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu, Barry
I can think of two potential solutions ... (caution: I am a relative newbie) If you installed from CD (as I did), then reboot from the CD and choose the option for mounting the file system. I don't remember the precise details, but basically you make the install CD act like a rescue disk. You wi

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Bob Nielsen-- > > Just a guess, but > > I had a similar problem with only certain .pdf documents. The error > light on my Lexmark Optra E312 would flash when lpr was sending data to > the printer and nothing was printed although there were n

konqueror problems

2001-03-16 Thread neonatus
Hi! I have two machines running Debian GNU/Linux sid. I have konqueror installed on both of them and also netscape with plugins. But the problem is konqueror works with plugins only on one machine, while on the other it allways asks me weather to save the file the plugin should run, and there is a

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > >What is the result if after trying to print you make an lpq, can you see >your job in the queue? Due to the problem, I discovered "printop" which graphically monitors printers and queues run by lprng. Nothing ever appears in the queue as far as I can

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > rxvt (in the five minutes I have played with it during the preperation > of this email) lets both of keypad and home/end work, but boy I like > the transparency options of some of the other terminal > emulators... (nothing quite like cheesing off

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
8M effective, though I've heard of 4-5M, and used bo with 4M. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to know the minimum amount of RAM a computer needs in order to >run a basic Linux setup and then also the minimum for X Window System. > >Thank you, >Ry > > > -- Yo

Re: Combining disks in one virtual partition.

2001-03-16 Thread John Galt
options LVM, linear, or raid in the kernel. I wouldn't do it with root however, as one screwed up disk could mean the death of your system. My suggestion: one disk as a root disk ~50M, its slave and the entire secondary chain in LVM (2.4 kernel stuff) as /usr. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis

RE: Combining disks in one virtual partition.

2001-03-16 Thread Lewis, James M.
> -Original Message- > From: Simmons-Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:48 AM > To: Debian/Gnu Linux > Subject: Combining disks in one virtual partition. > > > Hello, > > My question for you all is whether or not you can join the > partitions of > severa

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver - repost

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Sorry for the reposting... I have recently switched from RedHat to Debian and I am having troubling running cdrecord. cdrecord worked fine on RedHat on the same machine. When I run cdrecord it says that it cannot open the SCSI driver. When I read the cdrecord home page it talks about the Linux

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
> Not sure if I can help you... > > Is lprng in the print dialog window's command line (/usr/bin/lpr here)? > Did you try to specify a printer explicitely (-P)? > Did you try to print to a file? > Does it work from xpdf? > Another wild guess, but why not: Try PS Level 1, specified in Acroread's >

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:18:00AM -0800, peanut butter wrote: > Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP > Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, > if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print > button from withi

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Roberto Diaz
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, peanut butter wrote: > >What is the result if after trying to print you make an lpq, can you see > >your job in the queue? > > Due to the problem, I discovered "printop" which graphically monitors > printers and queues run by lprng. Nothing ever appears in the > queue as far

[OT] Power off on Shutdown using ACPI and kernel-2.4.x

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has gotten their system to power off upon shutting down when using kernels 2.4.x. I get an ACPI message, 'Could not enter S5'. My understanding is that APM and ACPI are mutually exclusive, so I do not think I should be trying to use APM. But, I am not sure, becaus

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # bash-2.03$ wget -c --timeout=90 --wait=50 # ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso # --18:18:25-- # ftp://sunsite.auc.dk:21/pub/os/linux/debian-cdimage/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-3.iso #=> `binary-i386

Questions: apt-get, kernel compile, pump/ifconfig

2001-03-16 Thread S M
Hi, I have several unrelated questions I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with. 1. apt-get won't install kde of cd-rom I have a CD-ROM on which lie, among others, the directories kde/main/binary-i386/ kde/crypto/binary-i386/ updates/main/binary-i386/ and more, in which are, amo

The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings folks; I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be nice, BTW.) xterm doesn't let home/end work. aterm doesn't let home/end work. Eterm doesn't let home/end work. wterm doesn't let the numeric k

cdrecord requires /dev/sg? driver

2001-03-16 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have recently switched from Debian to RedHat and I am having some configuration problems. I am trying to get cdrecord to work. It is asking for a /dev/sg? driver and it is not present on my Debian installation. How do I get a /dev/sg? driver? Thanks -- Randy

[bounce-debian-user=w.l.devries=student.tudelft.nl@lists.debian.org: ]

2001-03-16 Thread Wouter de Vries
I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination with exim and procmail. Wouter - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:03:55 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: rom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 16

Re: xserver-xfree86 (4.0.2-7) freezing during install

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Charles, You can do the command 'XFree86 --config' to get it to probe hardware and create a generic XF86Config-4 file. I do not know why the command 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' does not seem to be creating an XF86Config-4 file. I think that command should normally be the way to create

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread peanut butter
> can you print the file in question if you have acroread direct its > output to a file, which you then send to the printer manually? > Can you view the resulting PS-file in ghostscript? Yes to both. Sorry not to mention this right off. I mentioned this the first time I attempted to post this me

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Berger
* peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010316 21:08 +0100: > Hi, I'm using lprng with filter /etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter to an HP > Laserjet 5M printer. Though things print fine from the command line, > if I open a pdf with acroread, nothing prints when clicking the print

Re: Debian tutorials

2001-03-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
On 16 Mar 2001 12:08:25 -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi Don, > > If you have any problems installing Debian, just ask in here for help. > People on this list will help. Now it may be > possible to get and read these docs before installing, but I'm not sure > where'd you go to read them. They can

jserver and blackdown JDK

2001-03-16 Thread techlists
I'm running woody, the newest balckdown jdk, and apache jserv. The problem is the jdk just stops working, or it could be the jserv. but there are no errors in the log files. does anyone have anysuggestions on how to troubleshoot this? Wayne

Re: Screen corruption with Amiga X - And AteoBus, Pixel64 support?

2001-03-16 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, cool, Amiga! I do not know much about Linux on Amiga, but you might get more useful response from the debian-m68k or debian-powerpc (if you have a powerpc on your blizard -- can't remember, it has been too long) lists. About the lines: it could be an error in the X server. You can try to lo

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