Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:02:14PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html > > I get a 404. > > > I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. > > I wish I was. It still crashes, and it still gives me no

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Was is still broken that recently? I thought that potato boot disks worked ok with the 905c, and that it was broken with slink. Of course, I get confused, since I still have a bunch of 3c905b cards floating around. As for a new kernel, It's not too bad to do a boot disk with a custom kernel... of

Gimp 1.2.x for debian (in spanish)

2001-05-14 Thread Ricardo Markiewicz
Hola, queria saber por qué no se encuentra disponible los paquetes DEB binarios de 1.2.x de Gimp. He intentado bajarlos con la utilidad apt-get y buscado en los mirrors de gimp.org pero no he tenido exito. Desde ya muchas gracias. --

newbie install problem

2001-05-14 Thread Michael Mueller
I'm a Debian newbie. I am stuck on an installation problem. When I reboot from hard disk after installing , I get one 'L' of LILO following by line after line of "40 ". Any hints or help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Mike Here's some background info: I am using idepci install method. I

Re: newbie-Xsetup

2001-05-14 Thread Pankaj
Try running the xf86configure script and answer the questions properly donot select the card from the database it is not there. Try to give the monitors vert and horizontal frequecy properly ( look in monitor manual ). and select svga server ( first install xserver-svga ) . regards *

Re: [OT] Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 pci card

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:07:50PM -0400, Edward Kear wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:48:32PM -0500, ktb wrote: > > I've been searching through various Linux hardware databases and the > > archives and can't find support listed for the card. Anyone have any > > experience with this card and 2

Re: Sawfish debs for potato

2001-05-14 Thread b3
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:43:12PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > Anyone know where to find a fairly modern version of sawfish for Potato? I > don't have the bandwidth to download Ximiam Gnome (and I don't want it). Hmm...I'm running unstable here - there are 2 different sawfish packages - sawf

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread freedman
On Mon, May 14, 2001, ktb wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely > > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm > > looking for feedback, particularly on anything I m

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm > looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I get a 404. > I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I wish I was. It still crashes, and it still gives me no control of images. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Simon Law
The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato. The best way to fix that is via a new kernel, but that may be messy to get on the new machine without the network. Simon On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rich Puhek wrote: > Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, t

Re: Boot Disk & Reiserfs How To?

2001-05-14 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Although I am new to Debian up until now I have been > using Mandrake. Please > excuse me if this is a dumb question. > > I am currently running unstable with 2.4.4 kernel. I > would like to change my > / partition from ext2 to reiserfs

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm > looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed. > > http://home.ne

Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed. http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I might add that I'm quite pleased w

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan i dont use hardlinks.. ( creates portability problems ) have fun alvin -- note that x.h is dereferenced back to /home/alvin/... which i think is bad but... thats a good reason NOT to use hardlinks ( ... just me ... ) -- x.s is what i want... create it relative and keep it relat

Re: Apache and Virtual Hosting

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:53:54PM -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > I'm Apache 1.3 on potato. > > I can't get name-based virtual hosting to work. > > I just browsed the archive - I've got the NameVirtualHost IP-address in > place. I've had the local Linux User Group mailing list look at my config - > t

Re: Apache and Virtual Hosting

2001-05-14 Thread Jason Healy
At 989895234s since epoch (05/14/01 22:53:54 -0400 UTC), Scott Raun wrote: > I'm Apache 1.3 on potato. > > I can't get name-based virtual hosting to work. I too, suffered from this. I'm not sure if you're having the same problem that I was, but it turned out that potato uses Apache 1.3.9, and th

Apache and Virtual Hosting

2001-05-14 Thread Scott Raun
I'm Apache 1.3 on potato. I can't get name-based virtual hosting to work. I just browsed the archive - I've got the NameVirtualHost IP-address in place. I've had the local Linux User Group mailing list look at my config - they've had a number of thoughts, none of which have panned out. Every tim

Re: vgetty -- answering machine

2001-05-14 Thread omicron
hello Thank you for your information. vgetty is working fine as an answering machine and passed all my crash tests ! Thanks a lot.. regards omicron On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, simon wrote: > On (28/04/01 20:05), omicron wrote: > > i'm having a DAX modem and also installed vgetty. how

Re: 3c905C Drivers

2001-05-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest disk images you're ok. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: > > The 3c59x kernel module covers tha

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-14 Thread Dan Christensen
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic, > how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem ... > relative links is the preferred methodology ( hard or soft ) > and avoids the leading / and allows the portability of > the files t

Re: Sendmail and local addresses

2001-05-14 Thread Rich Puhek
Jason, Try: MASQUERADE_AS(whizzird.net) in your sendmail.mc file. That should rewrite your outgoing email as if it all came from "whizzird.net" instead of the FQDN of the machine. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: > > I have several machines, one acts as a mailserver, with an MX entry and all. > Th

Re: Copying one hard drive to another - links

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan i think the problem you have w/ hardlinks is more basic, how to create hard links or soft links... not a tar problem # ln -s /home/foo/something.txt /home/bar - never use explicit directories vs # cd /home/bar ; ln -s ../foo/something.txt . - always use relative direct

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:27:22AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to join in... > > Can Grub boot a kernel that located in a partition beyond 1024 cyls > (~8.2 MB)? $ info grub Goto to the FAQ: Can GRUB boot my operating system from over 8GB hard disks? That depends on your BIO

Re: Disk mirroring - rsync - backup methodology

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi oki yes..yes... your bnackup mechanism and backup implementation will protect you against only certain failures... a single backup methodology will NOT protect you against various failure modes and yes... if you create a bad file or corrupt a file... and you use raid1 to mirror your data...

Re: Console: weird scrolling

2001-05-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Console: weird scrolling Date: Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:49:49PM -0700 In reply to:Bill Spears Quoting Bill Spears([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In console mode, scrolling leaves the top 4 or 5 lines unmoved. This > has happened twice now, both times while I was using 'man', ctr-

Boot Disk & Reiserfs How To?

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Spencer
Hello, Although I am new to Debian up until now I have been using Mandrake. Please excuse me if this is a dumb question. I am currently running unstable with 2.4.4 kernel. I would like to change my / partition from ext2 to reiserfs. I have already converted my other partitions. Can someone te

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Dan Christensen
Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > > > > > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > > > > cd > > > > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt > > > > > > This is the preferred met

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I just want to join in... Can Grub boot a kernel that located in a partition beyond 1024 cyls (~8.2 MB)? TIA, Oki

Re: Disk mirroring - rsync

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Alvin Oga wrote: > each time youupdate lilo.conf or add new kernels and modules, > you'd have to remember to rerun lilo on the backup disk > ( assuming that is to be a hard disk bootable replacement > - order of magnitude easier ot do raid1 in this case I don't think that I'd copy the ker

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Steven E. Harris
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could provide the source to show you how, if you want. I would like to see the source, if you're willing to post it or send it by e-mail. -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG :: 0x70248E67

SiS 630 nighmare (Gericom Webboy)

2001-05-14 Thread Rolf Schillinger
Hi, anyone of you can supply any success reports on getting a SiS 630 to work apart from Framebuffer? I tried everything I could find out on the web to no avail. I even patched a X 4.0 with the SiS driver. Best I can get is a bit of twm output in the lower 3rd of the screen. Furthermore I now total

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:53:56PM +0200, spider wrote: > my grub does not see the vmlinuz file... > > entries looks like this: > > #Entry 0: > title Debian > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/hda3 Does a /boot/vmlinuz exist? Typically Debian makes /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old symlinks

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:09PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > For SMP, donot forget to put not just apm=on but also apm=power-off in > > lilo.conf/append thing. > > I understand how this would help in general, but how does this appl

Re: /var partition damaged

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:17:47PM +0200, Christoph Groth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > While booting yesterday my potato system once again the the mount > count was exceeded and I realized that there are serious problems with > my /var partition: After booting in single user mode e

Re: Is S3 Savage4 video supported?

2001-05-14 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:57:17PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > Is the S3 Savage4 video card supported in Debian potato? Or is there any > way of making it work? > > Thanks for any help. > I got one of these to play. Use the SVGA server. According to the docs, the card is very picky about whic

Proview PS-910 monitor?

2001-05-14 Thread Bart Szyszka
Does anyone have any experience with getting Proview monitors, and more specifically the PS-910, to work in Debian? I have an Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro graphics card which seems to be setup fine and when I run startx, there doesn't appear to be any errors. Problem is that all I get is a blank black

Re: Port

2001-05-14 Thread Antonio Lobato
On Mon, 14 May 2001 22:01:05 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You need to set up loopback networking using ifconfig > But I don`t have network/internet on my linux (My modem is 3Com USRobotics ISA Winmodem 56k). About the problem with Port 16001("unable to bin it") ? Thanks Tom > On Sun,

Re: How can I change the keyboard layout ?

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:50:13PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi ! > > My keyboard is set to the default 'us', I need to change it to 'es'. > I expect it to work in tty1, is this configuration valid for X ? Do I need > to configure it in another place for it to ru

Re: SCSI DDS-2 Tape drives

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:36:50PM +0100, Gavin Hamill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi :) > > I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully > tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark.. > > I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity o

megaraid

2001-05-14 Thread tps
I'm trying to load Potato on an HP Netserver LH3, which has a symbios controller, and a megaraid controller. Booting off the CD, after it sees the megaraid controller, it locks. Now I know Linux runs on this, since I just stripped RH 5.2 off it. Any ideas? Tim -- >

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > For SMP, donot forget to put not just apm=on but also apm=power-off in > lilo.conf/append thing. I understand how this would help in general, but how does this apply to an SMP system differently than an Uni-processor system? -B --

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Hicks
On Monday 14 May 2001 15:11, Chris Majewski wrote: > "Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would do this by setting up a Web Server (Apache), perhaps with SSL > > support. This is what I did on my machine to listen to MP3's. This way > > only certain directories are accessible and y

Re: installation

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've got a box here that I'm trying to install Debian (powerpc) onto. > It has a 10 gig hard drive and an ethernet connection but no floppy or > CD drive. Right now it boots over the network using bootp and tftp. It > th

Re: formatting a disk with dd - windoze

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya make sure you install windoze as C: ( /dev/hda1 ) ( 2Gb for windoze is plenty ?? try fdisk /MBR too so that windoze thinks there's nothing there... but if you do that..make sure youhave a working boot floppy first and linux on the rest of the disk partions... have fun alvin On Mo

perl locale

2001-05-14 Thread MaD dUCK
hey guys, whenever i use perl (rename, apt-get/dpkg, anything), i get perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning

Re: SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:53:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and > >hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to > >edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to > >hostname,hostname.do

Solved (?): TuxTops Amethyst (Compal N20U OEM) lockups, video/APM suspected

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:39:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > Previously posted to debian-laptop, no responses yet. Problems continue > > after latest updates, seems to be di

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread csj
On 14 May 2001 22:53:56 +0200, spider wrote: > my grub does not see the vmlinuz file... > > entries looks like this: > > #Entry 0: > title Debian > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/hda3 For some reason Debian locates vmlinuz (a symlink to the real thing) at /. So make the "kernel" en

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 14 May 2001 17:07, Chris Majewski wrote: > I'm going through a gateway/firewall which does port forwarding / > ipmasq / NAT / ... Isn't "VPN" just microsoft terminology for exactly > that, or is it something else? I think VPN implies end to end encryption as well. And I think M$

Re: formatting a disk with dd

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I do want to write all zeros because I'm trying to reinstall Windoz on my laptop and the installation disk doesn't like the hard drive any more. (I don't get it, it works fine in Debian, but then again what doesn't : 0) Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya andrew... > > if

Re: Alternatives to xcdroast?

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Majewski
Gordon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:09PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a GUI cd-burning tool that I can let loose on users > > > without expecting them to patch the source or jump through any other > > > hoops to get it going. In other w

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Majewski
"Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would do this by setting up a Web Server (Apache), perhaps with SSL > support. This is what I did on my machine to listen to MP3's. This way only > certain > directories are accessible and you can password protect these directories. > Yeah th

Re: IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-14 Thread Chris Majewski
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can export nfs from home as read-only and that may work ok. I can't > give you an exact port number because I haven't tried this myself, and I > believe nfsd's port changes. > > run netstat and grep for udp listening sockets, on your nfs server. > >

Re: formatting a disk with dd

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrew... if you are trying to format a disk ... dont bother with dd... it'd take you hours todo it... run fdisk and mke2fs manually ... its 100x faster than dd especially on 20Gb, 40/60/80 Gb drives - no point to having 20Gb of zeros written - you just want the trac

Re: Copying one hard drive to another -- dd

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi bryan > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this > > > is > > > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of > > > how to > > > copy /

Re: Disk mirroring - incremental

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
> > Martin Würtele wrote: > > > to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: > > > this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: > > > find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt > > > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > > files only). > > cpbk is good for that t

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
That definitely does not look right. Look at the 'root' lines in your grub config (quoted below). According to that, windows and Linux have the same root. On my dual boot system, windows has 'root (hd0,0)' while Linux has 'root (hd0,1)', meaning that Linux is on the second partition (hda2) and w

Re: Disk mirroring - rsync

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
> > raid1 mirroring... ( assumes same/identical partition sizes ) > > - anything you put on disk1 will get mirror'd to disk2 > > - > > - if you accidentally erase /foo.txt ... it gets erased on disk2 > > too ... ( i see no point to that ...but... some folks like it

Re: XFree86

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:33:02PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello people, i need to configure the X-windows. > i try with XF86Setup but i don't configure the mouse, how i do? What type of mouse do you have? If it is ps/2 use /dev/psaux in /etc/X11/XF86Config for example - Section "Pointe

Dpkg or Perl problem ?

2001-05-14 Thread seb128
Hello I have a big problem with my system since my computer crashed last week and deleted corrupted files. I can always make upgrades or installs, but some packages have problems and I couldn't do anything to solve this problem. If I try to delete, reinstall, or configure these packages, I have

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:53:56PM +0200, spider wrote: | my grub does not see the vmlinuz file... | | entries looks like this: | | #Entry 0: | title Debian | root (hd0,0) | kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/hda3 Where is /boot ? If it is a separate partition (ie /boot is /dev/hdc1 and / is /dev/hd

Re: formatting a disk with dd

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember > how to do this with dd. If you have disk image and if disk contain no bad sector, this can be done. Also dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/hda will overwrite all sector

Is S3 Savage4 video supported?

2001-05-14 Thread Lars Jensen
Is the S3 Savage4 video card supported in Debian potato? Or is there any way of making it work? Thanks for any help. Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Port

2001-05-14 Thread aziem_chawdhary
You need to set up loopback networking using ifconfig On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:38:04AM -0300, Antonio Lobato wrote: > > Hello! > > I`m having a trouble with "to bind port 16001". The output of some > programs talk-me these (the sound-properties program output is just a > example.

GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread spider
my grub does not see the vmlinuz file... entries looks like this: #Entry 0: title Debian root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/hda3 #Entry 1 title Win root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ## i dont know what i did wrong, windoze is loading properly, and when i select d

Re: SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and >hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to >edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to >hostname,hostname.domain ... >Otherwise ssh will happily put in duplicate lines for short an

Re: problem after I install ximian-gnome 1.4

2001-05-14 Thread Kevin Ross
> after I install the ximian-gnome, I got a problem, I can't start the > x-window, when I check the file .xsession-errors, it said that the file > libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 is missing, which package contain this file, i > can't find it, can anyone please tell me, thank you very much. A quick se

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Bryan Andersen
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am just curious :-) (No flames against cpio) > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > > > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > > > cd > > > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt > > > > This is the preferred method to cop

Re: Opera 5 is out!

2001-05-14 Thread William Leese
>Just wanted to say that Opera 5 (final) has been released. It replaces >Beta 8, and should be very stable. > >ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/500/ mm, no java .. its finally stable though.. yet for some reason, i know i'll be sticking with netscape until mozilla reaches 1.0 and galeon uses i

Re: Saved mail viewer

2001-05-14 Thread Jim McCloskey
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a stand-alone text viewer that filters out the mail > headers in saved mail, basically a prettifier. Is there such an > animal? Emacs RMAIL has this feature. Typing `w' while in RMAIL causes the body of the message to be saved to a file, with the

Re: magicfilter problem!

2001-05-14 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:58:22AM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > Sorry if it is too silly to ask but I am totally new > to debian! :-) When I run magicfilter to configure > printer, it says > > kieu:/home/ray# magicfilter > magicfilter: No configuration file specified > kieu:/home/ray# > > How can I

SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to hostname,hostname.domain ... Otherwise ssh will happily put in duplicate lines for short and FQDN hostnames. Dima -- E-

Re: Printing problems with pdq & Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Volker Schlecht
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: > Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 & 2.4.4 > pdq: 2.2.1-4 > on Woody > When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that > it doesn't know how to print this filetype and cancels. > According to my boot messages though, t

Re: Automatic PPP disconnection

2001-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Dan V. writes: > How can I solve this problem ? Use diald. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Is there anything else I need to do to activate SMP? And how do I get top > to display stats for each CPU instead of either ignoring the second or > presenting aggregate stats? I can not tell program name by memory but there are on

Reinstalling Perl

2001-05-14 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Debian perl vs. stable.tar.gz fiasco continues. Prior to today, I could still use apt-get to install packages, but it now appears that all attempted installations are failing. I need to back out of this pretty quick. I'm thinking the fastest way

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
I am just curious :-) (No flames against cpio) On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > > cd > > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt > > This is the preferred method to copy partitions. Some files don't > copy

magicfilter problem!

2001-05-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Sorry if it is too silly to ask but I am totally new to debian! :-) When I run magicfilter to configure printer, it says kieu:/home/ray# magicfilter magicfilter: No configuration file specified kieu:/home/ray# How can I run it? pls help. = S.KIEU ___

Re: Debian packages (was: Pakiety Debiana)

2001-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:23:34PM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > I'm using RH on my computer but I would like to get full knowled­ > ge about Debian packaging system. For example something like > comparison between RPM and DEB formats. Can you present me with > www addresses where I ca

Console: weird scrolling

2001-05-14 Thread Bill Spears
In console mode, scrolling leaves the top 4 or 5 lines unmoved. This has happened twice now, both times while I was using 'man', ctr-z, doing some stuff, 'fg', ctrl-z, etc. Does this mean anything to anybody? (Going to X and back fixes it) Just noticed that at the first login after the boot ther

installation

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a box here that I'm trying to install Debian (powerpc) onto. It has a 10 gig hard drive and an ethernet connection but no floppy or CD drive. Right now it boots over the network using bootp and tftp. It then mounts its root partition over nfs. Anybody have any ideas? I think I

Re: Debian packages (was: Pakiety Debiana)

2001-05-14 Thread Andrzej Swedrzynski
Hello! As it is english-speaking (writing) list I'll try to translate what the guy wrote to us. Regards, Andrzej -- http://kokosz.horyzont.net http://www.earthdawn.plOn Mon, 14 May 2001, mec wrote: > Cześć Hi > Używam na swoim komputerze RH ale chciałbym dowiedzieć się dużo na te

Printing problems with pdq & Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Volker Schlecht
Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 & 2.4.4 pdq: 2.2.1-4 on Woody I frequently (sometimes it seems to work, usually it doesn't) encounter the following problem when trying to print with pdq running on a 2.4.4 system: When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that it doesn't know how

formatting a disk with dd

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew D Dixon
HI All, I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember how to do this with dd. Anybody know? thanks, Andy

Opera 5 is out!

2001-05-14 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hey everybody, Just wanted to say that Opera 5 (final) has been released. It replaces Beta 8, and should be very stable. ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/500/ Have fun... -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 14 May 2001 14:44:34 +0200, franck routier wrote: > unable to create lock file for /var/spool/mail/ : access denied Evo does not contain a movemail app. If you build it yourself you can add a compile-option --with-movemail=/path/to/movemail, when you use the binyry package, users must be a

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:16:46PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > If /proc/cpuinfo shows two CPUS then both of them are working. Some > old versions of top supports only one CPU - you need updated top if > you want it to see correct CPU info in it. Also some old versions of > ps also was broken on S

Automatic PPP disconnection

2001-05-14 Thread crack77
I use a proxy server on a net for Internet on demand   browsing  clients on ISDN lines with one modem (shared) on PPP serial line connection. I need to set active-filter on ppp daemon  together idle option (Debian box with 2.2.17 kernel and CONFIG_FILTER enable, ppp daemon 2

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread Bryan Andersen
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is > > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of how > > to > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > mo

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread Alan Shutko
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DZM> with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/projects.html. The end > DZM> result is visible at http://web.mit.edu/resume/. > No, the address I posted really is correct. Except that it doesn't work (from wget or mozilla, at least): [14:30:58]

Re: Static routes

2001-05-14 Thread matlads
joe /etc/network/interfaces man interfaces should also help Martin. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:14:33PM -0400, Michael Goodman wrote: > What file do I edit so my static routes are defined at boot? Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subjec

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a dual-CPU system that I'm starting to think only runs off one > processor. The kernel has SMP support built in and /proc/cpuinfo shows > two processors, but top only shows a single set of CPU utilization (although > it cou

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Ilya Martynov
DS> I've got a dual-CPU system that I'm starting to think only runs off one DS> processor. The kernel has SMP support built in and /proc/cpuinfo shows DS> two processors, but top only shows a single set of CPU utilization (although DS> it could just be that the stock debian top isn't SMP aware, I

Re: 3c509B driver, trouble configuring

2001-05-14 Thread Stefan Srdic
Mithras wrote: > : /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io That error reports that the I/O parameter used is invalid. Your base address for your card should read 0x210. Test this by directly using the insmod command: insmod 3c509 io=0x210 irq=11 If you see something like " U

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I just had to do this to my laptop and it works well. This is a direct quote of the mail I saved off this same list: reboot the machine. When lilo comes up, tap shift. your prompt should change to LILO boot: type linux init=/bin/sh mount -o remount -o rw /dev/hda1 /(assuming

Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a dual-CPU system that I'm starting to think only runs off one processor. The kernel has SMP support built in and /proc/cpuinfo shows two processors, but top only shows a single set of CPU utilization (although it could just be that the stock debian top isn't SMP aware, I suppose) and the

Static routes

2001-05-14 Thread Michael Goodman
What file do I edit so my static routes are defined at boot? Thanks.

Re: Copying one hard drive to another

2001-05-14 Thread joost witteveen
Je 2001/05/14(1)/11:05, Nathan E Norman montris sian geniecon skribante: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is > > done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an

Re: {latex,sgml,xml} packages for creating resume?

2001-05-14 Thread David Z. Maze
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BP> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:15:39AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: DZM> I have my resume in SGML; links to the DTD and DSSSL stylesheets I use DZM> with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/projects.html. The end DZM> result is visible at http://web.mi

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