RE: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Arian Novruzi
Hi, I'm precising what I have done - may be you say me if I'm doing wright and what I have to modify in my installation. -I use a couple of CDs that I have burned (note that I have not the option multi-CD), -I make a partition and -I continue to install the services suggested by the CD-ROM (at that

Re: what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

2001-05-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --jQIvE3yXcK9X9HBh > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do > >

Re: Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:43:04 Chris Spencer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the > X Display > > of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su > to root, > > and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig"

Re: Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Benjamin Black
On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:43:04 Chris Spencer wrote: > Hello, > > How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display > of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root, > and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig" I get > the err

Re: Driver help

2001-05-21 Thread Forrest Cameranesi
Note: I am not a Debian user and have NEVER seen Debian run. Over some time and through several potential sources I have asked about drivers. I do not know which drivers I need. This is not a request for general help on installing Debian. I have done about twelve microsoft installs with lit

Re: [users] Can't set xterm resources for root

2001-05-21 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Mon, 21 May 2001 08:26:32PM -0700): > Or perhaps it stems from the fact that I su to root? I'm running > under gdm. For example, my USER variable is still set to my original > name after the su. well, i assume that you figure out how to use xterm su'd to root - right

Can't set xterm resources for root

2001-05-21 Thread Ross Boylan
For some reason my entries in .Xresources for Xterm seem to be ignored as root. The same file works as desired for my regular account. Is this some security thing? (.Xresources rwx for owner, r for everyone else) Or perhaps it stems from the fact that I su to root? I'm running under gdm. For e

Re: ascii \177 char in filename

2001-05-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:31:38PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: Okay, I'm really bored so I whipped this up real quick. USE AT YOUR OWN PERIL! To compile: $ gcc -Wall -o badfile badfile.c Run in each directory (directory is hardcoded to "./") $ ./badfile Luck, -- Eric G. Miller #include #inc

RE: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Price, Tim
Hi, I succeeded in installing debian 2.2 on a compaq e500 - including getting the X server, mouse, internal modem, etc etc all going. I don't recall many of the details because everything just worked out of the box pretty much (except for the modem, which is an mwave winmodem, with GPLed kernel m

masqerade envelope as 2 domains

2001-05-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I'm running exim as my MTA, and I was wondering if it is possible to configure the masquerade envelope by user instead of by machine. My wife and I both have different domains for our email addresses, and currently my box is configured to masquerade everything under my domain.

Re: ascii \177 char in filename

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a script that will clean up netatalk shared files from their > flaws from MacOS. > > I have come accross a little snag though. > > ls: > ? Maria Rivier 1:2f00.doc find . -name \*Maria\* -ex

Re: Best (Most stable/supported) Video Card

2001-05-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:35:55AM -0700, Adahma wrote: > I'm about to upgrade a Potato box to testing, and plan on doing some > hardware upgrades at the same time. One of the things I'm replacing > will be the video card. I'm currently running a very old ATI card > that I've been fairly happy wi

Re: what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do > about: > > 9 opentcpdiscard > 13 opentcpdaytime > 37 opentcptime > 113 opent

Re: ascii \177 char in filename

2001-05-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing a script that will clean up netatalk shared files from their > flaws from MacOS. > > I have come accross a little snag though. > > ls: > ? Maria Rivier 1:2f00.doc > > ls | od -a > 000 del sp M a r i

información sobre configuración de redes

2001-05-21 Thread iciv2
Deseo informacón sobre: configuración de redes   Lo necesito urgentemente   gracias.    

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-21 Thread Sean
On Monday 21 May 2001 20:15, Joel Mayes wrote: > <--snip--> > To be honest I couldn't say as I don't have windows on by box, I just > spotted this program at /. where it was the subject of sum debate, there > web page has some screen shots showing a windows box runing 2 or 3 X apps > simultanenc

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:59:29PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2001 13:37, Gordon Hart wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > > > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, >

ascii \177 char in filename

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm writing a script that will clean up netatalk shared files from their flaws from MacOS. I have come accross a little snag though. ls: ? Maria Rivier 1:2f00.doc ls | od -a 000 del sp M a r i a sp R i v i e r sp 1 020 : 2 f 0 0 . d o c

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:20:07PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > > This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive > > on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the > > SCSI. I a

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:01:49AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:43:11PM +1000, Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Quoth Joel Mayes, > > > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:33:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a FREE package allowin

Re: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Arian Novruzi wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian > in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general. Many people use laptops like me. There is a site that has info on your book. Luckily I remembered that this is a Compaq -- give details as per the other p

Re: Strange reboot

2001-05-21 Thread Renai LeMay
I remember reading somewhere that kernel 2.4.4 had some form of issues - it was recommended to me that I wait until 2.4.5. I run 2.4.3 under unstable with no problems. Renai On Tuesday 22 May 2001 09:48, Cheng H. Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering whether any one could explain why my mach

Strange reboot

2001-05-21 Thread Cheng H. Lee
Hi all, I was wondering whether any one could explain why my machine would spontaneously reboot itself. It's a Debian unstable box running kernel 2.4.4. Personally I suspect some sort of issue with the kernel itself. I doubt that the machine has been broken into since absolutely nothing has shown

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Glen Snyder
> 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > I do not know what to do now. Just

Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:43:04 Chris Spencer wrote: > Hello, > > How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display > of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root, > and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig" I get the erro

Re: Problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Philip Bubel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE.  I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with > > the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied > > correctly (I think).  I am able to use PPP

Re: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:48:40PM -0700, Arian Novruzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian > in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general. > > Personally, I found installation of Debian quite frustrating, although > I like this Linux

Debian 2.2 in Armada E500

2001-05-21 Thread Arian Novruzi
Hi all, I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general. Personally, I found installation of Debian quite frustrating, although I like this Linux distribution. It's really pity that a dood distribution like Debian doesn't recognize nothing in

Re: Problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Christensen
"Philip Bubel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE.  I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with > the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied > correctly (I think).  I am able to use PPPOE no problem, as the Linux box can > connect to the in

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread Jens Gecius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > > This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive > > on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the > > SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got aroun

Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk

2001-05-21 Thread Jens Gecius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Basically I am trying to copy everything over to my second hard disk and > then set up to make this the boot device. I know how to change the boot > device in my bios. > > The problem seems to be getting lilo on the second hardisk. What I > tried was this: > Edited t

doom stops on start up

2001-05-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
while trying to run a network game, every thing goes well we do lxdoom-gam-server blah. when every one is logged we see a lot of things on the screen, but then the windows that relates to the game it self remains blank. ps ux reposts that the lxdoom-game-server is idle. We see abolutely nothing i

Re: Make check error: binutils-2.11

2001-05-21 Thread ktb
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:21:35AM +1200, sherab wrote: > Hi, > I am preparing to upgrade to glibc-2.2.2, so I compiled the binutils-2.11 > from source > with the following command; > > ../binutils-2.11/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-gnu-ld > --with-included-gettext --mandir

Re: More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:59:24PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > (I'm sure wvdial is a great program -- when it works. It only | > understands the common situations it's authors have experience | > with and can't be configured to deal wi

Make check error: binutils-2.11

2001-05-21 Thread sherab
Hi, I am preparing to upgrade to glibc-2.2.2, so I compiled the binutils-2.11 from source with the following command; ../binutils-2.11/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-gnu-ld --with-included-gettext --mandir=/usr/share make make check Part of the errors are: ... EXP

Missing gnumeric dependency?

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
After installing gnumeric (with it's obscene list of dependencies, as discussed here earlier), I'm getting the error unable to open module file: /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so: undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct on startup. Installing python-base has not had any noticable effect

Re: More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > Again, I recommend that you install minicom, or some similar tool, so > you can interactively see what your ISP does when you dial in. Once > you know what prompts your ISP sends, then you can make a simple chat > script that will work. Wit

Re: thumb suggestion

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to build an html page with photos. I'd like to make thumbnails and > link them to the actual pix in another file. What will do this under potato? I installed http://fredrik.rambris.com/gfxindex/. Very cool. Cheers, Colin

Re: Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:43:04PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote: > How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display > of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root, > and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig" I get the error:

Root in X Display

2001-05-21 Thread Chris Spencer
Hello, How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root, and try to configure the kernel by typing in "make xconfig" I get the error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client i

Re: More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | If anybody can tell me what to do, I now have more information on my problems. | | Internet problem: |This is the text after the first routine stuff: |ATDP 8475110 |Connect 48000/ARQ |Connect detected.

Re: what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

2001-05-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do > about: > > 9 opentcpdiscard discard is /dev/null for networks. Generally not needed expecially if you are worried about attcks.

More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
If anybody can tell me what to do, I now have more information on my problems. Printer problem: I use magicfilterconfig to configure /etc/printcap. After finishing the configuration, I get these messages: Use of unintialized value at /usr/bin/magicfilterconfig line 216, Chunk 6

Re: how to recover damaged tar files?

2001-05-21 Thread sherab
For a file ending with tar use tar -xvf filename.tar gz use tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz bz2 use tar -xvIf filename.tar.bz2 the -p option can be used before f as well, such as tar -xvIpf filename.tar.bz2 Regards Sherab >Erik Alvarez wrote: >> >> Hi, when trying to decompress a tar file I get thi

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Chris Spencer
On Monday 21 May 2001 13:37, Gordon Hart wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > > tar file, rig

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, May 20, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > > as a bad thing, since they

Why everything in German?

2001-05-21 Thread Roberto Magana
Good Day, has the language of the list being changed to German? If so, please announce it so I can switch to a list in english. -- % <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. (The Phy

Re: nautilus 1.0.3-2 won't start

2001-05-21 Thread Philipp Bliedung
thanks! libgdk-pixbuf-dev was the package I needed. It's not yet working but I'm on the right track- there are a lot more packages I need ... but I'll get there ... Philipp Simeon Walker wrote: > Hi, > i've been trying to compile nautilus from cvs (no luck yet) but > did get it to configure.

Re: Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:35:35PM +0600, V.Suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? > It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? http://www.theinquirer.net/site120501.htm -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.ho

what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do about: 9 opentcpdiscard 13 opentcpdaytime 37 opentcptime 113 opentcpauth 119 opentcpnntp Can someone explain me what the

list v. Usenet (was Re: A philosophical one)

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's the relation(ship) between the list > debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I > mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or > not? How about the fact that in thi

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:37:47AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I did these steps again (with "update") > and I get the same error. > > Any other thoughts? > > > 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > > > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3. > > > E

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > 99% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, check 3. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) > E: Failure running script /us

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > This leads to another question: If a "--disable-something" > > option is given to the ./configure script, is the Makefile > > dynamic in that it won't check for the file(s) that would > > normally take care of what's been disabled ?? Does that > > make sense ?? ;-) > > Aah not sure what you mea

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > tar file, right? thats what I've been using.. unpack, type make as

Dummy Soundcard

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Enning
Well still hardworking on a 'text to speech synthesis' project. Amazing how much tools there are to do the trick! :) So I dedicated my debian server to test with "Festval" The server does not have a Soundcard. When trying Festival I got the Error "ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor", searchi

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:55:46AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Yeah, I picked a good example, didn't I ?? In fact, gnumeric may not > have any sound capabilities at all. Maybe it does... Where esound > comes in is that *another* package that gnumeric requires requires > esound itself. Aren't de

Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:10PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > That doesn't work for me. I've found in the past that Google uses > > distributed servers, on which content may vary. Could you resubmit the > > URL above resolving a numeric I

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA > GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, > and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the > tar file, right? Either that or get the Debian nvidia-glx-src and nvi

Re: Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the >Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" >envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transparent >Proxy? Is that true? If ye

Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Abner Gershon
I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the tar file, right? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-21 Thread Peter Hicks
On Friday 18 May 2001 15:33, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a FREE package allowing one to run an X app on a linux > box in such a way that it can be used across a network on a windows box, in > the same way that X apps can be run over networks? I think you can use vnc for such pu

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-21 Thread S.
David, Thank you for your feedback. I have run into a problem while trying to move from 2.2r2 -> Woody. Here are the steps that I took: * Install 2.2r2 (from CDROM) * apt-get update * apt-get upgrade * Edit /etc/sources.list to point to testing (not stable) * apt-get upd

Warnquota - Segmentation fault

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello, Can anyone help me? Every time I run "warnquota" the system returns the following error: Segmentation fault No recipient addresses found in header Any information that could be used to correct this problem would be truly appreciated. Thank you -- __

Re: Getting Telnet to work

2001-05-21 Thread John Willey
Title: Re: Getting Telnet to work Hi,    I have small LAN: 3 win2k workstations and 1 Debian linux gateway/firewall. I want to telnet into my gateway/firewall from one of my win2k stations. Tired of always going downstairs to change the firewall rules or whatnot J  So how do I set this up? I se

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread S.
Willi, I did these steps again (with "update") and I get the same error. Any other thoughts? Randy On 21 May 2001 19:12:13 +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch > > (Woody) i

Unidentified subject!

2001-05-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have a PC running Progeny Debian Linux, and another machine running Windows. The Debian box connects to the Internet using a Surfboard 4100 cable modem. I want to connect my Windows machine to the same cable modem. I already have a hub so ideally I would like the cable modem and the two comput

Best (Most stable/supported) Video Card

2001-05-21 Thread Adahma
I'm about to upgrade a Potato box to testing, and plan on doing some hardware upgrades at the same time. One of the things I'm replacing will be the video card. I'm currently running a very old ATI card that I've been fairly happy with, but I've seen that alot of the newer ATI Rage based cards ha

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Richardson
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage > exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. My first computer > has as86 from somewhere and I bulit the 2.2.19 kernel with no problem. > > I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message

Re: Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Willi Dyck
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:03:11AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch > (Woody) installed on one of my machines. I have performed the > following steps: > > * Clean install of 2.2r2 (from CDROM) > > * apt-get update > > * apt

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage >exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. Try the bin86 package. >I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message that it couldn't find an >as86 package in the stable d

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Mike
Thomas H. George wrote: > Any one know where as86 comes from? Install the bin86 package. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV

Re: Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread The Doc
Package: bin86 Use packages.debian.org to search packages for filenames. Doc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:35:35PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? > It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? It means that you have a Pentium 4 that has the cabability to slow itself down when it gets too hot. Hopef

en_GB locale problem

2001-05-21 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings. And sorry that this is the second time I've posted this, but I have received absolutely no response at all. --- I'm usually more keen to solve a problem myself before asking for help, but I feel I am a little out of my depth. I've not been using Linux very long, being used to using F

Where is as86?

2001-05-21 Thread Thomas H. George
Started to build a 2.2.19 kernel for my second computer. Make bzImage exited with error 2 because it couldn't find as86. My first computer has as86 from somewhere and I bulit the 2.2.19 kernel with no problem. I tried apt-get install as86 and got a message that it couldn't find an as86 packa

Problems moving to Woody

2001-05-21 Thread S.
I am trying to get an installation of the "testing" branch (Woody) installed on one of my machines. I have performed the following steps: * Clean install of 2.2r2 (from CDROM) * apt-get update * apt-get upgrade Then I changed /etc/atp/sources.list to point to "testing" instead of "

Re: GERMAN INVASION!!!

2001-05-21 Thread Rich Puhek
cat | tr :German: :English: > Isn't working for me... is my tr broken? Just a little Monday humor! --Rich MaD dUCK wrote: > > what's going on??? > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > de

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm running WP 8.1, which came bundled with Corel Linux 1.0 (not free, but $25 on a closeout at Costco, with a "Tux" toy and a $10 rebate--I bought it just for WP and the manual). This version came as a .deb and works very nicely. I don't see that problem. Bob On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM

Getting Telnet to work

2001-05-21 Thread seg
Hi,    I have small LAN: 3 win2k workstations and 1 Debian linux gateway/firewall. I want to telnet into my gateway/firewall from one of my win2k stations. Tired of always going downstairs to change the firewall rules or whatnot J  So how do I set this up? I set up the proper firewall rul

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > > > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > > > > All I can find are the executables in:

Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread V.Suresh
What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? -V.Suresh. Sureshvuserssourceforgenet Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh -- ---Powered by Debian Potato

Do I need lwresd

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Debians! After upgrading to testing there is lwresd running. What is it good for? Do I need it? I have two machines running debian and a DSL-connection to the internet. Ciao! juh -- Die Galerie der Texte http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,53437,00.html

Re: Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the > Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" > envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transp

Installing Debian over LAN

2001-05-21 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I'd like to install Debian on another Computer in my LAN. It will be only the Base and few additional packages. I have hreared from an APT "PROXY" envairement variable with it i can install over my net with a transparent Proxy? Is that true? If yes, what is the correct variable? Is there a

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Compiling from source may not be any better. For example, > > in addition to needing "esound-common" installed, you may > > also need > > hmm why do I need sound at all.. its a spreadsheet.. that was > one of the strangest deps I was hoping could be disabled in > the source. I never have deskto

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt > libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were > packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had > installed) libqt2. Mmm I use

Re: Gnumeric - too big

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Hart
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see > below) > > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building > > from source? > > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty >

Re: searching module Apache-LDAP

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Carrigan
"Francois Leib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please help me, I was unable to find on my hard drive the file > apxs in order to compile my module as explained in this page: > http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.html > > I would like to know how I can instal

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Joel Mayes
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using > something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the > other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an > 'apt-get install postgresql inst

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-21 Thread DvB
On 20 May 2001 13:12:53 +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > puff = schnauben, aufgebläht (and some other meanings) > brothel = Puff ("Puff Daddy" - oops?) "brothel daddy"... I like that :-)

Re: apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using >something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the >other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an >'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testi

Re: searching module Apache-LDAP

2001-05-21 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Any particular reason you can't use the libapache-auth-ldap package already part of the distribution? As for the APXS files you need to have the apache-dev package or have built your own Apache server from source and used the APXS method of configuration. Respectfully, Jere

Problem w/Netscape and repartitioning for Woody

2001-05-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my problems. I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody (Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for / (/dev/hda11) and cp'd everything from my current / partition to it. At the moment, I am still using

apt-get question

2001-05-21 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I want apt-get to get some packages from unstable (using something like apt-get install postgresql/unstable), but for all the other packages I want the versions in testing (so that doing an 'apt-get install postgresql install the version from testing), but I think if I just edit sources.list

Re: monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: | is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or | is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. | Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the | monitor is faulty or the videocard. Can I foc

Re: Netscape and Flash

2001-05-21 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use Netscape with a flash module? Is there any package > in potato? Need this to read a for me important webpage. > > I hafe also konqueror of kde installed. If Netscape can't support flash, > do i need an other tool for konqueror? > > Or what else i

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | D-Man wrote: | | > | On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | > | > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. | > | > Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python).

monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-21 Thread Walter Tautz
is the video card that is sending faulty signals? or is it the monitor. The monitor is a Mag MXP17F about 6 years old. Any thoughts? Is there someway I can definitely confirm that the monitor is faulty or the videocard. Can I focus the monitor? -walter ps. No it is not by eyes. The monitors I us

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might want to read the debian list in a news group like >muc.lists.debian.user. I switched from reading debian-user as a mailing >list to a newsgroup . > >Reading from a news group is only a few hours behind the mailing list, but >you can still repl

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