Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-04 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Brian Schramm wrote: > > Can you give me an idea on how to do that by nis? Maybe that would be better > anyways. Sure, it's really quite simple on a pure Linux network but I have no idea how well Windows will play with the other boxen. On my net I've got one server running Dead Rat 7.1 (seawolf

Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation

2001-06-04 Thread ray p
You need to remove the directory that you made and install the kernel drivers first. The Removing all old and conflicting files message is normal let it do what it wants to. Just install the kernel drivers first and they should work fine for you. On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:41:04PM -0700, Abner

TCP connection problem

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Greaney
I'm having some strange problems with my TCP connection. It's on a dial-on-demand setup and the TCP packets are sending 3 retries before waiting (3s, 9s and 21s) but doesn't try again after it gets connected (usually about 35 seconds). It times out after 3 minutes and won't try again. I have

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-04 Thread John Hasler
Sidney Brooks writes: > I can only use wvdial since pon won't work even though ppp is > installed. pppconfig works which should be further proof that ppp is > installed. No it isn't. > With wvdial, I do not stay connected long enough to run any of > your tests. The relevant sequence is: >

Starting X/Gnome

2001-06-04 Thread HawkY
Hi! Where can I define what I want to launch at startup? (I don't want X to be started at startup.) I've installed Gnome, but I want to launch it. (I might be wrong. I don't really know much about X.) When X is started, I get a login prompt. (Big white window with large black letters.) If I

Re: Alsa and Kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Andreas Tscharner wrote: > Hello World, > > I cannot compile the alsa drivers any longer with kernel 2.4.5 (Kernel > 2.4.4 worked) using make-kpkg modules_image compiled fine here! what alsa version are you using? I've alsa 0.5.1 and 0.9+0beta3_3+p0; both compiled fine! []s,

Re: Mgetty

2001-06-04 Thread shaulka
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 07:06:06PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Anyone using Mgetty and a Cyclades multi port board? > > I installed the mgetty package and created the devices, as well > as the inittab entries (just like the examples found in Debian) > but the modems wont stop blinking th

Laser printer setup with lprng

2001-06-04 Thread Robert Martinovic
Hey, I am trying to setup a Lexmark Optra M410 laser printer over a small lan, and have so far come to nothing. I have used both apsfilter and magicfilter to set up /etc/printcap, but when I lp or lpr a job, nothing happens. Can anyone help? This is a native postscript printer Cheers, Robert M

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-04 Thread Sidney Brooks
t 03:14 PM 6/4/01 +1000, you wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:43AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered: > What is the output of "ls -l /vmlinuz" on your Debian root partition? > file /boot/vmlinuz- Would also be very helpful. That will tell which version of the kernel you are running. But, a fub

Re: installing a debian system within another debian system

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Daniel Kleine-Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello together, > >i just wanted to know, if it's possible to install a seperate debian system >within another debian system with the normal utilities like apt, dpkg and >dselect. What i want to do is, to have a simple possibility to maintain my >

Re: Wanted: apt-changes tool

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there such a thing as a tool for debian that looks at a current >installation and compares it to what's available (via whatever >sources.list is pointing to) and summarises the changes. apt-listchanges is very close to this, but hooks into apt to de

(dup) serial port: LSR safety check engaged

2001-06-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Anybody know what an "LSR safety check" is, and how to disengage it? I've been getting this message... ttyS3: LSR safety check engaged! ...when I do "pon" or "minicom" (which also says /dev/ttyS3 doesn't exist), the modem doesn't dial. ttyS3 does exist (an isapnp card), the card's

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-04 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, Anybody know what an "LSR safety check" is, and how to disengage it? I've been getting this message... ttyS3: LSR safety check engaged! ...when I do "pon" or "minicom" (which also says /dev/ttyS3 doesn't exist), the modem doesn't dial. ttyS3 does exist (an isapnp card), the card's

ServeRaid problems

2001-06-04 Thread erpel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the second time our IBM server has crashed. The first time, we had a 2.2.18 kernel, patched for the IBM drivers for the ServeRaid 4L. Then the second disk hung while doing an upgrade (apt-get upgrade). We cleaned the machine, repartioned i

installing a debian system within another debian system

2001-06-04 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello together, i just wanted to know, if it's possible to install a seperate debian system within another debian system with the normal utilities like apt, dpkg and dselect. What i want to do is, to have a simple possibility to maintain my linux terminal server. The "mother" system ist the one

Re: Connecting to internet & KDE

2001-06-04 Thread jean-michel le bot
Le Dimanche 3 Juin 2001 01:21, John Hasler a écrit : > > This is what I can find in syslog after trying to connect using kppp > > If you insist on using kppp you will have to edit /etc/ppp/options and > change 'auth' to 'noauth' (I think that will do it: I don't use kppp and > don't like it). Ok

Re: iptables and 2.4.4 kernel in testing

2001-06-04 Thread Krzysztof Mazurczyk
- Original Message - From: "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:34 PM Subject: Re: iptables and 2.4.4 kernel in testing > > I also compiled 'all' of the modules into the kernel, at first. I > found one problem with that method tho. When conntrack was com

Re: resizing a partition with GNU parted

2001-06-04 Thread Guy Geens
> "burningclown" == burningclown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: burningclown> Unfortunately, the burningclown> partition I want to resize (/dev/hda3) is the one where burningclown> parted is installed -- when I run parted and try to burningclown> resize /dev/hda3, I get a warning telling me that

Re: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem

2001-06-04 Thread Guy Geens
> "Ian" == Ian Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> On the windows machines, they are taking forever to pull up Ian> Network Neighbourhood. It began happenning a few months back Ian> without explanation and has been happenning randomly ever since Ian> (we had not changed the network, nor bro

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

2001-06-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've never used loadlin (and actually, I've never used debian, just installed it today) but I had the same problem the the boot diskette was pointing to the wrong '/' partition. check that your root=??? is correct. Bye -- Haim On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:34:56PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: >

Is this video card i810 supported?

2001-06-04 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi everyone. Yes, I mean in unstable ; in potato uses 3.3.6 and it is not supported AFAIK; I need this information before going to install. This is Intel i810, and there is driver from intel to work with 3.3.6 but I know for XFree 4.0x, it is supported. At least Mandrake 8.0 has it ; but I dont l

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-06-04 Thread Dragos Delcea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago. > > Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux. > There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but: > > I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30

RE: Currency of packages

2001-06-04 Thread Ian Perry
Just be thankful that it's not the Windows definition of "stable". Remembewr that you can only 'tickle a system' just so much, before it dies laughing at you. Ian -Original Message- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:03 PM To: Noah L. Meyerhans C

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-04 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:04:43AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx uttered: > What is the output of "ls -l /vmlinuz" on your Debian root partition? > file /boot/vmlinuz- Would also be very helpful. That will tell which version of the kernel you are running. But, a fubar lilo config, more than anything so

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-04 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:52PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans uttered: > I don't agree. I think "stable" is an innapropriate name. The prime > example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was > released after GNOME 1.0 came out. Let me tell you, there was nothing > at all "

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

2001-06-04 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:34:56PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: > When trying to install Debian from a DOS partition, using loadlin, the > kernel booted, but then I got the following message: > > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block

Re: install

2001-06-04 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0900, ?? / ?? wrote: > I am a beginner. > I have no experience linux. > > Where Can I get CD for Debian? > or how can I get a diskette for install?? > > Help!! Read the installation instructions at debian.org. Your not going to be able to install with

RE: install

2001-06-04 Thread Ian Perry
Try the main website http://www.debian.org There is a link on the left "Installation Instructions", "Debian Packages", "Download with FTP" Make up a set of base disks http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ima ges-1.44 Install from these disks and then ftp the rema