Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-09 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Karsten's Iron Rule of Browsers: they all suck. > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html > > ...but I take it back. Galeon Kicks Ass®. s/GNU\/// http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT

gnome-xml & glade include files

2001-12-09 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
can anyone clue me in as to which packages contains: gnome-xml/tree.h glade/glade.h thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

Missing text in gnome printing system

2001-12-09 Thread Simon Wong
I have a problem with no fonts whenever I try and print something throught the Gnomeprint system e.g Evolution. My previews show no text and the print output has no fonts either. I amd using testing libgnome-data/bin and libgtkhtml15. I have tried reinstalling everything fromt he above to gs gsf

Re: mutt and urlview oddity (alternatives)

2001-12-09 Thread Steve Cooper
FWIW - I find mhonarc (Sid package) to be a better alternative to urlview. With it I load the entire email with click-able links into my favorite browser. Gives me a lot more context for selecting links to see the whole email. The following .muttrc macros give me this functionality: macro index

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Clark
* Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 23:42]: > > I think you are supposed to use the web-based base install, at least > > that is what I usually do. > > > > Michel. > > > > > I went through the exact same thing (and I was shocked the woody > > > base* images were not there, too). I ju

Re: geting lm-sensors working

2001-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:30:50PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building my kernels (2.4.16) using kenrel-package. The lm-sensors > package says that I should build the modules for lm-sensors from it's > source. Is this correct, or should I use the ones in the kernel tree? There aren't any in th

Re: ATI video card confusion

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 20:27, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm in the process of puting together several Debian systems, that will run > either woody or Progent (not certain yet). I ordered all the parts for > these machines at once, in an atempt to have all the same components, well > it seems to not have

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-09 Thread Paul E Condon
Michel Loos wrote: > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: > > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: > > > > > > > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, > > > > > > right? > > > > > > > > > > Wrong: > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian

geting lm-sensors working

2001-12-09 Thread Stan Brown
For the first time in my life, i actually have hardware new enough to have temperature, and fan speed monitoring! I'm able to look at these in the BIOS setup screen, and I want to be able to monitor them from with Linux (woody). I'm building my kernels (2.4.16) using kenrel-package. The lm-sensor

ATI video card confusion

2001-12-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm in the process of puting together several Debian systems, that will run either woody or Progent (not certain yet). I ordered all the parts for these machines at once, in an atempt to have all the same components, well it seems to not have worked out quite that way. I order ATI Radeon LE video

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:17:05PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > (Reading/filing reports in the Debian BTS tends to be a far more > effective way of getting problems fixed than asking about them on > debian-user; a fair number of developers don't read debian-user at > all, and so your problem will n

building 3rd-party modules into the kernel package

2001-12-09 Thread Joshua Goodall
I have a handful of 3rd-party modules that I want to include in my kernel package. That is, their source resides in /usr/src/modules/ Right now, I do make-kpkg kernel-image modules-image and I get a kernel .deb and a separate .deb for each module. What I want to do is have the third-party modu

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:17:05PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JWB> Today's update to X in unstable overwrote my XF86Config-4 without even > JWB> asking permission. My config file was very tweaked. Why does this > JWB> happen? It's backed up in /etc

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-12-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Mackinney wrote: > Could someone post a concrete example of using folder hooks to > switch the "From: " header depending on which folder you're in? > > I'd like to use the following logic: > > if current folder is college.mbox > send mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > else >

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-12-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:18:21PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > if $h_From: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then > save /dev/null > finish > endif I wouldn't know how to do this with Mutt, but certainly with procmail. :0: * ^From:[EMA

Re: help

2001-12-09 Thread DvB
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dear sir > > I have a problem for setup linux on my new notebook which type is compaq > presario 1714tc. > > We use redhat 7.2 to setup but the graphic card drive can't suppose ^^ This is a _Debian_ (http://www.debian.org) mailing list and you clai

help

2001-12-09 Thread 蔡慶輝
dear sir I have a problem for setup linux on my new notebook which type is compaq presario 1714tc. We use redhat 7.2 to setup but the graphic card drive can't suppose us. Can you give me a hand or some serject. Thank you very much sent from Ken

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-12-09 Thread Paul Mackinney
This list sold me on mutt long ago. If I didn't already know vi/vim, I might be seduced by the emac crowd. Could someone post a concrete example of using folder hooks to switch the "From: " header depending on which folder you're in? I'd like to use the following logic: if current folder is co

Re: /etc/apt/preferences Confusion

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:24:43PM -0800, Dave Steinberg wrote: | | I have been tracking testing for the longest time, but I would like to be | able to get up-to-date mozilla and galeon packages from unstable. | | As I understand it, /etc/apt/preferences can help me with this. I can add | entrie

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:07 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > To minimize cost, you want to get a SCSI card with the > same connector as your scanner. For an HD50 > connector get the 2940. For the DB25 connector, get a > 2904. Are you sure you meant the 2904? I cannot find a reference an Ad

Re: Best debian for me

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:35:41PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: | Thus spake Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider | > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with | > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a pa

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:58, William P Martin wrote: > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a sid box to a 2.4 > kernel (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg and If your old kernel was of the 2.2.x series, then you should upgrade some packages to a newer version, th

/etc/apt/preferences Confusion

2001-12-09 Thread Dave Steinberg
I have been tracking testing for the longest time, but I would like to be able to get up-to-date mozilla and galeon packages from unstable. As I understand it, /etc/apt/preferences can help me with this. I can add entries for both releases in sources.list, and then set priorities to keep package

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:52 pm, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > I have a HP scanjet 5p and I replaced the ISA triangle > card with a PCI Adaptec 2904. ... On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:07 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > For an HD50 connector get the 2940. For the DB25 > connector, get a 2904.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #2318

2001-12-09 Thread Shawn Lamson
> From: "Karsten M. Self" > To: debian > Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/rc: 2: command not found > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:19:04PM -0800, Shawn > Lamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > this is still happening on every boot and telinit > runlevel change... > > also shutdown -r 0 doesnt work... i

Re: Get .config from installed kernel?

2001-12-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Kendall Shaw wrote: > > >Hi, > >I have kernel 2.2.16 installed which I never compiled from source, and I >want to add a kernel module to support my sound card. Is there a way for me >to generate the .config that matches my installed kernel so that I can >easily recompile the kernel as it is, b

Re: ftp oddity in a masqueraded machine

2001-12-09 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Américo Rocha wrote: > > Self-explanatory: > > > > Will not open connection to 192.168.0.8 (only to 212.54.148.10) > Anonymous user logged in. > No data connection: No such file or directory > > Also from that debian box (192.168.0.8) > > Is it saying it won't download an

Re: 8 character filenames on msdos floppy

2001-12-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:09:49 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > The easiest way is to edit /etc/filesystems and list vfat above msdos. > > When you specify a type of "auto", mount must try things (in some > > order) to find one that works. For some reason it defaults to tryi

Re: 8 character filenames on msdos floppy

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:09:49PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote (0.41): > I'm sorry to ask, but what package is that from? It's not on my box It's not actually shipped with any package, but mount will read it if it exists. man mount, and search the page for /etc/filesystems (it's in the docs for th

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Lanett
Note that the change file for 2.4.13 is almost identical, i.e. these aren't a pile of -16-specific bugs that are getting fixed. ~mark From: "Joachim Trinkwitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here the README.Debian file accompanying kernel-source-2.4.16: kernel-source for DEBIAN T

invisible information in dselect

2001-12-09 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Something that I have noticed in my time using dselect is that in the main package listing, there are some lines that only have partial information on them. This is when it is set to verbose. The information that seems to be invisible is found on the dividing line, but does anyone know why I get li

Re: iptables script

2001-12-09 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:52:49PM +, Am?rico Rocha wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to forward port ssh (22) to another computer > on my intranet > > The network topology is simple: 192.168.0.12, is connected > on eth0 to dhcp, and eth1 acts as a NAT to the intranet > consisting on 9 comp

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JWB> Today's update to X in unstable overwrote my XF86Config-4 without even JWB> asking permission. My config file was very tweaked. Why does this JWB> happen? See Debian bug #123053 (serious). (Reading/filing reports in the Debian BTS tends to be a f

Re: 8 character filenames on msdos floppy

2001-12-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake dman: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:56:04AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > | Eric Smith wrote: > | > > | > How do I get unabridged filenames viz project_one.doc insead of > | > projec~1.doc on floppies where files have been saved in windows. > | > | mount it as vfat (mount -t vfat)? > >

2 ?

2001-12-09 Thread a
how to find out a file, says /usr/include/xyz.h, belongs to which package? When boot, i find that depmod complains about unresolved symbols. how to solve it?

unselect marked packages

2001-12-09 Thread Mr. Batuke
Hi friends ! I've used dselect to install a package (the kernel sources). This also selected many other packages, but i don't want to install them all. So now i want to unselect all selected-to-install packages in dselect. How i do this ? Help me please ! Thanks ;0) Get 250 color business ca

No keyboard in X

2001-12-09 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey All, Uh, did anyone else loose the use of their keyboards after the last dist-upgrade on UNSTABLE or is this my very own problem? :--) Users from the debian-users list please reply directly as I am NOT on this list at this time. - -- _

Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

2001-12-09 Thread Ian Balchin
Colin, I _really_ am a newbie! Following on from the comment by Bob Hilliard, I am running in console mode. For the file 'numlock-off' do I put in the same script that Karsten gave me for rc.local? Where do I put the update line? To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the fi

Re: Changes in mutt (was Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20)

2001-12-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On a side note, when asking a new question, please refrain from >> replying to an already posted message since this screws up threaded >> views in mail clients that support them. It also screws up web >> archive

Re: wine and fonts

2001-12-09 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.09 23:32 Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > You may want to install a set of MSFT fonts on the box. WINE may also > work better if you've got an installation of legacy MS Windows for it to > leach off of. > I have already got those fonts ins

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 15:56, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > John, > > > I'm curious, > > > > What is a trackball good for? > > > > why would I want one over a normal mouse? > > I find them a lot more comfortable to use all day long because you > don't wind up moving your arm and wrist around

Re: no mouse device

2001-12-09 Thread Michel Loos
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:59, Gilbert w wrote: > Hello everyone, Im brand spankin new and I just installed debian. Im not > sure ive completed installation properly, but I have no mouse device(no > /dev/mouse ). What did I do wrong? I tried reinstalling with a different > mouse type, but stil

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread Michel Loos
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:56, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > John, > > > I'm curious, > > > > What is a trackball good for? > > > > why would I want one over a normal mouse? > Some other advantages of a trackball: When your working place is full of papers etc. 1) You only need the place for t

no mouse device

2001-12-09 Thread Gilbert w
Hello everyone, Im brand spankin new and I just installed debian. Im not sure ive completed installation properly, but I have no mouse device(no /dev/mouse ). What did I do wrong? I tried reinstalling with a different mouse type, but still doesn't work. Is there a way I can manully install

Re: weird problems running Samba

2001-12-09 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
* Am?rico Rocha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm trying to configure a debian box to connect to > a samba server and mount some samba shares. The server > is also running potato 2.2r4, but i'm getting errors > with mount, when trying to mount the shares on the > samba server > > He

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-09 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Just a thought, try ping www.debian.org. if it takes a while to resolve the ip address, then the problem is something to do with the dns server (yours / external) you could also try dig www.debian.org and see how long that takes. good luck, Shri S

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread Rachel Andrew
What is a trackball good for? why would I want one over a normal mouse? I use a Logitech trackball because a few years ago I had my right hand crushed and if I use a mouse, after a couple of hours I suffer excruiating RSI type pain. Using the trackball I have no pain at all, so that's my

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
John, > I'm curious, > > What is a trackball good for? > > why would I want one over a normal mouse? I find them a lot more comfortable to use all day long because you don't wind up moving your arm and wrist around on the table like you do with a mouse. Your hand stays stationary on the trackb

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I am looking for useful, and CHEAP--I am on a fixed income, > and feeling very poor these days ;-) The Hewlett-Packard > website claims that the scanner I have needs a $150 dollar > card; in fact they generously point out the exact card they

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade diary

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Patrick Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy, > > I just upgraded from potato to woody. As I expected, it didn't go so > smoothly. Bottom line: X wouldnt start. I went to irc where some guy > (thanks eeyore!) told me to get xserver-xfree86 package. A quick > apt-get and it worked. > > I h

devfsd and kde

2001-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am struggling a bit with devfsd and could do with some help What I have done is create a kernel in which devfs is built, and my sound card (soundblaster live -emu10k1) is built as a module. When kde starts up it complains that it can't find /dev/d

Re: Best debian for me

2001-12-09 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a package). And it's more > secure than testing.* > > If you do upgrade remembe

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread John Griffiths
> Ditto. The great big trackball is comfy and incredibly accurate. My debian > installation worked with it from the get-go. I've never had use for all > the buttons, but I could see it fitting into a network gamer's arsenal quite > nicely. With four buttons, you'd be fragging to your heart's

Re: wine and fonts

2001-12-09 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:08:07PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi there, I'm trying to emulate dotComic (from www.marvel.com) and I'm > > having font problems, they all appear as those funny faces and > > diamonds and

Re: HDD clone

2001-12-09 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > dd will do the job for a precise binary copy. This is overkill in the > vast majority of circumstances, and slow as hell to boot (copying a > healthy-sized disk could take most of a day or more). Tar or > incremental updates via rsync are far

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-09 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson said: > > Try using a local mirror. > > http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors > Can I also suggest looking at 'netselect-apt' (package netselect and only in woody+ IIRC) If you change to /etc/apt, backup sources.list, then try 'netselect-apt [uns

Re: woody: 2.2.20 ext3 and ide patches...

2001-12-09 Thread Marcin Fusinski
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Marcin Fusinski wrote: Sorry about replying to my own mail but I couldn't resist and checked the kernel I made earlier and to my surprise the ext3 does work indeed... Somehow I am still a bit worried about those warnings I received while compiling it and would love to learn ho

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread omphe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can anyone recomment a three button trackball with a ps2 connector that > is > > supported by linus? (Preferably an optical trackball) > > Hi Emmet. > > I use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX Ditto. The great big trackball is comfy and incredibly accurate. My debian

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Seth Delackner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, hello and thanks. Please be gentle, this is my first debian-users > post. > > Whilst installing debian-stable I am encountering the most bizarre > behavior: During the apt-setup stage, using ftp or http, > the "Connecting" stage of opening an a

Re: DOSEMU with DOS on a 2nd hard drive

2001-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Dec 2001, Lawrence F Povirk wrote: > I'm no expert but I think you should NOT mount the drive in Linux if you > are going to use it for direct partition access under dosemu. Did you > try using > > $_hdimage = "/dev/hdb1" > > in dosemu.conf instead of wholedisk? > > > > On Thu, 6 Dec

Re: Get .config from installed kernel?

2001-12-09 Thread mikepolniak
On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:28:01 -0800 Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have kernel 2.2.16 installed which I never compiled from source, and I > want to add a kernel module to support my sound card. Is there a way for me > to generate the .config that matches my installed k

woody: 2.2.20 ext3 and ide patches...

2001-12-09 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hello! I've been using Woody for the past couple of weeks and so far I'm more than happy with it. However I seem to have a wee problem with compiling/patching the downloaded (through apt-get) kernel sources for 2.2.20... I'd like to apply the ide and ext3 patches to it - but the Debian way is a lit

Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-09 Thread Oscar Riveros
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:20:23AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing > depends, libgtkhtml20 => 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians > site or Google. This seems new as I just i

RE: weird problems running Samba

2001-12-09 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to configure a debian box to connect to > a samba server and mount some samba shares. The server > is also running potato 2.2r4, but i'm getting errors > with mount, when trying to mount the shares on the > samba server > > Here's

Get .config from installed kernel?

2001-12-09 Thread Kendall Shaw
Hi, I have kernel 2.2.16 installed which I never compiled from source, and I want to add a kernel module to support my sound card. Is there a way for me to generate the .config that matches my installed kernel so that I can easily recompile the kernel as it is, but with support for my sound

Which IMAP server to use?

2001-12-09 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I'm planning to set up an IMAP server on my Woody machine so that if needed I could access my mail folders from remote machines. Also my has a Windows box and is using Outlook Express 6 to read her mail. I'd like to 'filter' her mail through the Linux machine, so that I can use Procmail on her

Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-09 Thread William P Martin
I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a sid box to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg and everthing seems to work fine but I don't have a network when I reboot into the new kernel. It looks like the nic module loads but I cannot ping anything. If I go back t

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-09 Thread csj
On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:12, dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > | > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > | > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:03:04PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > Could you point to references for the bugs you're seeing? > > > > This one's really annoying: > > http://bugs.debian.org/118368 > > Fixed in 0.70

gnomecc capplets

2001-12-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear debianers, after installed the last version of the Ximian Gnome Control Center, I am unable to run the configurations for the desktop, mouse, keyboard and sound, either fron the gnome control center program itself (in the main group) or from the command line typing, for example for the bac

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

2001-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Josef Oswald: > Checking the whole thing during boot-up I found that the error > message is actually: > > /etc/init.d/rc:2: command not found > > also I have some other (linux and winXX partitions) which are mounted > automatically during boot up, and I get a error to check it >

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Clark
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 16:19]: > > > > > Wrong: > > > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > > > > > > I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images. I had > > > noticed > > > this a few days ago and thought they would soo

Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

2001-12-09 Thread Geoff Beaumont
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:09, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 05:56:57PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people in > > kernel 2.2.x. > > > > Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-09 Thread Michel Loos
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote: > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: > > > > > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, > > > > > right? > > > > > > > > Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > > >

Re: How can i install woody?

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Clark
* Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]: > > > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? > > > > > > Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > > I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images. I had n

ftp oddity in a masqueraded machine

2001-12-09 Thread Américo Rocha
Self-explanatory: Will not open connection to 192.168.0.8 (only to 212.54.148.10) Anonymous user logged in. No data connection: No such file or directory Also from that debian box (192.168.0.8) Is it saying it won't download anything to it, but only to the machine acting as NAT ? TIA too .

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:12:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote: ... > > Could it be that the Windows boot loader gets confused somehow? > > Yes, very. Windows will only boot if it is on the master disk of the > primary controller. I recommend making

weird problems running Samba

2001-12-09 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all I'm trying to configure a debian box to connect to a samba server and mount some samba shares. The server is also running potato 2.2r4, but i'm getting errors with mount, when trying to mount the shares on the samba server Here's the output XK8:/etc/init.d# ./smbmount mount: wrong fs t

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > First of all, I am stunned to find a site like > http://lhd.datapower.com; so, I thank you very much! :-) > > Now, I also have the /usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi > directory on my system, because I recently was diligently > re-compiling m

Re: mutt and urlview oddity

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Clark
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 09. 2001 13:12]: > > > > macro pager \Cb "|urlview\n" > > > > > > Please comment out this line. > > > > Why comment out that line? Straight from the manual, it lists both: > > > > > > > > I am running mutt

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:41:14 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recomment a three button trackball with a ps2 connector that is > supported by linus? (Preferably an optical trackball) Hi Emmet. I use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It is an optical trackerball and as such it is very easy

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:31:46PM -0500, Alec wrote: | On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote: | > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote: ... | > | Could it be that the Windows boot loader gets confused somehow? | > | > Yes, very. Windows will only boot if it is on the mas

Re: Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:48, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Today's update to X in unstable overwrote my XF86Config-4 without even > asking permission. My config file was very tweaked. Why does this > happen? Before I get the obvious response to this, I know about the ##BEGIN BLAH BLAH BLAH ### secti

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
First of all, I am stunned to find a site like http://lhd.datapower.com; so, I thank you very much! :-) Now, I also have the /usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi directory on my system, because I recently was diligently re-compiling my kernel for the first time (it worked! Hooray! :-) Anyway, th

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread ben
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:31 pm, Alec wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote: [snip] > IDE A: Windows HD (Master), CDRW (Slave) > IDE B: Linux HD (Master) > that's the way mine works.

Update to X 4.1.0-10 overwrote my XF86Config-4

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Today's update to X in unstable overwrote my XF86Config-4 without even asking permission. My config file was very tweaked. Why does this happen?

Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-09 Thread EmmetHayes
Can anyone recomment a three button trackball with a ps2 connector that is supported by linus? (Preferably an optical trackball) Emmett Hayes

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread ben
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:03 pm, Alec wrote: > Hi > > I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the following problem: > > I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD. I had to > physically disconnect the master HD to do it, because I was using the CDs > that originally came wit

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread Alec
On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote: > | I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD. > > ... > > | But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets > | stuck. The only way I can boot into Wi

CUPS prints small text

2001-12-09 Thread iehrenwald
I'm having trouble printing text. CUPS is set up fine and I can print and all that good stuff. But the text itself is way too tiny. I notice when hit the Print icon in any KDE app, the text in the window turns very small and then returns to normal a few seconds later. Do I not have the right ps

Re: Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote: | I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD. ... | But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets stuck. | The only way I can boot into Windows is by again physically disconnecting the | master HD. W

Dual Boot Problems

2001-12-09 Thread Alec
Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the following problem: I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD. I had to physically disconnect the master HD to do it, because I was using the CDs that originally came with the computer and I didn't want them to overwrite my Linu

Re: certificate for courier pop3

2001-12-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 04:27, Marek Cermak wrote: > Hello > I have problem with certificate generated with mkpop3dcert > for courier-pop3-ssl. It has been generated for localhost > and I need it for FQDN of my pop3 server. I need self > certified certificate. > > Please, how to generate it ? > W

Re: USB printer port (HP PSC 750)

2001-12-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:54, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Michael Heldebrant writes: > > On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 11:26, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > > Michael Heldebrant writes: > > > > On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 15:33, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > >

tftp client issue on Solaris

2001-12-09 Thread Pat Srinivas
Hi, I'm trying to tftp a file from a server from both an NT machine and a Solaris machine. The client code works fine on the NT machine and the whole file is obtained, but on the Solaris machine, I get only 512 bytes! (1 block). The client is sending an ack back to the server after receiving t

Re: Dual Head Probleme

2001-12-09 Thread ben
erstens--gibt es denn wirklich keine deutsch-sprachigen debian-user liste? zwotens--was heisst 'ohne das Modul zu laden funktioniert alles richtig?' startet X oder nicht? On Sunday 09 December 2001 07:11 am, Frank_Rosendahl/Delos_AG/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei Leute ! > > Ich hab mal wieder

Re: Network config problem

2001-12-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:50, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Sunday 09 December 2001 02:53, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > You want: > > auto ethWHATEVER > > iface inet dhcp ethWHATEVER > > instead of "static dhcp" which, I'm not even sure how it would be > > parsed by ifup. ifconfig should tell you if

inetd error

2001-12-09 Thread Nick Furman
Anyone know what my inetd may be complaining about, and how I might go about fixing it? The error is this: Dec 9 07:46:48 white inetd[3044]: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Please CC me on the reply. Thanks! Nick

Re: missing ldconfig (broken newton!!!)

2001-12-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:06:25 -, "omphe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using dpkg, I attempted an install of libc6 2.2.4-7 from my original library, > which was originally libc6 2.2.1-1. Upon installation I received all manner > of related error messages when trying to install further pack

Re: Restricting a google search

2001-12-09 Thread Matt Wehland
At 10:05 AM 12/9/01 -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote: The answer is on Google: from main page goto 'Search Tips' - 'Site Search' command Syntax- admission site:www.stanford.edu Search_Words site:URL Don't forget the keyword site: I just had to look this up last week. Matt Wehland In a response

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