Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Glenn Becker
Thought I'd throw in mine: 40 - ack thpt! - yr old ex actor and present poet. Separated from second wife; no kids but a seeming multitude of cats. Have an M.F.A. in acting and a Ph.D. in Dramatic Arts ... by all rights, I should presently be teaching Theatre at some fine institution of higher lear

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:01:16PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > | Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > | > > :0 > | > > * ^TO_debian > | > > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.*html) > | > > /dev/null > | > > > |

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides,

Re: ISO Images

2001-12-23 Thread k l u r t
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Paul A. Thomas wrote: > Newbie question if I may? > > Today is Sunday, 12-23-01: Should I be able to access the ISO images > for Debian Linux at cdimage.debian.org ? > > I've also tried a few of the mirrors without any luck finding it. > Could anybody direct me to an alt

Re: X freezes System ? [SOLVED]

2001-12-23 Thread Martin Emrich
I finally mad it. It didn't like neither the kernel-framebuffer-device nor the APIC stuff. One Kernel-compiling and several XF86config hacks later, it finally works... Martin Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Martin Emrich wrote: Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-23 Thread Craig Dickson
James D Strandboge wrote: > There is a fix in 2.4.17 which allows it to be compiled with sid's new > binutils. If you try to compile kernel 2.4.16 or lower on an updated > sid (and possibly woody now), then the compile will probably fail. The original point of this discussion was that some of us

Re: ISO Images

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas wrote: | Newbie question if I may? | | Today is Sunday, 12-23-01: Should I be able to access the ISO images | for Debian Linux at cdimage.debian.org ? Time doesn't matter. There aren't ISOs on cdimage.debian.org, but that site provides

ISO Images

2001-12-23 Thread Paul A. Thomas
Newbie question if I may? Today is Sunday, 12-23-01: Should I be able to access the ISO images for Debian Linux at cdimage.debian.org ? I've also tried a few of the mirrors without any luck finding it. Could anybody direct me to an alternative site which carries the latest .. stable? .. ISO i

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:05:52AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | Bonjour: | | I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: | surprisingly some options can be seen in grey | (when `make xconfig' is used) | but they cannot be selected: | apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. | | How can we make a

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:01:16PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: | Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: | > > :0 | > > * ^TO_debian | > > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.*html) | > > /dev/null | > > | > > I never saw his noise until you quoted it... | >

Re: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work

2001-12-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
I ran across this one during an upgrade from potato to woody the other day. I wondered why fonts looked so horrible all of a sudden and I thought maybe xfs wasn't running. A closer look at things showed that xfs-xtt was running on 7110 and X was expecting xfs on 7100. A quick change to the confi

Re: Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Owens
On Sunday 23 December 2001 05:52 pm, Imre Vida wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system > > that can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? > > > > I would like to use the boot and roo

Re: Where is basedebs.tgz?

2001-12-23 Thread Mark Lanett
Installing woody w/o net was hard because it doesn't have a single huge basedebs file any more. I had to read the debootstrap scripts and predownload all the listed debs myself. Also there was one missing from the list which caused the install to fail (probably fixed by now). It is by far easier t

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, Dan Robinson wrote: > > I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a > TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a different model, > but this one works better). It has no CD drive. A friend spent about > 4 hours installing Debian, (w/o GUI, wh

Re: Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:11:18PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > When I have tried using a cd made from the cache, I get a message that there > is no package list and I don't know what list I would include or where it > should be included. > Use apt-move to create the requisite d

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread Jijo Jose A
hi tzconfig to set current time zone. man date and set the correct time -jijo jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Owens
On Sunday 23 December 2001 05:52 pm, Imre Vida wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system > > that can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? > > > > I would like to use the boot and roo

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread CaT
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:13:29AM -0800, Dan Robinson wrote: > they're for (and I don't care for Ws, now in two contexts). In Linux > circles I hear mainly about needing gigabytes. I'm wondering if > there's a basic Linux system, or other open source systems, within a > couple orders of magnitude

boot floppy doesn't work

2001-12-23 Thread David Teague
Hi I tried to use the script mkboot that (if run as user, makes a boot disk by dd the kernel to a floppy and then running rdev on the floppy.) Boot floppy made that way esn't work. If I do it barehanded cp kernel /dev/fd0 then rdev to set the root and swap doesn't work either. Please ask

Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Robinson
I'm a Linux pre-newbie, as I'm sure you'll notice. Someone gave me a TI TravelMate 5000 laptop computer (for parts for a different model, but this one works better). It has no CD drive. A friend spent about 4 hours installing Debian, (w/o GUI, which I avoid) using a network connection. It still ha

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:05:52AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour: > > I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: > surprisingly some options can be seen in grey > (when `make xconfig' is used) > but they cannot be selected: > apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. > > How can we make a

new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour: I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: surprisingly some options can be seen in grey (when `make xconfig' is used) but they cannot be selected: apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. How can we make all options available ? Thanks in advance, Jerome BENOIT -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*

Re: epson stylus c60 in potato help

2001-12-23 Thread Imre Vida
> gimp1.2-print_4.1.99-b1 is in testing and unstable. You would have to > upgrade to gimp1.2 or compile gimp-print driver into ghostscript to use > it. I see Epson Stylus C20SX, C20UX, C40SX, and C40UX listed but no C60. use CUPS. it works very well with the gimp-print drivers and according to

Re: Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Imre Vida
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system that > can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? > > I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do the > install from

Re: Where is basedebs.tgz?

2001-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm trying to install woody from the net. The documentation says I need > a file called 'base2_2.tgz' (this is for potato, right?), and the > installer says I need a file called 'basedebs.tgz'. The base2_2.tgz > doesn't seem to work and there's no 'basedebs.tgz' on the mirrors. Do I > have to

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last time a > question was asked by a Microsoft mail

Re: X freezes System ?

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Martin Emrich wrote: Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now, so I decided to give it a try on my deskop PC. So I installed potato, added the unstable/testing sources and did "apt-get dist-upgrade", added packages until apt-get did not complain anymore... th

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not iptables > > > > Sure, if you only check the ancient packages that make up potato. > > > > Current ipmasq has 2 bugs

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not iptables > > Sure, if you only check the ancient packages that make up potato. > Current ipmasq has 2 bugs if used with iptables. Unlike ipchains, there are 2 opt

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > So, what are you doing here? > > > > He shouldn't be here, so make him go away with procmail: > > > > :0 > > * ^TO_debian > > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.

Kernel panic on startup: 'Try to kill idle task'

2001-12-23 Thread Andreas Maresch
Hello everybuddy! (or so ;-D) I have a big problem. Today I tryed to boost a (SuSE, I admit) linux box. But since then it doesn't boot. It just hangs on bootup with the kernel panik 'Tryed to kill the idle task'.Unfortunatly, I have not the faintest idea what else I can do. Until now I tried the

Getting tv out to work

2001-12-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi My father has a Savage4 Pro card with TV-OUT. I have managed to get ogle and vlc to run and show DVD on his computer, but now I would like to connect the machine to the TV. In windows I can manage to get output to TV, but the software is crappy so I would like to set up linux for him so he can

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-23 Thread csj
On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:57, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot > of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure > what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything > is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be > mount ; no med

keyboard stopped working during installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof

keyboard stopped working during Woody installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof
I am stuck in the installation process because my keyboard stops working at a certain point. When I reboot the system the installation process continues at the point where I must choose the Time Zone (yes for GMT). At that point I can not press enter for Yes anymore. I don't have a mouse for the sy

Kernel 2.4.16 and boot floppy

2001-12-23 Thread D.J. Bolderman
Hi, I'm running 2.2.19 as original kernel, and I installed the 2.4.16 kernel with apt-get. This didn't produce any errors so I assume it went ok. However, I am using a boot floppy to start up my system, but this floppy doesn't work now. I choose to make a new boot floppy when the new kernel was i

keyboard stopped working during installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof
I am stuck in the installation process because my keyboard stops working at a certain point. When I reboot the system the installation process continues at the point where I must choose the Time Zone (yes for GMT). At that point I can not press enter for Yes anymore. I don't have a mouse for the sy

Re: new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started > displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original > (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really > annoying -- visually that is. i

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 16:37, Pollywog wrote: > > Thanks for mentioning it; I could not think of the name of the package and > > was unable to find it, but I knew such a thing existed. > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not

Re: /etc/hosts strange

2001-12-23 Thread Guy Geens
> "Joel" == Joel Franco Guzmán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joel> Hi guys, plz, i have troubles with the hosts file. it says: Joel> 127.0.0.1 thor localhost You can always remove your hostname from the localhost line, and add another one with your real IP address. (Or if you have DNS set up,

Re: floppy mounted on diferent uid

2001-12-23 Thread Guy Geens
> "J" == J A Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Hi! Its been a while I'm having a small problem. Every time I mount J> a floppy using my usual username account, the floopy directory uid J> is set to a diferent uid. In this case, my sister's uid. The J> problem is that I cant mout/unmou

X freezes System ?

2001-12-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now, so I decided to give it a try on my deskop PC. So I installed potato, added the unstable/testing sources and did "apt-get dist-upgrade", added packages until apt-get did not complain anymore... then, I compiled my 2.4.1

Re: init

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Clark
* Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 23. 2001 13:15]: > >I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the > >process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init > Hmm, haven't seen that. Might happen, some of that code was changed > recently. Ign

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Sorry for the yet another HOWTO. I was lucky not to have such problems and only remember that they were mentioned in various HOWTOs. Anyway, I believe you will find interest in sections 7 (Translation and Disk Managers) and 8 (Kernel disk translation for IDE disks) of the Large-Disk-HOWTO. > I

Problem with LDAP client GQ

2001-12-23 Thread Patrick Mahoney
G'day all! I set up a ldap server on my workstation and I try to access it with GQ. The 'search' option works fine. I can search entries within my ldap database no problem. The 'browse' option is where the problem is. As long as my network connection is up (eth0), GQ doesnt browse MY database, i

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-23 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 12:38, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Peter Good wrote: > > > > > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. > > > > Binutils is identical in Sid and Woody at the moment. > > > > According to the bug reports, the

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks, but those seem to be written for DOS. I don't have access to DOS on this machine - it is Linux only. On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Russ Cook wrote: > > > I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. > > Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility > > called EZ-D

Re: OT - Tool for getting text body of email

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:46AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > I need to write a program the extracts the ASCII text portion > of email messages for insertion into a database. I looked at the > libmailtools-perl package, but it doesn't look like it can deal with > the annoying variety

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Russ Cook wrote: I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have a syslog entry which reads: Partition check: hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restor

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Jor-el
On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > So, what are you doing here? > > He shouldn't be here, so make him go away with procmail: > > :0 > * ^TO_debian > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.*html) > /dev/null > > I never saw his noise until you quot

Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Owens
Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system that can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do the install from the cd instead of downloading from the internet. I have an installed

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
17, male, english, still going to high-school, learning how to do things the "debian way", hacking C programs, writing php, and learning more about computers in general On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Aniartia wrote: > 22 y/o Fem, English, single mother of 1, Free-lance Audio & Comp Tech

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Aniartia
22 y/o Fem, English, single mother of 1, Free-lance Audio & Comp Techi. with NVQ

Re: where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > >Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that > >'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? > > > > > > It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed? # apt-get -s insta

Re: where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rick Pasotto wrote: Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that 'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed? -- Jerome

Re: xfree86-minimum

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Chris Parker wrote: Sorry to bother w/this but, What are the minimum files for xfree86 install? I have looked on thier site and through google but to no avail. BTW running 2.2.19 w/unstable. Could someone point me in the right direction to find the information so I can get X back up and go

OT - Tool for getting text body of email

2001-12-23 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I need to write a program the extracts the ASCII text portion of email messages for insertion into a database. I looked at the libmailtools-perl package, but it doesn't look like it can deal with the annoying variety of mail that I may need to parse (The silly +'s at the end of lines, MIME-attache

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Patrik Modesto: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:18:31PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > See from log > > > > /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then > > I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the > > scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it > > works >

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shi

Re: Turning on apm

2001-12-23 Thread D.
In addition to what the previous response was if you using kernel 2.4.? you also need to add apm to you etc/modules file, anyway that's how I had to get it to work on my laptop. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you turn on apm ? Mine seems to switched > off. > Warm Regards, > ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Michel Loos
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 16:37, Pollywog wrote: > On 2001.12.23 18:15 Brian Nelson wrote: > > Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi all ! > > > > > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > > > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some

where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that 'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 11:05, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? > > good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all > TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Patrik Modesto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:18:31PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > > See from log > > /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then > I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the > scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it > works I've tried 2.4.14 and 2.4.16. Both showed th

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi! 26 years, german, student of computer science at university, scuba diver. I run linux because of its beauty ;) in contrary to Windows. Debian, because it doesn't bother me with bad working tools for dummies. -- Markus Grunwald Registered Linux User Nr 101577 http://counter.li.org

gs ijs and hpijs on sid?

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
anyone get hpijs working on sid? i have all the cups stuff, the kde stuff for cups, cupsomatic, and the ppd from linuxprinting.org, i managed to configure my printer but everytime i print i get Unknown device: ijs which is because ijs support isn't compiled into gs on sid, is their an easy way t

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.23 18:15 Brian Nelson wrote: Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all ! > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init > script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX

Re: Keeping dpkg info up to date

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:25, Timm Gleason wrote: > I know there used to be a package for keeping the dpkg information updated > when you installed a particular piece of software from source instead of a > deb package. Does anyone know if there is such a thing in the current > distribution? Use th

Re: Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi dman! On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:33:12PM -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote: > | I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. > | > | I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. > | > | I've got: > | /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 > | /

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Jeremy" == Jeremy L Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jeremy> Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You > Jeremy> have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list > Jeremy> so chances are good all aspects of covered.

Re: Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:33:12PM -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote: | I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. | | I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. | | I've got: | /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 | /dev/cdrom --> /dev/sr1 --> /dev/scd1 | | Everything works f

Re: new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started | displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original | (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really | annoying -- visually that is. it

Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread B. L. Jilek
I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. I've got: /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom --> /dev/sr1 --> /dev/scd1 Everything works fine. What happens is after a reboot the /dev/cdrom symlink is changed to point

xfree86-minimum

2001-12-23 Thread Chris Parker
Sorry to bother w/this but, What are the minimum files for xfree86 install? I have looked on thier site and through google but to no avail. BTW running 2.2.19 w/unstable. Could someone point me in the right direction to find the information so I can get X back up and goin? Thank you to all a

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all ! > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init > script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX.d/ Can > somebody please point me to som

Re: init

2001-12-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the >process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init Hmm, haven't seen that. Might happen, some of that code was changed recently. Ignore

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-23 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks, Justin * Justin R. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > I just installed razor and it works quite well. > > > > > That exists only in sid. If you're running something else (I'm using > > woody), did you have any problems getting it i

Re: Where can I find KDE2 Debian packages ?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Dan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > KDE2 is now part of woody. Just do an apt-get install kde and you should be > > ok. > > I don't see any package called kde, except in the packages for sid. > > I see kdebase for woody (It sure would be conveni

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:24:04PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How do you change system date for debian . | Debian shows me 7:06 PM , when it actually | is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , | but , why this absurdity ? | Win98 shows it right (well at least he is more | bothered wit

Re: errors

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > modprobe : modprobe : Can't locate module char-major-10-135Dear members , > >After editing /etc/defaults/rcS to disable UTC , and , after > > Installing postgresql and mysql on my Debian Potato r3 box , and all that > these installations entail (I mean depend

Re: Qvwm is sulking

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I will just explain what I have/had doneto get debian > on my box ... > I installed the Debian potato r3 CDs , > and when they asked me about what I wanted > to install ... I just pressed <> > > They installed whatever they would have done by default . > > Lat

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Russ Cook
I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have a syslog entry which reads: Partition check: hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restore the MBR? I can st

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > Peter Good wrote: > > > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. > > Binutils is identical in Sid and Woody at the moment. > > According to the bug reports, the problem may or may not occur depending > on how the kernel is configu

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-23 Thread mikepolniak
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:54:50 -0500 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karsten & Frank... > > Thank you both very much for your time. 2 gig is on the small side as far as > drive sizes go these days..but as this box goes..it's whole mission in life > will be to serve as a proxy..which I've been SO

Woody-Net install

2001-12-23 Thread Tim J Spriggs
w-get keeps tiing out with the downloads from the server and if I manually kill wget and restart then it will get the file on the second try but it takes a long time to get through everything that way. It would be really nice if you could specify somewhere to simply get a single large tgz or somet

RE: Question / Help on XFS Font Server --- FIXED

2001-12-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Sorry to be replying to my own request for help, but as usual I found a "fix" about 2 hours after posting the question! As mentioned previously, I had just used the "TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems" HOWTO by Paul D. Smith to enable TrueType Fonts on my Debian "testing" system runn

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shipped with the drive though,

new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really annoying -- visually that is. it took me some time to accept that Junichi did not reply to Oohara... 267

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1138 +0100]: > Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? i think more will worry about the choice of language, so please restrain yourself! > This crap is sooo far off-topic I almost can't even spot the > messages in my Outlo

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread MH
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy L Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You Jeremy> have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list Jeremy> so chances are good all aspects of covered. This crap is Jeremy> sooo far off-to

Woody netinst image and Realtek 8139 failure

2001-12-23 Thread Kees de Bruin
Hi, I've downloaded the latest woody netinst CD image and when I try to install/configure the 8139too kernel module I get a NULL-pointer error. Is this a known issue, and if so, how can I solve this. I need network support (NFS) to install on a new machine as I already have a mirror of the woody s

errors

2001-12-23 Thread shyamk
Title: modprobe : modprobe : Can't locate module char-major-10-135 Dear members ,    After editing /etc/defaults/rcS to disable UTC , and , after Installing postgresql and mysql on my Debian Potato r3 box , and all that these installations entail (I mean dependencies) ,   Upon restart I g

Re: SparcUltra2 Q.

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
see http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_3_3 maybe they can give you a push in the right direction, that should point you to info on debian. the ultra's a pretty nice processor On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 10:18, Aniartia wrote: > Okay I'm gettin' a SparcUltra 2 'toy' after I come back from the christma

evolution and printing

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
hi, I have evolution-ssl w/ all the trimmings installed, when i do a print preview on a message all i get is the header box(the darker grey box w/ the from and to n stuff) nothing prints when i hit print too, i have cups installed, and the bsd compatibility package so i have an lpr command, which

SparcUltra2 Q.

2001-12-23 Thread Aniartia
Okay I'm gettin' a SparcUltra 2 'toy' after I come back from the christmas break I was kind of wantin' to run Debian on it. As I understand it I need to use a 'Sparc64' Port but there's only a Sparc port, so what am I to do?.. give up on Debian for my Ultra & Run NetBSD or use the Sparc port of

Re:[2] Advice on upgrading Potato to Sid

2001-12-23 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I would recommend doing the following: > > insert potato cd > follow install to the first reboot > reboot > when given the choice to install more software do not choose any and simply > exit > do any required setup > insert sid cd and upgrade >

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
Will do. I have a strange thing in my dselect list, under Obsolet/local optional packages: kernel-image 1.64 when I try to remove the package, I get a warning that I am going to uninstall the kernel. However, I also have 2.2.19 installed. Not sure what is causing that... The problem could be wi

kylix2 enterprise won't launch

2001-12-23 Thread Thomas Kral
I am on debian potato w/ 2.2.19pre17 kernel. I have patched and rebuilt /lib/libc-2.1.3.so as per Borland's suggestion. After which ./testsystem reports.. Checking loaderOK Checking kernel >= 2.2OK Checking libc >= 2.1.2OK Checking libjpeg >= 6.2.0OK Looks GOOD !!! This system

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-23 Thread lee
Karsten & Frank... Thank you both very much for your time. 2 gig is on the small side as far as drive sizes go these days..but as this box goes..it's whole mission in life will be to serve as a proxy..which I've been SO unsuccesful at so far..lol. Squid btw :-). If there are any others (proxie

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Steve Kieu
See from log /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it works = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!

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