Re: graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:20:41 CST, Matt Garman wrote: > > Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing "df" often > to see how much free space I have on each partition. > > I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs > of free space per partition, and update

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-31 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:36:23 CST, wrote: > Hello: > Well, now that we've all got Star Office 5.0 running on the latest > cutting-edge potato systems, can anyone print from it?? When I try, I get > the following messages: > [..] > sh: /home/myuser/Office50/glibc2/libdl.so.2: no version information

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-31 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:11:40 CST, wrote: > Hello, > I was the one who posted the original message for help with this. > After reading your message, I played around with the "soffice" wrapper that > calls soffice.bin. Here's how I got mine to work... > > 1) I got the libc deb from slink. > 2) I ma

Re: synchronize docs between os'es

1999-03-29 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:52:26 EST, eric Farris wrote: > David Stern wrote: > > > > I keep word/staroffice docs in several different os'es (debian is my > > primary), and it's getting to be a PITB to manually synchronize > > everything across partitions. &

synchronize docs between os'es

1999-03-29 Thread David Stern
I keep word/staroffice docs in several different os'es (debian is my primary), and it's getting to be a PITB to manually synchronize everything across partitions. Does anyone have a simple yet elegant way of handling this? I don't want to reinvent the wheel or make this overly complex. Thanks

Re: Star Office 5 & Potato/Glibc2.1??

1999-03-29 Thread David Stern
On 27 Mar 1999 23:14:05 +0200, wrote: I hope noone minds if I expand on this thread a little. Sorry, but there's too much to quote. Summary: running up to date potato, apparently glibc2.1 replaced glibc2.0 and staroffice stopped working. Jules Bean suggested a wrapper for staroffice: 1.) Get

Re: root disk

1999-02-13 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:58:25 EST, Pete wrote: o, I figure, I'll make a root disk that my boot disk can load as a ram > disk. Now, I realize I have no clue where I might find the various thing I > may need to be part of this root disk. Is there anywhere I can find such a > root disk, or is there som

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

1999-02-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:11:03 CST, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to > my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86 > support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for > XFree. Answe

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

1999-02-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 10:09:53 PST, David Stern wrote: > Linux fdisk has another oddity: you can flag multiple partitions > active. Don't ask me why. What will happen if you do this is the > active partition will boot. Of course I meant to say: ".. the *first* active

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

1999-02-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:12:39 PST, Kenward wrote: > Odd thing in the setup. WinNT was placed in as hda1, with a small DOS > logical following (hda4? IIRC). I partitioned the rest of the disk into 5 > logicals inc. swap. (Where are hda2 and 3?) 1-4 are primary, 5 and higher are logical. Linux f

Re: converting numbers

1999-01-28 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:17:34 CST, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a > > "decimal"? > > 0x11A is in hex, and to convert it to dec is > 1*16^2 + 1*16^1 +10*16^0 > (A=10,B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15) I should never have asked

converting numbers

1999-01-28 Thread David Stern
Howdy, Where's the FM that tells how to convert numbers, like 0x11A to a "decimal"? I think there are a few common formats of numbers and I'd like to be able to recognize them and transpose them, but I don't know where to look. Thanks, -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID (Re: Problem install)

1999-01-27 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:05:55 +0100, wrote: > David Stern dixit: > > > > MD driver is "multiple devices." This is used for functions such as > > making two partitions perform as one large partition ("RAID 0," etc.). > > Most people do not use

Re: Problem install.

1999-01-27 Thread David Stern
I think these are intended for improperly detected scsi adapters which hang the system during the scsi initialization phase, not the MD driver initialization phase, so they may not help. David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

special boot disk

1999-01-23 Thread David Stern
RL. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, -- David Stern

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread David Stern
between users and developers is not actively promoted (per Ben). What's the official word on this now? I agree with Craig that Ben's view is in the right direction, but is worded too strongly. i.e.: I'm not sure when a user presumed to be a developer. I wonder if someone has been outgrowing hats lately. David Stern

Re: power outage now linux problem

1998-12-24 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 20:54:10 EST, AJ wrote: > ok the power in my house just went out and when linux tries to boot it > goes and checks my inodes and junk and then gets to a part and says: > > Problem: block on freelist at 06fbbc90 isnt free > > over adn over and doesnt boot it lets me type but i

Re: Quick fix + reliable editor?

1998-12-23 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:15:37 GMT, Martin Wheeler wrote: > > Can anyone help me with a quick fix? > > For various inane reasons, I'm demonstrating the possibility of using > multiple, mutually-inclusive mail-readers under Linux -- mail, mailx, elm, > pine, mutt, tkmail, exmh, etc. > > So far, so

512 node Debian CLOWN Cluster

1998-12-22 Thread David Stern
Hello, Anyone got some details about the 512 node Debian CLOWN cluster in English? I've seen it in the Debian news section for a couple weeks, but all of the hyperlinks are in German (at least the ones I followed), and was hoping there would be an english translation or summary. I'd like to k

Re: Dock an application

1998-12-19 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:25:14 GMT, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Window Maker 0.20.2-2 and I would like to know how to put > applications on taskbar of my desktop! I already had lots of icons on that > task but it was using dockit application and since a certain version it > was abolishe

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:39:33 CST, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote: > > [ snip ] > : Then I modified the Makefile as follows before compiling: > : > : ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk > : > : RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440 > > The

Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?

1998-12-16 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:56:01 +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Problem: Dell Precision 410 has two SCSI adapters on the motherboard, > Adaptec 7880 with CD-ROM connected and Adaptec 7890 with the hard > drive. Now installing Debian 2.0 fails. It sees the CD-ROM but not the > hard drive. > > It seem

Re: query dialup-hostsname

1998-12-15 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:16:40 +0100, Marcus Geiger wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone knows a possibility to query the hostname (dns) that will > be assigned after dialing into a internet service provider ? > > Sometimes when logging into a ftp server, I will be greeted with > something like 'dialup.a-n

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-15 Thread David Stern
Hi Mark, I didn't feel right about putting untested code up for the innocent to trip over, particularly newcomers, so I decided to try booting the bootdisk I created by recompiling with scsi enabled (I only have scsi drives). I experienced some errors with the ramdisk, as I feared might occur

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-14 Thread David Stern
Hi Mark, I have some good news, and I have some bad news. THe good news first. I do have a boot disk for you. (details below) THe bad news is that since I'm removing scsi support (this was reported to be the problem, see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9810/msg03176.html

Re: APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:17:07 GMT, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC > Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) > apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "ca

APC Smart-UPS 1000 and Debian

1998-12-11 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm not having any success with debian packaged software for my new APC Smart-UPS 1000 (listed as Linux compatible). I tried (individually) apcd, genpower, upsd. I keep getting the error message "can't connect to ups" or "can't talk to UPS", even though I've correctly configured the soft

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 23:48:07 GMT, "Mark Weston" wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, > and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be > really grateful for some help. > > The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the L

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-08 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:44:20 GMT, wrote: > > Hi, I'm new to this list (1/2 hour). I subscribed because I intend > (intended?) to install some Linux distribution on my Tosh Satellite > 200CDS. Welcome! Don't go just yet. > This info is just so motivating. I've never heard that called "informati

Re: ml.org

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 23:24:25 PST, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Well ml.org only provided DNS, so anyone in such a situation will still ha > > a server with internet connectivity, they just may not have a good hostname > > for it. I'm I'm not sure if your offe

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:02:56 EST, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > There is some crazy way they format/partition the disks so they work on > both macs and pc's, but it results in you needing to use the 4th partition > on pc's. That's about all I know, except that Iomega isn't the only one > to do this,

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:58:01 EST, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: Hi Brandon, I hate to interrupt a perfectly good thread, but can you give more details about whatever this "trick" is, and what the deal is with the 4th partition? I h

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 04:09:47 PST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America" > > America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of > Gatesville and Windowstown. Not exactly. Christmas email

Re: Howto: Printing Howtos?

1998-12-01 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:13:43 MST, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Joachim, > > I usually do something like 'zcat XXX-HOWTO.gz | a2ps -4' (although you > could pipe to lpr instead). I don't usually print HOWTO's, but something I do with similarly formatted text is to use enscript to print "2-up" (two pages

Re: Kernal compiling/Search Archieve and xterm ques

1998-11-25 Thread David Stern
> rathon wrote: > >I have two questions: > > > >1) Is there any docs on how to do a Kernal Compile ? > > Download the make-kpkg package, read its documentation and use it. Oliver is the man, but I think it's called kernel-package, and the doc is /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. The de

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:36:56 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to > recognize the MSDOS p

Re: Adjust the pop up menus in Aferstep.

1998-11-23 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:32:46 PST, Bret Craw wrote: > I have added Afterstep as a window manager. When Debian installed, in the > popup menu, it gives a choice of windows managers in X. After installing > Afterstep, and adding it to the xinitrc file, it is the default. I would > like to add it to

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-22 Thread David Stern
> How to you correctly make a slink rescue disk? > > I downloaded resc1743.bin. First I tried superformating a 1.743 disk > and running rawrite2. No go. Had trouble with anything past cyl 81. > > Then I downloaded resc1743 to a hamm box and ran "dd if=resc1743.bin > of=/dev/fd0u1743 bs=512 conv

Bad Sector

1998-10-19 Thread David Stern
airable? Would low-level formatting fix things, or should I be thinking about a new drive? Any ideas appreciated, David Stern fwiw: NT crashes with the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE "blue screen of death". (I was just trying to see if I could run some adaptec diagnostic utilities.)

how do I get dselect working again?

1998-10-10 Thread David Stern
Hi People, I'm running slink and when I tried to update my packages the other night using dselect, a number of packages, mostly perl and pam, had errors. Now dselect is stuck. I can't update, install, switch to ftp access method, .. It's already been couple days, and I've seen no mention o

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-25 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 04:56:20 EDT, Daniel Martin wrote: [..snipped for brevity..] Hi, As Daniel points out (yeah, yeah! :), I was trying to send ascii characters to a touchtone expecting voice processing system. The solution, as Daniel also pointed out, was to make a long phone number using th

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-24 Thread David Stern
On 24 Sep 1998 10:11:18 CDT, wrote: > David Stern writes: > > I tried writing a chatscript, but my modem hangs up, presumably because > > there's no handshake on the other end (I hear the automated voice on the > > other end after answering, then after about 10 seconds

Voice Chatscript

1998-09-24 Thread David Stern
Hello, I'd like my computer to call up one of those automated voice business information systems, then execute some transactions by entering my user account information and make some selections from the menu. I'll need to execute this task repetitively while I'm away from home. I tried writin

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:24:10 MDT, Jim Harsh wrote: > > > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest > version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and > my German wasn'

Re: exmh

1998-08-28 Thread David Stern
> I've installed it, and it looks realy cool, but it doesn't fetch > my mail. I told it the name of the mail server at my ISP, but it > never asked for a password and I don't see anywhere in all those > bazillion configuration options where to specify it. Also, > I've written a perl to check my m

Re: Help on PNP cards, network config & FAT 32 mounting.

1998-08-27 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:11:09 PDT, "Gustavo Ribeiro Alves" wrote: > It's the first time I'm trying to install Linux and I'm in need of some help > :). I have a PENTIUM II 300 Mhz whit a AGP video card (Appolo 65, uses the Ci > rrus Logic 5465 chip), a USR Spotster 56 K Voice Faxmodem and a PCI NE20

Re: QUESTION

1998-08-25 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:19:29 EDT, "Stephen J. Carpenter" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Dimas Franco wrote: > > HI :-) CAN I RUN PROGRAMS FOR WN95 ON LYNUX LIKE AUTOCAD 14 > [..] > It is possible to get CAD programs for Linux. > [..] I don't know if all these links are curr

Re: sendmail bug?

1998-08-24 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:41:05 CDT, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, David Stern wrote: > > : $ man aliases > : > : [..] > : Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person > : more than once. > : [..] > : [..] > : All I really

sendmail bug?

1998-08-21 Thread David Stern
$ man aliases [..] Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. [..] "Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then who should get it? First I thought that

Re: moving fvwm windows by thier "handles"

1998-08-21 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:59:33 CDT, the lone gunman wrote: > As per my Debian 1.3 fvwm2 configuration, I could move windows by > clicking and holding on any part of the border and title. That is, I > could click and hold on the "handles" that surround a window, or the > title bar and move my window

binding bind

1998-08-20 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm really happy my MTA is working well, now I just want to tweak these last couple details. I'm fairly new to bind, and I notice considreable delays while sending local mail (30s) and remote mail (60s) when I'm not connected to the 'net (my isp's nameservers aren't reachable) which I'd li

really-real-root (avoiding alias loop)

1998-08-20 Thread David Stern
Hi, I've got sendmail (8.9.1) running pretty well now (woohoo!) and there are a couple finishing touches I'd like to ask for suggestions with. The first item is email aliases. I want email to root to go to a user, however when I send mail to real-root, I want it to go to the _really_ "real-ro

Re: debian 1.2 or 1.3

1998-08-19 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:13:43 CDT, "Alan Maciel Salcedo." wrote: > > Anyone have the debian 1.3 base disk set or the 1.2 > or anyone knows where to get it? > > thanx. http://www.debian.org says --- Old versions of Debian Debian 1.3 (codenamed bo) can be found at

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800, "Richard L. Alhama" wrote: > How do you guys sort all this mail? > > This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to. > I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail. > > I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-use

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
mmered out, and there seems to be no momentum here for such a proposal, so I should probably stop wasting bandwidth. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
ce-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open Source targets commercial software, this classification is correct but unintentional? What is th

Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
ource.org/products.html http://www.opensource.org/history.html Another Eric conspiracy ? :) -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

.ps or .pdf editing app

1998-04-02 Thread David Stern
cs)? I've tried converting to .eps and editing in tgif, however that renders the whole form illegible. I've always seen ps and pdf viewers, never editors. That just doesn't seem right. If this is off-topic, I a

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 01 Apr 1998 15:11:41 PST, David Stern wrote: > > I didn't mean to imply that it was that important, but according to that READ > ME (see "Debian's libc6 method"), it looks like that should've been changed b > eginning with kernel-[headers,source]-2

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
On 01 Apr 1998 16:00:51 CST, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"David" == David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Then does the kernel-* package information (whatever it's > David> called) needs to be updated? > --8> ---

Re: compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
falls. I shall include the Rationale for kernel-package below I've used kernel-package several times and I think it's great. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.

randomly losing focus

1998-04-01 Thread David Stern
menus is becoming annoying, and it no longer appears to be an "unstable" issue. Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this sort of behavior, or how I can go about troubleshooting it? -- David Stern ---

Re: Default ObjC compiler for hamm?

1998-03-31 Thread David Stern
-----8< I ran the demos, they all ran "well" (but very slow). -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: exim for intermittent ppp connection? Also fetchmail bombs out.

1998-03-31 Thread David Stern
d it, but everything I've read says this is true). I believe this is mentioned in the package description, but if not, the doc package for exim. > Leaving all those aside for a moment? Is it true about smail?

compiling kernel 2.0.33, libc6-dev

1998-03-31 Thread David Stern
hen compiling a 2.0.33 kernel, like bugs, or a new compiler I should be using? -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread David Stern
horing guidelines at: Web authoring and Lynx http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/author_tips.html Rather than a single website design, why not open a Debian website design contest, with Thomas' design being the first entry? -- David Stern -

Re: mail and mailer questions

1998-03-24 Thread David Stern
/usr/doc, however sending to my isp account I get: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kotsya: David Stern) If anyone knows what causes this, please post list and/or me. Anyways, Mutt has a very advanced feature list, and if you want pgp integration, you'll have to get the non-us version from nonus.de

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-23 Thread David Stern
lternatively, look in your user's home directory for the .xsession-errors file. "Dotfiles" (i.e. those beginning with a dot) aren't visible with regular "ls", you need to use the "-a" param (all): "ls -a"

Re: fvwm2: icons not visible as user, ok as root.

1998-03-23 Thread David Stern
and manually delete them. You might try using 'updatedb' and 'locate' to help with this. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: enlightnement

1998-03-21 Thread David Stern
other E app, you MUST get imlib .11 and use it -- or wait for the other apps to get updated. All of E is in flux until the end of May, new imlib and a complete rewrite of E. Expect imlib/E to change. ------

Re: NeXT Step-alike gui development tool

1998-03-21 Thread David Stern
On 21 Mar 1998 13:33:07 +0200, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > NeXT Step has lots of cool features, however one of my favorites is the > > gui development environment, which uses objective C with drag n drop > > "objects&quo

NeXT Step-alike gui development tool

1998-03-21 Thread David Stern
nvironment like this for Linux? -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-18 Thread David Stern
n't tell you how many logical partitions can be created without, or outside of, an extended partition, but even one seems inappropriate. However, since I've never seen mention of this in the fdisk documentation, I can't say for sure. -- David Ste

Re: e-mail questions

1998-03-18 Thread David Stern
e former Debian maintainer, and it will probably all be configured for you. Say it isn't so, Bruce. http://www.lh.umu.se/%7ebjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-devel/msg02259.html -- David Stern ---

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-17 Thread David Stern
extended partitions. ---- -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: EXMH can not send e-mail (SMAIL/EXMH/MAILX)

1998-03-16 Thread David Stern
ail client configuration, please tell me so I don't pointlessly submit wish-list items in the bug-db. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
Someone responded to me personally: > David Stern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/14/98 11:44 AM > > > >If you pick the mbr, say goodbye to your win95 bootloader, because lilo > >will overwrite the win95 bootloader (you won't be able to boot win95). > >Actually, th

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
;m correct.) Regarding "hada", I took that as a typo.. What happened to CC:'ing the person who wrote the remarks in question? David Stern -- http://weber.u.wash

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
, as well. The best lilo reference I found (though somewhat long and terse): /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz There should also be a number of mini-howto's on booting possibilities: /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2.gz /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.gz /usr/doc/HO

Re: EXMH can not send e-mail

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
I think). That should eradicate the immediate error. If you are running a permanent internet connection, then I envy you. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-11 Thread David Stern
not sure. At least this narrows the problem down to C_NAME lookup at my SMTP server send-time. Now all I have to figure out is how to alleviate that. -- David Stern -- ht

Re: installing debian problem

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
n using the Linux fdisk utility, which has some built-in help. Here are some docs which thoroughly cover installation: Installing Debian ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Debian Linux User's Guide http://www.linux

Re: XF86Setup

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
Matrox FAQ is at: http://matrox.alloy.net/eng/faq.html If you've got a laptop, there are special resources for you too, but right now the matrox seems to be the most FAQ. I hope you're also reading the man pages, and /

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
t what's going on sounds an awful lot like like what I'm experiencing with smail, so I'd like to know more about "setting up an MX record", whatever that is.. Where can I find out about this? -- David Stern

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-09 Thread David Stern
this area.) FWIW, I even resize my / , /var , /home , /usr partitions by copying them elsewhere, resizing them with fdisk, reformatting, and then copying them back. -- David Stern --

smail, the sequel

1998-03-09 Thread David Stern
kotsya using rfc1413) id m0yBxrw-0001bOC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:25:08 -0800 [..] ~~ Would someone with more experience in this area please advise me what I need to change

Re: fdisk and mount (was Re: Dselect)

1998-03-07 Thread David Stern
ounting removable media. Since you're new to Linux, I also recommend you try out one of the many Linux reference books, possibly available online, at your bookstore or library. -- David Stern --

Re: afterstep

1998-03-04 Thread David Stern
o modify: (assuming 16bpp, adjust accordingly) ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/base.16bpp (for icon locations), ~GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/autoexec.16bpp (for startup apps), and ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/wharf (for .

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-02 Thread David Stern
- [..] image=/boot/vmlinuz append="mem=80M" [..] ------ Don't forget to run lilo when you're done. -- David Stern --

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-01 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 01 Mar 1998 14:34:05 EST, wrote: > David Stern wrote: > > > I don't understand why a correct header would be rejected. I'd like to > > see some details for the basis to this claim, because I use the same > > address style as you and Daniel. Please tel

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-01 Thread David Stern
On 01 Mar 1998 16:23:02 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:19:37 EST, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > [snip] > > > > If I didn't mention this before, I'm not cc'ing you because ipa.net > > &

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-01 Thread David Stern
ence (e.g., delimiting mailboxes), possibly including source-routing to the machine. -- What does that bit about "one machine-usable reference (e.g., delimiting mailboxes) .. source-routing .." mean? Most importantly are both "Joe User <[EMAIL PROT

Re: diagnosing smail

1998-02-28 Thread David Stern
as I've assigned them, so now I just have to figure out where the logic is going awry in my configuration. I wonder what chance there is that MH is causing this turmoil (I switched back to MH from nmh, but at the higher hamm level.) -- David Stern --

Re: X install/config query

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
lation in dselect, and then run through installation again in dselect, choosing your xserver. I think that XF86Setup (nicer than xf86config), is only in the VGA xserver, reason being that this is supposed to be a good default. -- David Stern --

diagnosing smail (2)

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
#x27;s? (It was my understanding that there was some contention as to whether the Sender: line was required, but that it was desirable because it acts as an "envelope", which is a good thing for some MTA's and MUA's. I'm not clear about the

diagnosing smail

1998-02-27 Thread David Stern
ail and inetd or reboot, there is no change, but I don't know why. I've tried echoing and mailing the variables, but I must be doing it wrong.) I know smail is reading my configuration because smtprewrite is being implemented,

Re: Question

1998-02-26 Thread David Stern
isks-i386/current/install.html Debian Linux User's Guide http://www.linuxpress.com/001001.htm Debian Installation and Getting Started http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue15/debian.html p.s.: I wil

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-26 Thread David Stern
On 25 Feb 1998 22:47:23 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > [..] > > This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and > > I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're

Re: module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
ser's Guide http://www.linuxpress.com/001001.htm Debian Installation and Getting Started http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue15/debian.html > I have already looked through the FAQ and FAQ-O-Matic and have not found > anything this specific or addressing my problem. And now you have mo

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-25 Thread David Stern
On 22 Feb 1998 20:04:41 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > > > What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible, > > and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running > > dselect, I

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