mouse broken

1998-12-07 Thread Erik Maxwell
I was upgrading my Xwindows to the slink distributions, and my mouse broke. When I try to start gpm, i get the following error message: gpm: /dev/mouse: Operation not supported by device /dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/ttyS0. Does anyone know how I should go about fixing this proble

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 02:10 AM 12/3/98 PST, Michael Wahl wrote: >So, I make a guess: > >For my first time installation: > 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM > > > -NT40, Win95 (I’m not sure about this) >-Staroffice > -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) > -Excel > -Neoplanet (Net Browser) > -

Re: Missing file error

1998-12-03 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 09:05 PM 12/2/98 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: >> > After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade >> > to slink. I'm getting the following error: >> > >> > Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... >> > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No >> > such file r dir

Can't boot with new kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Erik Maxwell
I'm having a major problem right now... I recompiled my kernel to enable some different filesystems and now whenever I boot xdm starts up but my monitor doesn't show anything. It just sits there sounding like someone keeps pushing the degauss button. I'm not sure where the problem is, but I can

Re: Network Configuration

1998-12-01 Thread Erik Maxwell
Have you added lines to your /etc/resolv.conf? ex. nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your DNS server. Erik >By the way, we have a machine in our subnet that recently >was installed linux in. We have had some problems with the >network confi

Re: Netscape...

1998-12-01 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 09:05 PM 12/1/98 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >Þann 01. desember 1998 reit Brant Wells svohljóðandi: >> Hey all! >> >> I downloaded the *.deb packages for NETSCAPE...when I try to install it >> using dselect, it won't install... Help!!! >> >> Thanx, >> Brant >> ... >download netscap

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 01:42 PM 11/23/98 -0500, Amanda Shuler wrote: >I have a question about ifconfig. >I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local >network. >I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76 >I type: > ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76 > >then I check it with ifconfig and everythi