Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

et up the PII as a thin client to reduce competition with other members of your household for the seat in front of the Athlon. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Plain text mail-merge

itution" to no avail. I'm sure an hour or so with perl or python will produce the goods for my specific case but I find it hard to believe there's no general purpose tool already available. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Pa

Re: upgrading to unstable

ent system. It's a good idea to run (the equivalent of) 'apt-get -us dist-upgrade' before each major step just to see what it proposes to do next. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is 64MB enough?

s is sufficient. Is that right? If you want to set it up as a desktop system you will be pushing your luck. It can be done but you will learn to live with swapping. As a home server (firewall/router/gateway/fileserver, no GUI) it will be just fine. It would also be more than adequate as a thin cl

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

3M 86M 92% /usr /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp 124M 4.1M 120M 4% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg0-var 2.0G 1.2G 855M 57% /var /dev/mapper/vg0-spool 5.9G 3.4G 2.6G 57% /var/spool /dev/mapper/vg0-mirror 5.0G 1.7G 3.2G 35% /usr/local/mirror Everything except /dev/hda1 is an LVM

Re: Holy Spam!

994, the other from 1996). I willfully insist on receiving mail to both addresses over two modem connections (one of them a mere 33.6K) and uucp is also rumoured to be involved. I've survived the spam and viruses so far. The open nature of the Debian mailing lists is a feature, not a bug, and is

Re: Acorn A5000

's resident set and swap speed becomes the dominant factor. Hard disks are much, much slower than a MC68030. I doubt a 25Mhz ARM3 was enough of an improvement to get over that hurdle. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://

Re: Acorn A5000

it upgraded from potato to woody and if it hadn't been taken off the net by a faulty NIC I would have shut it down anyway when security updates for potato stop. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

for the > sshd service. > > another reason I don't use it is I prefer firewalls over it. IMHO hosts.allow/deny is far less tricky than a firewall, even when using a high-level firewall-builder like shorewall. I use both; defence in depth is a Good Thang(TM). -- Frank Copeland Home

Re: Libranet to Sarge

hitectures. How many does the Libranet installer support? -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

drivers. Even so it is clearly possible to write such drivers in ways that don't tie them to specific kernel versions and specific distributions; the NVidia video card drivers are an example. If the manufacturer chooses not to properly support its products under GNU/Linux then you are better ta

Re: sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

-us, elvis | nvi | vim. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making music

On 9 Jan 03 10:31:01 GMT, I wrote: > I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and > I'd like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put > on a web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will > allow me to enter the score for each call and the

Making music

his on a bugle'. Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm basically musically illiterate. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: Unofficial Debian package management

file, which > means pretending to be a developer and building the package from > source yourself. How are you creating custom kernel packages with .changes files? I've been unable to work out how to do it with kernel-package and make-kpkg. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org

Re: which RAID cards work with debian?

On 28 Dec 02 11:54:56 GMT, Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 13:45, Frank Copeland wrote: >> I manage a couple of HP tc4100s with NetRAID 1Ms and the stock (well, >> it started as stock anyway...) Debian kernel finds the RAID controller >

Re: which RAID cards work with debian?

Rev: 1127 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue f7ecae18, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x) [...] In general Debian supports whatever the linux kernel supports. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: ht

Re: Outlook calendar sharing?

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:39:27AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont think making him search elseware because you cant be bothered to cc > him is fair, its NOT obvious Debian has archives, so im ccing him your > message below you ass. If he found the list he can find the archives. And *don

Re: Outlook calendar sharing?

forum you aren't subscribed to is just as rude as CC'ing to posters who are. This response will be in the archives if you can be bothered putting in the effort. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/nts

ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

t the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to 2.4.20. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

istine sources with make-kpkg, you are in for a world of pain, trust me. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galeon's screwed up cookie management

the cookie as if it were the first visit. I doubt there's any point filing a bug. Upstream considers galeon 1.2.x to be obsolete and probably won't bother to fix such a relatively minor issue. It would be more productive to help make sure the gnome2-based galeon2 behaves better. -- Frank

make-kpkg and .changes

enlightenment. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security updates

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:42:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Frank Copeland wrote: Did I forget to reply to the list? Bad me. > >>Is there some way that I could crontab an apt-get job that would use ONLY > >>the security debian site for upgrading? > > > > &

Re: Changing Hostname

ng to letters, numbers and dashes. Don't use underscores. If you use Gnome you may find it complaining that it can't resolve the hostname. If you don't have a static IP address, try adding the new hostname as an alias for 127.0.0.1 aka localhost in your /etc/hosts file. -- Frank

Re: [OT] UPS signaling cable

On 19 May 02 02:53:25 GMT, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A note from one manufacturer's site, for example, reads in part: "Due to > special signaling requirements necessary for Windows Plug and Play, the > serial cable included with the UPS will not work in the Linux > environment." I'm not sur

Re: Galeon quit working

On 12 May 02 18:14:29 GMT, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: > >> /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: >> undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString > > Did you upgrade mozilla? I believe the debian p

Re: Eth0 issue

On 16 Apr 02 21:04:59 GMT, curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/default/pcmcia reads: > > PCMCIA='yes' > PCIC=xircom_cb[was =yenta_socket, but either way I get the > same results] According to the PCMCIA HOWTO: PCIC This identifies the PC Card Interface Controller dr

Re: Exim - remove many messages

On 26 Mar 02 10:43:43 GMT, Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have > the precise id for each? grep the output from # mailq which leads to... >

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

On 14 Mar 02 20:58:12 GMT, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Troels Petersen wrote: >> How do I remove frozen messages from the exim queue, messages like : >> >> (output from 'exim -bp') >> >> 14d 1.7K 16gLfk-0001Ka-00 <> *** frozen *** >>

Re: potato version of galeon?

On 17 Feb 02 21:31:06 GMT, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? galeon hasn't been potato-friendly since about version 0.7.x. It is a bleeding-edge gnome application that requires libraries and other facilities only available in gnome

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

On 22 Dec 01 23:44:12 GMT, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake >> 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not >> really sure where to car

Re: Latest Galeon? will it work on potato?

On 25 Nov 01 13:10:53 GMT, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw the slashdot articel on the latest galeon. > > Since i'm looking for something to replace netscape (which has crashed 3 > time this morning, already). I went tot hat site. > > I'm runing potato + Progeny + 24. kernel. So yo

Re: ssh without password for secvpn

On 20 Nov 01 18:27:53 GMT, Brooks R. Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to connect and I am still asked a password. I've tried it with > both > empty passphrases and obnoxious passphrases, and I get the same result > (password not passphrase). I've muddled thorough the man pages

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

On 19 Nov 01 21:25:47 GMT, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, > then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) > to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. > > I w

Re: Amiga installation

On 15 Nov 01 01:34:12 GMT, Joseph Doss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_000F_01C16D32.93398FA0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="=_NextPart_001_0010_01C16D32.93398FA0" You probably have no idea what a blo

Re: 3com NIC question

On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. > >Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used >Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I > >Try

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

On 17 Jun 01 17:48:05 GMT, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found >at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? Yes. Try using --with-mozilla-libs=/usr/lib/mozilla-0.9.1 as an argument to configure. I also had to gr

Re: acroread

On 20 Apr 01 20:32:39 GMT, Lance Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When running acroread 4.0 (x86 linux stout0124 Jan24 2000 > 15:00:03) on my 2.2r2 x86 system running a 2.2.18 kernel, acroread > commonly gobbles up all available system memory causing the system to > hang. This happens

Re: Debian and Trident 9385 VGA Card

On 19 Mar 01 22:07:23 GMT, Greene, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at >http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html >as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best >resolution I can get is >640x480. I configure it

Re: DHCP unavailable during installation

On 19 Mar 01 10:20:01 GMT, Justin Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FreeBSD. Here is what is detected during startup: > >3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1440, 00:60:08:14:86:44 IRQ 3 ^ If you have the usual two serial ports with

Re: Applying colors to Netscape

On 17 Mar 01 20:13:05 GMT, William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your >.Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this? If you are using Gnome or KDE, try installing grdb or krdb. This will apply your GTK/KDE theme to 'leg

Re: Mozilla requires libnspr4?

On 10 Mar 01 08:35:16 GMT, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried installing the deb in question and got conflicts. It wants a >newer set of libraries than my potato has. That'll be because it was built on a woody or sid system. The same packages built for potato are at

Re: Mozilla requires libnspr4?

On 10 Mar 01 08:16:33 GMT, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dl the latest Mozilla 0.8 build from Mozilla.org and have been having >some trouble. The only library that I loaded on install was >libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1. > >Now someone gave me the site for a potato deb and alongside the deb a

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

On 9 Mar 01 14:51:26 GMT, Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla >than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's >of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have >released t

Re: ldap & debian

On 23 Feb 01 00:50:46 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to >authenticate with an openldap server. > >I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring >debian to use ldap fo

Re: mouse troubles with Debian on Dell Latitude CPx J650GT

On 8 Feb 01 21:53:48 GMT, Michael A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've recently installed Debian (stable) onto a Dell CPx J650GT >laptop. After installing the base system and the required >packages, I added the SVGA and Mach64 xservers and the >depended-upon packages. startx works in that

Re: Gnome window sizes.

On 6 Feb 01 16:27:39 GMT, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Running (Helix)Gnome at 800x600 produces mostly horribly large windows, >especially the terminal. I looked at the Gnome website and they basically >say you have to live with that. Being stubborn: has anyone found a solution >for this? --Ha

Re: galeon..

On 28 Jan 01 18:49:02 GMT, Rob VanFleet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at >least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb >for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out >of touch with D

Re: xml-i18n-tools ?

On 26 Jan 01 23:49:02 GMT, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is xml-i18n-tools available as a Debian package, perhaps under a >different name? >I can't find it. No, but I expect it will be soon. The changelog only starts on Jan 3 2001. It's quite straightforward to package. Frank

Re: Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

On 21 Jan 01 02:37:20 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IIRC, you hit F1 during the bootstrap. The manual I read (ThinkPad 560X) said to hold the F1 key down, power on, and continue holding down F1 until the BIOS setup came up. Frank

Re: x on my laptop problems

On 19 Jan 01 15:52:36 GMT, Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i just tried apt-get install tast-x-window-system-core > >it broke debconf. it said it was upgrading debconf (sources pointing at >unstable), and now all packages won't install. because debconf won't >install because of apar

Re: x on my laptop problems

On 19 Jan 01 06:58:32 GMT, Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >in my trying to apt all the right files for my laptop to run x, i seem to >have missed somthing. > >when i attemt to run x... > >"Fatal Server error: >could not open default font 'fixed'" > >what does this mean, and what do i

Re: configuring ethernet?

On 19 Jan 01 02:54:28 GMT, Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have a pcmcia NIC that i want to use in my laptop, i managed to get the >base system installed from floppies. but, now after the install, i need >to setup my network connection.is there an application that i can use >to d

Re: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card

On 18 Jan 01 18:45:13 GMT, David S. Bach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.18pre21) is unable to use the 3c509 ISA network card. Consider yourself lucky you aren't stuck with an SMC Elite or Ultra. In my experience the 3COM cards tend to Just Work with little persuasion. I wil

Re: LDAP auth for some users

On 9 Jan 01 20:48:54 GMT, Anton Emmerfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Using the current style in /etc/pam.d/login I am asked twice for >passwords which I don't want. So I tried converting to the "new style" >(value=action) but then it won't work at all. You need to do something along the lines of

Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

On 7 Jan 01 01:01:20 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how >difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? Having just done exactly that I can say it's probably more frustrating than

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

On 29 Nov 00 08:23:53 GMT, Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Frank Copeland wrote: >> On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers >

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers >to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a better bet for dealing

Re: anXious usage?

On 18 Nov 00 23:50:40 GMT, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this programs name as a comment in the begining of > /etc/X11/XF86config. Now when I run it, it just does nothng. The prompt > comes > right back :-( I've had the same problem. Try deleting or moving et

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

On 24 Oct 00 08:25:26 GMT, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up >> /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: >> >> /usr/lib/wine >> >> Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has change

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

On 24 Oct 00 06:23:38 GMT, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run >on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: > >err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by >C:\etax2000_1.exe not found >

Re: kde or gnome?

On 5 Sep 00 19:05:33 GMT, Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Namely, Gnome does not include its own window manager; KDE does. >> Gnome depends on hooks for Gnome support compiled into an external >> window manager, and at present the only window manager with full >> support for Gnome seems

Re: Wine 20000801

On 6 Sep 00 21:52:08 GMT, Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:24:22AM +0000, Frank Copeland wrote: > >> However, the libwine .deb is missing an essential library file, so it >> won't work anyway. For now your best bet is proba

Re: Wine 20000801

On 5 Sep 00 21:05:48 GMT, Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). >I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: [...] >LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. However, after this, wine just hangs whenever >I try and use it (it

Re: Debian News Group Needed

On 29 Aug 00 12:27:19 GMT, Previ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better >managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups >rather than mail lists. Try setting up a mail2news gateway. Install inn|inn2, create a local newsgroup, make

Re: junkbuster

On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to >work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed the >junkbuster directory with rm -rf. Now when I reinstall junkbuster, >there's nothing in th

Re: How stable is WINE?

Ethan Pierce wrote: >In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has >been in the past. I don't know that wine has ever been cracked up to be more than it is, at least not by the developers. It is certainly getting better. >If you want to run windows apps in linux, ins

Re: How stable is WINE?

Cameron Matheson wrote: >I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information >about WINE. In Potato, how stable is WINE? In my experience the wine currently in potato is as stable as any version of wine I've used, and better than most. However, it is classified as alpha softw

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

Barry Samuels wrote: >I would like to continue using woffle and to use junkbuster in addition but the >instructions are going to have to be of the 'put this here' and 'put that >there' >type I'm afraid. In /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile make sure you have something like this at the very end: *

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

Russel wrote: >Oops...I've got either a 2.2.10, 2.2.12, and 2.2.14. Tried em all. > >I've got the binutils and gcc versions required in Documentation/Changes >( I even checked using the commands listed in that file) > >If the file builds just fine on your computer...has the file changed >between

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

Russell wrote: >Here's the message I get: > >Assembler Messages: >Bindec.S :487 >/usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040 >[Bindec.o] error 1 >value of -512 too large for field of 1 bytes at 511 > >I asked the people on the m68k list, and they didn't know. I am sure I'm >missing some vital library or othe

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

Brian Lavender wrote: >I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the package's >web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I apply the >patch? Get the *.dsc file as well. Put all three files in the directory you want to unpack in, and cd to it. Then

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

John Bagdanoff wrote: >Frank Copeland wrote: >> >> wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to >> implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6, >> we'll see what comes of it. > >Thanks for the verif

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

John Bagdanoff wrote: >The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't >save the previous version. I got the latest one in woody, but still >wine breaks. > >If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5). If wine >starts up for you, then I'll go to the wine news

Re: Squid Proxy server-

Tom wrote: >Okay i have done this before but cant remember what i typed to get it to >work. I need to clear out the cache on my proxy server so that it wont keep >showing some items that i have changed. how do i do this? Basicaly I think >what im looking to do is clear out my proxy cache, but i

Re: GNOME performance hit on 486?

Scott Au wrote: >I've been itching to install Gnome both for the utilites as well the >greater desktop control. I'm worried about the performance hit my box >will take though with the increased graphical desktop (as compared to the >simpler nature of IceWM). Anybody running a similar processor (I

Re: Poor Modem performance

Scott Au wrote: >After installing and running minicom, I've noticed that my modem, a BOCA >ISA 28.8 modem is incredibly slow. Dialing my ISP shows text being received >with periodic pauses. >From personal experience one possibility is that serial interrupts are not being serviced quickly enough,

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

Ben Lutgens wrote: >On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: >> If the boxes are networked together, you can easily set up your own partial >> mirror and install from that. Once you have upgraded box #1, use apt-move to >> create a partial mirr

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm looking at upgrading to potato. I'm doing the >"apt-get -d dist-upgrade" currently since it looks like it'll take 1day >and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being >downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then >j

Re: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

Brian wrote: > Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot the machine (after all, >how would the machine let LILO see the partition with the kernel?). Up to >now, I have been booting off of a floppy, and that is torture. Have you actually tried LILO? I have a SCSI-only box that the BIO

Re: An open letter to the debian community

David Blackman wrote: > Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, >meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the >pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel, >Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and >Staroffic

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

Kent West wrote: >I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". >When I try, I get the following: > >westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig >rm -f include/asm >( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >make -C scripts/lxdialog all >make[1]: Entering directory >`/usr/src/kernel

Re: atd fails? (potato)

Scott Henry wrote: >I did a recent apt-get upgrade, and now atd fails. It used to work >fine. It seems to only process items when restarted, and leaves >defuct children around. I have "at" version 3.1.8-7 installed. I am >running various 2.3.x kernels with various patches, but atd isn't >working ev

Re: what a hack (dselect solution)

Aaron Solochek wrote: >Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with >dselect. It was complaing about not finding >/usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a >/usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving >out the .sh, to appease d

Re: Compact version for running on 486/33 or /66 with 8->32 Mb ram

Robert Parker wrote: >While worming through the pages I found a reference to >a compact verison of Debian installation that was >designed to work on a 486. I have not been able to >find the link since, after 3 days of looking. Is there >anyone that can direct me to the site where I can get >more

Re: wine.conf example?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >can someone kindly give me an example of a working wine.conf? I must be >mangling something pretty bad... > >I have no windows partition anywhere, but I made a windows directory in >/var that I point to... What exactly is the problem? The /etc/wine.conf installed by the

Re: Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP Card

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >'Allo there, has anyone successfully configured the Trident T 9750 2 MB My 9750 claims to have 4MB, but I trust this makes little or no difference. >AGP Card under Debian ? I've tried all that I can , and I still cant >achieve anything worth looking at...and would apprec

Re: Trident 3dImage975 and X

Nathan Smith wrote: >I have what I hope is a quick question. I'm having trouble getting X to >work using the SVGA server with my Trident 3DImage 975 Card. The VGA 16 >server works fine, but as you can imagine looks slightly less beautiful >than I would like. > >I'm using the X that came with Sli

Re: wine dependencies

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Has anyone else noticed that wine depends on libgl1, but that package is >no longer available? What happened here? Is libgl1 no longer needed for >some reason? Does anyone still have this package because it's not on the >debian site anywhere. I found a .deb for this p

Re: Replacement for Netscape

Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does > > > > Huh??? > > > > Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably si