[CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-20 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, how can I make a key combo work? In etc/inittab I get the following line: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now which is ok for shutting the system down and rebooting. But, how about shutting down and halting? I tried adding the l

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
> > > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > > > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to cp > > > to /tmp). > > > > Well I hope you're seeing a pattern by now, but you need tcl76. > > I've also installed tclx76 (and tk42), and "still can't load libtcl.so"

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 17:52, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to > > cp to /tmp). > > Well I hope you're seein

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 16:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > did it! ...it seems I'm getting up to something. Now it no longer says > > "can't load libXmu.so.6", instead it says: "can't load libXpm.so.4" What > > which other/s li

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
> Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it > install the package it generated. Current versions of alien will *not* do > that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alien --to -debian foo > Option to is ambig

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 14:09, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb > > package, instead the tree directory directly in /. > > Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intr

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 12:25, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz > > and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz > > I doubt that was your real command line. Alien will not accept invalid > arguments like

Re: X Windows

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 12:57, Micki Heyns wrote: > I am running bo and trying to set up my x windows but it does not like my > screen card "S3 Trio64V2". My card is a S3 Trio64V+, and it worked fine both with Debian 1.3.1 and now with 2.0, except a bit of a headache for configuring. The XF86_S3 server

.tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, I downloaded some archives which I'm trying to install: 1) hj-alpha3_tar.Z (sun's hotjava) which I somehow thought was for linux-i386, and now I realized it would only run on solaris. The problem with it though, is that it's "_tar.Z", instead of ".tar.Z". So, what I did was just renam

trouble with HDD

1998-09-11 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, my apologies should anyone feel that this question is very off-topic, but I can find no solution to it: I have an IDE hard disk as a secondary master, and an IomegaZip drive (also IDE) as a secondary slave. Both seem to be recognized and detected by the BIOS, and even detected by Linu