Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-16 Thread John Carline
Manaen Schlabach wrote: Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much to

Re: OT: Copying image using acroread from pdf file

2005-12-04 Thread John Carline
Joe Mc Cool wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:34:00PM -0500, T wrote: If I have to paste from pdf's, which I do quite often, I use xpdf. are you talking about text, or image? Text only I'm afraid :-( Joe I've been away for several days and all I have of this entire

Re: Printing from C/C++ ?

2005-11-28 Thread John Carline
Erik Karlin wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:55:48PM -0500, H.S. wrote: John Carline wrote: Hi All, Can someone give me a good reference for printing from a C program or perhaps a few lines of C or C++ code that will route program formated data/text to my local printer. There

Printing from C/C++ ?

2005-11-28 Thread John Carline
Hi All, Can someone give me a good reference for printing from a C program or perhaps a few lines of C or C++ code that will route program formated data/text to my local printer. There seems to be a glaring lack of this information in the 5 C/C++ books I have. Thanks for any assistance. Jo

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-09 Thread John Carline
What a crock of snobbish BS! snobbish adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: {clannish}, {cliquish}, {clubby}, {snobby}] Personally, I don't care where

Re: PPT to pdf question?

2005-05-07 Thread John Carline
Scott Wolchok wrote: On 5/5/05, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a tool that will convert a MS-Ppt slides to Postscript or PDF format? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ apt-cache sear

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash - success!

2004-07-12 Thread John Carline
well! It's working now. Thanks again to all who helped. John Brian Nelson wrote: John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the web. The str

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread John Carline
Brad Sawatzky wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users, it does not

Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread John Carline
Hi all, Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users, it does not crash when running under root. Permission problem somewher

Re: no volume display in XMMS

2003-10-12 Thread John Carline
Assuming that XMMS is putting out sound but you're not getting a visual indication, you might try the following: right click on panel select visualization > visualization mode > analyzer That will turn on and off the visualization on my player. But if that doesn't fix it, someone else will have

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread John Carline
Pascal Hakim wrote: You're in luck... I wrote a bit of code last night to keep a copy of the last bounce message we've received from all addresses. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host relay1.kubtelecom.ru[213.132.64.82] said: 554 Message rejected due to its POSSIBLE SPAM CONTENTS (#5.3.2) The bounce ha

Re: Maximum mount count?

2001-10-13 Thread John Carline
Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i > believe..just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to > check my fs ?it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs > fsck..Dani man tune2fs check out the -c option John -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: XF86Config-4 weirdnesses

2001-07-02 Thread John Carline
I never did get my XF86Config-4 working with FontPath "unix/:7101" I suspect it was a clash between the new font server with true type capability and xfstt, but I've been to busy lately to troubleshoot it. All I know is that once I commented out the "unix/:7101" line it worked for me. John B

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-17 Thread John Carline
Forrest English wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 03:40:00 +0000, John Carline whispered to the router: > Ahhh.. 'scuse me, I didn't whisper. I said it loud and clear. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > !! > !! > I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. Fo

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-15 Thread John Carline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes > I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian 2.2 > and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to > overwelming for them. I beleive there are three to

Re: OT: fvwm95 configuration

2001-02-03 Thread John Carline
Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I want to configure fvwm95 window manager to my own needs. Does anyone > know a tool with which I can configure Fvwm95-Buttons and put a background > image? I have read some docs about it, but they were not very clear. I > know how to adjust the Buttons by editing th

Re: Forcing modem connection to 57600 bps

2001-01-20 Thread John Carline
Jarkko Niemi wrote: > After using my dial-up connecton with speed reporting I wanted to force > my modem up to it's maximum speed. It works from windows side, so, it's > just up to configuring it also to Linux. Windows doesn't help, there is > just one box where to check as "[] use always this spe

Re: **NVIDIA driver petition**

2001-01-15 Thread John Carline
Kristian Rink wrote: > > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to > > promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement > > and ask thm for open drivers. > > I agree whole-heartedly with you on that, since even being quite happy with > the performanc

Re: didn't do it quite right...

2001-01-07 Thread John Carline
tom wrote: > Howdy Guys, > > I just ugraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.18 (hey, I'm slow...) on a > potato system. I did not do it the "debian way", however, and > I still appear to have 2.0.36 installed, and running top give > me ye olde "warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel > version" > >

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-23 Thread John Carline
Joey Hess wrote: > > Who needs an open button? Select text, move mouse pointer over a part of > the netscape window that does not have a hyperlink or other clickable > thing on it, and middle-click (ie, "paste" the url right into netscape. > Netscape immediatly starts loading the url. > Amazing!

Re: Restore the STATUS file

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all, > > As i said, i'm new to debian. I tried lots of things. I have done lots of > shit with dselect. I don't have a clue what "tried lots of things" or "done lots of shit" means, but was one of the "done lots of shit" things reading the help pages of dselect whi

Re: OT - web browsers

2000-12-16 Thread John Carline
Ken Weingold wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser, > > email, newsgroups) > > > > - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar > > sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window > > > > the second

Re: Inappropriate postings: [kroger@Princeton.EDU: Re: OT: regular expression question]

2000-12-09 Thread John Carline
Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Friday, December 8, kmself@ix.netcom.com did write: > > > Dr. Kroger: > > > > Attached are several recent posts you've made to the debian-users > > mailing list concerning the Debian GNU/Linux operating system > > (http://www.debian.org/). I think you'll find that in

Re: [Fwd: Princeton's reputation]

2000-12-09 Thread John Carline
ent will become aware of his conduct. John > > Original Message ---- > > From: John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Princeton's reputation > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sir, > > > > Since I'm certain that the r

[Fwd: Princeton's reputation]

2000-12-08 Thread John Carline
Just in case those rude emails really did come from a Princeton faculty member, I tried the following email using the last name of President of the University. It hasn't bounced yet. John Original Message From: John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:

Re: This list is rudderless, damn it, damn it, damn it

2000-12-08 Thread John Carline
Jim Kroger wrote: > Unsubscribe me already! I've sent the right mail to the right place > multiple times, sent mail to the guy at the bottom who says send me > mail if you have a problem, and now several days later > > I'M STILL NOT UNSUBSCRIBED TO THIS STINKING LIST ! > > WHAT A LOSER !!! > _

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread John Carline
ktb wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:27:21PM +0000, John Carline wrote: > > > > > If I understand you correctly, you're running fvwm and want to paint the > > root > > window with your .jpg when you boot the window manager. > > > > I use fvwm9

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread John Carline
ktb wrote: > I've got a command I run as a regular user that works just fine > from the command line but when I put it in my ~.xinitrc it > doesn't work the command is - > /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetbg -onroot -at 0,0 /home/kent/img.jpg > The file also contains "fv

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Colin Watson wrote: > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Robert Guthrie wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > >> > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^i

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread John Carline
Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm using this command: > > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > > > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care > > > about that

apt download security?

2000-11-06 Thread John Carline
Hi all, The note at the end of this message was posted to a local users group - mostly Red Hat users. Since I've never worried about checksuming the incoming debs and haven't a clue whether you can or not, I'm ill prepared to defend Debian. However, I'm not above accepting all the help I can fin

Re: X Font changed after woody dist-upgrade

2000-10-22 Thread John Carline
Ian Stuart wrote: > > > My base font has changed dramatically - and is now *huge* > <... snip> > Section "Files" > # FontPath"unix:/7100"# local font > server > # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these > FontPat

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-15 Thread John Carline
Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ? > > Well, yes, actually. The deal includes an option for Corel to commit 20 > programmers to make Microsoft's .Net initiative run on Linux. MS has three > years to exercise the option and the re

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-15 Thread John Carline
Jatin Golani wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso > i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar > withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux > box which had a GUI exactly like Win 95...i

Re: X Fonts are too big

2000-10-09 Thread John Carline
Leonardo Dias wrote: > I don't know if this has happened to y'all. Anyway... > > My XServer is running fine. I have a NVidia Riva TNT 2 video card, with > a LG monitor. The only thing is that the fonts for some programs are too > big. Gimp, for example, is working with a very big font. Netscape is

Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?

2000-10-04 Thread John Carline
Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as > I'm going to use the package names. > > dpkg -l gives: > > ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2scalable fonts for X > ii xfree86-

Re: Print filter/tool recommendations?

2000-09-30 Thread John Carline
Svante Signell wrote: > Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text? > > lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large. > lpf or pr is not much of use either. > > man -k print|grep filter gives: > lpf (1) - general printer filter > magicf

Re: startx

2000-08-27 Thread John Carline
Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > > how can I allow everybody to use "startx". When I try it, the computer > don't responds and I shut the job down. I'm not sure I understand your question Ricardo? But if you mean "how can more than one user run X at the same time, it's done by using different

Re: no xdm on startup

2000-08-07 Thread John Carline
suresh kumar wrote: > HI, > > How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* > start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. > > Any ideas? If I understand you correctly and you want to get rid of xdm, my favorite is: dpkg --purge xdm (or gdm etc.) (assuming that you're a stand-al

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
John Hasler wrote: > John Carline writes: > > I had compiled both ppp and slip into the 2.2.16 kernel, and evidently > > they didn't play well together. > > There is no good reason they shouldn't. That's interesting! I'll play with it a while and see if

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Just to complete my part of this thread, I found my ppp problem. I had compiled both ppp and slip into the 2.2.16 kernel, and evidently they didn't play well together. The new kernel (without slip) is working well. John John Carline wrote: > Sean Richardson wrote: > > &g

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Mark Suter wrote: > Folks, > > How common is the "Debian last" practice, that is, try other > distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian > to stay? While the "Debian last" practice is probably the most common way that users become "Debian" users, it's in my opinion the po

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Sean Richardson wrote: > Well... I have continued to play with this...switching between suse and > debian...and have been able to partially fix the problem. > > By setting my wvdial baud rate down to 57600 from 115200 i get only > 1 error in 1000 packets... which is respectable... > > However, I w

Re: my mouse wont work....

2000-07-16 Thread John Carline
Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hi, Hi Erik, > > > i have a Logitech First mouse + connected to my serial one port. I > can't get it to work anywhere on Debian. I have the same mouse and it works fine using the microsoft mouse settings. Unless yours has failed the problem lies elsewhere. > I have ju

Re: Question about partitioning

2000-07-15 Thread John Carline
Ed Burke wrote: > Hi Gang, > I have reconsidered installing linux - now that I have all > my ducks in a row. >I had NT installed on an ex-corporate machine. So there were a lot > of nifty programs > but no meat behind them. I opted to discard this and install W 95 > in

Re: Creative Riva TNT2, xserver?

2000-06-24 Thread John Carline
Nick wrote: > which xserver should i use with the > 3D SoundBlaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32mb video card? http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/Status21.html#21 -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: boot floppies

2000-06-23 Thread John Carline
Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debs > > I've been booting this system with a boot floppy for some time now. Say > I wanted to create new boot disks for any potato machine, how would I > most easily do this? If you've compiled you own kernel, the easiest way to go to the directory you compiled from. In

Re: mailing list

2000-06-05 Thread John Carline
maxine wrote: > Morning-If anyone could tell me how to unsubscribe to this maling list I > would greatly appreciate it. It just generates too much mail for me. I > tried to unsubscribe the same way I subscribed, sent the confimation > back but I did not get removed. > Thanks, > Greg > Morning

Re: Is nextaw broken in woody ?

2000-06-03 Thread John Carline
"S. Salman Ahmed" wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that the nextaw/nextawg packages in woody don't > seem to be working ? I'm not sure that we're talking about the same problem, but I've been having trouble getting the scroll bars I like with potato (i.e. both up and down arrow next to each oth

Re: Q: Using another Distrib's Xconfig

2000-06-02 Thread John Carline
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > In setting up Mandrake, I have a good XConfig file that supports my > monitor. I had no such initial success with Debian. I tried copying over > my XConfig file over and that didn't work, so which part of the original > Mandrake version refering to the monitor do I n

Re: Potato

2000-05-30 Thread John Carline
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > > > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. > > Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that. > > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant, > necessary for vegetative reproductio

Re: help!!!!!!

2000-05-29 Thread John Carline
John Archuleta wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble > installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through > it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! > > Sincerely, > Jo

Re: X on a 486

2000-05-28 Thread John Carline
Atila Nemet wrote: > Hi! > > Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > window manager which is low on system resources so I > could set up X on this 486? > > Attila I've tried most of them and on my machine the ones that use the least are fvwm95, blackbox and olvwm. I find fv

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-26 Thread John Carline
Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:33:19AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: > > The problem I am trying to fix is that fonts and > > images in Netscape have never been properly displayed > > in Netscape. Instead of getting fonts, toolbars, > > scrollbars and images displayed as the applica

Re: finger

2000-05-22 Thread John Carline
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I've replaced finger altogether for off-site finger requests with a nice > little perl script guaranteed to confuse and amuse. Try fingering > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it several times :) > > I'll be glad to share the script with anyone who wants it. I like it ;-) Will it

Re: debian logo

2000-05-20 Thread John Carline
russell simmons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where > the debian > logo comes from?... > many thanks > russell Near as I can tell, it came about this way One day "Captain blue eye" was happily travel

Re: X color depth

2000-05-08 Thread John Carline
Umum Wijoyo wrote: > Hello... > > How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp (say... like 16 or > 24)? Run XF86Setup (the XFree86 recommended method), or run xf86config (the old method), or edit your XF86Config file by hand (the geek method) and select the screen size and depth you wa

Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

2000-05-08 Thread John Carline
Eric Worden wrote: > I was using git, and while things seemed to be idle I snuck the floppy out > to peak at the label. I put it back in. Then after the next operation I > got: > > kernel panic: msdos_write_inode: unable to read i-node block > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > e

Re: X display

2000-05-01 Thread John Carline
See, it did it again! This letter escaped from my last email :-) r John -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: X display

2000-05-01 Thread John Carline
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:58:46PM +0000, John Carline wrote: > > > > > > > ( what is olwm and many other apprev...I done no!!)? > > > > Missed this question. Olwm is a windows manager not a xserver. You can > > load one

Re: X display

2000-04-30 Thread John Carline
> > > ( what is olwm and many other apprev...I done no!!)? Missed this question. Olwm is a windows manager not a xserver. You can load one windows manager or several and then switch between them. Windows managers are what you seed when the xserver starts. Everyone has their favorite. I like fvwm

Re: X display

2000-04-30 Thread John Carline
Elsadig Khanagi wrote: > Dear,Sir > How are you .. Thanks lot for all group members, I go one step and I > need more help. > 1-I install Debain Linux 2.1r2, and I got Debian Login :,,,But when I login > and write startx to load graphic interface... I have error 111 > failed to connect to X sr

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-29 Thread John Carline
Chris Baker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. > > Any and all suggestions are welcome. > > TIA, Don't know how good it is, but Moonlight Creator is on the Debian disk. John -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: Subject: Re: Netscape 6

2000-04-28 Thread John Carline
Oki DZ wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Are you running 24 bpi in X? I have found that > > netscape dosen't like 24 bpp but will give the correct > > colors if X is run at 32 bpp. Don't know if 8 or 16 > > bpp settings cause problems. > > No, it's just 8 bpp. > Does X need

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread John Carline
David Jenkins wrote: > Hi all! > > 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would > like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't > even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working properly.) > I created a boot floppy

Re: Netscape menu fonts with X11?

2000-04-22 Thread John Carline
John Carline wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > --- > > Netscape*fontlist: > -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* > Netscape*XmTextField.fontlist: > -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* > Netscape*XmText.fontlist:

Re: Netscape menu fonts with X11?

2000-04-22 Thread John Carline
Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > my ancient notebook can only do 800x600 pixels. Netscape from potato > uses large fonts for menu bar and dialog boxes, so that the > preferences dialog doesn't fit on screen. > > How can I make netscape use smaller fonts? > > Greetings > Marc Greetings, You can adjust

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-11 Thread John Carline
Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Do you need to run X windows inorder to use armodilla or mozilla,etc.. > > Dan I'm afraid so, at least I've never been able to run it without X. (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) John > > > John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread John Carline
Dan Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? > I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something > as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. > > Dan You might want to take a look at gzilla (name just changed to

Re: Alternative to dselect?

2000-04-09 Thread John Carline
Kent Nyberg wrote: > When i installed debian slink last week all i did was select the > "preselected packages" for a normal computer with gcc, X and those things. > What is so hard about that? > And when i wanted to install something.. like aumix, i just ran apt-get > install aumix from the cdro

Re: Mail: Netscape and double-trouble

2000-04-05 Thread John Carline
Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm using potato, and just discovered the first mail clients I tried (mutt > and balsa) don't provide any filtering. So I figured I'd try netscape's mail. > > My netscape (4.72) doesn't have any mail that I can see, and I couldn't > find a package which seemed to include it.

Re: are there other file managers besides gmc?

2000-04-03 Thread John Carline
Christian Surchi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:39:05AM +0000, John Carline wrote: > > Personally I like fvwm95. It's very configurable and on my box uses less > > memory than > > any other. But since we each our own style, go to the following link and

Re: are there other file managers besides gmc?

2000-04-02 Thread John Carline
john smith wrote: > hello, > > I would like to know what other file managers are available besides > gmc..maybe there is something better out there? > Personally I like fvwm95. It's very configurable and on my box uses less memory than any other. But since we each our own style, go to the fol

Re:

2000-02-21 Thread John Carline
"TaoX { Brian Hinson; }" wrote: > ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find > the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is > my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem > is... when I send messages for help

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

1999-12-30 Thread John Carline
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've made some bad move while using dselect one day, and now I have 40 > packages triggered for removal. 8-( Oh horror! > Not so horrible, haven't we all done that? Have you tried to return to the "Select" menu and toggle all those files to install (+) rather than remove

Re: Installation Script returned error exit status 100

1999-12-29 Thread John Carline
Hagen Finley wrote: > > The .deb packages are archived in /var/cache/apt/archives > > which explains the > > insufficient space message. The packages are installed from there. > > > > One possible solution, not really kosher, but you might try editing > > /etc/apt/sources.list to go through only '

Re: FTP Installation Instructions

1999-12-26 Thread John Carline
Hi Hagen Welcome to Debian. I'm assuming that you're planning on wiping out the disk and starting over once you've created the base system floppies? If so, point your browser at http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and look at Chapter 5. The subsections cover just about everythin

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread John Carline
Richard Dansereau wrote: > > > > Richard Dansereau said: > > > Does the kernel > > > have to be compiled differently? > > > > Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. > > > > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically > compiled in? You would think it could b

Re: Kernel 2.2.13 dumps AX/BX/CX/DX booting

1999-12-21 Thread John Carline
John Dalbec wrote: > I thought I remembered seeing something about this problem before. > When I boot from floppy to Kernel 2.2.13 I get > 0400 > AX:0212 > BX:7000 > CX:5001 > DX:. > over and over again. > I tried searching the list archives but I kept getting "no articles found." > What's the

Re: Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

1999-11-29 Thread John Carline
Graham Williams wrote: > I've also just started moving to Potato and was trying the 2.2.12 > (kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-4.deb) and 2.2.13 > (kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-1.deb) kernels, creating a boot floppy, > and getting exactly the same problem, with the same message over and > over again: > >

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-11-28 Thread John Carline
Todd Suess wrote: > Part of the install of a new kernel calls a utility to make a new boot > floppy, does anyone know exactly what function is used for that, > as I want to make a couple of spare boot disks, just in case, since I > boot strictly from floppy and do not use lilo or any other boot m

Re: netscape4.7 messages

1999-11-24 Thread John Carline
ktb wrote: > I've used 4.5 and 4.7 and both do the same thing. > kent > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > Is there any way of fixing this?: I can not read any already inbox > > message while netscape is downloading other messages. Now, I remember > > that in the windows version of nescape this is

Re: Info

1999-11-23 Thread John Carline
Nikhil Vohra wrote: >Please tell me about your software what sort of > os it is what are it's system requirments is it > available in english is it totally free of cost till > our door step on cd does it have a GUI or not Send > details on [EMAIL PROTE

Re: win95files names

1999-11-11 Thread John Carline
Try "mount -t vfat" John Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name > without the funny ~1 thing? > I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1. > I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize fro

Re: Question about dselect

1999-11-07 Thread John Carline
Chia-Sheng Chang wrote: > Hi, all, > > With dselect, how to install or upgrade a specific package without > automatically upgrading all packages? > - > Thanks. > You can put all installed packages on hold by selecting "=" on the major heading lines - it shouldn't take more than 4 or 5 to

Re: Is there a replacement for Dselect??

1999-11-07 Thread John Carline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read somewhere, I for get where, that when version 2.1 (this was an old > article) of Debian came out, it would have a new program called APT that > would replace Dselect. Well, I have version 2.1, and I can't find that > program. Was this false information??? > man a

Re: Where, who, what?

1999-11-07 Thread John Carline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I'm confused. I have looked at all the ftp and FAQ's and I still don't > get the steps to > download your version of Linux. What are the exact steps to download form > the site > http://www.debian.org/? Add "releases/slink/i386/install" to the above web address

Re: setting the date with date

1999-11-04 Thread John Carline
tf wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have one that really should be easy, I think, but I'm struggling with > the silly "date" command. I need to set my system clock. > Have you tried : date 1102223099 That would be month 11 day 02 hour 22 min 30 year 99. John > > ack. three books, an info page and

Re: Problem with mailing lists

1999-11-03 Thread John Carline
Serge Gavrilov wrote: > Hello! > > I am sorry for this letter. Beginning from yesterday (Nov 2) I receive no mail > from "debian-user", "debian-devel". > I cannot understand what is the problem. Does my mail received by > debian-user now? Yes it is. John > > > Thanks, > > -- > Serge Gavrilov

Re: Problems mounting second hardisk, partition

1999-10-31 Thread John Carline
Wendell Buckner wrote: > I've had this problem since I started fooling around with linux > about four months ago and never fixed. Since then I've added > gnu c/c++, fvwm and network card (thanks to the debian users > group). Samba is hopefully on the way, but back to this > nagging problem I ha

Re: Mozilla slow?

1999-10-27 Thread John Carline
Richard Weil wrote: > Have other people found Mozilla M9 -- the one packaged in potato -- to > be incredibly resource intensive? I'm using a 3.5 year old laptop with > a 120 Mhz Pentium, so I've tried to keep my setup simple; no GNOME or > KDE, just WindowMaker. But when I run Mozilla my CPU loa

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-27 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I did the mount -t ... /dev/hdx, tried all, none worked. > I did later modconf to install the sbpcd, installed nicely, but again didn't > let me read my > cdrom. > What I get is, after a lot of failures of the kind > > sbpcd-0 [x]: Diskinfo: Read capacity "y" returns -

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am > really > suspecting that they are not complete. > Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me > give you > examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\con

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install > sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got > this from the win95 previous installation). Not familiar with this cdrom, so no help here. > I had been able to install >

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +0000, John Carline wrote: > [...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > > just have to echo this questio

Re: Netscape 4.5 has black icons...

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Andrew Clark wrote: > I run X in 24bit colour and netscape has black icons, if I run in 16bit > colour, netscape has nice colourful icons, is there anyway to get the > coloured icons running in 24bit or is netscape 4.5 broken? > > Regards, > Andrew Clark. > > pls CC me Andrew, Netscape just

Re: C programing

1999-10-25 Thread John Carline
Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > > Someone tell me how can I find a doc about C programing (I downloaded > > the Programmer's Guide, but I can't programming under C, so I want to > > learn it!) > > So I need a doc for lammers! > > How

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread John Carline
jh wrote: > As you may know I have been having trouble getting my monitor set up under > x. Because of not having any documentation on the used computer that I > have, as well as not finding any info on the net about horiz and vert sync > settings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark w

Re: How do you start GNOME?

1999-10-24 Thread John Carline
Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. > Enlightenment probably. That or IceWM-GNOME > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin

Re: /usr/local

1999-10-21 Thread John Carline
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Could someone please tell me the permissions on /usr/local? > > mine are: > > drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/ > > What gives?? Why is this directory setgid? > > Is everyone elses system the same way? Both my slink and potato disks are the same pe

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