Re: netscape woes

Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Question #1: The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem > Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs > yourself. These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system. dpkg > is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it

Re: netscape woes

> El Fri, 20 Nov 1998, George Bonser escribió: > > >Just exactly what is the procedure now to install netscape? I made the > >mistake of "upgrading" netscape from slink to 4.07 ... then tried 4.5 ... > >I have no netscape program anymore. There is a wrapper, if I link to it > >from, say, /usr/bi

Re: PPP daemon has died

n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jonathan Crowe writes: > > To start up pppd I just typed pppd at the # > > With the result that pppd tried to make a connection to the console, since > you didn't tell it what else to do. Won't work. The right way to start > pppd on a Deb

Re: PPP daemon has died

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jon writes: > > When I try to start up pppd from the root prompt I get a message saying > > "This system lacks kernel support for ppp." > > Don't believe it. This one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is > almost always wrong. > > > When I try to start up pppd

PPP daemon has died

Hi folks. I installed Debian (Ham) from Linux Central cd's about a week ago. So far I have managed to bumble along through configuring X and such. I now seem to be stuck however. I have got wvdial set up so that it dials my ISP and logs in. However as soon as it starts pppd it comes right bac

Problems installing onto a scsi disk.

-bye for now- Jonathan Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~jcrowe/