Re: Latex -- Plz help

1999-03-31 Thread Mamoun Alissali
I think that \multicolumn (with {lll}) should solve your problem. Please e-mail me an example for more details (I'm not subscribed to the list any more for the moment). Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (

Re: Slink install

1999-03-29 Thread Mamoun Alissali
using /var now? (I was using ftp) According to the installation instructions my /var is only 100MB and that revealed too small. Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier MessiaenE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali

Re: Backup using ZIP drive?

1999-03-29 Thread Mamoun Alissali
only 100 MB and that might be too limited if you don't want to spend your time swapping disks (it also makes automatic backup impossible). I don't know the prices but the reasonable choices seem to be tape or removable HD. Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel:

Oups ! (followup to my previous mail)

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
please forget the part in my previous mail about Staroffice, I just discovered hat the package is just the installer, sorry ! Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Messiaen

Problems installing Staroffice

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
but it doesn't seem like a 'clean' solution to me. Does anyone know where this comes from and how to do (I have a French keyboard and the appropriate XF86Config). Thanks, Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINE

Upgrading from Hamm to Slink

1999-03-25 Thread Mamoun Alissali
new one? - dselect is unable to configure jadetex because of TeX complaining about a "\&" unknown command when trying to compile the format file. - I've got my old kernel (costum 2.0.36) on a floppy, could it still rescue me if ever I have troubles rebooting? Than

How to force re-installing a package?

1999-02-03 Thread Mamoun Alissali
t question again, I saw the answer yesterday but I can't remember what it said and can't find the mail anymore. Thanks, Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Me

Re: Latex / TeTex Local Guide

1999-02-03 Thread Mamoun Alissali
ebian's TeTeX installation but I have it on another installation, I could send it to you if you're interested. I also wrote a local guide for our site, in French. I'll give the URL if you want to have a look. -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 3

Re: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-22 Thread Mamoun Alissali
fundamental for mastering OO programming. My prefered refernces are Meyer, Booch and Raumbaugh (OMT). I think I'd better hide under the table to avoid the flames :-). Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINE

UML Software for Linux

1999-01-20 Thread Mamoun Alissali
be able to understand the English ones. 4) Any other idea or suggestion? Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier MessiaenE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-18 Thread Mamoun Alissali
id I'm ashamed to talk about it :-) ). All I have to do is set my boot disk ID to 1 in the SCSI contoller utility and the disk options in lilo.conf. I was a bit confused because I have three or four kernel images. Now I have to re-install NT which apparently I have scratched. Thanks ag

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-15 Thread Mamoun Alissali
y tries to boot from the second disk but it hangs after outputting LI. I added "disk" options in lilo.conf and tried to change boot and/or root to /dev/sdb* instead of /dev/sda*, but nothing seems to work. By the way /vmlinuz exists (it was symbolic link to the kernel in /boot, then I repla

Re: using xfig + latex

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
om the graphicx package (which is marvelous, see its doc or the LaTeX comapanion). (mail me if you need more help). Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Messiaen

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
om the BIOS's > one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO. I used the Adaptec setup to set my boot disk to 1 and I added the disk options to lilo.conf, but it still doesn't work. How do I get the right values for bios=? Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
file systems are mounted from /dev/sdb* and I'm not quite sure if I have to and how to change this: I've tried various LILO configurations with /dev/sd[ab] for boot and root but none seems to work. *-- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier MessiaenE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
ng. > Usually it's easy. Yes I know that but does this apply to SCSI drives too? I was told that it is the ID (only ?) which determines the boot in this case. Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINEFax: (33

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 D

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Mamoun Alissali
dev/hda, > holds Windows, and /dev/hdb, drive 2, holds Linux... I do have such a configuration and for the moment I'm not able to boot from /dev/hdb (Linux). I tried to swap the two disks from BIOS but it doesn't work, probably because the mounted disks are /dev/hdb*. Any i