Debian and Solaris x86

Hello, I' planning to install a debian system secondary to Solaris x86 on a wintel machine and have not that much experience of a debian system. Does anybody like to share some experiences? What I'm interested in is if it is possible to place /export and /home on a UFS based filesystem with Sola

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=$PS1'$SHLVL# ' else PS1=$PS1'$SHLVL> ' fi export PS1 Hth -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089/ 20232434 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

Re: Meta key and xterm

rther details. Be sure the windowmanager passes the key events to the application. Hth -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089/ 20232434 --

priority of sources.list entries

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apt-get with proxy ftp access

list 'ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de stable/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.uni-erlangen.de_pub_mirrors_debian_dists_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files Any ideas? Peter --

How to savely copy a disk?

Hello, my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one without reinstalling all things? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49

Re: hda: irq timeout

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:05:17 +0200, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: Eric> On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> running kernel 2.2.12 on a new

hda: irq timeout

ve ideas/ suggestions? TIA -- Peter -- Peter Weiss InterFace AG phone +49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 231 Leipziger Str. 16fax+49 (0)89 / 610 49 - 85 D-82008 Unterhaching http://www.InterFace-AG.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there a perl-info package?

Hello, does anybody know where the perl-docs are packed as info files? (my cperl mode for emacs works with them fine) Thanks for tips -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089

Re: KDE 1.1.2

when apt-get does not have a direct internet connection? Thanks for hinte -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089/ 20232434 -

Dpkg Format question

here, I'm just interested in the technical reasons behind this). TIA -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel

Kernel 2.2.11 hangs with crc error

Linux Uncompressing Linux... crc error --System halted. There are many things I saw on my linux life, but that... What to do? Peter -- -- Peter Weiss

Re: Samba with 2.2.x kernels

>>>>> On 27 Aug 1999 10:43:40 +0200, Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Peter> Hello, Peter> trying to mount a samba volume on my debian box fails with Peter> [...] Peter> The Access denied message sounds a bit strange cause the volume can be Pete

Samba with 2.2.x kernels

ts to be version 1.9.18p10 (?!). TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Baldestraße 14, 80469 München, Tel. 089/ 20232434 -- ---The foolish

Timed?

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Is this List down?

Hello, I receive no messages for days, am I not on the list anymore? Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching

Re: Gnuserv and emacs20

>>>>> On Sat, 1 May 1999 14:22:24 +0100, Ian Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ian> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: >> >> I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) >> work with emacs20 (pack

Re: how to keep output of apt-get in a file ?

e script reports all control characters as well. Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

Gnuserv and emacs20

ybody have more success? TIA -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching -- ---The foolish ones taught

Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6

that doesn't mention the 2.2.x kernels. But it fails to compile some references in the kernel source tree. TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching -

Netscape Probs on Slink

/netscape ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/407/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/407/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. -- -- Peter Weiss

Xdvi doesn't show any eps files in slink

on is 4375 TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise

Re: rm'ing directories

y files in the deleted directory to become unref­ erenced, it is wise to fsck the filesystem after doing this. [...] It seems to be a bit risky -- use «rm -rf » instead. Peter -- ----

Re: emacs and autosaving

tomize this variable. So putting a (setq auto-save-default nil) in your .emacs file should turn this feature off. -- ------ Peter Weiss, Adejeweg 20, D-Unterhaching, Tel: 089/ 61029803

Another apt question

k/s) [...] Thanks -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Adejeweg 20, D-Unterhaching, Tel: 089/ 61029803 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - device disabled

re the irq 7 is reserved for the soundcard?? Any help is appreciated -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Adejeweg 20, D-Unterhaching, Tel:

Re: KDE 1.1 (-19990207-1)

sary steps for installing the 1.1pre2 debs on a hamm system. In short: Some (about 4 or 5) packages need to be compiled manually, which is an easy thing to do. Peter -- -

KDE-1.1Pre2 on a hamm system (report)

r compiling kde from scratch and installing it in the /usr/local tree. -- ------ Peter Weiss, Adejeweg 20, D-Unterhaching, Tel: 089/ 61029803 -

Re: KDE debs

qt1g_1.42-1.deb depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), which is not standard on a Hamm System. You've got at least to use a Slink-System (which is not available on CD, so let's wait another few weeks :-(). Peter -- --

Printing with gimp

TIA -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

Re: [X]Emacs vs. vi[m] (was Re: Why is XEmacs better than Emacs?)

powerfull tool, but to quick check a file on a remote machine using a telnet connection vi(m) is the better. Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstra?e 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 --

XFree and the dead keys

uot;de(nodeadkeys)" doesn't change anything. Thanks for hints -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstra?e 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

Local LaTeX configuration

it's the debian way to do this. So what's the right way? (Reading the fntguide and experimenting a bit with the fontimport script didn't help either) Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenst

Which packages for c++ development?

So which do I need for development with an egcs-1.1b release and the Stl? TIA -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstra?e 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 044

Emacs 20.2 stability in Hamm

Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --

Going back to slackware...

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Re: pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

g package which sets the user with keyword "user" (its well documented in the pppd manpage ;-) the connection comes up now and it is all fine now. Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstr

pppd-2.3.5 pap authentification does not work

na pppd[3365]: Connection terminated. Jun 10 11:09:01 Winona pppd[3365]: Exit. Does the "" mean that a chap authentification is required? Thanks for any hints -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnens

startx and no remote x-connections

d from IP 193.96.166.51 port 1086 AUDIT: Sun Oct 26 13:04:06 1997: 427 X: client 3 rejected from IP 193.96.166.51 port 1089 [...] waiting for X server to shut down Thanks for any hint -- Peter -- ---

Re: Multiple PPP Configurations

> On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:22:21 -0500 (CDT), "Walter L. Preuninger II" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Walter> Is there a way to have more than one pppd configuration? Getting another Walter> modem is not an option. Walter> What I would like is something along these lines: Walter> pon

libtermcap

Redhat based system. Thanks --- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp

Re: afterstep icons

t fixed the claims about the libs. Xload works since than on my machine. Hth -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 O

Another package setup problem

could work, but doesn't. Thanks for any hints -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenb

Howto run glibc2.0 compiled programs on 1.3.1 system?

information -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp

A installation report...

Well, on the other side I'm a glad Debian user and will never take another distribution, cause I like the way the packages are set up and how Debian organizes the disk. Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonn

Problem with Xfree3.3

ap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap I'm not sure if I should write a bug report on this. 2) Maybe a feature: This little utility xload is missing in xbase-3.3-3 package. -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 1

1.3.1 Upgrading Probs

. It seems to be no library or configuration problem on the rlogin's side, cause when I'm connected to my ISP all services work. Thanks -- Peter -- -- Peter

Sendmail probs

version of the debian 1.2.x series. -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenb

PPP works, but...

A -- Peter -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; spe

Re: PPP: PAP Problems

>>>>> On 28 Jul 1997 09:40:47 -0500, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Hello out there, trying to set up PPP I run in the Peter> following problem: Chat dials, connec

PPP: PAP Problems

there security risks? TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.01b6 works fine

use with 4.0b5, but with rather the same results. Starting netscape and the first click on lower right icon for opening a mail box makes a new window appear with an immediately crash afterwards. So what special versions of libs are you using?? Peter -- ---

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

Sorry fellows, my mail reader set a "CC: "to the list which I didn't see :-( -- ------ Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenb

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

/dev/null; then Menuconfig:403: if expr $answer : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' >/dev/null Menuconfig:436: if expr $answer : '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]*$' >/dev/null Hope This helps -- Peter -- --

User access to /dev/fd0* with mtools_3.5a-1

Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- --

How to list long package names?

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How to reconfigure packages

-- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5