Problems with X fonts

1997-04-29 Thread Steve Preston
lib6_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlib6 ... -- This is on the machine that has the problem. Has anyone seen this problem? Any advice? -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Reloading packages after file system damage.

1996-12-02 Thread Steve Preston
I have a file system that was damaged, and I lost some files that had been installed by dselect/dpkg. Is there some way to ask dselect/dpkg to figure out the missing files and re-install them? -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: stty vs setserial

1996-06-12 Thread Steve Preston
s. A true meta key simply turns on the msb of a generated character. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

1996-06-12 Thread Steve Preston
>>>>> Andreas Kerzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Steve> You need to 'split' the .deb files that are too big. This Steve> requires dpkg-split, but

Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

1996-06-12 Thread Steve Preston
but I am not aware of a WIN95 version of this. If you created a (relatively minimal) linux partition on your cdrom machine, then you could split the .deb files and copy them to floppies. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
t will simply get out of sync. That is why you see only six characters instead of the 9 in the "Password:" prompt. I don't know if ttyS1 can be configured to send more stop bits. Perhaps your terminal can be configured to expect fewer. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Steve Preston
>>>>> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote: >> One explanation that would fit this behavior is that your terminal >> is configured to expect more stop bits than the linux box is >> sending. > This is a ve

Re: How to handle new packages

1996-06-03 Thread Steve Preston
se that foobar requires other packages. Wouldn't it then make sense to do the --update-avail, then go into dselect to see what other packages I may have to install as well. Then, if I either don't have or don't want these other packages or don't have the disk space or whatever, I can just forget about installing foobar. -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

How to handle new packages

1996-05-30 Thread Steve Preston
ll it using dpkg, but isn't there a way to tell dselect about the new package? -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: ftp+rcp: Connection refused

1996-05-24 Thread Steve Preston
nection refused > [ ... ] My guess is that the new machine (koko) is not in the older machines /etc/hosts files, or equivalently, not in your name server's database. Some ftp daemons will refuse connections from anonymous IP addresses (ie. IP addresses for which a machine name cannot be found). -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

1.1 installation notes.

1996-05-09 Thread Steve Preston
looking for a directory named .../stable/binary, when the 1.1 beta distribution is in .../unstable/binary. After regaining familiarity with it, however, I really like dselect. I don't see how a 80x24 chui could be made much better, while still having all the power that it has. -- Steve Preston ([