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1998-10-09 Thread Nebu John Mathai
piling properly, I'd appreciate it. Thanks very much, Nebu Please cc: to my address as I can not sub to this list yet. Thanks again

Xview/Openlook applications ...

1998-10-08 Thread nebu
y, I'd appreciate it. Thanks very much, Nebu Please cc: to my address as I can not sub to this list yet. Thanks again

Weird fonts problem in X

1998-09-15 Thread nebu
My problem has just got massively weird after installing more programs. I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! Here's what Netscape says when it tries to run: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvet

ISO-8859 fonts

1998-09-14 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Does anyone know where ISO-8859 fonts are located? For some reason, the second time that I installed Debian 2.0 and X, these fonts are missing, and so I'm getting messages that I never before seen from gimp, netscape, textedit, ghostview, etc, that say they cant find these fonts. I installed the

Weird fonts problem in X

1998-09-13 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I just reinstalled my debian 2 system and now I'm finding that I get error messages whenever I start netscape or gimp or xview-textedit etc. Here's what Netscape says: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out my /var/log files and found a whole suite of "in.telnetd[XXX]: connect" statements. Should I be worried ... or does Debian come secure out of the box? Also, is there any way to have a message pop up whenever someone is tryin

Re: cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

1998-08-19 Thread Nebu John Mathai
that discusses the whole idea of partitions (primary vs extended), disk geometries, and MBR? I'm obviously ignorant. Thanks for your help, Nebu

cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

1998-08-18 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Has anone got this error? On installing Debian 2.0 I used cfdisk to partition my 8.4Gig drive. The first time I did it, I did not like the partition sizes (after writing the partition info and initializing my root partition) and so rebooted the machine (by going into the installation option to reb

Large Paritions... advice?

1998-08-17 Thread Nebu John Mathai
aring from anyone who has had horrible experiences with filesystem corruption (hope not to hear from anyone, I guess). Thanks for any help, and if this has been discussed elsewhere please point me to a FAQ and I'll shut up. Thanks again for your advise, Nebu

ASUS P2B-S and Debian

1998-08-01 Thread nebu .
Hello again, along with my video card upgrade, I want to get a new motherboard and am thinking of the Asus p2b-s (onboard scsi based on AIC-7890). Has anyone used debian with this board? Thanks again for any advice! Nebu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

gnu ghostscript and HP-deskjet 560C

1998-07-14 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I'm trying to get my printer (hp dj560c) set up with ghostscript, but the printer is printing the pages too long. The doc files mentioned that to calibrate I would have to modify the printer specific driver files for ghostscript ... just wondering whether anyone already has a 560c driver that they

swapFILE vs swapDISK ??

1998-04-03 Thread Nebu John Mathai
l it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) increase the wear and tear on my hard drive? Thanks for your help and advise, Nebu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft buys TeX! Knuth sells out! (fwd)

1998-04-01 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Isn't it bad luck to send out april fool's jokes after 12? I hope that was a joke ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Utilities to access the BIOS?

1998-03-31 Thread Nebu John Mathai
. I guess my system's BIOS is too old (1993/1994), so I was considering writing a utility to access the BIOS. But as I have no idea of how to do this, thought I'd first ask here if any utilities exist. Thanks for your help! Nebu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Spice on debian?

1998-03-31 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I was just wondering whether anyone has got Spice from Berkeley (3f4) to work under Debian. I remember a while back trying to compile from the original sources and from a GNU/linux-ified version of the sources but got errors. Being no expert at building software I quit. Are there any pointers anyw

pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols

1998-03-12 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hi, I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules however if I insmod the precompiled modules '8390' and pcnet-cs I get /lib/modules/2.

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> > Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at > > /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. > > dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status

man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. dpkg: error processing man-db (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Thanks, Nebu

A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Nebu John Mathai
I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from my Debian machine. I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one

Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380ED (2635-5AU)

1998-02-20 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hi, Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM ThinkPad 380ED? When I boot off the Rescue disk my machine just reboots and reboots. It doesn't get past the boot: prompt. Any suggestions would be appreciated! (Slackware works but I don't like the way Slackware installs itself). Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCR

Xpixmaps

1998-02-18 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Just wondering whether anything has changed recently with the xpm 4.7 package. I used to be able to run scilab under twm, but I decided to change to olvwm and so needed to install xpm but now scilab is messed up giving BadPixmap! Has anyone seen this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

1998-02-17 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is > there a DOS utility that I can use to split these files across several > di

Syquest's syjet (par.port) ..?

1998-02-07 Thread Nebu John Mathai
arger applications, and data; so I am considering a Syjet to remedy this. Thanks for your advice, Nebu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-06 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for > archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go > back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... > How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install > the program? I u

Re: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux<->linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> Hi, > > By the way what is the data transfer rate of such connection? > > Sorry to jump into your discussion, > Sasha. Actually ... the PLIP_howto says that you should enjoy rates of 40 kB per second, but with my link from my Dos box to my Linux machine I only see rates from say 88 BYTES per s

Re: Parallel linux<->linux?

1998-01-28 Thread Nebu John Mathai
> I have an 486 box that i would like to set up as debian linux and > establish a parallel port cable connection with another linux box. Get a Laplink cable, the netstd.deb, netbase.deb packages, and the PLIP-Howto (or mini-Howto). I don't have the Howto handy right now, but I got a plip working p