On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:36:31AM -0500, Nate Bargmann was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Perhaps a simpler (or better, as it won't confuse the packaging system?)
> approach is to put this in your ~/.bash_profile:
>
> export VIMRUNTIME=/usr/share/vim/vim56
Hmm. Okay, but what if I use t
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:59:49AM +0930, John Pearson was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Additionally, at one stage Eric Allman definitely had his nose
> out of joint over Linux; while that may be long past, people
> take these things personally and that may have contributed.
Personalit
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:44:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> I have a fresh, minimal slink on my box. While it's still
> minimal, I'd like to upgrade it to potato. Should I go ahead
> and wait till potato is released?
NO. :) You might have to do a bare
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:47:31PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> In vim, if I type
> :help
> I get
> Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/vim56/doc/help.txt" not found
> Press RETURN or enter command to continue
> I get this _exact_ same error message if i type
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:48:18PM -0500, Robert C. Ramsdell was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> It correctly identitifes /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as the Linux and swap
> partitions. However, it will initialize, but hangs if I try to do a
> bad-block scan of either partition. After establi
While answering this message, I discovered that XTerm (which I hardly use)
did not understand the Home and End keys, and backspaced for both Backspace
and Delete! Turns out I had not 'potatoed' xterm and rxvt... :)
'Course, now XTerm is white BG and light grey text. Hmm. Ahh.
/etc/X11/Xresources
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Robert C. Ramsdell was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI Host Adapter (LUN 7)
You need a different kernel, one with AHA-2940 SCSI support *exclusively*
and *specifically*. No other SCSI adapter drivers should be in the kernel if
the
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:18:06PM -0700, Jay Kelly was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
First, are you sure you wish it to go to `NEWtec'?
> Im running potato with kernel 2.2.15. I am using sendmail and am able to
> receive mail but when I send mail using mutt it comes back. Here is the
> he
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:49:17AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> to test the installation. Everything was OK but exim and consequently,
> fetchmail (since there is no response from localhost on port 25).
>
> My exim is configured to send and receive In
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:55:50AM -0500, Tim Willis was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> The install gets to the line
> "(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded"
> ...and hangs, or stops. It never goes any further.
What kind of card?
--
i'm determined to st
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:45:47PM -0700, Chris Baker was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> sjk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine
> > with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading
> > sym53c41
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:09:56PM -0800, Ethan Benson was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:05:47PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote:
>
> > I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this. No luck. It
> > does set the timestamp back, but that doesn't seem to hel
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it
> checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even
> when they do. i want to know if someone has a sol
Amazing how these things start. :)
Well, Steve, I hope this teaches you there is no such thing as a friendly
joke when Emacs is in the line. (So to speak.) If the FSF or the GPL did not
exists, Emacs would still be a tax-deductible charity.
(...under the bill of rights...)
On Tue, May 23, 2000
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:34:52PM -0500, Chris Gray was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> > it just means helping others get there more smoothly.
GNU's Not Unix, but most especially it is not Windoh!s -- so let's not
discard every element of geekish elitism which == discarding the Unix
wa
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:06:43PM -0800, Bart Friederichs was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Can anybody tell me why Debian is better than other distributions? And don't
> give me the 'it is the only really non-commercial version' crap. I want real
> technical benefits. Or is it all a mat
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:48:21PM +0100, Maurizio Boriani was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Greet all,
> how can i send my pubblic key to a key server using gpg?
>
> thank a lot in advance.
gpg --send-keys
"keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net" is my entry in ~/.gnupg/options , bu
Okay, I've been munging my system all day, and now have Nethack's
OPTIONS=IBMgraphics font working in color in tty. Not quite sure how I got
there, I was working on something else. The big question is, what exactly is
the font:
/usr/share/consolefonts/default8x16.gz
?? cp437 or cp865?? Somet
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:56:28PM +, David Wright was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> The BIOS needs to be able to read from the boot device without any
> assistance from linux. If you're getting 2FA, then that task is done.
> Now lilo needs to read the kernel from the partition where
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 06:17:47PM +0200, Ron Rademaker was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> You can either type reset or setterm -reset (on the messed up prompt)
On the advice of the keyboard/console HOWTO I put this in my .bash_profile:
alias blow='echo -e \\\033c'
In addition to cleari
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:43:57AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> what other alternative is there to make the SCSI boot up without the need
> of a floppy?
Is this another aha-2940 problem? :)
What SCSI adapter do you have? Stock Debian install boot disks come
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:39:45PM +0100, Ron Rademaker was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> What IS the format in which I should type the quota, I only see complains
> that my format isn't the right one... BUT WHY ISN'T THERE ANY
> DOCUMENTATION ON WHAT IS THE RIGHT ONE!!
There is a mini-H
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Wouldn't it be a good thing if questions that were raised more than once
> on this list, and answered was included in the automatic FAQ? This FAQ
> seems to be a bit smaller than I expected, regarde
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:09:52AM +, Patrick was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
Slink destroyed my partitions, too: it did everything fine until I assigned
partitions and it DIED. Killed my second windoh!s partition .
AHA-2940 is a great card, but the many SCSI drivers cause it to loc
When booting my slink box recently, I get this message:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
as normal, at the top of the boot msgs, then, recently, about when the
partitions mount:
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437)
Unable to load N
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:25:30AM -0500, Daniel Barclay was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
The Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
> Since those would suggest only "LIE-nucks" and "LEE-nucks", I still
> wonder: Where did "LIH-nucks" come from?
See below.
>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Ron Rademaker was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
> Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config go to the section Screen that you use and
> add the line: DefaultColorDepth 24
I have a Matrox Millenium which works great, EXCEPT:
When I reset the color depth, enter
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:17:43PM -0900, Adam Shand was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
> the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which
> contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg.
Duh!
I'm so happy I can't blush over the net. :)
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> > Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the
> > /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in
> > the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:46:00AM -0800, Pann McCuaig was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
> ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb
>
> Just a reminder (no, there's nothing "funny" about this package). You
> should think twice about installing packages that you don't get from a
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Richard Zitola was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> And now for a newbie question of my own...
>
> I've installed the base system and everything works fine, including
> ppp, etc. How can I use the "tasks" and "profiles" method of
> package select
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:23:53PM -0500, Charles O. Hartman was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> 2) If I add another piece of equipment (such as an extra hard drive),
> how do I go about acquainting the system with that fact? Do I re-run
> install? But that's a DOS command and DOS has gone
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