Re: CD organization (was Re: InfoMagic's new LDR)

1997-05-14 Thread tgakem
> > > RE: this product in general: > > What would be expected? The product contains multiple > distributions and is not oriented towards Debian. The vendor has quite a > range of products. Those who want Debian Linux should get it from vendors > who use Debian, like Debian, advocate Debian

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-13 Thread tgakem
> > Hi, > > I've been a buildmaster making deliveries for commercial products in > the past and religiously followed a "build-&-install-clean-and > -test-before-delivery" method. (See summary at end.) > > [ ramble sounds good to me ] > > You're responsible for what you deliver--they're resp

Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread tgakem
> > Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with > a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the > original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they > still haven't put anything about how to install Debian in the booklet >

InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-12 Thread tgakem
Hi everyone, I bought the latest release of InfoMagic's famous 6-CD-ROM set, in order to upgrade my system from 1.1.4 to 1.2.10. I found that several files were missing. Among them is the xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb package which is vital to be able to run X-applications. At least this file was present

Re: help with printing, please...

1997-05-01 Thread tgakem
> > sorry, this is a second request... > > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to > address the problems without h

Re: LILO (DOH!!) J.B. does it again.

1997-04-25 Thread tgakem
> > I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file > moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My > mind is going and I'm only 32. > > Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it > across partitions. You have a

Re: Problem printing large PostScript files with GhostScript.

1997-04-22 Thread tgakem
> > > I have little experiance with postsctipt and am having trouble > printing some files. One in particular is a 1.4 Meg file of around > 325 pages. The printers that I have available are HP laserjet series > 2 and 4. Ghostscript gets to the 100 page point and quits. This > happens

Re: X related questions

1997-04-16 Thread tgakem
[ snip ] > > first type runlevel, and see what level you are booting in (runlevel > is in /sbin/runlevel). Then, if runlevel says "N 4", you're in level > 4, and type > cd /etc/rc4.d > mv S99xdm K99xdm Just some minor nit picking: it should be mv S99xdm K01xdm This might be important when switc

Re: Will the real vi please stand up?

1997-04-16 Thread tgakem
> > It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use > vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly. > > Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis > (maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them. > A year ago when I wa

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
> > Hi! > > I've been tried to allow the normal users in my system to mount a CD-ROM > but with no success... I even put the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,unhide 0 0 > > Where /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. My /cdrom directory

Re: CD-ROM Not Recognizing

1997-04-11 Thread tgakem
> > Is there any special configuration I must do for Debian to detect > my CD-Rom? If this is an IDE drive, as virtually all new CD-Rom drvies are that are not SCSI, you also need to watch the master/slave stetting. If your CD-Rom is connected to be slave on your 1st ide port, it should be jumpe

Re: Debian's 'group' system

1997-04-09 Thread tgakem
Pete Harlan wrote: > > This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user > having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.) > Everything is then group-writable by default, which is probably what > you want. Can you enlighten me as to why this should be a Good Thing?

cron not started?

1997-04-03 Thread tgakem
Hi, I recently discovered that cron is not running on my system. The cron package I have is version 3.0pl1-36. In the man page it says: cron is started automatically from /etc/init.d on entering multi-user runlevels. However, when I try to find the cron process with ps, I get not

dselect selection

1997-03-21 Thread tgakem
Hi everyone, I want to install debian on different PC's using same selection of packages for each PC. Is it possible if I have one PC fully configured to take its list of installed packages and install these on a second pc, whithout having to go through the whole list with dselect aga