Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Luis Cabral wrote: > > About those: > - I tried installing Netscape as a normal user issuing > the su command... > > All these with no results. Did you try wp8 installation as 'su'? (I never tried to install Netscape on Debian so don't know about that. But my wp8 installa

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Luis Cabral
Thank you for the responses. About those: - this is a experimental instalation, and although I have little space on disk, I tried to install one application at time, so there was always at least 20-30 Mb free. - in startup, the kernel says: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enab

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Ok, this is a very wild guess, but > maybe you have a Pentuim processor with one of those early Floating Point > units, that > produce an error. TO go around it recompile the kernel to include the > work-around for that FPU bug. > Andrew This wild quess

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Marc Althoff
Kent West wrote: ... > >I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tries, I > >installed it successfully; but xwp says: Floating > >point fault. > >I installed also a CAD called SISCAD-P, and it says > >also: Floating point fault. > >I tried with other softwares (downloaded from the net) > >with

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Hello > > I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. > I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard > PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). > I installed also xfree86 and KDE. > > KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work. > But I can´t make anything else work!

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: > 200 MB is awfully small to run more than a basic system. Run the df command > and see if your partition is near 100% full (Capacity). That may be a clue. Probably you're right. But I think that wp8 installation program should give a message during the insta

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Kent West
At 01:37 PM 1/19/1999 -0300, Luis Cabral wrote: >Hello > >I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. >I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard >PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). >I installed also xfree86 and KDE. > >KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Luis Cabral wrote: > Hello > > I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. > I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard > PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). > I installed also xfree86 and KDE. > I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tr