ipop3d - best way to run it?

1999-10-18 Thread aphro
ive been running ipop3d for about a year inside inetd. and it gets a lot of connections, i want to minimize inetd's usage is there another (good/tested) thing out there i could use? i know of xinetd but the best of course for me at least seems to be being able to run a POP3 server stand alone. i

Re: debian-sparc xfree

1999-10-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Is there a way to change color depth and resolution on sparc station > using debian? It depends on which SPARCstation you have; some of them (like my IPX) aren't capable of high color depths. I, for example, am forever limited to 8 bit

[Off Topic] latex section question

1999-10-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Sorry for the off topic question. I am writing a very large document in latex. And I need to use something like this: \subsubsubsection But latex only goes to \subsubsection. I have already used \part as well. How do I over com

TNT2

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Wiard
are there any drivers for the TNT2 AGP (not the new ultra) available? Dave Wiard

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Ben Wong
> Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) > > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but > I have been using potato for a while now w

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 > > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due > > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) > > > > Often you will see Slink = Stabl

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, It appears that the the other directories are just symbolic links. In other words, opening "stable" is the same as opening "slink". When I first installed linux, I had to figure out all of this stuff, as I copied the entire slink CD to my hard drive under win95, and had to fix up all of thes

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Todd Suess
Those are directory aliases, they go to the same place. If you cd to slink you will get to stable if you cd to potato you will get to unstable. regards, Todd Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and al

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Ben Wong wrote: > Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also > a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and also a > directory > named unstable? Ever heard of a symlink? unstable -> potato stable -> slink I

Re: A driver for VIA Technologies, Inc Nile ISA 10 Base T VT86C916 Ethernet controller ?

1999-10-18 Thread shaul
> shaul wrote: > > > > Is there a driver for this chipset ? > > > I assume you are speaking of the M-VIA version, as this is the only > Linux version I know of. It only has support for Tulip, Intel Etherlink, > Yellowfin, and Hamachi cards. > What is M-VIA version ? I have a no name NIC. It wor

Re: TNT2

1999-10-18 Thread iehrenwald
> are there any drivers for the TNT2 AGP (not the new ultra) available? I'm using a TNT2 Ultra with Xfree 3.3.5 and the glx module from http://pandora.debian.org/~crow. I'm 99% sure that the X server and glx module will work with the normal TNT2. --Ian Ehrenwald

X server still crashes...

1999-10-18 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I reinstalled my X and XF86_SVGA binaries but my X server still crashes with "Signal 11" Segmentation fault(as I was told) I don't know how to check if my hardware is cause of the crashes.. Any suggestions... Rajesh

exim: removing 'host' from 'host.domain.com'

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi I have registered and hosted a domain 'mydomain.com' with my ISP. They have given me a domain wide forwarding account [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I use fetchmail to fetch all mails at [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will also have my users mails at mydomain.com My linux machine's ful

kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Blears
Hi anyone have a working link for slink kde debs? -- Best Regards Dave --- Closer To Home Systems * Shop 6, 44 King Street * Caboolture, Qld, 4510 Ph 07 5499 3000 * Fax 07 5499 1822 * Mob 0416 173 522 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 1

Re: Sun floppy boot

1999-10-18 Thread Oki DZ
Hello, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > You were at the ">" prompt, which is the old-style boot rom for > compatibility with the Sun 3 and older. When you're hit with that prompt, > you need to hit "n" and enter to get to the "ok" prompt, which is what > you're looking for. > > At the "ok" prompt, "b

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread Oki DZ
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root > partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? All you need is just to install lilo. I have an IDE and a SCSI disk having NT and Linux; I put Linux on the SCSI disk and write lilo

Re: Sun floppy boot

1999-10-18 Thread Oki DZ
John Davis wrote: > > I believe the OpenBoot (prom monitor) faq can be found at > www.sunhelp.org. Thanks a lot. BTW, why does the site have no search engine? Oki

Code names

1999-10-18 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Where did hamm (?), slink, and potato come from? Toy Story? When are we going to have buzz version? Oki

Re: kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
i downloaded from: ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/.2/KDE/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/ -gnana

Strange Cron Job Report

1999-10-18 Thread bwarsing
Hi, I am reposting this query because I don't know if it mad it to the server. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 15 00:40:08 1999 >Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: from root by WEASEL with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) > id 11c1y8-j6-00 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 15 O

Re: Code names

1999-10-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > Where did hamm (?), slink, and potato come from? Toy Story? Jep. > When are we going to have buzz version? Dono (no expert in that :) Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right?

menu problems

1999-10-18 Thread Mason Konkle
Somehow my menus from within X got messed up. All of the games are in the root menu. So when i pop up the menu it goes off the top and bottom of the screen. I tried running 'update-menus' and also tried installing some applications that would cause the menu to update automagically but it is still m

Sound Module for Kernel 2.0.36

1999-10-18 Thread bwarsing
Hi, Can anybody tell me the name of the sound module for the slink/potato kernel? This is the output from lsmod: Module Size Used by dummy 4096 0 bsd_comp4096 0 ppp20480 0 [bsd_comp] nls_koi8_r 4096 0

Re: Code names

1999-10-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Where did hamm (?), slink, and potato come from? Toy Story? > > Jep. > > > When are we going to have buzz version? > > Dono (no expert in that :) Debian 1.1 was 'buzz', 1.2 was 'rex' and 1.3 was 'bo'

Re: Sound Module for Kernel 2.0.36

1999-10-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
Sound isn't compiled in by default. You'll have to build your own kernel for that. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +---

Re: Mail message-id uniqueness filter?

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:08:23AM -0700, Bruce J. Perens wrote: > > I have my debian system forwarding filtered mail to the Palm VII. I > would like to have the filter discard duplicate messages. Does a > meseage-ID filter implementation exist? If you are using procmail, this example recepie is

Re: [Off Topic] latex section question

1999-10-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > I am writing a very large document in latex. And I need to use > something like this: > > \subsubsubsection > > But latex only goes to \subsubsection. I have already used \part > as well. Wouldn't \paragraph and \sub

mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread Bernhard Rieder
When calling mktemp I always get a segfault. This short program was used for testing. test.c: --- #include char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; int main () { return printf("%s\n", mktemp(template)); } --- $ gcc -o tes

Re: tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?

1999-10-18 Thread Jens Ritter
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from > potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. > > Should I report a bug or am I missing something? I can´t find anything in the cha

Re: [Off Topic] latex section question

1999-10-18 Thread Paul Huygen
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [..] I need to use something like \subsubsubsection > But latex only goes to \subsubsection. I have already used \part > as well. How do I over come this problem? I know four possibilities: 1) Use \paragraph instead of \subsubsubsection. I am not shure

Re: kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Add deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty to your /etc/apt/sources/list and then enter the command "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get install kdebase kdeadmin kdeutils kdegames kdenetwork" Then there it is...a successful installation of the K Desktop Environment >

Re: kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Add deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty to your > /etc/apt/sources/list should be: /etc/apt/sources.list By the way, where to get these addresses in general? Could someone put somewhere a database for these addresses? hv [EMAIL PRO

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems > have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only > root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can > lower the number of reserved bl

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: > > I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, > > and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering if i should go slink -> potato ) thanks you - r

/etc/hosts manpage

1999-10-18 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi everyone. I'm going to file a bug report about this, but I thought I'd try and gather a little more information first. I'm running potato, and I just noticed there is no manpage for the /etc/hosts file. I don't remember if there was one for slink (could someone please let me know if there is,

Re: ok to move /home to /raid/home

1999-10-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Charles Lewis wrote: > > Trying to set up a samba server for administrative use and since all my > space is on the raid volume (/raid) I thought it would be a good idea to > move /home to that volume, but being new to linux I'm not sure what kind of > implications that would have. Anyone see any p

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of > your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there > any software which can measure hard drive performance? Me Yes, not that I noticed hdparm itself and (more c

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:14:03 +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > When calling mktemp I always get a segfault. This short program was used > for testing. > > #include > > char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; > > int main () { >return printf("%s\n", mktemp(template)); > } Quoting the fine

Using dinamic librarys

1999-10-18 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I compile a program to use dinamic libraries (.so)? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org

1999-10-18 Thread Jens-Erik Bruecken
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Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have a Debian machine that the monitor stopped to work and my friend tried to change the video card also and now it isnt booting. The boot stop at the line ... Ok, now booting the kernel. This is with kernel 2.2.12 and with a rescue floppy with 2.0.36. Wha

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:17:27PM +, RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: > what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering > if i should go slink -> potato ) Potato is newer stuff. The trade-off is that it is less stable - hasn't been tested as thoroughly. Potato is almost read

slink->potato and missing packages

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Stenner
So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages missing (from the ftp site, according to apt). Some of them look rather important (tcpd, etc). Two questions: 1) out of curiosity, how does this happen? 2) what

scheme

1999-10-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I need to use scheme for a some class I have I am taking, so I was wondering what scheme compilers are available for linux, and how can I run the programs from within xemacs? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > with it. > > -Todd > > ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and > a entry in sou

Re: nfs + setgid problem

1999-10-18 Thread Dietrich Clauss
Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's over knfs, with a patched 2.2.12 kernel on the server. > Applying the knfs patches to my 2.2.12 kernel did do the trick. Thanks, Dietrich -- Dietrich Clauss < [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~dc2/ >

Re: scheme

1999-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 14:07:19 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I need to use scheme for a some class I have I am taking, so I was > wondering what scheme compilers are available for linux, There are several Scheme compilers and interpreters already packaged for Debian. For the course on concepts of

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1999-10-18 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
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Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: : > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 : > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due : > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) : > : > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unsta

Re: Using dinamic librarys

1999-10-18 Thread David Z. Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MF> How do I compile a program to use dinamic libraries (.so)? By default any library you link against (with the -l switch to cc/ld) is dynamically linked. So, if you need to use libm.so, the standard math library, you'd just use a command something like

Re: Sound Module for 2.0

1999-10-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/sound.o On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me what the name of the kernel module for sound is in > version 2.0.36? > > Thanks, > > bw -- charge World Trade Center Bakunin SEAL Team 6 semtex Echelon triple-DES reefer t

external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. I'm running a Potato system with the 2.2.12 kernel on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I have never gotten the modem to work with Linux before, but I have used it with Windows. The problem is this: when I run Minicom (or anything else that re

?complex args pass to other app w/o changing?

1999-10-18 Thread zhaoway
i want a wapper for make that do "make -j -l 10.00"-like things. so i need the wrapper (pretend as make) to pass args to it to the real make program. that is for a call: make CXXFLAGS="-O2 -do-strength-reduce" LD="-s" i want the wrapper (above "fake" make prog) to pass the CXXFLAGS=.. et al to the

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-18 Thread zhaoway
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Just to clarify: > > GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages > (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is called > GTK--. What 'bout the Perl/Python Gtk/Tk/Qt/KDE bindings? Just curious. I use Perl/Tk to develope sm

Re: Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread aphro
ive had similar probs like that, usually for me it ended up being a bad rescue disk, and/or lilo got curropted somehow (reinstalling lilo fixed it for me). some kernels used to crash for me at that point(2.1.xx), so reinstalling the kernel may help too.(or in my case with the crashes downgrading ke

NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?

1999-10-18 Thread Alex V. Toropov
I've removed file /usr/bin/test (from shellutils) What is the simple and correct way to reinstall package (or just missing file) without removing package? Alex

Re: NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?

1999-10-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Oct, Alex V. Toropov wrote about "NEED Help ASAP How to get missing file?" > I've removed file /usr/bin/test (from shellutils) > What is the simple and correct way to reinstall package (or just missing > file) > without removing package? > > Alex > > You can just download the shelluti

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Joe Block
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Ben Wong wrote: > Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also > a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and also a > directory > named unstable? They're aliases. stable always points to the current stable distri

hda: irq timeout

1999-10-18 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, running kernel 2.2.12 on a new machine I found the following kernel messages in the syslog file with decreasing time intervalls: Oct 18 16:28:38 Winona kernel: ide0: reset: success Oct 18 16:30:45 Winona kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Oct 18 16:30:47 Winona kerne

100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Christian Ericsson
Can you recommend a good NIC running at both 10Mbit and 100 Mbit that Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 have device drivers support? The NIC must also be a selling product today (I don't want old stuff!)?

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-18 Thread David Teague
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, jh wrote: > Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian > specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux > books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will > need to buy online, so I can't browse.

RE: 100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Paul McHale
Christian, 3Com 3C905 series seems well supported. This card is actually flaky during install under windows, but runs very well with Linux. The 3Com Etherlink (ISA) works well also. Either one has been trouble free. I think any NE2000 card will do as well. -paul -Original Message- Fr

Re: mktemp segfaults

1999-10-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 11:46:47AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:14:03 +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > > When calling mktemp I always get a segfault. This short program was used > > for testing. > > > > #include > > > > char *template = "/tmp/tmpfileXX"; > >

Re: eth1 can't be loaded

1999-10-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Take a look at the output of dmesg and see if there are any other messages being generated which might indicate the problem. Perhaps it wants an IRQ it can't get? Have you installed any new hardware into the machine? Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Does this look like a hardware failure on a N

Re: 100Mbit/10Mbit, Network Interface Card (NIC)

1999-10-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3Com 3C905 series seems well supported. This card is actually flaky during > install under windows, but runs very well with Linux. The 3Com Etherlink > (ISA) works well also. Either one has been trouble free. I think any > NE2000 card will do as well.

Re: kde + slink

1999-10-18 Thread Jonathan Heaney
virtanen wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > Add deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty to your > > /etc/apt/sources/list > > should be: > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > By the way, > > where to get these addresses in general? > Could someone put somewhere a database f

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Robert Boyd
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Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Robert Boyd
latex -- > From: Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian-user > Subject: Re: Flow chart drawing program > Date: Sunday, October 17, 1999 3:09 PM > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainl

InterScan Virus Alert

1999-10-18 Thread interscan
InterScan has detected a virus TROJ_SKA in your mail traffic on 10/18/1999 18:04:58 with an action moved.

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-18 Thread Erich_Newell
Thank you very much.I'll be posting to the list how my install / setup of everything went as soon as I receive the software. -- Erich From: "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/15/99 01:12 AM GMT Please respond to debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], d

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > jh wrote: > > > > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > > installs. Is this the rec

Re: external modem problem

1999-10-18 Thread Richard Weil
Oops. I feel a little silly. Almost right after posting this message I installed and ran a version of the 2.2.12 kernel I compiled with plug-and-play included and the modem works fine now. Thanks anyway. Richard Weil wrote: > I'm having a problem with an external US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. I

Potato: dpkg errors??

1999-10-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Just yesterday I did the following potato upgrade: apt_0.3.13.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deb ldso_1.9.11-4.deb libc6-dev_2.1.2-5.deb libc6_2.1.2-5.deb libglib1.2_1.2.5-1.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb locales_2.1.2-5.deb Today, I upgrade the following from potato: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.6

[Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-18 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? -gnana

Re: Strange Cron Job

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mmmm... > > Can somebody tell me what this means... > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 15 00:40:08 1999 > >Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Received: from root by WEASEL with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) > >id 11c1y8-j6-00 > >

Re: eth1 can't be loaded

1999-10-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
I decided to take the pig headed approach and try each module in ..net in turn. The de4x5 worked and I use that now. I added it to /etc/modules and just put the IP and route details in /etc/init.d/network as a kind of appendix and all is well. Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens B.

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:30:31PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root > partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? > > The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it > because I can't g

Re: Linux not booting

1999-10-18 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Thanks, I tried another video card and worked. Quoting aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ive had similar probs like that, usually for me it ended up being a bad > rescue disk, and/or lilo got curropted somehow (reinstalling lilo fixed it > for me). some kernels used to crash for me at that point

Re: Sound Module for Kernel 2.0.36

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me the name of the sound module for the slink/potato kernel? I assume you mean 2.2.x. It all depends on the chips in the soundcard (or on the mobo). For example, I use: soundcore sound uart401 sb opl3 (Intel RH) soundcore

Graphic interface to PostgreSQL

1999-10-18 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi Are there any Graphic interface to PostgreSQL? thanks At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ phone: 351 39 791170

Re: Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

1999-10-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sun, 17 Oct, 1999 à 05:24:34PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > Greetings ppl, > > I have recently started to use Midnight Commander a lot on my consoles, but if > I telnet/ssh into my box remotely, I can't seem to get a lot of the > function keys When the function keys are unavailable under mc, yo

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > dependencies for program design. > Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. rick --

Re: [Fwd: Re: InterScan Virus Alert]

1999-10-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting T.V.Gnanasekaran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ya, true. I saw happy99.exe virus just now. But why anyone would use > windoze to send mails? what is this interscan anyway? What an odd question. When I started using linux, I sent/received all my emails via Pine running on W3.1 using IMAP on a Sun.

Re: [Off Topic] latex section question

1999-10-18 Thread Mike Fabian
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am writing a very large document in latex. And I need to use > something like this: > > \subsubsubsection > > But latex only goes to \subsubsection. I have already used \part > as well. * `\part' * `\chapter

RAM Problems....

1999-10-18 Thread Brant Wells
HI all: I have a Pentium II 333 w/ 96 megs of ram. However, when I'm running Debian 2.1, or any other Linux distro, I only show 64 megs of ram... What do I do?? Current Kernel=2.2.1 Thanks, Brant Wells __ Get Your Private, Free Email at ht

Sound Blaster Live Value...

1999-10-18 Thread Erich_Newell
Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? ( I actually have a "value" but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) Thanks, Erich P.S. Can someone point me to a complete hardware compatability list? Does one exist? ===

Re: Sound Blaster Live Value...

1999-10-18 Thread Liacopoulos
Here's the list: http://www.linux-howto.com/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? > ( I actually have a "value" but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) > > Thanks, > Erich > > P.S. Can som

Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Art Lemasters
I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard and router) have the same IP address...two have private addresses and one publ

Re: RAM Problems....

1999-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Brant Wells" wrote: >HI all: > >I have a Pentium II 333 w/ 96 megs of ram. However, when I'm running Debian > >2.1, or any other Linux distro, I only show 64 megs of ram... What do I do?? > >Current Kernel=2.2.1 I thought 2.2 series was supposed to get this right. Add an app

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

1999-10-18 Thread Luc
Art Lemasters wrote: > > I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with > a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one > ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard are you on a dedicated connection with a fixed i

XML tools/info in Debian ?

1999-10-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All are there packaged docs/info/tools in Debian in order to start learning XML and related technologies? any help/links/advices are greatly appreciated thank you OK

Re: XML tools/info in Debian ?

1999-10-18 Thread Luc
http://www.xml.org/ Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > are there packaged docs/info/tools in Debian in order > to start learning XML and related technologies? > > any help/links/advices are greatly appreciated > > thank you > > OK > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Emacs20 install error

1999-10-18 Thread Ian Winter
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote: > I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink > system with the following steps: > > 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 >[leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] > > 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20

Sound on Window Maker?

1999-10-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to enable sounds in wmaker but wsoundserver segfaults everytime I execute it. Is it working for anyone out there? (I'm running Potato). -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Connecting BNC to 10/100BaseT segment...

1999-10-18 Thread Tomislav Renic
Greetings from Winnipeg! Here's an outline of my situation: Currently we have a 10Base2 (BNC) network cable running through our building. We want to wire one computer lab with RJ45 cable and preferably install fast ethernet cards in each of the machines with time. So, for the meantime, we wi

Thanks for all the advice.

1999-10-18 Thread jh
Just wanted to send a general thanks to the group for the advice on shutting down my computer and buying a debian specific book. My book is on the way. I'm ready to join the big leagues. (Or at least triple A) Jeff

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> >> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root >> partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? > All you need is just to install lilo. this machine has be

Re: booting from SCSI

1999-10-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "brian" == brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You will have to convince LILO of it. :-) >> From my lilo.conf (which does much the same thing... the IDE drive is > for mp3s and my archived debs): > | disk = /dev/sda > | bios = 0x80 this was quite complicated t

Newbie guides on new site

1999-10-18 Thread Muhammad Yusuf
Hi all. I've put a very basic and brief guide to using Debian for newbies on my site at http://gnulinuxguides.tripod.com/ It may be of some use. If any of you have any comments or suggestions, I'd welcome them. I plan to add more, time willing. Thanx. ___

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