size of /var partition

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi All, I am planning an installation of Debian and solicit recommendations for the size of a separate /var logical partition. I plan to use apt-get to install packages and to upgra

Gnome/E

Hi, I have installed Gnome and Enlightenment on my Pentium 133/64MB RAM; I think Gnome is doing fine; there's no need to use dual Pentium machines. Currently it's pretty basic, no browser or file manager. But it seems that Gnome would work best on a plain window manager. Using E, I think the color

Re: Kernel

aphro wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > > koala >Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? > > The README file that comes with the kernel was sufficient guide to teach > me how to compile the first time around. I think "make menuconfig" will do

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

John Pearson wrote: > I don't know what editor Mutt uses as a built-in default, but you > can ask it to use whatever you like by adding a line like > set editor=/usr/bin/joe > or whatever to your .muttrc file. Thanks a lot. I think I'm to lazy to do "man mutt" or cd to /usr/doc/mutt. Oki

Re: gnome-pager loses windows and freezes X

Herbert Ho wrote: > > *grin* yeah, forgot to method i tried this. when X froze it took the > keyboard with it. no C-A-F1 or C-A-DEL. If your machine is on a network, you can telnet to it, and do killall X or kill Oki

Re: National fonts under their own dir?

Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find the X font policy? > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:32:03 +0900 > (http://www.debia.org/Lists-Archives/debian-x > -9910/msg0.html) Changwoo Ryu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says "the X > font not-yet policy". Here: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archive

Re: Gnome/E

Hello, I run E on a Pentium 100 w 24 Mb RAM. As far as the colors "not going together", you can change the appearance of the gnome applications, by changing the GTK themes. The gnomecc application makes installing and changing themes quite easy. You can also preview them, and "try" them ri

Re: pppd died unexpectedly. Where to look?

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Hans wrote: > System: Acer Travelmate 512T running Slink. Generic PCMCIA > modem. > > Goal: setting up ppp connections to two different ISPs. > > Done: configured pppconfig, kppp, resolv.conf (for DNS) > > The problem: pon/poff dials in, but refused to connect. kppp the sam

Re: size of /var partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Howard Mann wrote: > I am planning an installation of Debian and > solicit recommendations for the size of a > separate /var logical partition. I plan to use > apt-get to install packages and to upgrade my > distribution when appropriate

Potato upgrade

After a long battle with an upgrade to potato from a very customized slink am allmost happy. I just miss one thing: I cannot start gdm due to some wierd problem. It complains about the user and group for /var/gdm. Supposedly they should be nobody:deamon but that doesn't work either. In Slink it was

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How do I download and install Debian Linux using a multiboot system between Linux and Windows.   Thanks Carl A. Fahlstrom

Re: apt-get removing unnecessary packages?

Hi, This is not a problem. libqt2 conflicts with qt1g. So apt wants to remove qt1g. But if qt1g is removed, then all of your old kde apps have to be removed. It is the time to upgrade your kde apps using qt2. Shao. Jon Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: G400 high-res problem

I'm using a G400 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with XFree86 3.3.5 and have no problems with it. My monitor is a Sony 400PS. I also recall that I used 3.3.4 for a time without incident. The 3.3.4 experience was with slink; now using potato. Sorry to have been no help. - Mark On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 07:13:

problems with potato and X11

Hi, I upgraded my system last night from slink to potato and now X11 will not start. First off it was complaining that the 75dpi fonts was missing a fonts.dir file. Which I manageged to fix. However it is now complaining that it can't open the default font "fixed". Where do I find this font? or

Re: what happened to netstd?

On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 03:31:46PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > Tell me about it. I had to go all over the place stamping out things like > rwhod, rsh-server, rthisd and rthatd. i didn't have any trouble with this. dselect told me it was going to install all kinds of rpackages, so i put netstd

Re: Gnome/E

Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Gnome and Enlightenment on my Pentium 133/64MB RAM; I think > Gnome > is doing fine; there's no need to use dual Pentium machines. Currently it's > pretty > basic, no browser or file manager. For the file manager, you need to install gmc. There's a sli

New users looking for sources.list

I just installed debian this morning. I've got gnome installed, but apparently on a much older version of Enlightenment. When I do a "dpkg --list | grep enlightenment" it doesn't show as installed, and when I try to install it, it complains that there's about 5 incompatabilities such as imlib

Re: problems with potato and X11

*- On 29 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "problems with potato and X11" > > > Hi, > > I upgraded my system last night from slink to potato and now X11 will not > start. > First off it was complaining that the 75dpi fonts was missing a fonts.dir > file. > Which I manageged to fix. > However

Re: pppd died unexpectedly. Where to look?

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 08:02:02PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Hans wrote: > > > System: Acer Travelmate 512T running Slink. Generic PCMCIA [snip] > > Nov 28 19:07:20 mack pppd[407]: peer refused to authenticate >

Re: Windows moving active partition mark

On 28/11/99 Micha Feigin wrote: I am tring to run linux and windows 98 together on the same drive using lilo. I installed lilo on a partition containing the kernel. I then set the active partition mark to that partition. As long as windows isn't started then this setup works greate (the lilo boo

Weird Routing/IP-Masquerading issue

orwell has two ethernet cards and serves as the router for my home network. eth0 connects to a cable modem with IP 24.x.x.x.x (assigned via DHCP). eth1 connects to the home network with ip 192.168.1.1. The routing works fine, and I never have any problems getting to the outside world from any of t

Re: Netscape configuration; Fortify

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:14:35PM +0100, Matthias Hertel wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Matthias Hertel wrote: > > > > > > I can't get Fortify (fortify 1.4.5-1, fortify-linux-x86 1.4.5-1) to > > > patch my Netscape Navigator (navigator-smotif-47 4.7-14). Is it > > > possible

Re: fetchmail, exim and pine

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 08:39:41PM +, John wrote > I still have difficulty with email configurations. Although I can > send and receive mail, things are very basic. Would someone > kindly help me a little further along by explaining/answering:- > > a. My .fetchmailrc contains 'warning 3600' at

Re: Newbie: slink-to-potato upgrade

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:35:52PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote > Hello, > > I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz > Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk). > > Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions: > > (I have been

Re: ["Jetmail System" <>] Mail Error

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 09:34:25AM +1100, Brian May wrote > > Anyone knows what this error means? > > This message *was* posted to debian-user, despite the error. I > got replies... > > Also, note that the address the bounced message was posted "to" > an illegal address. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

who broken?

After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count # users=0 Any idea why this might have happened or how I can fix it? Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

questions about slink to potato upgrade

Last night I upgraded my fairly stock slink machine to potato using "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". I have various questions. The last group of questions is about all the errors that occurred. o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? And all current security up

Re: who broken?

On 28/11/99 Dave Wiard wrote: After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count # users=0 Any idea why this might have happened or how I can fix it? works for me TM perhaps your utmp file is corrupt? Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP

smail staff

Hi I want to block the messages bigger than 150K in size.I've setup "max_message_size=150K" option in smail config file and it's not blocking.What should i change to make it enable?Could anybody plase give me some solution? Thanks & Regards, Moe Thu Kyaw

How to auto-apply kernel patches

I would have thought this were explained better.. I have kernel-package installed and have kernel source for 2.2.13 and the kerneli package installed. The documentation for kernel-package states that make-kpkg can apply the patches during build, then remove them during clean. What I can't figure o

man and non-80 columns displays

Hi people. I like to use some non-standard text modes, like 132x60, but when I use man it aways show pages as if it were at 80 columns mode. HOw to fix it? Taupter

Re: problems with potato and X11t

> However it is now complaining that it can't open the default font "fixed". > Where do I find this font? or where do I change the default. I believe that's in xfonts-base. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: what happened to netstd?

On 29-Nov-1999 George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Brad wrote: > >> netstd won't install anything on removal, AFAIK. However, once its >> dependancies are marked for install, just removing netstd won't mark >> those for removal. > > Well, I saw the description that said it should be remo

bad alternatives symlinks after potato upgrade

I just upgraded my mostly stock slink machine to potato with "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". Now I have both /usr/man and /usr/share/man on my system, and neither is a symlink to the other. A quick glance showed no files in common between the two directories, and they both contain around

Re: Good UK spell checker?

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 11:03:48PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 03:54:45PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Does anyone know of a spell-checker that only accepts U.K. (Canadian) > > English? I need to be able to have a spell checking tool for school that > > will rej

expiring threads in mutt

Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for that time (I like to archive active threads). -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger

Re: bad alternatives symlinks after potato upgrade

On 28/11/99 Dan Christensen wrote: I just upgraded my mostly stock slink machine to potato with "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". Now I have both /usr/man and /usr/share/man on my system, and neither is a symlink to the other. A quick glance showed no files in common between the two dire

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

Hi Dan, I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the same problems. The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working somewhere along the way. After recompiling kernels and pcmcia and different options etc I gave up. I reinstalled (slink) from scra

Re: expiring threads in mutt

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:20:09PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a > certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for > that time (I like to archive active threads). I have this in my .muttrc. It'

Re: Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

Graham Williams wrote: > I've also just started moving to Potato and was trying the 2.2.12 > (kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-4.deb) and 2.2.13 > (kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-1.deb) kernels, creating a boot floppy, > and getting exactly the same problem, with the same message over and > over again: > >

Re: expiring threads in mutt

On 11/28/99 11:20PM, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a > certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for > that time (I like to archive active threads). I don't know about inactive threads, but to remove

Re: expiring threads in mutt

On 11/28/99 11:20PM, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a > certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for > that time (I like to archive active threads). Sorry for the second post, but there looks like an e

Re: man and non-80 columns displays

If your pager is less, maybe setting the columns environment variable will do the trick. See man less. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +--

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

Thanx but im aware of that, i ran setup for root and normal user so i can run it as either if need be. Anyway it used to work but somewhere along the line with upgrades it broke :(. So i downloaded the latest SO from sun etc.. :( cheers. PS i still dont have an answer :does anyone have it ru

Re: bad alternatives symlinks after potato upgrade

The command 'update-alternatives' may help you sort out the mess. It may be somewhat tedious to do though. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +--

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

Hmm that sounds interesting, guess ill have a hunt there, im running kernel 2.2.13 thanx aphro wrote: > This is a longshot, but what kernel are you running? I saw in the > linux-kernel mailing list a "bug" in staroffice that deals with the latest > kernels > > See: > > http://kt.linuxcare.com/k

Re: G400 high-res problem

On the contrary, every reply helps. If others are using the G400 successfully, I'll conclude my card is defective and get a replacement. Thanks, Greg Mark Zimmerman wrote: > > I'm using a G400 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with XFree86 3.3.5 and have > no problems with it. My monitor is a Sony 400PS. I

Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

Dan Christensen wrote: > o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half? > And all current security updates? Yes. > - Throughout the upgrade I got the following message: > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/Re

Re: G400 high-res problem

Well, for what its worth, I am using a g400max with no problem, but not with xfree, with acceleratedX. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Schulein wrote: > On the contrary, every reply helps. If others are using the G400 > successfully, I'll conclude my card is defective and get a replace

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:11:49AM +, John Leget wrote: > Thanx but im aware of that, i ran setup for root and normal user so i > can run it as either if need be. > > Anyway it used to work but somewhere along the line with upgrades it > broke :(. So i downloaded the latest SO from sun etc

Re: PPP not working after reinstall

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sending this e-mail using Windowze because my Linux box was > reinstalled (the primary HD was broken) and PPP isnt working. I used pppconfig > to configure. I estabilish the connection with pon but the connection's > veloci

strange openssh behavior

its very odd, but every once in a while, the ssh connect that i make (with openssh running on both ends) doesn't break. i will log out and the shell will already have exited, but the fork of /usr/sbin/sshd will not exit. on the client-side, the keyboard entries will be echoed to the screen, but w

Re: strange openssh behavior

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Herbert Ho wrote: > since i'm using openssh on both ends, could this be a config issue? > i'm pretty sure i replaced the config files w/ the package ones when i > upgraded, but i might not have. This happens with real-ssh on the client, it is some sort of bizzar server bug,

VAX/BSD Emulator

I heard the VAX/BSD simulator developed by Panasonic.MCI and Run on FreeBSD. -- Shigemaru Nishiyama "Shigemal" Staff Engineer Qualcomm Japan Inc Akane Bldg.6F, 4-1-31, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Phone:03-3224-2299, Fax

Re: Kernel

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote: litban >I think "make menuconfig" will do the job. litban >But, on i386 potato distro, I couldn't do it because there was no litban >string.h or something. Was it due to the inavailability of curses litban >package? I get similar problems on my machine too when

Re: who broken?

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Dave Wiard wrote: dave >After upgrading to potato, it appears as though who may be broken: dave > dave >[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/dave] who --count are you running that command from inside screen ? I get teh same but only when im inside a screen .. nate --

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > I have SO5.1a running fine for a few months now on a potato box. Got it > from the Sun website a couple months ago. Many fewer hiccups than > version 5.0. well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from sun, installed it, was running fine a couple of days, and t

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from sun, installed > it, was running fine a couple of days, and then "unrecoverable > error" i'm updating my potato every week, but the problem is > still there. > > i already

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from sun, installed > > it, was running fine a couple of days, and then "unrecoverable > > error" i'm updating my potato every week, but the proble

where to find this bug: "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 2."

i try to "apt-get upgrade" and get this error since a week or two. and since i don't understand perl enough i can't realy trace back. is it a problem of perl perl5005, debconf, dpkg? what to do? > apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The followin

Re: samba for a kids network-server

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Re: questions about slink to potato upgrade

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file > or directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I installed Star Office 5.1 in the /opt directory as root with the > setup option /net. > > Then I ran setup as normal user from the /opt/ > directory and the > setup program installed basic files in my home directory. > That's all, no problems under potato with 2.2.1

CD-Writer recomendation!

Hello again, A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go through this situation? Thanks in advance, Manuel Arenaz

Re: man and non-80 columns displays

Hi, > I like to use some non-standard text modes, like 132x60, but when I use > man it aways show pages as if it were at 80 columns mode. HOw to fix it? I'm using a quick hack: in the directory /usr/share/groff/tmac (slink/potato) or /usr/lib/groff/tmac (1.3) there is a file: man.local Add the l

Re: where to find this bug: "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 2."

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Does an dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* help? Martin On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Gerhard Kroder wrote: > i try to "apt-get upgrade" and get this error since a week or two. and > since i don't understand perl enough i can't realy trace back. is it a > pro

Potato ISO-Images

Hello, can anyone tell me, where I can get the ISO-Images for Potato with Kernet 2.2.13 ? I was searching but without success. Michelle

Re: Potato upgrade [PERL]

> After a long battle with an upgrade to potato from a very customized slink am > allmost happy. I just miss one thing: > I cannot start gdm due to some wierd problem. It complains about the user and > group for /var/gdm. Supposedly they should be nobody:deamon but that doesn't > work either. In S

Xemacs->Print-to-file HOW?

I know this is a little off topic. I'm trying to figure out how to get Xemacs(21) to pretty-print to file. The closest I came was setting the lpr command to gv, with the argument '-'. gv comes up and displays the file but menus like 'Save Document As' are greyed out. Any ideas here? -- +--

Re: where to find this bug: "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 2."

Martin Fluch wrote: > Does an > > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* > > help? oh, yes, cycled from .22 up to .48 why didn't debconf update throughout regular apt-get update cycles? gerhard

[Linux: Router] What does I need ???

Hello and good day. OK, today in the morning I have downloaded the Base-Installation of Potato. Now, my Question is, WHAT DOES I NEED to install a simpel Router ??? I have 5 NIC's 3c509-TPO and a fixed IP-Adress from my Provider (eth0). The cable modem 2 will be installed next year but I like

Crash windows with ping?

Hi I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in this case? Zso

/etc/profile

Apologies for the blank space up here. I'm having mailer problems. Of course if I could type my listserv addresses right I wouldn't have to forward the bounce-backs twice... Please CC replies to me, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. My /etc/profile rea

Re: PPP not working after reinstall

> > I'm sending this e-mail using Windowze because my Linux box was > > reinstalled (the primary HD was broken) and PPP isnt working. I used > > pppconfig > > to configure. I estabilish the connection with pon but the connection's > > velocity doesnt pass above 0 bytes, even pinging or ftp

using X Toolkit API on slink - Pushbutton.h?

Hello, I'm trying to get a full X Development system put together based on slink. I am trying to get some simple XT examples to compile. (although I have lesstif and GTK working nicely) There is no "Pushbutton.h" file on my system anywhere, although in the Xaw directory "Box.h" and "Label.

Re: char-major-5

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:55:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One other char-major problem. When I start my ppp session with pon, I get a > "Can't locate module char-major-108". The session works ok. I tried compiling > ppp as a module instead of in the kernel (it worked with char-major-5),

Re: sorting and naming files

The following should do approximately what you want: $ i=1 $ for f in `ls | sort` > do > mv $f text${i}.txt > i=`expr $i + 1` > done 'man bash', 'man sort', and 'man expr' should give you some more insight into what these commands do. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specia

lost HDD space

Hi all, I have an 8.5 Gig HDD but my total partition space comes to only 7.2 Gigs. Id there a way for me to create a new partition to use the missing 1.3 Gigs. I've been using SAMBA to copy my kids games to the Linux server and run them from the network instead of the CD drive. Great speed b

Re: char-major-5

These were the steps I followed to solve the problem. Thanks to Colin for his help! Michael Heyes With ppp as a module, try putting the line "alias char-major-108 ppp" into /etc/modutils/aliases and running 'update-modules' then 'depmod -a' to see if that solves the problem. (modprobe reads f

Re: /etc/profile

Absolutely

same-gnome kills sawmill

The following looks to me like a bug against sawmill: Launch the "same gnome" game and click the "maximize" button. This always logs me out of the gnome-session (which is my only command in .xsession) killing all other applications except communicator which has to be killed manually. This doesn't h

Re: PPP not working after reinstall

The problem is already solved. I'm putting the gateway as the ethernet card. Quoting Ookhoi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm sending this e-mail using Windowze because my Linux box was > > > reinstalled (the primary HD was broken) and PPP isnt working. I used > > > pppconfig > > > to

Re: Xemacs->Print-to-file HOW?

Eric G Miller writes: EGM> I know this is a little off topic. I'm trying to figure out how to get EGM> Xemacs(21) to pretty-print to file. Use a prefix argument, like C-u M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces. This will prompt you for a filename. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

Hey Manuel, I've got a Panasonic (Matshita) 8x read/4x write scsi burner and so far it has worked perfectly for me. cdrecord identified it immeadiately and it hooked up to my existing scsi card without any problems. Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello again, > > A friend of mine

Re: floppies' .bin

On Mon, 29 Nov, 1999 à 06:59:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether Debian could change the format of the distributed > .bin files in the installation floppies. Currently, it seems that the $ file /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin /cdrom/dists/slink/main/d

Re: Crash windows with ping?

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 01:16:50PM +0100, Horvath Zsolt wrote: > I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in > this case? Search the net for "teardrop" this nice program does the trick... -- Wojciech M. Zabolotny http://www.ise.p

Re: char-major-5

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:03:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > These were the steps I followed to solve the problem. Thanks to Colin for his > help! > > Michael Heyes > > > > With ppp as a module, try putting the line "alias char-major-108 ppp" > into /etc/modutils/aliases and runni

Re: Potato ISO-Images

Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > can anyone tell me, where I can get the > ISO-Images for Potato with Kernet 2.2.13 ? I don't think there are any potato ISO images at this point. We don't even have finished boot floppies for many platforms! Sorry, -Adam P.

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello again, > > A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to > recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go > through this situation? There's a nice document on IDE CD-Rs and Zips at http://www.tcu-inc.com/mark/article

Gibberish on switching X to console

I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to reboot, I seem to have read something about this one but I can't rem

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've just installed Debian on my son's computer; everything has gone > pretty smoothly except that when I switch from X to a console I > frequently get gibberish. I can't clear it with reset, tty sane, or > ctrl-v ctrl-c and I have to re

WebMail

Hi all, anyone knows about a webmail software to use? I want to provide webmail for my site. Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- h

Re: Gibberish on switching X to console

I had a similar problem with S3 ViRGE with XF86_SVGA, the console character set got fd up after switching from X to a VC. I used to fix this by running "setfont" (from the kdb package) after every switch.. HTH, Remco On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:48, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in

Re: WebMail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > anyone knows about a webmail software to use? > I want to provide webmail for my site. Check out the following URL's. At least one of these packages is available in .deb format. htt

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: homega >aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something about a patch. How do I apply homega >a patch to the kernel? I mean, just by: I believe the patch i mentioned (from kt.linuxcare.com) doesn't *yet* exist as far as i know, SO should work with 2.2.10 althou

help

I have a Pentium 233MMX, 64 mg Ram, 8.4 gig HD (partitioned into 4 parts)master, I wish to install into the G:\ drive which has nothing on it...1.8 gigs. using windows 98 2nd edition. 1. will I have enough space? I downloaded all files in " ftp://ftp.debian.us.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-

Re: CD-Writer recomendation!

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: arenaz >Hello again, arenaz > arenaz >A friend of mine is interested in buying a CD-Writer. He asked me to arenaz >recomend a model to him, but I have no idea. Can anyone help me to go arenaz >through this situation? I have had a lot of success with

Re: Crash windows with ping?

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Horvath Zsolt wrote: hz133 >Hi hz133 > hz133 >I've heard windows will crash when I ping it. What parameters have ping in hz133 >this case? Thats not entirely true, some versions of (unpatcheD) windows will crap out with some fragmented icmp or igmp packets but i dont remembe

Re: WebMail

http://webmail.wastl.net/ is the "Webmail" homepage, its a server-side java mail thingie that is easy to setup, with an IMAP host to verify passwords..can sedtup multiple accounts, has all kinds of cool stuff, debian package too. downside though, its a memory hog, make sure u got at least 40-50MB

Re: Help after upgrade to potato!

> Hi all, > > 1. After upgrade to potato from slink the ethernet card is not working any > longer. How do I reenable it? Is it being detected correctly? What error messages are you getting? What have you tried to do? > 2. The old kernel is still there, how do I upgrade to 2.2.x? > apt-get in

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