netscape error :undefined symbol: _ _bzero

2000-01-13 Thread john smith
I have installed netscape communicator v2.2 and when I installed it it told me that it had error in loading shared libraries, it needed libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, so I installed that now, when I try to still try to run netscape , it gives me a different error that I have no idea about. ./netsca

Re: Accessing /dev/mem

2000-01-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 12/1/2000 David Wright wrote: Are you talking potato here? All my stable/slink systems show precisely: crw-r- 1 root kmem 1, 2 Mar 3 1999 kmem crw-rw 1 root kmem 1, 1 Mar 3 1999 mem and that includes the dates. (I included kmem in case you'd misread

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into gorey detail about compiling it, then say something like "and then you install it". add a .xsession to your home di

Swapping dependencies

2000-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On one of my machines, I initially installed ssmtp and I now want to replace it with exim. However... dpkg -i exim...deb fails because exim conflicts with ssmtp and dpkg --purge ssmtp fails because various other packages depend on mail-transport-agent... I know I can use dpkg's 'force' option

Re: Swapping dependencies

2000-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Dave Sherohman wrote: > I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is > there a better way to perform this sort of replacement? apt-get install exim -- see shy jo

Re: dwww

2000-01-13 Thread Bradley Bell
dwww seems to need a _lot_ of work. dhelp, on the other hand, will do most of what you need. -brad On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Moore wrote: > is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on > potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the > the scripts i

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Did you try xanim-modules in potato (it's an online-installer for > > non-free modules which are not part of the core xanim)? > > Yes I tried xanim and xanim-modules, but it says: >

setting up w/o interaction

2000-01-13 Thread Peter-Paul Witta
hi! i am not on this list, so please cc replies to me as well! we do set up quite a few debian boxes at once, so i was asking if there is some non-interactive way to set up debian. how do i do this? can i create response-files or definition files and still use the setup program, or should i setup

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-13 Thread David J. Kanter
Put these entries: > > FontPath "unix/:7101" > > FontPath "unix/:7100" after these entries: > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > > FontPath "/us

Re: mutt ignoring [tags]

2000-01-13 Thread David J. Kanter
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:32:51PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > If you're using exim, you might try using the .forward file filtering built > into exim instead of trying to do it in mutt, if you're having trouble. My two-cents worth: the default exim config is set up so you don't need to use a .fo

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-13 Thread David J. Kanter
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: > I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all > this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep > (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits. > >

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Yeah I also saw that, but it failes to compile with: > > $ make > gcc -c `./c_flags` atom.c > In file included from codecs.h:10, > from private.h:9, > from quicktime.h:11, > from atom.

LILO fails to load

2000-01-13 Thread Glen S Mehn
Hi: When I boot my machine, I get LI at the lilo prompt. The lilo docs say this can be caused by "a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer" Neither of these are things that I'm quite sure of. I just built a custom kernel with make zlilo, which is meant to d

limits in /etc/passwd, and maybe a bug in processing /etc/limits? :)

2000-01-13 Thread Jim B
OK. As a continuation of my previous ramblings on resource limits, I'm running into two more similar issues on my slink machine. According to /etc/login.defs, I should be able to employ resource limits by editing users' passwd entries. I have "QUOTAS_ENAB" in login.defs: # Enable setting of uli

Packet libz1 missing

2000-01-13 Thread Gerhard Heid
Hallo, i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not listet at all. How to solve this ? Best Regards Gerhard

Re: mod_ssl

2000-01-13 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:31:21PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Do you know how can I generate a certificate for a client? Is this > possible with the mod-ssldebian package? Is there a way to generate such > certificate without recurring to VerignSign or other CA? /usr/sbin/m

Re: mod_ssl

2000-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an unknown party. If they choose to keep the certificate they won't be bothered again. I th

samba copy permissions

2000-01-13 Thread zdrysdal
hiya when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it origional permission and owner settings. i guess it's like when copying a users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as the owner of that file. is there any setting in samba to tell it to ke

dpkg: extract specific file?

2000-01-13 Thread Patrick Walsh
Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a candidate for this function. [I've installed bash 2.03, 'info bash' now brings up the man page. I'd like to reinstall the info file from the bash 2.02 .deb] -- Patrick Walsh

Re: Packet libz1 missing

2000-01-13 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Gerhard Heid; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hallo, > i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, > but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not > listet at all. > How to solve this ? > > Best Regards > > Gerhard The potato distr

Re: dpkg: extract specific file?

2000-01-13 Thread Mike Werner
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote: > Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? > > None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a > candidate for this function. Dunno about dpkg, but Midnight Commander can do it. Just fire up mc, find

Re: dpkg: extract specific file?

2000-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Patrick Walsh wrote: > Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? > > None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a > candidate for this function. dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile file.deb | tar xvf - file Note that "file" may need to be "./path/to/file" -- note the leadi

Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes -- More questions

2000-01-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:34:02PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > Thanks for replies, I haven't been able to do a "real-life" test as the > computers didn't arrive yet. In the meantime I got some remarks here > which result in more questions. > > I got a reply the is not on the list fr

keymaps directory

2000-01-13 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other keys change as well. I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt bu

rsh access

2000-01-13 Thread zdrysdal
hi i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it is not a cryptic question. So, i will ask again. To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great. I now want to rsh a redhat linux ser

wireless suggestions

2000-01-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around 280ft, with line of sight. We are looking to do this as cheaply as possible. Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products I would greatly appreci

ppp connections between sco & linux

2000-01-13 Thread Peter Ludwig
Hi guys, just a quick one here, I'm trying to establish a connection between a SCO box, and a linux machine. However after the chat-script connects, I get the following messages from the SCO machine :- --- Log file Snip - 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Chat script succeeded 1/13-1

Re: rxvt/vim/term?

2000-01-13 Thread Steve Stancliff
Just FYI this same problem began for me under wterm after a recent upgrade of vim. The solution mentioned (don't set term type to linux) worked for me too. -Steve Stancliff

Re: APT with partial set of files

2000-01-13 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:42:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote > I have downloaded a bunch of the .deb's for potato, preserving the > directory structure. > I also got the Packages files > > I assumed when I did this that apt would not care if some .deb files were > missing, and would simply look at

Re: sawmill

2000-01-13 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote > > |> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile > |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The > |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on > |> how can I compil

setserial, stty not working

2000-01-13 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0 w

Re: rsh access

2000-01-13 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to > get it to work. To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for that matter): * The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a ~/.rhosts file with the address of the l

RE: wireless suggestions

2000-01-13 Thread Hagen Finley
I've installed Breezecom for the San Francisco Zoo in several locations and it has performed very well. Unfortunately, the Access Point is around $1250 wholesale and the Station adapter is around $650. Your 300 ft line of sight is well within specs, and you would probably see around 3Mbs between yo

Re: dpkg: [disregard] how to extract specific file

2000-01-13 Thread Patrick Walsh
Disregard, I've stumbled back on to the bash-doc .deb, and now understand that dpkg-dev is needed to extract files :) -- Patrick Walsh Edmonton AB CA

RE: Handheld computers - what is available?

2000-01-13 Thread John Gay
I have a customer who runs a van distribution system. He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to be replenished. He then wants to print a delivery note on the spot for the customer and transmit the details by

Re: TeX and PDF

2000-01-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it > |> on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself, > |> the problem is turning it into a pdf. > > The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply run

Re: keymaps directory

2000-01-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd > has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap > than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other > keys change as

RTL8139

2000-01-13 Thread Tim Nicholas
Hey there all, I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'mak

X doesn't start any more

2000-01-13 Thread Guyren G Howe
Hi all, After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec xdm, it just logs me out. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!

Re: samba copy permissions

2000-01-13 Thread Paul McAvoy
If you are copying between two unix machines it might be easier to just use NFS to mount the drives and copy the files over via cpio or something similar. I think that since samba is based in windos without much in the way of permissions, all the permissions get lost. I personally run into problem

Re: rsh access

2000-01-13 Thread Paul McAvoy
Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be better off with SSH as it is (more) secure and offers the same functionality. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:07:10PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it > i

Re: setserial, stty not working

2000-01-13 Thread Bostjan JERKO
On 13.01.2000 08:38:00 AM matthschulz wrote: >The permissions are: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Dec 28 21:00 >/dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the >settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial. > So you tried with setserial, too ? B.

portmap question

2000-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
I can't seem to figure out how to keep portmap from starting when I reboot. I've changed all references to portmap in the rc*.d directories from the S##portmap form to a K##portmap form. That doesn't seem to keep the portmapper from starting. I have to kill it each time I reboot. Just in case I fo

Re: setserial, stty not working

2000-01-13 Thread Paul McAvoy
Using 'cat' probably opens the port in buffered mode.. where the contents of the buffer are not outputted until a \n is seen. I may not be correct about this, but I have played around with writing some serial apps and doing the same thing you are doing.. hooking up my multimeter to the serial port

Re: keymaps directory

2000-01-13 Thread Paul McAvoy
The keymaps for loadkeys on my system (debian) are in /usr/share/keymays/i386/ You can also just do a 'loadkeys us' to reload the map if you are using the us map.. or 'loadkeys dvorak' if you prefer a dvorak keyboard. The path to the loaded keymap will be displayed. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000

Re: Packet libz1 missing

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Gerhard Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, > but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not > listet at all. As someone else has already said, it's provided by zlib1g. APT would have sorted thi

Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package? Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald? ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything

Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
Let me comment on two different posts in one: --- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4? --- Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory > jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [

Re: RTL8139

2000-01-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Tim Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not > find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. > They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the > source but not the option to select in

Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-01-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > --- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package? > > Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald? > ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. > > > > 1. I ha

Re: portmap question

2000-01-13 Thread Jim B
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they > range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in > /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there > a way to keep it from starting in the first place?

Worked it out

2000-01-13 Thread Guyren G Howe
I worked out why X wouldn't start (had my XFree86 config wrong). Thanks anyway.

Completion/M-tab

2000-01-13 Thread Blazej Sawionek
What does that mean? B.

gzipped logs loose format

2000-01-13 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Old log files get gzipped (/var/log/*.?.gz). When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the files and vi

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be > making those decisions because the machine is > unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as

Re: mod_ssl

2000-01-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or > other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first > time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an > unknown party. If they choose to kee

WinFast 3D L2300

2000-01-13 Thread Phil
I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300". Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it?   Phil

ncurses upgrade to 5.0 left a dangling package behind

2000-01-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do so? ,[ Dselect buffer ]

Adress magnager

2000-01-13 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi list, I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers etc. Something like Adress book in netscape. Any suggestions what to use ? Best regards Joakim Svensson

Re: X doesn't start any more

2000-01-13 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try reconfiguring X... On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: > Hi all, > > After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my > machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec > xdm, it just logs me out. > > Any idea how to fix this? > >

Re: Adress magnager

2000-01-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
Joakim Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers > etc. > Something like Adress book in netscape. > > Any suggestions what to use ? I've been using bbdb (available with [x]emacs) for a year, and am very satisfied. The recor

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-13 Thread Sean Johnson
I agree completely. Sean Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my > > machine to be making decisions as to whether it is > > appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be > > making those decisions because t

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bishop
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > DeltaForce2 and winmine work on my machine with wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb > & libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb, but not with wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb & > libwine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb (the latest). > Do you know where I can get wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb and

console characters display problem

2000-01-13 Thread Marek Habersack
Hi *, I have a problem with console fonts display. The scenario is as follows: I load a font from /usr/share/consolefonts (namely iso02grf.psf which comes with embedded SFM), load the appropriate keyboard map (pl02.map) and expect to see the Polish diacritics on the screen. However, this is no

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-13 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in > > Windows 95. > > > > + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with "gpm -k" and removed the startup > > file from /etc/rc6.d. > >

2.0.36 SMP

2000-01-13 Thread Jack Morgan
I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 (slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -)

Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.) I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive, and no net c

Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread mike ber
Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 Ciao, Martin

Re: gzipped logs loose format

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Blazej" == Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Blazej> When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost Blazej> their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is Blazej> `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very Blazej> difficult to read and practical

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. > > No, not in Debian 2.1 > It will be possible in Debian 2.2 An

ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome

2000-01-13 Thread Neilen Marais
Good day all I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window used to bring up stopped appearing. This seems to have something to do with the Ice Gnome integration, because if I turn this off, I get the middle

Re: wireless suggestions

2000-01-13 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: > A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then > split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around i've been using Lucent's WaveLAN products to setup a 'WISP' for a month now, and even wi

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:48:10AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > --- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which > > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installe

Installing VMWare on Debian

2000-01-13 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on /usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails. Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuf

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by $ apt-cache show tasksel Package: tasksel Version: 1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0) Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/task

Re: RTL8139

2000-01-13 Thread aphro
it is in there, i use it currently...enable support for i "PCI VLB and onboard adapters" i think the option is and a new set of NICs will show including the rtl8139. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Tim Nicholas wrote: tim >Hey there all, tim > tim >I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed back to the wine project? ...RickM...

Re: 2.0.36 SMP

2000-01-13 Thread aphro
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: yojack >I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and yojack >possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 yojack >(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -) yojack > I would STRONGLY suggest

Re: Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread aphro
i think it would be worth while to ask a linux-ppc or mklinux mailing list how they would make boot floppies from macos, im sure there is a way, rawwrite for mac maybe? im not sure. 6MB of ram will be very tough to get linux installed on, running it won't be too hard but actually installing it is

Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

2000-01-13 Thread aphro
modify the perl install script(s) ? i just let vmware go wherever it wants :) nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: albbre > albbre >I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that albbre >they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything g

Re: Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Charles O. Hartman wrote: > > I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine > (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive, > and no net connection yet. > > 1) Is it reasonable to try to install a begi

[OT] Removal disks for backups

2000-01-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hello all, I'm currently backing up my workstation data to a spare internal disk. This is nice because a few cron tar scripts do the job every night without my intervention. A spare IDE disk is very cheap, and I don't keep the partitions mounted so nothing happens to them. The downside is that

Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

2000-01-13 Thread John Gould
You can teel vmware to install in /usr/local, there is no need to install in /usr. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited

Re: WinFast 3D L2300

2000-01-13 Thread Howard Mann
> I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300". > Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it? > > Phil This card uses the 3D Labs/Permedia II videochipset, which is supported via the XF86_3DLabs x-server. _Exactly_ what problems are you ha

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-13 Thread Joe Block
Evan Moore wrote: > > there is the problem, xanime can not play Sorenson Video because apple > will not release any docs on it. It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson Vision (www.s-vision.com) jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Soc

Re: rsh access

2000-01-13 Thread Joe Block
"Christopher S. Swingley" wrote: > > > rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to > > get it to work. > > To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for > that matter): > > * The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a

Re: Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread Kent West
"Charles O. Hartman" wrote: > > (My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for > 10 [so I don't know modern hardware & interfaces], and Linux never.) > > I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine > (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, th

Re: Completion/M-tab

2000-01-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Blazej Sawionek wrote: > What does that mean? In Emacs, M-tab means pressing the [Meta] and [TAB] key simultaneously on your keyboard. The [Meta] key is often bound to the [Alt] key. If you don't have such a key and don't want to create one (e.g. using xmodmap), then you may use [ESCAPE]-[TAB]

PC as serial terminal via telnet

2000-01-13 Thread Philipp Braunbeck
Hello folks, I'd like to connect a PC running Debian ("zaphod") to our server ("trillian") running Suse 6.0. Trillian connects to an intelligent Specialix SIO multiserial board. Zaphod should connect to this board via ttyS0/1 using telnet. I did actually read all those fine manuals and HOWTO's but

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-13 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed > back to the wine project? >From the wording at http://www.winehq.com/who.html, I'd guess so: Corel Developers | Not much is kn

DeskJet 690 -series

2000-01-13 Thread Arcady Genkin
I have an HP DJ 697c currently setup to use dj550c driver. It works, but is very inky. Also, the color prints quality doesn't seem to be as nice as under win. I have heard that gv comes with more drivers for deskjets, including one for dj-690 series. Is anyone using it, and where would I read abou

Re: Prospective Newbie

2000-01-13 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > However, here's perhaps your best bet. Don't install Linux on an > Intel box. Grab a copy of LinuxPPC or YellowDog Linux and install > it on your Mac. I've even heard rumours of a Debian distro for > Mac; hmm, think I'll go check on that now. Yes: for the M68K series of Mac (pre

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2000-01-13 Thread Imobach Gonzalez Sosa

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2000-01-13 Thread Imobach Gonzalez Sosa
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themes

2000-01-13 Thread pplaw
debs, anyone have luck using themes from themes.org? using icewm in my slink box, i downloaded the theme"blueheart," gunzipped it, and moved it to the directory with the other icewm themes. how do i actually get the "theme" (blueheart) to come up? thx. bentley taylor. //

Re: portmap question

2000-01-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/13/00 04:12AM, Jim B wrote: > slink right? sorry, potato. > I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase. I think > that's as close as you're going to get as a "best way" to do it, because > it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff. This will proba

pppd trouble..

2000-01-13 Thread aphro
This is really odd. I finally fixed my PPP server this morning(/etc/mgetty/login.defs had bad permissions) and I wanted to change the IP address that the DNS is but pppd kept saying "too few arguements" and would disconnect immediately, it would only work with the original IP(which is on another n

SANE / potato

2000-01-13 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hello. Just set up a potato box to drive my HP6200C scanner. I installed the SANE package, but it seems as though the sane-hp driver isn't there, and I can't seem to find a Debian package for it. Am I just missing it, or do I need to download it from SANE and put the *.a and *.so* files in /usr/

leafnode: mixed delaybody settings

2000-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
Can leafnode (well, fetchnews) be configured to retrieve message bodies immediately in some groups, but not in others? -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+

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