Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
My hard drive is starting to make noise, so I bought a replacement. What is the recommended way to make the switch? All my Linux partitions are on this disk except the swap partition. My Win95 OS is on a separate drive. This is a SCSI disk running 2.0.35 if that makes any difference. Regards,

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-23 Thread Beavis
ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state. and i want the dselect to just ignore the face that they are not set up> the reason why is that i can't install anything without gettting ride of this packages first. is there an easi

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
Jonas wrote: > Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find > your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. For anyone who's interested, I took this route since it would solve the problem once and for all. Other than the fact that the equivs package fails to list its o

Re: (not)lame batch job

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Wintrich
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Hans wrote: > I've been comparing (not)lame313 and bladeenc today and (not)lame does > sound equally good at 128 compared to bladeenc at 256 bitrate. I use The > Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' for comparison, if you wonder. > > What I can't get done with (not)lame is batch

Re: (not)lame batch job

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Wintrich
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Hans wrote: > I've been comparing (not)lame313 and bladeenc today and (not)lame does > sound equally good at 128 compared to bladeenc at 256 bitrate. I use The > Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' for comparison, if you wonder. > > What I can't get done with (not)lame is batch

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, Well, thanks for all that info. Guess the support and packaging does it for Debian. Sounds good. And then to mention that not long ago I read that Debian had no support. I installed Debian, but haven't used it long yet, so we'll see. thx Bart

Re: Mounting Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Wintrich
I thing the most SB-CD ROM only support audio. bootmessage > only audio will work last test with 2.0.36 Peter On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, David Densmore wrote: > I just installed an old Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM and compiled kernel > support for it. I think I have done everything right because the

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Bart Friederichs
> > And don't give me the 'it is the only really non-commercial version' > > crap. > > What makes you think anyone intended to do so? Remarks like that serve > only to discourage useful answers. Most Linux users I talked to on IRC are a bit principal (is that the right english word for it?) and *w

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Jose" == Jose Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, I'm reposting this question because I didn't get any > answer recently. Maybe this has been discussed before but I > haven't been able to dig it up from the mailing list archives or > dejanews. > I'm using sever

HPFS partitions

2000-03-23 Thread Sandy Shapiro
Linux is in my /dev/hdb1 partition. OS/2 files are in three HPFS partitions: /dev/hda3; /devhda4; and /dev/hda5. My question is: What command do I issue in Linux so that I can access the HPFS partitions from Linux and copy files from OS/2 to Linux. (I have some .tar files sitting in OS/2 that I

Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is unstable pointing to woody, and frozen to potato? I found this out when I tried to get gimp1.1 and found it not there,

TEX: tex.fmt, latex.fmt, jadetex.fmt missing.

2000-03-23 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm having the familiar *.fmt files missing when trying to use tex. The mail archives suggest that the solution is to install tex from the proposed-updates directories but that solution doesn't work (at least not any more). The URL ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/.4/li

Re: Large Hard Drive Problems, HELP!

2000-03-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
hi Brian > I know there is/was a problem with large hard drives. I am using the > Asus P5A motherboard, with its on board IDE controllers. I have each > drive as master on the two controllers. I had similar problems with the very same mb. For some reason the way this BIOS tells the size of the dr

I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Matheson
Hey, I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes back to the login screen. Does any one know what's wrong? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello Dusers, I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one

bootloaders and fips alternative

2000-03-23 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings yet again Dusers, I have been asked by our Physics Dept. to carve up a win box and install the one true OS on it. I recall reading a while ago that there was an up and comming nice replacement (functionally) to fips. Unfotunately I don't recall the name off hand. Any body know what I am t

outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Jerry J. Jaskierny
there are several packages included in debian archives that are outdated. instead of installing the outdated ones, in some cases are useless to me, i want to compile an updated copy of the source. i'm trying to figure out how i can compile this source, and let dpkg/dselect know that they've been i

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Bart" == Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Well, thanks for all that info. Guess the support and > packaging does it for Debian. Sounds good. And then to mention > that not long ago I read that Debian had no support. I installed > Debian, but haven't used it

dpkg forcing new version

2000-03-23 Thread Beavis
here is the situation dpkg thinks i only have QT-1.4.0 installed when in fct i have QT-1.4.2. i have run man idconfig, which work to the extent of loading the new libraries, but dselect/dpkg is still convinced that i have 1.4.0 how can i force it accept the new version?   thankx for any rep

[ot] promise fasttrak66 and other ide raid cards

2000-03-23 Thread Adam Shand
i'm looking to see if anyone has actually used these cards, they are hardware ide raid cards. they sound really nice (support raid 0, 1 and 0+1 and udma66 drives). there appears to be support for them in the 2.3 kernels (and i've seen a couple mentions of patches for 2.2 kernels for them but no

Re: Mounting the Swap partition

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:08:01PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > In my /etc/rc.boot script, I find this line: > > > > swapon -a 2>%1 | sed -e '/busy/d' > > > > Is this the line that is mounting my swap partition? Do I need > > this line in the /etc/fstab? > > > > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0

Installing old packages

2000-03-23 Thread Matheson
Hey, I can't get the new version of WindowMaker to work, but I was wondering if there was a way to install the old version (the one on the CD of Debian Slink). Is this possible? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't accept things starting with -- as file names...) rm always takes it as an option, even if qu

Re: resetting dselect

2000-03-23 Thread David Z. Maze
Beavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Beavis> ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the Beavis> upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state. Then you should probably configure them, either using 'dpkg --configure --pending' from the command line or using dselect's "Configur

HPFS partitions

2000-03-23 Thread Sandy Shapiro
Linux is in my /dev/hdb1 partition. OS/2 files are in three HPFS partitions: /dev/hda3; /devhda4; and /dev/hda5. My question is: What command do I issue in Linux so that I can access the HPFS partitions from Linux and copy files from OS/2 to Linux. (I have some .tar files sitting in OS/2 that I

RE: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is > always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the > code-name for the 2.2 release. Each version has a code name. The code name doesn't relate to whether the distribution is in stable or unstable or frozen

Re: TEX: tex.fmt, latex.fmt, jadetex.fmt missing.

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark. Marshal > "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having the familiar *.fmt files missing when trying to use > tex. The mail archives suggest that the solution is to install > tex from the pr

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Taupter
> > It seems we don't have such "compatibility" packages for Debian; > > what am I missing? Could one install slink's glibc2.0 in a > > non-obstrusive way under potato or woody? > > Maybe you could use alien and install the rpm? I thing potato and > woody is totally commited to 2.1 >

input/output error

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
I had to reinstall my system recently, and since then, I have been unable to get my lcd working, I think the serial port might be messed up. I had a backup of my old system, and I had many many versions of lcdproc, including one from dselect, but they all say the same thing. leko:/usr/local/bin

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Phoenix" == Phoenix Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that >> potato is always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And >> that woody is the code-name for the 2.2 release. > Each version has a code name. The code na

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread ktb
- Original Message - From: Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:44 PM Subject: Difference between woody and potato > I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is > always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And tha

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
Try downloading the deb source, patching the source, and then using dpkg-buildpackage or dpkg --build. (Check the man pages.) Make sure you get the source from the debian website or with apt, if you have the deb-src lines in sources.list, as it will contain debian subdirectory in the source tree,

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Taupter
Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is > always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the > code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is unstable pointing to woody, > and frozen to potato? I found this out when I tr

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-23 Thread Debian Linux User
Ron Rademaker wrote: > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do > this? > > Ron > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null addendum: you can run CGI scripts in offline

Re: /etc/rc?.d directories missing on potato install

2000-03-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote: > Last week I installed potato on a new computer. > Before the first reboot, I selected one of the category of packages. > After the first reboot, install let me select more packages, but exited > prematurely. One possible reason would

Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
What if any errors are displayed on that screen it goes back to? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start > X Windows, it starts to display the appicon

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Jerry J. Jaskierny
thanks, i'd already thought of that. but i'd assume there has to be a more convenient way. debian can't possibly be built on just the packages and dependencies it provides. On 23 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > Try downloading the deb source, patching the source, and then using > dpk

Re: HPFS partitions

2000-03-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > Linux is in my /dev/hdb1 partition. > > OS/2 files are in three HPFS partitions: /dev/hda3; /devhda4; and > /dev/hda5. > > My question is: > > What command do I issue in Linux so that I can access the HPFS > partitions from Linux a

Re: Is My Copy Bad?

2000-03-23 Thread Taupter
> Yes I am trying to install Debian from a CDROM and booting from this. I > am trying to install on a p-133, 32-meg 16xCDROM, IDE hard drive and > CDROM boot enabled. The installer runs fine, I mount the root partition > and so on. > > Then I get to the problem step "Install Operating System Kerne

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:44:58PM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is > always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the > code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is unstable pointing to woody, > and frozen

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23-Mar-2000 Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: >> I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? >> (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz >> --help and I get that file. There's no man p

Re: libXpm.so.4.11

2000-03-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:04:40PM +0100, Jose Alberto Lobo wrote: > A problem with libXpm.so.4. > > I run debian 2.1, kernel 2.2.14, and recently downloaded and compiled a > program from citrix.com which I need to access through the net certain > databases on a server running MS-Windows

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-23 Thread Debian Linux User
Ron Rademaker wrote: > I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long > (exactly, 10th of second) it takes to execute the script, how can I do > this? > > Ron > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Since Perl is an interpreted language, there

RE: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Mar-2000 Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I > get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't > accept things starting with -- as file

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
You could also try dummy-package, or make-dummy-package, or something like that (I've forgotten the name, and amd too lazy to go look it up.) to create a dummy package that satisfies the dependencies that you need. I never did get around to figuring out how to use it though. > "Jerry" == Jerr

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:44:58PM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung > Wong wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that >> potato is always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And >> that woody is the

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:14:19PM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I > get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't > accept thing

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > have? They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know which one you wanted? Any apps which run on 6.0 and

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:14:19PM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I > get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't > accept thing

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
On a similar note, avoid naming files -v or -r those are real pains. A friend of mine had to write system code to delete them... If he still has it sitting around, I'll pass it on. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask

Re: Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread Hecubus
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > My hard drive is starting to make noise, so I bought a replacement. > What is the recommended way to make the switch? Symantec Norton Ghost. http://www.ghost.com/ -- Hecubus

Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Hecubus
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Matheson wrote: > I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start > X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes > back to the login screen. My recommendation is to install the w

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread kmself
In this specific case: rm -- --help ...should do the trick. The null argument "-- " signifies to most utilities that the remaining arguments are to be interpreted as arguments and not options. Other helpful hints: - List the file by inode, find and remove the inode: touch -- --help

Re: Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread kmself
This assumes a spare bay and/or connector. And a rescue and/or boot disk. Install the new hard drive. Partition it as desired. If you're happy with your current partitioning scheme, use that, if not modify it in the direction you wish you'd done it initially. Partitioning is a religious topic.

Re: Time taken by a script

2000-03-23 Thread Onno
Ron is rights, but you can get an idea when you do prepend the time command like: time script It gives you a few stats. Regards, Onno At 06:19 AM 3/23/00 +, Debian Linux User wrote: >Ron Rademaker wrote: > >> I've written a cgi script in perl an I would like to know how long >> (exactly, 10

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Onno
> Ultimately, it's the similarity between FreeBSD and > Linux that's confusing you, not really the differences. Good quote candidate... Regards, Onno

Unable to bind port??

2000-03-23 Thread Mike
I Installed debian Frozen the other day using the base floppies ans downloading the rest. I chose the profiles I wanted, and the install went fine. Then the problems startedgnome was so slow it took at least 5 minutes to start and 3 minutes for any program to start. Then I used apt to install b

Re: 2 networks

2000-03-23 Thread Onno
Dear George, Would you be so kind to send me more info on your statement? Sincerely. Onno At 10:25 PM 3/22/00 -0800, George Bonser wrote: > >For two months T1 payment you can get wireless at T1 speed that will work >over that distance with no problem. > > > >On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrot

mutt and Turkish

2000-03-23 Thread Patrick
Hi all, Does anyone know of instructions in ENGLISH on how to make Turkish fonts display in mutt? All I can find are things in Turkish that I just don't have enough grasp of the language to understand. -- Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

how to upgrade from kerneld to kmod?

2000-03-23 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Greetings!, When I boot up, I get a warning message that kerneld is obsolete and I should use kmod instead, if I was using kernel 2.2.x.(I am using 2.2.x) I would like to know how I can accomplish this upgrade. thank you. __ Get Your Priva

Scanning emails for viruses (exim)

2000-03-23 Thread Graham Ashton
Can anybody help me to use exim to filter incoming emails for viruses, using a virus scanning package such as McAffee's VirusScan? Any success stories, or alternative techniques, would be helpful - I'm still at the "how should I go about this, and what should I get hold of?" stage. I've seen the

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Vitux
> Val Dokuzovic wrote: > >found out that I can not install > >it on my laptop. ... Turned to my sons old PC NEC Ready 60 Which laptop do you have? what leads you to the conclusion that you can not install linux on your laptop? In my experience, very few laptops actually entirely resist installa

Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi!   I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to complete the system and have following questions:   (1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which packages do I need ?   (2) I can't found the KDE package

Re: Replacing system hard drive?

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Wintrich
Hi, put a new drive (same size or biger) in your system. the new drive must only be low-level formatet (adapter-bios function). Then start your linux-system and make $> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 or similar In assumption sda is your old and sdb your new drive. It's tested with linux, N

Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Alex Kwan
Hi! I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to complete the system and have following questions: (1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which packages do I need ? (2) I can't found the KDE packages in .de

System map doesn't match kernel data

2000-03-23 Thread steve doerr
I get the following error on boot: parport_enumerate} {parport_enumerate_R2gig_8ccc39f1} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.14 does not match kernel data. But when I look in my messages log, what's below is the only thing I see and I can't find the above error in any of my logs. (I might mention my p

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi, here´s some answers :) >(1) updated the kernel to (official release 2.2.14) which >packages do I need ? Well, to start off with, you can dowload the kernel-source2.2.14.tgz from http://www.kernel.org/ Once you have this file, place into /usr/src and with "tar zxvf kernel-source2.2.14.tgz" yo

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Alex" == Alex Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I have download the floppies from ftp.us.debian.org and > installed a basic debian linux (potato) box , and now I want to > complete the system and have following questions: > (1) updated the kernel to (official release

Re: Updated Kernel and KDE

2000-03-23 Thread Roso Giuseppe \(Beppe\)
Excuse me, for a kernel compilation I think it's better to use after 'make menuconfig' (or 'make xconfig') to use 'make-kpkg' (make a .deb package of kernel). For docs see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz (if the lacation is the same of slink (2.1). (After 'make menuconfig' usually I edit Makefile

Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an NT server to linux. We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can handle all of the DNS and network stuff through the firewall, but I drop the ball at ma

Newbie: Install problems (pre-depend-error, python)

2000-03-23 Thread Thomas Guettler
I tried to install debian (potato, from march 13th) for the first time and have two problems: I already have a small running system, and wanted to add several packages at once. Dselect says the following and refuses to install: pre-depend Error .. fix it and run [I]nstall again But it doesn't

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Marshal writes: > I think the "no support" part is more of a "no OFFICIAL support". debian-user is quite "official". I think that they mean that there is no paid support. They're wrong: while support from Debian itself is only available free there are many who sell Debian support. Check www.deb

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Phoenix writes: > 2.2 is potato... No. 2.2 will be potato when it is released. 2.2 does not exist yet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

bad dependencies in postgresql (potato)?

2000-03-23 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
i'm trying to install postgresql in a potato box, however, the configuration script bombs out with a message concerning the non-existence of the file '/etc/timezone'. is that a missing package? or is it something that got replaced somewhere in the way to the current version? how can i set it up so

OT - International E-mail

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
If an e-mail is written in a multi-byte character format, say like Chinese, there is no garuntee that it will get to the other side properly, is there? If I recall correctly, mail is like packets. They are moved from server to server. If one server strips the 8th bit, then that's it. Gribberish.

Would I have any problems with Epson Stylus 740?

2000-03-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I see that Epson Stylus printers are supported by ghostscript, for example, but in the list of supported printers I didn't see the 740 in particular... Would there be any problems? Or, would I be able to use all its features? THank you very much, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini In

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marshal writes: >> I think the "no support" part is more of a "no OFFICIAL >> support". > debian-user is quite "official". > I think that they mean that there is no paid support. They're > wrong: while support fro

Re: Newbie: Install problems (pre-depend-error, python)

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Thomas" == Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install debian (potato, from march 13th) for the > first time and have two problems: I already have a small running > system, and wanted to add several packages at once. Dselect says > the following and refu

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Waldner
first of all you have to understand that the MTA has nothing to do with POP3, a MTA will only do (E)SMTP If you want to do the quick&dirty approach (which is not very scalable and secure) you could simply add each user as a real user to the system, and create aliases from the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Real Player 7

2000-03-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Go to the RealPlayer7 directory, and run the three shell scripts in that directory. Should work then. Worked for me anyhow. Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi, : I Installed REalplayer 7 using the installer, and after that I was : unable to start netscape anymore: only bus e

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Waldner
ok, please don't lart me for not line-breaking correctly, I'll do that myself: lart($self) ;-) On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:20:47 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-115

Re: Which MTA to use?

2000-03-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
>leave POP3 in place. Which MTA is the best given my limitation? Try XMail : http://www.maticad.it/davide ftp://ftp.maticad.it/pub/misc/mailsvr.zip XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an SMTP server, POP3 server, finger server, multiple domains, no need for users to have a

Netscape Plugins

2000-03-23 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I am useing Debian and Storm Linux with the standard packages. This is something that I have never gotten to work. I do have the plugger system installed and working right. But I have tried to install Flash and realplayer to no luck. My netscape 'about plugins' screen shows them installe

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Vitux wrote: >If you specify the amount of ram reported by the >bios, you will probably get an error like the one >you're describing. You need to specify the amount >available to linux, after the kernel has taken >what it needs. Try specifying 4-8 Mb less than the >actual amount, and yo

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Steverud) wrote: >Phoenix Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Jonas wrote: >> > Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find >> > your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. >> >> For anyone who's interested, I took this route since it would

Re: Installing old packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matheson) wrote: >I can't get the new version of WindowMaker to work, but I was wondering >if there was a way to install the old version (the one on the CD of >Debian Slink). Is this possible? How about: dpkg --force-downgrade -i oldpackage.deb -- Colin Watson

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: >Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: >> I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? >> (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I >> get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't >> accept

Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine

2000-03-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Esqueci de dizer que não uso Windows no meu computador. :) Ou seja, não tenho nenhuma DLL do Windows. Caso voce monte seu C: a chance de funcionar é muito maior. Quoting Eduardo Marcel Macan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:21:57AM -0800, Paulo Henrique Baptista de

Re: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> potato and woody are just code names. The actual "unstable" is >> bleeding edge, and frozen is the next release. Currently potato >> is frozen (a la Debian 2.2) and woody is the new >> unst

Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (esoR ocsirF) wrote: >I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to >read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own >mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or >some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> there are several packages included in debian archives that are >> outdated. instead of installing the outdated ones, in some >> cases are useless to me, i want to co

Re: looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to > read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own > mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or > some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one > have

Re: outdated packages

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >> "Jerry" == Jerry J Jaskierny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> thanks, i'd already thought of that. but i'd assume there has >> to be a more convenient way. debian can't possibly be built on >> just the packages and dependencies i

Re: Netscape Plugins

2000-03-23 Thread Christopher Judd
> OK I am useing Debian and Storm Linux with the standard packages. This is > something that I have > never gotten to work. > > I do have the plugger system installed and working right. But I have tried > to install Flash and realplayer > to no luck. My netscape 'about plugins' screen shows

Re: bad dependencies in postgresql (potato)?

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Brealey G.) wrote: >i'm trying to install postgresql in a potato box, however, the configuration >script bombs out with a message concerning the non-existence of the file >'/etc/timezone'. is that a missing package? or is it something that got >replaced somewhere in the w

buy debian linux

2000-03-23 Thread aconjure
이 메일을 받는 사람이 한국어를 할줄 아시는 분이 었으면 좋겠군요 제가 물어 볼것은 데비안 리눅스 씨디 세트를 구입하고 싶다는것입니다. 구입이 가능한 한국어 사이트를 가르쳐 주시면 좋겠군요. 구입이 가능한 한국어 사이트가 없다면 직접 거래는 안 됩니까? 빠른 답변 부탁드립니다.

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote: >Along the same line, what to companies like Corel, and Storm do if >customers find something wrong with the Debian distro underneath? They probably talk to their liaisons among the Debian developers (I assume such exist) or else they file bug rep

buy debian linux 2

2000-03-23 Thread aconjure
한국어 버전 보다는 영문어 버전을 구하고 싶습니다

esound, lesstif, debian issues

2000-03-23 Thread Lepus
Hi. First of all, it is quite interesting that I didn't get a single reply on my question about the esound dependency problems. Am I he only one who would like to use Gnome and Alsa at the same time under Potato? :) Well, anyway. The other thing... I downloaded the "Fractint for motif" (Xmfract)

Re: Debian

2000-03-23 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:20:18AM -0500, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > Along the same line, what to companies like Corel, and Storm do if > customers find something wrong with the Debian distro underneath? The same thing that RedHat and SuSE, etc, do when they find something wrong with an upst

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