Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
Thanks Daniel, I am using the standard (unmodified) 2.2.19-12 kernel from the Debian distribution. The devfsd package is not installed. I checked out the website, but I am not sure if this would solve my problem. I am not mounting this manually, or I would do it the way I want it. I will check

installing debian with pppoe

2001-12-23 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I need to install debian on computer connected to internet via pppoe. I always installed debian via FTP, but I don't know how to configure installation with pppoe. Any recommendation? Vadim Kutsyy, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
To reply to my own post - I think the problem is in /etc/init.d/iscover: " # Link /dev/cdromX to all detected CD drives, and create mount points: CDNUM=1 for CDROM in `discover --device cdrom` do if [ ! -e $CDROM ] then echo -n "discover reports that $CDROM is the CD-ROM device,

Re: New user question

2001-12-23 Thread Jijo Jose A
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:47:29AM -0500, kapil khosla wrote: hi > Hi , > I have installed Debian on my system and now want to install windows. > While installing I made a separate 7 GB FAT32 Partition. > i don't clearly understand your problem. what i seem to knew was , u first installed Debia

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:24:53AM -0500, Matt wrote: > Forget support and distro discussion for a second.. > > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. I > know this is sort of an impossible thing to answer, but it'd be > interesting to explore in vague terms who uses D

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Re: Java plugin

2001-12-23 Thread k l u r t
On Saturday 22 December 2001 07:48 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install the java plugin for mozilla/galeon/konqeror on my > woody machine. Unfortunately my searches at google/download did not > yield any good links :-( I would be thankful if someone can point me to > java plugin

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Paul Scott
59, male, married, three grown kids, American of Welsh and English descent living in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. Actively play flute, clarinet and saxophone, classical, jazz and shows. Metaphysically oriented and on "Eastern" spiritual path. Don't get too close to conventional religions. BS Math,

Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread shyamk
How do you change system date for debian . Debian shows me 7:06 PM , when it actually is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , but , why this absurdity ? Win98 shows it right (well at least he is more bothered with what the BIOS says). Could someone please help me set the Local time right o

Qvwm is sulking

2001-12-23 Thread shyamk
I will just explain what I have/had doneto get debian on my box ... I installed the Debian potato r3 CDs , and when they asked me about what I wanted to install ... I just pressed <> They installed whatever they would have done by default . Later I installed some apps for GUI (no GUI yet).

Turning on apm

2001-12-23 Thread shyamk
How do you turn on apm ? Mine seems to switched off. Warm Regards, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam # WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY X' Mas #

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-12-23 14:24:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you change system date for debian . Debian shows me 7:06 PM , > when it actually is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , but , > why this absurdity ? `date -s` is used to set the time. It sounds like you want UTC set to false in /

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread k l u r t
On Sunday 23 December 2001 03:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you change system date for debian . > Debian shows me 7:06 PM , when it actually > is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , > but , why this absurdity ? > Win98 shows it right (well at least he is more > bothered with what

sort-of-rfc: fvwm and auto-raise (on mouse focus)

2001-12-23 Thread Erik Steffl
the standard debian menu for fvwm contains item for FvwmAuto that does auto-raise of window that receives focus. Unfortunately the current menu entry is IMO basically unusable, I was wondering what others think (to see whether I should file a wishlist bug or just ignore it). here's the current

Re: Turning on apm

2001-12-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-12-23 14:36:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you turn on apm ? Mine seems to switched off. You are probably not passing 'apm=on' to the kernel upon boot, say, via a lilo append statement. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 2022

ISDN Fritz!X USB TA and Debian

2001-12-23 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hello, is anyone using Fritz!X USB TA ISDN modem? I bought one a week ago, and can't make it dialing under Debian Woody. Under W2k it works fine. What i've done: - install USB - compile fxusb from ftp.avm.de/cardware ... and make it loading when modem is pluged in - install ipppd, pppcapiplugin,

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Patrik Modesto
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:52:13PM -0500, yugami wrote: > try running xcdroast and seeing if you can get that setup and working first. > No luck. :-( I think there is problem with cdrecord, both gcombust and xcdroast use this util to write to CD. Here goes log info: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0

Where is basedebs.tgz?

2001-12-23 Thread Simon Eilting
I'm trying to install woody from the net. The documentation says I need a file called 'base2_2.tgz' (this is for potato, right?), and the installer says I need a file called 'basedebs.tgz'. The base2_2.tgz doesn't seem to work and there's no 'basedebs.tgz' on the mirrors. Do I have to install t

RE: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list so chances are good all aspects of covered. This crap is sooo far off-topic I almost can't even spot the messages in my Outlook Express Inbox. Hell, this message I'm replying to sound

Re: Java plugin

2001-12-23 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:41:17AM -0500, k l u r t wrote: > > http://research.cmis.csiro.au/ssh/simpleterm.html > Thanks. I got the terminal asking for login name and password. > and/or you can goto this webpage http://bewitched.com/ that has some cool > java artwork Ni

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Steve Kieu
See from log /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it works = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own!

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-23 Thread lee
Karsten & Frank... Thank you both very much for your time. 2 gig is on the small side as far as drive sizes go these days..but as this box goes..it's whole mission in life will be to serve as a proxy..which I've been SO unsuccesful at so far..lol. Squid btw :-). If there are any others (proxie

kylix2 enterprise won't launch

2001-12-23 Thread Thomas Kral
I am on debian potato w/ 2.2.19pre17 kernel. I have patched and rebuilt /lib/libc-2.1.3.so as per Borland's suggestion. After which ./testsystem reports.. Checking loaderOK Checking kernel >= 2.2OK Checking libc >= 2.1.2OK Checking libjpeg >= 6.2.0OK Looks GOOD !!! This system

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
Will do. I have a strange thing in my dselect list, under Obsolet/local optional packages: kernel-image 1.64 when I try to remove the package, I get a warning that I am going to uninstall the kernel. However, I also have 2.2.19 installed. Not sure what is causing that... The problem could be wi

Re:[2] Advice on upgrading Potato to Sid

2001-12-23 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I would recommend doing the following: > > insert potato cd > follow install to the first reboot > reboot > when given the choice to install more software do not choose any and simply > exit > do any required setup > insert sid cd and upgrade >

SparcUltra2 Q.

2001-12-23 Thread Aniartia
Okay I'm gettin' a SparcUltra 2 'toy' after I come back from the christmas break I was kind of wantin' to run Debian on it. As I understand it I need to use a 'Sparc64' Port but there's only a Sparc port, so what am I to do?.. give up on Debian for my Ultra & Run NetBSD or use the Sparc port of

evolution and printing

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
hi, I have evolution-ssl w/ all the trimmings installed, when i do a print preview on a message all i get is the header box(the darker grey box w/ the from and to n stuff) nothing prints when i hit print too, i have cups installed, and the bsd compatibility package so i have an lpr command, which

Re: SparcUltra2 Q.

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
see http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_3_3 maybe they can give you a push in the right direction, that should point you to info on debian. the ultra's a pretty nice processor On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 10:18, Aniartia wrote: > Okay I'm gettin' a SparcUltra 2 'toy' after I come back from the christma

errors

2001-12-23 Thread shyamk
Title: modprobe : modprobe : Can't locate module char-major-10-135 Dear members ,    After editing /etc/defaults/rcS to disable UTC , and , after Installing postgresql and mysql on my Debian Potato r3 box , and all that these installations entail (I mean dependencies) ,   Upon restart I g

Woody netinst image and Realtek 8139 failure

2001-12-23 Thread Kees de Bruin
Hi, I've downloaded the latest woody netinst CD image and when I try to install/configure the 8139too kernel module I get a NULL-pointer error. Is this a known issue, and if so, how can I solve this. I need network support (NFS) to install on a new machine as I already have a mirror of the woody s

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread MH
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy L Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You Jeremy> have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list Jeremy> so chances are good all aspects of covered. This crap is Jeremy> sooo far off-to

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1138 +0100]: > Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? i think more will worry about the choice of language, so please restrain yourself! > This crap is sooo far off-topic I almost can't even spot the > messages in my Outlo

new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really annoying -- visually that is. it took me some time to accept that Junichi did not reply to Oohara... 267

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shipped with the drive though,

RE: Question / Help on XFS Font Server --- FIXED

2001-12-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Sorry to be replying to my own request for help, but as usual I found a "fix" about 2 hours after posting the question! As mentioned previously, I had just used the "TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems" HOWTO by Paul D. Smith to enable TrueType Fonts on my Debian "testing" system runn

Woody-Net install

2001-12-23 Thread Tim J Spriggs
w-get keeps tiing out with the downloads from the server and if I manually kill wget and restart then it will get the file on the second try but it takes a long time to get through everything that way. It would be really nice if you could specify somewhere to simply get a single large tgz or somet

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-23 Thread mikepolniak
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:54:50 -0500 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karsten & Frank... > > Thank you both very much for your time. 2 gig is on the small side as far as > drive sizes go these days..but as this box goes..it's whole mission in life > will be to serve as a proxy..which I've been SO

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > Peter Good wrote: > > > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. > > Binutils is identical in Sid and Woody at the moment. > > According to the bug reports, the problem may or may not occur depending > on how the kernel is configu

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Russ Cook
I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have a syslog entry which reads: Partition check: hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restore the MBR? I can st

Re: Qvwm is sulking

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I will just explain what I have/had doneto get debian > on my box ... > I installed the Debian potato r3 CDs , > and when they asked me about what I wanted > to install ... I just pressed <> > > They installed whatever they would have done by default . > > Lat

Re: errors

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > modprobe : modprobe : Can't locate module char-major-10-135Dear members , > >After editing /etc/defaults/rcS to disable UTC , and , after > > Installing postgresql and mysql on my Debian Potato r3 box , and all that > these installations entail (I mean depend

Re: Debian Standard Time ?

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:24:04PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How do you change system date for debian . | Debian shows me 7:06 PM , when it actually | is 2:25 PM . I think they start off from GMT , | but , why this absurdity ? | Win98 shows it right (well at least he is more | bothered wit

Re: Where can I find KDE2 Debian packages ?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Dan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > KDE2 is now part of woody. Just do an apt-get install kde and you should be > > ok. > > I don't see any package called kde, except in the packages for sid. > > I see kdebase for woody (It sure would be conveni

Re: Party with porn stars

2001-12-23 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks, Justin * Justin R. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > I just installed razor and it works quite well. > > > > > That exists only in sid. If you're running something else (I'm using > > woody), did you have any problems getting it i

Re: init

2001-12-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the >process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init Hmm, haven't seen that. Might happen, some of that code was changed recently. Ignore

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all ! > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init > script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX.d/ Can > somebody please point me to som

xfree86-minimum

2001-12-23 Thread Chris Parker
Sorry to bother w/this but, What are the minimum files for xfree86 install? I have looked on thier site and through google but to no avail. BTW running 2.2.19 w/unstable. Could someone point me in the right direction to find the information so I can get X back up and goin? Thank you to all a

Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread B. L. Jilek
I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. I've got: /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom --> /dev/sr1 --> /dev/scd1 Everything works fine. What happens is after a reboot the /dev/cdrom symlink is changed to point

Re: new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started | displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original | (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really | annoying -- visually that is. it

Re: Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:33:12PM -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote: | I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. | | I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. | | I've got: | /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 | /dev/cdrom --> /dev/sr1 --> /dev/scd1 | | Everything works f

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Jeremy" == Jeremy L Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jeremy> Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You > Jeremy> have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list > Jeremy> so chances are good all aspects of covered.

Re: Changing /dev/cdrom symlink.

2001-12-23 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi dman! On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:33:12PM -0500, B. L. Jilek wrote: > | I've got a strange problem with my /dev/cdrom symlink. > | > | I'm running Woody on an smp scsi machine kernel 2.4.10. > | > | I've got: > | /dev/cdwrite --> /dev/sr0 --> /dev/scd0 > | /

Re: Keeping dpkg info up to date

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:25, Timm Gleason wrote: > I know there used to be a package for keeping the dpkg information updated > when you installed a particular piece of software from source instead of a > deb package. Does anyone know if there is such a thing in the current > distribution? Use th

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Pollywog
On 2001.12.23 18:15 Brian Nelson wrote: Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all ! > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init > script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX

gs ijs and hpijs on sid?

2001-12-23 Thread Marc Britten
anyone get hpijs working on sid? i have all the cups stuff, the kde stuff for cups, cupsomatic, and the ppd from linuxprinting.org, i managed to configure my printer but everytime i print i get Unknown device: ijs which is because ijs support isn't compiled into gs on sid, is their an easy way t

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi! 26 years, german, student of computer science at university, scuba diver. I run linux because of its beauty ;) in contrary to Windows. Debian, because it doesn't bother me with bad working tools for dummies. -- Markus Grunwald Registered Linux User Nr 101577 http://counter.li.org

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Patrik Modesto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:18:31PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > > See from log > > /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then > I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the > scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it > works I've tried 2.4.14 and 2.4.16. Both showed th

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 11:05, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: > > This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? > > good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all > TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i

where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that 'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Michel Loos
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 16:37, Pollywog wrote: > On 2001.12.23 18:15 Brian Nelson wrote: > > Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi all ! > > > > > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > > > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some

Re: Turning on apm

2001-12-23 Thread D.
In addition to what the previous response was if you using kernel 2.4.? you also need to add apm to you etc/modules file, anyway that's how I had to get it to work on my laptop. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you turn on apm ? Mine seems to switched > off. > Warm Regards, > ([EMAIL PROT

Re: ide tape errors

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.0501 +0100]: This is the correct media for the drive to read and write? good question. i don't know. it's a travan drive, so i'd say that all TR-3 and TR-4 should work. i do have the original tape that shi

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Patrik Modesto: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:18:31PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > See from log > > > > /dev/hdd in your comp is the cd-w drive? If it is then > > I suspect something goes wrong woth the kernel (the > > scsi emu driver ), try another kernel to see if it > > works >

OT - Tool for getting text body of email

2001-12-23 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I need to write a program the extracts the ASCII text portion of email messages for insertion into a database. I looked at the libmailtools-perl package, but it doesn't look like it can deal with the annoying variety of mail that I may need to parse (The silly +'s at the end of lines, MIME-attache

Re: xfree86-minimum

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Chris Parker wrote: Sorry to bother w/this but, What are the minimum files for xfree86 install? I have looked on thier site and through google but to no avail. BTW running 2.2.19 w/unstable. Could someone point me in the right direction to find the information so I can get X back up and go

Re: where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rick Pasotto wrote: Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that 'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed? -- Jerome

Re: where did zless go?

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > >Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that > >'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? > > > > > > It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed? # apt-get -s insta

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Aniartia
22 y/o Fem, English, single mother of 1, Free-lance Audio & Comp Techi. with NVQ

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
17, male, english, still going to high-school, learning how to do things the "debian way", hacking C programs, writing php, and learning more about computers in general On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Aniartia wrote: > 22 y/o Fem, English, single mother of 1, Free-lance Audio & Comp Tech

Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Dan Owens
Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system that can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do the install from the cd instead of downloading from the internet. I have an installed

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Jor-el
On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > So, what are you doing here? > > He shouldn't be here, so make him go away with procmail: > > :0 > * ^TO_debian > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.*html) > /dev/null > > I never saw his noise until you quot

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Russ Cook wrote: I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility called EZ-Drive, which is still active during boot. I have a syslog entry which reads: Partition check: hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] Do I need to overwrite the first sector to restor

Re: OT - Tool for getting text body of email

2001-12-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:46AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > I need to write a program the extracts the ASCII text portion > of email messages for insertion into a database. I looked at the > libmailtools-perl package, but it doesn't look like it can deal with > the annoying variety

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks, but those seem to be written for DOS. I don't have access to DOS on this machine - it is Linux only. On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Russ Cook wrote: > > > I have also read the referenced mini-HowTos. > > Additional info - the Maxtor drive came with a utility > > called EZ-D

Re: which latest kernel to use ?

2001-12-23 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 12:38, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Peter Good wrote: > > > > > Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. > > > > Binutils is identical in Sid and Woody at the moment. > > > > According to the bug reports, the

Problem with LDAP client GQ

2001-12-23 Thread Patrick Mahoney
G'day all! I set up a ldap server on my workstation and I try to access it with GQ. The 'search' option works fine. I can search entries within my ldap database no problem. The 'browse' option is where the problem is. As long as my network connection is up (eth0), GQ doesnt browse MY database, i

Re: No partition table

2001-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Sorry for the yet another HOWTO. I was lucky not to have such problems and only remember that they were mentioned in various HOWTOs. Anyway, I believe you will find interest in sections 7 (Translation and Disk Managers) and 8 (Kernel disk translation for IDE disks) of the Large-Disk-HOWTO. > I

Re: init

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Clark
* Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 23. 2001 13:15]: > >I'm sure I missed this memo, but why is init suddenly showing in the > >process list as `init [2] --init'? Ie., with the spaces and --init > Hmm, haven't seen that. Might happen, some of that code was changed > recently. Ign

X freezes System ?

2001-12-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now, so I decided to give it a try on my deskop PC. So I installed potato, added the unstable/testing sources and did "apt-get dist-upgrade", added packages until apt-get did not complain anymore... then, I compiled my 2.4.1

Re: floppy mounted on diferent uid

2001-12-23 Thread Guy Geens
> "J" == J A Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Hi! Its been a while I'm having a small problem. Every time I mount J> a floppy using my usual username account, the floopy directory uid J> is set to a diferent uid. In this case, my sister's uid. The J> problem is that I cant mout/unmou

Re: /etc/hosts strange

2001-12-23 Thread Guy Geens
> "Joel" == Joel Franco Guzmán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joel> Hi guys, plz, i have troubles with the hosts file. it says: Joel> 127.0.0.1 thor localhost You can always remove your hostname from the localhost line, and add another one with your real IP address. (Or if you have DNS set up,

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 16:37, Pollywog wrote: > > Thanks for mentioning it; I could not think of the name of the package and > > was unable to find it, but I knew such a thing existed. > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not

Re: new mutt index/thread format

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started > displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original > (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really > annoying -- visually that is. i

keyboard stopped working during installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof
I am stuck in the installation process because my keyboard stops working at a certain point. When I reboot the system the installation process continues at the point where I must choose the Time Zone (yes for GMT). At that point I can not press enter for Yes anymore. I don't have a mouse for the sy

Kernel 2.4.16 and boot floppy

2001-12-23 Thread D.J. Bolderman
Hi, I'm running 2.2.19 as original kernel, and I installed the 2.4.16 kernel with apt-get. This didn't produce any errors so I assume it went ok. However, I am using a boot floppy to start up my system, but this floppy doesn't work now. I choose to make a new boot floppy when the new kernel was i

keyboard stopped working during Woody installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof
I am stuck in the installation process because my keyboard stops working at a certain point. When I reboot the system the installation process continues at the point where I must choose the Time Zone (yes for GMT). At that point I can not press enter for Yes anymore. I don't have a mouse for the sy

keyboard stopped working during installation

2001-12-23 Thread Richard Zuidhof

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-23 Thread csj
On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:57, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot > of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure > what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything > is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be > mount ; no med

Getting tv out to work

2001-12-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi My father has a Savage4 Pro card with TV-OUT. I have managed to get ogle and vlc to run and show DVD on his computer, but now I would like to connect the machine to the TV. In windows I can manage to get output to TV, but the software is crappy so I would like to set up linux for him so he can

Kernel panic on startup: 'Try to kill idle task'

2001-12-23 Thread Andreas Maresch
Hello everybuddy! (or so ;-D) I have a big problem. Today I tryed to boost a (SuSE, I admit) linux box. But since then it doesn't boot. It just hangs on bootup with the kernel panik 'Tryed to kill the idle task'.Unfortunatly, I have not the faintest idea what else I can do. Until now I tried the

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > So, what are you doing here? > > > > He shouldn't be here, so make him go away with procmail: > > > > :0 > > * ^TO_debian > > * (^X-Mailer:.*Microsoft|^Content-Type:.

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not iptables > > Sure, if you only check the ancient packages that make up potato. > Current ipmasq has 2 bugs if used with iptables. Unlike ipchains, there are 2 opt

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > > Last time I checked ipmasq was installing ipchains rules, not iptables > > > > Sure, if you only check the ancient packages that make up potato. > > > > Current ipmasq has 2 bugs

Re: X freezes System ?

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Martin Emrich wrote: Hi ! I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now, so I decided to give it a try on my deskop PC. So I installed potato, added the unstable/testing sources and did "apt-get dist-upgrade", added packages until apt-get did not complain anymore... th

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-23 Thread Cam Ellison
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 23 Dec 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last time a > question was asked by a Microsoft mail

Re: Where is basedebs.tgz?

2001-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm trying to install woody from the net. The documentation says I need > a file called 'base2_2.tgz' (this is for potato, right?), and the > installer says I need a file called 'basedebs.tgz'. The base2_2.tgz > doesn't seem to work and there's no 'basedebs.tgz' on the mirrors. Do I > have to

Re: Making installation cd from cached files

2001-12-23 Thread Imre Vida
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system that > can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? > > I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do the > install from

Re: epson stylus c60 in potato help

2001-12-23 Thread Imre Vida
> gimp1.2-print_4.1.99-b1 is in testing and unstable. You would have to > upgrade to gimp1.2 or compile gimp-print driver into ghostscript to use > it. I see Epson Stylus C20SX, C20UX, C40SX, and C40UX listed but no C60. use CUPS. it works very well with the gimp-print drivers and according to

new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonjour: I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: surprisingly some options can be seen in grey (when `make xconfig' is used) but they cannot be selected: apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. How can we make all options available ? Thanks in advance, Jerome BENOIT -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*

Re: new kernel option

2001-12-23 Thread Tom Massey
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:05:52AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour: > > I have just tried to build an SMP kernel: > surprisingly some options can be seen in grey > (when `make xconfig' is used) > but they cannot be selected: > apparently the Makefile does a pre-choice. > > How can we make a

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