*- On 5 Jun, Stefan Baums wrote about "autofs for all users"
> Hi all,
>
> I am using autofs. My /etc/auto.master is:
>
> /mnt/amnt /etc/auto.amnt --timeout 1
>
> and my /etc/auto.amnt is:
>
> cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,user :/dev/hdc
> floppy
*- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6"
> Serge Gavrilov wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Does anybody know: is (unoffficical) netscape 4.6 packed for Slink system
>> exists somewhere?
>
> in order to keep my slink clean from the ´horrible´ glibc 2.1, i also
> had to found a way. i d
*- On 6 Jun, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: netscape 4.6"
>
> Subject: Re: netscape 4.6
> Date: Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:04:54PM -0500
>
> In reply to:Brian Servis
>
> Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> *- On 6 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrot
*- On 7 Jun, Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote about "Fetchmail"
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that will run fetchmail
> to download my mail automatically. I can run it manually using me
> .fetchmailrc
> file but the I can't seem to get the script working corre
*- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium
G200 AGP"
> Hi,
>
> Can you point me to the .deb version of the X-server for Matrox Millennium
> G200 AGP. The Chip type is; MGA-G200 B8 R1
>
> There is a version available in the xfree.org site, if a .deb pkg is not
> a
*- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox
Millennium G200 AGP]"
> Brian,
>
> There is no many of the xservers at this website, which is for the Matrox
> Millennium AGP ??
>
> Rathon.
>
> *- On 7 Jun, rathon wrote about "deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium
*- On 9 Jun, Andrew J Fortune wrote about "Unwanted Graphical Login and other
woes..."
>
> I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ?
*- On 8 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for
Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]"
> Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out
> the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too.
>
> When I do, % startx, I get the error:
> bash: startx:
installed? If I do not have it, how do I install it from my CD.
>
> % dpkg -i ???.deb
>
dpkg -s
or
dpkg -l
or
dselect
will tell you if it is installed.
If it is not then you can either use dselect to access the cd-rom and
select the package for install or you can use
dpkg -i .deb
installed? If I do not have it, how do I install it from my CD.
>
> % dpkg -i ???.deb
>
dpkg -s
or
dpkg -l
or
dselect
will tell you if it is installed.
If it is not then you can either use dselect to access the cd-rom and
select the package for install or you can use
dpkg -i .deb
*- On 9 Jun, Ron Hale-Evans wrote about "make-dpkg: Version number stays the
same"
> Whenever I compile a new kernel, I give it a new version number with
> --revision, thus:
>
> # make-kpkg --revision custom.2.3 kernel_image
>
> ...yet the version number of the resulting .deb package stays th
*- On 9 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote about "pon/poff for ordinary user."
> I like pon/poff to be available to ordinary users of my system. Now I have
> to su before being able to turn on and off the ppp connection to the net.
> Does somebody know how to go about this? -- Hans
>
>
Add the use
*- On 9 Jun, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote about "How to print on shared Windows
printers from debian?"
> Hi All!
>
> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO.pz, but there is no such
> ut
*- On 9 Jun, Kent West wrote about "Re: How to print on shared Windows
printers from debian?"
> Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
>
>> Hi All!
>>
>> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
>> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
>> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO
*- On 9 Jun, Will Lowe wrote about "Re: X"
>> is there an easy way to update my X server to the newest version? ie..
>> something i can add to my apt get file??
>
> run
>
> apt-get update
>
> then
>
> apt-get install
>
> This'll, of course, only work if you're following "unstable".
>
Hi all,
I am trying to establish a network connection with my Palm Pilot via
the cradle on ttyS0 and pppd won't let it stay connected. It
successfully lets the Palm log in but then terminates the connection
when it is setting up the interface, saying the peer(the pilot) is not
authorized to use t
nsen wrote about "Re: Unauthorized remote IP address"
> The trouble is in your pap-secrets file most likely. The fourth field
> dictates what IPs can be used. Put
> in the IP you'd like to use or * to let it use anything.
>
> Brian Servis wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
*- On 10 Jun, Peter Ludwig wrote about "a little [OFF-TOPIC] Exim .forward
files"
>
> Also, how can I shrink down the three or four email filters which all do
> the same thing (search the header for debian-user@lists.debian.org, and
> transfer the email to my debian-user mailbox), into the one fi
*- On 10 Jun, Thorsten Manegold wrote about "systemtime"
> Hi!
> What does the file /etc/adjtime do?
> It seems that when it is there hwclock.sh that is called at startup
> always sets my systemtime to some funny value...
>
> Any ideas?
Read the hwclock man page, there is a discussion about this
*- On 11 Jun, Clyde Wilson wrote about "Re: Is this List down?"
> Yep, you are still on.
Anyone can post, you have to be subscribed to receive. So the fact that
his message made it to the list doesn't mean that he is "still on."
>
> On 11 Jun 1999, Peter Weiss wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I r
*- On 11 Jun, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote about "How to unmount /?"
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to unmount /, so that I can use defrag to optimize the HD.
> However, booting from the boot disk, entering single user mode still does
> not allow me to unmount /. Can anyone tell me what I should do to unmount
*- On 12 Jun, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/*
?"
> On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 11:01:26PM +0900, OhkumaTadayoshi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files.
>
> zgrep
> zless
> zmore
>
> all work on gzipped f
*- On 12 Jun, Carl Mummert wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ? "
>>I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files.
>>Of course, these files are gziped, according to debian policy.
>>Is there any way to choose to install these docs in ungziped as default?
>>I
*- On 12 Jun, Greg Starkes wrote about "Where is /usr/bin/file?"
> I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able
> to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned
> it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I
> noticed that
*- On 12 Jun, Pollywog wrote about "RE: Where is /usr/bin/file?"
>
> On 12-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote:
>>
>> On 12-Jun-99 Greg Starkes wrote:
>>> I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able
>>> to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned
>>> it, an
*- On 13 Jun, Attila Csosz wrote about "pppd/pon permission problem"
> I can use PPP as root but I'd like to use the PPP connection as a user.
> I added self to the dip group. Calling pon I get the
> following errors
>
> /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied
>
> Currently( slink defaul
*- On 13 Jun, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote about "Re: New Win Convert--needs some
help :)"
>
>
> TNT2: Make sure you get XFree86 3.3.3 not 3.3.1 the newer version is in the
> "potato" distribution (current stable Debian 2.1 is "Slink" unstable is
> "Potato")
> or you can get the tar balls from www
*- On 14 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: A simple weird question "
>> Hi, I'm a fan of Debian, and soon i'll have to give a speech
>> at University talking about Linux and Debian. As our native
>> language is not English we always have this problem...
>> So the simple question is:
>> How i
*- On 14 Jun, Jan Vroonhof wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?"
> "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> >> find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip
>>
>> >Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to
>> >upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages
*- On 14 Jun, Mark Wright wrote about "Can I get the .deb files that I
currently have installed."
> I want to be able to replicate my current Debian installation, by collecting
> all of the .deb files that I currently have installed. 'dselect' deleted
> all of the .deb's that it installed. I kno
*- On 14 Jun, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: Local rc scriots"
>
> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> What is the recommended place to put something analogous to a bsd rc.local
>> script? There are a couple of housekeeping chores I'd like to do that d
*- On 15 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about "acroread --why can't package be
installed?"
> When I type
> # dpkg --list acroread
> The package lists with the letters "pn" at the start of the line.
> Such packages will not install, and there is an error message
> "no installation candidate" when I try to
*- On 15 Jun, Jeremy Ellison wrote about "hhhelll?"
>
> after some "tinkering" that it can't recognize my Zoom PCI-bus modem
>for some reason. I went thought the pppconfig and set up first with
99.9% chance that you have a winmodem and it will NOT work under linux.
See http://www.o2.net/~gro
*- On 15 Jun, Keith Beattie wrote about "Re: shell programing"
> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 06:09:12PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>>
>> Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)?
>> i need bash and cshell.
>> Thanx
>
> My favorite reference for bash is http://www.gnu.o
*- On 15 Jun, Joop Stakenborg wrote about "Re: ip-up scripts not running"
> On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:42:12PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> Also, I connect several times during a session: is there a way to
>> start fetchmail from ip-up only if it's not running already?
>>
>
> I
*- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm"
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote:
>> Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch
>> "consoles" in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching
>> consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xter
*- On 16 Jun, Barry Kauler wrote about "Re: acroread --why can't package be
installed?"
>
> It's in dpkg's local database, it's on the web package site, I've got a
> relatively new installation that hasn't been messed up in any way,
> I've never installed an earlier version of acroread.
> So, why
For some reason autofs is not autounmounting the mount points. Even if
I explicity define a timeout in the auto.master file for a mount tree
it never unmounts the filesystem. And no the filesystem is not in use.
I am using autofs_3.1.3-1 compiled from the Debian potato sources on my
slink box wi
*- On 16 Jun, David Wright wrote about "Re: Switch console in xterm"
>
> Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's
> why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from
> less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses
> the alternate sc
*- On 16 Jun, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote about "Scanner, TV tuner, PC-TV support
on Debian 2.1"
I am not speaking from experience, just pointing the way.
>
> I am trying to find out some information on scanner support for Debian 2.1.
> Can someone recommend a good scanner for use?
>
http://www.m
*- On 16 Jun, Hartmut Figge wrote about "communicator 4.6 - ftp bug"
> greetings,
> well, now it´s me who have to whine.
> firstly, a hearty gghh.
>
> my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before
> saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to us
*- On 17 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: agp graphics cards with slink"
>>
>>
>> many computers bought in the last few mounts have agp
>> graphics cards. the x servers that come with debian slink
>> seem not capable to handle with them. how to work around
>> this problem? (possibly wit
I just built a 2.2.10 kernel and decided to move the parport support
out as modules. I don't have any strange setup or share devices. Now
when the modules load it fails to complete the IEEE 1284 probe. When
the parport support was compiled in I had no problems.
Now:(as module)
Jun 17 11:11:11 b
*- On 17 Jun, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Potential solution to netscape crashing?"
>
[never ending netscape crash discussion]
>
>>
>> > I'm using Netscape Communicator with RedHat 6.0 on my box and it just dies
>> > anytime it has to view a Java applet. Is there any work-around for this?
>> How
>
*- On 17 Jun, Alec Smith wrote about "Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink"
> For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use
>
> deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/
>
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You'll get X 3.3.3.1 in addition to
> other updates for Slink.
>
> Note: I don't believe the debs are official. The only offi
*- On 18 Jun, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug"
> * Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I have to add
>> the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape dialog or rename after.
>> Netscape seems to in
*- On 18 Jun, Peter Ludwig wrote about "[OFF-TOPIC] Realplayer G2"
> I've been looking for Realplayer G2 all over the place (including at
> Real-Audio's website), and I cannot seem to find it for any unix-like
> operating systems...
>
> Is there a particular place where it's at, or am I missing so
*- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about "I want to verify that binaries have
not been changed"
> How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ?
>
>
Once the package has been installed and the actual .deb has been
removed there is no way. The only way to see the size of t
*- On 18 Jun, Matt Folwell wrote about "Re: I want to verify that binaries have
not been changed"
> On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:31:56AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>> *- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about "I want to verify that binaries
>> have not been chan
*- On 19 Jun, Andrew White wrote about "Installing Potato"
> I just downloaded the whole of the Potato main, contrib and non-free
> dirs..and went through the install...
>
> When running dselect I get an error...
>
> ../base/libc6_2.1.1-12.deb containing libc6:
> libc conflicts with apt <<0.3.0
>
*- On 18 Jun, Varga Robert wrote about "how can one upgrade from slink to
potato?"
>
> where can I find an apt 0.3+ for slink?
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/
dpkg -i apt*.deb
>
> and then, how can I upgrade to potato?
>
edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a potato mirror.
apt-get udpate
apt
*- On 18 Jun, Alexander S Polyakov wrote about "ppp-conection"
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am connecting to Internet via ppp-conection. The problem is that my ISP
> disconnect me each 4 hours and I have to reconnect each time . Of course,
> I could write script to do so but is this possible to tell Debian
*- On 19 Jun, Johan Ur Riise wrote about "dselect, database out of sync?"
> When I run install in deselect, i get messages like these ones (hundreds
> of them):
>
> Skipping deselected package et.
> Skipping deselected package expect5.24-dev.
> Version 19971204-3 of f2c already installed, skipping
*- On 19 Jun, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote about "fetchmail doesn't runq"
>
> I've noticed that I have to manually execute runq after fetchmail
> finished getting mail. Prior version of fetchmail (the one in slink)
> did the delivery automatically at the end of the run.
>
What is your mta? Exim by
*- On 20 Jun, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: wished I found wish"
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Klaus Pieper wrote:
>
>> You need wish to make xconfig. What do I have to install for my wishes
>> to become true?
>
> bash-2.01$ dpkg -S wish | grep /usr/bin/wish
> tkstep4.2: /usr/bin/wishstep4.2
> tk8.0: /u
*- On 19 Jun, Kent West wrote about "UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc"
>
[tales of sorrow]
>
> The only problem is that if I'm logged in as anyone except root and set my
> prompt to display my username, it displays instead "I have no name!" If I
> do a whoami command, it returns "cannot find u
*- On 21 Jun, Rick Macdonald wrote about "Re: How to determine local IP"
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ramesh Natarajan wrote:
>
>> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Ramesh Natarajan" <[EMAIL
>> PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Hi, Once dialed in, how to determine the local (dynamically assigned)
>> IP id
*- On 22 Jun, Laurent Martelli wrote about "Re: upgrading Xfree86"
>> "Shawn" == Shawn Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Shawn> Hi,
>
> Shawn> I am running Debian 2.1 and have X version 3.3.3.2
> Shawn> which doesn't seem to fully support my Trident Providia 9685
> Shawn> vi
*- On 21 Jun, Brad wrote about "Re: How to determine local IP"
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, scratch wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
>>
>> > > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
>> >
>> > nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :)
>>
>> Something l
*- On 21 Jun, Joey Hess wrote about "FAQ: Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where
to get?"
> apt-get install realplayer
>
> It's that simple. You will be told what to get and where. Why do people keep
> asking this FAQ and making it so hard on themselves?
>
Because this requires that slink u
*- On 22 Jun, Tom Pfeifer wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape
.deb's"
> Arcady Genkin wrote:
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Could someone tell me which .debs I should install to have Netscape
>> browser-only on a Slink machine? Is it the netscape-base package?
>>
>> As far as I found out, ver
*- On 22 Jun, Enrico Zini wrote about "Flushing the slink question cache"
>
> 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown,
>while I often find a need for it in many environments: is there another way
>(i.e. "The Debian Right Way") to do it?
*- On 22 Jun, Enric
*- On 22 Jun, Robert Rati wrote about "hamm dist sites"
> Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones
> I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks.
>
Scroll down to the bottom of http://www.debian.org and you will find:
Old versions of Debian
Debian 1.3 (codenam
*- On 22 Jun, Didi Damian wrote about "Magicfilter from potato"
> Hello !
>
> I'm trying to print to my stupid HP DeskJet 722c [EMAIL PROTECTED] printer
> using
> the pbm2ppa conversion program (in short it takes PS and converts into
> PPA,poor man's PCL). I've been printing successfully in RH an
*- On 22 Jun, Jason Loll wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape
.deb's"
>
> I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I got:
> ollollo:/home/jason# dpkg -i netscape-base-4_14.deb
> (Reading database ... 46865 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing t
*- On 22 Jun, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape
.deb's"
> *- On 22 Jun, Jason Loll wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape
> .deb's"
>>
>> I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I go
*- On 23 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!"
> I managed to accidentally delete the files "mouse" and "psaux" in
> the /dev directory.
>
> How do I get these back, please?
>
As root:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV busmice
ln -s psaux mouse
--
Brian
--
*- On 23 Jun, tboy wrote about "How to pronouce "Debian"?"
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce "Debian" ---
> it seems somewhat strange to me.
> When i introduce Debian to my friends i have to spell it out letter by
> letter. Any help from native englis
*- On 23 Jun, Algernon NG wrote about "POP3 server"
> Help!
>
> I want to set up a mail server. Can you tell me where can I find a good
> POP3 server?
> (Source or Debian Package preferred)
>
Use the package search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html
Package: qpopper
Status: install
*- On 23 Jun, Gertjan Klein wrote about "Autofs for root only??"
> I am trying to convince autofs to allow others than root to access the
> automounted filesystems, and I'm failing miserably. I can find no
> information on this subject in the man pages. It appears the problem is
> not directly r
*- On 23 Jun, Brian Greenfield wrote about "apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?"
> Hi
>
> I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I
> can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and
> Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files
> but won't configure them. The error mess
Brian
Fix your headers!!! Please don't use address that will bounce!!! If
anything send it to /dev/null on your end, save the bandwidth.
>From your orginal post to which I replied:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Greenfield)
Subject: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:49
*- On 25 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Re: I need some info/piece of mind before
installing linux"
>
> I believe there is a UNIX win emulator called WAPI, but it's commercial
> and I don't know how much it would cost.
It's WABI.
There is also VMware(www.vmware.com) which is an amazing piece of
sof
*- On 25 Jun, John Foster wrote about "Re: Potential solution to netscape
crashing?"
> ___
> I have a true type server also, and I am curious: should the font path
> lines in /etc/X11/xfs/config match exactly those in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> ?? Includi
*- On 25 Jun, Alex McCool wrote about "cdrom and mnt directories"
> How does one create new mount point directories?
> I have three CDROM drives I want to share via samba, but only one cdrom
> directory.
>
There is nothing special about the 'cdrom' directory. You can mount
your cdrom over the /f
*- On 25 Jun, William T Wilson wrote about "Re: Autofs for root only??"
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the
>> umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for
>
> Those options are only
*- On 25 Jun, Gertjan Klein wrote about "Re: Autofs for root only??"
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:47:29 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>If you want to change the permissions of the volume's / directory, change
>>them with chmod once it's mounted.
>
> Under normal circ
*- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb.
>
Because the old vnc and vnc-doc packages are replaced by the
newer split packages vncserver, xvncviewer, etc.
Package: vncserver
Status: install ok ins
*- On 27 Jun, Phillip Deackes wrote about "How do I put a package on hold
without using dselect?"
> I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I
> might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this
> other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg a
*- On 27 Jun, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: How do I put a package on hold
without using dselect?"
> *- On 27 Jun, Phillip Deackes wrote about "How do I put a package on hold
> without using dselect?"
>> I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally,
*- On 28 Jun, Parrish M Myers wrote about "XFree86 & G200"
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with
> XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2 wich does
>
> not support the G200. Short of getting a new version of XFree86 and
> recom
*- On 29 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
>> > Why does vnc-doc conflict with v
*- On 30 Jun, Shao Zhang wrote about "Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo"
> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>>
>> I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo
>> when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like
>> to add
*- On 30 Jun, Bill White wrote about "Kernel 2.2 and slink."
> Hi. I'm sorry for bothering, but I am thinking of upgrading my 2.0.36
> kernel to 2.2. I am running a fairly stock installation of slink, but with
> more recent kde and gnome packages. I seem to remember some talk on this
> list abou
*- On 30 Jun, G. Crimp wrote about "-xrm option to X apps"
> Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps
> that run in X. man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear. I've
> tried a couple of experiments like:
>
> xterm -xrm title=foobar
>
> but it doe
*- On 1 Jul, Matthew Gregan wrote about "X modeline conversions"
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm trying to work out a good modeline for X for 1152x864. The reason I'm
> doing this is because I was installing some new drivers for my video card
> under Windows and discovered that my monitor can do 1152x86
*- On 1 Jul, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote about "Samba and mount"
> I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
> a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
> SMBFS: need mount version 6
> mount error: Invalid argument.
>
> I am using the same command in another linux
*- On 1 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote about "TAR.GZ"
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and w
*- On 2 Jul, Michael Stenner wrote about "color in emacs terminal"
> Can emacs do color when in "terminal mode" like mutt, ls, dselect,
> etc. can? I've become addicted to font-lock-mode and I'd like to do
> something similar even when I have to use it windowless (or in an
> xterm, anyway).
>
>
*- On 3 Jul, Illo de' Illis wrote about "Re: Palm Pilots"
> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:37:09PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
>> Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with?
>> I was thinking of buying a palm IIIx and was wondering if there were any
>> isses with it good or ba
*- On 4 Jul, Thanate Dhirasakdanon wrote about "access ext2 partition from
win9x"
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know whether there is
> a program to allow me to access (mount)
> ext2 partition under win9x.
> Please tell me if you know it.
>
Assuming you are talking about a dua
*- On 3 Jul, Steffen Evers wrote about "script for compiling the kernel"
> As I've compiled the kernel so many times and wanted to keep all the
> output of the make commands and make it more comfortable for newcomers
> I've written a script that does all the things AFTER make xconfig as
> secure a
*- On 30 Jun, richard wrote about "debian-user split"
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> I had this thought the other day when I was looking over some archived
> deban-user stuff. Two thoughts actually. I know that there are an awful
> lot of questions that crop up time and time again.
*- On 6 Jul, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote about "DOS MBR"
>
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
>
> Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want
> to alter the partition table.
>
> Send me version info as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
*- On 6 Jul, Attila Csosz wrote about "KDE : why not in Debian?"
> Why not the KDE in the Debian distribution? It distributed with its source
> code and licensed with GPL( as I read in the KDE FAQ )
>
> Attila
>
>
Read http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008. With the recent release
of Qt 2.0
You have unstable in your sources.list file and unstable is VERY
unstable right now with regards to perl, most likely lots of broken
dependencies. Perl is being transitioned from 5.004 to 5.005 which is
not as small of a change as it may appear from the version numbers. Read
the debian-devel archi
*- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion"
> Ipswitch wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
>>
>> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
>> >
>> > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
>> > inaccurate, mostly beca
*- On 6 Jul, G. Crimp wrote about "make menuconfig"
> Hi,
>
> I tried doing a make menuconfig instead of make config to configure
> the kernel. Very near the beginning it craps out because of a missing
> curses.h file. (This is a Deb 2.0 box by the way, kernel 2.0.34) The make
> script cd
*- On 7 Jul, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Huge hard disk...how to partition"
> I just got a new HD (17.2 gb) in preparation for upgrading my system to
> potatoe when it is released. (I am also going to get a new DUAL PII mb
> now that REAL smp is in the kernel).
>
> My question is how to partitio
*- On 7 Jul, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote about "Samba 2.0x on Slink"
>
> Hi,
>
> I need Samba 2.0.x on my Slink system. Do you know some URL where
> I can get debs for it?
> If not, can I compile the source from potato in a slink system?
> Some problem with this? Will it fail?
>
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