Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-08 Thread R
Hi all, I am new to Linux. after studied various different distributions I decided to go with Debian. Having spent two days playing with it, now I have to ask for help :( I just bought a PC and download the 6 disks for base systems (rescue, devie, and base14-1 thru base14-4) and made two copies

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-09 Thread R
quot;enter the block device name" what I suppose to enter. also, I read some where that i can mount the CD with command like mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sonycd_31a /mnt but sonycd_31a is not there. Is there any other device I can use? I will probably have a lot more questions to come :-

Re: Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

2006-01-26 Thread r
well i have been having this problem for 1 year. the computer will only install windows and not linux ,macintosh?this image contains a linux kernel-i think which reconfigures the boot setup. i have partially erased this RAMDISK image but will apreciate any suggestions as many files are write

Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-15 Thread R R Potratz
Greetings, I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-07 Thread jose . r . r
available from older Debian 10 (Buster) and/or newer Debian 12 (Bookworm). -- Best Professional Regards. -- Jose R R http://metztli.it - Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Buster w/ Linux 5.1

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-14 Thread R R Potratz
Where, in all this pabulum of replies, is the answer to the original question??? On 13 Apr 2002 at 22:02, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > True to some extent but you are using dangerous words. "local economy" > is crap since Intel export most of low

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-15 Thread R R Potratz
And Amen On 14 Apr 2002 at 20:46, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Thankfully we have liberals around to pass laws to tell the rest of us > > what to do. > > As opposed to conservatives who can't seem to keep laws

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-15 Thread R R Potratz
Amen On 14 Apr 2002 at 23:19, Hall Stevenson wrote: * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 21:55]: > I kinda hope walmart does well in this venture, just to show the > industry that we don't want windows pre-installed. Otherwise the local > shop is just as good, if not better. You know, that was mos

Re: New drive

1999-07-02 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Stephan A Suerken wrote: > > Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt > > it supports the ext2 filesystem. > > With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via "cp -a", so tar > is not needed (if one can mount b

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-10 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Dan Everton wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: > > > In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed > > > that I > > > can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mo

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-11 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Dan Everton wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Colin R. R. Johnson wrote: > > Dan Everton wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Eve

Re: A Vi (Vim) question

2005-05-08 Thread Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.)
abets to the arrow keys? :help i_CTRL-O CTRL-O execute one command, return to Insert mode *i_CTRL-O* -- Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.) <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/vim/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moving Debian Installation from Intel Celeron to Mobile AMD Sempron

2005-05-31 Thread Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.)
n Mobile AMD Sempron (or on similar AMD processors)? -- Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.) <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LILO 21.5-1 beta, LILO 21.4.32

2000-09-18 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
Hi, I just upgraded to woody (apt-get dist-upgrade) which worked extremely well except for lilo. The lilo 21.4.32 package contains lilo 21.5-1 beta. Further, when I run Lilo (I compiled a 2.4 kernel) I get the following: LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba3

Re: LILO 21.5-1 beta, LILO 21.4.32

2000-09-19 Thread Colin R. R. Johnson
the binary contained therin. I guess I'll send an email to the package maintainer. "Colin R. R. Johnson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded to woody (apt-get dist-upgrade) which worked extremely > well except for lilo. > > The lilo 21.4.32 package contains lilo

Packages to install for WLL

2003-01-20 Thread Shyam R
Please say what are the packages to be be installed for Internet connection thro' WLL(wireless loop) Ramachandran __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-20 Thread R. Sinclair
se working. I started X, and sure enough, it was working. I dunno if this'll work for you or not, but give it a shot...it shouldn't hurt. Regards. -- R. Sinclair http://www.wigglit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-02-03 Thread R Ransbottom
> Bill Moseley wrote: > >I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 > >based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any > >hardware issues? I'm using Shuttle FV25 Spacewalker boards w/o problems. I've never really gotten into the Microsoft world s

KDE update

2003-02-08 Thread Geny R
I have recently started using Debian woody. I would appreciate some help in resolving a problem I have on trying to upgrade KDE3.0.5a to KDE3.1. Using apt-get upgrade everything goes ok until unpacking when it complains, for example, dpkg-deb : subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe).

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread R Ransbottom
I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. So instead: find, cpio, growisofs, and a tomsrtbt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-30 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:13AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: > R Ransbottom wrote: > >I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root > >could not be found. I bailed out because it seems > Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I'd >

Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread A R
el machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done

Re: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-03 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:20:33PM -0700, ListDude1 wrote: > Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger avaialble for > Debian.very secure >do not trust > chrooting >

Going crazy with sound. No soundcore.o in kernel-source.2.4.21 distributed in SID

2003-10-08 Thread A R
After "updatedb" hpd:~# locate soundcore /lib/modules/2.4.20-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/utils/patches/soundcore.2.4.20.patch /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/utils/patches/soundcore.2.4.patch hpd:~# uname

Help inserting soundcore.o in kernel 2.4.21

2003-10-09 Thread A R
Hey you guys, I need some help here from the gurus. I've found that kernel 2.4.21 has no soundcore.o, at least after googling it seems to be a general problem. I posted a message to the users list about it last night, but I haven't got any help. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-

Gnome session errors

2002-10-06 Thread A R
Everytime I login using gnome-session or sawfish manager, my mouse becomes some kind of X and no panels appear. This problem has begun over the weekend. All was working perfect before that. So I have lost my settings to gnome. However, KDE and othet winows managers from Gnome continue to work fin

dpkg-reconfigure locales

2002-10-07 Thread A R
After starting dpkg-reconfigure locales a screen comes with a bunch of different locales to be selected, but I have not figured the way to select any of them: tried +, y, Y, , , you name it. None of them work. Can someone indicate what is wrong? __

change modem serial port

2002-10-08 Thread Michael R
I just installed Debian on my computer and I guess I choose the wrong serial port for my modem because it doesn't work, I tried to find some way to change it without having to go through the entire reinstallation process but haven't been able to find one. Any help would be great. THANKS, MIK

floppy sized packages

2002-10-08 Thread Michael R
Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need to download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies onto my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for Windows that will make files I can join with a linux program that would w

Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
I receive mail with fetchmail which works fine. My system receives mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mail works fine. I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local mail to an unknown user. How should I make this work? Pref

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:11:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > R> I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. > > R> When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local > R> mail to an unknown user. > > R> How sho

Progeny installer for woody

2002-10-24 Thread A R
I think may be interesting to the list members http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/ How does it work exactly? __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

running rsh and ssh?

2002-10-31 Thread R Ransbottom
At work we've been running a linux network for the past six years. This is a isolated network. Everything is linux except for three machines. One dual boots win98se to run a payroll program. One mostly runs in win98se to run a credit card processing program. One runs SCO to handle a

Re: running rsh and ssh?

2002-11-01 Thread R Ransbottom
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:38:38PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > R Ransbottom wrote: > > My first concern is what to run on win98se that will handle > > ssl and provide good terminal emulation, and samba. (I don't > > know much about windows or its culture.) What to

Sound problems in Gnome

2002-11-08 Thread A R
When I run Gnome I get some sound problem, for example: tony@debian:~$ saydate sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy tony@debian:~$ Only cdplay seems to work fine, xmms gives also trouble, complains. However, if I logout and get back right away through kde or any other win

VIA tv out encoder

2002-11-25 Thread R Ransbottom
I am setting up some Shuttle SV25, which are shoebox size socket-370 PC systems w/ everything on the motherboard, and taking standard components. They have a "VIA TV out encoder" on board. The chip is actually labeled: Chrontel CH7006C-T RUC 0206 MC821#A I only have a tiny clue what a video enco

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-12 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably > kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more > reads/write > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 > tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) > syn

telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-15 Thread r . levene
If I run telnet localhost 22 then I have to wait 15-30 seconds before it connects; with telnet 127.0.0.1 22 it connects at once. I have the same results using other open ports. Running strace telnet localhost 22 shows that it's trying to resolve the hostname localhost by querying the nameserver. I

Re: LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-25 Thread R Ransbottom
> > Paul M Foster (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in > > > the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want Had the same problem and the same difficulty finding the answer: In lilo.conf append="video=vga16:off

Re: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder?

2003-08-30 Thread R Ransbottom
In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not ex

X problems with unstable

2003-08-31 Thread R Ransbottom
In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exi

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread R Ransbottom
> This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp > lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and > play. Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad idea to have such a package work without, at least, forcing the user to set it up. -

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-02 Thread R Ransbottom
Hush, Karl, hush. Please! We are in hiding. If you keep making noise you will be the one we use for a suicide-diversion "mission" when they get close enough. Quietly now: Are you prepared to make that sacrifice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread R Ransbottom
oks like: 2002-12-12 13:32:21 18MY8D-GB-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=rir P=local S=298 2002-12-12 13:32:22 18MY8D-0000GB-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1331: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.170.

Virtual packages

2002-12-15 Thread R Ransbottom
Lately I've been using apt. Using dselect to pull stuff off the net. How might I browse for virtual packages and their real counterparts? The thought of installing javascruft ^H^H^H^Hipt and such for browsers lead to this query. -- rir Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: smtp of ISP needs passwd,how to setup exim?

2002-12-17 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 06:55:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:24:36PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > > I want to setup exim use my ISP's smtp server as a smart host. But this > > smtp server needs user name and password. How do I use exim this way? > > Thank you in advance.

Help needed to steal Knoppix settings, etc

2002-12-29 Thread A R
Hi guys, I am trying to steal the network settings from what Knoppix does to copy them in my woody machine, but I don't know where I should look at. The interfaces file doesn't seem to be the one, or at least there is more to it than it shows. I am connecting right now from Knoppix, my machine has

framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread R Ransbottom
I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using the framebuffer device or not. I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work on various machines. Preferably without kernel compiles and without knowledge of what video card i

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-16 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:52PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I want to set up DNS on my system so I can have my domain names point to > it. > What is a good way to do this? Is there an easy way? I am running the > current unstable distribution. Is there something I can apt-get easily? dn

installing debian

1999-06-04 Thread Keith R.
ive ben trying to install debian linux on an older 386 of mine an ibm ps/2 model 56slc it has a micro channel architecture when i place the boot disk in it goes through every thing seemingly well except it doesnt pick up the scsi drive and host adapter thats part of the mother board. any hints

ipchains redirect oddity

1999-07-12 Thread R . Gregory
.0.0.0/0 8080 -j REDIRECT ipchains: No chain by that name I'm a bit stumped at this point-- any tips would be great. Regards-- R. Gregory

IPchains oddity

1999-07-12 Thread R . Gregory
080 -j REDIRECT ipchains: No chain by that name I'm a bit stumped at this point-- any tips would be great. Regards-- R. Gregory

Can only run X as root

1998-07-29 Thread George R
Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages and howto's until my eyes have crossed. When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x.

Re: Can only run X as root

1998-07-31 Thread George R
On 07/30/98 at 11:55 AM, Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >X should be suid root and look like: >$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X >-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4880 Jun 23 23:46 /usr/bin/X11/X > ^ important >Something must have messed up your setup, maybe you could try to set X >back w

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-01 Thread George R
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX* >advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of >my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the >OS, same as my Linux box

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread George R
On 08/03/98 at 02:27 AM, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Manoj, I find that remark disturbing. That is who you are writing the >software for. The luser community produces the developers over time. >Without a stong and vital user base, you will not attract a good >developer community. If s

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread George R
On 08/03/98 at 11:53 AM, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I >really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like >this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to >choose which one t

Market Debian? (was Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?)

1998-08-05 Thread George R
On 08/04/98 at 05:34 PM, Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Technical excellence is about doing something well, and coming up with >a system which is highly capable. One measure of capability is how >much software runs on the system. If RedHat runs a greater variety of >commercial applicat

RE: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread George R
erances between RH and Debian file structure. I thought I was remembering file locations wrong when I tried RH; file locations made no sense to me at all. I may have a twisted mind, but my old DOS drives had a structure very similar to Debian. Then again, anything is better than a registry! Georg

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread George R
On 08/18/98 at 11:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses >Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated that >since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. He >mentioned something about attaining root

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread George R
On 08/18/98 at 11:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, George R wrote: >> I know you are talking about NT vs Linux; but does anyone know how well >> Win95 password protection works? It doesn't the morons made the default >> configuration one where all the i

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-27 Thread George R
On 08/26/98 at 09:00 AM, Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. I like what >I read about there package system and being able to upgrade >automatically from ftp sites. Well, I started with Debian, went to Red Hat and came back to Debian

Re: Net Auction Krizms?!!!!!!!!!

1998-09-10 Thread George R
On 09/10/98 at 03:59 PM, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> What do you think of >>these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that > if you have abit of >>time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridicu

Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?

1998-09-12 Thread George R
On 09/11/98 at 04:59 PM, "Chris Mc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to >Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need >info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web >sites I found are all dead.

Re: Debian and w95 after adding memory

1998-05-24 Thread George R
On 05/24/98 at 10:49 PM, Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hi all, >I just upgrated my PC to 32M which has only 8M before. Now I can run >w95 only in safe mode. At the same time everything is OK with Debian! >During the normal w95 mode I got nothing but blue screen with: "Fatal >exeption

Re: Using Both IDE and SCSI Controllers

1998-06-05 Thread George R
On 06/05/98 at 02:35 PM, Allan Bart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hello, >I was wondering if any of the users on this group have concurrently run >both types of disk drives. i am planning to use an advansys 5140 and an >internal ide controller on my old ast 486dx system. >looking ro hear from you,

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-11 Thread George R
On 06/11/98 at 07:16 PM, Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >forest wrote: >> >> I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why? >> > You need to tell us what error messages the system says when you try >to run these commands. IIRC, the manpages and man-db p

Re: perl broken install (bo)

1998-06-15 Thread George R
On 06/15/98 at 10:18 AM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Marco Frattola wrote: > >installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't >install, > saying that "subprocess post install script returned error >123" or something > lik

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread George R
On 07/07/98 at 11:23 AM, Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >This from the Linux-newbies list: >From: Mike Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Donald Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Chris Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu >Subject Re: Which distribution is the best?

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-10 Thread George R
On 07/06/98 at 09:47 PM, Mark Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Mike Merten wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: >> > I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked >> > a question on this list (note the new mung). >> >> As a matter of

Re: Debian Diplomacy

1998-07-19 Thread George R
On 07/19/98 at 12:11 AM, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I was wondering if any of the CD Vendors might make a few ... maybe 3 >... CDROM's available of 2.0-Release to the SVLUG to use during their >monthly installfests. These installfests are monthly events due to the >interest in this a

Debian GNU/Linux -- Getting in Contact with Us

1999-03-13 Thread r . sabre
we have a Ultrasparc 10 station and i would buy debian linux for UltaSparc. Is it possible ? thank you for ask me. answer in french if possible please.

kernel 'oops'

1998-12-09 Thread jim r
I recompiled my kernel (2.0.34...straight from the installation) to add sound support (NOT as a module), and when I boot to that kernel, I see, in the rapidly passing stuff, a phrase resembling 'unable to..(something).. ISOLATE ..(something) and then one 'oops' message in it's entirety. dmesg i

RE: Switch to Red Hat?

1999-01-08 Thread jim r
Hi I grabbed all the 99.2 rpm's and alien -d'd them. there were error messages here and there, but the packages were debianized successfully (I had updated GTK and GLIB from the source to 1.1.11, so I didn't need those rpms). The first time I started 'gnome-session' I was flooded with message

xdm- 'this is an unsecure session'??

1999-01-23 Thread jim r
I just installed the slink XDM package. It works fine, but the login screen shows something to the effect of 'this is an unsecure session'. the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file shows: xlogin*greeting: Debian GNU/Linux (CLIENTHOST) and further down Chooser*label.label: XDMCP Host Menu from CLIENTHOST

Installing X include/library files

1999-04-08 Thread R. Marx
Hello, I've just installed Debian 2.1 and discovered that I can't compile programs which require the header files such as Xm/Xm.h and X11/keysym.h. If anyone could point me to the package containing these, that would be great. Thanks, Rob

Re: Installing X include/library files

1999-04-08 Thread R. Marx
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't have the Xm.h, etc. files. Is this something that needs to be downloaded from so

Re: Installing X include/library files

1999-04-08 Thread R. Marx
Well, I got passed the lesstifg-dev problem...just downloaded it from the Debian archives. I tried searching for it in dselect...but no go. Anyhow, I hit another problem though...does anyone know what the Xpm library is and how to install it? Arrgh. I've tried looking at the search results for x

Installing X include/library files

1999-04-08 Thread R. Marx
It works! Anyhow, thanks for everyones help! I appreciate it. Thanks, Rob

Printer trouble

1999-04-09 Thread R. Marx
Hello, I'm having trouble getting my printer to respond to any input from the lpr command. Currently I'm running slink and am using a HP DJ882c printer. I've been trying to use magicfilter, but only have the df550c filter (this did work pretty well on the 1.3 release...bad resolution thou

RE: Printer trouble

1999-04-09 Thread R. Marx
Hi Angel, Thanks for your help on the printer. It turns out that lp1 was the one to use, so I must have done something to the system. Anyhow, I finally rebooted the system...that seemed to help...it works anyway. I don't know...maybe it had something to do with the lpd. Thanks, Rob

Re: Floppy drive problem

1999-04-09 Thread R. Marx
Hi Tyrus, Remember to use the rawrite (or dd in *nix) when creating these floppies rather than formatting and just coping the file to them. They should fit on a normal high density disk. Hope this helps, Rob

MUTT and save-hooks

1999-04-11 Thread R . Gregory
fic filtering/rules/etc? Thanks in advance-- R. Gregory -- Debian Linux 2.1-- take a peek: http://www.debian.org

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread George R
On 10/12/98 at 08:30 AM, "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Most x86 pc's can be set to boot from harddisk *only*, with a password- >protected bios. This means the machine is safe as long as people don't >remove the cover. Unless of course the BIOS accepts the tech support password. And

clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines (Debian GNU/Linux (

Debian Menu Methods & WMaker Menu Config

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
I've installed several non-debian packages (some RPMs and what not). How do I safely update my Window Maker menus? If I hand-jam the changes, will the results be wiped out the next time I install a .deb? orwill the changes cause a .deb install (specifically the menu update part) to screw up

colors in text-mode

1998-10-27 Thread jim r
Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

boot hot keys

1998-11-24 Thread jim r
Are there any hot keys available during boot up? specifically, one that puts the machine in single user mode? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

libgnome_0.30-3.deb & libgtkxmhtm10_0.30.1-3.deb

1998-11-28 Thread jim r
Where are these files? I d/l'd all the necessary files, according to the web pages at debian.org. Installing went fine until I tried to install the gnome_core_0.30-2.deb package. It said I have an old version of libgnome (I have 0.30-2, needs 0.30-3) and that I need libgtkxmhtm10_0.30-3and

libXt.so.3 & DOOM

1998-11-29 Thread jim r
I just downloaded the linux doom binary and .WAD. Running the linuxxdoom results in "can't find library 'libXt.so.3'". I tried making a symlink to libXt.so.6 (ln -s libXt.so.6 libXt.so.3), and it still didn't work, although 'libXt.so.3' is listed in the /usr/X11R6/lib directory (cuz of the syml

Script used in our messages archive

2002-09-10 Thread A R
Hi guys, can someone tell me what script we use in our mail list archive? We need to develop a message board similar to the one we got in the archives. It is the best looking one (no bias here!) Thanks a lot TR __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribut

True Type fonts, anti-aliasing

2002-09-21 Thread A R
I was following a thread in the list not long ago about anti-aliased fonts. The advise given was to create some symbolic link as follows: cd /us/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype Well, I tried to do it and discover that I don't have TrueType directory, which tells me t

msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread A R
I am trying to install the msttcorefonts package, but the installation falis since the exe can not be found. Does anyone have it by any chance and would be kind enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I can get it from? Thanks, TR __ Do y

Re: AMD K6 233

1998-03-28 Thread George R
On 03/28/98 at 11:25 AM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 01:18:08PM +0100, M.C. Bezemer wrote: > PS I also >heard that linux also doesn't work 100% correct with a Cyrix > P166+ >(messing up disks etc) . What is true about that? >Not very much, I think. Do you mea

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread George R
On 03/28/98 at 09:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth L. Summers) said: >> Hi! >> >> The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is >> not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in >> design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. h

(off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
I need some help. My son shows promise with his art. He saw one of my friends working(his job) with CorelDraw. Love at first sight. He won't stop begging for his own pc to run CorelDraw. Several small problems exist: 1) I have a no MS rule. 2) can't really afford a lot of new expensive hardwar

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
On 04/11/98 at 12:58 AM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing >extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at >anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender are >things to look into for him

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

1998-04-11 Thread George R
On 04/11/98 at 10:13 PM, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB >when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily >suck all available memory). A memory hog; is it from M$ ;) >Gimp is plain coo

Off Topic: Toddler property laws - Humor

1998-04-30 Thread George R
Forwarded from: HENRY L. BUNCH,FIC([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Toddler Property Laws 1. If I like it, it's mine. 2. If it's in my hand, it's mine. 3. If I can take it from you, it's mine. 4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine. 5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way

Re: extremely off-topic: help

1998-01-30 Thread George R
On 01/30/98 at 05:16 PM, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >i (foolishly) agreed to re-build a win95 system from scratch for a >friend. this process is annoying the hell out of me because you have to >hunt all over the damn net to find the damn CDROM drivers which Microsoft >don't bother to

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