Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager]

1997-05-04 Thread Shawn McGovern
At 03:17 PM 5/3/97 +0200, Thomas Aardal Hanssen wrote: Hello, I have a few q's about booting: 1)I have NT4.0 on my pc (sorry to say, but I need it...), and I would like to be able to boot both of my OS'es from a single bootmanager. I haven't found any docs or faqs about whether or not LILO or

DIETY: Automagically enhanced.

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
I was thinking about maybe an argument for diety so it can be added to cron.weekly to check for updated packages and *optionally* automatically download it with an email to root about the update including the description and dependancies. In addition add the ability to mark *specific* packages

Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager] - correction

1997-05-04 Thread Shawn McGovern
A correction to my previous post: /dev/hda1 - win95 (for games, also contains NT boot loader) /dev/hda3 - linux (set to active, lilo is installed here - not the mbr) /dev/hsa1 - NT 4.0 /dev/sda1 - NT 4.0 (referenced in boot.ini) whoops! Cheers, Shawn -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?

1997-05-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
We have an ancient Slackware system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/brannon/pkg/glibc-2.0.3 : ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu running configure fragment for ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux checking installed Linux kernel header files... TOO OLD!

Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?

1997-05-04 Thread George Bonser
The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?

1997-05-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. I should have given a bit more information. Since the

Re: DIETY: Automagically enhanced.

1997-05-04 Thread Leslie Mikesell
I was thinking about maybe an argument for diety so it can be added to cron.weekly to check for updated packages and *optionally* automatically download it with an email to root about the update including the description and dependancies. In addition add the ability to mark *specific*

Re: Question: how to switch from an OLD Slackware system to GNU/Debian?

1997-05-04 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and reinstall debian from scratch. Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version. I

Help: eth0 is not being found

1997-05-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
I just downloaded the stable Debian (Jan 1997) release and installed it. I told the install program I was connected to a network and gave it the proper IPADDR, NETMASK, NETWORK, and BROADCAST values --- I checked them in /etc/init.d/network. However, upon reboot or manual running of the

Re: Help: eth0 is not being found

1997-05-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
Brian Freeze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Join the club. What is the ethernet card you are using and what module are you calling up? I dont know what ethernet card we have. Were we supposed to call up a module? Our /etc/modules file just has #auto nfs serial in it. I will be more than

Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

1997-05-04 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hot-swap drives: this is a functionality of the drives, right? I'd have to have disk drives that were manufactured to stand up to that, correct? The hardware (and maybe the software too) must support hot-swap. Assuming that I have a hot-swap disk in

Help installing dosemu

1997-05-04 Thread Adam Klein
I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Help installing dosemu

1997-05-04 Thread Adam Klein
I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Help: eth0 is not being found

1997-05-04 Thread Fredrik Ax
On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: [CUT] I will be more than happy to add lines to this one-at-a-time if there is a list of them somewhere. Heres your list: ls /lib/modules/kernelversion/net/*.o | cut -d. -f1 where kernelversion is something like 2.0.27 you can try running insmod

kernel build (fwd)

1997-05-04 Thread Pete Templin
Some messages get rejected by Smartlist (our list handler) because they appear to be coming from a daemon (root in this case). Here's a message from Ralph Winslow. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 3 May 1997 17:34:55 - From: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users

now what?

1997-05-04 Thread Plusweb - Drew
I installed the debian disks that i made from the ftp site, now what should i do to install PPP? Thanks, Drew -- Written by Drew Nichols, Plusweb Communications. Personal Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit Plusweb Communications - http://www.n-i.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Frozen - couple of gotchas

1997-05-04 Thread Dean Carpenter
I just did an install of frozen/bo the other day, and noticed a couple of small gotchas ... The disk images still aren't on the mirror (debian.crosslink.net) so I had to use the ones from greenbush. The packages list under bo/binary-i386 has an entry for :

postgres95 / libbsd.so

1997-05-04 Thread David Nowak
'lo I tried to install the package postgres95 but it needs the shared library libbsd.so. libbsd.so should be in the package libc5 but there is only libbsd.a :-( So how can I install the package postgres95 ? (I use Debian 1.2) -- David E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:

Re: Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?

1997-05-04 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5). I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort

Special chars disappear

1997-05-04 Thread Heiko R. Selber
Hi, I use Umlauts and other special characters quite frequently. Those characters which are not directly available on my german keyboard can be produced under X11 by typing AltGr (right Alt key) and a letter, like AltGr-q for `@', AltGr-a for `æ' of AltGr-m for `µ' (I assume you can read these

Re: .fvwm2/ hook problems

1997-05-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I decided to finally make use of the debian menu system by converting my old .fvwm2rc into the various hook files that live in .fvwm2/ but I seem to be missing something - I added the line + I Module

Unidentified subject!

1997-05-04 Thread T*m TaT*m
I tried to post this to the newsgroup, as I no longer subscribe to the list, but our server isn't properly configured: Your article's newsgroup: linux.debian.user User input on the Debian Linux distribution Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List? s The linux.debian.user newsgroup is

Re: Posting IP

1997-05-04 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I'll be damned. If it was a snake it would have bit the shit out of me. I have skipped over that file I don't know how many times, thinking it was another connect script. It's a great place to run stuff like netdate and fetchmail/popclient from

SVGATextMode

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
Since upgrading to frozen SVGATextMode doesn't work correctly any more. If I type stm I get this error Cannot open font file /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr8x16.psf /usr/bin/setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/gr8x16.psf: No such file or directory stm: ERROR: '/usr/bin/setfont

Re: now what?

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
When you select the modules to install make sure you put in ppp and TCP/IP modules. Then edit the ppp.chatscript in the /etc directory to dial up you ISP. Also edit the ppp.options_out file to reflect the correct serial device. /dev/ttyS0 = com1 /dev/ttyS1 = com2 etc... Then use pon to dial

Re: Frozen - couple of gotchas

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
I've noticed that when packages are missing like that the version number is actually off. Like perhaps the list was constructed just before an update arived. The update replaces the package but the package list still reflects the older version. I have just ftp'd manually to get the package. I

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
FreeDOS is the fdos package. It's in dselect under fdos. Incase you aren't aware of it the package list in dselect is searchable (using a / character). Hope this helps. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Adam Klein wrote: I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first.

Re: SVGATextMode

1997-05-04 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Rick Jones wrote: [/usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts] All of the consolefonts have been removed from the above directory. [...] Why are the consolefonts removed in the upgrade and not replaced? Does this have to do with installing tetex? What is the fix? The offender seems to be the kbd package,

Re: Help: eth0 is not being found

1997-05-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
Actually, Brian Freeze told me something that worked: modprobe -t net \* Fredrik Ax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote: [CUT] I will be more than happy to add lines to this one-at-a-time if there is a list of them somewhere. Heres your list:

Re: now what?

1997-05-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 4 May 1997, Plusweb - Drew wrote: I installed the debian disks that i made from the ftp site, now what should i do to install PPP? PPP is now part of the base system. Go to /etc/ppp and use ae to edit the options file to suit your ISPs conditions. Then as root execute pppd and you

Broadway

1997-05-04 Thread Rick Jones
What's the scoop on broadway? Is it going to be deb'd soon? Is it all the x.org web page makes it out to be, fast remote execution etc...? Broadway is version 6.3 and we seem to still be using 6.2 from what I see reported when I start X. Is there a reason for this? Is Broadway still unstable?

How do I install a rpm-package?

1997-05-04 Thread Johann Spies
I want to install essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm. According to the debmake and alien documentation I should type alien essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm. Then alien is looking for a diff file and aborts. alien -n essentia-doc-3.3.2-0.i386.rpm does nothing (not even error messages) and so

starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown

1997-05-04 Thread Alexander Lazarevic
Hi! I'm taking part in the DES Challenge coordinated effort, which means running their client and calculating keys. Now this thing is easy to use and stays in the background, but every time I reboot I have to restart the program. Now my aproach was to write a little script put it into

Re: starting/stoping program on boot/shutdown

1997-05-04 Thread Jim Pick
So how do I start/stop a plain program during boot/shutdown? Is it safe, that root runs this thing? Should I run it under another account? Which one and do I have to create a homedir for that? This program should only be started once and not by normal users. How do I achieve this? Where

SCSII card question

1997-05-04 Thread Stan Brown
I just purchased a HP 4C scanner. I really bought it tohook up to a system that already has a SCSI interface. So I am left with a card supplied with the HP that I don't need in that syste, So I was wondering if I could use this card in a Debian box to support SCS

Re: [LILO / NT Bootmanager]

1997-05-04 Thread John Burwell
On 3 May 97 at 15:17, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: Hello, I have a few q's about booting: 1)I have NT4.0 on my pc (sorry to say, but I need it...), and I would like to be able to boot both of my OS'es from a single bootmanager. I haven't found any docs or faqs about whether or not

Re: SCSII card question

1997-05-04 Thread Jim Pick
I just purchased a HP 4C scanner. I really bought it tohook up to a system that already has a SCSI interface. So I am left with a card supplied with the HP that I don't need in that syste, So I was wondering if I could use this card in a Debian box to support SCS