XFree and graphics boards

1997-01-14 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Hi == I an about to buy a new computer and I must choose one of this graphics boards (all with 4Mg) --//-- Number Nine 9FX Motion 772 Number Nine 9FX Imagine 128 Series 2 Tseng Lab ET6000 128bits STB Light Speed 128 --//-- Did they work in highest resolution possible with XFree86? Which

Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out Linux for the past few months and I am impressed escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine. I also want to use my Linux-setup for faxes. I h

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > This is a good question. I'm looking for a 1.2.x cd as well, > but I need it to look decent. It can't be "disk 26 of the 43 cd > internet bonanza!!" and it can't be a gold CDR with Debian > scribbled on it in black marker. I need to be able to sh

Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled?

1997-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > > Checkout the /proc/net directory. > > I have What should I be looking for in there to _verify_ that > IP_FORWARDING is enabled? > Look in that file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /proc/net/ip_forward IP firewall forward rules, default 0 C0A8010

Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled?

1997-01-14 Thread Kevin Traas
> From: Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled? > Date: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 1:23 AM > > At 10:04 PM 1/13/97 -0800, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > >Is there any easy way to tell if IP_FORWA

Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled?

1997-01-14 Thread Kevin Traas
> From: Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled? > Date: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 6:58 AM > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > The reason I'm asking is because I've built my own custom kernel on a box > > I'm

Some help with X11

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Rightley
I have recently installed XFree 3.2 from the Debian 1.2 distribution. I have a Cirrus Logic 5434-based card. I have run XF86Setup and managed to get some working modes that looked good. I then saved the config file. However, when I type 'startx' there is always an error that reads something lik

RE: Need information from people who have had problems with boot

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Rightley
I would like to point out that I have finally managed to produce a working Debian installation on my Thinkpad 365XD. I found the 1.1 diskset on ftp.infomagic.com and installed the base system from those. The 1.1 disks have no trouble booting the Thinkpad (though I have had no luck whatsoever boot

Newsgroup

1997-01-14 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Someone mentioned to me once about there being a newsgroup version of this list. I can't see it from my server, so I assume it's not propagated. What server do I point my newsreader at to see it. Thanks! :) Regards, Kendrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: fvwm2 setup problem

1997-01-14 Thread Jose Oncina
Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > > Hi All, > > I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it. > I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully. > When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the > sudden the screen will go back to "Text mode". To unde

Re: fvwm2 setup problem

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it. > I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully. > When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the > sudden the screen will go back to

Re: DNS

1997-01-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
Just on this... has somebody corrected the order of defaultroute in the chatscript file? it has to appear after the device right? On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load > >

SPAM

1997-01-14 Thread Kendrick Myatt
At 05:01 PM 1/13/97 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[reply address disguised for anti-spam purposes. Real humans are encouraged >to contact me: my username is gobbel, my host is cogsci.ucsd.edu. Spammers go >away--forever.] ### A question for others, then... I have no

Problem with smail 3.2-3 and mutt 0.52 as configured

1997-01-14 Thread David Sewell
I'm running Debian Linux 1.2 with smail 3.2-3, and recently installed the current Mutt mailer package (0.52) to test it out. (Mutt is a mail program similar to Elm but with many new features.) Problem is, out of the box they don't deliver mail properly to local users. With Mutt, if I send email

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > daniel, you wrote: > > >> You mean BIGGER documentation for X, is gonna get someone to RTFM? :-) > > > >No, but providing needed information might. > > Actually, I find it hard to browse through the manual pages in search of an > item. It's there

RE: Installation problem

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Rightley
Just yesterday, I managed to install Debian 1.2 on an IBM Thinkpad that I was having trouble with. I found the Debian 1.1 distribution on a mirror (ftp.infomagic.com I think) and used the 1.1 floppies. Then I pointed dselect to the 1.2 distribution and eventually got a working system. I have tri

HELP! Crashed system

1997-01-14 Thread Brian Schramm
I installed Debian from my infomagic cd that had version 1.1.4 on it. It worked but I needed some new packages so I FTP'ed to Debian.org. I let it update all selected files and now dselect will not work any more. I have also found out that mc sill not work. Both were working before. What has h

note for mirrorors...

1997-01-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
The following suggests that rex-fixed contains a complete mirror of rex with the updates and that's not true since the source makes reference back to the rex tree. ie. if you want to mirror you need rex / rex-fixed / rex-updates the disks tree makes reference to the updates branch 250-Debian-

Re: where is the 1200bin rescue disk

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > > i am looking for the files for the 1.2mb rescue floppy > rescue disk. can anyone tell me where it is? > It's still being built. It should appear in the next set of base disks. Luck, Dwarf

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I got one from i-Connect. i-Connect can always make a CDROM from the debian stable or development release tree for you when you order from them. This is not mass production line. The CD is made on the order basis. This mean the CD I ordered last week might be different the one you

smail return address

1997-01-14 Thread J.I.v. Hemert
I've installed smail and would like it to change the return-path of any non-local message to have the reply address set to my email address (listed below). Anyone have an idea how I can accomplish this ? -- ..Jano J.I.v.Hemert Mail : Zade

Re: Sendmail Problem

1997-01-14 Thread Darren Klein
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Yeps. You haven't configured sendmail properly. Try to run 'sendmailconfig'. Hmm. When I installed it with dpkg it asked me a few questions, and I believe I answered them correctly. I guess not. :( I got it working now. Only problem remaining,

Re: Multi session cdrom

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, * ESGER * wrote: > > I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files > (stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP > 4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is > readable under dos/W95 but not

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-14 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: >You're really losing the point here... what is in your mind, an EASY > installation? A brain dead program, that does all your thinking for you? Come on!!! All I was saying was that it is not CONSISTENT of dselect to start a XF86Setup during the confi

Re: Sendmail Problem

1997-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 10:51 AM 1/14/97 -0500, Darren Klein wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > >> >2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it >> >auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but >> >Sendmail doesn't work. >> >> Very often, sendmail is running

Re: DNS

1997-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ralph Winslow wrote: > > Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load > up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection > failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect > that the site was unknown to the nameserver. /etc/reso

Re: automatic mounting of CDs

1997-01-14 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Well, RTFM ;-). Ok, the package provides documentation in /usr/doc/amd and there are examples in /usr/doc/examples/amd. There are things both in doc and in examples that refer specially to auto-mounting removable media. There is even a program that umounts and ejects cd's. The new maintainer Roman

Re: Help with Laserjets

1997-01-14 Thread ciccio
>On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote: > I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know > it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. > I just cannot find any info on how to do that. Some time ago I had to handle a card which claimed to be

Re: mouse problem

1997-01-14 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Patrice LE LOUREC - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: > I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There > was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve > installed Xwindows and when I mdo "startx' the computer complains

Re: Sendmail Problem

1997-01-14 Thread Darren Klein
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > >2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it > >auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but > >Sendmail doesn't work. > > Very often, sendmail is running as a daemon, and smail is running from > inetd. Maybe

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Pete Templin
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > 2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name. > > For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup > > on the IP address of the machine. > > Errr, what if somebody isn't

PPP always disconnected

1997-01-14 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am using US Robotics modem and I don't know why the modem is always disconnected after 10~20 mins. Anyone knows how to fix it. Pls reply by mail, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cron is dying...

1997-01-14 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, I know this has been dealt with before We're running cron 3.0pl1-32 on a debian 1.1 installation. Ocasionally cron dies which is rather annoying. I seem to remember a couple people posting that a different version of cron fixes this (Dylan's cron maybe?). I have just upgraded to the la

Re: mouse problem

1997-01-14 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Salut Patrice, I think the problem has to do with the device you are using. As far as I know, the cuax-devices can normally be used by one process only at a given time. E. g. if gpm uses device /dev/cua0, as in your case, and then the X-Server is started it can't use the mouse because device /dev/

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an > article somewhere that comparitively rates them? > There is a list on the web page: www.debian.org Luck, Dwarf --

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: > > > Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an > > article somewhere that comparitively rates them? > > This is a good question. I'm looking for a 1.2.x cd as well, > but I need

Re: mouse problem

1997-01-14 Thread Alexander Gieg
> I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There > was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve > installed Xwindows and when I mdo "startx' the computer complains about > device mouse busy. My mouse is on /dev/cua0. If I remove gpm, startx wor

Re: C include files...

1997-01-14 Thread Alexander Gieg
> I recently had to REINSTALL everything becouse of a harddrive crash (don't > ask) and befor I had the libc include files, and now I can't find them, > wich means I can't compile anything... any idea what package that would be > in... thanks... Install "libc5-dev_*.deb" in .../devel Alexander Gi

Printing softwares

1997-01-14 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi, ALL. I know that there are two main printing softwares: magicfilter and apsfilter. I'd like to know what are the differences between them. What are the main advantages of one and of the other? I'm now using apsfilter, but would be some advantage in using magicfilter? Thanks Alexander Gieg =

PCMCIA problem

1997-01-14 Thread Jose Oncina
Hello, I am tring to instal Debian 1.2 in a laptop, everythins goes ok until I try to load the module of my PCMCIA card (the 3c589_cs). The program ansewers: "Can't locate module 3c589_cs" The same happend for any PCMCIA module. In order to solve this problem I opened an other sehel an I a

Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > If they work correctly with the older library, then there was no reason to > > build them with a "non-release" library in the first place! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Doesn't this suggest that the current scheme used in dpkg-shlibdeps > > for ve

Tecras and Debian 1.2

1997-01-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
Ok, I'm hearing that somebody has applied the a20 gate patch to the latest boot disk set is that right? Can we now expect to be able to install 1.2 on 700 series Tecras with this new disk set? NOTE: for those who have been following this issue closely. Although _somehow_ I was able to get Linux

Re: shononascii

1997-01-14 Thread Michael Meskes
Luis Francisco Gonzalez writes: > $ shownonascii `echo $MM_CHARSET` iso-8859-1.msg > Your font path appears to be correctly set. > Running xterm to display text in iso-8859-1, please wait... >From shownonascii's source: if test "$1" = "-e" then shift CMD="$*" RIGHTTERMCMD

ftp option in dselect disapeared

1997-01-14 Thread Jose Oncina
I use the option ftp as access in dselect. Sudenly this option has disappaered! I tried to reget the pakage where is dselect but this does no work. Can somebode explain who can I reget this option? Jose -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

shononascii

1997-01-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I am puzzled by the following: I am trying to prevent metamail to launch an xterm everytime it finds an iso-8859-1 message. (from shownonascii's manual page) If the MM_CHARSET environment variable is set and matches the character set named in the first argument, a new xterm

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an > article somewhere that comparitively rates them? You can find the list of debian CD manufacturers on teh web page (www.debian.org). They all, basically have the same thing, so there i

Re: where is the 1200bin rescue disk

1997-01-14 Thread Gregory Vence
Greetings, This is a fairly common problem. There seems to be a small need for the 1.2MB disks and therefore support is 'on demand.' However, I'm in the same boat. Bruce is off-line cleaning out from the California flood. Perhaps Dwarf or Sven will make another resq/root combo. You'll use the

Re: Netscape 3.01 and Java?

1997-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me > whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place. > The current netscape version is buggy, and only works with an older libc You either have to reinstall the netscape

fvwm2 setup problem

1997-01-14 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Hi All, I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it. I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully. When I excute "startx", my PC starts to run X server but all the sudden the screen will go back to "Text mode". To understand what's going on, I run xinit f

Re: Netscape 3.01 and Java?

1997-01-14 Thread Hakan Ardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me > whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place. See : http://www.blackdown.org/Howto/Howto-4.html > -

Re: DNS

1997-01-14 Thread Igor Grobman
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load > up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection > failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect > that the site was unknown to the na

FW: Solaris and debian on same box (fwd)

1997-01-14 Thread Karsten Bolding
Forwarded message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 14 11:29 GMT 1997 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on Linux Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:51:28 +0100 (MET) Resent-Message-Id: <[EMA

Re: NFS install

1997-01-14 Thread Sven Rudolph
Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a NFS install site on the net for Debian? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors lists some sites providing NFS access to their Debian FTP mirror. Sven -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/ -- TO UN

mouse problem

1997-01-14 Thread Patrice LE LOUREC - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH
Hi, I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve installed Xwindows and when I mdo "startx' the computer complains about device mouse busy. My mouse is on /dev/cua0. If I remove gpm, startx works.

RE: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

1997-01-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote: > > > Hamish Moffat wrote: > > > > >>>Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either? > > >>>Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal. > > >> > > >> Couldn

Re: Sendmail Problem

1997-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 08:02 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Darren Klein wrote: >1) xinetd does not seem to be starting upon boot, I need to manually >start. Any ideas why? Where can I add a line to start it on boot? Edit /etc/init.d-directory, or look in /etc/rc.boot. There should be an entry for xinetd somewhere, and if the

Re: IP_FORWARDING Enabled?

1997-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 10:04 PM 1/13/97 -0800, Kevin Traas wrote: > >Is there any easy way to tell if IP_FORWARDING is enabled in the running >kernel? > >The reason I'm asking is because I've built my own custom kernel on a box >I'm running and have specifically enabled it during "make config". >However, now I'm runn

Re: DNS

1997-01-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 07:24 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Ralph Winslow wrote: >Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load >up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection >failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect >that the site was unknown to the n

Re: Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an > article somewhere that comparitively rates them? This is a good question. I'm looking for a 1.2.x cd as well, but I need it to look decent. It can't be "disk 26 of the 43 cd internet

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > 2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name. > For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup > on the IP address of the machine. Errr, what if somebody isn't running DNS??? (like me???) Won't defining Dwmyhost and

Re: Too many packages!

1997-01-14 Thread Brian C. White
> > Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I > > unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove. > > You can guess the rest... > > That probably should be clarified: > > You select for removal or purging those packages you don't want. > Y

PostScript without PS printers

1997-01-14 Thread martym
Hi, I just recently saw someone post that he had a Canon BJC 4100, a color printer in the $200-300 range, but on which he could print postscript by using apsfilter and ghostview. Could this person or someone else knowledgeable in this please tell me more explicitly how this is done, or

Re: Netscape 3.01 and Java?

1997-01-14 Thread Brian C. White
> Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me > whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place. It works fine if you install it using the Debian installer package for netscape. It's in contrib.

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
Hmm, I have installed Debian from a machine with both a CDU31A and a CDU33A (the 33A is functionally identical to the 31A). Neither gave me any problems with Debian, although RedHat did have some problems. > It really was a major number of 15. Thanks for the help. So far, only the > Slackware

Re: Help with Laserjets

1997-01-14 Thread Stefan Walder
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote: bschramm> Hi, bschramm> bschramm> I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know bschramm> it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. bschramm> I just cannot find any info on how to do that. bschram

IP_FORWARDING Enabled?

1997-01-14 Thread Kevin Traas
Is there any easy way to tell if IP_FORWARDING is enabled in the running kernel? The reason I'm asking is because I've built my own custom kernel on a box I'm running and have specifically enabled it during "make config". However, now I'm running that kernel and the box still doesn't seem to be

Re: Diald Problems....

1997-01-14 Thread Kevin Traas
James, thanks for the message. I'll implement the suggested change tomorrow morning. I've CC:'d this message to the list because there were quite a few others who mentioned they also had this problem with Diald. Guess I'll have to talk to my ISP and tell them to "get with the program". Lat

Re: Troubleshooting (was "Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE")

1997-01-14 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > From: "Mark W. Blunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions. > > It would cut my traffic down from debian-user. > > Should there be a debian-newbie? The problem with such a list would be

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Perry Piplani
At 10:47 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Pete Templin wrote: > >On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote: > >> I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a >> problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendm

Best Debian CD?

1997-01-14 Thread Robin Rowe
Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an article somewhere that comparitively rates them? Thanks. Robin --- R&D in Internet video and speech recognition using C++ and Java http://jumpsite.com San Diego, CA 619-457-1159 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian dselect question (solved)

1997-01-14 Thread Robin Rowe
Thanks! Problem solved. Trying the manual approach didn't work (dselect said the contrib directory didn't exist), but the soft links did work: mkdir /install ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8 /install/stable ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/contrib /install/contrib Robin >There are two ways I can think of to

C include files...

1997-01-14 Thread Filizzi-Matt
I recently had to REINSTALL everything becouse of a harddrive crash (don't ask) and befor I had the libc include files, and now I can't find them, wich means I can't compile anything... any idea what package that would be in... thanks... Fizz -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-14 Thread Jim Blaney
Can anyone give me non-emotional advice on whether Linux would install "much easier" on an apple system than on an intel box? If my goal is to buy a used computer that has the best shot of getting Linux up in a hurry, what should i get? I realize this could be a loaded question, but I really ne

Re: New install

1997-01-14 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > I sat down today to do what i have done many times before, setup a debian > box. I started the boot process, got to the "partition a hard disk" > section and got the error that debian could not detect a hard disk. > > Anyway around this? > > The machine

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-14 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > daniel, you wrote: > > >> You mean BIGGER documentation for X, is gonna get someone to RTFM? := > -) > > > >No, but providing needed information might. > > Actually, I find it hard to browse through the manual pages in search of = > an > item

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote: > I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a > problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for > may domain. > > I want ma

Re: Troubleshooting (was "Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE")

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > From: "Mark W. Blunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions. > > It would cut my traffic down from debian-user. > > Should there be a debian-newbie? Newbie questions should be asked on d

Re: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > My solaris version of procmail is only 249k. munpack and pine > > are also _very_ available for solaris. > > Yes, but not installed, again. What platform is that binary > from? 250k would be acceptable, I might look into it. This was on a sparc4,

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
daniel, you wrote: >> You mean BIGGER documentation for X, is gonna get someone to RTFM? :-) > >No, but providing needed information might. Actually, I find it hard to browse through the manual pages in search of an item. It's there... somewhere... but it may take some reading getting there t

Re: Troubleshooting (was "Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE")

1997-01-14 Thread Keith Leonard
Howdy, Here's my two cents worth: The only dumb question is the one not asked. Maybe a newbie list should be setup so that these questions won't bother the people that are tired of answering the same old stuff (which isn't old to the newbie trying desperately to get his (or her) system running. O

Re: Troubleshooting (was "Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE")

1997-01-14 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > From: "Mark W. Blunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions. > > It would cut my traffic down from debian-user. > > Should there be a debian-newbie? Maybe debian-setup? debian-help? What's

Re: NFS install

1997-01-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a NFS install site on the net for Debian? > > I would like to try it out. Here's an announcment from c.o.l.a -- DCSN Linux NFS Installation has moved and changed. Now being run by Internet Productions (http://www.internetp.com), it offers a

Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

1997-01-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:28:30 EST Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > > On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote: > > > > > > > Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable > > > > release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.

Re: mime and elm (was RE: X-wm question and ZipDrive)

1997-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote: > > Hamish Moffat wrote: > > >> Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction > > >> program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn > > >> virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader

Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

1997-01-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:26:14 EST Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote: > > > > > Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable > > > release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I

Netscape 3.01 and Java?

1997-01-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
 Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.

stable rex v's devel bo

1997-01-14 Thread Richard Jones
I'm considering moving up to bo in order to gain extra stability, this is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x, yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here). Does this sound like a good/bad idea? Richard. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

stable rex v's devel bo

1997-01-14 Thread Richard Jones
I'm considering moving up to bo in order to gain extra stability, this is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x, yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here). Does this sound like a good/bad idea? Richard. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

dselect & dpkg improvements

1997-01-14 Thread gobbel_no . junk . mail
[reply address disguised for anti-spam purposes. Real humans are encouraged to contact me: my username is gobbel, my host is cogsci.ucsd.edu. Spammers go away--forever.] My impression has always been that dselect was modeled on inst, which used to be the only way to install software on Silicon G

Re: Help

1997-01-14 Thread Paul Christenson
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Whitney Warwick wrote: > But one problem I can't use my cd-rom (Reveal 4x) with it. It is not > supported. Are you sure? If it's an IDE CD, then I'm sure it's supported. Reveal does not make their own products, they simply relabel products from other manufacturers. If it

New install

1997-01-14 Thread Fundamental
I sat down today to do what i have done many times before, setup a debian box. I started the boot process, got to the "partition a hard disk" section and got the error that debian could not detect a hard disk. Anyway around this? The machine has a scsi disk with an adaptec controller. SaHua,

Re: Help with Laserjets

1997-01-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know > it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special. > I just cannot find any info on how to do that. > > Any ideas? The printing howto docs address

DNS

1997-01-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect that the site was unknown to the nameserver. /etc/resolv.conf has lines of the form "n

Re: Diald Problems....

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
> Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did > not. Probable configuration error. I've been getting the same error for quite some time. Everything seems to work, though. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
> I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After > typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD > drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, > but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any >

Re: emergency action

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
> > im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i > > somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from > > rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my > > changes? > Well, you just do the same thing you would for Solaris, except that

where is the 1200bin rescue disk

1997-01-14 Thread butch
hello, i am looking for the files for the 1.2mb rescue floppy rescue disk. can anyone tell me where it is? allan - Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/13/97 Time: 8:09:40 PM This message was sent by Chameleon -

test

1997-01-14 Thread Roger Endo
just testing... why do some of my emails not get posted? -- ~~ Roger Endo President, Warp 9 Technologies LLC SBnet, Internet for Santa Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805-961-0150 ~~

Sendmail Problem

1997-01-14 Thread Darren Klein
Hi All, Please help. 1) xinetd does not seem to be starting upon boot, I need to manually start. Any ideas why? Where can I add a line to start it on boot? 2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but Sendmail

Re: Scanner software recomendations ?

1997-01-14 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Stan" == Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> I am looking for a software package to use to interface am HP Stan> scanner to my Debian system. If its a HP scanner, you can use hpscanpbm, a command-line based acquisition tool in the graphics directory. You just need a Linux-supported SCS

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