dselect wil NOT install unstable

[Tim Webster]

Read the howto at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ, Nope no use.


I have been trying to install unstable with dselect, rather than stable. 
In hopes that I might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade 
headaches.
Used wget to mirror debian/hamm, debian/bo, debian/contrib, debian/non-free
"only binary-all,binary-i386".


Access: OK, required link
ln -s debian/hamm/hamm debian/hamm/stable

Update: OK finds and extracts
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Select: OK

Install: FAILS!!!

Can anyone tell me what these errors mean, and how to fix my installation
procedure???

Tim. Help!!

See below;
> Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ... find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconc_9.1-1.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/icont_9.1-1.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconx_9.1-1.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-base_2.0.0.0-2.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-dev.0.0.0-2.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
> Running dpkg -iB for dpkg-perl ...
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-doc.0.0.0-2.deb:
>  No such file or directory
"etc"

> 5113 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace dpkg-perl 0.1-2 (using .../devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb) ...
> find: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/libpwdb-dev_0.54preD-1.deb:
>  No such file or directory
> Unpacking replace dpkg-perl ...
"etc"

> installation script returned error exit status 1.


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[no subject]

[Philip and David Dutton Dutton]

>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:39:56
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>From: Philip and David Dutton Dutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
>When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
>"RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0"
>I downloaded the file lmemroot.bin and when I try to boot up it says that
it is an invalid boot disk
>WHat should I do?
>
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[no subject]

[Philip and David Dutton Dutton]

I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
"RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0"
I downloaded the file lmemroot.bin and when I try to boot up it says that it
is an invalid boot disk
WHat should I do?



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AIC7xxx boot messages

[Ben Pfaff]

When I boot kernel 2.0.33 on my machine, I get the following messages:

scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1.1/3.2.1
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
  Vendor: MICROPModel: 4743WSRev: S162
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: MICROPModel: 4743WSRev: S162
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: MICROPModel: 4743WSRev: S162
  Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi : detected 3 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8398656 [4100 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8398656 [4100 MB] [4.1 GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8398656 [4100 MB] [4.1 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2
 sdc: sdc1 sdc2
 hda:Dev 03:00 Sun disklabel: bad magic 
 unknown partition table
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 32, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Read (10) 00 00 77 eb fb 00 00 0e 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 38, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Read (10) 00 00 77 e0 c7 00 00 02 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 39, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Read (10) 00 00 77 e4 27 00 00 02 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 40, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Read (10) 00 00 77 eb f9 00 00 02 00 
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 41, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 
Read (10) 00 00 78 14 af 00 00 02 00 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 38) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.

The ones that bother me are the `aborting command due to timeout'
messages.  Why would these appear at boot time but never afterward,
with my SCSI disks working just fine?  These only appear when I enable
tagged SCB command queuing in the kernel, BTW.

Thanks in advance.


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Re: Real Audio solution

[Will Lowe]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> OK, I've found the problem.  It's how I configured netscape.  rather than 
> "rvplayer", the correct entry is "rvplayer %s"

Is anyone having any trouble with this?  I've got realplayer installed ok,
but the view of the videos is all wacky ... they look like someone's
twisted the vhold knobs on my TV all the way around.

Had the same trouble viewing Quicktime movies...
Will


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Re: /etc/lilo.conf not taking my append line

[Tim Sailer]

Terrence Brannon wrote:
> 
> 
> I am using debian 1.3.1.
> 
> I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
> Linux mem=128m
> then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
> an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
> with only 64M available, which is more than 32M, but not accurate.
> 
> boot=/dev/hda2
> root=/dev/hda2
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> append = "mem=128m"
   ^
I believe that has to be a Capital M

> read-only

Tim

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Re: Arrgh, its the newbie again...

[Will Lowe]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:

> dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb

Why don't you move them into /tmp?

> all i get is error messages, when logged on as root messages about
> unexpected eof, 
Sounds like you're .deb file may have gotten truncated when you downloaded
it.  Try just grabbing another copy.  

> when logged on as rick, loads of stuff about things not
> being in the path (carnt recall exactly what)
You've got to be root to install .debs because they need to access
partitions and commands that only root has access to.

Will


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Re: /etc/lilo.conf not taking my append line

[Martin Schulze]

Terrence Brannon writes:
> 
> I am using debian 1.3.1.
> 
> I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
> Linux mem=128m
> then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
> an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
> with only 64M available, which is more than 32M, but not accurate.
> 
> boot=/dev/hda2
> root=/dev/hda2
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> append = "mem=128m"
> read-only

I"d suggest putting the append line in front of any image tag.

Regards

Joey

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/etc/lilo.conf not taking my append line

[Terrence Brannon]

I am using debian 1.3.1.

I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
Linux mem=128m
then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
with only 64M available, which is more than 32M, but not accurate.

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
append = "mem=128m"
read-only


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Re: Partitioning

[Robert D. Hilliard]

Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   [ . . .]
>  * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's
>hidden DOS partitions.
   [ . . . ]   

 An interesting anomaly is that the DOS command "fdisk /status"
will (sometimes?) show Linux partitions with DOS drive letters.  These
do not show when fdisk is run for the specific partition however.

 This has no bearing on the original discussion, however.

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Xvfb package for stable

[Paul McDermott]

Hello everybody is there an Xvfb package for stable.  I can find one for
unstable but not for stable.  I don't want to upgrade totaly to unstable
just yet.  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Paul




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Subject: Installing Unstable, avoid upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

[Tim Webster]

I have been trying to install unstable, rather than stable. In hopes that I
might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade head aches.
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, "only i386, no source". Everything
works fine;
Access: OK, I linked
ln -s debian/hamm/hamm debian/hamm/stable

Update: OK finds and extracts
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Select: OK

Install: FAILS!!!

Can anyone tell me what these errors mean, and how to fix my installation
procedure???

Tim. Help!!

See below
>Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ... find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconc_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/icont_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconx_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-base_2.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-dev.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
>Running dpkg -iB for dpkg-perl ...
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-doc.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory

>"etc"
>5113 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace dpkg-perl 0.1-2 (using .../devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb) ...
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/libpwdb-dev_0.54preD-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>Unpacking replace dpkg-perl ...
>
>"etc"
>installation script returned error exit status 1.


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BIND 8.1.1 and IP aliasing in Linux

[Richard L Shepherd]

I have several Linux DNS servers, two of which have IP aliases on one
interface.  Recently I upgraded from BIND 4.9.6 to BIND 8.1.1.  One of the
subtle problems I have noticed is now the machines that have IP aliases
don't automatically update a zone when sent a notify by the primary
server.  Under 4.9.6 they had no problems.

Points of interest:

1. One machine, which has always had aliases, stopped doing updates on
receiving notifies as soon as it was upgraded to 8.1.1.

2. Another machine was doing the notifies fine under 8.1.1 UNTIL we added
the IP alias, and now it too ignores them.

3. I haven't used any "listen-on" directives in /etc/named.conf, though
the default behaviour of using all available ones seems to be working (and
noted in the log file).

Is this a documented problem with either Linux IP aliases or BIND 8.1.1?
I'd be grateful to hear.

8<--->8
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Installing Unstable, avoid upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

[Timothy D.Webster]

I have been trying to install unstable, rather than stable. In hopes that I
might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade head aches. 
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, "only i386, no source". Everything
works fine;
Access: OK, I linked
ln -s debian/hamm/hamm debian/hamm/stable

Update: OK finds and extracts 
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Select: OK

Install: FAILS!!!

Can anyone tell me what these errors mean, and how to fix my installation
procedure???

Tim. Help!!

See below
>Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ... find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconc_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/icont_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/iconx_9.1-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-base_2.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-dev.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
>Running dpkg -iB for dpkg-perl ...
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/ilu-doc.0.0.0-2.deb:
> No such file or directory
>"etc"
>5113 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace dpkg-perl 0.1-2 (using .../devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb) ...
>find: 
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/hamm/stable/binary-i386/devel/libpwdb-dev_0.54preD-1.deb:
> No such file or directory
>Unpacking replace dpkg-perl ...
>
>"etc"
>installation script returned error exit status 1.


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Re: upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

[Scott Ellis]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:

> hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6.  When I do
> a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5.  Any
> suggestions?  Where is the howto?  I've been looking in the archives but
> could not see any reference to it.

http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/

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Real Audio solution

[hawk]

OK, I've found the problem.  It's how I configured netscape.  rather than 
"rvplayer", the correct entry is "rvplayer %s"

However, i then stumbled across a site that wanted a plugin, and haven't 
cracked that one yet.

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RE: upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

[Mark Ciciretti]

Look at http://www.gate.net/~storm for the libc5 to libc6 howto.

On 17-Dec-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6.  When I do
>a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5.  Any
>suggestions?  Where is the howto?  I've been looking in the archives but
>could not see any reference to it.
>Paul

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Re: Where is rpc.portmaper?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I can't find this file in my system after installing the current stable
>Debain 1.3. I looked into the Contents file of the distribution and is
>not there neither. Isn't netstd the package that is supposed to
>install it?

It should be in `netbase', but its name is just "portmap", not "rpc.portmap".

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Re: Problems with Cron

[Pedro Sanchez]

I'm trying the /etc/crontab because the user's crontab files are not
executed. When they work (I hope they will!), then this fetchmail job
will be executed there. I tried creating the user crontabs both as
superuser (crontab -u sanchez -e) and from the user account (crontab
-e). There's no difference.

I was not aware of the syntax "crontab ". What is "filename"?
/var/spool/cron/crontab/sanchez (or something like that)? I'm not
in my computer right now, I'll try tonight to see what happens.

Thank you,

P. Sanchez
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In message "Problems with Cron", [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> hello, this is a silly question but did you do a crontab  after
> you made your users' crontabs.
> if not try that.  Couldn't you try to do your fetchmail cronjob in your
> area instead of /etc/ just an observation.
> Paul
> 
> 
> On 17 Dec 1997, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
> > to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
> > current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:
> > 
> > 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
> >and included the line
> >
> >0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
> >
> >However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there
> >something else that I have to do?
> > 
> > 2. User crontab files are also ignored. I use crontab -e to create the files
> >and I've tried with and without /var/spool/cron/allow (with valid user
> >entries).
> >
> > I've checked the system time, is ok, and I even re-installed the cron debian
> > package. After editing /etc/crontab I rebooted my PC (a la Win95) but
> > nothing changed.
> > 
> > I've used cron before and never found any problems. I tend then to believe
> > this is not a problem with cron but with something else, however I can't
> > figure out what. Any suggestions are welcome.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > P. Sanchez
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upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

[Paul McDermott]

hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6.  When I do
a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5.  Any
suggestions?  Where is the howto?  I've been looking in the archives but
could not see any reference to it.
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Re: Problems with Cron

[Pedro Sanchez]

I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry
is actually 

0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc

Anyway, it still doesn't work.

P. Sanchez
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> On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 09:40:00AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
> > to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
> > current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:
> > 
> > 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
> >and included the line
> >
> >0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
> >
> 
> There is no user "usr/bin/fetchmail".  :-)>
> IIRC the fields are 'min hr dom mon dow user command' in /etc/crontab.
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Re: Problems with Cron

[Sten Anderson]

"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
>and included the line
>
>0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
>
>However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there
>something else that I have to do?

As you probably can see from the other lines in /etc/crontab, the
system crontab should also include a username - usually root, but in
this case sanchez. The line should thus read:

0 8,12,16 * * * sanchez /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc

> 2. User crontab files are also ignored. I use crontab -e to create the files
>and I've tried with and without /var/spool/cron/allow (with valid user
>entries).

I am clueless here, I can only say it should work. Make sure you are
user sanchez, and not root when executing crontab -e. The user crontab 
should not include the username, thus inserting the line:

* * * * * fetchmail

with crontab -e, should check every minute (maybe overkill, but good
for debugging). Try to look at the file /var/log/syslog to see what
cron does when (tip: type "tail -f /var/log/syslog" as root). Try also 
crontab -l (as user sanchez again) to check that the crontab was
really changed. Try also deleting the files /var/spool/cron/allow and
/var/spool/cron/deny 

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Arrgh, its the newbie again...

[Rick]

Hi all,
I am having real problems installing packages, i decided that the man pages
would be a good place to start, so i downloaded - groff thingy, a lib
required by groff, man-db, and manpages.deb

i am trying to install them from a mounted msdos partition using dpkg

dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb

all i get is error messages, when logged on as root messages about
unexpected eof, when logged on as rick, loads of stuff about things not
being in the path (carnt recall exactly what)

what am i doing wrong?

Rick

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Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

[Dana M. Epp]

Well, I am sure you can build your own.. but why bother. Go spend 9
bucks, and buy the CD SuperPack at Linux System Labs. I am not affilated
with them in any way, other than being a satisfied customer. If you
purchase the cd pack, you get 7 cds.

1) SlackWare 3.4
2) Red Hat (vr 5 I believe)
3) Debian BINARY 1.3.1 cd
4) Debian SRC 1.3.1 cd
5-7) 3 pack of the Sunsite archieves.

Their web site also said somehting about packaging Caldra OpenLinux Lite
for a while.. so if yer quick.. you would probably get that as well.

Or you can buy just the Debian distro... which is a two cd set, one bin
one src.

Every time I gotta install on a new machine, I just put in the Debian
BIN cd... select boot CDROM, C .. and boom... automatically install when
I save the cmos settings.


You can get the CD Super Pack for $9 bucks at:
http://www.lsl.com/catalog/packages.html

You can get the Debian 2 CD set for $4 bucks at:
http://www.lsl.com/catalog/software/debian-1.3/.

Saves LOADS of time and hastle when having to rawrite the disks, switch
all the disks in and out, and go running for packages with dselect. (On
the base ssytem. ... you will wanna upgrade the kernel and other
packages PDQ for things like teardrop etc.)


Christian Hagemeier wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I
> can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the
> "Official CD" such a bootable CD?
> 
> Chris
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/usr full !?

[Mario Filipe]

Hi

I have a question to pose and I hope I will tell you everything you need
to help me. I'm running Debian 1.3 (2.0.29). I was running x, pine (and a
xterm associated with it), a xterm and netscape 4.04 and an rc5 client,
plus apache, postgresql and all the other servers. One minute I had 30
Megs free on /usr the next I had 0. Another strange thing is the results
that i get from free :

 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 31004  30356648  23424228
-/+ buffers:30128420
Swap:32252   2560  29692   9788

I noticed it because i ran xosview and noticed that most of the
used memory was on "shared". Does anyone have an ideia of what might have
happened here ? I'll be willing to give any information (except root
password:-) that you need to help me ... 

Thanks a lot 

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ppp

[dpk]

Has any information been posted to Debian users about the recent ppp
security issue of the default ppp.chatscript?  Is there a list for
this or would it be appropriate to have the information posted here?
Just curious...

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Re: PCMCIA 3Com589 & Debian & Olivetti laptop

[Alain TOURET]

> > ... the 3Com589 LAN ethernet PCMCIA card driver isn't detected and its
> > installation crashes (with the drivers of the web site).  
The installation process does not find the 3C589_cs module on the disk,
although it is mentioned.
 
> Is the card being recognized?  Have you configured the Ethernet card
> with your network settings (in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts)?

Thanks to your remark, I have configured the networks.opts file for
TCP/IP (only). But the network isn't accessible, it is badly configured:
the given adresses do not appear, I presume because the card driver
isn't present.

Has anyone suggestions ?

Thanks a lot, and merry Christmas to all,

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staroffice 4.0b2 working, sort of

[hawk]

This version was *a lot* easier to install.  download it, move it to a user 
directory, untar it (for some silly reason, it's jsut a tar rather than .tgz), 
and it creates a directory.  Then run the setup in this directory, but from 
your home directory, and it creates an Office40 directory.  then just 
~/Office40/bin/soffice, and you're off & running.

But it's as annoying as microsoft stuff to use.  Only one main window, and 
everything else opens within this.  ugh.  You can't see the help pages (pain 
in the *** to access/maneuver) and your document at the same time unless you 
launch a second instance.  subwindows are limited to the boundries of the 
original.  any attempt to search causes a segfault--but it does create correct 
rescue files.

A lot more hassle than lyx, but i need formletters for the job hunt. It's this 
or the 25mhz mac with a printer that no longer feeds properly.

 And it apparently trades files with msoft just fine.  It kept all formattting 
information from a mac word 5.0 file saved as rtf.

Now if someone who understands such things would make an installer . . . :)  I 
tried installing it as root in a couple of places, but it doesn't work right; 
it crashes when it doesn't find some files.  But I'm the only one using this 
machine, so it will work for a while . . .

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Re: which fm to rt on apache and access?

[hawk]

oh, and thank you.  hit the wrong key and sent it off.

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Re: which fm to rt on apache and access?

[hawk]

> 
> Take a look at your  directive(s) for the directories you wish
> to access.  It should contain "FollowSymLinks" if you wish symlinks to
> work.  (www.apache.org has all the docs; take a look at "Options").

I had this

> As far as using the ~hawk URL, what is your UserDir directive set to?  I
> believe the default is "public_html" ... if you changed that to "www"
> your URL should work.  Otherwise, it won't :)

changed to this, and then found the big problem:  no global execute access on 
the directory.  changed this, and it works.

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Re: which fm to rt on apache and access?

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

: 
: I'm sure there's a simple answer somewhere to this, but after scouring the 
: spots I could think of, I can't find it.
: 
: Access to eyry.econ.iastate.edu is no problem; it happily brings up the 
: default page.
: 
: I then created /home/hawk/www, copied the index.html to it, and created a 
: symlink from /var/www/hawk to it.  The first yields
: 
: Forbidden
: 
: You don't have permission to access /hawk on this server.
: 
: even from the machine itself, while  eryy.econ.iastate.edu/home/~hawk yields
: 
: Not Found
: 
: The requested URL /~hawk was not found on this server.
: 
: >From rtfming around, it would seem that i should be editing 
: /etc/apache/access.conf.  However, it already contains
: 
: # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
:   
: order allow,deny
: allow from all   
: 
: 
: 
: 
: help! :)
: 

Take a look at your  directive(s) for the directories you wish
to access.  It should contain "FollowSymLinks" if you wish symlinks to
work.  (www.apache.org has all the docs; take a look at "Options").

As far as using the ~hawk URL, what is your UserDir directive set to?  I
believe the default is "public_html" ... if you changed that to "www"
your URL should work.  Otherwise, it won't :)

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Re: Getting 'cpuload' to compile under hamm

[James Troup]

Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[ debian-user? ]

> Erm, where did it go?

I broke xpm.  Please see the logs for #14973.

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Re: Bare X-windows

[hawk]

> Hi Debian world,
> 
> Thank you for helping me about XF86Setup, Xserver_svga,x86config,xbase.
> I had installed Debian Linux 1.3.1.r6 and X-windows package completely
> without a CD rom and a CD. I am using FTP installation.
> X-windows is now working for me. Well done Thank you, all Debian users.
> 
> I see the bare x-windows on Debian Linux. It looks original windows and
> no application at all. There is no manager with menus. it was very
> funny.  
>
> How do I put up Windows Explorer/Menus?  
> and how do I setup fvwm95?  Fvwm95 was installed done.

well, if you really want the 95 stuff [yech . not defaulting to that is a big 
advantage of debian over redhat :)  ]

In general, left-click on the backround for a menu of applications.  But you 
could change the last line of your ~/.xsession to use fvwm95 rather than fvwm, 
which would give you that atrocious thing.

or, the easy way :)   

In the xterm, just type 

  someappname -theoptions &

and it launches it and returns.  eg,

  netscape &


If you leave off the &, you don't get your xterm back until it quits.

rick

 
> I have already downloading all X11 packages on his HD. 
> 
> Thanks  advance
> 
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> 
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which fm to rt on apache and access?

[hawk]

I'm sure there's a simple answer somewhere to this, but after scouring the 
spots I could think of, I can't find it.

Access to eyry.econ.iastate.edu is no problem; it happily brings up the 
default page.

I then created /home/hawk/www, copied the index.html to it, and created a 
symlink from /var/www/hawk to it.  The first yields

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /hawk on this server.

even from the machine itself, while  eryy.econ.iastate.edu/home/~hawk yields

Not Found

The requested URL /~hawk was not found on this server.

>From rtfming around, it would seem that i should be editing 
/etc/apache/access.conf.  However, it already contains

# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
  
order allow,deny
allow from all   




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Re: Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

[jdassen]

On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 11:43:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am
> either doing something wrong or I have found a bug.  On top of this, I
> have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and
> installed all of the suggested packages.

On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> The version of g++ that is available at debian isn't thread safe.  It *is*
> possible to have it work with threads, but as soon as you include
> something like strings, and especially gnu extensions String and List, it
> will break with a core dump.
> 
> The answer is, go to http://www.cygnus.com/egcs and get egcs, which
> provides a thread safe c++ environment.  Get the newly released egcs-1.0
> or snapshot egcs-971201, and you're set.  You'll need the 'core' and
> 'g++', which are about 9Meg, and takes around 4-6hrs to compile.

egcs-1.0 and a matching libstdc++ can be found in project/experimental .


HTH,
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Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

[Orn E. Hansen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated because otherwise
 > I'm stuck and can't continue on with my software development.
 > 

The version of g++ that is available at debian isn't thread safe.  It
*is* possible to have it work with threads, but as soon as you include 
something like strings, and especially gnu extensions String and List, 
it will break with a core dump.

The answer is, go to http://www.cygnus.com/egcs and get egcs, which
provides a thread safe c++ environment.  Get the newly released
egcs-1.0 or snapshot egcs-971201, and you're set.  You'll need the
'core' and 'g++', which are about 9Meg, and takes around 4-6hrs to
compile.

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Bare X-windows

[K.Y.Lo]

Hi Debian world,

Thank you for helping me about XF86Setup, Xserver_svga,x86config,xbase.
I had installed Debian Linux 1.3.1.r6 and X-windows package completely
without a CD rom and a CD. I am using FTP installation.
X-windows is now working for me. Well done Thank you, all Debian users.

I see the bare x-windows on Debian Linux. It looks original windows and
no application at all. There is no manager with menus. it was very
funny.  

How do I put up Windows Explorer/Menus?  
and how do I setup fvwm95?  Fvwm95 was installed done.

I have already downloading all X11 packages on his HD. 

Thanks  advance

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Re: Pager utility or script?

[Tim Sailer]

Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> 
> Kevin J Poorman writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the
>  > number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell
>  > script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package?
>  > 
> 
> Sam Leffler's program HylaFAX(tm) is supposed to be able to do this...

That does work, but it's overkill. On my ISP page, you can find a stupid
little util to do just that. I have it hooked to a web page so folks
can page me. The one strange thing about it is, if mgetty is active on
the tty, it works. If portslave is on the tty, it hangs, and never dials.

Tim

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Re: Mouse on Xwindows

[hawk]

Try running gpmconfig as root.  It will create the appropriate  configuration. 
 But before you do that, make a symlink for /dev/mouse:

 ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse

[assuming the mouse is on ttys0]

Tell gpm to use /dev/mouse, and then tell XF86Setup to use /dev/mouse.

WHile it workes with the raw device, I believe there are a  number of programs 
& packages that expect a /dev/mouse.

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Pager utility or script?

[Orn E. Hansen]

Kevin J Poorman writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the
 > number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell
 > script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package?
 > 

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Re: file modes

[dpk]

Is this for anonymous ftp uploads?  You can set this option in the
file /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess.  You can change this with the ftp client
also... before you 'put filename' type 'umask 022'.

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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:

> 
> What do I need to change to make the default file mode to rwx,rx,rx when
> uploading via ftp?  I'm using WU-FTP-Academ 2.4.2.13-0.
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
> 
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Re: manpath.config

[dpk]

Does the file /etc/manpath.config exist?  Is it readable by the user you
are executing man as?  Make sure you can answer yes to both of those,
if not, try reinstalling man-db.

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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote:

> I was putting man page on Debian Linux. man page get error
> 
> man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config
> 
> there is something's wrong?
> 
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Where is rpc.portmaper?

[Pedro Sanchez]

Hello,

I can't find this file in my system after installing the current stable
Debain 1.3. I looked into the Contents file of the distribution and is
not there neither. Isn't netstd the package that is supposed to
install it?

P. Sanchez
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Re: XF86_NONE failed

[John Spence]

> 
> X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed.
> 
> i got a problem with that. What does that mean?

I had that problem during one of my installs. Can't remember what I did to
cause it but I used dpkg to install the correct server for my card, ran
the xf86config routine and all was well.



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Re: changing pine config

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Paul wrote:
> 
> > hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
> > say an alternative email address.  Thanks for everything.
> > Paul
> 
> I do this by setting the "user-domain" field in the config file. My
> address is dwarf.polaris.net, but my provider collects my mail, so I set
> my 'user-domain' to polaris.net. This works for me.

For me it's a bit troublesome... at home I can login as marcelo, and
almost everywhere else, my login is mmagallo, so just setting the domain
doesn´t work. Search for [W]here customized-hdrs is in the configuration
and [A]dd "From: Your name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" or "Reply-To: [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]". Press
"?" while at it, as there are a couple more features you may be interested
in.

Anyway, what Dale describes is usually enough...


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NIS netrgoup and hamm

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I've upgraded one debian machine to unstable for
development purposes.  The other machines on our network, including
the NIS server, are running 'stable' or 'bo'.  Briefly, I can login to
the unstable system with passwords passed over NIS, but I can't get
the system netgroup, which is entered in /etc/hosts.equiv, to allow
passwordless rsh logins.  

Here is my /etc/nsswitch.conf:
-
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
#

passwd: compat
group:  compat
shadow: compat

hosts:  files dns
networks:   files

protocols:  db files
services:   db files
ethers: db files
rpc:db files

netgroup:   nis db files

-
and /etc/hosts.equiv:
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root
-
and `ypmatch -k hequiv netgroup` on the unstable system:
-
hequiv (intech1.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)
(intech2.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   (intech3.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   
(intech4.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   (intech5.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   
(intech7.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   (intech8.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   
(intech9.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com) 
(fla.fla.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com) 
(trading.fla.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)   
(qintech.fla.enhanced.com,-,enhanced.com)
-

rsh from, say, intech5 prompts me for a password.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Problems with Cron

[Pedro Sanchez]

Hello,

I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:

1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
   and included the line
   
   0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
   
   However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there
   something else that I have to do?

2. User crontab files are also ignored. I use crontab -e to create the files
   and I've tried with and without /var/spool/cron/allow (with valid user
   entries).
   
I've checked the system time, is ok, and I even re-installed the cron debian
package. After editing /etc/crontab I rebooted my PC (a la Win95) but
nothing changed.

I've used cron before and never found any problems. I tend then to believe
this is not a problem with cron but with something else, however I can't
figure out what. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you,

P. Sanchez
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Mouse on Xwindows

[K.Y.Lo]

I forgot to put Microsoft mouse in Serial port but it was very funny
 i see a pointer on X-windows..  it couldn't moving around the desktop.
How do I config /dev/mouse or XF86Setup?

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Re: XF86_NONE failed

[Heikki Vatiainen]

If you know that the SVGA server was installed ok and the XFree86 
configuration file is ok, see /etc/X11/Xserver file.

The first line of the file tells which X server to run. For example my 
/etc/X11/Xserver starts with:

/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA


If the XFree86 config file is not ok, try running /usr/sbin/xbase-configure 
as root to re-create the file.

// Heikki
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manpath.config

[K.Y.Lo]

I was putting man page on Debian Linux. man page get error

man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config

there is something's wrong?


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XF86_NONE failed

[K.Y.Lo]

I have installed X11 package completely but it has a problem.
Xserver_SVGA was installed ok, config it done then running xdm.
i tried to type 'startx' to say:

X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed.

i got a problem with that. What does that mean?

Thank alot.

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Re: changing pine config

[Dale Scheetz]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Paul wrote:

> hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
> say an alternative email address.  Thanks for everything.
> Paul

I do this by setting the "user-domain" field in the config file. My
address is dwarf.polaris.net, but my provider collects my mail, so I set
my 'user-domain' to polaris.net. This works for me.

Luck,

Dwarf
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xcdroast is using cdwrite - why?

[Martin Schulze]

Hi!

I've installed xcdroast from hamm and I'm trying to copy an audio cd.
Xcdroast is still using cdwrite - which isn't installed anymore.  Even
worse cdwrite won't work with my cdwriter, only cdrecord does it.

What Do I need to do to let xcdroast use cdrecord?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: X-windows

[Alex Yukhimets]

> hey all, 
> i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
> enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
> from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
> I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find
> an X-server (how do i configure that?)

Please always give more detailed description of what you already tried.
Usually only small correction would be needed.
In any case, did you install linux? IS it working OK?
1) If that's the case then first step would be to find out what video card
are you using and what X server has a driver for your card. 
Check out http://www.xfree86.org to find that out.
2) DOwnload and install the following packages: xbase, xfnt75,
xserver-vga16 (while installing this, say "no" to the question whether you
want to configure it) AND xserver- - the one suitable for your card.
Say "yes" for the question thet you want it to be a default X server and
"yes" that you want to configure it now. The installation program
will ask a couple of questions. After the install try "startx".
3) if it works -fine. If doesn't (most probably) - fire up
XF86Setup configuration utility. It is *very* good. You may need to
go through it several times to get fully aquainted and check all the
appropriate boxes for your hardware. AS a final step, this utility
starts chosen X-server (the one suitable for your card) so you can see
whether it works or not.

Alex Y.
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Re: Partitioning

[Gertjan Klein]

"Adam Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[Snip requirements of W95 to boot from a partition]

 > Not true.  Look below.  All cut and pasted from Win95.

[Snip partition setup]

  I gave the short version of the requirements, which I expected to
satisfy most readers ;-)  I must admit I never thought of using an
_extended_ partition MBR to get to LILO, though.  To give the more
precise list of requirements (that also explains why your setup works):

  DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies
again).  During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it
switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them
from drive C:.  If these are not the same, weird things can happen
(processing of config.sys of another partition, or refusing to load
command.com because it has the wrong version number).  The way DOS
assigns drive letters is this:

 * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's
   hidden DOS partitions.

 * Each _active_ primary DOS partition on each subsequent drive is
   assigned the next drive letter, even if it is not the first primary
   DOS partition. If a drive has no active (DOS) partition, its _first_
   primary DOS partition is assigned a drive letter. If no primary DOS
   partition exists on the drive, no drive letter is assigned in this
   stage.

 * All _extended_ partitions on all subsequent drives are assigned drive
   letters in turn.

 * Lastly, all remaining primary partitions on all subsequent drives are
   assigned drive letters in turn.

  As can be seen from this, if the active flag is _not_ set on the first
harddisk (or if it is set to something DOS doesn't recognise as a valid
boot partition, like the extended partition MBR), the _first_ primary
partition will be called C: and can be booted from.  This explains why
your setup works.

  Another consequence is that if there are no primary DOS partitions on
the first drive (e.g. because a boot manager hid them), DOS should be
able to boot from the second drive, since the first (or active) DOS
partition on that drive would be called C:.  Note the ``should'':
format.com and sys.com set the boot drive number in the bootsector
incorrectly, so it needs a small patch to get this working. Also note
that the W95 installation program can't handle this.

  (If you really need W95 on HD2, make the second HD the first one,
install W95, make it the second one again and patch the bootsector
(change the byte at offset 0x24 to <0x80 + zero-based drv number>,
e.g. 0x81 for the second harddisk).  Then use LILO or another boot
manager to boot it, and don't do it through the MBR of the second HD
(as the default DOS MBR software can only boot partitions on the first
drive). I have done this, and it works.)

  Gertjan.

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file modes

[Paul Miller]

What do I need to change to make the default file mode to rwx,rx,rx when
uploading via ftp?  I'm using WU-FTP-Academ 2.4.2.13-0.

Thanks
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bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

[Christian Hagemeier]

Hi!


My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I
can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the
"Official CD" such a bootable CD?


Chris


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bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

[Christian Hagemeier]

Hi!


My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I
can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the
"Official CD" such a bootable CD?


Chris


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Re: xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????

[Carey Evans]

"Brian V Bonini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I started to set up the .xsession file and
> instead of doing this for my user account until I got it right for some
> reason I did it for my root account.

[snip]

As well as the other solutions mentioned (Ctrl-Alt-F1, su, linux
-single, rescue disk), you should also be able to log on using [F1]
after the password insted of [Enter], which will pop up a single xterm
without running your .xsession.

Actually, I *never* log in to X as root, but just use `su'.

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Re: Image & Sound

[Carey Evans]

"Àlex Maneu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> -I want to put a picture as the background of X-Windows, or simply
> change the background color. Where is it specified? Which files must
> I edit?

Probably in ~/.xsession, i.e. the .xsession file in your home
directory.  Something like:

#!/bin/sh
xsetbg /usr/src/linux/Documentation/logo.gif &
xterm &
fvwm2# No "&" !

Alternatively, for just a colour: 

cd; mkdir .fvwm2; echo steelblue > .fvwm2/background.color

and log in again.  This is a Debian feature.  Look in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt for the names.  Type "xsetroot -solid
peachpuff" to test them.

> -XV: I've been looking for this program, but I don't have it.
> I've been searching it in DSELECT, but I couldn't find it.
> Where is XV?

In non-free on the ftp site.  Easiest is probably to download the .deb
from the mirror dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386 (or wherever it is)
and run "dpkg -i xv..." on it as root.  Then read the copyright in
/usr/doc/xv to see *why* it's in non-free.

> [2  ]

Is this really necessary?

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Re: Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)

[Britton]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How does one place gifs, jpegs into a LaTeX document? The book I have
> (The LaTeX Companion) mentions a graphics package but says its under
> development. However, the book is a few years old, so maybe it's been
> developed. 

Yep, it has.  Works perfectly for me with ps images going through gs to an
Epson Stylus Color 600, but I won't pretend it didn't take some banging
for me to get to that point.

> Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
> to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)

This is sort of a guess, but in my magic filter filter file I see the line

0   \377\330\377\340\?\?JFIF\0  pipe/usr/bin/djpeg  -pnm

which inspires me to think that a program called djpeg does the job.  It
strikes me as being possible that dvips provides a way to pass this sort
of stuff on to the filter as well, which has capabilities (fpipe) for
re-piping parts of the file through again, but I doubt it would be worthe
the effort, as you will want to see what it looks like as a ps image
anyway before including it.  Good luck.

> You know you've been working with *nix too long when you think xmas must
> be an X windows program :].
> 
> 
> Andrew Tarr
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> "God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. 
>  Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die."
> 
> 
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Re: pdf to text converter

[jdassen]

On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Paul asked:
> Hi everybody, Is there a package that will converts *.pdf files to text
> file format.  Thanks in advance.

On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:05:23PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen suggested:
> I have pdftotext installed, it comes with the xpdf package. If you are
> using the unstable distribution see non-free/text section and for the
> stable distribution see the text section.

Another option is to use "pstotext"; for extracting text from PDF you need
at least ghostscript 3.51, such as the "gs-aladdin" package from non-free.

HTH,
Ray
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Re: Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)

[Rolf Obrecht]

On 16 Dec 1997, Brian Mays wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> > Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
> > to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)
> 
> See the netpbm package.  For example, you can do the following:
> 
>   giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops > some.eps

You could also use "xv" or the "convert" program from the ImageMagick
Package to convert gifs to eps.

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Getting 'cpuload' to compile under hamm

[Ben Gertzfield]

I'm having trouble getting a silly little program called 'cpuload' to
compile under hamm. It's just a little app that sits in the Afterstep
Wharf and shows the system load as a colored bar. 

The program compiles fine on a libc5 system, but on hamm, the
configure.in tests for a function in libXpm called
XpmCreatePixmapFromData -- but a quick nm in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.a
tells me there's no such function.

Erm, where did it go? The configure fails because it can't find this
function.

And yes, I do have xpmblah-dev installed :)

The source is available on
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/desktop/cpuload-0.2.tar.gz.

If anyone figures out what the problem is and lets me know, I'd be
much obliged.

Ben

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more accurate question

[Alan Woo]

okay, i've been playing around iwth it a bit, and here's what i think
ineed to do: make sure the directory is browsed by the network (the
X11R6 (?) one, i think). how would i do this? if that doesnt work, any
other suggestions? i've installed the x-vgaserver and xsvga... 

thanks in advance, 
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Re: X-windows

[robert havoc pennington]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
> hey all, 
> i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
> enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
> from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?

What problem in particular are you having? What step do you get to? 
Which part doesn't work? What error messages do you get? What have you
tried?

> I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find
> an X-server (how do i configure that?)
> 

Put the name of the X server you want at the top of /etc/X11/Xserver.
A sample name:

/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA

You may have to use a different server, depending on your hardware. See
the XF86 HOWTO, to be found in /usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.gz if you 
installed the HOWTO package. Also try /usr/doc/X11.

Good luck.

HTH,
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X-windows

[Alan Woo]

hey all, 
i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find
an X-server (how do i configure that?)

thankyou,
Alan W


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pppd dialing in to cisco 5200?

[Craig Sanders]

i'm experimenting with another dialup connection at the moment, this time
to the new dialin servers at my new job.  they're cisco 5200 boxes, which
get their authentication details from a radius server.

i've tried crypted and plaintext secrets but keep on getting an
"Authentication Failure" message. what is strange is that if i telnet to
the cisco 5200 i can login with my username (cas) and password, so the
radius stuff is working okjust the CHAP is failing. 

anyone run into something like this before?  any clues?

btw, this is brand-new dialin gear which we're in the process of testing
before letting customers loose on itso the problem could be at my end
or it could be at the cisco end. 

also btw, on the debian box at my end i am running:

$ dpkg -l ppp 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  ppp 2.2.0f-23  Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.


craig

ps: here's the log of the latest attempt, using crypted secrets..

Dec 17 15:12:02 taz pppd[27044]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Dec 17 15:12:03 taz chat[27046]: abort on (BUSY) 
Dec 17 15:12:03 taz chat[27046]: abort on (NO CARRIER) 
Dec 17 15:12:03 taz chat[27046]: abort on (VOICE) 
Dec 17 15:12:03 taz chat[27046]: send (ATZ^M) 
Dec 17 15:12:04 taz chat[27046]: expect (OK) 
Dec 17 15:12:05 taz chat[27046]: ATZ^M^M 
Dec 17 15:12:05 taz chat[27046]: OK -- got it 
Dec 17 15:12:05 taz chat[27046]: send (ATDTphonenumbercensored^M) 
Dec 17 15:12:05 taz chat[27046]: expect (CONNECT) 
Dec 17 15:12:05 taz chat[27046]: ^M 
Dec 17 15:12:27 taz chat[27046]: ATDTphonenumbercensored^M^M 
Dec 17 15:12:27 taz chat[27046]: CONNECT -- got it 
Dec 17 15:12:27 taz chat[27046]: send (^M) 
Dec 17 15:12:27 taz pppd[27044]: Serial connection established.
Dec 17 15:12:28 taz pppd[27044]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 17 15:12:28 taz pppd[27044]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Dec 17 15:12:28 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:31 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:33 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x6  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:33 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x6 ]
Dec 17 15:12:33 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x7  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:33 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x7  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:34 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x3 
, name = "AS52001"]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x3 
<61019b4435247809ba6454ff800bd8bb>, name = "cas"]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x8  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x8 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x9  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:37 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x9  
   ]
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x4 
<9d934983d18e52bf5386eb4f50f48000>, name = "AS52001"]
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x4 
<273951c377f28559154ec8acd60618c0>, name = "cas"]
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x4 "Authentication 
failure."]
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: Remote message: Authentication failure.
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: CHAP authentication failed
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0xa]
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: LCP terminated at peer's request
Dec 17 15:12:38 taz pppd[27044]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0xa]
Dec 17 15:12:41 taz pppd[27044]: Connection terminated.
Dec 17 15:12:41 taz pppd[27044]: Exit.


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upgrade causes partition woes

[G. Crimp]

Last night I began upgrading my Debian 1.1 system to 1.3.1.  The upgrade came
off of InfoMagic's LDR August 1997 release CD's.  I read and followed the 
counsel from the Kernel-HOWTO  (v0.80, 26 May 1997) and from Linus Torvalds'
README in the top of the source tree (ls -l gave 25 May 1997 as the date), 
and the notice on upgrading that was under bo on the cd.  It seems to me that
I did everything by the book.

But things have not turned out happily.  make config seemed to go well.
make zdisk reported no errors.  make modules pooped out at the end.  Said
there was no more room on the device.

Hmmm ... This is bothersome.  I should have loads of space.  I first noticed
this message after upgrading all my packages with dselect.  Yes I first
upgraded dpkg by hand as instructed.  For some reason, dselect installed new
stuff as well as upgrading what I already had.  I figured the Linux and Deb
docs as well as the source tree for several different architectures was 
eating up all my space.  Getting rid of this stuff didn't free up as
much space as it should have.

Seems that somewhere along the line, my partition table got screwed up.  
How ? I never touched the partitions.  Here is the partitions I had before
the upgrade:



/dev/hdc1   /   ext2  500 Mb
/dev/hdc5   /usr/local  ext2  500 Mb
/dev/hdc6   /home   ext2  300 Mb
/dev/hdc7   noneswap  16  Mb



here is the new output from fdisk as captured with the script programme:


Script started on Tue Dec 16 19:05:18 1997
humble# fdisk /dev/hdc
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 6136.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6136 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   BeginStart  End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *11 1016   512032+  83  Linux native
/dev/hdc2 1017 1017 2675   8361365  Extended
/dev/hdc5 1017 1017 2032   512032+  83  Linux native
/dev/hdc6 1024 2033 2642   307408+  83  Linux native
/dev/hdc7   ? 2063 2642 26422147483647+  ff  BBT


Script done on Tue Dec 16 19:06:03 1997

What went wrong and where do I go from here ?  Partitions seem to plague me.
I recently came to the list with disappearing partition problems.  Just bought
a new WD drive and reinstalled because my old one seemed to be going flaky.  
Now this.  Any help appreciated.

Gerald Crimp


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Re: changing pine config

[Daniel Martin at cush]

In Pine's configuration, look for custom-hdrs or something like that
and add the value:
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> hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
> say an alternative email address.  Thanks for everything.
> Paul
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[no subject]

[Eric Sessions]

Whenever I try to boot the system I get the following message:

Kernal Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs or 01:00

If you have any suggestions please tell me.

Thanks,


Eric

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Re: 3FA ???

[Eloy A. Paris]

Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM.  I made Debian hard
: drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system.  When I
: rebooted, I got this message:
:
: 3FA:
:
: This is all it says.  Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says
: the same message.  Please help.  Thanks.

/usr/doc/mbr/README explains it all. The documentation in
/usr/doc/lilo can also help.

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changing pine config

[Paul]

hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
say an alternative email address.  Thanks for everything.
Paul


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Re: last step for saving

[Will Lowe]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:

> missing my other partitions, so i'm left with only one gig. i have a few
> questions. if you have time, could you please answer them in a detailed
> step by step format? 

> 1: How do i repartition it so i have 2 gigs for windows, and 1 for
> linux? 
Which other partitions are you missing?  It might be helpful if at this
time you did (as the root user) "fdisk -l > partitions" to produce a
table of your partition info and sent us the content of the file
"partitions".

> 2: How do i set up xserver? Mine doesn't work right now, every time i
Have you identified the correct server for your card?  Once you've done
that,  it should be mainly a matter of running "dpkg -i " on the right
.deb files and then running xf86config.

You will need some specific information on your monitor.  If you've got a 
Super-VGA capable monitor,  I recommend using the default svga timings in
the file created byxf86config until you've figured out which others your
monitor can handle,  lest you fry it.

> startx, i get an error message
What does the message say?  I'm sorry if you've already posted this.

Will


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last step for saving

[Alan Woo]

okay, i actually have windows perfectly up and running now, but i'm
missing my other partitions, so i'm left with only one gig. i have a few
questions. if you have time, could you please answer them in a detailed
step by step format? 

1: How do i repartition it so i have 2 gigs for windows, and 1 for
linux? 

2: How do i set up xserver? Mine doesn't work right now, every time i
startx, i get an error message


okay, this has been a painful ordeal, nearly over now though 

i want a special thanks to go out for:
Ian Keith Setford (tons of help, gave instructions, thanks!)
Alex Yukhimets
Will Lowe
Mark W. Blunier

and all the others, 

thanks!


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Re: XF86Setup get error

[Will Lowe]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> > It's in xserver-vga16.
> 
> Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)?

Yes,  you have to install vga16 to use XF86Setup.  But you can install it
AND xserver-svga at the same time,  so it's not a problem.

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Re: XF86Setup get error

[Alex Yukhimets]

> On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> 
> > > Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
> > > What package contains XF86Setup?  The man page is in xbase, but that is
> > > all.
> > 
> > It's in xserver-vga16.
> 
> Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)?

It uses vga16 server only to fire up the configurator. While
configuring your card, go to 'detailed setup' and check the
server you want to use (SVGA in your case).

Alex Y.

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Re: XF86Setup get error

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:

> > Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
> > What package contains XF86Setup?  The man page is in xbase, but that is
> > all.
> 
> It's in xserver-vga16.

Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)?


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Re: XF86Setup get error

[Alex Yukhimets]

> Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
> What package contains XF86Setup?  The man page is in xbase, but that is
> all.

It's in xserver-vga16.

Alex Y.

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Re: XF86Setup get error

[Bob Nielsen]

Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
What package contains XF86Setup?  The man page is in xbase, but that is
all.

Bob


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Re: gateway 2000 laptop pcmcia cards

[Alex Romosan]

just add the following to /etc/pcmcia/config:

card "Gateway 2000 Telepath Combo Card"
  version "GATEWAY2000","XJEM3336","Telepath Combo Card"
  bind "smc91c92_cs","serial_cs"

works fine here with pcmcia-cs version 2.9.12 (also it worked with 10
and 11).

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looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

[Orn E. Hansen]

cs51wcs writes:
 > Hi,
 >   I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the
 > filesystem like in dos, but am having  a hard time. Any assistance is
 > appreciated. 

If you use the tcsh as your shell...

[1:42] Ørn:~ > set
addsuffix
argv()
cwd /home/oehansen
dirstack/home/oehansen
echo_style  both
edit
gid 50
group   staff
history 100
home/home/oehansen
owd
path(/bin /usr/bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/local/bin /home/oehansen/bin .)
prompt  %B[%U%T%u]%b Ørn:%~ %# 
prompt2 %R? 
prompt3 CORRECT>%R (y|n|e|a)? 
shell   /usr/bin/tcsh
shlvl   2
status  0
tcsh6.07.02
termxterm
tty ttyp2
uid 1000
useroehansen
version tcsh 6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27 (i386-intel-linux) options 
8b,nls,bye,al,ng,nd
[1:42] Ørn:~ > cd bin
[1:44] Ørn:~/bin > set prompt = " Me:%~ %# "
 Me:~/bin > 



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Re: XF86Setup get error

[W Paul Mills]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote:

> I have installed X11 packages 
> 
> it says XF86Setup
> Not all of the Configuration and application default files are
> installed.
> The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is missing.

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit  should be a symlink to /etc/X11/xinit
also
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver should symlink to /etc/X11/xserver

> 
> What does that mean?
> 

The symlinks did not get created for some reason?
Hope this helps.

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Re: Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)

[Brian Mays]

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> Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
> to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)

See the netpbm package.  For example, you can do the following:

giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops > some.eps

For JPEG files, try

djpeg -pnm some.jpg | pnmtops > some.eps

where djpeg can be found in the libjpeg-progs package.

Brian


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