Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

[H.C.Hsiang]

Everyone in this list :
Sorry for bringing so much trouble to you. It started from a mail came
from one
of my friends. I didn't aware the file attached to the mail was a virus
untill I found
my e-mail software began to send mails automatically. I tried to stop
sending those
mails and terminated the excution of the virus and the e-mail software. But
the virus
kept restarting. After a few minutes, I finally terminate my e-mail software
and the
virus, but there were some mails with the virus had been sent out and all
the appli-
cation programs in my computer could not launch, including my e-mail
software, so
I can't sent warnings to you. Now, after more than 10 hours rebulding my
system,
I finally can send e-mails. I want to tell all of you that I'm truely sorry.
Sorry ....


H.C.Hsiang

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi Marshal!

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:

> > "Maury" == Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start
> > X.  I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me
> > and, before I start groping around and resetting permissions
> > helter skelter, I was wondering if anyone here might tell me the
> > canonical way to do this under Debian.
> 
> This is a problem that seems to pop up randomly on various systems and
> I've never been able to figure it out except by reinstalling X.  It's
> kinda odd...

hmm. Check your /etc/X11/Xserver file. It should look like this:

>>>
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA
Console

The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server.
The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
RootOnly
Console  (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console)
Anybody


Note that line numbers 1 and 2 are hardcoded.

yours,
peter

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Re: About dselect searching function

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:48:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In the deselect,we can press "/" to search for a string in the package
> name.
> However,can we try to search for a string in the file description..
> it would be convenient for example,we can search for "news client"
> and find the approiate package if you don't know the name of the package.

For now, you can use "apt-cache search" to do this.

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Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:27:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > and if you want to compile them there's always 'apt-get --compile source
> > packagename'.  if you haven't used it before here's how it works :)
> 
> with the annoying side affect of apt insisting on replacing the
> locally compiled packages with the debian binary version...  unless
> you never use apt-get upgrade again or put everything on hold, which
> hides the fact that there is a newer version...  (why does apt do that?)

On my system, i usually bump the version number of the package up by
.0001 before i recompile (then again, i usually only recompile to fix a
bug ;)

If you put the locally compiled package into an apt source before any of
the official Debian mirrors, it will keep your version instead of
Debian's as long as the version numbers remain equal. For example, i
have this at the top of my sources.list:
  deb file:/usr/local/debs / 
dpkg-scanpackages creates the packages file. As a side effect, this
keeps away the 'obsolete/local' classification.


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Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:29:30PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> > If you're really hard core about security and encryption (and I'm going
> > to be heretical here, but hey, I have to plug my home), try OpenBSD.  
> > Since it's main repository is in Canada, US crypto laws don't apply.  I
> > played with it a bit, but not enough to really get to know the
> > advantages.  Well, except for the ports.  I wish GNU/Linux would have
> > something like that.  cd /ports/.  make. Automatic download,
> > compilation, installation.  No though required...
> 
> yeah open bsd is nice, but i much prefer apt to the ports collection.  
> before apt showed up i was almost tempted to switch to open/freebsd because
> the ports tree is so nice.  the bummer about the ports tree is that can't
> clean up after itself as well as a binary package can, and my experience

[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ uname -a
OpenBSD venabili 2.6 VENABILI#2 i386
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ /usr/sbin/pkg_info
[...]
bash-2.03  GNU Bourne Again Shell
emacs-20.3 GNU editor
screen-3.7.6   multi-screen window manager
bzip2-0.9.5d   block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered
m4-1.4 GNU m4
autoconf-2.13  automatically configure source code on many Un*x platform
[...]

there is a pkg_delete utility which will allow you to delete any of
these listed packages, i've used it and it does work quite well, just
as well as apt-get --purge remove.  all of the above are installed
from the ports collection.

> with freebsd is that the dependencies aren't handled nearly as well as
> debian handles them.

hmm, well when i went to compile emacs it knew that it would need
autoconf and gmake and went ahead and compiled and installed them.

> and if you want to compile them there's always 'apt-get --compile source
> packagename'.  if you haven't used it before here's how it works :)

with the annoying side affect of apt insisting on replacing the
locally compiled packages with the debian binary version...  unless
you never use apt-get upgrade again or put everything on hold, which
hides the fact that there is a newer version...  (why does apt do that?)

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Re: Manual for apt

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so
> there's no apt  on my machine.

apt isn't a particular command, it's a set of tools:

$ apropos apt
apt (8)  - Advanced Package Tool
apt-cache (8)- APT package handling utility - cache manipulator 
apt-cdrom (8)- APT CDROM managment utility 
apt-config (8)   - APT Configuration Query program 
apt-find (1) - console ncurses based ui for APT
apt-get (8)  - APT package handling utility - command-line
   interface
apt-move (8) - move cache of Debian packages into a mirror
   hierarchy.
apt-zip (8)  - Use apt with removable media
apt-zip-inst (8) - Use apt with removable media
apt-zip-list (8) - Use apt with removable media
apt.conf (5) - configuration file for APT 
capt (1) - console ncurses based ui for APT
captoinfo (1)- convert a termcap description into a terminfo
   description 
console-apt (1)  - console ncurses based ui for APT
import (1)   - capture some or all of an X server screen
   and save the image to a file.
ldaptemplates.conf (5) - configuration file for LDAP display template
   routines
sources.list (5) - package resource list for APT 
micod (8)- MICO object adapter daemon

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Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?

[H.C.Hsiang]

on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +0100, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

> > 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source
> > in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one
> > leave that in place as well or is it ok to remove it?
> 
> >Sorry.  Where's that bzImage?  Under /usr/src/linux or in /boot?  If
> >the
> 
> The original in /usr/src/.../boot. When I ran make install it made a
> copy which it placed in /boot and linked to vmlinuz. So I have this
> extra original floating around doing nothing. Do I leave it? What do
> people do?

I generally leave the kernel under /usr/src/linux until I build a new
one.  Doesn't matter.

> >Usually I'll do the following with apps compiled from sources:
> 
> >  - remove source tree
> 
> ...once you've installed the binaries (and/or associated configuration
> and man pages), you can delete the source tree.
> 
> Just delete the source directory from which I just compiled the app, that's
> it?

Yep.

> >Otherwise, 'make uninstall' is a common build target which will
> >remove a
> 
> Good to know. But what name do I use and from where? If I compiled,
> say Blackbox, and it installed itself in /usr/local/bin + a man page.

You run 'make uninstall' from the source tree, if the target exists.
See the application's provided installation documentation, as I said,
this is highly variable.


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sound-slot-0 not found

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi guys,

my computer gives the following error messages on boot time:
sound-slot-0 not found
sound-service-0 not found

The curious is: my sound functions actually

Can you give some help to solve this problem? Thnx

Florian
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Re: Ring0

[H.C.Hsiang]

> Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you...
> Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about
> Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking
> programmer-amatour acces to Win98 memory.
>   I'd like to ask, if you could help me out with that? If the anser is
> 'No' - OK, i'll understand - but I surely won't be too happy about
> it

*laughs*

no, i'm afraid you've strayed quite out of your depth. this is a mailing list
for something very-not microsoft.


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Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

[H.C.Hsiang]

> I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I have (I 
> believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to solve this problem?
> Thanks
> 

run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output.

you need dvi2ps (or it might default to dviprint, i'm not sure), and of course
tetex-base

cheers

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Re: Q: Worried in Paris-Debian flaking out monitor?

[H.C.Hsiang]

> I was fine running Linux at 1152x864 under Mandarke but since I've switched
> to Debian and the same configuration, I've noticed the off monitor
> weirdness... like a sudden flash of light on boot, then the sudden visual
> "implosion" of my desktop screen, something which lasted a fraction of a sec
> but shook me.
> 

as long as the horizontal and vertical refresh rates are below or at what was
quoted in your monitor manual, it will be fine.

the discrepency was probably just the monitor syncing to the different refresh
rate (as you changed from text mode)

cheers

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Re: ICQ

[H.C.Hsiang]

Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and
> won't let you create new accounts.

gnomeicu works fine here. There is also licq which uses the *gulp* QT libs. 
:( 


HTH,

Ron
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Re: About dselect searching function

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:48:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In the deselect,we can press "/" to search for a string in the package
> name.
> However,can we try to search for a string in the file description..
> it would be convenient for example,we can search for "news client"
> and find the approiate package if you don't know the name of the package.

For now, you can use "apt-cache search" to do this.

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Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58:38AM -0400, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
> [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
> 
> I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
> what files were installed?  If so, how?

dpkg -L packagename

-- 
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Re: How to find DMA, IRQ etc. Was: OPTi sound card support

[H.C.Hsiang]

Quoth Robert Waldner, 

> another approach would be to browse through /proc/[pci,ioports,dma,irq]
> and/or fingering around with pnpdump for ISA-cards.

In my experience, in a lot of cases you won't see anything in /proc (and
it's interupts, not irq) unless you actually have a driver loaded for
the particular device.

I personally find that the best way is just to modprobe the module with
I/Os starting at about 0x200 and going up in 10s.

It seems to work with non-PnP network cards. YMMV.

cheers,

damon

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* Criminologist /  It's a sense of irony
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segfaults in window managers - please help

[H.C.Hsiang]

I have been unable to run any window manager in X, including sawmill,
enlightenment, twm, wm2, as well as gnome panel.  However, other apps
work okay like xterm and netscape.  I did an strace of several of these
apps, and it seems that they all segfault in the same area.  Here is
some of the output from wm2:

read(3, "\1\370\7\0\0\0\0\0\312\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
write(3, "\20\0\4\0\10\0\0\0WM_STATE", 16) = 16
read(3, "\1\370\10\0\0\0\0\0]\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
write(3, "\20\0\6\0\17\0\0\0WM_CHANGE_STATE\0", 24) = 24
read(3, "\1\370\t\0\0\0\0\0003\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"...,
32) = 32
write(3, "\20\0\5\0\f\0\0\0WM_PROTOCOLS", 20) = 20
read(3, "\1\370\n\0\0\0\0\0\345\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
write(3, "\20\0\6\0\20\0\0\0WM_DELETE_WINDOW", 24) = 24
read(3, "\1\370\v\0\0\0\0\0\320\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
write(3, "\20\0\6\0\r\0\0\0WM_TAKE_FOCUSDOW", 24) = 24
read(3, "\1\370\f\0\0\0\0\0004\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"...,
32) = 32
write(3, "\20\0\7\0\23\0\0\0WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\0", 28) = 28
read(3, "\1\370\r\0\0\0\0\0005\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"...,
32) = 32
write(3, "\20\0\5\0\f\0\0\0_WM2_RUNNING", 20) = 20
read(3, "\1\370\16\0\0\0\0\0006\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Does this mean anyghint to anyone?  I've also attached the full log of
the strace if you need more information.  It's not very big.  Thanks.
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Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...questions

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:18:25PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote:
[ snip ]
> No doubt you are right, but how would a novice like myself have known this?
> I am trying to follow the instructions carefully.  In doing so I am refering
> to:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-welcome.en.html
> 
> which is the installation document.  No where in that document can I find
> anything which would have guided me to that conclusion.  Perhaps a brief
> sentence in the 'Select cdrom modules' screen would be in order?

Sounds like a good idea.
 
> So I appreciate your assistance as I go through the ambiguous directives in
> the install procedure.

Ron, I don't mean to pick on you  here as your point is taken, but I
often see post to debian-user which are somewhat hostile for some
reason or other, usually because the documentation didn't tell the
user exactly what to do in teeny steps.

Folks, most of the people on debian-user are USERS, not developers.
Therefore they're not guilty of any crimes against you, like writing
documentation that you don't like.  If you think of debian-user as a
community forum (like a coffee shop) rather than a meeting before the
feet of the gods (like city hall) and treat your audience with that
in mind, you'll often have better results.

If you find a problem with a package, you can (and should) submit a
bug.  There's even a package called "bug" that will help you do this!
Documentation nits can be filed as wishlist bugs.  If you know the
subject matter at and patches are (almost) always welcome.

In this case, Ron should have posted to debian-testing with concerns
regarding the ease of use (or lack thereof) of the boot-floppies.  I
realise this isn't explicitly spelled out anywhere in huge block
letters, but this IS Linux after all :)

I also notice that you're using slink which is over a year old ... you
should give the potato (or "frozen") distribution a try.  It's 99%
stable; I run it on about twenty machines with no ill effects.  The
potato installation procedure is far better than that on the slink
disks.  

Note:  there is a known bug with the current potato boot-floppies;
modules often do not install due to borked symbols.  I don't know if
that's been fixed yet but unless you need a module to complete the
install (like a NIC module or something) you can get through the
install relatively painlessly.  You can then compile your own kernel
Use kernel-package !!! which is something you should do
anyway; the installation kernel is far too large. 

Cheers,

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Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...question

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:11:14PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> I am at this point: "Configure Device Driver Modules."  The first item in
> the menu is
> 
> block  Discs and disk-like devices
> 
> Yes I have discs!  so I select that and the choices are:
> 
> cpqarray-.What

Compaq RAID array

> linear  - Multiple-Disk driver, linear (append) mode.
> paride- What

Parallel IDE (Zip Disk)

> raid0  -  Multiple-Disk Driver, striping mode
> raid1  -  Multiple-Disk Driver, mirroring mode
> raid5  -  Multiple-Disk Driver, raid4/5
> xd   -  XT had disk controller
> 
> Well.none of these seem to be IDE drives so can I assume that driver
> will be installed automatically??

Yes.
 
> If so, so stating on that page would seem like a sensible thing to do.

There's an installation manual, you know.  You can find a copy at 
/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/doc/install.en.txt

I can deduce that you didn't read the installation manual first.  If
you had, you could have read this:

 Generally, the Debian installation system includes support for
 floppies, IDE drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SCSI
 controllers and drives.  The file systems supported include MINIX,
 FAT, Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT), among others (note that NTFS is not
 supported by the installation system; you can add it later, as
 described in Section 8.4, `Compiling a New Kernel').

 Rather than attempting to describe the supported hardware, it is much
 easier to describe the Linux supported hardware which is _not_
 supported by the Debian boot system.

 The disk interfaces that emulate the ``AT'' hard disk interface which
 are often called MFM, RLL, IDE, or ATA are supported.  Very old 8 bit
 hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer are supported only
 as a module.  SCSI disk controllers from many different manufacturers
 are supported.  See the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
 (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html) for more details.

 Not supported are IDE SCSI drives and some SCSI controllers, including

* EATA-DMA protocol compliant SCSI Host Adapters like the
  SmartCache III/IV, SmartRAID controller families and the DPT
  PM2011B and PM2012B controllers.

* The 53c7 NCR family of SCSI controllers (but 53c8 and 5380
  controllers are supported)

HTH,

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Re: which sound configuration utility?

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:53:35AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> Has anyone seen RedHat's HW detection in action?  It's
> real cool!  I swapped some HW on a system running
> RedHat and rebooted the system.  It automagicly
> detected the new HW (video card) during kernel boot
> and installed the required drivers all by itself! 
> (Just like windows!)  This has to be backported into
> Debian!

its just a program called `kudzu' and i disabled it when i had a
redhat system ;-) 
i hate automatic crap like that.  (but that's just me)

and `backported' is the wrong term here, that would imply porting a
already existing utility back to an older version of the OS, in this
case there is not even any `porting' necessary since its the same OS,
just get and compile kudzu toss in an initscript and you got it.  (i
presume all it does is muck around with kernel modules and breaks if
you don't compile every single bloody thing in the kernel config as a
module.  I didn't look much into it, all i know is it made the startup
take only a bazillion times longer and was going to screw with my
system configuration without asking/telling me, which is a death penelty
offence on my computers ;-)

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Re: Segmentation Fault?

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:11:50AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > using 2.1r5 (stable).
> > first item installed after base is XFree86 3.3.6 glibc21 version.
> > 
> i'm not sure, but isn't slink glibc 2.0?

Yes, it is. If the original poster has his information right, that's
probably the problem.


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VNC question

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi Debian users,

I have a problem:

I have a one factory in Mexico and I want to see what is 
happenning in any of the PCs (Window$ NT) that monitor 
PLCs (machines controling factories). I was at Brazil and
have another machine with NT. 

Can I put a Linux server at
the middle with redirect or something like this and use
VNC at the two ends?

I'm ataching a small postscript gzipped with an image because
one image means more than 1000 words.

Thanks to anyone in advance, Paulo Henrique


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Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi Maury!

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Maury Merkin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> [1]  My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start X.

Is X already running, i.e. the xdm on VC 7?


> [3]  What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP?  Ditto for hang up?
> How do I set it up so that my user (again, not "root") can dial and
> disconnect?

In order:
pon [providername]
poff [providername]
adduser maury dip

To configure things use pppconf or pppconfig, I don't remember :)

HTH

yours,
peter

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Re: TrueType fonts

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
> John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Assuming everything works, you should have true type fonts when you reboot. 
> > Now all
> > you have to do is set Netscape's preferences to use them.
> 
> I set up true type fonts as John suggested, and they are working.  But
> when I choose such a font in Netscape I can't choose the size, and
> font is smaller than I'd like.  Is there a way to specify a true type
> font at a particular size?  

Under Netscape, using TT fonts, it isn't possible to select a size from
the scroll list, but you can key in a value into the entry box
underneath this.  The size has to be re-entered, AFAIK, each time you
launch Netscape.

My prefs are Garamond and Courier New, at 12 and 11 point respectively.

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Re: TrueType fonts

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:26:34AM +, John Carline wrote:
> Brendan J Simon wrote:

[...]

> Assuming everything works, you should have true type fonts when you 
> reboot. 

One quibble (the rest of the advice looks good) -- no need to reboot.
Merely restart xfstt.  You don't even have to restart X:

$ xset fp+ unix/:7101

...from a command line within the current session is sufficient.

 12:46am  up 44 days, 19:05,  8 users,  load average: 2.14, 2.08, 2.15

:-)

...gotta take it down to install a NIC though...


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Re: How much free space does apt need in /var?

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:33:27PM -0600, montefin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First the question: how much free space in /var do you think I need for
> apt-get upgrades?

it depends, how many packages are installed, and how many of those are
being upgraded, and how many packages you might install in the future.
one of my systems i have lots of packages installed and
/var/cache/apt/archives is over 600MB, another system has less stuff
installed and has 250MB

> I ask because:
> 
> On my first try with apt-get, I got :
> 
> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives
> 
> I have a small disk, only 814 Mb, so /var got only 50 Mb. and only 13 Mb
> of /var are currently free. It is all Debian and the current install

try apt-get autoclean and if that is not enough, try apt-get clean.
autoclean just removes obsolete .debs, clean removes all .debs from
/var/cache/apt/archives if you still don't have enough space, and
don't have another partition with more free space then /var to symlink
/var/cache/apt to then i think i'd have to say your screwed here.  get
a CD find an NFS mount or get another disk.

[deleted]

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Re: Install with dpkg only.

[H.C.Hsiang]

Once upon a time, I heard Gary Hennigan say

> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if I were in this
> situation I'd try to just "tar xzf base2_2.tgz" with base2_2.tgz being
> available in main/disks-i386/current. That contains a complete base
> install of Debian and I don't think there's any setup of it required.
> 
> Gary
That's the way to go but you would need to do some minor shore, like
/sbin/unconfigure.sh, /etc/ , kernel, if you really want to directly boot
to this Debian partition.


Chanop

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Re: dselect

[H.C.Hsiang]

It seem that you have not pointed dselect (apt) to a more up-to-date 
distribution.  As
root, try running the apt-setup command and select a complete mirror.  Then run 
dselect
and chose the update option to get a new list of packages from the chosen 
source.  Once
the packages are updated, you are returned to the main menu and you can then 
enter the
selection menu and have significantly more packages to choose from

Hope this helps.
Johnny.

FreeMan wrote:

> I think my list isn't as long as you think. There are just 7 pages -
> that's all and I just can't find Samba. As I already told, it seems to
> there are only packages displaied, which are already installed.
> I already tried the search function but after typing in "samba", I just
> hear a short beep and the cursor jumps back to the begining of the
> list.
> What do I have to do, to see all available packages?
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Re: Setting up an internal mirror with custom debs

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 03:10:06PM -0500, Matt Ray wrote:
> I've setup an internal anonymous FTP mirror for potato, but now I need
> to add a custom .deb to it.  I can't seem to get my sources.list and the
> location of the .debs to work together. 
>
[SNIP]
> 
> but I'm banging my head against a wall.  Any suggestions for setting
> where to place files in an ftp directory?

I'll assume you know how to use dpkg-scanpackages to create a Packages
file, with the proper paths in the 'Filename:' fields. All you need then
is to understand how apt interprets sources.list. Back in February i
wrote up an explanation, check
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0002/msg02422.html

Hope this helps!


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Re: GDM and gdmchooser

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi Scott,

Quoth Scott Graves, 
> How do I invoke the gdmchooser in order to choose which host I wish to login
> to? I can't seem to get this feature to work.

Last time I tried to do this myself (a few months ago, admittedly), I
discovered that the chooser functionality didn't work and had been
removed.

I have no idea if it has been re-implemented.

OTOH, plain XDM works great as a chooser, it's just *really* ugly.

cheers,

damon

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* Criminologist /  It's a sense of irony
* Webmeister   /  disguised as one.
* Linux Geek  / - Bruce Sterling 

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Re: helixcode gnome with debian 2.1?

[H.C.Hsiang]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:24:32PM -0500, Kimon Ioannides wrote:
> Does anyone know if helix gnome will work with Debian 2.1 (slink). I've heard
> that it will work with 2.2 and helixcode's website (www.helixcode.com) states 
> that
> the debs are designed for 2.3. Anyone tried helix gnome with 2.1?

It's built against libc6-2.1.  There's no way it could work with slink
unless you upgraded most of it to potato, and then you're better off running
potato.

If you're running Gome, you're probably not running it on any sort of
production server, so I'd suggest using Potato anyway.  It's far nicer, and
I haven't had a problem with it since the great Perl upgrade.

HTH
-Dan

-- 
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unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human 
malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2

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RE: TNT2

[H.C.Hsiang]

On 14-Jun-2000 cam_random wrote:
> 
> My video card is a nVIDIA TNT2, however when i configure XF86 I can't 
> find my card in the database.  any ideas?
> 
> Justin
>

Hi, Justin...
The TNT2 chipset is listed as RivaTNT2 (chipset # 412 when using xf86config in
Xfree86 4.0). As an alternative, you might want to know that the card's using
the XF_SVGA graphics server and provides 2D graphics acceleration. I'm posting
you my XF86Config file (done for an Elsa Erazor III Lt with TNT2 M64 and a
GoldStar 56i - display, so you almost surely might want to check the monitor
settings inside. :))) ).

Hope this helps.. :))
Kristian


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Installing and running problem with an AMD-K6 CPU

[H.C.Hsiang]

Hi :
I am a new user for Debian/Linux . I planned to Install the 
Debian-Linux on an old machine
which was composed of the following parts to learn this 
powerful OS :
1. IWill P55TV motherboard , with an Adaptec AIC7860 SCSI 
controller onboard ( and I have 
   always kept the BIOS version to be the newest 
)
2. an AMD K6-233 CPU 
3. 96 MB RAM (32MB x 2 and 16 MB x 2 )
4. A VGA card with S3Trio64V+ chip and 2MB RAM .
5. Two SCSI harddisk dirves .
But since the first time I tried to install the OS on my 
mechine, it always reboot over and 
over . I've tried installing from floppies and CDROMs , and I'v tried Debian 
v2.1r.1 , v2.1r.2 
, v2.1r.3 , but the problem remained 
. Then I borrowed an AMD K5-PR100 CPU to replaced 
the K6-233 CPU 
and then it worked ! After I had completed the installation , I switched 
the
CPU back to K6 and it worked allright , but only for a few 
days ! Then it began to reboot
over and over again each time . I tried 
to re-install the entire system with K5-100 
and switched
back to K6 after completing the installation , but it won't 
work anymore . Then I learned form
the  Linux Hardware-HOWTO that : " 
AMD K5 and K6 work good, although older versions of 
K6 should be avoided as they are buggy. Setting "internal 
cache" disabled in bios setup can be a 
workaround. " So I followed the suggestion to disable the " 
CPU internal cache " in BIOS setup ,
but the problem remained . I have tried to boot my mechine by 
using DOS on a floppy disk and 
by using Windows NT 4.0 on a temporarily installed 
harddisk drive , it seems to work 
allright . So I think it should not be any 
hardware failure in my mechine . So is there anyone to 

tell me how to solve this problem ? Thanks !