vgetty as answering machine

1996-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening folks, I want my machine be my answering machine except for the possibility for saving incoming calls. Only a message shall be displayed to inform the caller to call at a later time or to send me a dumb letter. I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough

Re: Custom installation boot disks?

1996-09-18 Thread Bruce Perens
If I'm not mistaken, the generic kernel will install on a 2940. It's the AIC7XXX series of chips, and aic7xxx.o is built into the generic kernel. It's always best from a performance standpoint to create your own custom kernel. If you can allocate the space to install the kernel sources and the

Re: Custom installation boot disks?

1996-09-18 Thread Paul Christenson
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: If I'm not mistaken, the generic kernel will install on a 2940. It's the AIC7XXX series of chips, and aic7xxx.o is built into the generic kernel. It does. I was at the office and had the generic disk set with me. Said 'what the heck' and found it

Version 2.0

1996-09-18 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, Some are saying that 2.0.20 may be the final 2.0 version... Does debian already have 2.0.20 in its stable tree? If I buy a Debian CD, will it come with 2.0.20? Thx. Ricardo

Re: ?-html

1996-09-18 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
I've seen a few listed. Try: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/faq-software.html#editors On Sep 17, 3:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: ?-html : Hi, : Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an : html output for my manual pages? or better still act

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Yves Arrouye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 September 1996 00:10: That wouldn't resolve Michael's problem: assume I change my app-defaults file for SomeApp, just to adjust colors to my tastes. Then comes a new release of SomeApp, with new features controlled by X resources that are in the

Re: ?-html

1996-09-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? There's rman, in non-free. or better still act as the front end of man? I'm working on a WWW front end to all on-line documentation on a Debian system, but it's

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Michael Alan Dorman: I feel like a broken record, here, but would people involved in this discussion please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README? I did that. I didn't notice that paragraph, probably because it comes under the heading of ``xdm-start-server''. The visual clues given by the

Re: dvips top margin

1996-09-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
Are you using ghostscript? I discovered a similar problem a few days ago: I worked with gs-4.01-2 and all the offsets were correct as specified in TeX, correct in DVI (xdvi) and PS (ghostview) and on the printer. But I had to switch back to gs-2.62-2 because of the problem, that characters get

Re: ?-html

1996-09-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please does anyone know of a program/script I can run to provide an html output for my manual pages? or better still act as the front end of man? I have heard that there is some utility for doing this, though I have not come across it yet Check out tkman

pc speaker

1996-09-18 Thread Boris Beletsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hello i am looking for a pc-speaker kernel patch for the latest kernels (2.0.*) thks for u're time borik ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP

Re: ?-html

1996-09-18 Thread Jonathan Lawson
Thanks, Jonathan On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:06:39 -0600 Rick Macdonald wrote: From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:06:39 -0600 Subject: Re: ?-html To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please does

Re: Version 2.0

1996-09-18 Thread Bruce Perens
If you buy a Debian CD, it may not come with 2.0.20 . However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . It should be about 2MB for the binary kernel package, 5MB for the full kernel source. Installing a package takes a one-line shell command.

Re: How to create a Packages file?

1996-09-18 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Amos wrote: Can anyone tell me how to create an updated Packages file, please? Use dpkg-scanpackages(8). I'm not sure if its manpage is in dpkg 1.2 (stable). You may need to install the dpkg fro unstable to get the manpage. Guy

Version 2.0

1996-09-18 Thread Randy Gobbel
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:04:18 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Some are saying that 2.0.20 may be the final 2.0 version... Does debian already have 2.0.20 in its stable tree? I hope that's not the case, because there are bugs in the Adaptec drivers (aic7xxx) in 2.0.20 that were

Debian (not Linux) ne

1996-09-18 Thread bob . billson
@SUBJECT:Re: Debian (not Linux) newbie N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use multi-volume backups as I do them off-line anyway. I just define my backup volumes such that they will fit on one 170 MB tape. That holds /etc, /home and /usr/local, which is all I need. My

where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Chris R. Martin
I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing 'man man' gives command not found -- and it's not in

Re: Version 2.0

1996-09-18 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
Bruce Perens wrote: However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and upgrade your system to 2.0.20 . Installing a package takes a one-line shell command. So, when will the kernel-package appear on the CD-ROM distributions? I had to recompile the kernel before I could

Re: HELP: Probs configuring X

1996-09-18 Thread Justin Stodola
Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: [forwarded by request] --- Subject: Re: HELP: Probs configuring X Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:55:44 -0400 From: Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Christenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suck and innxmit

1996-09-18 Thread Tapio Vaattanen
Hello, I would very much like to read my mail and news off-line. So I thought suck and inn would be good choice for that. Now I have tried to set up a news spool. What comes to the local news, everything is working fine. I can send articles to local groups and I can read them with all news

Re: vgetty as answering machine

1996-09-18 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Martin Schulze wrote: : : Good evening folks, : : I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough : information to configure this. MGETTY comes definitfly with enought and complete docs. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Chris R. Martin: I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... I assume you have installed just the base package. /bin/ae is part of the base package. another thing...

Passive ftp with dselect?

1996-09-18 Thread Mikko Suonio
Hi again! System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated (did not read .dftprc etc). (I would like to update my

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Lazaro . Salem
Hi Chris, Subject: where's man ?? Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:18.09.96 09:11 I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... another

BETA: mutt 0.43

1996-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Good day folks, I'd like to invite all of you to take a look at the mutt-package. You'll find it on ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/beta. The mime.types file that is supportet by mutt seems to be incompatibel to the one that is installed in /etc. Here's the mutt syntax: # #

Re: Mouse

1996-09-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
By default, X11 uses /dev/mouse, I think. So perhaps there is just a symlink /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 missing. (Of course, you have to refer to the correct mouse device, /dev/ttyS0 is COM1, so if you have a bus mouse, you will have to change this to the appropriate device.) So doing

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-09-18 Thread Ed Down
Even easier - I just downloaded the new 3.1.2F server, named it XF86_Mach64 (I think it already was..) and overwrote the old 3.1.2 debian server. Hey presto, no changes required. I'm new to debian/linux, but I think I'm right in saying that this file will now just be overwritten if I install a

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... There is at least 'ae' installed and this is documented. At least i knew this after having

Swap partition and fdisk

1996-09-18 Thread A R Abid
I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. Also, would Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using Linux fdisk.

X11 Configuration of Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X-2

1996-09-18 Thread Volker M. Goebbels
Hi! I wonder if someone has experiences configuring a Elsa Winner 2000PRO/X with 2 MB RAM under X11. The only mode working yet is 640x480, for all other modes I get a blank dark screen. BTW I'm using a Philips 21BA 21 autoscan monitor. I used the detailed timing data given in the Elsa WINman

(Solved): Re: recompiling kernel and ppp

1996-09-18 Thread Kevin Conover
Hi All, I'm replying to my own message since I got several responses and my problem is now solved. Unfortunately, the problem ( solution) turned out to be completely different. When I first came up with 2.0.0, I tested the modem with minicom before attempting PPP. No problem. After compiling

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a required thing... If you only installed the base system then the only editor availabe is AE

Re: llseek error large partitions

1996-09-18 Thread mikeb
Thanks for the info... I connected the disk to an existing system and it formatted 2.9 gb just fine. I was then able to move it back to the install system. Thanks again, Mike Bigus Also, I receive this message when past this point and writing the inode tables, 256/350 mkfs.ext2: Can't