/dev/cua1 - modem problems - HELP!

1996-10-06 Thread Brian K Servis
Oh wise ones, I am having problems with my modem. The modem is a PnP modem so I have to initialize it with a dos PnP driver and then use loadlin to boot. This is the time line and scenarios: 1) Had 0.93 w/ 1.2.13 minicom/pppd/chat all worked great, ppp/slhc as modules. Modem is /dev/cua1

Mail system

1996-10-06 Thread Simon Martin
Hi all, I have decided to assume that my ipfwadm/diald configuration works, and will connect it to the internal network. Now onto another subject, I need to set up mail services. My internal network will have an eventual (dial-up) connection, so all mailboxes will be handled by my ISP

Re: problems with X

1996-10-06 Thread Stephen Early
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I have installed Debian 1.1.9 and xbase, xlib, xserver-svga, and fvwm packages. I chose during xbase to use xdm to start x.. and during boot-up I see the message starting xdm.. however typing xdm at a root prompt doesn't do anything. I tried xinit and got

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-06 Thread Kevin Traas
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote: BTW, how do you pronounce Debian? Deb-E-an or Deb-I-an? Debian was named around Debra and Ian Murdock (Ian being the founder). Hence I can only pronounce it Deb-e-an - I've heard lots of people pronounce it Dee-bee-an which makes my hair on the back

Re: lyx

1996-10-06 Thread David Hallam
Yup no worries. Just installed the package from CD after Xfroms was installed! This seemed to be important. Have you found the lyx list? /dlh On Fri, 4 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got the word processor 'lyx' up and running? It depends, amongst other things, on 'xforms'. What

Re: dosemu_0.64.0.2-3_i386.changes

1996-10-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Joey Hess wrote: joeyI installed this dosemu package, and just installing it locked my system joeyup. I had to hit reset, and clean up all the errors on my filesystem that joeycropped up. What kernel version are you running and what version of the standard library?

Re: lyx

1996-10-06 Thread salwen
Has anyone got the word processor 'lyx' up and running? It depends, amongst other things, on 'xforms'. What is xforms, and where is it located? I have. I got xforms off the Debian ftp site int the contrib directory. Nathan $ dpkg -s xforms Package: xforms Status: install ok

sbpcd module

1996-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Anyone using the sbpcd driver? Until last night my server at home here (a 386/40/8) was running some mess vaguely resembling Slackware 2.3 and 3.0, and I upgraded it to Debian last night. sbpcd was compiled in to the kernel before, but with Debian it's a module. When I go insmod sbpcd

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Lawrence Chim: when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. Is is a install script problem? or a file dependancy

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Servo
Lars Wirzenius wrote: changed with 1.1.1. The Debian package I have (1.1.1-5) does not install cleanly and does not work, and I haven't been able to test my fixes for dwww and info2www. I'm working on it. I have 1.1.1-5 and it works and installed fine. -- Daniel ==

Segmentation fault during install

1996-10-06 Thread Christian Watts
Dear Sir or Madam, I'm having difficulty getting debian linux installed on my computer. It boots alright, partitions the disk, initializes the swap and root partitions, and mounts '/' on the root partition. Then, when I insert the first base disk (when prompted) it comes up with a

Re: tcpip communications not available

1996-10-06 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: Hello all ... I have a strange problem that consistently comes up upon a reboot of two Debian nodes of mine. After these nodes reboot (cold or warm) no one can telnet to, or ping ... to them.

Re: dosemu_0.64.0.2-3_i386.changes

1996-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
I installed this dosemu package, and just installing it locked my system up. I had to hit reset, and clean up all the errors on my filesystem that cropped up. Now dpkg reports dosemu as: Status: install ok half-configured What I saw on my screen was that dpkg installed the package, and ran the

Re: Another smail question or two

1996-10-06 Thread salwen
jhspies == jhspies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jhspies Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous jhspies questions on smail. I have a dialup-ppp connection with jhspies an Internet Service Provider. My usename at the ISP is jhspies jhspies while I use js as a username

Re: dselect sort by section

1996-10-06 Thread salwen
For an easier installation dselect needs a major rewrite IMHO. From all Linux distributions i installed until now Debian was the most counterintuitive i've stumbled over so far. I used the german distribution I installed Debian 1.1.5 about 1 1/2 months ago. I don't know what all the fuss about

Re: LaTeX and XFree questions

1996-10-06 Thread salwen
I am using Latex and it is working fine. I used the stable tex packages and then picked up mfbasfnt_1.0-5.deb and mfdcfnt_1.0-1_all.deb from the ftp site. (They are in rex and non-free I believe.) Or as previous discussions indicated you could install the tetex or ntex packages into

ppp

1996-10-06 Thread Richard Sevenich
The web site archives seem to have disappeared - probably being digested. So this may have been answered. I just installed Debian 1.1.4 on a new hard drive and can't get ppp going. I have kernel support and asked that the module be loaded as well. I am missing something simple. I have built

Re: bash profile question

1996-10-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Marcel Burggraeve wrote: I know you can use your .bash_profile to let you see the current directory and a prompt ( like in dos or os/2 ) I do have a profile which does this but was wondering if some people could post their profiles so maybe I can choose another which I

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I wrote: The names of the Apache server executable file and the default locations of the server's HTML directory and cgi-bin directory changed with 1.1.1. The Debian package I have (1.1.1-5) does not install cleanly and does not work, and I haven't been able to test my fixes for dwww and

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-06 Thread Bill Roman
Kevin Traas wrote: I've tried enabling the port by adding the proper entry to inittab (working from memory at the moment) as follows: S1:234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100 Note that executables have been banished from /etc by FSSTND for a long time. Try /sbin/getty, and you may

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've tried enabling the port by adding the proper entry to inittab (working from memory at the moment) as follows: S1:234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100 long time. Try /sbin/getty, and you may get sufficient functionality without having to install mgetty. Most everone

Kernel more recent than 2.0.6

1996-10-06 Thread Dermot Bradley
Is there any particular reason why neither buzz nor rex has recent kernels? I got the impression that 2.0.21 was pretty rock solid. Dermot -- Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Director Tel: +44 1232 572003 Genesis

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Craig Sanders: The bug is actually a typo. In the apache section of your .postinst scripts you had foundhttp=yes instead of foundhttpd=yes. I.E. you missed the final d. That was part of the problem. 1.1.1-5 also moves the ServerRoot and cgi-bin directories. Anyway, fixed in dwww 1.1-2 and

Re: sbpcd module

1996-10-06 Thread Daniel Stringfield
Anyone using the sbpcd driver? Until last night my server at home here (a 386/40/8) was running some mess vaguely resembling Slackware 2.3 and 3.0, and I upgraded it to Debian last night. sbpcd was compiled in to the kernel before, but with Debian it's a module. When I go insmod sbpcd

Re: Segmentation fault during install

1996-10-06 Thread Christian Watts
Christian Watts wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, I'm having difficulty getting debian linux installed on my computer. It boots alright, partitions the disk, initializes the swap and root partitions, and mounts '/' on the root partition. Then, when I insert the first base disk (when

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-06 Thread Kevin Traas
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Bill Roman wrote: I've tried enabling the port by adding the proper entry to inittab (working from memory at the moment) as follows: S1:234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100 Note that executables have been banished from /etc by FSSTND for a long time. Try

Most recent Beta of SVGA X Server

1996-10-06 Thread edwalter
Is there any possibility of someone making a deb file of the most recent beta of SVGA Server for X (beta G). The reason I ask is that I have a TGUI9440AGi that is not supported at all except in the recent betas... If someone would tell me how, I would be willing to do it. Erv