Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-19 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I doubt that it's because of cost. (Actually, i

Re: JDK and JDK

1996-11-19 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, kazem wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:11:42 -0700 > From: kazem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: JDK and JDK > Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:11:42 -0700 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >

Re: WinNT OS loader

1996-11-19 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Doug Redd wrote: > I have Win NT installed on one drive and Linux on another, with the Win NT > drive being the default boot drive. I am currently using loadlin to boot > linux, but I am wondering if there is a way to get the Win NT OS loader to > load Linux. > Does anyone kn

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
With XEmacs and ViewMail, the problem becomes obvious! I've enclosed a uuencoded screenshot to demonstrate: begin 664 mryuck.jpg M_]C_X``02D9)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@!)0U)%051/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@5F5R2`](#7J#A(6&AXB)BI*3 ME)66EYB9FJ*CI*6FIZBIJK*SM+6VM[BYNL+#Q,7&Q\C)RM+3U-76U]C9VN'B MX^3EYN?HZ>KQ\O/T]?;W

Re: rdist as root?

1996-11-19 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
I just did this. You'd have to set up root with permission for rsh by putting a .rhosts in the root home directory. Beware of security issues though... On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Dirk Luetjens wrote: > > How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ > tree to the other comp

Bad dependency: rpm

1996-11-19 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
Hello, I like debian Linux over the other (RedHat, Slackware ...) as it provides easily precompiled packages. But I have got some trouble recently, trying for example to install .rpm packages. I have followed the list, and got new debmake (1.95) in order to use alien. I the

Problem: Sony magneto-optical disks RMO594 and Linux

1996-11-19 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
Dear "List", I follow this list for a while and appreciate its interest. I have now a question that could be addressed here I think. I run Debian (1.1) Linux (kernel 2.0.25) on a Pentium with 48 MB Ram, an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card that is fully recongnized, a Micropolis

Re: About the loop device

1996-11-19 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:02:51 +0100 Santiago Vila Doncel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd love to handle dosemu's hdimage files without dosemu. > What must I do to use a loop device with Debian? > (Will "cd /dev; mknod loopx b 7 x" for x=0,...,7 be enough?) > Should I have to recompile the kernel

icmp: udp port route unreachable

1996-11-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
For time to time, I receive this message from tcpdump. Does anyone know what does it mean? Do I configure my route incorrectly? 20:13:54.250843 x.xx..xxx.xx > yy.yy..yyy.yy: icmp: x.xx..xxx.xx udp port route unreachable (frag 8852:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [tos 0xc0] la

rdist as root?

1996-11-19 Thread Dirk Luetjens
How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ tree to the other computers in the network? Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Floppy management?

1996-11-19 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi, On 3 occasions, I had a rather annoying problem when playing with my floppy. I have the entry: /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,sync,rw,conv=auto,debug allowing any user to mount a floppy, which can then be accessed read/write as /floppy. Great. However, the problem is that if y

Dinamic Routing

1996-11-19 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
I'm looking for dinamic routing package for debian (as I guess gated would be goodbut in standard Debina distribution there is only gated) and for any person expirienced with it!!! Help! Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-19 Thread Paul Christenson
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One solution would be to hade an "unhold" feature, which sets the status > > according to the currently-installed status. > I don't understand this. The 'default' behavior of dpkg-ftp is to _ask_ > the user if they want to get all of the new/updat

Re: X is painful + GPLed solution

1996-11-19 Thread Martin Konold
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote: > > # Have look at the kde project. > > The problem with kde is that they use qt, which has a very > restrictive license that makes it non-free software (in > particular, they do not allow any modified version of the > library to be distributed). Rememb

Re: WinNT OS loader

1996-11-19 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Doug Redd wrote: > I have Win NT installed on one drive and Linux on another, with the Win NT > drive being the default boot drive. I am currently using loadlin to boot > linux, but I am wondering if there is a way to get the Win NT OS loader to > load Linux. > Does anyone kn

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-19 Thread John Hasler
Herbert Xu writes: > Sure, the user should be able to customise things if they want to. But > if you don't have a pretty default, people will simply say that Debian > looks ugly! First make it work. Then make it work right. Then make it work really well. Then, if you have time and it doesn't br

Re: kerneld and pppd and ip masquerading

1996-11-19 Thread John Hasler
Adam Heath writes: > I setup /sbin/request-route to run pppd... Where can I find documentation on request-route? I never heard of it before this, and now I find that I have it. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: kerneld and pppd and /sbin/request-route

1996-11-19 Thread Adam Heath
-- > On Sat, 17 Nov 2096, Adam Heath wrote: > > > I have set kerneld to automatically run pppd through /sbin/request-route > > whenever I need the internet. The only problem is that I still get a > > timeout(or I just need to re-request the connection) from the kernel. I > > run FTP, the

What Debian packages do I need to grab to upgared to Xfree 3.2

1996-11-19 Thread Stephen Early
Stan Brown writes: > Could someone give me a complete list of the Debian packages neededto > upgradeto XFree 3.2 ? Filenames and md5sums: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2027180 Nov 10 05:23 xbase_3.2-0_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14588186 Nov 10 05:36 xbooks_3.2-0_all

Can't seem to replace sendmail with smail.

1996-11-19 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hi. I decided to try sendmail this week, but then decided that smail is better for me at this time. Unfortunately, dpkg and dselect don't agree with me. They both refuse to go in this direction. The removal of sendmail is refused as smail is not installed, but I can't install smail 'cause it co

Re: [Linux-ISP] radiusd

1996-11-19 Thread Dermot Bradley
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd? > > I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and > portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure > it. It you look in ftp.gpl.net:/pub/loc

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-19 Thread Buddha M Buck
> > > Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what > > if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? > > As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but > you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed > their l

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-19 Thread Joseph Skinner
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >--==_Exmh_2037100310P >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] > >"Larry 'Daffy' Daffner": >> I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. > >It looks better than Athena