This happened a week or two ago, and I thought maybe I had a problem with
my machine. I got up in the middle of the night (don't sleep well anyway)
and had no problem. I think maybe the 100 limit may be low, but that's not a
bad sign.
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Hi Debianites!
My research group will soon upgrade a mission-critical Debian machine to
256M of RAM for running FPU-intensive simulations. I will get to choose
a new motherboard and CPU combo as well, but I'll be limited on price
which probably means no pentium pro. My question regards the Ty
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I have recently figured out how to print from my debian machine to a win95
printer using lpr and the input filter smbprint as follows:
rlp|Remote printer entry:\
:cm=HPLIII printer in IIGR 301:\
:lp=/dev/rlp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chris Hanson wrote:
> The most likely answer to your problem is that you should not use
> "floppy=thinkpad"; I didn't use it on the 760C. Modern ThinkPads do
> not need that switch, only older ones, such as the trusty 755C I'm
> using right now.
I concur. I loaded Debian 1.
In your email to me, Bob Nielsen, you wrote:
>
> What are some good up-to-date mirrors of ftp.debian.org? I am
> continuously having problems connecting because of the 100 anonymous user
> limit. I have tried some mirrors, like ftp.infomagic.com, but not
> everything is there.
llug.sep.bnl.gov.
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
> Maybe this just goes to show HOW popular Debian has become now. All these
> new users installing Debian on their computers and getting rid of 95 ;)
Maybe it's time to increase to 150 users? :-)
> >
> > > What's going on at ftp.debian.org? You can't
Hi,
I just install lprng on our debian box. I happy to see that lprm work
correctly (with lpr we need to be root to used lprm). However, i have some
problems. Our HP Laserjet 4M has a ethernet card.
1)lpq doesn't appear to work correctly. If nothing is in the print
queue, everything goes well and
From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?
I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on
a Thinkpad w/pentium.
I have made the 6 disks as described in
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/cu
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Debian Mailing Lists wrote:
> (--) SVGA: chipset: tgui9320lcd
> (--) SVGA: videoram: 1024k
> (**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset
>
> I used the settings for TGUI9320DGi because it was the closest setting I
> could find in the xf86config program. X with 256 Colors
On 10 May 1997, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks again, Rick.
> I've just tried again:
>
> For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from
> my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12,
> and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it.
>
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux..
> messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at
> least 15 minutes before giving up.
I had this same trouble a couple of months ago when trying to install
Debian on a friends ThinkPa
On May 10, Bob Nielsen wrote
>
> Also, mc seems to require libgpm.so.1 This isn't installed by mc or gpm.
> What package contains it? mc installed without any dependency errors, but
> I get the message when trying to run it "can't load library libgpm.so.1".
You need to install libgpm1 package.
Here and you can see that hostnamecorrectly.
netsats's output is also looks like your's one. Unfortunatly I didn't
install
ytalk yet byt I think it worth to try because of lack of any other idea :)
--
crdlx2.sevinian:~$ netstat -a
...
udp0
Hi,
I'm operating a non-us mirror on debian and the site
served as a local NFS export point for anybody in my
department wanting to install debian.
All other subdirectories were good for the NFS install
except non-US. May I know which is the appropriate
place for it?? (I currently call it ./loca
Thanks for the reply!
I just tried again using resc1440.bin from
../debian/frozen/disks-i386/current/
I wrote and tried booting with three brand new floppies.
Same result :-(
Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On May 10, Jim Meyering wrote
| > I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linu
Maybe this just goes to show HOW popular Debian has become now. All these
new users installing Debian on their computers and getting rid of 95 ;)
Chad D. Zimmerman
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http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Rick Jone
I installed gpm_1.10-2.deb and the installation script went into the
configuration mode. After answering the configuration questions, it asked
if I wanted to change anything and I answered no. Then it said:
Starting gpm
At that point the console hangs and nothing happens. ps -ax shows several
Paul McDermott wrote:
>hi, the problem seems to be your XF86Config file is not configured
>properly. email me the file (XF86Config) and I will take a look at it.
>do you have the horizontal and vertical sinc rates set properly? check
>those settings they are in the monitor manual. If you have
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> What's going on at ftp.debian.org? You can't tell me they've had 100
> anonymous users logged on for over 13 hours now.
>
> Do they put this up when mirrors are updated or something?
I had the same problem last night. I managed to get in now and then, b
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ciccio wrote:
> :-) `ni-Chufa' is spanish and means more or less like `nothing;' so it is not.
> Thanks to all replys; didn't expect anything else, but if somebody repeats so
> often the same thing, one starts to believe... The host names where real,
> 'cause maybe something h
What's going on at ftp.debian.org? You can't tell me they've had 100
anonymous users logged on for over 13 hours now.
Do they put this up when mirrors are updated or something?
--Rick
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> * If that was your real password, change it immediately.
>
:-) `ni-Chufa' is spanish and means more or less like `nothing;' so it is not.
Thanks to all replys; didn't expect anything else, but if somebody repeats so
often the same thing, one starts to believe... The host names
Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package also has an
experimental version of dpkg in it. I will put it back somehow. If you
have access to an earlier version of adpkg then get that.
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote:
>There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2de
On May 10, Jim Meyering wrote
> I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on
> a Thinkpad w/pentium.
> I have made the 6 disks as described in
>
>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html
>
> I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled.
> I read
What are some good up-to-date mirrors of ftp.debian.org? I am
continuously having problems connecting because of the 100 anonymous user
limit. I have tried some mirrors, like ftp.infomagic.com, but not
everything is there.
Bob
Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson,
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> The problem is that I have no PCI and did not select PCI in the
> configuration process (make xconfig).
I thought that at first but didn't think that compiling the kernel without
PCI enabled it would figure it out for it's self. If so how could you
comp
There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2deb which were very
useful for this kind of thing. They were part of debmake at one time then were
moved to adpkg, and after adpkg's removal from distribution seem to have
disappeared.
Christoph,
would you put them back into debmake or any
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > defxx.o(.text+0x15a): undefined reference to `pcibios_present'
> > defxx.o(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `pcibios_find_device'
> > defxx.o(.text+0x1c2): undefined reference to `pcibios_read_config_word
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> defxx.o(.text+0x15a): undefined reference to `pcibios_present'
> defxx.o(.text+0x188): undefined reference to `pcibios_find_device'
> defxx.o(.text+0x1c2): undefined reference to `pcibios_read_config_word'
> defxx.o(.text+0x20e): undefined reference to `p
I remember reading, maybe on the lesstif web site, that lesstif now uses
different lib naming conventions so it can co-exist with motif.
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> > 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks
> > lesstif is installed?
>
> I don't thi
I am very happy with my Sharp 9080. You may be able to get one for just
over $3000 - I paid over $4k last fall.
The key feature of this laptop is the absolutely beautiful color active
matrix screen with 1024x768 resolution, which may be key to your
applications. I struggled for a month to get X ru
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Francis Swasey wrote:
> > They explained me that---because of 37,000 users--- they had
> > decided to use 1 RAID disk system with 2 computers which
> > balance load, so that each time I call, pop.arrakis.es may point to
> > another IP address. The confusion and data loss, acco
After my previous message I changed the configuration for the kernel
slightly (I cannot remember what I changed) and the compilation process
again aborted.
Here is the last few lines of output:
0make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/arch/i386/math-emu'
make[1]: Leaving direc
Thanks again, Rick.
I've just tried again:
For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from
my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12,
and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it.
Same result: hangs after the `loading linux..
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> As I know in order to allow some service to work I should
> put corresponding string in /etc/hosts.allow and now it looks like :
> in.ftpd: ALL
> in.telnetd: ALL
> in.rlogind: ALL
> in.talkd: ALL
> in.fingerd: ALL
>
> However everything is working but
On Fri, May 09, 1997 at 06:16:49PM -0600, G.V.Livingston II wrote:
> I know the ZIP drive mounts properly with "-tmsdos" so I'm not sure what
> fs it 'really' has on it. I'm going to test mounting it with "-tvfat"
> tonight. I do have vfat support in linux but my original problem stems
> fro
As I know in order to allow some service to work I should
put corresponding string in /etc/hosts.allow and now it looks like :
in.ftpd: ALL
in.telnetd: ALL
in.rlogind: ALL
in.talkd: ALL
in.fingerd: ALL
However everything is working but 'talk'. It hangs with:
[Checking for invitation on caller's ma
On Fri, May 09, 1997 at 08:58:01AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes:
>
> > You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want,
> > and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing
> > list use it already.
>
> Thanks, but I wanted to
> 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks
> lesstif is installed?
I don't think that this will work. lesstif isn't binary compatible with
motif AFAIK, only source-level. So to use programs linked against lesstif,
you will need lesstif, and not motif (ofcourse you could
Hi!
I managed to set up X with 256 colors on a Thinkpad 365X.
Trying to get "X -bpp 16" I run into the following:
XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100)
Release Date: Oct 26 1996
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (P
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Ciccio wrote:
> pop.arrakis.es, which now is another box. So I touched my .fetchmailrc
> leaving it as this:
> poll pop.arrakis.es proto pop3 user ciccio pass
* If that was your real pass
On Fri, 9 May 1997, John Maheu wrote:
> I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and
> eventually a P166. Any suggestions? What about Gigabyte?
i've got a gigabyte 586-hx here. i'd have no hesitation in buying
another one.
nice fast board, good chipset. 6 simm sockets.
ano
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> I think I know the answer to this already, BUT is it possible to run a
> secondary DNS through an IP masq firewall?
>
> Just wondering since I'm about to network my home systems via an IP masq
> firewall and would rather use one of my other systems as second
Last night at last I pushed through and downloaded the 2.0.30 kernel
source code on a slow ppp-link.
I did not succeed however in compiling the kernel after configuring it
with "make xconfig"
The following few lines were the last in the process. Can somebody
help me please?
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/
Many thanks to all those from 3 lists who responded to this problem.
What I wound up doing was to run "magicfilterconfig" as root and choose
the "ljet2plo" filter provided for printers with low memory. Printing PS
files from Netscape Mail, Netscape Browser or ghostview works fine now
at 150 dpi. So
In the instructions there is a possible explaination. Unless those disks
are flawless it will lock just as you have described. It's happened to
me. Sometimes you have to go through a few disks before you find a good
one. This is because DOS is more forgiving of flaws in a floppy.
On 9 May 199
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote:
> [machine2] tcplogd: telnet connection attempt from [machine1]
>
> [machine2] in.telnetd[number]: warning: can't get client address:
> Connection reset by peer.
>
> [machine2] in.telnetd[same number]: connect from unknown
This sounds like the reverse
I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on
a Thinkpad w/pentium.
I have made the 6 disks as described in
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html
I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled.
I read through the on-line instructions and typed
Hi,
This is another in a long list of problems I'm having getting a bunch of
debian machines and SGI's to work together in a cluster. The trouble is
that some of the debian machines will periodically refuse to connect to
each other (I'll get a connection refused message if I try to telnet).
Lookin
> "Brian" == Brian N Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> I am in fact using 2.1.36 and it seems pretty stable, a lot
Brian> more so than 2.1.31 or 2.0.30. All my modules load without
Brian> complaining about missing symbols. The only problem is
Brian> that kerneld won't l
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a
> package is installed?
>
Get hold of the unofficial package "equivs-1.0.deb-unoff.src.tar.gz"
from "http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/debian.html"; and have a look at
it. This is a small hac
I seem to remember having similar problems a long time ago and fixed them
by re-ordering the configuration lines in .muttrc. I attributed it to Mutt
corrupting its stack while processing .muttrc, but I really don't know. Good
luck, I hope you get a better answer.
Perhaps you could try upgrading M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) wrote:
[...]
>I have been trying to get mutt to recognise the aliases but after quitting,
>even thought it has saved them, it doesn't re-read the file because I can't
>use them.
[...]
I've had the same problem with all versions of Mutt up to 0.69-1. I've
Also make sure that the dimensions of virtual (in the "Screen" section of
/etc/X11/XF86Config) are divisible by 32.
On May 9, Brian N. Borg wrote
>
> If your monitor is as old as the rest or your equipment, it could
> be the result of a "long persistence phosphor".
>
> --Brian
>
>
> Kyriakos
My understanding is that you like to make permanent aliases. If so,
creat an ~/.muttrc file and add entries that are similar to the following:
alias devel debian-devel@lists.debian.org
alias user debian-user@lists.debian.org
On May 9, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote
> Hi,
> I
If your monitor is as old as the rest or your equipment, it could
be the result of a "long persistence phosphor".
--Brian
Kyriakos Nikos E. Gorogiannis wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I have an EISA 486, with an ISA 16-bit TIGA gr. card, with and onboard
> Tseng ET4000 SVGA chip. I have configured XF86_SV
Hi,
Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a package is
installed? Specifically, I have the real motif installed on my system.
However, since this is (obviously) not a debian package, debian has no
idea that I have it. And so if I try to install the xmcd package, it
refu
Bill Wohler:
> Can you also say why netscape 4.0 no longer reads the netscape*
> resource variables? Or am I going to have to use the -geometry
> argument, for example. (The folks at netscape haven't answered my
> questions about that.)
>
> netscape -help produces:
>
> -xrm
Hi,
This afternoon I lost lots of mail messages. My ISP says this is due to
my fetchmail and/or DNS and/or sendmail configuration. They told me
some really strange stories, so I'd like to know if someone could help
me understand.
Until a week ago I was using popclient, specifying `arrakis.es' as
I've just upgraded GNUChess. It tells me "Noting the disappearance
of gnuchess-book. It has been completely replaced." (or words to
that effect)
What exactly does this mean and should I re-install gnuchess-book?
Paul Serice
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>
> Hi,
> i used the "halt" command to shutdown my linux box and i receive a
> message like: "unable to find the runlevel, using hard halt"
> After that, my computer was totally frozen. So, i used the reset to reboot
> my computer. My partition appear wasn't properly unmounted and a check was
> n
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try giving it the "-ncols" option. I use "-ncols 64" and find images still
> look quite good.
Thanks for the tip.
Can you also say why netscape 4.0 no longer reads the netscape*
resource variables? Or am I going to have to use the -geometry
argu
> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > Gernot wrote:
> > >
> > > When I start dselect (using the ftp-method) I get a list of available
> > > "Updated Standard packages". This list tells me that there are new
> > > versions of my installed components available, they are marked with the
>
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I posted the following message to comp.protocols.smb but I thought that
other debian users may know the solution. Any help is gratefully
appreciated. Cheers, Colin.
comp.protocols.smb #12964
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Telmer)
[1] smbclient not form feedi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just
>mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would
>like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other
>things.
>I'm running X11R6 in 1024 x 768 24b
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