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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Marc D. Jones wrote:
Does anyone know how to setup linux so that when a Win95 machine dials
in you can see the linux and any other Irix, Unix, or other machines
in the Workgroup.
You need to set your Win95 box
donk wrote:
Deciding to try out debian I installed 1.3 and recenly discovered delete
doesn't work as I hoped. Delete is mapped as ^[[3~ which produces simply
~ and a beep.
I don't know what the ESC sequence is about (though it smells a lot
like
emacs); but mapping CTRLD to anything but EOF
Hi All,
I ran into a problem at the early stages of installing debian.
I have a soundblaster scsi interface.
That means at boot : linux aha1152x=0x340,11,7,1
the install then says:
Loading root.bin.
Loading linux.boot failed:
Bad boot floppy???
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been
unsuccesful. Every site I've gone to either has the wrong link on their
The two major FREE Pascal compilers available are GNU and FPK Pascal.
I've tried them both, and
I would like to mirror locally the soon to be stable (AKA frozen) and
the next version of unstable. I want both source abd 1386 binaries.
How much space do I need?
I pointed mirror to a 12.G disk with the folowing control file:
# Example parameter file for
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is completely false. I don't care what is done to a password. If it
is constant and repeatable, as password's need to be, then it's only a
matter of time. If the method is public knowledge as with the source code
to encrypt passwords, it can be
Can someone recommend a good GUI interface to GDB ?
I see there are programs like TGDB and XXGDB, but they seem to be old and
outdated. Maybe someone here is using, and can recommend a good GUI to
GDB.
Thanks,
Matthew
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I recently upgraded my video card to a ATI 3D Xpression (PCI MACH64 GT)
On bootup I notice:
May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
May 30 20:05:23 macrae1 kernel: Warning : Unknown PCI device (1002:4754).
Please read include/linux/pci.h
include/linux/pci.h has the entries:
The new version of tcpdump in rex-updates depends on libpcap0, a package
which is not in rex (1.2).
libpcap0 should either be added to rex-updates, or a different version
of tcpdump that doesn't require it should be placed in rex-updates.
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Hi, thanks for the mail
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:08:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: Re: Glitches during stable - frozen transition
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Hi,
thanks for the message
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 10:22:04 -0700
From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: Re: Glitches during stable - frozen transition
Oleg
Hi,
thanks for the message
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 10:22:04 -0700
From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: Re: Glitches during stable - frozen
I can't get gpm to recognize my mouse! It's a _REALLY_ old model, a Microsoft
Inport mouse. How do I use this with gpm?
Adam Klein
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Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that
kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the
kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I remember that there
was some other reason that pppd would act that way.
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Debian users and developers,
For at least 12 hours, the primary Debian list server has been
accepting mail destined for the debian mailing lists but not passing it
along to the intended recipients. The server was, however, still running.
It has been rebooted and appears to be delivering
And this is not only you who are used to doing this. In my opinion, this
is WRONG. All bug fixes MUST also go to stable (and this is especailly
true for frozen). What this means to me is that I have look through all
those debian-installer messages and make a note what packages in unstable
And this is not only you who are used to doing this. In my opinion, this
is WRONG. All bug fixes MUST also go to stable (and this is especailly
true for frozen). What this means to me is that I have look through all
those debian-installer messages and make a note what packages in
On Wed, 28 May 1997 18:28:03 -0400, you wrote:
I can't really comment on your specific problem as ftape is working
fine for my Iomega Ditto 800. I think the messages indicate that there
were write errors on different segments of your tape but the retries
succeded. You could try to format your
I am trying to get NFS working for the first time on 2 Linux
boxes and can't seam to get it to work properly. The /etc/exports is
setup and I can NFS mount a directory on the local machine in both
cases but I can't mount the other machine in either direction. In
both cases it comes
If you are going to use the drive for Linux, tell the CMOS that the drive
has the correct number of heads and sectors, and tell it that there are as
many cylinders as you can up to the actual amount - cmos might not be able
to deal with more than 1024.
If for some reason you can't do that, you
On Sat, 31 May 1997 08:03:31 -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote:
donk wrote:
Deciding to try out debian I installed 1.3 and recenly discovered delete
doesn't work as I hoped. Delete is mapped as ^[[3~ which produces simply
~ and a beep.
I don't know what the ESC sequence is about (though it smells
Can someone recommend a good GUI interface to GDB ?
I see there are programs like TGDB and XXGDB, but they seem to be old and
outdated. Maybe someone here is using, and can recommend a good GUI to
GDB.
Try ddd-2.1 from devel. It is compiled with lesstif and might not be
really usable (try
Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone recommend a good GUI interface to GDB ?
Get 'ddd'. It's available as a debian package as well.
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I've been using fetchpop to grab my mail from my ISP. I recently got
diald up and working and now I want to run fetchpop as a daemon process.
I've set up a script (using apmd as a guide) in /etc/init.d called
fetchpop and it contains the following:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Start or stop fetchpop as a
I forgot to mention that if I do a rpcinfo -p it does tell me
that nfsd and mountd are running. May help may not.
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Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time.
Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big
deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I
install the unstable fdos into a frozen system?
BTW, I just installed X at home
I'd like to have my debian box take over priting services from an
aging SunOS box.
The SunOS box is using lpd and a filter script which calles 'prtcp'
to send the print job to the printer which is hanging off the LAN and
not connected to any machine.
How do I accomplish the same under Debian
or can it be loaded (and benefit gained) after the link is up?
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On 31 May 1997, Kevin Hilman wrote:
I'd like to have my debian box take over priting services from an
aging SunOS box.
The SunOS box is using lpd and a filter script which calles 'prtcp'
to send the print job to the printer which is hanging off the LAN and
not connected to any machine.
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Then I went into each of the rc0.d through rc6.d subdirectories and
created a symbolic link called K40fetchpop. This link simply points to
.../init.d/fetchpop.
This is wrong. K40fetchpop should go in rc{0,1,6}.d, to stop on the
way into
I've discovered that gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr behave
differently under libc5 and libc6. I'm wondering if either has a bug,
and why there is a difference anyway.
Here's what happens:
Given the following lines respectively in host.conf and nsswitch.conf:
order hosts,bind
hosts: files dns
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where office is an entry in /etc/hosts for the other machine with
the attached printer.
Thanks for the suggestion, but by problem is for a printer that is not
attached to any machine. It's only attached the LAN via ethernet.
I need a utility (like
Kevin Hilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Thanks for the suggestion, but by problem is for a printer that is not
attached to any machine. It's only attached the LAN via ethernet.
I need a utility (like 'prtcp') that sends files to a printer attached
to the network only by ethernet,
On Fri, 30 May 1997, donk wrote:
Deciding to try out debian I installed 1.3 and recenly discovered delete
doesn't work as I hoped. Delete is mapped as ^[[3~ which produces simply
~ and a beep. I finally mapped ^D to the Delete key which produces the
desired results (deletes current char. over
I have two machines, one is a Win95 machine, one is a Linux machine.
The Linux machine has a cable modem connection to the Internet.
I would like to get the Win95 machine talking to the Linux Machine and to the
Internet via the cable modem. How do I do this?
The Linux machine has two Ethernet
I'm venting a little here ... sorry :)
I've been at work since 9 pm Saturday night - it is now 7 am Sunday.
Why? Well, we run BSDI here and I'm upgrading from 2.1 to 3.0 ... and
compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind
folks who've spent many long nights making Debian
Hello,
are there more console fonts available anywhere? Or some way to
change other font types (X, ps)
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Ross D. Gardler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
I would like to get the Win95 machine talking to the Linux Machine
and to the Internet via the cable modem. How do I do this?
[snip]
Any pointers?
I haven't had to do this myself, but there is documentation about it.
Look at the Ethernet and
Hello, As I running Linux, I was wondering if
any of you are familiar with CD-rom distributers
who provide educational cds employing Java, say, on French
instruction? I ask for Java, since I don't want
to have to install Win95 or some other drivel just
to run a cool CD. I am particularly
On Jun 1, Boris D. Beletsky wrote
Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that
kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the
kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I remember that there
was some other reason that pppd would act that way.
I once
compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind
folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality
product, thank you.
I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm constantly impressed
with everything about Debian (I ran SLS and then Slackware before).
I installed the xbase package from unstable/ as well as a lot of other X
packages. I have X working fine, but I cannot seem to get xdm to work.
When I do a /etc/init.d/xdm start as root, xdm loads as a process, but the
X login prompt never appears. Anyone know how to get this to work?
Hi!
Well, I did install GV and it does look good!
GV says it can display PDF if GS is ver 4 or better.
Debian does not have GS v4, its still at 3 something...
Time for an updated GS package!? :)
I believe somebody else already told you you were wrong there.
But if you want a not-so-good, but much
On Tue, 27 May 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Marjamäki wrote:
Hi! Does anyone know, what would be best (commercial) Motif for use with
Debian? Is there any Motifs available as .deb-file?
Mika
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And, speaking of that, can I ask a stupid question? Okay.
What/where/when is Debian 1.3 going to be released? I'm using 1.2,
getting upgrades through the net with dselect in its default setup
pointing at debian.org and the stable, non-free, and contrib
subdirectories.
I read a
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, speaking of that, can I ask a stupid question? Okay.
What/where/when is Debian 1.3 going to be released? I'm using 1.2,
getting upgrades through the net with dselect in its default setup
pointing at debian.org and the stable, non-free, and
Alexandre
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time.
Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big
deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I
install the unstable fdos
Ok. In text mode, I rlogin to a bunch of Sun machines on a local
ethernetwork, to do almost nothing but run pine. Seeing as my standard
term type (linux) isn't recognized by the terms files on the sun
machines, I usually do a set term=vt100 in tcsh on the remote
systems. Sometimes after
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that
kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the
kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I remember that there
was some other reason that pppd would act that
Jonathan B. Leffert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed the xbase package from unstable/ as well as a lot of other X
packages. I have X working fine, but I cannot seem to get xdm to work.
When I do a /etc/init.d/xdm start as root, xdm loads as a process, but the
X login prompt never
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary
DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working
on BSDI ...
You get what you pay for :-)
Bob
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I am trying to connect my compute to a LAN in the lab.
The network card (NE2000 IRQ 03 0x300) works fine and is detecked by the
kernel. After setting up all the stuff (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf,
/etc/sysconf/network, ...), it still cann't recognize other
computer when I use 'ping'. However,
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind
folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality
product, thank you.
I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm constantly impressed
with everything about
Read the IP-Masquerade mini-howto that you should find in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini on your linux machine provided you installed the linux
docs.
You need to put the local machines in a non-routable subnet. This is
usually in the 192.168.1.xxx class C that is reserved for systems not
directly on the
I installed the shadow stuff from experimental a while back, and now
I'd like to move to the newer shadow suite with 1.3. When I `dpkg -i`
it though, `dpkg` tells me that shadow-login is essential, and won't
let the upgrade happen.
What's the Right Thing to do?
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Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
Can somebody help this guy. Problem is that pppd tells him that
kernel lacks PPP support - I told him that he should recompile the
kernel but seems like it didn't work. I think I remember that there
was some other reason that pppd would act that way.
when he
MC doesn't seem to want to run anymore. All I get is a blank screen when
I run it. I'm running the MC out of BO right now. Most of my stuff is
from 1.3 though.
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Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just replace stable with frozen in dselect and things should work fine. I
Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm
missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow
passwords?
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This isn't really a debian-specific question, but this is my favorite
linux list by far.
By default most linux distributions request and almost require that the
user setup a swap partition. What is the advantage of swapping to a
partition rather than swapping to a file? In my machine I have a
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Dale wrote:
Dale This error is also produced when the tty that
Dale pppd is trying to access refuses said access for one reason or
Dale another. One of the reasons outgoing ppp will do this is, if
Dale a getty is active on the port being used. Another is if the
Dale port
BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary
DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working
on BSDI ...
If Software in the Public Interest charged big bucks for Debian support,
Debian might be a bear to install too ;)
It is probably just a
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
MC doesn't seem to want to run anymore. All I get is a blank screen when
I run it. I'm running the MC out of BO right now. Most of my stuff is
from 1.3 though.
I have had trouble getting MC to work properly with zsh. If you are using
zsh also,
Just replace stable with frozen in dselect and things should work fine. I
upgraded by ftp over a ppp link (~39 MB) and it went as slick as can be
(it took a few hours of course.)
After struggling with two Red Hat upgrades and getting a system which
worked but could only be upgraded by
On Sun, 01 Jun 1997 12:32:14 PDT Robert de Forest ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
By default most linux distributions request and almost require that the
user setup a swap partition. What is the advantage of swapping to a
partition rather than swapping to a file? In my machine I have a /swap
I've been using Linux for sometime now and have had the internet working
under Slackware I then switched over to debian and was goin' to do the FTP
install, I've got all the networking stuff configured correctly but when I
run pon it dials out and logs me in and then hangs up after a couple of
hello,
Dustin Withers wrote:
I've been using Linux for sometime now and have had the internet working
under Slackware I then switched over to debian and was goin' to do the FTP
install, I've got all the networking stuff configured correctly but when I
run pon it dials out and logs me in and
On 1 Jun, Jonathan B. Leffert wrote:
I installed the xbase package from unstable/ as well as a lot of other X
packages. I have X working fine, but I cannot seem to get xdm to work.
When I do a /etc/init.d/xdm start as root, xdm loads as a process, but the
X login prompt never appears.
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind
folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality
product, thank you.
I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time.
Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big
deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I
What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X?
-douglas
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Kevin Hilman wrote:
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where office is an entry in /etc/hosts for the other machine with
the attached printer.
Thanks for the suggestion, but by problem is for a printer that is not
attached to any machine. It's only attached
Robert de Forest writes:
This is obviously more flexible, and since it's the same drive either
way, the only possible performance hit would be if the kernel made a
distinction.
Well, there's no performance hit at all if you never use the swap.
However, when I switched from a swap partition to
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
I believe somebody else already told you you were wrong there.
But if you want a not-so-good, but much faster pdf viewer
than gv+gs-aladdin, you may want to try xpdf.
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 1997,
I installed the xbase package from unstable/ as well as a lot of other X
packages. I have X working fine, but I cannot seem to get xdm to work.
When I do a /etc/init.d/xdm start as root, xdm loads as a process, but the
X login prompt never appears. Anyone know how to get this to work?
Jon
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