Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-07-03 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "CS" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CS> if your motherboard's bios supports booting from CD then you can CS> boot from a cd drive. if not, then you can't. And, AFAIK, the CDROM has to be on the primary IDE controller. -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, t

Re: Sound problems

1997-07-03 Thread Rob MacWilliams
> Hi everybody, > > I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of my > Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything went > fine until I tried it out. > > Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or Xmixer. But > I can't use /de

Re: Sound problems

1997-07-03 Thread Bob Clark
Luka Pravica wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of > my > Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything > went > fine until I tried it out. > > Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or > X

Sound problems

1997-07-03 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi everybody, I am using Debian since two months. Last week I decided to make use of my Soundblaster and I downloaded and compiled Kernel 2.1.43. Everything went fine until I tried it out. Some thing are working and some are not. I can use Xcdplayer or Xmixer. But I can't use /dev/audio and /dev

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-03 Thread Ed Donovan
Joey - Seems like you may've got your answer already, but I'd like to toss this in: at some point, I don't now remember when, my rxvt stopped paying attention to X resources written as "RXvt*", but would recognize them written as "rxvt*", all lowercase. I'm pretty sure it was a Debian rxvt befor

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: > that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi > CD-ROM 8-( > > That's my problem too. It's possible to start linux form dos from the > CD, but afterwards you can't access the CD-ROM. The SCSI-HOWWO > mentioned that there will never

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Christian Leutloff
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently > ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to > his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't > re

Re: Debian over NFS

1997-07-03 Thread Christian Leutloff
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of > >Debian. > > * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg or > >less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. > >/u

Re: NFS problems with Debian server and Solaris client

1997-07-03 Thread Christian Leutloff
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having problems getting Solaris 2.5.1 to use the Debian NFS > server. Read only file systems work fine. On read-write file we'll go the other way round in the near future ;-) but Solaris uses a new nfs Version (3) instead of 2. Perhaps you c

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
>Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style "mbox" format >(used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, >use the script /usr/lib/mh/packmbox. IIRC, the nmh version does mbox by default instead of mmdf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Installing Debian and PCMCIA

1997-07-03 Thread Bob Clark
Mark Phillips wrote: > > I want to install debian on a laptop. The Debian installation guide > has a > section called "Configure Device Drivers". In it it says: > > There is a menu selection for PCMCIA device drivers, but you need not > use > it. Once your system is installed, you can install

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Clint Adams wrote: > > Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the > > 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I > > just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( > > EXMH is much better. The latest unstable version is 2.0delta. I don't know > if it's in /debian/projec

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Clint Adams wrote: > > Now that I've decided pine was quite sufficient for me, does anyone know > > how to convert my inbox back? I couldn't see how from the man pages or the > > FAQ - and just concatenating the files in ~/Mail didn't work. > > Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. In psc

Re: POP Clients

1997-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tim wrote: > I can't > send mail using their server, or any other site that requires the > computer connecting to the SMTP server to resolve. Why not send mail yourself? Simply configure sendmail to masquerade as your ISP. Then, your

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Phil is on the right track. libc5... is a base package and gets installed during the base system. the other thing you could try is to dpkg --help and take a look at the force and remove options. try not to install base packages as much as possible. When installing debian you should look at

Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

1997-07-03 Thread Jim Pick
> Hi, > > A client had a terrible disk problem on their /usr partition resulting > in a number of hosed files (e.g., /usr/include/ctype.h was now a > HOWTO.) > > Is there a way to tell the system to check all files belonging to all > packages and tell me which are damaged? If it could then rein

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Philippe Troin
[stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: ipfwadm

1997-07-03 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:44:00 EDT "Lalovic, Drazen" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have recompiled 2.0.29 Kernel to enable IP forwarding and firewalling. > When I try to configure ipfwadd it tells me: > ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. > Does somebody have a solution for this p

Re: ipfwadm

1997-07-03 Thread Jim Pick
> I have recompiled 2.0.29 Kernel to enable IP forwarding and firewalling. > When I try to configure ipfwadd it tells me: > ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available. > Does somebody have a solution for this problem. I'm not sure. You can check to see if they are compiled into the kerne

X-capable mail reader

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Zander
Has anyone got any suggestions for an X-capable threaded mail reader that I can use with mailagent or deliver. Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( Stephen --- "Normality is a

Re: netbios equiv. of ipxripd

1997-07-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I've a Debian box configured (at least I think) as a server for 2 > subnets (it has 3 ether cards). The subnets are assigned reserved > number (I've IP-masquerading working). Also, my DOS/Win3.x machines > can access the Novell server transpare

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Zander
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > Sorry to continue a long thread, but you have now peaked my curiousity - > why is the point of rxvt to avoid xrdb? Is that part of the reason it uses > less memory? Curiousity killed the cat... Cheers. My understanding, which was supported by the man-page quote elsewhere

Installing Debian and PCMCIA

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Phillips
I want to install debian on a laptop. The Debian installation guide has a section called "Configure Device Drivers". In it it says: There is a menu selection for PCMCIA device drivers, but you need not use it. Once your system is installed, you can install the pcmcia-cs package. But I want t

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
> Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the > 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I > just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( EXMH is much better. The latest unstable version is 2.0delta. I don't know if it's in /debian/project/experimental yet. I would rec

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
> Now that I've decided pine was quite sufficient for me, does anyone know > how to convert my inbox back? I couldn't see how from the man pages or the > FAQ - and just concatenating the files in ~/Mail didn't work. Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Joliet CDFS

1997-07-03 Thread Evan Thomas
Niklas Hoglund wrote: > > Hi! > Anyone know if there is anyway to get linux to support the Joliet cdfs > (insted of iso9660)??? > You can get patches for specific kernels from http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/joliet.html It worked fine for me on 2.0.29. I've since upgraded the kernel but

Re: rxvt ignores x resource settings?

1997-07-03 Thread Curt Howland
I just wish I could get X working at all. I upgraded to 3.3-3, and the log-in screen comes up on vty7, but when I log in olvwm crashes and core dumps. Oh well I'll keep reading commentaries and trying things. No, I didn't use XF86Seetup, I used dselect. I intend to try XF86Setup next time I'

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