I have the Cheap-Bytes Debian CDs here and I'm trying to start up with
them and install Debian on this OS-less machine. However, when I try to
boot with the binary disc, after getting the LDLINUX.SYS version info
line, it stops doing anything and doesn't respond to any keystrokes. Can
anyone tell
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:48:59 +0100, Daniel Gross wrote:
Hi all!
I'm not a real u**x freak, and so I have a (probably very simple) question:
^ We'll pray for your redemption. :-)
Also, mail config can be as simple or elaborate as you want it to be.
I'm connecting to
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote:
I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and
a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm
not sure, which of the five standard smail options I should choose.
Option 1, Internet-Site
This
Hi,
I just tried ppp-2.3.2 and its demand dialing, only to figure out that it
can't be used with an ISP that uses dynamic IP address for itself and my
machine... bummer. Now, I have ppp-2.3.2 and diald doesn't work with it, has
anyone been able to get diald to work with it, and then what
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote:
Hi all!
I'm not a real u**x freak, and so I have a (probably very simple) question:
I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and
a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm
not sure,
I recently upgraded my system to libc6, with most of the other
programs going with it. Now I'm trying to compile the Modula 3
bootstrap compiler (to try to get the whole shebang going under
libc6), and I get a heap of undefined references to stat and
fstat.
Before anybody starts jumping up and
Hello!
I tried to make a bombastic prompt, giving me a headline on the screen.
Therefore I moved the cursor with the `tput sc`, `tput move 0 0` to the
bottom of screen, tried to print out 100 characters and then go back with
`tput rc`.
The problem: I have svgatextmode, 100x37 screen size. The
I'm planning on setting up a Soundblaster AWE 64 under Linux. I also
plan on using this in a Cyrix system and have heard that the AWE 64 and
Cyrix CPUs don't get along well. What I was wondering is if anyone has
any words of advice before I start playing with this combination?
Thanks in
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 08:18:58PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
I'm planning on setting up a Soundblaster AWE 64 under Linux. I also
plan on using this in a Cyrix system and have heard that the AWE 64 and
Cyrix CPUs don't get along well. What I was wondering is if anyone has
any words of
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I just tried ppp-2.3.2 and its demand dialing, only to figure out that it
can't be used with an ISP that uses dynamic IP address for itself and my
machine... bummer. Now, I have ppp-2.3.2 and diald doesn't work with it,
has anyone been able to get diald to work with it, and then what
As a recent Debian convert (from Red Hat) I am finding myself a bit
disoriented at times... my latest question concerns su and paths. When
I su to root my path does not end up being what I expect it too and I
can't figure out exactly what is setting it. I have edited
/etc/login.defs to be certain
In the past (pre rcS.d) I could edit /etc/init.d/boot and set GMT to -u
to indicate that my hardware clock is in GMT.
How is this done now? Perhaps a better question is Where is there a
description of the new boot process? I can see the settime script
checking the GMT variable but I can not
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote:
As a recent Debian convert (from Red Hat) I am finding myself a bit
disoriented at times... my latest question concerns su and paths. When
I su to root my path does not end up being what I expect it too and I
can't figure out exactly what is setting it.
I am getting ready to embark on an Object-Oriented project at work. I am
looking for a tool to assist in the design phase. We are using Rational
Rose at work. Can anyone point me in the direction of both free and
commercial versions of this type of software for Linux. TIA.
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R. Wayne McCorkle
On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 04:01:57AM +, Lindsay Allen wrote:
In the past (pre rcS.d) I could edit /etc/init.d/boot and set GMT to -u
to indicate that my hardware clock is in GMT.
How is this done now? Perhaps a better question is Where is there a
description of the new boot process? I
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From: Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 8:19 PM
Subject: Linux w/AWE 64 and Cyrix 6x86 CPU
I'm planning on setting up a Soundblaster AWE 64 under Linux. I also
plan on using
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 01:25:29PM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
My /etc/printcap looks like this:
lp|oki6e:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
It looks okay, what problem are you having?
Hamish
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On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 01:46:40PM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
I've installed magicfilter and have this /etc/printcap setup:
lp|oki6e:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig:\__
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to
be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says:
chkexploit: can't find 'strings'
Any ideas?
As I have no idea what this (chkexploit) is, I can only guess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes:
I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ...
Kinks.
Heres the latest ...
I upgrades the ncurses packages to :
ncurses3.0
ncurses3.4
which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when
I got
On 22 Dec, Bob Nielsen let loose with:
-- Could it possibly be that the environment when you su is set by
-- /root/.bashrc rather than /root/bash_profile?
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-- Bob
Nope, I double checked this to be sure. I have only aliases in my
bashrc files (global, user, and root). I am inclined to think
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home
did not have
a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in
passwd file.
I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly
At 14:49 6/12/97 -0500, Carl Mummert wrote:
I always get 4FA:, but only if I hit Left Shift BEFORE the lilo
prompt appears. But if I hit enter at the 4FA: prompt, the lilo
prompt appears. If I hit shift after LILO: appears, everythings is
normal.
I always assumed this was a bios thing, but I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I'd like to know what is the entry 'outgoingfile' in the
/etc/suck/get-news.conf for?
For every message that your local innd receives an entry is written to
a so called outgoing file which contains the filename and the message
id of this article.
These
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to
be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says:
chkexploit: can't find 'strings'
Any ideas?
First check if you have the strings programm installed. It is
Hi,
Does anyone know if an acculogic 16 bit ISA SCSI adapter
will work ok? I can get one cheap (I'm not too concerned with
performance right now).
-Chris
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Hello,
I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux.
When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My
drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right
Directory. Evrytime I do so, dselect says Dir don´t exists. I have checked
Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if someone can give me any pointers as to how to set up a
Debian host to act as a server for an NCD X-Terminal that boots through TFTP.
Thanks,
Luis
This should be a snap. The tftp daemon is included in the netstd
package. If
Hello,
it´s me. A second time. Sorry, in my first mail I have forgotten the Head.
I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux.
When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My
drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right
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Timothy D.Webster wrote:
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, only i386, no source.
Did you mirror binary-i386 and binary-all? (You need both).
If you mirrored just binary-i386, did you use wget --retr-symlinks?
(You don't need binary-all if you get the files
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered
several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as
separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if
they
I just installed magicfilter myself and everything seems to work ok.
I just had 2 questions about it...
The latest version of magicfilter seems to be pretty old.
Where is the main distribution point, or web site for magicfilter ?
I'm using one of the HP filters for my printer, but I'm not sure
I need to set ttyS3 to irq 10 to use my modem. I've been doing this as
setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 10
but this requires me to be root. Wouldn't be a problem to set it once on
boot with a root-owned script, but after ttyS3 is used for a while (e.g.
by pppd or minicom) it reverts to irq 3,
Dear all,
I am going to install Window$ NT 4.0, on a partition formatted NTFS, and
the latest Debian version.
This is my system
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Bus Type: VESA
Hi again. Sorry about this. I forgot that you had to use smbpasswd
to set the passwords. It works now from smbclient on a couple of
machines although my NT has gone into denial mode and wants a
restart I think.
Hamish
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Albert Hurd wrote:
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1.
/home did not have a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed
with that home dir in passwd file.
Sounds like something went a bit wrong with the install. Hopefully this
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered
several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as
separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if
they
Actually, sambades 1.9.17p2-1 doesn't work either.
I have reported this as a bug before but I don't think
anything ever happened. No solution, no fix .. :-(
The sambades machine that DOES work runs 1.9.16p11-1.
Unfortunately this is no doubt long since gone from
ftp sites.
Hamish
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It does not work for me...
Could someone interpret the error message?
Thanks
ZORO
~/startx -- :1
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets -
Hi Eloy,
I just upgraded to your latest samba package. Before I was running
an old samba without password encryption, but now I need to talk
to it from NT+SP3 so I upgraded it. However I can't even talk
to it from smbclient!
[1:41am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/samba smbclient
Mine looks like this --
# Debian GNU/Linux suck package /usr/sbin/get-news config file
#
# server Your default local NNTP server.
# (inn note: must be in /etc/news/hosts.nntp)
#
# remoteserverThe default NNTP server you will connect to.
#
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Charles Read wrote:
My /etc/printcap looks like this:
lp|oki6e:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
^
|
The last line should not have a \. Make sure there are no spaces
following the \
Adam Klein writes:
On Tue, Dec 23, 1997 at 04:01:57AM +, Lindsay Allen wrote:
In the past (pre rcS.d) I could edit /etc/init.d/boot and set GMT to -u
to indicate that my hardware clock is in GMT.
How is this done now? Perhaps a better question is Where is there a
description
Alain Nissen writes:
[snip]
I suspect an hardware problem, because all is working as expected if the
system remains several hours power-off; but after 15-30 minutes, the
program are crashing again.
My configuration is a Pentium 200, running Debian/Linux 2.0.32 with
latest hamm packages; I
On 22 Dec, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote:
Not easily. Windows does not understand the ext2 format.
I have absolutely no idea where to find it or what it is called (I never
had need or desire to do so), but apparently there *is* a program that
allows you
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