Re: Kermit: Where is it???

Hi Jesus Duran; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the > Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in > a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!

Re: nis & shadow

Well, we've certainly brought this one to its illogical conclusion! Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Miquel van Smoorenburg wrotei, I replied: > > I was wondering why he dangled his ethernet cable out the window. > I hope it was properly terminated! And wouldn't there be some sign > that the cable ha

Re: Viewing bootup message

Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into > > > linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much re

isdnutils, debug scripts

Hi, When my linux starts i get:"isdn_ppp_bind:unable to find appropriate device" This does not really matter 'cause isdn works fine ;-) My question is: Do you know an easy way, to find out, which line in my scripts is axactly causing this error?? The files "var/log/messages" or ".../sys

Re: Dial Script

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. > It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering > if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, > etc. to do this. Most pager compani

Re: netscape 4.04 and gnuchess and pgp

When Dave Mallery wrote, I responded: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > hi > > i can't find the debian installer for the above netscape... In bo (Opt), I see it as netscape-beta, and gnuchess. I think you need the German (or other foriegn) site for gpg. Has something to do with moro

Re: nis & shadow

When Miquel van Smoorenburg wrotei, I replied: I was wondering why he dangled his ethernet cable out the window. I hope it was properly terminated! And wouldn't there be some sign that the cable had been cut and re-spliced? I guess I'm just way too trusting. > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: Beeping the Speaker

When Michael Beattie wrote, I replied: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g in perl, print "\007\007"; HTH > > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > it, and there is some s

installation problem - aha2920 - at partition time "no disk found"

using the latest rescue disk for a stable system .. adding the boot parameter aic7xxx=extended,no_reset does not help. assistance apprecaited! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Cloning a Debian hard drive

I've had very good success with cp -ax. The x makes it "Skip subdirectories that are on different filesystems from the one that the copy started on", so you have to create the /proc mount point on the new system. (proc is a virtual file system, provided by the kernel, so you don't have to wo

A20 GATING FAILED

A20 GATING FAILED CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO GET PASSED THIS S.O.S -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Cloning a Debian hard drive

On 20 Feb, Randy Edwards wrote: >I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo. > I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a > different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian. > >I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

You can always compile it. A while back I did this. As I recall it compiled on the first go. Although to make it 'debian complient' you might want to edit the location of some files. Actually, would the source code distributed with debian have the changes already made to the source? If this is the

Re: Cloning a Debian hard drive

Check out http://www.storm.ca/~yan/upgrade.html. That is the home of the HD upgrade mini-HOWTO. Basically, it covers the essentials of what you want to do (clone a drive). The only difference is that you'll want to keep your old drive, and pull the new one, where the mini-HOWTO has it the other

Re: dpkg handling of configuration files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > Chapter 9 of the Packaging Manual describes "Automatic handling of > configuration files by dpkg". Essentially, this boils down to: > >If neither the user nor the package maintainer has changed the file, >it is left alone. If one or t

dpkg handling of configuration files

Chapter 9 of the Packaging Manual describes "Automatic handling of configuration files by dpkg". Essentially, this boils down to: If neither the user nor the package maintainer has changed the file, it is left alone. If one or the other has changed their version, then the changed ve

Cloning a Debian hard drive

I have a 2.5 gig IDE hard drive all set up and happily running Bo. I'd like to "clone" this drive onto another to move the new drive into a different computer and save reinstalling/configuring Debian. I've toyed with the idea of using cp, and also of using tar. However, could someone point m

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380ED (2635-5AU)

Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM ThinkPad 380ED? > > When I boot off the Rescue disk my machine just reboots and reboots. It > doesn't get past the boot: prompt. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! (Slackware works but I don't like

Re: Gimp non-free - gif doesn't work

> "Ben" == Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oliver> But, GIF is greyed out in the list of image formats when I Oliver> do `Save as'. If I save a file named xxx.gif, I get a GIF Oliver> dialog box, but then the save fails. Oliver> How can I get this to work? Ben> GIF

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380ED (2635-5AU)

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: : Hi, : Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM ThinkPad 380ED? Sort of. I did, but it wasn't my machine to play with in the long run, so it wasn't a complete install ... just a "will it work?" type thing. : When I boot off the Rescue disk my machine j

Re: Kernel compilation [off topic]

On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 03:22:15PM -0500, Bill Leach wrote: > Picking at you a little Marcus... > > "... and indeed beauty free product." would imply that the product was > without beauty. Exactly the opposite of what I am quite sure you > intended (unless you don't like beauty). Sh*t! I knew th

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

This actually is almost possible with 2.1.x kernels, which have a special network device called the "traffic shaper", that slows down traffic going out over it: Traffic Shaper (EXPERIMENTAL) CONFIG_SHAPER The traffic shaper is a virtual network device that allows you to limit the rate of outgo

Re: nis & shadow

According to Jens B. Jorgensen: > Yes, it is getting quite silly. By the way my root password is "root". Part > of my point > was indeed that no system is secure. Glad to see you're not taking this _too_ seriously either :) I wasn't .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic,

A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

On a previous posting I said that I needed to run the mentioned cron script manualy. Now I found out when I had to run this script manualy. It turned out that it happaned after a shutdown command when I was logged to an xterm (and su to root). Prior to the shutdown I also had an xman window open

Re: help me understand timezones

> GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So > the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. Does Debian knows that ? I mean, does the timezone package, and the rest of the debian distribution, co

Re: Frozen Mouse

> Why not just add -R to the gpm configuration and use /dev/gpmdata and > MouseSystems in XF86Config; then you can have both. Doesn't the gpm man page says that what you are suggesting doesn't apply to serial mice ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

I guess I am only repeating what I have said before, but it realy odd. Have you tried to dump the configurations and user profiles of the modems (AT&V with my modem) ? > The modem settings are identical. The modem firmware revisions are > identical. The mgetty configuration lines are the same.

Re: Serial Direct Connect

1) I have a Serial-HOWTO among the various HOWTOs at /usr/doc/HOWTO. 2) Look at getty man and other documantaion. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380ED (2635-5AU)

Hi, Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM ThinkPad 380ED? When I boot off the Rescue disk my machine just reboots and reboots. It doesn't get past the boot: prompt. Any suggestions would be appreciated! (Slackware works but I don't like the way Slackware installs itself). Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCR

X Windows 16-bit

When I run X Windows in 16 bpp mode, I can see the grided outlines of windows when I try to move them. However, when I witch to 16 bpp, it stops displaying the outlines when I try to move windows around. Thanks for your help, Corey Miller --- Corey Miller "This looks like a job

Re: Kernel compilation [off topic]

Picking at you a little Marcus... "... and indeed beauty free product." would imply that the product was without beauty. Exactly the opposite of what I am quite sure you intended (unless you don't like beauty). -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

I was almost ready to swear that ckermit was in bo but that seems NOT to be the case. I show ckermit as: debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/comm/ckermit_192-5.deb debian/hamm/non-free/binary-m68k/comm/ckermit_192-5.deb So it looks as though it is only available under hamm. best

Re: Missing Mouse Drivers

I have Logitech (serial) Trackball Model T-CC2-9F, which has worked in both rex and bo (also under Slackware) using the standared microsoft serial mouse driver ("type=ms" in the /etc/gpm.conf file). It also works with "type=bare". I don't remember why I switched from bare to ms, but it did _n

System reboots while booting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I'm trying to setup a system, but when the system boots from floppy the system resets, and there is no way to know where it crashes... I'm having this problems with a new Pentium 166MMX nonameboard(KM-T5-T1) with 32Mb DIMM and a S3 virge clone, I have t

Re: Kernel compilation

On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 12:16:17PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Advantages of using make-kpkg > -- -- - - > > I have been asked several times about the advantages of using > the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux

lpr wants /usr/spool???

I used to be able to print from the appropriate account to this print spooler. but now I get the message, lpq: he183-lj5m: cannot chdir to spooling directory and a cannot create /usr/spool/.seq error when trying to print. I've created /usr/spool, as 777, and it prints. But as near as I can

netscape 4.04 and gnuchess and pgp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi i can't find the debian installer for the above netscape... is it in hamm?? am i stuck in netscape 3 till then? then this happened: Unpacking gnuchess-book (from .../games/gnuchess-book_1.0.deb) ... Unpacking gnuchess (from .../games/gnuchess_4.0.pl77-

Re: nis & shadow

Yes, it is getting quite silly. By the way my root password is "root". Part of my point was indeed that no system is secure. My main point however was simply that one shouldn't advise (or imply) that a given practice is secure (and we agree that nothing is) without disclosing the primary vulnera

Re: ppp progress

What is the error you get? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: > > The kermit protocol is built into minicom (along with *modem). > The kermit protocol on most communications programs should not be confused with the true kermit program from columbia university. True kermit is a very fast communication p

SATAN and lynx

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I'm trying to get working satan with lynx but when you pick in a link wich should execute a perl script the browsers ask you for download, I have tried by removing the /etc/mime-types for perl and it seems it works partially: It follows the links but it does

Re: Gimp non-free - gif doesn't work

But, GIF is greyed out in the list of image formats when I do `Save as'. If I save a file named xxx.gif, I get a GIF dialog box, but then the save fails. How can I get this to work? GIF doesn't work for RGB images, just for indexed and grayscale. This is a problem that I've run into

Fax Server Software??

Hi All, Does anybody know if Debian-ised Fax server software is available? I know that a package called HylaFax exists as a debian package, but can that handle up to 32 or more fax modems attached to a Linux server? Regards, -- Kevin Cave. A Scotsman living in London, but may move to Japan. Reg

ppp progress

somewhere, i filed away the previous responses. my problem is that in upgrading to hamm, my ppp scripts didn't follow. My isp uses pap, and I need to avoid responding to "login:", but instead must initiate on my own. So I now have an /etc/chatscripts/provider script that, after dialing, simply

Re: Setting X default color depth

Edot /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers The last line is like :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X you can put -bpp 16 or whatever there. You can also make it load on a different display. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Network disconnect after ~3Mb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have posted this problem about a week ago, but now I have more information, that will hopefully help. I have a network setup between a dual boot Windows 95/Linux, and a Windows 95 only on the second computer. However, the netw

Re: connecting linux and win95

On 20 Feb, Bob Nielsen wrote: > however. With 16550 UARTs, 115.2 kb is possible. Another possibility > would be plip, if there is a suitable Win95 driver for the parallel port > (I don't know if it is supported by the install disks). > > Bob It is. They call it Direct Cable Connect or somethin

Re: nis & shadow

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Well, um no, ADT did not get me because I'm not an intruder, I'm that > new guy down the hall who just got hired. I'm not saying anything about > coming from the outside > Your an amazing social

Re: nis & shadow

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oh, pardon me. That really is safe then. NOT! If I can plug into your >ethernet, I can >have your NIS maps. This is getting silly. Even if you install $100,000 worth of crypto devices I can still come in, hold a gun to

Re: nis & shadow

Gabriel Millerd wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off > > the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs into your net > > > Ummm, you los

Re: connecting linux and win95

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, FizzyPop wrote: > 'scuse the ignorance but: Is ther a way to transfer files from a win95 > machine to a linux laptop w/o installing linux on both machines? I just > installed the base system on the laptop and have been using the win95 > machine to d/l all the packages a

Re: instalation problem ramdisk err

In a message dated 98-02-20 01:22:00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0 then the installation stops can't get any further key board doesn,t respond >> i have the same problem!!! anyone know what to do about it? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Serial Direct Connect

Yeah, and perhaps using 'init q' or 'telinit q' would be more "standard". I just have bad habits (not that PID 1 will ever be anything other than init). Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Just run a getty on the tty. Edit /etc/inittab and copy the line fo

Re: nis & shadow

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off > the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs into your net > Ummm, you lost me. I thought that ADT Security got yo

How to track hard drive seeks?

Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are seeking the hard drive? Some program, system call, or something is causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or two. I don't know what it is and I would like to find out. My root partition(everything exce

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

Have you tried holding back the MTU/MRU? That should give you better response. Jim Foltz wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to sorta hold back, or balance out, an ftp connection > so I can telnet to my ISP account while downloading. Right now, telnet is > too slow to use at the same time wh

Re: nis & shadow

As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs into your net can't steal your IP. What do you think happens if I assign a privileged machine's IP address to my box? I bet if I can get an arp reply out faster than you then

Gimp non-free - gif doesn't work

I am trying to save a Gimp image as a GIF. I have gimp-nonfree installed and there is a gif executable in /usr/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins. But, GIF is greyed out in the list of image formats when I do `Save as'. If I save a file named xxx.gif, I get a GIF dialog box, but then the save fails. How ca

Re: nis & shadow

Oh, pardon me. That really is safe then. NOT! If I can plug into your ethernet, I can have your NIS maps. If you "don't allow access" you must be doing it by hostname/IP. Easy, I can just steal the IP I want, unplugging the real machine if necessary. This is silly anyway because I can easily sni

smail problems with smarthost

Hi, I'm using stable smail 3.2-3. I've set up a home.bradshaw domain. Things seemed to be working ok for local and remote mail for several weeks. Then I needed to send email to a site that does reverse DNS lookups before accepting smtp connections. I had been trying to deliver the mail directl

Install problem

Dear Sirs: I am a newbie at Linux and having a problem tring to load it. I have the Tri_Linux package from Linux Systems Labs so that I can try the Different distributions and have so far attempted to install Red Hat 5.0 and Caldera Open-Linux Lite. So far I haven't gotten any distribution instal

Setting X default color depth

Hi, It looks like the X server I'm using (XSuSE_NVidia) doesn't understand the `DefaultColorDepth 16' directive I've put in the Screens section of XF86Config. I'd prefer to start X with xdm rather than startx -- is there anywhere I could specify the color depth elsewhere? I looked for somewhere

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I would like to sorta hold back, or balance out, an ftp connection > so I can telnet to my ISP account while downloading. Right now, telnet is > too slow to use at the same time while ftp'ing. I hope you understand what > I am trying to say

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jesus Duran wrote: > i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the > Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in > a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!? > Any idea where i can find it in a

Re: X Windows scroll bars

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Miller wrote: > > How can I change the scroll bars (for xterm, xconsole, etc) to look > > exactly like those of Netscape's? I absolutely hate using a different > > mouse button to move the scroll bar in each direction... > > The closest you can get is

pgp complaint

My PGP (pgp-i 2.6.3a-2) has started to complain about a missing configuration file, even though it has /etc/pgp-i.conf. Is there a link to somewhere required? I had some minor disk corruption recently which probably caused this. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Beeping the Speaker

> >Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or >whatever? > > Use `echo ^G' in sh, where you get the ^G by typing Control+V > Control+G (at the prompt) or Control+Q Control+G (in emacs) or god > knows what (in vi). Not only god knows. I know it too :) In vi it

8-bit characters in tcsh?

I can't enter international 8-bit characters in tcsh. All I get is a beep. Setting the environment variables LANG (to US_en) and/or LC_CTYPE (to iso_8859_1), or running 'stty pass8' doesn't help. bash and other programs display the entered characters though, and the keyboard mapping is correct. I

chage not working

I'm working with normal Debian 1.3.1r6 and have problems with chage. When I try to change anything with it I can put new values but at the end chage says: chage: error changing fields Naturally chage -l works well. I prefer answers to my private e-mail. Thanks in advance. __

Re: Beeping the Speaker

Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or whatever? Use `echo ^G' in sh, where you get the ^G by typing Control+V Control+G (at the prompt) or Control+Q Control+G (in emacs) or god knows what (in vi). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Beeping the Speaker

Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or whatever? What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a double beep or something. Thanks, Michael Beatt

Re: make-kpkg

When Manoj Srivastava wrote, I replied: I've attached it. I can't imagine what ls has to do with it. > > Hi, > Could you provide us with a the last 30 lines or so from the > build log? Where does ls come into the picture? > > manoj > -- > "'Truth' never set anyone free. It is

[SOLVED] Re: smbfs

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > On 17 Feb 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > > > > > > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc when I try to use > > > > smbmount to mount a win95

Re: biff in bo

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > John Spence wrote: > > > > Does biff in bo work > > coz it biffin doesn't beep > > an if biff in bo is broke > > then biff in bo I will delete > > > > I've tried biff in bo with 'y' > > I've tried biff in bo with '-y' > > no biffin output does it show > >

Re: Serial Direct Connect

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Just run a getty on the tty. Edit /etc/inittab and copy the line for tty1 > and replace with the correct device name for your serial port. Then as root > do 'kill -HUP 1'. PID 1 is init right?? why not `init q` ??? > Greg Green wrote: > > > Hello

Dialing up....

Greeting all. First off this list has been hella helpful in getting my debian box up and running. Gimp is wonderful. Ok now on to my last "Real" project. I need to get a ppp dialup connection up and running. I was trying to start off with using my modem to connect, at least a dummy conne

Re: nis & shadow

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > This is true. However note how you said "if the request for the map > comes from a non-root user". How do you supposed the NIS server > determines that you're "not a root user"? I'll tell you: ident. I c

Re: ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument ?

On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:41:36PM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote: > Luke said: > > > ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument > Alan wrote: > > Did you compile IPX support in your kernel? You may have to compile a new > > kernel with support for it. HTH > Thanks, Alan, but the kernel does have IPX sup

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jesus Duran wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the > Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in > a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!? > Any i

Re: nis & shadow

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is true. However note how you said "if the request for the map comes >from a non-root user". How do you supposed the NIS server determines >that you're "not a root user"? I'll tell you: ident. Nope. Priviliged ports

Monitor not working with S3 XServer

Hi I am a newbie with Linux, but have sofar been able to get a machine up and running without too many major problems :). The problem I have not been able to solve is that I cannot get my monitor to work with the S3 Server :( I have no problems using XF86_VGA16 at 800x600 or lower (4bit colour) ex

Kermit: Where is it???

Greetings all, i was looking for Kermit, remember that old thing? I did not find it the Debian Packages site. I did down load it from www.columbia.edu/kermit/ in a tar'ed-gz'ed file but had problems when i tried to tar -x it?!?!? Any idea where i can find it in a regular .deb file Any hel

RE: Linux on top of win95

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: [SNIP] > does anyone know whether there is something that can be used under w95 > or dos that will allow access to linux partitions? Peter van Sebille has written ext2 drivers for Win95. The driver is called FSDEXT2 and is at the present available in the in

Re: Missing Mouse Drivers

Brian White wrote: >( The following was filed as a bug, but doesn't really belong there since > it isn't specific to any package (except possibly kernel-image). Thus, > I'm forwarding it to debian-user to see if anybody can help this person. ) > >Dear Folks, > >We have just

Re: connecting linux and win95

Try connecting the two machines via a null modem cable. Then transfer the files using kermit On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, FizzyPop wrote: > 'scuse the ignorance but: Is ther a way to transfer files from a win95 > machine to a linux laptop w/o installing linux on both machines? I just > installed

RE: make-kpkg

Try make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_package instead of simply make_kpkg and see if you have better luck. On 19-Feb-98 Ralph Winslow wrote: > When, having brought in kernel-source for 2.0.32 on my bo system, I: > > cd /usr/src/linux;make-kpkg > > a lot of compiling happens (after I answer the config

Re: smbfs

On 19 Feb 98 at 16:21, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > On 17 Feb 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > > > > > > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc..

Re: MS IntelliPoint

On 18 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > If you are running the hamm release, there's no need to apply any > patches. There is an Intellimouse mouse type available under both xf86config > and XF86Setup. This enables the middle button as a third button when > you push it and as a fourth/fifth button wh

Debian 1.3.1 CDROM install problem - VFS mount failed: 03:01

Just received the Debian 1.3.1 custom CD from Cheapbytes. I run the ezstart.bat, specified DROP-IN-DEBIAN, specified driver letter 'D'. It copied 150 MB of stuff to d:/os directory ok. Then I tried to run d:\did.bat which display the following message and hung. Any idea what might be the problem

Difficulty installing bo

seems to hang after the md driver- presumably while probing for scsi hardware. hamm bootdisk works fine. System is an AMD K5-100, 64MB 60ns non-EDO RAM- primary HDDs run off embedded ide controller, Adaptec 2940AU for my Jaz drive. 4mb s3 Virge pci video card, pnp pci ne2k clone, isa sb16. -- TO

instalation problem ramdisk err

kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 01:00 and if not that ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0 then the installation stops can't get any further key board doesn,t respond HELP -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

connecting linux and win95

'scuse the ignorance but: Is ther a way to transfer files from a win95 machine to a linux laptop w/o installing linux on both machines? I just installed the base system on the laptop and have been using the win95 machine to d/l all the packages and then transfering via floppy. I would hav

Re: make-kpkg

Hi, Could you provide us with a the last 30 lines or so from the build log? Where does ls come into the picture? manoj -- "'Truth' never set anyone free. It is only *doubt* which will bring mental emancipation." --Anton LaVey Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installation writing to Hard Drive error

It sounds to me like a problem with your machine. DOS and Windoz are NOT as verbose as Linux (or Unix) so it may even be possible that such errors occur and are not reported. I don't know about any of the 'standard stuff' but most of the third party diagnostic software would report such problems.

Re: X-Windows Question

hello, what does your xdm-error file in /var/log say? Paul On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I get the dread: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > try xhost in your .

Re: Serial Direct Connect

Thanks Alex and Jens! I think editing the /etc/inittab is going to do the trick. The help is much appreciated. Thanks, Greg Green -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: HELP! Bash 2.01 for bo?

At 23:56 +0100 1998-02-19, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: >Hi! > >I'm looking for bash 2.01 for bo (1.3.1). Preferrably the source version. I am building a 'bo-unstable' release of bash 2.01 as per your request. I will email you again as soon as it is uploaded. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linu

Re: [Q] cp /etc/smb.conf /dev/lp0 -- does not work

On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 10:21:53AM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: > after I upgraded to hamm (on Dec 19, 1997) and now latest kernel > (2.1.86) -- I always have to hit Feed button to get anything out of the > printer. The same printer (Okidata laser 710e) works fine for NT. > Did something g

Re: ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument ?

Luke said: > > I now have an NE2000 card configured correctly, detected during > > boot up, and the ne kernel module installed. But, after booting, > > dmesg reports a couple of these errors: > > ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument > > which is also what I get if I later run ipx_configure

Re: X Windows scroll bars

Paul Miller wrote: > How can I change the scroll bars (for xterm, xconsole, etc) to look > exactly like those of Netscape's? I absolutely hate using a different > mouse button to move the scroll bar in each direction... The closest you can get is to install the xaw3d package. It's not an exact cl

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