Re: tape backup regiment

1998-03-14 Thread rir
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just 'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've Rob Goodwin wrote: I would like to set up a fail-safe backup system for a linux box that i am

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: Try the following: su - root the_root_password dmesg | pg ENTER ENTER . . . It will display in a way you can read at a leisurely pace, the messages that wizz by at startup. Specifically, the messages that were displayed during the last startup of the

Domain Name

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash did it... *GRIN* In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? Pure interest

Install Prob...

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Not sure if this got through either... Actually, it's not a great deal, I have acquired an old 386 with 4 meg RAM, and am going to install linux on it as a router for my small home network.. When I tried to install off of my trusty 1.3.1 CD, I get the message: RAMDISK: Compressed image found

Re: [hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm

1998-03-14 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 09:59:22AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [backspace problems described...] Am I right in assuming that the upgrade to XSuSE was the reason for the problem? How do I get backspace working again? What files do I need to edit? I also had problems with the

Re: APM HD Powerdown

1998-03-14 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it). This is not what I want. That way the disks spin down too often. What I was looking for is a way to spin them down when

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-14 Thread M. Fong
Status: Stage 2: Further along, running into DNS issues Thanks for the suggestions thus far: I had a shell script which didn't have the correct 'executable' permissions. Something like rw-rw-rw instead of chmod 777 /etc/ppp/whatever_script. Here is how far I have progressed: 1. Executing pppd

Re: hamm woes...

1998-03-14 Thread dpk
On 13 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa:

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
M. Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Status: Stage 2: Further along, running into DNS issues Thanks for the suggestions thus far: I had a shell script which didn't have the correct 'executable' permissions. Something like rw-rw-rw instead of chmod 777 /etc/ppp/whatever_script. Here is

Re: XISP and Debian

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Kevin Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a spot of difficulty getting xisp to work... Can anyone who has successfully got this package working give me a few pointers as to what files to configure etc. ? I do. First, get a new xisp.deb version from ftp://134.95.210.54/pub . The

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the following: su - root the_root_password dmesg | pg ENTER ENTER I can't locate 'pg' on my machine (hamm, up to date through last week). What is it and what package does it come from? What kernel version are you using? I have

Re: [Admin] Houston, we have a problem

1998-03-14 Thread Norbert Veber
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 03:36:02AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: We have moved the listserver onto another machine. This machine acts as lists.debian.org just as expected. The difference is that this machine will not process subscription and unsubscription requests. Instead they will be

Re: Which Samba package?

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard A Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm improving my connectivity to work machines now... NFS is working fine, but I don't know which Samba package to install: smbfs or ksmbfs Use smbfs. ksmbfs is obsolete. The maintainer has written some comments about this some time ago. You could

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos...

Linux

1998-03-14 Thread Joel Mason
Hello, My name is Joel and I am 16 years old. I am emailing you because I need help downloading, installing, and useing Linux. So could you please send me step by step on how to do those things. I would really appriciate it. Thank you. PS- Could you also tell me where I can download

kernel: Ouch

1998-03-14 Thread bhaal
HI there, Here is a nice problem for you, I am not on the mailing list so please reply to me personally.. I got many many lines of this in my syslog: Mar 14 13:16:33 vampire kernel: Ouch, no kerneld for message 2147419088 incremented each time, it happened after the modem on vampire

Re: netscape4

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
M.C. Bezemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using a bo system with netscape 3.01 gold. I now want to upgrade to netscape 4, using the installer package from hamm. Now my question is, which of the files from ftp.netscape.com should I use, and where exactly I can find them. Any of the versions

Quantum disk manager

1998-03-14 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
At 16:55 07.03.98 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: Where do I get diskmanager ? Go and seek it from manufacturers www-pages. I have Quantum drives, so I found them from www.quantum.com. I never install it, so I don't really know how it works. Hope you find a

Re: more_kde

1998-03-14 Thread Cedric Bapst
Richard Sevenich wrote: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs: kdelibs depends on libgif2 (= 2.3); however: Package libgif2 is not installed. kdelibs depends on qt1 (= 1.3); however: Package qt1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing kdelibs (--install):

link error when compiling kernel

1998-03-14 Thread David B Wilson
I tried recompiling my kernel to add FAT32 support, but when it came time for the link part of the compile, there were a bunch of undefined functions. I don't know why Debian 1.3 gave two kernel versions, but it was the 2.0.30 version that I tried compiling. fs/fs.o: In function

Re: NEWBIE: Installation, laptop, unkown PCI device.

1998-03-14 Thread Lindsay Allen
I would like to help but cannot. I used to get the message re Unknown PCI device but my system carried on regardless. There was advice to report it to someone in France, which I did and the problem eventually went away. The boot kernel probes for many, many bits of hardware and my guess is

Re: EXMH can not send e-mail

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 12:35:57 CST, wrote: Hi, All I have problem sending e-mails from EXMH, but I can receive them succesfully. It looks like ordinary Mail program works fine (I can both send and receive e -mails). Here is the message from EXMH: post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 550

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-14 Thread zhang xu
---Collin Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my :Debian box? Quick answer? Use the 3c509 driver ... it's on the modules disk. However, you may need to grab the 3C5X9CFG.EXE utility from the 3com website (www.3com.com) and reconfigure

Re: Icons in windows managers

1998-03-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a long time, since two days after I first installed a pre 1.3 debian system, most of the icons in fvwm2 menus stopped working. Until the latest afterstep, only root could get all the icons in afterstep, but the latest afterstep

2.0 boot/install disk set

1998-03-14 Thread finn
Hello, I just tried the 2.0 (unstable) boot disks today. I ran into a few problems. I'm reporting them here in hopes they will be helpful. If you need more info I'll be happy to do what I can (if you need me to blow away the install and start over, I'd like to know this weekend. I'm not going

Smail / aliases

1998-03-14 Thread Stefan Ratschan
Hi! I have an urgent problem with smail 3.2.0.100-4 from hamm: I have messages like this: Failed TO:koenigse DIRECTOR:aliases ERROR:(ERR100) unknown user although user koenigse exists (having been expanded from an alias). The problem is that delivery works in about 95% of all cases and I

Re: netscape install

1998-03-14 Thread tko
tony mollica writes: I have used the netscape install scripts to install 4.03 and then upgrade to 4.04 without any problems at all. Of course, dpkg doesn't know it's there, but netscape communicator works just fine. Instructions are in the readme files in the downloaded .tar.gz.

Re: [Q] socks-client rftp rtelnet fails

1998-03-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
How about Netscape4? It seems to work fine for me. (socks5 server) Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: $ cat /etc/socks.conf sockd @=socks.domain.com * 0.0.0.0 $ rftp ftp.debian.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp bye $ which rftp /usr/bin/rftp I have had this problem for over a

RE: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

1998-03-14 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, If the NT partition is NTFS you have quite a bit more work to do. NTFS read-only support for Linux is available, but requires kernel patches and a kernel rebuild. Instead of doing this, I'd recommend creating a FAT partition (if you have the free space) that both NT and Linux can

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-14 Thread Lindsay Allen
With a private net IP number (192.168.x.y) you cannot access anyone other than your ISP unless he is masquerading you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445E

too many open files error

1998-03-14 Thread Steve Hsieh
Does anyone know where the limitation of this problem occurs and how to correct it? Is this due to a kernel or nfsd hard define? Thanks. Mar 13 05:02:08 srvr nfsd[159]: non-standard errno: 24 (Too many open files) Mar 13 05:02:45 srvr last message repeated 9 times Mar 13 05:02:45 srvr

Re: reboots during install, help!

1998-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Have you tried the so called ```tecra'' disks? Some laptops need a zImage and not the default bzImage kernel (bzImage packaging allows for larger kernels to be built). manoj -- David Letterman's Things we can be proud of as Americans: Greatest number of citizens who have

Re: xisp concatenates the user chat script.

1998-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [get xisp 2.3p4.deb from ftp://134.95.210.54/pub if you use an older version] However, I can't use it becuase it concatentes its own chat script to mine. I want to initialize the modem before giving it the atd... command. This is the entry init in

How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread shaul
very near the beginning and: Initializing random number generator... Configuring serial ports done. /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A /dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Typematic Rate set to 15.0 cps (delay = 500 mS) INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 How did you produced

One happy Linux user ... :D

1998-03-14 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi everyone ! Just checking by to give you a POSITIVE update on my fdisk-partitioning-Win95-DOS-BIOS problem and to let others know the solution if you have the same kind of problem. The problem was with my hard drive (Quantum, 4.3 GB, CHS 14848-9-63). I needed less than 1024 cylinders for DOS,

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 06:07:19PM -0500, Ralph Winslow wrote: When [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, I replied: Try the following: su - root the_root_password dmesg | pg No need to be root. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software

Re: Quantum disk manager

1998-03-14 Thread Jouni 'Jupe' Jukkala
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: Where do I get diskmanager ? Go and seek it from manufacturers www-pages. I have Quantum drives, so I found them from www.quantum.com. I never install it, so I don't really know how it works. Hope you find a solution. I have same problem and

passwords

1998-03-14 Thread David B Wilson
When I boot into Debian 1.3, it eventually prompts me for a password without ever having asked me for a login name. If I don't respond, it keeps prompting me. Also, when I initially installed, when I logged in as root, it prompted me for a new password. But no matter how many times I gave it a

Re: [hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm

1998-03-14 Thread Scott McDermott
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:26:19PM -0500: I also had problems with the xsuse matrox server. I ended up switching to the new Xkbd method and removing stty erase ^H from my .bashrc file. I still have some problems with backspace when I telnet/rlogin? to other

Re: Stealth II S220

1998-03-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi! Does anyone know whether or not this card is supported and which server I should run for it? Someone wants to install debian linux but only if it supports her video card. Thanx in advance, Maarten Bezemer The card is not supported as yet. This is for linux/X11, whether debian, Red

Re: [Admin] Houston, we have a problem

1998-03-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: bah, and the other difference is that the machine name is va.debian.org, and procmail didn't like that very much when filtering mail, so it dumped 70 or so messages in my inbox :) Awell, no harm done, except I started freaking out, because I

Re: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my floppy and other hard partition?

1998-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, mkdir /floppy /dos mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dos Remember to umount /dos /floppy when done (do not yank the floppy without umounting it first; some data may not have been flushed to disk). You may try vfat instead of msdos (I think it

Re: VIM 5.0

1998-03-14 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 11:09:08AM -0700, David Sewell wrote: On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been

Re: Stealth II S220

1998-03-14 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings, This card is not currently supported by debian, to my knowledge. Partially, i would assume because it is so nes and Rendition, which makes the controller, just recently released the white-papers to the xfree86 project so that they may start development on the x-server for it. So...

[hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[This mail had bounced back once. Hopefully, it should work this time.] I am running a hamm system with the latest updates. For the past few weeks ncurses-bin and ncurses-base upgrades were failing because /usr/share/terminfo already existed. I mv-ed /usr/shre/terminfo to

Re: Oddity in /var/adm/messages

1998-03-14 Thread Scott Ellis
mkdir /var/log/news On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have noticed something strange in my logfiles. Since march 8, my /var/adm/messages show only lines like these: Mar 12 22:14:23 souterrain syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart. Mar 12 22:14:25 souterrain kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log

Re: One happy Linux user ... :D

1998-03-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
Helmut Leinfellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded Quantum disk manager and it remapped(!) the information about the number of the cylinders. Now everything works !!! Hallelujah !!! Just curious - did you remap the drive with the Quantum disk manager _after_ linux was installed,

Re: [Admin] Houston, we have a problem

1998-03-14 Thread servis
On 13 Mar, Norbert Veber wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 03:36:02AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: We have moved the listserver onto another machine. This machine acts as lists.debian.org just as expected. The difference is that this bah, and the other difference is that the machine name is

[Q] socks-client rftp rtelnet fails

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
$ cat /etc/socks.conf sockd @=socks.domain.com * 0.0.0.0 $ rftp ftp.debian.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp bye $ which rftp /usr/bin/rftp I have had this problem for over a year now. I have tried all socks4.2 and socks 5 clients (both .deb packages and custom versions compiled from

hamm woes...

1998-03-14 Thread dpk
I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa: Bad file descriptor No manual entry for man Due to

[Fwd: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my floppy and other hard partition?]

1998-03-14 Thread Chuma Agbodike
---BeginMessage--- I have seen the replies to you about how to get to your floppy. It got me wondering. In the realm of curiousity I play with linux for a while until I realize it is intruding into my work life and get back to WIN 95 NT. Everytime I get back to try and use linux for something

Re: hamm woes...

1998-03-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa: Bad file descriptor No manual entry

Re: Oddity in /var/adm/messages

1998-03-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have noticed something strange in my logfiles. Since march 8, my /var/adm/messages show only lines like these: [snip] I would start by looking to see if /etc/syslog.conf got trashed somehow.

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Daniel Martin at cush hat gesagt: // Daniel Martin at cush wrote: The gimp (non-free in bo; free in hamm) is almost certainly what you want. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. why non-free and then free? The gimp people stopped using Motif and wrote their own (GPLed) toolkit. The non-free part of

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-14 Thread shaul
Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... Since linux assumes that an MSDOS file system is to be operatable even

RE: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

1998-03-14 Thread Richardson,Anthony
All disk access in Unix is through the directory tree and all directories are under the root (/) directory. If the NT partition is FAT you're in luck. While logged in as root: 1) Create a mount point for the partition somewhere under the root directory. mkdir /winnt 2) Mount the

Re: [Q] socks-client rftp rtelnet fails

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: How about Netscape4? It seems to work fine for me. (socks5 server) I did a little bit of research and found out that the problem is that the rftp that comes with socks does not support pasv transfers. I just installed ncftp, configured it for pasv and things seem to be

Re: old versions of mutt

1998-03-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Arunas Norvaisa hat gesagt: // Arunas Norvaisa wrote: Dear all, Does anybody of you know where to get old version of Mutt, which does not depend on libc6 - if this kind of it exists, of course. There should be a mutt_0.88-1bo1.deb in bo-unstable on your debian-ftp-server. --

ftp firewalling

1998-03-14 Thread Chris
Hi, Sorry if this is off-the-topic. I am trying to set up a firewall on our network, but to allow ftp connections from internal machines to specific external sites (on a per-site basis). The problem I am having is that ftp seems to use ports other than 20 and 21. At the moment I only allow

[ADMIN] List Email

1998-03-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Just a note, everyone should continue to use the debian-user@lists.debian.org address. The fact that va.debian.org is sometimes in the headers is just a small error. If you reply to an email please make sure it is cc'd to lists and not va or things will go bonkers when we get the new new list

Re: tiff to rla?

1998-03-14 Thread tko
Bruce Dobrin writes: Thanks for the suggestion, Are there different versions? The version of I= magemake (convert) that I have will read rla's but not write them You may want to check with the Debian maintainer and/or the upstream maintainer/developer to see if a newer version

Re: How did you got these lines ?

1998-03-14 Thread Markus Lechner
Bob Hilliard wrote: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the following: su - root the_root_password dmesg | pg ENTER ENTER I can't locate 'pg' on my machine (hamm, up to date through last week). What is it and what package does it come from? Looks like a simple more

Re: VIM 5.0

1998-03-14 Thread David Sewell
On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote: Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:30:35PM -0600: Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update

Re: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

1998-03-14 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Richardson,Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If the NT partition is NTFS you have quite a bit more work to do. NTFS read-only support for Linux is available, but requires kernel patches and a kernel rebuild. You need't rebuild your kernel! There is a debian package with an

Stealth II S220

1998-03-14 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi! Does anyone know whether or not this card is supported and which server I should run for it? Someone wants to install debian linux but only if it supports her video card. Thanx in advance, Maarten Bezemer -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Mail getting stuck in .../smail/input

1998-03-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Adrian Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having the problem that some mail (only the occasional message) is getting stuck in /var/spool/mail/input. Running mailq gives: ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO From: atheris (in var/spool/smail/imput) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:35:35 + (Local

Re: Boot Installer can't read HD... Help!

1998-03-14 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
At 23:51 12.03.98 -1000, you wrote: Hi All, I've been struggling as a newbie both to Linux and programming to prepare adequately to install Debian without too many tears. Been at at it for four days days now, reading docs/faqs, preparing my fully-functional (at the moment Win95 based) Quantum

Re: 2.0 boot/install disk set

1998-03-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the boot disk maintainer. Thanks for the report! Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus

Re: Linux

1998-03-14 Thread Britton
There are a number of things to do, after you get what you need from ftp.debian.org. Any attempt I might make here would be incomplete and possibly inaccurate. I think there is a book out on Debian, does anyone know how applicable it is to this sort of question, what the title is, etc.? On

X problems

1998-03-14 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I have debian 1.3. box and I can't set mouse sensitivity in X. Can you help me ? thanks. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED: EXMH can not send e-mail (SMAIL/EXMH/MAILX)

1998-03-14 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, All! Thanks to everyone who replyed on this message. I think problem is fixed now, and I would like to share my little experience. [ Hopefully people with real knowledge after reading this oversimplified nonsense may decide to put together FAQ with a bunch of examples how to really setup

lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread lucier
howdy all.:-) Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot system with LILO as boot manager. cfdisk shows: /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap If I run

Re: debian menu bug???

1998-03-14 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Florian Attenberger wrote: Hi, Some days ago i updated my hamm to the latest available packets. Now update-menus creates the menu-directories in the root (/) directory and I dont have menus any more in my window-manager. Is this a bug or my

Re: Linux

1998-03-14 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, If you have web access take a look at: http://linuxos.org/Lhelp.html which would point you to several Linux distributions ... On the subject of a step by step guide to downloading and installing, check out http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO.html

C++ threads crashes

1998-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I posted this a couple of days ago but not sure what happened to the original or any replies due to mail problems master etc. I have a demo program which I have included below which should do some threads, in a C++ program. It works fine on Solaris 5.6, it works fine on bo with libc5, but on

Re: ftp firewalling

1998-03-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I am trying to set up a firewall on our network, but to allow ftp connections from internal machines to specific external sites (on a per-site basis). The problem I am having is that ftp seems to use ports other than 20 and 21. At the moment I only allow transfers on these two ports. This

Strange disappearance of 'perl-base' in hamm

1998-03-14 Thread Andre M. Czausov
Hi All, Having a bit of bother trying to get hamm Dselect to install _anything_ ... It keeps complaining that it can't locate 'perl-base'. After a bit of hunting around, I discovered that a package named 'perl-base' is indeed listed among the /base/ packages of hamm in the 'Packages' index-file

Re: Strange disappearance of 'perl-base' in hamm

1998-03-14 Thread john
Andre writes: I discovered that a package named 'perl-base' is indeed listed among the /base/ packages of hamm in the 'Packages' index-file on the ftp site, but there is _no such package_ that I could find in the corresponding 'base' ftp directory. No wonder my Dselect was confused! What's

BackSpace Key

1998-03-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Timothy -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Linux

1998-03-14 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
Joel I cannot get a message to this [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Everything I send to debian-user@lists.debian.org bounces. Please tell me what address you mail postings to to get them accepted, and please mail me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks, David Teague

Re: Linux

1998-03-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I cannot get a message to this [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Everything I send to debian-user@lists.debian.org bounces. No it doesn't. This message appeared on the list. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

All my posts to debian-user bounce

1998-03-14 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
Shaul, You are a frequent poster to this list. Everything I have sent to the address debian-user@lists.debian.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] has bounced the last few days. I chose one of your messages to r(eply to in hopes that you would look at my mail headers and tell me what is wrong. I have

thanks_kde

1998-03-14 Thread Richard Sevenich
Thanks to those who suggested solutions to my difficulties in installing the *.deb packages for kde. I used the suggestion to get the missing packages using the suggested ftp search engine and all is running OK now. Richard -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE

gnome

1998-03-14 Thread Richard Sevenich
I am looking for a window manager to go with long term. I recently installed kde and find it quite nice, but I'd like to look at other options also. I understand the reason why debian has given some support to gnome and would like to try it when it is reasonably functional. So are there current

Missing packages

1998-03-14 Thread Matt Thompson
I just did a clean 1.3.1 install, ran the autoup.sh, and then upgraded to hamm fully using dselect. The following packages are missing: Constructing list of files to get... want: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/sysvinit_2.73-2.deb (69k) want:

Re: gnome

1998-03-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am looking for a window manager to go with long term. I recently installed kde and find it quite nice, but I'd like to look at other options also. I understand the reason why debian has given some support to gnome and would like to try it when

dselect broken on fresh hamm install?

1998-03-14 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello, I did a fresh hamm install using the disk images dated 2.20.98 and the install seemed to go fine. I then tried to use the ftp option on deselect Access and got this error: Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5

Bash 2.01 with bo

1998-03-14 Thread cleto
Hello, I need to install Bash 2.01 on a Debian 1.3.1 bo-based system. How safe is it to use bash-2.01 from bo-unstable? Does anyone have had problems with that? Thanks for any tip! Cleto -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble?

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:18:13 PST, wrote: howdy all.:-) Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot system with LILO as boot manager. cfdisk shows: /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux

Re: dselect broken on fresh hamm install?

1998-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: I did a fresh hamm install using the disk images dated 2.20.98 and the install seemed to go fine. I then tried to use the ftp option on deselect Access and got this error: Can't locate loadable object for

Re: Missing packages

1998-03-14 Thread finn
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: :I just did a clean 1.3.1 install, ran the autoup.sh, and then upgraded :to hamm fully using dselect. The following packages are missing: : :Constructing list of files to get... :want: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/sysvinit_2.73-2.deb (69k) :want:

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Sorry but, what on earth happened to /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 ?? and what is the bit about Install a master boot record on /dev/hada what is /dev/h[a]da ??, shouldn't that be /dev/hda[X] ? --Jon. system with LILO as boot manager. cfdisk shows: /dev/hda1 Boot

Re: dselect broken on fresh hamm install?

1998-03-14 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: I did a fresh hamm install using the disk images dated 2.20.98 and the install seemed to go fine. I then

Re: Missing packages

1998-03-14 Thread john
Matt writes: I just did a clean 1.3.1 install, ran the autoup.sh, and then upgraded to hamm fully using dselect. The following packages are missing: The crash of master seems to have caused a number of packages to vanish from unstable. Master is back up, but everything isn't repaired yet. It

Re: dselect broken on fresh hamm install?

1998-03-14 Thread finn
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: :Hello, : :I did a fresh hamm install using the disk images dated 2.20.98 and the :install seemed to go fine. : :I then tried to use the ftp option on deselect Access and got this error: : :Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC

Re: gnome

1998-03-14 Thread Shaleh
Gnome is a desktop environment. It is not a window manager. KDE is not one either. It includes kwm -- that is the window manager. These two projects are about a unified look and feel, as well as a programming standard to help coders. gnome does not have any one particular window manager

Re: dselect broken on fresh hamm install?

1998-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: I think this is libnet-perl failure. I would try to execute /var/lib/dpkg/info/libnet-perl.postinst configure by hand and see what happens. [ I also did a

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
Sorry but, what on earth happened to /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 ?? and what is the bit about Install a master boot record on /dev/hada what is /dev/h[a]da ??, shouldn't that be /dev/hda[X] ? --Jon. There doesn't need to be hda2, hda3 AND hda4. There does need to be ONE of

Re: gnome

1998-03-14 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am looking for a window manager to go with long term. I recently installed kde and find it quite nice, but I'd like to look at other options also. I understand the reason why debian has given some support to gnome and would like to try it when

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread David Stern
Someone responded to me personally: David Stern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/14/98 11:44 AM If you pick the mbr, say goodbye to your win95 bootloader, because lilo will overwrite the win95 bootloader (you won't be able to boot win95). Actually, there should be one backup copy to restore from.

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