RE: Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance

1998-03-26 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
I ordered from LSL (from a US address) and it took several weeks to show up because they had some problem with a bad address label, so it bounced back and forth a few times. I e-mailed them for help, and they took almost a week to get a response. Other than that, they seem reputable and offer Deb

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
Check out /usr/doc/fetchmail/FAQ.gz How to make fetchmail play nice with other software: -- *) Aria -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Mike Acklin
At 10:25 AM 3/26/98 -0600, you wrote: >Right, I'm pretty sure this is a DNS config problem. Are you running >bind on this machine, or are you just using /etc/hosts? > >I think this is on the right track. If you aren't running bind, what >do your /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.con

/etc/exports config question

1998-03-26 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I have a network of several debian 2.0 machines. One of these acts as the NIS master and each machine exports disks to all the others. Currently I am using an NIS distributed netgroup entry in /etc/exports to indicate which hosts are allowed to mount. (eg. /data/a1 @mynetgroup(rw,no_root_squ

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Mike Acklin
> >1. I hope I am not out in left field, but have you configured Pine? I no > longer use it but recall having a simular problem until I did the > 'Setup-Config' in Pine. > >2. Do you have the line '127.0.0.1 localhost' in /etc/hosts? > >3. Do you have export MAILUSER=your_name in .b

Re: Rosegarden users, please respond

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Will Lowe wrote: >I'm considering filing a bug against ftp.debian.org to have the rosegarden >package in hamm removed and put in slink, as rosegarden is largely >unusable for things such as midi keyboard input and score typesetting. >Since these are the things it purports itself able to do

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Kenneth" == Kenneth L Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi, >> >> I think you need the config file from a distribution kernel. On >> recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can use dpkg >> -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to /tmp; >> look then in /tmp/boot

Re: vhost popper?

1998-03-26 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
A simpler way would be to add a mapping in the pop server that first checks through the virtualuser table (what sendmail uses) for the email address requested. Then just uses (for example:) joe21 as the real mailbox. This way you don't haveto listen on different IP's, and you don't have to have oth

Re: Wizard Radio...

1998-03-26 Thread john
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > Funny that you ask --- reengineering is most of the time a violation of > copyright. No it isn't. It may be a violation of the shrink-wrap license, but those are of questionable enforceability. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
okay, if you insist. there was a bug in the new xlib6 package version 1. it was accidentally linked against libc6. there is a new version which fixes the problem, it's already in the distribution but the package file hasn't been updated yet. go to your favourite mirror and ftp it by hand for dists/

Re: vhost popper?

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: : This should be easy enough (at least the networking part). A socket : must be bound to an IP/port before it can listen for connections. In : sockets programming servers generally bind to the address '0' which : means any address. You can easily bind

Rosegarden users, please respond

1998-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
I'm considering filing a bug against ftp.debian.org to have the rosegarden package in hamm removed and put in slink, as rosegarden is largely unusable for things such as midi keyboard input and score typesetting. Since these are the things it purports itself able to do, it seems that the program

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
Incidently, do you know what kind of performance hit I will get running X over 20m of BNC cable (there are 2 other (Win'95) machines on the network)? It won't be too bad. I used to regularly run Netscape remotely from an SGI halfway across campus, and the performance was quite acceptable

Re: Debian & PGP 5.5.3, importing keys question

1998-03-26 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:16 -0500 1998-03-26, David S. Jackson wrote: >Personally, I would recommend using one of the PGP 2.6.X variants >with RSA keys. Since PGP has gone commercial, I've heard of several >inconsistencies and incompatabilities with 5.X keys. Yes, but that has very little to do with PGP going comme

Re: vhost popper?

1998-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This should be easy enough (at least the networking part). A socket must be bound to an IP/port before it can listen for connections. In sockets programming servers generally bind to the address '0' which means any address. You can easily bind to a specific IP address. If you've set up an ip-alia

Re: Running X11 over a network

1998-03-26 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi Rainer! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >According to my knowledge there are two basic setups for your desktop: >- with locally installed fonts > glancing at package dependencies it needs Xserver, xfntbase, xlib6, xbase >- using the laptop as fontser

New postgresql

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all those people who have been exercising the initialisation scripts. Postgresql-6.3.1-1 and related packages are just now being uploaded to chiark and should shortly be in Incoming. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Wizard Radio...

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:58:49PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: >> I have a serial radio device, (plugs into 25-pin serial port) which ONLY >> has a program for windoze whatever (3.1 and 95). Would anyone have any >> ideas as to how I could maybe disassemble the ex

Re: debian not working on a PC without math copro

1998-03-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: > a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he > couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know > if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine: This shouldn't be too hard: at the lo

Re: Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance

1998-03-26 Thread tony mollica
Ordered Debian 1.3.1 from both LSL and CheapBytes and had them both within 3 to 4 days. No problems with either one, however LSL didn't appear to have the 1.3.1r6 disks where CheapBytes had the latest 1.3.1r6 version, along with 3 Linux archive CD's for a few bucks more. thanks, -- tony mollica

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Markus Lechner
Gary Kline wrote: > I've run Adaptec on an old SVR4 PeeCee; more recently om > FreeBSD and Debian. So far, no problem. > > Since moderate kudos are more likely than flames to get > results, I'm willing to send Adaptec a note. What's > their email addr for

Re: Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance

1998-03-26 Thread Timothy Miller
"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently purchased a Debian 1.3.1 set of CDs from LSL and had a > similar experience. I think the order took 2 - 3 weeks to get to me. At > about the 2 week point I was starting to get mad and was about to try to > find out what was going on w

Re: make and man

1998-03-26 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:17:17PM +, The Omnipotent Heretic wrote: > > I also have problems accessing "man" pages...I get the same message: > command not found. What am I missing? > install package man-db fab -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Líder Mini

vhost popper?

1998-03-26 Thread finn
I was just thinking (it's dangerous, I don't like to do it often) ... we support quite a few virtual host customers around here. Now, there are solutions for http and ftp, but for email we've been using the virtusertable capabilities of sendmail. This works well when someone wants to receive thei

Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions

1998-03-26 Thread Gabor Kontur
Joost Kooij wrote: >This sounds really weird. I can't help you very much I'm afraid. >I don't think so, but maybe you fiddled with /etc/securetty or >/etc/login.defs? > >What command do you use to become root, su or login? Weird is the

Re: How do I use cyrillic fonts?

1998-03-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > somebody here wants to use cyrillic fonts under X11 > (Emacs 20, really). I have installed the xfntcyr package, but > Emacs doesn't "see" the fonts. It lists iso-8859-5 as the font > for cyrillic instead of koi8-r. The option

Re: Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance

1998-03-26 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > I'm from Britain, and ordered a distribution CD thru LSL < www.lsl.com > 10 > days ago > > On the confirmation screen I was told I would recieve a reciept and that > "all orders will be posted within 24hrs" > > Anyway, concerned about whether or not my o

How do I use cyrillic fonts?

1998-03-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, somebody here wants to use cyrillic fonts under X11 (Emacs 20, really). I have installed the xfntcyr package, but Emacs doesn't "see" the fonts. It lists iso-8859-5 as the font for cyrillic instead of koi8-r. The option on the menu that says koi8-r (display faces, or something like tha

Re: Pine mailboxs and Mutt.

1998-03-26 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 01:49:57PM -0600, Ender Wigin wrote: > > Hi, > > Can mutt-i read pine mailboxes? > > Thanks. I am not 100% sure about this, but since both mutt and pine use the /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME mailbox format (whatever that is called) they should be compatible with eachother.

Re: debian not working on a PC without math copro

1998-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
> a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he > couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know > if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine: There might not be an installation disk for this. But you could certainly compile

Pine mailboxs and Mutt.

1998-03-26 Thread Ender Wigin
Hi, Can mutt-i read pine mailboxes? Thanks. -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's also a site which tells you > how to build a circuit to allow you to drive it here: > > http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/sun.html Is there similar information available on the feasibility of using an NCD Xterminal's monitor on a PC

debian not working on a PC without math copro

1998-03-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine: Its a 486SL, with an award Bios - no coprocessor socket of course It has 32MB of RAM, a

Re: Hello

1998-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: > Hi. Hallo. > I am wondering if somebody nows a free widget set. > Something like motif or motif (but it should be free) and it should also > be compatible with C. use gtk. Nice motif-ish look, GPL, useable with C, C++, and several others. Origina

Hello

1998-03-26 Thread Matej Grasic
Hi. I am wondering if somebody nows a free widget set. Something like motif or motif (but it should be free) and it should also be compatible with C. If somebody nows something that I could use.Then please send me a reply message. Ok. Bye.

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Jerod E. Tufte
I'm using an OLD Sun 3/60 19" monitor with my primary machine. The only card I could locate that did composite sync (required for this monitor, and perhaps for yours) was an ATI. cables can be found for <$30. And yes, having no text mode is a pain. I finally bought a 13" 640x480 monitor for $5

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: : > : > Isn't the .config file in the kernel-source package the same as the : > distribution kernel? : : I don't think so. At least is seems like when I go to configure the kernel : it has some options set by default that do not seem reasonable for

Re: modem

1998-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
> /dev/modem is usually just a symbolic link to the device file for whatever > serial port your modem lives on. The cua* can be created with the > /dev/MAKEDEV program. However you might just use /dev/ttyS* instead since > they're already there. Actually, /dev/cua* are now considered obselete ..

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> > Isn't the .config file in the kernel-source package the same as the > distribution kernel? I don't think so. At least is seems like when I go to configure the kernel it has some options set by default that do not seem reasonable for the distribution kernel. As a (possibly fictional) exampl

keyboard config - what's with in OOTB bash ?

1998-03-26 Thread kurt klingbeil
What I'm really dying to know, is why the Home, End, and Del keys are not config'ed, out of the box, to do the right things in bash. Shit, it's hard to take that doskey would out-function bash in _any_ respects. Of course, one could use ^a, ^e, and ??, and/or dig out the keymapping docs and try

Re: modem

1998-03-26 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, David B Wilson wrote: > I tried using my modem, but discovered that I have no /dev/modem or > /dev/cua*. A look through the kernel config options didn't turn up > anything obviously related to modems, so I'm a bit confused. > I'm runing Debian 1.3, and have a Xircom Ethernet+

Re: modem

1998-03-26 Thread Michael Acklin
At 02:18 PM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >I tried using my modem, but discovered that I have no /dev/modem or >/dev/cua*. A look through the kernel config options didn't turn up >anything obviously related to modems, so I'm a bit confused. >I'm runing Debian 1.3, and have a Xircom Ethernet+Modem PCMC

modem

1998-03-26 Thread David B Wilson
I tried using my modem, but discovered that I have no /dev/modem or /dev/cua*. A look through the kernel config options didn't turn up anything obviously related to modems, so I'm a bit confused. I'm runing Debian 1.3, and have a Xircom Ethernet+Modem PCMCIA card that seems to work under Windows 9

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I think you need the config file from a distribution : > kernel. On recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can : > use dpkg -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to : > /tmp; look then in /tmp/boot for t

Re: squid

1998-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wiria A Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can some one help me with squid..?, I got "IOT trap/abort" everytime I try to >start it, and nothing happen after that. what is IOT trap means? > >I had debian 1.3.1 in my box, pentium166mmx,with 64 megs of sdram. Squid-1.1

Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance

1998-03-26 Thread Tristan Day
I'm from Britain, and ordered a distribution CD thru LSL < www.lsl.com > 10 days ago On the confirmation screen I was told I would recieve a reciept and that "all orders will be posted within 24hrs" Anyway, concerned about whether or not my order was sent, I wrote 5 days ago to their reception <

Re: Missing X file only required for version 332

1998-03-26 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Ossama Othman writes: > Hi Chip, > If you are using hamm, you can update to the XF86-3.3.2 package. I assume > it will contain all of the necessary files that you need. Sorry to "drop into" this thread like this, but I upgraded my XF86 to 3.3.2 and now I can't start netscape, and the backspace k

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Shaleh
I do not know about the reverse but a PC multisync monitor works on SUns if you buy a adapter to convert from 15pin VGA to 13W Sun. The adapters are around $20. --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, when your eyes are close

I can't telnet unless I restart netbase in /etc/init.d

1998-03-26 Thread Donald Harter Jr.
I can't telnet to my localhost upon boot up. However if I stop and restart the netbase script in /etc/init.d, I can. Do you have any ideas on what causes this? Another incompatible net package? I recently downgraded to bo from hamm. I think I got rid of most of the hamm files. Another question

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It is possible. Note that while most PC monitors these days are "multi-sync" meaning they can run at varying hor/vert frequencies, Sun monitors are fixed-frequency (which by the way makes them cheaper to manufacture and also people say more reliable). There are a handful of graphics adapters which

Re: kbhit() MSDOS equivalent in Linux

1998-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I don't do people's homework for them but... Well there isn't a direct equivalent because in unix when you have a "terminal" session that generally means you have a "tty" devices as stdin/stdout/stderr. And, this tty device buffers input as well as things like generating signals to your process

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Cheng Tang wrote: > Is there a way to use SUN's workstation monitor? > We have some spare monitor here (machine is broken) > but I found that the monitor cable is different > from those in PC. Anyone has done this before? > Do I need a ext

Re: Wizard Radio...

1998-03-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:58:49PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have a serial radio device, (plugs into 25-pin serial port) which ONLY > has a program for windoze whatever (3.1 and 95). Would anyone have any > ideas as to how I could maybe disassemble the executable or trap the

Re: Missing X file only required for version 332

1998-03-26 Thread Bill Leach
> bash: /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA: unable to exec > cannot find file or directory That sounds like it is a bash error report and not an error reported by XF86_SVGA. I am not sure why you are not getting a better message though it might have some to do with the amount of indirection involved in sta

RE: regular expressions

1998-03-26 Thread TBaetzle
> E.L. Meijer wrote: > > 3) A couple of messages I ran across on DejaNews seemed to imply > that REXX > > supports regular expressions. Would this be an integrated function > of REXX or > > just indicative that a person could 'roll their own" with REXX? > > I wouldn't be surprised if they

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Gary Kline
According to Eric Molitor: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I just purchased an Advansys card and couldn't be happier. Advansys writes, > and supports their kernel modules. What other companies besides Advansys and > Buslogic offer support and develope drivers/modules for l

Re: Debian & PGP 5.5.3, importing keys question

1998-03-26 Thread David S. Jackson
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steven Morrill wrote: > Hello All, > > I recently got pgp 5.5.3 running on the NT (I know...gag!) side of > my box. I want to use pgp > with Debian, of course, and the most recent version I've found seems to > be 5.0 for Linux. I > created new keys, both RSA & Diffie-Hell

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Michael Acklin
At 11:38 AM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote: > >1. I hope I am not out in left field, but have you configured Pine? I no > longer use it but recall having a simular problem until I did the > 'Setup-Config' in Pine. > >2. Do you have the line '127.0.0.1 localhost' in /etc/hosts? > >3. Do yo

Re: Distributed Kernel options

1998-03-26 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Hi, > > I think you need the config file from a distribution > kernel. On recent kernel, this is in /boot/config-. You can > use dpkg -x kernel-image*.deb /tmp to extract the default kernel to > /tmp; look then in /tmp/boot for the config file; use kernel-package > to rebuild the kerne

using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Cheng Tang
hi, Is there a way to use SUN's workstation monitor? We have some spare monitor here (machine is broken) but I found that the monitor cable is different from those in PC. Anyone has done this before? Do I need a extra card or something else to use it? Thanks for your suggestions. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Missing X file only required for version 332

1998-03-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Chip, If you are using hamm, you can update to the XF86-3.3.2 package. I assume it will contain all of the necessary files that you need. If you are using bo, then I'm not sure what to tell you. You might want to try downloading the rest of the "important" XF86-3.3.2 files such as:

kbhit() MSDOS equivalent in Linux

1998-03-26 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I received a message from two students about the kbhit() C MSDOS function equivalent in Linux. I'm not a good C programmer and could not help them. If somebody can, please. Thanks, and sorry for the little off-topic Debian. []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plan

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread wtopa
Paul $ less /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB protocol. This is the protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or Lan Manager use to talk to each other. smbfs was inspired by samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell th

Re: rumba package?

1998-03-26 Thread finn
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:26:14PM -0500, dpk wrote: : > I belive he is looking/needing the software package 'rumba'. : : This names sounds like a tragedy about to happen. If I recall correctly : (and quite possibly not), I saw a package called Rumba r

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread wtopa
Subject: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!) Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:19:11PM -0600 In reply to:Mike Acklin Quoting Mike Acklin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > At 08:10 PM 3/25/98 -0600, you wrote: > > > >If you're going to move from smail to anything else at the moment,

Missing X file only required for version 332

1998-03-26 Thread Chip Grandits
I still have no luck with XF86_SVGA version 332 which I extracted from X332SVGA.TGA (it is the one and only file in that archive) it extracts into \bin\XF86_SVGA. I unpacked it from /usr/X11R6 and so it ends up as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. (As instructed I first saved my old SVGA server as X

Re: FTP installing (Hamm)

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Problem: Once I get into the actual system, it seems to have ignored my > network settings (ifconfig and route both return just loopback > settings) and /proc/devices doesn't have an eth device listed. So > I try to run pppd-- app

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Acklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get an error message from the POP3 server that the name is not > acceptable. It wants a domain name on it. Right, I'm pretty sure this is a DNS config problem. Are you running bind on this machine, or are you just using /etc/hosts? > One o

squid

1998-03-26 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
Can some one help me with squid..?, I got "IOT trap/abort" everytime I try to start it, and nothing happen after that. what is IOT trap means? I had debian 1.3.1 in my box, pentium166mmx,with 64 megs of sdram. TIA kusuma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

RE: FTP installing (Hamm)

1998-03-26 Thread Cesar Talon
On 26-Mar-98 Mike Patterson wrote: > The Problem: Once I get into the actual system, it seems to have ignored my > network settings (ifconfig and route both return just loopback > settings) and /proc/devices doesn't have an eth device listed. So > I try to run pppd-- apparently

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-26 Thread Dale Smith
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:54:57 +0100, you wrote: >You can use bootpart: >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm >It generates such chain loaders. Then the boot-sequence looks like: > nt thingie > bootpart > lilo bootsector on your linux disk That's *EXACTLY* what I was looki

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Eric Molitor
I just purchased an Advansys card and couldn't be happier. Advansys writes, and supports their kernel modules. What other companies besides Advansys and Buslogic offer support and develope drivers/modules for linux? -Eric -Original Message- From: Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian

FTP installing (Hamm)

1998-03-26 Thread Mike Patterson
Background: Massive failures caused by some badly-done gunking around with my 1.3 system made me re-install my system, so I decided to go ahead and try to update to hamm using install floppies and FTP. The Setup: Some Floppies, A computer that had a modem for a PPP connection to

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
As other's have pointed out this seems to indicate that xdm is starting, then crashing for some reason. xdm is set to just keep restarting the server. You could have the mouse messed up. If the server can't open /dev/psaux for the mouse it will die (at least it does on my box!). You need to stop x

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Joost Kooij
Oops! made a mistake: On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > If you don't know what lilo is, just take out the installation > bootdiskette (also called "rescue disk" for exactly this kind of purpose) > and at the first prompt type "linux single." If you boot from the rescue disk, you'll want

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Joost, > This is not the right way. You should edit /etc/X11/config so that it > doesn't have a line that matches the regexp "^start-xdm". Prepending "no-" > to that line accomplishes that, while keeping it easy to undo the change > (just remove the "no-" part again.) Thanks. I couldn't reme

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > Well.. I'm only at 3.3.2-1. I guess I'l give it a day to see if the new > > version appears on the debian mirrors, and live without netscape till > > then.. > > > It can be downloaded from > http://master.debian.org/~branden/xlib6_3.3.2-2_i

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > then edit whatever you need to disable xdm temporarily. For example, you > could temporarily move /etc/init.d/xdm to /etc/init.d/xdm.orig. This is not the right way. You should edit /etc/X11/config so that it doesn't have a line that matches the regexp

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > > > > And, perhaps it's only me who is unable to find ANYTHING > > on ftp.debian.org? It's completely EMPTY!!! > > > > Yes. /debian/dists/unstable/ seems to be empty. I refer the g

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > > And, perhaps it's only me who is unable to find ANYTHING > on ftp.debian.org? It's completely EMPTY!!! > Yes. /debian/dists/unstable/ seems to be empty. -- Alexey Vyskubov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Hi guys - a short ADAPTEC-Note

1998-03-26 Thread Jay Barbee
> Yo- > > > So, this sound's nice - email them, too (if using one of there card's) - > > it looks like it helps them in making the right decision faster :-) > > *Not* purchasing their cards might help them make the right decision even > faster than that! ;) Done... I already remove my Adaptec f

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > find out what is going on in your X configuration. What you could do stop > the xserver from trying to load is telnet in and kill the xdm process. I You're suggesting that he telnet in as root? Dangerous :) Hopefully, if you've installed an encrypting telnet such as SSLtelnet on both ma

Re: Wizard Radio...

1998-03-26 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This definitly sounds like an interesting challenge. Does the cab;le for this disconnect? I would start by taking a continuity testor (or ohmmeter...works just the same)... and make a list of the pin mappings... i.e. is it a straight pass through pin 1 = pin 1; pin 2 = pin 2 or is it special... b

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On 01:56 PM 98.03.26 +, Jules Bean wrote (and I quoted): >Anyway, I can see plenty of stuff on ftp.debian.org. I'm guessing you >went and looked during a mirror update - I believe the mirror software may >delete everything before copying in from the master site. Someone correct >me if I'm way

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Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > On 01:04 PM 98.03.26 +, Jules Bean wrote (and I quoted): > >If I understand correctly: > > > >bo is dead. bo is frozen. > > > >Replace bo with frozen. > > > >Or better, still use URLs like debian/dists/stable/main. > > > > Agree - this path shou

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, this is a comman problem for people who are new to linux and X. The problem is that you installed an Xserver and configured it incorrectly. there is a file in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver: here is mine. # $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $ # # Xservers file, work

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On 01:04 PM 98.03.26 +, Jules Bean wrote (and I quoted): >If I understand correctly: > >bo is dead. bo is frozen. > >Replace bo with frozen. > >Or better, still use URLs like debian/dists/stable/main. > Agree - this path should perhaps be used instead of what I've written. Don't understand

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Debian Users ! Hi Neil, First: I hope you're subscribed to debian-user, because I'm not going to edit your antispam stealth email address. I hate spam, but I don't think that it would be a good solution to the problem if everybody uses an obfusca

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Aren't all of your problems related to the poorly built xlib6 that was > just discussed on this list yesterday and earlier today? The xlib6 > maintainer stated that he has built a version without the bugs you > mentioned. The new package should be post

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Aren't all of your problems related to the poorly built xlib6 that was just discussed on this list yesterday and earlier today? The xlib6 maintainer stated that he has built a version without the bugs you mentioned. The new package should be posted soon, I believe. -Ossama _

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > pear# ls /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX* > > > > So what's going on? Why can't it find these libraries? I've installed > > the new xlib6 (my machine is up to date on frozen). In fact, I > > de-installed xbase, xlib6, and the oldlibs xpm, and

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote: > On 01:38 PM 98.03.26 +0100, Joseph Noelmans wrote (and I quoted): > >hello, > > > >I'm trying to download the debian distribution. > >Could you please explain me how I should do this? I don't even know > >which files I have to pick from your ftp-serve

Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
Can anyone explain this to me? I suspect it has something to do with libc5/6 issues, but I'm confused... pear# ldd /usr/local/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 => not found libSM.so.6 => not found libICE.so.6 => not found libXmu.so.6 => not found libXpm.so.4 =>

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
On 01:38 PM 98.03.26 +0100, Joseph Noelmans wrote (and I quoted): >hello, > >I'm trying to download the debian distribution. >Could you please explain me how I should do this? I don't even know >which files I have to pick from your ftp-server. >I have a : >pentium 100 >48MB RAM >I use Nets

Re: millenium 2

1998-03-26 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Actually, the SuSE server is apparently older then the one in XF86-3.3.2. The last time I contacted the XSuSE people, they suggested I use the XF86 version of the SVGA server since it contained all of newer SuSE bug fixes. -Ossama _

Re: downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 01:38:06PM +0100, Joseph Noelmans wrote: > I'm trying to download the debian distribution. Could you please explain > me how I should do this? I don't even know which files I have to pick > from your ftp-server. Start at http://www.debian.org/doc/ . It has various document

downloading debian

1998-03-26 Thread Joseph Noelmans
hello, I'm trying to download the debian distribution. Could you please explain me how I should do this? I don't even know which files I have to pick from your ftp-server. I have a : pentium 100 48MB RAM I use Netscape to surf the Internet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Deebian / atalk revisited

1998-03-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:31:43PM -0800, Greg Frye wrote: > > I am at the bottom of the learning curve and feel overwhelmed. We all are sometimes. > I was encouraged by the way Debian has packages. I have become somewhat > disheartened by things not going as smoothly as I expected. Is there a

Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Neil
Hi Debian Users ! I have a problem with the way I have done something. I don't blame Linux for its lovely 11 oscars, so it is my fault for not configuring the X-Server properly. Ok, I will start my Super Problem: I have a portable computer from DIGITAL. It is a Hi Note CT475. It is

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