Re: A few questions

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Greg, >1.) For the storage on this site, we have acquired an old Proliant RAID cabinet >and populated it with 7 4.1 gb drives (28 gb total) and we are dedicating 3 of >these drives to our ftp site. I am looking for a way (if it is possible) to >mount all >three of these drives at a single m

Re: Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I saw your reply to Bert Conliffe an was hoping you could give me similar > assistance. :) I'll try. I'm only a newbie myself... > Personal background: > I've learned computers by sitting in front of them and struggling my way > through them. Currently I use WindowsNT at work with Lotus notes

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

1998-05-12 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 12 May 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > /bin/cat :) > > > great kidder, now that cheered me up > > thanks > > Jonathan I think I have the solution. Just run mandb. elm# mandb Processing manual pages under /usr/man/de... Checking for stray cats under /usr/man/de.

Re: sound card mixer defaults

1998-05-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > How can I set the sound card mixer defaults (volumes, etc)? Each time I > login, my settings are reset. > > I have an old Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16.. cam lets you set your volume levels from the command line, or from a file. I

Re: tty1 is frozen!

1998-05-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > I accidently ran 'bl -S -d tty' (it should be: bl -S -d 125000 tty) on > tty1, and it frozen the console & all the VCs -- I couldn't switch to > another VC, type anything, etc.. I was able to telnet it and kill the > shell bl was ru

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 04:23:25PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > Rather than running xdm all the time (nobody but me ever logs in, and I > can't remote Xdm into the machine because it's behind a firewall), I'd > like to simply write a script in my .bash_profile that determines if I'm > logged on from

Re: Mouse Fun

1998-05-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
>The >mouse is Microsoft (it says so on the outside) however when I set it up in >W95 the program in the lower right hand corner says Microsoft IntelliPoint. This is the "mouse with wheel" -- the wheel is that round little gray middle button >Right now I've tried to set it up with both Intel

Re: Installing X Windows using dselect

1998-05-12 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
>I want to install xWindows using dselect. I do not know if I am using >dselect properly. You could also take a look at the FAQ-O-Matic: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html. And be patient, this is the most difficult thing for a newbie. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com

Re: Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!

1998-05-12 Thread jscogin
I tried to do what you are trying to do over the network. I finally took the cd out of my win95 computer, installed the files via dselect, and then put the drive back. After all the trying to get around it, that was the easiest. It takes quite a while to load all the files to the machine. -- To

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Keith wrote: : Cable modem down here in SotuhWest Florida cost about $35 per month. : They put an ethernet card in your computer, but it is not bidirectional : yet. You still have to dial in with a modem. So uploading is slow, the : speed of the modem. I want to write a shame

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
> > Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then > > it's *** 35c/mb! *** > > somewhat expensive this option,Videotron (in Montreal,QC,Canada) charge > 49.95$ for CableModem access including the Modem,eth card and 2 GIG of > bandwith per month,i wish i could live in Montreal !

Re: (no subject), Thanks

1998-05-12 Thread srczkwrn
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes; > >"srczkwrn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is where I run into trouble. After issuing dpkg-buildpackage an >> error is returned. The debian/rules file include some of the >> following commands that are not found on my system. >> dh_clean -k

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Keith
Cable modem down here in SotuhWest Florida cost about $35 per month. They put an ethernet card in your computer, but it is not bidirectional yet. You still have to dial in with a modem. So uploading is slow, the speed of the modem. Is there going to be a standard on cable modems or is every single

A few questions

1998-05-12 Thread Gregory Dickinson
Hello. I am setting up a web site with a whole lot of goodies installed also :-) I have a couple of questions and a problem, and if someone could at least point me in the direction I need to be headed in, I would be greatly appreciative. Here are my "silly" questions, please don't laugh too har

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then > it's *** 35c/mb! *** somewhat expensive this option,Videotron (in Montreal,QC,Canada) charge 49.95$ for CableModem access including the Modem,eth card and 2 GIG of bandwith per month,i wish i could live in Montreal !! > ISDN is

Debian named and blank files

1998-05-12 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello, I've set up a DNS server (primary and secondary) using Debian and noticed alot of extra empty files in /var/named. They look like: db.rcwm.000320 db.rcwm.000328 db.rcwm.000330 db.rcwm.000332 db.206.81.41.000321 db.206.81.41.000329 db.206.81.41.000331 etc, they're all dated from the fir

XFree problems

1998-05-12 Thread bross
I hope some one can help. I seem to have a problem with XFree that is related to my video card. I have loaded 3 different versions of Linux, and configured the graphic interface. Each time I try to start it , I get a msg that there is a fatal error, and the server won't load. Yet, when

Re: Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!

1998-05-12 Thread Greg Vence
Will Lowe wrote: > > Hmm. I don't know much about null modem cables. Too bad you don't have > CD drive handy, but anyway: > > > man doesn't seem to work on my machine. ( I get bash: man: command not > > found) > man's not on the base disks, because the manpages themselves take up > quite a bi

Re: sound card mixer defaults

1998-05-12 Thread Will Lowe
> How can I set the sound card mixer defaults (volumes, etc)? Each time I > login, my settings are reset. use cam. There's an option (read the manpage, I've forgotten how to do it) to save sound settings. Then you can run cam from the command line (in a boot script) with some sort of file opti

Re: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Crispixbull wrote: > can you explain what you mean by choose number 1. And also tell me which When you run xf86config, it'll give you a menu. Choose the number "1" option. > doing differently now? Also for gpm again what protocol should I be using? The microsoft one, or th

sound card mixer defaults

1998-05-12 Thread Paul Miller
How can I set the sound card mixer defaults (volumes, etc)? Each time I login, my settings are reset. I have an old Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16.. -Paul --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public PGP key at http://paul.3dillusion.com/pgpkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tty1 is frozen!

1998-05-12 Thread Paul Miller
I accidently ran 'bl -S -d tty' (it should be: bl -S -d 125000 tty) on tty1, and it frozen the console & all the VCs -- I couldn't switch to another VC, type anything, etc.. I was able to telnet it and kill the shell bl was running from, and now only tty1 is frozen. Killing getty on tty1 didn't

Help with com port config

1998-05-12 Thread Shaleh
I am trying to enable 3 com ports -- two on board, the other is a modem. onboard: com 1 irq 4 com 2 irq 3 modem: com 3 irq ??, with completely jumper options The motherboard will only enable a com port, not let me change irq. I have a soundcard on irq 5 and the lpt on irq 7. I have tr

[SOLVED] Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard

1998-05-12 Thread Paul Miller
In order to get it to work, I copied the bl program to my home directory and made it suid to root (only I can access that directory). Then, I made a simple script to run bl and kill it after one minute.. --- newmail --- #!/bin/sh killall bl ~paul/bin/bl -S tty0 sleep 60 killall bl --- eof ---

Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
can you explain what you mean by choose number 1. And also tell me which protocol I should use? In the beginning I was using TTYS0, what will I be doing differently now? Also for gpm again what protocol should I be using? Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford [mailto:[

Re: Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!

1998-05-12 Thread Will Lowe
Hmm. I don't know much about null modem cables. Too bad you don't have CD drive handy, but anyway: > man doesn't seem to work on my machine. ( I get bash: man: command not > found) man's not on the base disks, because the manpages themselves take up quite a bit of space. > Linux/UNIX book I

Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!

1998-05-12 Thread John_Gay
I saw your reply to Bert Conliffe an was hoping you could give me similar assistance. Personal background: I've learned computers by sitting in front of them and struggling my way through them. Currently I use WindowsNT at work with Lotus notes 4.5 for E-Mail and Netscape for surfing. I can find my

How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

1998-05-12 Thread Will Lowe
Rather than running xdm all the time (nobody but me ever logs in, and I can't remote Xdm into the machine because it's behind a firewall), I'd like to simply write a script in my .bash_profile that determines if I'm logged on from the console and runs startx if I am. Anybody got any way for a

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bert Conliffe wrote: ... > Now that I have the basic Debian installed what do I do? > I have a chapter for the yet unreleased user manual on the subject of basic commands. You can read this at http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: [snip] > The xdm-errors file gives an error that there are no valid resolutions > for the xserver / monitor. The machine is at home, and I neglected > to beinf the error report with me to work. If there were no valid > resolutions

Re: Dos (spit> partition

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:06:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear Debian People, > > Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the > problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a > couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mo

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > > I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port > > zip drive? > Yes > It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is

Re: Debian/GNU Linux on IBM PS/2

1998-05-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
> : I have several PS/2`s: > : > : 3-55sx > : 6-56sx > : 1-57sx > : 1-80 > : > : Unfortunately, all have 4Mb of RAM except the Model 57sx which has 12. > : Any suggestion? Is 8Mb of RAM enough for running X. > > Hmm, I can't answer that. I don't run X on any of our PS/2s - they're > all acting

RE: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I > should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and > consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and > given to me like every other one of my classmates) my compu

Re: X crashes when switched from console w/ mouse event

1998-05-12 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> > Hi. I was wondering if anyone else had had this problem. It seems >> > really major. If I'm in console mode, then switch back to X with >> > alt-f7, and then move the mouse in anticipation of X showing up, it >> > very often crashes X. The whole thing just comes down and xdm >> > restarts.

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Bert, I'm another relative newbie, and I've cut my teeth the hard way, with not dos or anything to fall back on, and a Vet degree to worry about. I'll see what I can do for you, since people have been really helpful to me ;) > Background: For the past few months I've been reading on all fr

Can anyone help me

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and given to me like every other one of my classmates) my computer. I tried

RE: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and given to me like every other one of my classmates) my computer. I tried

Re: A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Bert! On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 12:39:24PM -0400, Bert Conliffe wrote: > > Now that I have the basic Debian installed what do I do? This heavily depends on what you want to do with Debian. Please note that Debian can serve as a development system for various programming languages, it can s

RE: Configuring ISP access

1998-05-12 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Try this: http://garfield.msl.net/cgi-bin/pppsetup Auto-generates a ppp package. Works well, except that I had to manually create /dev/modem for it to work... >>--<< > -- > From: k948368[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Configuring ISP

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

1998-05-12 Thread servis
>> One of my serial ports died when lightning struck the telephone line the >> modem was connected to. (I didn't think of disconnecting telephones as >> well as the mains.) Also, hardware handbooks often say that you >> should turn off equipment at both ends before disconnecting things. I read s

Re: HP III and Postscript

1998-05-12 Thread Paul Huygen
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [An acquired HP Laserjet III] came with a "PacificPage P.E" Postscript > cartridge. Anyone have experience with something like this? Yes, I used it until a year ago. It worked neat, but very slow. Ghostscript in your Linux box is much faster. On the

A Cry For Help

1998-05-12 Thread Bert Conliffe
Date: 5/12/98 To: The Debian Org. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bert Conliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Debian Starter System Background: For the past few months I've been reading on all fronts about the superiority of Linux over the incoming Windows '98 and the Windows NT syste

Configuring ISP access

1998-05-12 Thread k948368
I have recently installed Debain Linux on my system. I have been unable to install any packages using dselect. I have an ISP account. My modem is a Hayes Accura 56k internal modem, under windows 95 COM4 is assigned to my modem. I have checked the Debain FAQOMATIC for help and attempted it sol

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "RC" == Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RC> Just out of curiosity: What speaks against using rdist? IIRC somebody > RC> suggested this in a previose discussion on this topic. > The idea behind dpkg-record/dpkg-replay is flexibility and

Re: perl package/CPAN integration questionable

1998-05-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > IMNSHO, there is a problem with the integration between our perl package, > and the CPAN module. Yes :) Check out bug 15797 for discussion of this issue. > If I have correctly analysed the problem, then the 'right' answer involves > dpkg and CPAN somehow

LaTeX Font.

1998-05-12 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All. I know that this isn't the right list to place this question ;) , but I got a font from CTAN and I can't make it work. The font is calligra.mf and I copied it, then I compile with LaTeX and no errors are reported (as the log file says), but XDVI gives the followin

RE: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
I tried that, I set the mouse protocol to PS/2, the device to psaux, and tried it with both 3 button emulation on and off. Do I need to do anything to the gpm (are those the right letters?) to set it up. Do I need to somewhere assign something to psaux. Any more ideas? Thanks, Chris -Origina

RE: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Lewis, James M.
I have one of those. I have to use ps2 protocol and /dev/psaux for the device. The intellipoint thing does not work for me. If anyone has a way to make the wheel do something (even act as the middle button) I would like to hear about it... jim -- From: Crispixbull[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: loadlin problem (SOLUTION)

1998-05-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Frank Barknecht wrote: > Gregory Guthrie hat gesagt: // Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > > I have a partition on my W95 hard disk with Debian loaded; and I boot via a > > floppy. I want to switch to booting from W95/DOS; so I tried loadlin. > > Put it into a directory with Linux, root.bin), and tried it

Re: XDM "unsecure session" (SOLVED)

1998-05-12 Thread Tim Buller
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Yeah, this happened to me too. I guess it's a bug. Just do the following as > root > and let xdm restart > > mkdir /var/lib/xdm > mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir > chmod 700 /var/lib/xdm/authdir > mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles > chmod 700 /var/li

Re: XDM "unsecure session" (SOLVED)

1998-05-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, this happened to me too. I guess it's a bug. Just do the following as root and let xdm restart mkdir /var/lib/xdm mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir chmod 700 /var/lib/xdm/authdir mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles chmod 700 /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles You get the 'unsecure session' because xd

Re: zip disks unreadable

1998-05-12 Thread David B Wilson
Where would we be without the number 4? :-) It seems to work now. > the disks are partitiond (try /dev/sda4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mgetty-fax mgetty-voice

1998-05-12 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
Could anyone give me a good reference in order to configure a voice-faxmodem using mgetty? Is that an easy task? I am not finding any simple HowTo recipes. My voice-faxmodem card is a usrobotics sportster 28.8. Thanks, Fernando -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Can anyone give me a hand with this mouse thing, I just can't figure it out. If you are sure it is a serial mouse (i.e. a serial connector) and not a PS/2 mouse then you should be using gpm for the console and and /dev/ttyS0 for the device name in xf86config. If it happens to be a PS/2 mou

Re: loadlin problem

1998-05-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Gregory Guthrie hat gesagt: // Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I have a partition on my W95 hard disk with Debian loaded; and I boot via a > floppy. I want to switch to booting from W95/DOS; so I tried loadlin. > Put it into a directory with Linux, root.bin), and tried it. > loadlin linux root=/dev/ram

XDM "unsecure session"

1998-05-12 Thread Tim Buller
Hello- I did a clean install of 2.0-980504 and after tweaking a couple things, XDM came up with the login greeting "This is an unsecure session". I can get rid of this message by seting DisplayManager*authComplain:false in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, but this doesn't seem like

Can anyone help me?

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
Can anyone give me a hand with this mouse thing, I just can't figure it out. -Original Message- From: Crispixbull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 7:00 AM To: Linux Subject: Mouse Fun I am currently trying to set up X Windows and trying to set up my mouse. The mouse

HP III and Postscript

1998-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hello, Recently I acquired an HP LaserJet III for use with our UNIX servers (most of which run Linux). I also snagged a 486 to act as a print server. I'm guessing if I RTFM magicfilter docs and HOWTOs I'll get this going (though any tips are appreciated) However, this printer came with a "Pacif

Re: wget: remove outdated manual page

1998-05-12 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've updated the manpage reading the info documentation. I think > that the manpages is still very usable for most users, and in Debian > every executable must have one manpage. I see that you completely ignored my previous suggestions. Very well.

perl package/CPAN integration questionable

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
Hi all.. IMNSHO, there is a problem with the integration between our perl package, and the CPAN module. The CPAN module (for those who don't know about it) gives the perl administrator functionality comparable to dselect/dpkg, for installing perl modules. This is very useful indeed. However, it

Re: Installing X Windows using dselect

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 11 May 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: > I want to install xWindows using dselect. I do not know if I am using > dselect properly. I have it set to go to ftp.debian.org and look in > /pub/debian and search only for stable packages. I get a list of a > whole ton of packages. I just don't k

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > : Hi there... > > [ snip ] > > : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take > : 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It gets as far as > : > : njm25# telnet bl

RE: XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Peter, I *do* have the file, I just don't have it with me (it is on my machine at home and I am at work). The message xdm leaves in the xdm-errors file was something like no valid resolutions found. As I said, startx works so I assume I have a valid XF86Config (I have been know to be wrong befo

Re: ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote: : Hi there... [ snip ] : Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take : 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It gets as far as : : njm25# telnet blueberry.jellybean.co.uk : Trying 194.88.75.31... : Connected to b

Re: Debian/GNU Linux on IBM PS/2

1998-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nick Gilliam wrote: : I have several PS/2`s: : : 3-55sx : 6-56sx : 1-57sx : 1-80 : : Unfortunately, all have 4Mb of RAM except the Model 57sx which has 12. : Any suggestion? Is 8Mb of RAM enough for running X. Hmm, I can't answer that. I don't run X on any of our PS/2s -

ssltelnet *very* slow on a 486...

1998-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
Hi there... I just installed the ssl packages from ftp.de.debian.org on both my Pentium and my 486. These machines are separated spacially and network-topologically, so it seems to make some sense to want to protect passwords. Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 09:26:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: : > The unit itself is usually ~500$ cdn, but the providers around here lease : > it for a few dollars a month more. : : That sounds nice. Here in the land of .AU, where any decent sized

Re: Debian/GNU Linux on IBM PS/2

1998-05-12 Thread Nick Gilliam
I have several PS/2`s: 3-55sx 6-56sx 1-57sx 1-80 Unfortunately, all have 4Mb of RAM except the Model 57sx which has 12. Any suggestion? Is 8Mb of RAM enough for running X. Thanks, Nick Gilliam On Mon, 11 May 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 1998, Nick Gilliam wrote: > > : >

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-12 Thread Pierre Blanchet
"RC" == Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RC> Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Here, i have 85 PC to install. And the method i will try will be >> slighty different (note: it will only work in a network, with a >> local mirror): >> 3) Write a shell script, dpkg-record, s

Re: New Debian i386 Packages

1998-05-12 Thread Jerzy Kakol
Hi, and how about the GNOME environment. There is not public nor developer snapshots in actual hamm. Altough it is mostly in alpha stage, it is quite usable and competitive for kde. Moreover it is to be a Debian's flagship among all GUI/Desktop projects. What happened to the previous *gnome*.d

Re: Driver Module for 3C905

1998-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, The 3c59x module supports both the Vortex and Boomerang series cards. The 3C905 is a Boomerang card so it is supported. :) The driver is does take advantage of 3C905 features meaning it isn't some cheapo driver that runs the 3C905 in some compatibility mode. I have the very same card instal

Re: SCSI time out error

1998-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Did you enable SCSI tape drive support in the kernel? I'm not sure if the Debian kernel image has support for this compiled in or not. I'm using a Conner tape drive (DDS-2 and a couple of years old) with an Adapted 2940UW with no problem. -Ossama ___

Re: XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:12:40AM -0400, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > -Original Message- > From: Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: May 12, 1998 9:00 AM > Subject: XDM doesn't work > > > >Hello all, > > > >I have had the followi

Re: sound utilities, /usr/X11R6/bin/au

1998-05-12 Thread W Paul Mills
auplay will play unix *.au files. xmcd will play cd's with au. Look at man nas ( Network audio system ). On Mon, 11 May 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > Sorry to keep pestering the list with my sound questions. I thought it > would be better to send each one as separate message rather than dump on

Dos (spit> partition

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Debian People, Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mount using ncpmount. Unfortunatly, to do so, I need dosemu, which mean

Re: XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: -Original Message- From: Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: May 12, 1998 9:00 AM Subject: XDM doesn't work >Hello all, > >I have had the following problem no 2 different hamm systems: > >They are configured to start xdm on booting. O

Monitor problems

1998-05-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I aquired a cheap and not very exciting computer 2nd hand, on the understanding that the monitor was a 14inch VGA. I installed Debian 2, which is the only OS on my hdd ;), including Xwindows. I can't get my monitor to work properly. I tried running XF86Setup, plugged in the info

XDM doesn't work

1998-05-12 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Hello all, I have had the following problem no 2 different hamm systems: They are configured to start xdm on booting. One machine uses the S3 xserver, one uses the SVGA xserver. When starting the system, the screen will flash (xdm keeps trying to start X) and the only way I have been able to re

Mouse Fun

1998-05-12 Thread Crispixbull
I am currently trying to set up X Windows and trying to set up my mouse. The mouse is Microsoft (it says so on the outside) however when I set it up in W95 the program in the lower right hand corner says Microsoft IntelliPoint. Right now I've tried to set it up with both IntelliPoint and Microsoft

Re: IPX and Soundcard - loadable modules?

1998-05-12 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 11 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > Z-Y> make config > >> start to compile kernel. It may take quite a while on a 486. > Z-Y> make-kpkg --revision 2 --zImage > >> make-kpkg is supposed to make a .deb file. But, it didn't on > >> mine. otherwise you may install the new kernel like ju

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here, i have 85 PC to install. And the method i will try will be > slighty different (note: it will only work in a network, with a > local mirror): > 3) Write a shell script, dpkg-record, something like : Just out of curiosity: What speaks against us

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

1998-05-12 Thread Rainer Clasen
Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian > boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. > Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) I don't know sun at all, but how about modifying the bootdisks to spawn a get

Re: MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

1998-05-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting -- > still "Lil-" and system hangs. > My system _did_ work before -- honest!! Did you alter the bios settings for your hdisk at boot up? ... If you have auto hdd detection turn that on (as opposed to LBA or LARGE) .. It shou

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

1998-05-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Please check to see that lilo has the right parameters for your harddisk Particularly the bits about Large, LBA ... --Jonathan > "Lil-" comes up on the screen and the system hangs > > (Just glad I have a recent kernel boot disk =) ) > > /boot/boot.hda doesn't exist. > > I have no WinNT instal

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

1998-05-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> /bin/cat :) > great kidder, now that cheered me up thanks Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Make linux bootable directly to hard disk fails (NT4 installed)

1998-05-12 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi everybody, I know maybe this isn't the right group to ask, sorry for that, but since comp.os.linux.setup doesn't answer . but there is a small link with this group anyway and maybe somebody has a hint ? NT4 is already installed on my PC (one big 3Gb Quantum SCSI-disk.) I am trying to in

Driver Module for 3C905

1998-05-12 Thread Paulo Almeida
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody! I have a new 3Com 10/100 TX autosense PCI network card (3C905). I would like to install it on my Debian box but I can't find the right network module. Does anyone know where I can find the module or driver source code I need? Thanks. Pa

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

1998-05-12 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks Oliver, I had already checked the connections and stuff like that and I don't believe in luck. That notwithstanding, I take your point that my port is knackered ... The thing is where on earth am I going to find someone to fix a 486 motherboard and at what cost .. I asked scan for th

Re: updates to 'stable'

1998-05-12 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 01:58:16AM -0500, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > > What is policy on software updates to the 'stable' tree? Software there > is somewhat 'stale' and has unacceptable security risks such as Smail > lacking the anti-relay features, bind still being v4.9.6, etc. Should I > just n

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-12 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 07:24:47PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > AFAIK you need a 2.1 kernel to use later DOSemu versions. > I have working "out-of-the-box" dosemu 0.97.7 under 2.0.33. -- Alexey Vyskubov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-12 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:22:14PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote: > Has anyone managed to make DOSEmu 97.7 work? There doesn't seem to be a I have working dosemu 97.7 under Linux/Debian 2.0/Kernel 2.0.33 > CONF: memcheck - Fatal error. Memory conflict! > Memory at 0x16400:0x is mapped to both

Win95 as a terminal

1998-05-12 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello! I had the following strange problem: I use Linux/Debian 2.0 on my computer. There is null-modem cable from ttyS1 to Win95 computer. Some times ago Win 95/Telemate works fine as a terminal, but now it takes about 30 minutes just to display /etc/issue. (Output is blocked in 16-bytes sequenc

Regina REXX, Debian file lists

1998-05-12 Thread ricknie
I've written a REXX script for browsing the Debian Packages files. It requires Regina REXX. If you're on a Debian system, it also shows the files that are outdated and misconfigured. My plan was to also add the Red Hat and SuSe file lists, so a person could more easily find a piece of Linux soft

SCSI time out error

1998-05-12 Thread S Lim
Hi, I am trying to connect my linux to a Conner SCSI tape. The LUN number on the tape is correspondent with the Adaptec BIOS, ie number 6. The SCSI host is detected but not the tape device. I got the following error at boot time: (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices. scsi: aborting comman

Re: libc6 package (Thanks)

1998-05-12 Thread jdassen
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > P.S. BTW what should I do to know the package which a file belongs ! Normally, by "dpkg -S thefile". In this case that would not have worked; for a file that is managed through the alternatives mechanism, you have to follow the link

updates to 'stable'

1998-05-12 Thread Zachary DeAquila
What is policy on software updates to the 'stable' tree? Software there is somewhat 'stale' and has unacceptable security risks such as Smail lacking the anti-relay features, bind still being v4.9.6, etc. Should I just not run 'stable' ? (This might mean I shouldn't run Debian at all, I unders

broken upgrade of gzip

1998-05-12 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was installing dosemu on my machine and dselect also upgraded other component on my system but the upgrade of gzip broke,it asked for the debianutils >=1.6 package and i searched in bo-unstable and bo-updates,i've found nothing,does i need to search in the hamm directory to find it or it's better

exim_1.92 + libc5 anyone?

1998-05-12 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi, in my never ending story with exim and header rewriting I've been told (by its author) to try the new exim. Does anybody know if there's a libc5 release of this beast, which should be exim_1.92? I know it's in hamm, but I'm not ready for this libc6 jump. Also, note I'm not complaining or blamin

Re: xWindows can't load

1998-05-12 Thread Noel Yap
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: > > > When I run startx I get the following: > > > > xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' > > xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' > > This particular problem should disappear if you issue the following > command bef

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