Re: Kernel 2.0.34

1998-07-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:02:54PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: P.D. yo antes utilizaba el kernel 2.0.30 y me deba menos problemas que el actual. J., una pregunta? Estas usando los fuentes tal cual o estas usando el paquete de -src de Debian? (No es necesario que bajes todos el paquete, con solo

Re: Hamm? Donde

1998-07-07 Thread Narcis
He visto en la caratula del CD-ROM de PROGRAMACIÓN ACTUAL (n.16) el siguiente titulo Última versión del Kernel LINUX 2.0.34 Espero que sea lo que mas de uno esta esperando ... si alguien con un poco de tiempo lo comprueba que me/nos diga si es o no cierto. Saludos,

Esto no es Debian pero es curioso

1998-07-07 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Voy al grano: Mi hermano trabaja en una empresa donde han instalado Unix recientemente en un PC que funcionara como servidor de una red de terminales para hacer encuestas y tal. - ¿Unix en un PC? !! yo creia que Linux era el Unix para PC, y que el Unix solo funcionaba en estaciones de

Re: problem compiling kernel 2.0.34 under Debian 1.3.1

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 sig11 (signal 11) is often a sign of a hardware problem. Either you machine is over/under clocked, over heating, has a memory glitch or something. Sig 11 can also be one of the problems that

Bootdisk problem

1998-07-07 Thread alexander e dukat
Hello, I am trying to create a custom bootdisk so that I may be able to restore my old setup off of a tapedrive. I have one problem, I am unable to get the bootdisk to boot. The kernel loads and the root image is read into the Ramdisk and then mounted read-only, but then when init is suppose to

Re: Mutt configuration

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:27:08AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: set nohold set mbox=~/mbox Mike, Thanks for the info. The 'nohold' variable was unrecognized by Mutt when I added it to the Muttrc file, however, it did point me in the right direction. Another search of the docs turned up a

kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
With your help I have successfully compiled kernel 2.0.34 now that my fan is blowing through the computer. Obviously a temporary solution, but that's not why I'm writing this message... I get this in /var/log/messages: Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 syslogd 1.3-3#17: restart. Jul 6 16:59:56 server2

RE: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Hank Fay
A wonderful idea. If Linux is to achieve world domination s Hank Fay -Original Message- From: Peter S Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 10:38 AM To: Debian Users Mailing List Cc: Peter S Galbraith Subject: Package to list all other packages in

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked a question on this list (note the new mung). Has anyone else had the same? Am I being paranoid, or is it possible some spammer is mining the archives of these

WARNING: libc6_2.0.7r-3 and r-4 CRITICAL BUG

1998-07-07 Thread Robert Woodcock
Those of you beta-testing Debian 2.0 need to be aware of a critical bug in the libc6 package, version 2.0.7r-3 and 2.0.7r-4. If you received a 2.0 beta CD, or last upgraded your 2.0 install just after it went beta, this does not affect you. Any programs dynamically linked with libc6 (i.e.

Re: hmm... an idea

1998-07-07 Thread Paul Miller
The IP changes every 24 hours. hmm.. If the two hosts were in the same domain, it shouldn't make a difference (except for secondary servers), right? My interest in doing this is that my ISP only charges additional baudwidth for static IPs... so, I could have a large site on a dynamic IP and a

Gateway

1998-07-07 Thread matthew tebbens
Has anyone recently installed Debian on a new Gateway system ? What works, doesn't work ? Please mail me. Thanks, Matthew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Needed: NEC CDrom drive info

1998-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
G'day -- I am happily running a 24x NEC CD-Rom drive 464 (as reported in my /var/log/messages) alongside two SCSI-2 HDs on a NCR53c815 based card. Now I am trying to use a souncard (FWIW, Ensoniq soundscape, *non* PnP one...) and am confused as to which audio cables to use between the CD and the

Re: Needed: NEC CDrom drive info

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:14:06 -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: souncard gives me three diff options: matsushita, mitsumi or sony, but I can not find any inf anywhere on the net, including NEC site, that would reveal which audio cable works with 464 drive. Does anyone out there have any clue about this?

What package has patch?

1998-07-07 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi all, Which package contains the patch utility? I've installed perl-base, perl-tk and the basic perl5 package and I was sure one of these would have it, but guess not. So where is it? Thanks, Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Gateway

1998-07-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: Has anyone recently installed Debian on a new Gateway system ? What works, doesn't work ? There are too many different Gateway models for someone else's experience to be meaningful. Computer brand isn't very important for compatibility purposes.

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Panzer
Mike Merten wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked a question on this list (note the new mung). Has anyone else had the same? Am I being paranoid, or is it possible some spammer is

Re: What package has patch?

1998-07-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CB == Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB Hi all, CB Which package contains the patch utility? I've installed perl-base, CB perl-tk and the basic perl5 package and I was sure one of these would CB have it, but guess not. So where is it? zgrep patch /home/martinb/Contents-i386.gz

Re: What package has patch?

1998-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi all, Which package contains the patch utility? I've installed perl-base, perl-tk and the basic perl5 package and I was sure one of these would have it, but guess not. So where is it? It too obvious to not overlook: patch Bob Bob

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
I have a tk app which reads the currently installed packages list and lists them alphabetically. It also shows the files that each package contains. It is very handy. I have the tk source (obviously) I lack the accompanying C source for its lib. I have contacted the author and hope he will

Re: [Patching sources to Debian; dpkg-source -x package.dsc]

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
Try holding the shift key down while clicking the HREF link to d/l the file. When the Save As dialog pops up add the .gz back on the end and it does not touch the file. I do this kinda often. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: What is running / not running at the time of the crash. The ^@ could indicate a daemon overflowing its buffer -- it could be a symptom or a cause. When I run Netscape and Enlightenment 13.3 I occasionally have this happen. Seems that NS does some things

dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi all, I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be dir /s *.whatever

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 06 Jul 1998 20:19:36 -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the best way to do

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread aqy6633
I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be dir /s *.whatever but

Re: Re[2]: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Havoc Pennington wrote: Gnome will work with a non-compliant window manager, it's just that Gnome compliance will eventually give you extra-cool features. Right now it lets you use the buggy pager applet and some more minor things, so it's not too exciting. Hmm since wmaker 0.16 is gnome

Re: Re[2]: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Hmm since wmaker 0.16 is gnome complient does that mean the gnome pager will work with it? That'd be useful. I don't know about wmaker in particular, but in theory I guess the answer is yes. There's a big gap between theory and practice though... ;-)

Newbe Question - Setting up X11

1998-07-07 Thread David R. Robison
I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. David Robison -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Apt upgrade

1998-07-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Daniel Mashao wrote: Has anyone been able to use the apt upgrade method to Hamm? I get all sorts of problems. First of all the installed system says it wants perl 5.004 I think. It has the following questions require 5.004; Now my poor self is trying to reamin truly Debian and I

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: I have a tk app which reads the currently installed packages list and lists them alphabetically. It also shows the files that each package contains. It is very handy. I have the tk source (obviously) I lack the accompanying C source for its lib. I have contacted the author

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Somnolent
Mark Panzer wrote: As a matter of fact, I too have received a few... one from some jerk on AOL advertising 'beanie-baby grab-bags' and one from... heck, can't remember which major news net, ZDNET maybe? (didn't save it) :(... exclaiming all the 'neato' features of Windoze 98 ;/ I

Re: Compiling the kernel?

1998-07-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: Well, not knowing any better, I fixed it by uninstalling my header and source packages (2.0.33), reinstalling the libc6-dev package, and then installing bin86 and the 2.0.34 source and header packages. This left the usr/include directories (asm, linux, scsi) NOT set up

Re: Apt upgrade

1998-07-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Daniel Mashao wrote: Has anyone been able to use the apt upgrade method to Hamm? I get all sorts of problems. First of all the installed system says it wants perl 5.004 I think. It has the following questions require 5.004; Now my poor

Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11

1998-07-07 Thread aqy6633
I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. You should install one of the xserver-* packages which match

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, When APT is ready for release, it will provide similar functionality in a much more usable tool. There are some nice tools for RedHat's RPM packages, such as XRPM and a GTK one I found, which looked awsome, but I couldn't get working (not GLINT, that's *really* horrible!) Is the

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Is the intention to make APT something like that, or allow other ppl to write interfaces for it? Both : Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11

1998-07-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
David R. Robison wrote: I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. David Robison

Re: Leafnode segfaulting in texpire fetch

1998-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Orr wrote: I wondered if the /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo file could be the culprit, but I don't have it anymore. I pulled a copy from yesterday morning's backup and fed it to leafnode, but no segfault. If you do reproduce it, please mail me, and I'll try to help you whittle

check package consistency

1998-07-07 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I am using Debian hamm. I had problems with my disk (fsck found bad blocks). Can I check with dpkg which packet need to be reinstalled ? Thanks ! begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xcdroast and scsi

1998-07-07 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hi, I have got a philips 3610 CDR-W which is said to be supported by xcdroast and cdrecord 1.6. When I run xcdroast, it told me ni ' no SCSI-generic-support has been detected ' and I can't select any cd burner in the menu. So, I recompiled my kernel (2.0.34 with hamm) with SCSI-generic-support

The search of the lost font

1998-07-07 Thread erik . eriksson
Hello everyone! I have just made a small installation with Debian 2.0. I download it since I don´t need all of the exellent software, but I guess I have missed some packages. When I tried to install X I am droped into xf86config instead of XF86Setup, at that point I stopped the installation and

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread fantomas
- With your help I have successfully compiled kernel 2.0.34 now that my fan - is blowing through the computer. Obviously a temporary solution, but - that's not why I'm writing this message... - - I get this in /var/log/messages: - - Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 syslogd 1.3-3#17: restart. - Jul 6

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-07 Thread graeve
On 6 Jul 1998 20:32:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric) wrote: You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people trying to install custom kernels without it. Even with make-kpkg the

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-07 Thread ej
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:57:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Jul 1998 20:32:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric) wrote: You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people

Re: modem works now - but modem-computer comunication really slow

1998-07-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 01:23:30AM +0300, Shaul wrote: If i understand correctly, one of your problems is that it is very slow. 1) Is it a plug-and-play modem ? 2) what does setserial (setserial /dev/ttyS3 -a) reports ? 3) Perhaps you should consider giving a more specific modem initialization

Re: How to downgrade?!?

1998-07-07 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 12:27:38PM -0500, Ivan Trogranci wrote: I tried to upgrade to HAMM, but it didn't work and now gcc can't find any libraries (that's the only problem I noticed, but there may be others...) As part of the upgrade to libc6, all old libc5 development packages should be

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Harrison
Mark Panzer wrote: Mike Merten wrote: [snip] I also had the exact same spam mail (beanie bags and all) there should be a debian policy against using e-mail archives for spam-mail purposes. It really does get annoying recieving such mail. Mark Panzer There is a debian policy. I

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Thomas Apel
Mark Harrison wrote: [...] There is a debian policy. I cant remeber the details but it says something like if you advertise then you agree to pay $1999 per advertismentand if you contact us we might discount this rate for relavent advertising. So, should someone send them the bill?

Check Required Relative Packages for New Packages

1998-07-07 Thread Alex Kwan
If I add a new packages to my Hamm system, How can I checked whcih packages are the relative packages (If Required) that I needed to add to my systems too. Thank You

Re: kde (and K memory leak question)

1998-07-07 Thread Randy Edwards
Yep. KDE is still beta right now... the 1.0pre1 was released last week, but afaik isn't debianized yet. If you're running the KDE build out of frozen, try upgrading to beta4, in slink, as it fixes a few problems and is more stable. I'm running the slink KDE setup here; have you or anyone

Re: Check Required Relative Packages for New Packages

1998-07-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AK == Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK If I add a new packages to my Hamm system, AK How can I checked whcih packages are the AK relative packages (If Required) that I needed to AK add to my systems too. Get apt from www.debian.org/~jgg Then you can do a apt-get install whatever, and

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread gcross
On 6 Jul, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Wouldn't it be great if there was a Debian package to list, decribe and index all other packages? Yeah, I think so too. Even cooler (IMHO) would be something that would tell me what I have on the system. :) I'm always looking at

Re: What package has patch?

1998-07-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:17:59PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi all, Which package contains the patch utility? I've installed perl-base, perl-tk and the basic perl5 package and I was sure one of these would have it, but guess not. So where is it? It is in the patch package (a fact

RE: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Hank Fay
I thought the point of using a Browser front-end would be to free the package makers from having to struggle with creating a front-end, being able to connect with the packaging machinery through Tcl or Perl. As for the argument that one should protect the user from shooting the user in the user's

More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Hello yet again - I was hoping to be able to sit back for a little while and just read the chat on my new hamm system but I still seem to have some problems !!! Once again the downloading went mostly well but installation and config are a major problem. Initially errors were that ef2sprogs

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread dpk
Initially errors were that ef2sprogs conflicts with dump and perl pre-depends libc5 (or something like that !) After those errors things looked good for a while BUT then a million errors ( certainly too many to read ) scrolled up the screen and dselect again gave up in disgust !

What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread Alex Kwan
Would someone please explain that 1) What is the apt-get install 2) How to use apt-get install (step by step please) 3) What is the difference between apt and dpkg Many thanks!

Re: Check Required Relative Packages for New Packages

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: If I add a new packages to my Hamm system, How can I checked which packages are the relative packages (If Required) that I needed to add to my systems too. Use dselect. Dselect can install packages from cdrom, ftp, nfs and (floppy) disk. You can

Re: xcdroast and scsi

1998-07-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does I really need scsi support since my burner is IDE ? Why this support is not detected by xcdroast (I have got no scsi card) ? I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried enabling SCSI emulation in the kernel? Note that the SCSI drivers need to be enabled for the emulation to

Re: What package has patch?

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: It is in the patch package (a fact other people already pointed out), and it has nothing special to do with perl at all. Perl is a script programming language, patch a development tool. There is a relation: they were both conceived by Larry Wall.

dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread S K
i'm trying to install debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause any trouble for this? thanks in advance [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xcdroast and scsi

1998-07-07 Thread peloy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run xcdroast, it told me ni ' no SCSI-generic-support has been detected ' and I can't select any cd burner in the menu. So, I recompiled my kernel (2.0.34 with hamm) with SCSI-generic-support selected. It doesn't change anything. Just a stupid question:

Installing gnome

1998-07-07 Thread Brian Morgan
Could someone walk a newbie through the process of installing gnome v.20, step-by-step, according to your experience? I'm running hamm, kernel 2.0.33. X is running with afterstep (but I have several other WM's I could use if need be). Download the tarballs, and now what? Brian -- Brian Morgan

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, S K wrote: i'm trying to install debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause any trouble for this? I'm using a dual boot win98/Linux

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 08:19:36PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi all, I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the

Re: What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:51:02PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: Would someone please explain that 1) What is the apt-get install apt-get install checks out apt's own database of packages (which is updated by apt-get update) of what is available for download. It then downloads and installs the latest

Why so many updates to frozen hamm?

1998-07-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
I see a fairly steady stream of updates to hamm. Many more updates, it seems, than the number of bugs that get closed. I don't mind; I just don't understand. It doesn't look like a deep-freeze to me. I'm not impatient either. The more updates the better. I just thought I'd ask in case there is

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Somnolent wrote: : Mark Panzer wrote: : : As a matter of fact, I too have received a few... one from some : jerk on AOL advertising 'beanie-baby grab-bags' and one from... : heck, can't remember which major news net, ZDNET maybe? (didn't save : it) :(... exclaiming

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 08:19:36PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi all, I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory

RE: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
From: S K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dual boot?? win98??? I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps

Last Question (I hope!)

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Dennis a million thanks - i just checked and sure enough dselect defaults to the /stable directories - no doubt you are entirely correct !!! surely many of the /stable packages are the same as the frozen dist and so i do not wish to download yet again everything (8-10 hours MINIMUM). are you

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: Hello yet again - I was hoping to be able to sit back for a little while and just read the chat on my new hamm system but I still seem to have some problems !!! Once again the downloading went mostly well but installation and config are a major problem.

Re: Using 2.1.108 kernel

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0063_01BDA7E0.D6CCC9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all: Yesterday I tried to get the 2.1.108 kernel up and running. I did get it running however I hand one

Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
HAHAHAHAHA Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few days. It is functional now, but will more than likely be

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to

Re: SCSI Disk Farm

1998-07-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I want to experiment with 'raidtools' to set up my disk farm (100-200GB) and it requires a kernel version 2.1.62. I haven't worked with experimental kernels before - where is a good place to get them and how would I pick one that is not TOO experimental, i.e. doesn't break too easily...

helper_0.97.deb

1998-07-07 Thread ssnow
I was doing my usual apt-get update and apt-get dselect-upgrade when I got the error: Get http://ftp1.us.debian.org slink/main debhelper [60.5k] Error http://ftp1.us.debian.org slink/main debhelper 404 Not Found ERROR

Re: fvwm2 behaves differently from bo -- hamm?

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 02:52:37PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote: I've update from bo to hamm, and now I can't drag a window accross virtual screens. If you don't have the virtual screens at all, make sure there is a DeskTopSize entry in ~/.fvwm2/post-hook or /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc I use

IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-07 Thread Brian Morgan
I posted some questions about printing to an ip address earlier. Thanks for those who have helped so far. More questions: I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 and LPRng print spooling package. I'm trying to print to an HP laserjet through a jetdirect card with an ip address. I've edited my /etc/printcap

Re: Mail gateway

1998-07-07 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This allows you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be transmitted. When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server that I get from my ISP. That's what I have at home - is this what you are looking for?

Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Mark H. Mabry
Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP access to using this cable-modem. I get a complete lock-up of Linux when I try to run both X11 and dhcpcd. I can run either one alone and things are fine. But when I start X, after dhcpcd,

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Can't argue with you on any of your well made points ! Consider the lessons (almost) learnt. LESSON 1. Duly noted but (please note i am not at all ungrateful for your advice) having had the true stupidity of my ways pointed out to me (using the stable rather than the frozen dist) I really cannot

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | From: S K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: dual boot?? win98??? | | | I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to | throw away | my windows 98. is it

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote: Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP access to using this cable-modem. I get a complete lock-up of Linux when I try to run both X11 and dhcpcd. I can run either one alone and

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Len Cumbow
At 06:29 AM 7/7/98 PDT, S K wrote: i'm trying to install debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause any trouble for this? thanks in advance [EMAIL

RE: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
From: Len Cumbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:19 PM To: S K; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dual boot?? win98??? Look into System Commander. It's a boot manager with specific support for Linux as well as the various flavors of Windows, DOS, OS/2

strange lock up problem

1998-07-07 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hello, just started with this list so hope this msg gets there. I ahve a pII/266 system with 256MB RAM, 4 IDE hard disks, and 1 4.3GB SCSI and 1 23GB SCSI disk, onboard AIC7888 SCSI controller, 3c905 card, floppy drive, (can't remember which chipset we are using on this board). Running low loads

Re: What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: Would someone please explain that 1) What is the apt-get install apt-get is a program and it comes with the apt package. Normally, one would do: apt-get update Which gets the Packages.gz files from the archive (ftp or cdrom, or whatever is in your

Browser search

1998-07-07 Thread doug warthen
I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Thankyou. Douglas

Re: Browser search

1998-07-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Is this a

Debian-2.0-beta upgrade: my experience (after the 1st time)

1998-07-07 Thread James D. Freels
I now have a total of 4 Linux machines running Debian-2.0-beta (including one DEC-Alpha running the current hamm tree). Except for the DEC-Alpha, all of these machines were upgraded from 1.3.1r6. After my bad experience with the first upgrade, I wanted to state how my subsequent upgrades have

Re: Using YARD to create boot floppies?

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Gary L.Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for | emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and | I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and | prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine,

Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11

1998-07-07 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 01:16:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: David R. Robison wrote: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. XF86_NONE indicates you haven't selected a default X server. The server you use

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Do you use xdm? X wants to know what your IP address is for its security. Since you don't have an IP until after dhcp does its work, this could be a problem. Mark H. Mabry wrote: Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP access to

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-07 Thread m*
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 11:53:32AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: firstly, replace all those ifconfig route commands with something like this: i=1 while [ $i -le 254 ] ; do ifconfig eth0:$i XXX.231.206.$i netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -host XXX.231.206.$i eth0:$i $i=$(( $i +

pon troubles

1998-07-07 Thread Wandersmann
I'm trying to do dome dselecting via FTP, but I can't even seem to establish a connection to my ISP. Via pppconfig, I have configured my new Hamm system such that my modem port is ttyS2 (COM3), with maximum speed 115200, and all other ISP dialup and login info seemingly correct. Yet when I try

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please Read Hello, my name is Andy. I know where

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread CHUCK
In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian you With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system from scratch. Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are? chuck

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
GNOME v.20 is sitting in Incoming (still). You can get debs of it from www.jimpick.com and the imlib it needs from www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software. You will find installing the debs MUCH nicer than trying to compile it. Brian Morgan wrote: Could someone walk a newbie through the process of

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
- I get this in /var/log/messages: - - Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 kernel: Cannot find map file. - - when my computer boots with the new kernel. when you compile the kernel, copy vmlinux or arch/arch/boot/zImage to /boot and don't forget System.map (from/usr/src/linux) - that's the map

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