Star Office

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
I want to install the Star Office. I am running Debian 2.0. The Star Office package in dselect is only like 24k. This then asks me where my archive files, or something are. What does that mean? If anyone is running Star Office let me know how to install it. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE "If t

Uprgaded to hamm now time is wacked

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
I just got my time working on Debian 1.3 now that I upgraded to 2.0 it doesn't say the right time. What is the difference between 2.0 and 1.3? I am back to the same problem I had before, the time is 4 hours off. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE "If the government isn't going to protect our kids

installation

1998-08-12 Thread TOYIN ODUMADE
I want to install Debian on my second hard drive(D) on a new computer I just had built for me. It has no O/S on it, and is formatted with FAT. My first drive(C) has dual boot 95/NT, and I want to keep that. Does it mean I have to go the route of floppy installation for Debian? Or can I install

SANE not finding scanner

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
I am trying to setup my Mustek scanner using SANE. If I run find-scanner it doesn't find my scanner. I see that my card is loading on boot up and it sees my scanner. The scanner is hooked up right, it works in Windows. If someone could shed some light on this subject for me I would appreciate it.

Re: Star Office

1998-08-12 Thread servis
*- Keith wrote about "Star Office" | I want to install the Star Office. I am running Debian 2.0. The | Star Office package in dselect is only like 24k. This then asks | me where my archive files, or something are. What does that mean? | If anyone is running Star Office let me know how to install i

Emacs 20

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
I got emacs 20 to work. I removed all the emacs stuff from my system. Then I installed the new emacs 20 package that I found on the Debian server. The version that I was trying to install was 20.7 and the version that worked 20.8. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE *

RE: checking 8 bit clean on ppp

1998-08-12 Thread Robert Hayes
I am having this same problem dialing into my ISP. Same modem pool and # I use for my Winx ppp connection. I was going to write about this, but had to WORK instead. Don't you hate things like that that get in way of SERIOUS computing?? TIA Bob -Original Message- From: Richard E. Hawkins

where's the new xfstt

1998-08-12 Thread Keith
Where is the latest xfstt? I have my dselect set to get files from dists/slink/main dists/slink/contrib dists/slink/non-free dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib -- Thanks, Keith MCNE Debian

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-12 Thread Hank Fay
When I come out of X, reset changes the dots to funny symbols, and ctrl-j bring me back to MC. That's progress from bold and not-bold periods. Now to get the rest of the way back... Hank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 199

PPPstats for eth0?

1998-08-12 Thread nimennor
Hello all. Since I have two computers that both sit on the same line, I often monitor internet activity with `pppstats`. However, I'd also, like to be able to monitor traffic on ethernet. Is there a utility that makes it possible from console?

starting ppp on host end

1998-08-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jens wrote, > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > huh? This is an 8 bit clean connection. so how to i test it myself to > > have something to show the telecommunications folks? Or could my modem > > be sending 7 bits? It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad. > > any help would be appre

Fwd: Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-12 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
Still no Xwrapper... > ---Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself > > > without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X! I don't w

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-12 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
I have removed, and re-installed the svga server, from the 2.0 distribution CD, using dselect (original install) and dpkg Thanks, ---"Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > > > I just installed Debian 2.0

main and contrib with dselect

1998-08-12 Thread BG Lim
I have a problem with dselect. I have main and contrib on two CD's, as I'm sure most people have. The problem is that dselect (unless there is an option, i'm missing) expects main, contrib, non-free to be in the same place. So, when I choose CD under [A]ccess methods, I have to say none for either

moving partition boundries???

1998-08-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware will automatically use it. So I'd like to peel back the end of my / pa

Error Rebuilding speak-freely.deb

1998-08-12 Thread mwb
I needed to change an option compiled into speak-freely.deb, Script started on Tue Aug 11 21:28:49 1998 Here's the trimmed output of what I tried, and the resulting error message I got. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# dpkg-source -x ~blunier/

Re: FIXED -- SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : > : > When it resets, I can see the link light die on the hub and come back. I : > have replaced cables, and tried a different port on the hub. : > : > Has anyone else had this problem with this card? : : I do not know why, the card just wanted

Re: FIXED -- SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread Shaleh
George Bonser wrote: > I do not know why, the card just wanted to be in a different PCI slot. Occasionally a BIOS can not assign an I/O to a PCI slot because of cards around it. Moving it to another slot can alleviate this. Also, AGP cards can disable nearby PCI slots.

RE: FIXED -- SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread Hank Fay
George, it used to be (e.g., early Shuttle boards) that PCI Nics did NOT like to be in the shared slot. Glad you found an answer. Hank -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 11:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@

Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Michael Beattie
Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. -

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) > You're best off just buying "The C Programming Language" (ANSI edition). It isn't very expensive and the hardcopy is handy. There m

Re: HELP with Sound Card

1998-08-12 Thread XRDLAB
Hello, On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible >> with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). > >Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the >market. .. > Yes, I read the documentation and it said that s

Re: Starting Over

1998-08-12 Thread tko
Marcus Johnson writes: [snip] > On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable > Hamm using LSL's version of the official 2.0 release. Everything went > swimmingly until I got to right before dselect/dpkg where it asks you > to pick which installation type you want. I picked co

Help with knfsd

1998-08-12 Thread Obi
Ciao, I have 4 machines with debian 2.0 on them. One is NFS-serving the /home directory to the others 3. Using the standard nfsd program we got a lot of NFS not responding: only one user loading a page with netscape can get that. So I was going to try the kernel level nfs server. Have anybody su

Re: Error Rebuilding speak-freely.deb

1998-08-12 Thread Joey Hess
mwb wrote: > speakfree.h:64: gsm.h: No such file or directory You need libgsm1-dev. -- see shy jo

Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.

1998-08-12 Thread Ruud Janssen
Yes, this works! Thanks for the advice, Ruud. Kent West wrote: > > Several of us on this list had trouble installing emacs20. Someone > mentioned that it should the installation of tm seems to cause problems. > I went and purged tm, then my emacs20 configuration worked. > > On Mon, 10 Aug 19

Mail - uploading and downloading mailbox - how?

1998-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, My email access is via a unix machine at my university. I run Debian on a machine at home and connect to uni via ppp over a modem. If I want to send email from home, I rlogin to the uni machine and then use a mailer running on the uni machine. It would be nice if I could email the outside

Re: samba problems

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:11:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once, > > which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would > > prefer that those users didn't have t

Re: samba problems

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 12:42:40AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > It works (I'm using that now) but my system is internet connected > > as well, so it's not very secure. I have set "allow hosts =" to limit > > connections but do want to allow some ou

Re: Opinions on SQL Databases

1998-08-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Allan Bart hat gesagt: // Allan Bart wrote: > I am just getting my system up to snuff and i think it would be a good > time to really learn sql. What are your linux favorites and why? I have tried Msql and thas was okay for starters. But I would recommend going with "the linux of databases" (LJ)

Why Debian default kernel is bzImage ?

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Every time I pick up a new Debian drop from scratch (ie use the install disks), I have to find the special "tecra" disks since on all portables I have installed Debian on, the standard disks, being bzImage do not boot. I also have to take care since after the base install, the standard kernel-imag

Debian full bootable backup. Howto ?

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a Debian customized system ? As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on other disk, the network. On AIX there a mksysb command which produces a bootable tape backup of the whole system (the rootvg

Netscape annoying message box

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I installed Netscpe 4.05 on a slink system using the installer. The progam works correctly but I sometimes get annoying boxes which resemble error messages. For instance if I attach a file a get a popup box with the following content: Nestcape: subprocess diagnostics Warning: Name: attach

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? > > > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) > > > > You're best off just buying "The C Programming Language" (ANSI editi

Programming docs (was: Silly)

1998-08-12 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? > > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) > > > > You're best off just buying "The C Programming Lan

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) > >Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you know the name of the function just type man function If you don'

Re: Star Office

1998-08-12 Thread joost
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: > I want to install the Star Office. I am running Debian 2.0. The > Star Office package in dselect is only like 24k. This then asks > me where my archive files, or something are. What does that mean? > If anyone is running Star Office let me know how to install

HELP! Toshiba Satellite Pro 490XCDT

1998-08-12 Thread Chris Evans
Unbelievable! I get a new job -- great. I tell them I'll need a portable and they say "yes" -- great again. I go away to sort out the spec. I'll need --- and a machine arrives with my name on it before I speak to anyone, it's one I was considering and it's very high spec. --- potentially gre

is slink stable enough

1998-08-12 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi The subject says it all! Is slink stable enough to have apt pointing at it instead of hamm? Thanks! Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | Agora bilingue (PT e EN) -> Now bilingual (PT and EN)

?rsh by root?

1998-08-12 Thread rir
I am trying to use rdist to distribute system files from one Debian host to nine Debian desktop hosts. How/Where does one set up in.rshd so that root can rsh in as rdist attempts? In /etc/inetd.conf, as below? Or what? # /etc/inetd.conf: see inetd(8) for further informations. #:BSD: Shell,

Why my name resolution files are not considered anymore ??

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I know I must be doing something horribly stupid, but plase help me (and feel free to insult me ;->) ... here attached is the problem I described offline ... -- Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - Win.\* victim Via Sciangai, 53 -

Re: HELP! Toshiba Satellite Pro 490XCDT

1998-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
Not quite what you want but these links might be useful: http://www.suse.de/~rj/english/tosh440CDX.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Cheers, Mark. __ _\/___\__/

Which scanner with Debian 2.0?

1998-08-12 Thread Morgan Collett
I want to set up a graphic design workstation under Linux, running the Gimp. I want to use a graphics tablet, and a flatbed scanner. Can anyone recommend a scanner? Should it be SCSI or can parallel port scanners work? (Can anyone recommend what NOT to get?) Thanks -- Morgan Collett Thawte Consu

xterm problems

1998-08-12 Thread Michael Sicher
hello, i like debian 2.0 very much but now i have problems with xterm: - i am not able to log into some systems using telnet (connection closed by foreign host). - on some systems i cannot start vi when logged in via xterm/telnet (no terminal database found - debian 1.3 system) - backspace d

Re: Windows95 programs and X-Windows

1998-08-12 Thread David B. Teague
> Rolando Manchado wrote: > > > > Can Windows95 programs run on X-Windows? On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Shaleh wrote: > > The easy answer is no. Different binaries, libraries, Operating Sytems, > etc. > > HOWEVER there is a project called WINE. This is a project to allow > WinOS apps to on X. I

printing not working

1998-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up, it didn't print, and we got the following error: $ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Generic dot-matrix printer entry' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid

Re: [2] Troubles: x11amp, eplus,

1998-08-12 Thread Jens Ritter
phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, im still getting troubles with x11amp (and eplus...) > [i can only play mp3 when booting with the typycal kernel, the one that > comes with kernel-image2.0.34.deb...] > [it is a PnP SB AWE64] [au, wav play, no mp3] Try setting the second DMA to 1

Re: xterm problems

1998-08-12 Thread Michael B. Taylor
If you are using X, consider xon instead of telnet. You will need to fix up an .rhosts file at the other end so that you can log on without a password for this to work. Obviously logging on in this manner has security implications, and you should consider them before you implement this. Using s

Re: Debian full bootable backup. Howto ?

1998-08-12 Thread Jens Ritter
"Robert J. Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a > Debian customized system ? > > As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on > other disk, the network. > > On AIX there a mksysb command which

Re: where's the new xfstt

1998-08-12 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Keith wrote: > Where is the latest xfstt? I have my dselect set to get files from > dists/slink/main dists/slink/contrib dists/slink/non-free > dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib just checked "my favorite mirror"... it is indeed i

multiple CDROM installation

1998-08-12 Thread Richard L. Grabbe
I am new to LINUX...sorry... I have searched for 3 days to find detailed instructions and no docs or faq's went far enough, if at all... at install I entered mcdx=0x310,9,0x360,11,0x390,10 I have sence edited mcdx.h with the address,irq's however the document didn't say how to get the header

Re: FIXED -- SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread D'jinnie
:> When it resets, I can see the link light die on the hub and come back. I :> have replaced cables, and tried a different port on the hub. :> :> Has anyone else had this problem with this card? : :I do not know why, the card just wanted to be in a different PCI slot. I believe that network cards

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-12 Thread joost
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just upgraded a bo machine to hamm from the official CDs; > /etc/X11/config says > > # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. > # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see > # /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian > > no-ru

Re: Debian full bootable backup. Howto ?

1998-08-12 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a > Debian customized system ? > > As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on > other disk, the network. > > On AIX there a mk

X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
A thousand thanks to those who replied to my PS/2 mouse problem. After following their advice (and only reinstalling a further two times), I now have a system that responds when I 'startx'. Only thing is, I just see a window that I can type commands in - not a huge advance on what I had before! Ob

Re: HELP with Sound Card

1998-08-12 Thread joost
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, XRDLAB wrote: > >Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the > >market. .. > > > Yes, I read the documentation and it said that some cards might work. > That is why I mentioned that the card "claims" to be compatible. The compatibilit

Re: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Will Lowe
> now have a system that responds when I 'startx'. Only thing is, I just > see a window that I can type commands in - not a huge advance on what I > had before! You need a window manager. Try fvwm or WindowMaker. > Will -

Real Player (was: Re: Star Office)

1998-08-12 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is also how other 'commercial' package files work, i.e. netscape, > realplayer, etc. >From Real Audio? What package do I down load from Real Audio? I got the Red Hat one, but there is another for ELF Linux. David ---

Re: printing not working

1998-08-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:43:56PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I'm trying to get printing working on a friend's new laptop. He actually > had it working on his old laptop. When we tried printing first up, > it didn't print, and we got the following error: > > $ lpq > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: HELP with Sound Card

1998-08-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:33:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, XRDLAB wrote: > > > >Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the > > >market. .. > > > > > Yes, I read the documentation and it said that some cards might work. >

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) > > You're best off just buying "The C Programming Language" (ANSI edition). > It isn't v

Re: xterm problems

1998-08-12 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:52:22PM +0200, Michael Sicher wrote: > hello, > > i like debian 2.0 very much but now i have problems with xterm: > > - i am not able to log into some systems using telnet (connection closed > by foreign host). > > - on some systems i cannot start vi when logged in v

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: | | > | > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: | > > | > > Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? | > > | > > I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) | > > | > | > You'

Re: Recommended SCSI cards

1998-08-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I have used NCR SCSI controllers since in 1989 (not in linux then.) I have a Buslogic flashpoint on my current system. I've had good luck with all my NCR cards/motherboards and the cards can be very cheap. I would probably go for a higher end card that had hardware RAID support or stick with the ch

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I > > sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit > > from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard. > > ^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . t

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-12 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might be explained by > this: There's a script /etc/X11/Xsession that claims to be run by both > xdm and xinit (to which startx is a wrapper.) The script seems to look > for

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread joost
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush. > I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged. Aargh! you removed base? You might be in for some trouble. Try to run dpkg -i base-files.deb before you reboot. That

RCS & CVS

1998-08-12 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, Currently I`m using RCS with single files (some configuration files). And I need CVS to access to a CVS server. Can I purge RCS and install CVS and use instead of RCS? Or, do I have to use both of them to work with the files under RCS? Thanks in advance. -- Deniz Dogan

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > jens wrote, > > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > huh? This is an 8 bit clean connection. so how to i test it myself to > > > have something to show the telecommunications folks? Or could my modem > > > be sending 7 bits? It's a compaq p

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Yes, but it won't create past /dev/sd15. The last time I installed > Debian I had put 16 partitions on my brand new 9.1GB SCSI disk and then > found I only had sda devices numbered up to 15. I read the manpage for > /dev/MAKEDEV and found it pretty u

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-12 Thread Ronn Pimentel
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > Hi, > > Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual > console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a > little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it > corrupts

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Hmm. I prefer Schildt's C the complete reference. > Haven't tried it myself, but on comp.lang.c.moderated they are always calling him "Shit" and generally degrading the guy. So I was discouraged from doing so. ;-) K&R is a very concise if occasionally

Re: RCS & CVS

1998-08-12 Thread joost
On 12 Aug 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote: > Currently I`m using RCS with single files (some configuration > files). And I need CVS to access to a CVS server. Can I purge RCS and > install CVS and use instead of RCS? Or, do I have to use both of them > to work with the files under RCS? In this case, yo

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > jens wrote, > > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > > huh? This is an 8 bit clean connection. so how to i test it myself to > > > have something to show the telecommunications folks? Or could my modem > > > be sending 7 bits? It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ib

Re: moving partition boundries???

1998-08-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't > find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network > card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware > will automatically use it. So I'd

warnings running man?

1998-08-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about "bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request" sometimes show up when typing "man somecommand". Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the relevant files and warnings: freefall /usr/man/man1 # ls -l gnu* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Lilo, Dos, and an interesting attempt

1998-08-12 Thread Robert Rati
I'm trying to setup my computer so that I can boot to Win95, Linux, and Dos (basically for dosemu). I have the dos partition on a SparQ disk setup as master on the secondary controller. When I disconnect my drive on the primary controller, I can boot to my SparQ just fine. I setup Lilo to point

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 04:12:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush. > > I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged. > > Aargh! you removed base? You might be in f

Re: is slink stable enough

1998-08-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mario Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > The subject says it all! Is slink stable enough to have apt pointing at it > instead of hamm? > > Thanks! > Mario Filipe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | Agora bilingue (PT e EN) > ->

Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

1998-08-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 07:25:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > Still no Xwrapper... There is no file named Xwrapper. I think you're trying to do something the RedHat way and not the Debian way. In this case it doesn't matter which is better or worse, but you can't use distribution specific

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > no-run-xconsole > > obey-nologin > > allow-user-resources > > allow-user-modmap > > allow-user-xsession > > allow-failsafe > > start-xdm > > no-xdm-start-server > > > > However, xdm

RE: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
Ah, thanks. I wonder if there's a general answer to the next question this poses - how do I know which components I need? dselect is very good at saying 'Ah, you need this, now you need that!', but that means (at the moment) that I have to shut down Linux, restart the system, boot '95, log on to I

Re: warnings running man?

1998-08-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about "bad symlink > or ROFF `.so' request" sometimes show up when typing "man somecommand". > Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the > relevant files and warnings: > > freefall /usr/man/man1

Re: is slink stable enough

1998-08-12 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 11:25:24AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote ... > The subject says it all! Is slink stable enough to have apt pointing at it > instead of hamm? I've installed a lot of slink packages, i.e. libraries, system tools like e2fsprogs, and it works. My tip: Insta

Re: multiple CDROM installation

1998-08-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, so it looks like you're using the right driver. Are you sure the kernel you're trying to boot includes the mcdx support? Are you booting the debian rescue disk? The CDROM-HOWTO says 'mcdx=,' so I don't know why you've got that long string below. If you still have windows on the target machin

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-12 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 12:50:47AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > no-run-xconsole > > > obey-nologin > > > allow-user-resources > > > allow-user-modmap > > > allow-user-xsession >

Re: Debian full bootable backup. Howto ?

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > > What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a > > Debian customized system ? > > > > As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on > > other

Help with Emacs instalation

1998-08-12 Thread Alfonso Balcells
Hello! We are installing emacs-20.2 with a i586-ibm-sco configuration on a SCO Unix version 3.2.4 system without X Mode using the GNU-gcc (we want to run it in a character mode terminal) Gnu-gcc is configured to use the linker and assembler tools of SCO Unix. And we have the following problems.

host does not resolve names to addresses anymore

1998-08-12 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I wish to follow my previous append on name resolution problems. I think I have simplified the issue a lot. This is the current situation. Holding my breath until somebody saves me 8-> . TIA -- Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - W

RE: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Will Lowe
> Ah, thanks. Welcome. > this, now you need that!', but that means (at the moment) that I have to > down Linux, restart the system, boot '95, log on to ISP, blah-de-blah. Why don't you set up the ppp package and then let dselect download the packages for you?

Re: Which scanner with Debian 2.0?

1998-08-12 Thread Jens Ritter
Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to set up a graphic design workstation under Linux, running the > Gimp. I want to use a graphics tablet, and a flatbed scanner. > > Can anyone recommend a scanner? Should it be SCSI or can parallel port > scanners work? > (Can anyone recommend w

RE: X-Triumph! What now?

1998-08-12 Thread Midgley John
Now I'm glad you asked me that. My best and fastest route to the Internet is through NT RAS at work. (I'm playing with Linux at home on my own time, at the moment!). At the moment, in W95, I RAS in, authenticate, the server dials me back, and bingo - a fairly peppy connection to the Internet. Can L

bo -> hamm, network disappears!

1998-08-12 Thread Pann McCuaig
Yesterday I upgraded two machines from bo to hamm. The first went well, and the second was fine until I rebooted, then the network disappeared. Since I had done the whole blinking upgrade across the network and had therefor shoved several dozen megabytes into the NIC in the hours just preceding th

Re: Windows95 programs and X-Windows

1998-08-12 Thread Shaleh
I no longer use Windows apps. However the newer the app the less chance it works. I hear word 6 is now rather functional. wabi is win3.x only. Never used or seen willows. No comment on that one. Wine is good for little apps that make you use windows. Also for many games. Big apps like Offic

Re: xterm problems

1998-08-12 Thread servis
*- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: xterm problems" | On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:52:22PM +0200, Michael Sicher wrote: | > hello, | > | > i like debian 2.0 very much but now i have problems with xterm: | > | > - i am not able to log into some systems using telnet (connection closed | > by fo

new to networking question

1998-08-12 Thread Shaleh
Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for getting machines connected and using one box w/ ppp so all have net access. Also it is a sohoware kit, has anyone had good/bad/indifferent luck w/ their hardwa

Re: new to networking question

1998-08-12 Thread servis
*- Shaleh wrote about "new to networking question" | Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet | cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for | getting machines connected and using one box w/ ppp so all have net | access. Also it is a sohoware ki

Re: new to networking question

1998-08-12 Thread Kennedy Mutio
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet > cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for > getting machines connected and using one box w/ ppp so all have net > access. Also it is a sohoware kit, has anyone

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 04:12:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > > I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush. > > > I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obli

Re: new to networking question

1998-08-12 Thread Asher Haig
Shaleh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/12/98 11:33 PM >Hi, I just bought a "network in a box" kit: hub, two 10/100 ethernet >cards, cable. Could someone please point me to FAQs, HOWTOs etc. for >getting machines connected and using one box w/ ppp so all have net >access. Also it is a sohoware kit, has a

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