startx y los users

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, al ejecutar startx como user me sale lo siguiente: clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga,

rev_task en el /root

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, para que sirve el fichero /root/rev_task? Un saludo, Josep Parera

Hacentuar las mayúsculas en la consola

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, uso bash (cuando me aclare con la hamm zsh) he puesto el mapa es y el /etc/inputrc (las dos lineas que ya lleva descomentadas y he descomentado la otra que hay). El problema es que aún no puedo acentuar las mayúsculas, al intentar hacerlo me (acento+vocal) me sale solo la vocal. Si hay

Problemas al arrancar y apagar la máquina

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, al arrancar la máquina me sale lo que sigue: modprobe can't locate module net-pf-5. Para que sirve dicho modulo? Si quiero que no me salga dicho mensaje que he de hacer? Ya he puesto en el /etc/modules únicamente el auto. Y si quiero poner dicho modulo que opción debo activar? Al arrancar

Configuración de SANE

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, tengo un scanner Mustek 800 II SP, el cual quiero usar en Linux pero me hago un lio con las diferentes partes de SANE (su estructura de uso). No acabo de entender la relación entre el saned (creo que se llama asi), el backend y el frondend. Conjuntamente con un archivo de configuración que

Num lock en hamm

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, como se activa el Num Lock en la Debian 2.0? Es decir que al arrancar es sistema esté encendida por defecto. Y para que esté activa al entrar en las Xs? Porqué no hay diferencia, dentro de las Xs, entre Num Lock activada o desactivada? Saludos, Josep Parera

SB16 y hamm

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, antes en la bo me funcionaba la tarjeta de sonido (con el mismo kernel que ahora 2.0.34) pero ahora no me la detecta, ni siquiera al arancar la máquina. Pués antes si la había configurado mal daba un mensaje de error pero ahora ni eso. Que Hago? Saludos, J. Parera

Problemas para configurar la conexión al ISP con hamm

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, acabo de pasarme ha hamm y me encuentro con que los scripts de conexión han cambiado, por lo que hecho uso del pppconfig, que en teoría, realiza los scripts (los cuales adjunto). El problema es que al ejecutar pon me conecta y entonces empiezan a salir frases en pantalla que antes no

Tecla Fin en xterm con joe

1998-08-13 Thread J. Parera
Hola, al ejecutar un xterm con joe la tecla Fin no me funciona, es un fallo del joe o se puede arreglar? En la consola (el prompt) el Fin si me funciona. Un saludo, Josep Parera

Urgent ! ZED / STED !!

1998-08-13 Thread Alfonso Balcells
Hola a todos, Necesito urgentemente el editor de texto ZED y el STED con sus fuentes Alguien me puede decir donde conseguirlos o enviarmelos Gracias, saludos. Alfonso Balcells [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DEBIAN FTP

1998-08-13 Thread Alfonso Balcells
Hola, Alguien me podria decir como puedo acceder al FTP de Debian ?? Cuando me quiero bajar algun archivo me dice: El servidor ha dado una respuesta no valida o no reconocida. Gracias, Saludos Alfonso Balcells

Re: DEBIAN FTP

1998-08-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Alfonso Balcells wrote: Alguien me podria decir como puedo acceder al FTP de Debian ?? Elige un espejo que esté cerca de tí. ftp.debian.org puede que esté muy sobrecargado. Puedes obtener una lista de espejos en: http://www.es.debian.org/distrib/ftplist.html El resto,

Re: Hacentuar las mayúsculas en la consola

1998-08-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, J. Parera wrote: uso bash (cuando me aclare con la hamm zsh) he puesto el mapa es y el /etc/inputrc (las dos lineas que ya lleva descomentadas y he descomentado la otra que hay). El problema es que aún no puedo acentuar las mayúsculas, al intentar hacerlo me

Re: startx y los users

1998-08-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 06:35:51PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: P.D. la nueva versión de XFree me parece mejor (a más crea los modelines justos), por ahora, el único inconveniente que he tenido es que no me ha creado el enlace con el server. Hasta que no he descubierto lo que pasaba me ha dado

Re: rev_task en el /root

1998-08-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 06:37:19PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Hola, para que sirve el fichero /root/rev_task? Eso es de Enrique :-) Al instalar Debian 2.0, al final te pregunta por el tipo de configuracion que deseas para la maquina (Estacion de Trabajo, Servidor de Red, ...). Ese archivo es

Re: Problemas al arrancar y apagar la máquina

1998-08-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 06:50:25PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: modprobe can't locate module net-pf-5. Para que sirve dicho modulo? Si quiero que no me salga dicho mensaje que he de hacer? Ya he puesto en el /etc/modules únicamente el auto. Y si quiero poner dicho modulo que opción debo activar?

HUELGA 3 SEPTIEMBRE

1998-08-13 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Hola. Perdonad si este mensaje no corresponde a esta lista de correo, pero creo que es importante que todos y todas conozcamos la existencia de esta huelga. -- Por favor, enviad este mensaje a todas aquellas personas que conozcais -- * Dia 3 de septiembre de 1998 Huelga General

Re: hwclock (insisto) y gcc libc6-libc5

1998-08-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 01:04:53PM -0300, Enzo A. Dari wrote: Insisto con mi problemita del hwclock, esta vez con más datos; les recuerdo: el hwclock de hamm me da el siguiente error: # hwclock --show mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. Reinstala util-linux, a ver si le hace

Re: Second ethernet card

1998-08-13 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: I was wondering where I should set up the configuration for my second ethernet card. I have two ethernet cards, both PCI and Tulip chipset, which are currently detected just fine during bootup. I set up the ethernet networking like normal

Re: new to networking question

1998-08-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Asher Haig wrote: [snip] You may also want to get midentd which allows you to set up ident to work through ipmasq. Where can I find that, please? I have been try to do cuseeme through masquerade and this may be the missing link. Lindsay

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: jens wrote, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: oh :) I thought that the script started it at the other end :) Not unless you made it! ok, slowly it's sinking in . . . OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end on a

Re: SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-13 Thread King Lee
Hello I'm using an SMC card (EtherPower I think) with the DEC chip, and it seems to be running fine under bo. Did you configure the kernel to use tulip driver? King On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: I have always used 3Com ethernet cards but I recently got a PCI SMC card with a

Re: gunzip - invalid compressed data?

1998-08-13 Thread Keith Beattie
Rich Hartman wrote: Is this a problem with my version of gunzip? OR did I download 38MB worth of corrupted file? Uhm, I hesitate to even ask this, but did you specify binary mode (typing bin at the ftp prompt) when you ftp'd the file? I'm not aware of anyway to convert a binary file

Re: nasty...

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 07:00:10PM +0100, David Wright wrote: I think that answers all the points raised, except perhaps to say that it isn't in the spirit of unix/linux to prevent you (as root) from trashing the system if you really want to. Of course. But all I did was pick purge in dselect

StarOffice on 2.0

1998-08-13 Thread gbh
Does Debian 2.0 install the correct libraries to run StarOffice 4.0 and 5.0 or do they need to be downloaded? --Greg

Re: Windows95 programs and X-Windows

1998-08-13 Thread Darryl Cording
Only if you have an X-server for Win95. There are several commercial ones on the market of which 'XVision' is the best one I have come across. There is also another commercial one that is really good called 'Xwin' that has a free demo server for one machine per network. I got a copy from the

Re: bo - hamm, network disappears! [SOLVED]

1998-08-13 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote: 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. For some reason the `-net' option had been left off the `route add' lines in /etc/init.d/network. All

ipmasq, winnt and isp homepage?

1998-08-13 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Maybe there is a simple answer that I am overlooking for this small problem. A debian 1.3.1 box is successfully ipmasqing for a small home network. The win95 machines work nicely but an nt4 computer will display any url except the isp's home page. The message is 'not able to connect to the

Re: new to networking question

1998-08-13 Thread Asher Haig
Lindsay Allen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/12/98 6:13 PM You may also want to get midentd which allows you to set up ident to work through ipmasq. Where can I find that, please? I have been try to do cuseeme through masquerade and this may be the missing link.

Clarification of Dselect script question

1998-08-13 Thread Cristov Russell
Subject: Dselect script Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way to capture what was done during dselect using something like /.../script but they did not go into much detail. Could someone explain to me how to do this? I posed this question the other day

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-13 Thread Hank Fay
Chris, well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. s The only thing that works so far is shutdown Hank Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj -Original Message- From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: moving partition boundries???

1998-08-13 Thread Hank Fay
I checked with PM tech, and they confirmed this. They can recognize and I think create; but that's it. Hank -Original Message- From: Ed Cogburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 11:37 AM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: moving partition boundries??? Richard E.

Best Way to Upgrade From 1.3 to 2.00

1998-08-13 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, I have the cdroms from linux press and I was wondering if it would be easier to upgrade or start anew. how much downloading would i have to do? Allan Bart == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free

Re: Clarification of Dselect script question

1998-08-13 Thread servis
*- Cristov Russell wrote about Clarification of Dselect script question | Subject: Dselect script | | Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way | to capture what was done during dselect using something like | /.../script but they did not go into much detail.

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-13 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0400, Hank Fay wrote: Chris, well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. s The only thing that works so far is shutdown Hank Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj -Original

Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system

1998-08-13 Thread Brooke Hedrick
-Original Message- From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hedrick, Brooke - 43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system 4.

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel 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.. :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you know the name of

Re: ipmasq, winnt and isp homepage?

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 06:45:43PM -0700, tony mollica wrote: A debian 1.3.1 box is successfully ipmasqing for a small home network. The win95 machines work nicely but an nt4 computer will display any url except the isp's home page. The message is 'not able to connect to the server..' .

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Perfect, but I have not got the appropriate package installed, and I cant seem to find it.. call me stupid, blind whatever... where can the C manpages / info pages be found. When I used DO$ to program, DJGPP had info pages on all sorts of things..

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread servis
*- Havoc Pennington wrote about Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :) | | On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: | | Perfect, but I have not got the appropriate package installed, and I cant | seem to find it.. call me stupid, blind whatever... where can the C | manpages / info pages be

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jens wrote, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end on a debian box? it seems to be with pppd to start the daemon, but I'm having trouble figuring out the man doc pages. Actually I recommend using

Re: Why Debian default kernel is bzImage ?

1998-08-13 Thread sen_ml
hi- did you get any responses to your question? At around Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:42:30 +0200, Robert J. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: 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

Re: nasty...

1998-08-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, David Wright wrote: I think Bruce or some other god put together a posting which showed exactly what to do. Here is that message:- Quote. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 13 12:09:47 1998 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 16:45 PDT From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Copying only root directory

1998-08-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a simple question. I'm in the process of switching from a 2.5 GB HD to a 4.3 GB drive. I have my Linux box set up with a 64 meg / partition, a 700 meg /usr, and separate /tmp, /home, and /var (etc.) partitions. Okay, so I partition my new drive with the various sized partitions that I

Re: VHDL design software for Linux?

1998-08-13 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:04:40PM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: I'll be taking a digital hardware design class soon and am wondering if there's any VHDL design software available for Linux. Open Source, free, or otherwise. I use verilog instead of VHDL, but these links might help. There was

Re: Copying only root directory

1998-08-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: : Until I get to the root partition, that is. I've been through a : half-dozen books reading up on cp and dd and various commands and I : can't come up with a way to copy only the subdirectories on my 64 meg / : partition to the new / partition. I

KDE configuration

1998-08-13 Thread Azog
Hello. I've recently switched from WindowMaker to KDE. I never run X from root, its always run from user azog. How can I get kde to read config files from ~/.kde (like it should... with $KDEDIR) instead of all the separate dirs like how its setup? azog has no write perms on /etc/kde, which makes

New User

1998-08-13 Thread Stanley Ish Dunn
Im trying to add a linux workstation to an NT network. I have a madge nic tok0 and the base install is not seeing it. any suggestions? Second I thought there was a GUI in linux, but all i get is a $ prompt. I looked in the faq for a while but didnt see anything. SO, here I am. Any help would be

Re: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/12/98 at 09:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not using the nameservers isn't hard - you simply type IP addresses instead of names. Instead of www.debian.org you type 209.81.8.242 for example. This works with ftp and lots of other software. The problem is of

RE: New User

1998-08-13 Thread jeff . hurst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13-Aug-98 Stanley Ish Dunn wrote: Im trying to add a linux workstation to an NT network. I have a madge nic tok0 and the base install is not seeing it. any suggestions? Second I thought there was a GUI in linux, but all i get is a $ prompt. I looked in

Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system

1998-08-13 Thread jeff . hurst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13-Aug-98 Brooke Hedrick wrote: Yes, If I hadn't, I don't believe that my file sizes would have matched byte for byte either. I have made that mistake before though! I have compared the dates and files sizes of what I downloaded with what is out on

Re: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread jeff . hurst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13-Aug-98 Helge Hafting wrote: The nslookup command is available on most machines and os'es that connect to the internet. It could be missing on dos/windows though. Just to add a bit of help, I've found that on a dos/windows machine, the easiest way

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread John_Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/08/98 21:10:39 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: John Gay/IE/3Com Subject: RE: Almost there. . .HELP Hi John, I have been trying to set-up a PC here at work without connecting to the NET( Boss won't let me : ). After trying to copy the files from a

Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread Arifi Koseoglu
Hello again, This is the second time I am posting this message, since I find it really hard to believe that no one in this list was able to suggest a solution. I will be really thankful if someone can help me with this question: I downloaded the Debian CD images, and unsuccessfully tried to

Re: StarOffice on 2.0

1998-08-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:14:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Debian 2.0 install the correct libraries to run StarOffice 4.0 and 5.0 or do they need to be downloaded? StarOffice 4.0 works fine on my Debian 2.0 box. -- Alexey Vyskubov

Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/12/98 at 03:26 PM, Rick Smorawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am about to install hamm. I have dedicated 2.6gigs to it. I have seen several FAQs and HowTo's on the subject of partitions sizes, unfortunately they all say something different. What I want to know is

Re: Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread Corey Popelier
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:57:25 +0300, you scribbled: Hello again, This is the second time I am posting this message, since I find it really hard to believe that no one in this list was able to suggest a solution. I will be really thankful if someone can help me with this question: I downloaded

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread jeff . hurst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13-Aug-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John sends: As you can see, I'm NOT very NET literate. Work uses WindowsNT and most of the info is restricted to Administrator access, which I don't have. I should be able to use the IP address you have given me

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread John_Gay
I'm not sure what type of firewall we have but, I was able to re login to the IP address and execute the commands after I wrote the last E-Mail. I assume I would just need to run dselect, choose ftp for access mode, enter the IP address and then just accept the defaults for everything else. Is

Re: moving partition boundries???

1998-08-13 Thread Christopher Barry
I used to have Partition Magic 3.0x installed back in the days when I was using a 2GB disk and it was definately one of my favorite programs. There was a posting on Slashdot awhile back that Partition Magic 4.0, when released, will fully support Linux partitions with ext2 formating, and IIRC this

RE: Almost there. . .HELP

1998-08-13 Thread Midgley John
John You've probably had loads of people reply to this, but better two than none. If you have access to a win95 machine that works on the net (ie can 'ping www.digital.com' and can therefore resolve names) try StartRunwinipcfg. Click the 'Advanced' button and it'll tell you the address of your

Vfat Long file names

1998-08-13 Thread Cristov Russell
I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat. When I boot into Linux I get a message saying: Unable to load NLS charset cp437... Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859... I can view files in these partitions so I know that the partitions are mounted but I'm unsure what the error

Re: gunzip - invalid compressed data?

1998-08-13 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Rich Hartman wrote: ...HOWEVER, when I type in gunzip linuxgui8.tar.gz, I get the message: gunzip: linuxgui8.tar.gz: invalid compressed data -- format violated Did you download BINARY ??? On a related note, IF I do get it working (with all of your help, of course) - where should

Re: Why Debian default kernel is bzImage ?

1998-08-13 Thread Robert J. Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi- did you get any responses to your question? yup, me too. i do something similar -- though i put: kimage := zImage in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf (though i have to remember to do this for each installation). Thank you sen. Yours is the only answer I

Re: New User

1998-08-13 Thread Robert J. Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 13-Aug-98 Stanley Ish Dunn wrote: Im trying to add a linux workstation to an NT network. I have a madge nic tok0 and the base install is not seeing it. any suggestions? If it's a PCI token ring you are pretty out of luck

Debian 2.0 Problems in Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA

1998-08-13 Thread Sean Peterson
I have downloaded the 2.0 images from 4 different servers now (from 3 different machines in case it was mine causing my problem...) All 4 dl'ed copies have come in ok with one exception... the md5sums are _not_ what they are listed as in the md5sums file... they all come out as a different

256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Christopher Barry
The latest Debian install manual when addressing the need of how big you need to make your swap partition says: That still leaves the question of swap space. There are as many views on how much swap you need as there are Unix administrators. One rule of thumb which works well is to use as much

Re: Debian 2.0 Problems in Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA

1998-08-13 Thread Sean Peterson
From: Michael Tempsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 13 Aug , Sean Peterson wrote: I have downloaded the 2.0 images from 4 different servers now (from 3 different machines in case it was mine causing my problem...) Blah blah blah Can anyone tell me what the beep is going

Re: Vfat Long file names

1998-08-13 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:31:37AM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote: I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat. When I boot into Linux I get a message saying: Unable to load NLS charset cp437... Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859... I can view files in these partitions

Re: Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread Sean Peterson
From: Arifi Koseoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello again, This is the second time I am posting this message, since I find it really hard to believe that no one in this list was able to suggest a solution. I will be really thankful if someone can help me with this question:

Urgent ZED / STED !!!!

1998-08-13 Thread Alfonso Balcells
Hi I need urgently the editor text ZED and STED with your code !!! Someone can to say me where I can get it . Thank Alfonso Balcells [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE configuration

1998-08-13 Thread Christopher Barry
I once ran Windowmaker+GNOME as default, then I switched to KDE, but lately KDE's been uninstalled on my machine and I'm using Windowmaker again but this time without GNOME (which reminds me maybe it's about time I grabbed .25 ;) Anyways, IIRC KDE made dotfile directories for each user's

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-13 Thread Mario Filipe
makes sense...the more upstream developers, the more exposure debian gets lets face it...when you look around and see Linux Software the first name you see is RedHat and the first package format (not counting tarball) is RPM... And thats the kind of stuff that gives them real presense

You know, you really don't need to burn a CD....

1998-08-13 Thread Christopher Barry
Sean Peterson wrote: I have downloaded the 2.0 images from 4 different servers now (from 3 different machines in case it was mine causing my problem...) All 4 dl'ed copies have come in ok with one exception... the md5sums are _not_ what they are listed as in the md5sums file... they all

Parallel I/O

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Beattie
I am having trouble with porting a DOS prog to linux, It is used to control a Parallel port interface card, which I bought as a kit from the local electronics store. It works fine in DOS, but now, when I try to get and send info to it ( inb([base]) and outb([value],[base]) ) nothing registers. The

Re: Lilo, Dos, and an interesting attempt

1998-08-13 Thread Tom Pfeifer
DOS/Windows will not boot from other than the master drive if there are any visible DOS primaries on any preceding drives. In other words, it has to boot from what it interprets to be the C drive. If you have any DOS primaries on the master drive, temporarily hiding it/them will usually allow you

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-13 Thread Hank Fay
Well nothing seems to get rid of the little critters except shutdown. I had to switch to another VC this time, because something unknown was going on in the first one. It seems to be getting stuck in a different video mode. Hank -Original Message- From: Mike Schmitz [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | | Well, the 'strcpy' man page is in the manpages-dev package, that sounds | like it might be what you want. The gcc docs ought to come with the gcc | package. | Don't forget the libc6-doc Debian package. It contains the info files

Re: Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread peloy
Arifi Koseoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the Debian CD images, and unsuccessfully tried to write them to CDs using the following applications: HP SureStore cd writer software Adaptec EZ CD-Writer I really prefer to use Linux to burn my CD's. I don't really like

clock skew ???

1998-08-13 Thread Jens Ch. Lisner
Hi all, I've got a strange warning after make menuconfig with kernel-source-2.0.34. It says clock skew detected. I don't know what it means. Can you help? thanx, Jens

Re: clock skew ???

1998-08-13 Thread Corey Popelier
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:10:47 +0100 (CET), you scribbled: Hi all, I've got a strange warning after make menuconfig with kernel-source-2.0.34. It says clock skew detected. I don't know what it means. Can you help? Your post seems to think it was done in January :-) I would suggest checking your

Re: [FAQ] Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Will Lowe hat gesagt: // Will Lowe wrote: I am about to install hamm. I have dedicated 2.6gigs to it. I have seen several FAQs and HowTo's on the subject of partitions sizes, unfortunately they all say something different. What I want to know is what is the best way to partition the

man missing :-)

1998-08-13 Thread Hersh, Harry
I'm a new linux user (but an old unix hacker) who can't figure out what happened to man, the manpage reader. I've installed a system via floppies and the net (no cd yet on this machine), and can see the man directories and the compressed manfiles (using zmore dumps a page with all the nroff

Re: man missing :-)

1998-08-13 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:54:05AM -0400, Hersh, Harry wrote: I'm a new linux user (but an old unix hacker) who can't figure out what happened to man, the manpage reader. I've installed a system via Try installing man-db =o) utility to use instead to read the pages? hmmm strnage way would be

Re: man missing :-)

1998-08-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hersh, Harry hat gesagt: // Hersh, Harry wrote: I'm a new linux user (but an old unix hacker) who can't figure out what happened to man, the manpage reader. I've installed a system via floppies and the net (no cd yet on this machine), and can see the man directories and the compressed

Re: man missing :-)

1998-08-13 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:54:05AM -0400, Hersh, Harry wrote: I'm a new linux user (but an old unix hacker) who can't figure out what happened to man, the manpage reader. I've installed a system via floppies and the net (no cd yet on this machine), and can see the man directories and the

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel 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.. :) Michael

debian.org removed from root nameservers

1998-08-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, this morning the domain name 'debian.org' was removed from the root nameservers. At the moment we don't know what has caused this. We have sent an inquiry to the InterNIC about this and tried to phone them up. No response yet. As a result you might not be able to send mail to .

multiple CDROM installation

1998-08-13 Thread Richard L. Grabbe
At 10:00 AM 8/12/98 -0500, you wrote: 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=io-address,irq' so I don't know why you've got that long string

Re: Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Arifi Koseoglu wrote: : Hello again, : : This is the second time I am posting this message, since I find it : really hard to believe that no one in this list was able to suggest a : solution. I will be really thankful if someone can help me with this : question: : :

Re: clock skew ???

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: I've got a strange warning after make menuconfig with kernel-source-2.0.34. It says clock skew detected. I don't know what it means. Can you help? Is your kernel source located on an NFS mount? If the NFS server's clock is ahead

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Mark Panzer
Christopher Barry wrote: The latest Debian install manual when addressing the need of how big you need to make your swap partition says: That still leaves the question of swap space. There are as many views on how much swap you need as there are Unix administrators. One rule of thumb

Sound cards

1998-08-13 Thread Mark Panzer
Can someone please recommend a good sound card for use with Linux, (~$30) I know that SB's are compatable but you can't find any without a PnP ISA interface. Isn't there an easier way? Also I've heard the OSS system is, well, crummy. Are they planning on replacing it? Mark Panzer

Re: printing not working

1998-08-13 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: 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

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, M == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M Hmm. I prefer Schildt's C the complete reference. Gack! The annotations are kown to be incorrect; the man even fails to describe the standard he has in front of him. On the comp.lang.c newsgroup, people have stated they can open the book

xntp running behind

1998-08-13 Thread Paul Reavis
For some reason xntp is reading an hour early (correct time T-1hr). I'm in Athens, GA, USA which is EST with daylight savings nonsense. Could that have some affect? /etc/timezone reads EST. On a related note, where do I look to understand timezone configuration? Thanks- -- Paul Reavis

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Anyone care to explain why huge swap spaces should be spread across multiple disks? I can understand the need for multiple partitions, as swap partitions bigger than 128MB IIRC won't be able to use more than 128MB of it, but why should the

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Liran Zvibel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2. Putting the swap in several different disks does make the access time faster, but this is not the issue of RAID. RAIDs are good for their ability to continue working even though one of the disks is not working anymore (the RAID3 keeps an extra disk

Re: Sound cards

1998-08-13 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: Can someone please recommend a good sound card for use with Linux, (~$30) I know that SB's are compatable but you can't find any without a PnP ISA interface. Isn't there an easier way? Also I've heard the OSS system is, well, crummy. Are they planning

Intent to Package kbackup

1998-08-13 Thread Jens Ritter
kbackup is a console backup solution primarily for single hosts and tapes. It was shareware but not it´s GP licensed. You can find it at: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/KBackup.html Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC

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