ext2fs:64: et/com_err.h: No such file or directory

I'm trying to build quota with the setquota patch and I'm missing a header file. Does anyone know what package contains "et/com_err.h"? $ debian/rules build test -f quota.c -a -f debian/rules make CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O2 -DRPC -DEXT2_DIRECT" make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/quota-1.65/quota-1.65

Re: Apt how, why, where

> E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the > E> place loadlin expects it in your setup? I would figure that ... > There is no real standard place where loadlin users keep the > images; and any hardwired solution is unlikely to satisfy more than a ... >

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I'm using the hamm pppd and diald packages. I've got ppp working fine I can do (as root) pppd call myisp and it connects. I'm trying to set up diald to do it and it's not working. Diald 1) doesn't seem to realize that pppd is successful in making a connection -- it kills pppd with a "co

RE: fixing my host name!

dynip does have a linux port, which I will be exploring shortly as I attempt to put up my ipmasq + portforwarding machine. I'm using the service on Win95 right now, and it works as advertised. For the dynip.com domain (you prepend your subdomain) the price is $24.95/year, with a 60-day free trial

Re: fixing my host name!

Although the scenerio you paint shouldn't be causing a problem, you could get a permanent hostname through dynip.com (see www.dynip.com). It is a for $ service but pretty cheap last I checked. No I do not use it (yet) but a friend of mine does and he is very happy. I understand they have or are

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What's the plan for files in the stable-updates directory on ftp.debian.org? Will these eventually be moved into the hamm distribution? I understand they're bug fixes for stable but why are they in a separate directoy instead of just replacing whatever's buggy in hamm/stable? Thanks, Gary

Re: Installion: Uncorrectable Error

Doesn't it simplly says that the HD has bad sectors ? > > I am trying to install debian onto a partition on my second hard drive, > I get finished installing, and making my boot floppy, by i get a lot of > error messages,when I reboot to continue installion. There are so many > messages after a wh

Re: Creating debian packages

Try... man deb and read all the SEE ALSO's too. It's pretty simple really. Maybe disect a few odd .deb files first to get the lay of the land. Also, I believe you need to have installed the deb package building tools as well since I don't believe they are part of the base install. - Kyle On

RE: Debian Knowledge Base ?

Well, wish and it shall be... or about to be. Linux.org has a search engine which will search all the relevant sources of information, it would appear. It's not up yet; and I would hope that the Debian site would be included in their searches. http://www.linux.org/search/index.html Hank -Or

Re: linux laptop resources?

"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | does anyone know of a mailing list or whathaveyou for linux & laptops? | there's some (probably) easy answers I need from folks who have | already solved them, but i don't know where to look. | | (such as, how to get a thinkpad to charge)

Re: Linux security

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > >only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the > >more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of > >discovering bugs, security concerns, etc. > >

Re: new user needs help

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Brian D Kellogg wrote: > hello, > > I have the following problems after installing Debian. > > 1. I can't mount the cdrom. > i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. > It's a standard Atapi cdrom. How are you trying to mount it? It so

Re: Driver for Intel Ether Express 10+

On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 10:23:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.0 but there is no driver for the > Intel EtherExpress 10+ ISA card. Does anyone know > where to get one? > > --Greg The last time I used an Intel EtherExpress card I had to turn on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (

RE: new user needs help

On 19-Aug-98 Brian D Kellogg wrote: > 1. I can't mount the cdrom. > i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. > It's a standard Atapi cdrom. try mount /dev/hdc /cdrom > > 2. command make menuconfig doesn't work. > i get error--no rule to make target.

Re: new user needs help

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:12:31PM -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote: > hello, > > I have the following problems after installing Debian. > > 1. I can't mount the cdrom. > i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. > It's a standard Atapi cdrom. issue mount -t is

Re: debian 1.2 or 1.3

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:13:43 CDT, "Alan Maciel Salcedo." wrote: > > Anyone have the debian 1.3 base disk set or the 1.2 > or anyone knows where to get it? > > thanx. http://www.debian.org says --- Old versions of Debian Debian 1.3 (codenamed bo) can be found at

new user needs help

hello, I have the following problems after installing Debian. 1. I can't mount the cdrom. i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. It's a standard Atapi cdrom. 2. command make menuconfig doesn't work. i get error--no rule to make target. 3.

Creating debian packages

I have just installed Debian Hamm so I am new to this distribution. I have been a long time user of RedHat. I was quite pleased with the book 'Maximum RPM' describing the packing building and usage of the RPM system. Is there something similar for dpkg? I downloaded something called the 'dpkg p

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: [ snip network vs. host order discussion ] [ I wrote ] : > I'm coming into this late, and perhaps under-armed ... but no, I don't : > understand. Network order == big-endian ... so on little-endian : > machines htons(), htonl() et. do actually perf

fixing my host name!

Several of my emails are getting returned by the intended receiever's ISP. The emails are returned with "invalid hostname" -- *my* hostname. Since I am currently only using PPP to connect to the 'net, I have a bogus hostname. I believe, though, that some mailers reject my name because of spam f

linux laptop resources?

does anyone know of a mailing list or whathaveyou for linux & laptops? there's some (probably) easy answers I need from folks who have already solved them, but i don't know where to look. (such as, how to get a thinkpad to charge) rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pay

Re: win98/hamm dual boot problem

On 19 Aug 98 13:39:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed >hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was >hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win >as hdb. THis was nothing new f

Re: big file problem

On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All, >today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD >Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply >'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work >with big files (~400M

Re: Linux security

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:42:25AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > >only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the > >more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of > >discovering bugs, security conc

Re: xv package for deb?

the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program | by John Bradley. | | When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important | stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted | to this mailing

Re: xv package for deb?

XV lives in non-free -- it is shareware. the lone gunman wrote: > > Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program > by John Bradley. > > When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important > stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems p

Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:02:14PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Michele Bini hat gesagt: // Michele Bini wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: > Unfortunatley SLab refuses to work with my old and dusty Mozart soundcard, > so I can't say anything regarding its f

xv package for deb?

Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the "XView" program by John Bradley. When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted to this mailing list scared me :). Anyway, I had xv on my Deb 1.3 syst

RE: win98/hamm dual boot problem

On Wed 19 Aug 1998, Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed > hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was > hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win > as hdb. THis wa

Re: Runaway X

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Hersh, Harry wrote: > Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp > connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have > bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an > endless loop it cannot get out of. The prob

Re: [2] Libforms?

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have > already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file > libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. > What is happening? Why cant `DAP' f

Re: win98/hamm dual boot problem

On Wed 19 Aug 1998, Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed > hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was > hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win > as hdb. THis w

Re: Samba passwords

Hi, Brian Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password > already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only > to find that "Samba password not changed." Well, firstly, are you using password encryption? If you

Re: Linux security

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote: >only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the >more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of >discovering bugs, security concerns, etc. It is the glass half empty versus the glass half full

Re: Connection Refused

Hello you need the following package: Package: netstd Version: 3.07-2 Priority: standard Section: net Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pre-Depends: netbase (>=3.00), libc6, libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-4), libstdc++2.8 (>=2.90.26-1), ncurses3.4 Suggests: wu-ftpd, mail-transport-agent Replaces: p

Re: Linux security

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:46:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses > Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated > that since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. I have trouble with this

Re: Connection Refused

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: > > > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts

Re: Connection Refused

I don't think that telnetd is installed in the base(diskette) version. On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Simon Holgate wrote: > Actually I have this problem too, so I'm glad someone else brought it > up. I followed the Net-3-HOWTO and I can ping localhost (and other > machines on the network). I can telnet/ft

Re: Connection Refused

Actually I have this problem too, so I'm glad someone else brought it up. I followed the Net-3-HOWTO and I can ping localhost (and other machines on the network). I can telnet/ftp to other machines on the network but not from other machines to my host. Nor can I telnet localhost. I have deleted eve

Re: Samba passwords

RTFM... /usr/doc/samba/ENCRYPTION.txt.gz - Kyle On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password > already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only > to find that "Samba password not changed." I've also tr

Re: Linux security

Stephen wrote, > At work we have a setup like this...it "requires" that you "log in" > to even use the computer. > If you hit cancel (or esc) it denies acess...but... > hit alt-esc and presto > the login screen is still there but the task manager comes up... > then you merrily goto "file->run"

Connection Refused

I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc and changed them. I might have done this wrong but does anyone know what else I shou

Re: Runaway X

>Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp >connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have >bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in> an >endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in >the boot sequenc

Re: Linux and Security

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > George Bonser wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > Okay, true, but it was more of a feasability question, "if you can get the > > > string, is it possible to use the following method to decrypt

Fetchmail and multidrop mailboxes

Hi guys! First time here. I have been reding you quite a long though. I have a domain which is "bcnartdirecte.com" and all mail directed to "anything"@bcnartdirecte.com gets redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the only "real" mailbox I have. At home/office we have 2 computers, one wit

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > : On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:54:52AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > : > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:46:20AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > : > > currently xfstt bombs out if it gets a connec

adbbs

Does anyone use adbbs? I installed it and it runs fine except that all of the variables aren't resolved here's an example:  %5aD%9!%5BBS 3%%13.%50 %6The Next Generation In UNIX BBS's Brought to you by the aD%9!

[2] Libforms?

Hi, Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find this lib? (DAP said: can't load library 'libforms.so.0.8

Re: Apt how, why, where

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:14:37AM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > > > Question, > > > > > > Apt is supposed to be a better replacement for dselect/dpkg right? Can > > > you install it on a HAMM system, and if so how? I guess I kinda got > > > lef

Re: identd

Ridiculous is more what I'd call it. You'll not be able to tell the differernce if it complies to the RFC standard anyway, so save your breath. On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > > > This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator list

Samba passwords

Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only to find that "Samba password not changed." I've also tried modifying the /etc/samba/debian_config file to "password set = no," and it still requires my p

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

Hi, >>"Richard" == Richard L Alhama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by >> implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded >> when used. Richard> Thanks. Richard> Do

Re: Problems with debian-user-digest?

> "Gary" == Gary L Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't received anything from the digest version of this > list in about 6 days. I've had the same problem - haven't received anything from either debian-user-digest or debian-devel-digest since Aug 13. I've asked the list

Re: CDE

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:57:47PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joe Stewart wrote: > > > Chris, Try xfce . It > > does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a > > toolbar which resembles cde.

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > > Liran Zvibel wrote: > > I think there's a diskless mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu./LDP/ > > and a xterminal tutorial at > > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xtermina

debian 1.2 or 1.3

Anyone have the debian 1.3 base disk set or the 1.2 or anyone knows where to get it? thanx. Alan Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt how, why, where

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes: | | E> Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) | E> loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created | E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the

debian on a thinkpad 720

please I need help to install linux debian on a microchannel ! thank you very much Alan Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Liran Zvibel wrote: > I think there's a diskless mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu./LDP/ > and a xterminal tutorial at > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html or something > like that I didn't mean

Re: Apt how, why, where

Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Mark Panzer wrote: > > > > Question, > > > > Apt is supposed to be a better replacement for dselect/dpkg right? Can > > you install it on a HAMM system, and if so how? I guess I kinda got > > left behind on the Apt thing. Does Apt use the same .deb's as dselect? > > Also w

cannot map libnewt.so.0.20

Hi, I am trying to run whiptail .. when I execute the command I get a Fatal Error [winnie:popt:<04:35:03 PM>]~/local/bin/whiptail 7827:/home/me/fx942976/local/bin/whiptail: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libnewt.so.0.20 Does anyone know why what I have done wrong? -- Jonathan L

Re: Apt how, why, where

Hi, >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes: E> Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) E> loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the E> place loadlin expects it in your setup

Re: Howto Auto Archive Mail Folders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is what i do: - filter mail with procmail, sort mailinglists in different folders an forward copies to "special" user "maillists". - sort into folders there too - cronjob: - convert the mail to html with mhonarc

Problems with debian-user-digest?

I haven't received anything from the digest version of this list in about 6 days. Our power went out for the weekend and I haven't received anything since. I unsubscribed and re-subscribed to the list, and despite a successful subscription to debian-user-digest, as automatically reported back to m

big file problem

Hi All, today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply 'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at some

Crontab seems not to work

Hi all, I want to run analog once per week. as root I do crontab -e and have the following crontab file: 5 3 ** 2/usr/bin/analog Why doesn't this do anything? (I have adjusted this to: 5 3 * * 2/usr/bin/analog as an expt., but I'm not confidant of success) Yours, Ma

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by > implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded > when used. Thanks. Does mailagent use some kind of rc-file (rules?) like procmail? Or do I have to write some perl pro

Re: CDE

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Joe Stewart wrote: > Chris, Try xfce . It > does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a > toolbar which resembles cde. The binaries are in rpm. Just run alien on > them and install with dpkg. >

Re: cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

Nebu John Mathai wrote: > Thanks for the scripts! No problem. > The problem turned out to be when WinNT partitioned its part of the > drive, it messed up an adjacent primary partition. > > I have one more problem ... cfdisk reads the wrong disk geometry (ie, the > C/H/S are wrong for my drive).

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

Thanks for the tips! I got the package and it seemed to install just fine by following your instructions. I think the easiest order would be to move the fonts first before the install. (I ran the install script twice after it got angry about the fonts...) If the fonts are there, the install sc

Re: Runaway X

Hersh, Harry wrote: > > Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp > connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have > bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an > endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm someh

Re: modprobe

Jens Ritter wrote: > > count zero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > hi to all, > > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message > > > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 > > > > does anyone know what to do to eliminate this annoying message ? > > i don't know what is

fetchmail+exim broke for no reason?

Hi all, Yesterday my fetchmail+exim setup to retrieve mail from my pop3 server was workign without a hitch. Today I dialup and now fetchmail will not download my mail. I have not changed a thing! Below is the transaction between the two machines. Can anybody shed any light on what is going on?

Re: modprobe

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Tony Crawford wrote: : On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote: : : > hi to all, : > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message : > : > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 : : Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get : th

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:54:52AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:46:20AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : > > currently xfstt bombs out if it gets a connection of a differnt : > > "endianess" than the system

Re: Passwd Encryption (Re: Linux security)

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Chris wrote: : On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : : > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > >No. The first two characters of the "Encrypted password" field are the : > >"salt"; the plaintext password collected from loogin or wh

Re: format a floppy ?

Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > > Hello, > as i upgraded from bo to hamm (and on other machine I installed directly > hamm), I miss the fdformat command... where's that gone ? fdformat is obsolete; use superformat. Noel

win98/hamm dual boot problem

Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win as hdb. THis was nothing new for linux, so I started up linux and ran lilo with the fol

Re: cfdisk: "Fatal error: Bad Primary partition"

Thanks for the scripts! The problem turned out to be when WinNT partitioned its part of the drive, it messed up an adjacent primary partition. I have one more problem ... cfdisk reads the wrong disk geometry (ie, the C/H/S are wrong for my drive). Perhaps this is why the partitioning conflicted b

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 09:46:00AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > > I have one question, though, NT has an option to be installed and > > configured from the network (I don't mean installing via NFS, but > > actually get all the installation profi

Installing part without installing everyting

Bezoek mijn homepage op: www.knoware.nl/users/mbco Dear Debian On this moment I have runnig a linux system on my computer. I want te install packed from your CD with removing every thing of mij HD. I just want to add. How can I do this. I hope yout will tel me ow to install Dselect en dpkg withou

Re: CDE

Chris, Try xfce . It does include the window manager xfwm, but does not require it. It is a toolbar which resembles cde. The binaries are in rpm. Just run alien on them and install with dpkg. Hope this helped. Joe On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Christ

CDE

Is there a window manager for debian similar (if not the same as) to CDE? The closest one I can find is Openlook Virtual but I would rather not use it. Cheers, begin: vcard fn: Christopher Wesneski n: Wesneski;Christopher org:STMicroelectronics adr:

Re: Designing a Linux lab.

Liran Zvibel wrote: > > I have one question, though, NT has an option to be installed and > configured from the network (I don't mean installing via NFS, but > actually get all the installation profile form the network, including the > installed programs and conf. files (Of course the administrato

Re: Runaway X

> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp > connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have > bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an > endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in > the boot se

ppp connect trouble

Hello I am currently having a problem with ppp in Debian 2.0. When I first boot into debian and run my ppp script. It connects fine. But when I hang up (kill the pppd pid) and try to reconnect be re-executing the script nothing happens the system just sits here and does nothing. Aug 19 08:18:07

Runaway X

Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in the boot sequence and

Re: qmail package for debian?

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 12:16:15PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:02:23 -0500 > the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are some source debs either in contrib or non-free (can't remember > which off the top of my head). The program's author has various > restri

Re: Debian Knowledge Base ?

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Hank Fay wrote: > What I think would be helpful would be a Keyword search which then provided > the title and link for results; on the order of the MSKB. That way, > when you searched on kernel you'd come up with 'make-kpkg' in a couple of > locations. I responded to RMS on

Designing a Linux lab.

Hi. We have some Linux servers, and we want to build a new computer lab. We basically have two choices: 1. Install NT on all of them, and work with Xceed. 2. Install a dual boot Linux/NT on them. I'd like it to be the dual boot (If it was up to me, we wouldn't put the NTs at all...) I have one

Re: modprobe

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Tony Crawford wrote: > On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote: > > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 > > Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get > that don't go through the list? H

Re: modprobe

On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote: > hi to all, > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get that don't go through the list? Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-interactive ispell

Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > is it possible to let ispell find all words that it doesn't understand > > store in a file? When checking a long text one can't concentrate by > > all these words that ispell doesn't know. > > The program "spell" from the spell package does exactly

Re: Samba and win98

Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just stumbled across an annoying little problem. A friend and I > have a network between our PC's, and when I mount his smbfs shares, I get > really screwy file listings. when there is 700 files or something (windows > dir.. :) ) it comes out sho

new Official 2.0 CD's?

Hi, I have an image of the debian 2.0 cd's called `binary-i386.raw', with md5sum 726e6e06379b4bb33a1726c00f2828d6. This matches the md5sum that was in the MD5SUMS file that I got from the same source. Now I find that the md5sum listed for binary-i386.raw on several mirror sites has the md5sum e2

Re: Samba and win98

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kernel version are you using? You can find out by typing in > "uname -a". > > I have had problems using 2.1.109 accessing a Win98 computer, as I often > get errors: "Too many open files" (or something similar). I am not sure > if this is becuase of Linu

Re: non-interactive ispell

Sorry to quote myself but suddenly Ray got the answer. Martin Schulze wrote: > is it possible to let ispell find all words that it doesn't understand > store in a file? When checking a long text one can't concentrate by > all these words that ispell doesn't know. The program "spell" from the spe

Re: modprobe

count zero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hi to all, > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 > > does anyone know what to do to eliminate this annoying message ? > i don't know what is this module for . edit /etc/conf.m

Re: Yet another WindowMaker question...

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >"Debian Apps" OPEN_MENU menu.hook Yes - that's exactly what I wanted to get. Thank You a lot. > e) Optionally, if you want to add your own items to the "Debian Apps" menu, >create files in /etc/menu/ for the items you want there. (And re

Re: Sound Problems

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Lars Steinke wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: > > > I am really confused about this. > > Well, have you tried using a mixer to figure out where the noise > originates from, e.g. MIC IN or so ? > Yes, you are right! The bass volume seemed to be too high

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