Re:[fixed]New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everyone, Good news and questions: I have connected the cdrom to the secondary channel as a slave drive and everything works. I have hard disk on primary ( master) and no other devices are connected to the controller. Probably bad news (or question). I have noticed that during boot, it ne

gimp: can't load or save anything but xcf

1998-08-22 Thread AJT60
I can't seem to convince the Gimp (1.0) to load or save anything but xcf. The load/save menu thing doesn't even have any other options. Am I missing a package? I can't find it if I am. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"

Netscape segfaults

1998-08-22 Thread Torry Akins
I installed netscape and acroread through dselect. When I try to execute them, I get segmentation fault. This is also happening to Matlab now. Has anyone ran across a problem like this? It seems like a lib problem, but I'm still not to knowledgable it that area. Any help would be greatly appre

Re: New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
The messages, that I see are the following ... ide: i82371 PIIX(Triton) onPCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f hda: Maxtor 82559A4,2441MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=628/128/63, DMA hdb: DF7910C(-D0161 ), ATAPI CDROM drive The cdrom is connect

Re: New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Thank you for your reply, but I think I have to make some clarifications: | | I do not have a Debian CD, I downloaded the base system from the net, and | install everything from hard disk. The CD-ROM device is detected, but the | system hangs just after tha

Re: New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Thank you for your reply, but I think I have to make some clarifications: I do not have a Debian CD, I downloaded the base system from the net, and install everything from hard disk. The CD-ROM device is detected, but the system hangs just after that (well, I have tryed to wait for 5 min, maybe it

Re: New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 02:39:16PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just downloaded hamm distribution and when I try to install it, the > system lock after detecting IDE CD-ROM. (If I disconnect the CD it works > fine, but then again, I can not boot with CD connected. > Any id

Re: Minicom question

1998-08-22 Thread Jim Foltz
On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:06:48PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm new to debian and maybe I' overlooking something simple, but have > > not been able to send a text file with Minicom. Can it be configured to > > do so? Thanks for any assistance. > > Kim Breedlove > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] min

New installation problem

1998-08-22 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everyone, I just downloaded hamm distribution and when I try to install it, the system lock after detecting IDE CD-ROM. (If I disconnect the CD it works fine, but then again, I can not boot with CD connected. Any ideas of how to overcome the problem? Thank you, Lazar

Re: Minicom question

1998-08-22 Thread shaul
> I'm new to debian and maybe I' overlooking something simple, but have > not been able to send a text file with Minicom. Can it be configured to > do so? Thanks for any assistance. > Kim Breedlove > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't did it myself, but I am 100% sure that minicom can do it. I consider

X weirdness

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've found a work-around solution to my problems with startx that I posted last night. For those who didn't see it, if I executed startx more than once, my machine would lock up solid. The solution? I enabled xdm at boot, and now that I'm learning how to use .xsession I can do what I want. Than

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-22 Thread Kent West
At 05:26 PM 8/22/1998 +1000, you wrote: >ThanX for all the help >but it installed it and when i ran "startx" it said > >X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed > >PLease can u help me!!! >Thanx > The purpose of XF86Setup and xf86config (different progs to accomplish the same purpose) is to create

Re: netscape

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Are you running X in 24 bpp? Netscape, and other programs, can not run > correctly in this color depth. Hm, so why does the same netscape work under Slackware in 24 bpp color depth? Stef -- WebMaster D-CHEM and D-WERK UNIX and Windows NT administration, SOS-ETH ETH Zurich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Telepites & X Window bajok

1998-08-22 Thread Crash Override
Hello bello! Hallottam errol a Debian-os levlistarol, s nekem is lenne nehany kerdesem. A CHIPTAR 9-es CD-rol telepitem a LINUX-ot, de az nem talal nehany file-t es konyvtarat installalaskor. Ezek a kovetkezok: /usr/X11R6/bin/libXaw.so.6/ /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6

Re: Gnome

1998-08-22 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > > Yesterday i upgrade my old version of gnome (0.25) to the 0.27 version. > Now i cannot put any of this `application-icons '(such as cdplayer, > ppp-dialer, ...). What is happened? > Hi, Basically the applets are broken in 0.27. Hopefully there

Re: xanim

1998-08-22 Thread servis
*- Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote about "xanim" | I use Debian 2.0.0 | | xanim displays animated GIFs and MPGs garbled. The GIFs have black | vertical stripes... | This might be related to your other post. If you are running in 24 bpp try changing your color depth and restart X. Just a guess. -

Re: netscape

1998-08-22 Thread servis
*- Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote about "netscape" | I have two problems with netscape. The first has already been posted, | but I din't see a solution to it: The menus are just black instead of | colored. Are you running X in 24 bpp? Netscape, and other programs, can not run correctly in this colo

xanim

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 2.0.0 xanim displays animated GIFs and MPGs garbled. The GIFs have black vertical stripes... Stef

netscape

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I have two problems with netscape. The first has already been posted, but I din't see a solution to it: The menus are just black instead of colored. The second is, it cannot find some fonts: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct War

gimp: font != NULL

1998-08-22 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I use Debian 2.0.0 When I want to start gimp, I get the following error messages: ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): "font != NULL" ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 177 (gdk_font_equal): "fonta != NULL" ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): "font != NUL

Re: kernel worries

1998-08-22 Thread David Z. Maze
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Also, I'll need to mount AFS on this machine. Can I compile AFS as M> an installable module or do I need to compile it into the kernel? M> In either case, can I use the latest development kernel? AFAIK the only "real" port of Transarc's AFS client to Linux is

Re: How to update stable with stable-updates

1998-08-22 Thread Ruud Janssen
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Gernot wrote: >When I try to update stable using dselect and adding stable-updates to >the distributions to get, dselect chooses m68-bin-files for the update >instead of i386-files (most of the times). > >What is the right way to use the stable-updates-distribution with >dsele

How to update stable with stable-updates

1998-08-22 Thread Gernot
When I try to update stable using dselect and adding stable-updates to the distributions to get, dselect chooses m68-bin-files for the update instead of i386-files (most of the times). What is the right way to use the stable-updates-distribution with dselect? Thanx, Gernot -- --

kernel worries

1998-08-22 Thread Max
We're getting a brand new PC over here and I just realized that the SCSI controller that it comes with is not supported by the 2.0.35 version of the kernel, but it is supported by the latest development kernel. The controller is an onboard Adaptec AIC-7895. The problem is that the disk drive is a

X problems (fwd)

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
Blah; sorry to followup on myself, but my troubleshooting was faulty :) Here's the ACTUAL problem (actually, the problem is that I need sleep): If I run startx after a fresh boot, there's no problem. I can do whatever I want. However, once I exit X, running startx again locks the system solid

X problems

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
First off, I know jack about X. Having said that, I have an STB Velocity 3D with 4 MB of RAM ... I installed xbase and xserver-svga, as well as fvwm2, olvwm, wmaker, and afterstep. I chose Virge/VX as my "board" type when I ran XF86Setup. Here's the problem. If I try to run afterstep or wmaker,

dos2unix perl/cgi script debug help

1998-08-22 Thread Paul Miller
This script, posted earlier on this list, has one major problem: it doesn't send the file! If "use strict;" is removed, it'll send the file, but it is _larger_ than the original file... I'm thinking that it needs some type of indicator that it is finished sending the file.. I'd really apprecia

Re: installation from a FAT32 partition

1998-08-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
I had a similar problem when I tried to install the Debian base system from a Windows 98 (FAT32) partition. The problem is (I think) is that linux kernels prior to 2.0.35 don't have support for fat32 partitions. I was running S.u.S.E. Linux when I upgraded to Windows 98. I couldn't mount my Window

Re: man: Segmentation fault

1998-08-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:37:29AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Could be as simple as a corrupt database. try `mandb --create` > > > > Wooow ! Tried it. Did get use of man back (Thanks !), but > got many warnings (see below). And

Gnome

1998-08-22 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, Yesterday i upgrade my old version of gnome (0.25) to the 0.27 version. Now i cannot put any of this `application-icons '(such as cdplayer, ppp-dialer, ...). What is happened? Thanks, Phillip Neumann __ Get Your Private, Free Email at htt

Re: possible security hole? causes system crash

1998-08-22 Thread Paul Miller
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > > I'm having lots of trouble w/ mc (midnight commander). It offen stops > > responding when running an external command (viewing files (using internal > > viewer), executing programs, going to the shel

Re: support for backup hardware (streamer)

1998-08-22 Thread David Z. Maze
Harald Boeing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HB> I'm running Debian 2.0 and want to do some backups from time to HB> time. At the moment a floppy streamer seems to be the cheapest HB> possibility, but looking at the current howto's I couldn't figure HB> out if the Iomega Ditto 7GB is supported. (Is

RE: freeing space on /usr?

1998-08-22 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike, I have used this technique on a few Solaris systems when the original partitioning proved to be inadequately sized and there were no other simple options available. The only issue I can think of that might be a problem is symbolic links within the moved directory structure which "could" end

installation program problems

1998-08-22 Thread Herbert Ho
Hello all. I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on my computer, but I'm running into trouble (what's new, right?)...any help would be appreciated. I am attempting to install from a fat32 partition. I downloaded the appropriate files (per installation guide) and ran install.bat. The kernel boots pro