Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
At 07:22 PM 10/6/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. >No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. >This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and >mess with their heads. "Ca

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: > If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from > stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will > dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've > got installed? > > In other wor

[off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Beattie
I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. At the moment, I am using a for loop of about 70 iterations.. works okay, but on a faster system it will die.. (needed to slow down I/O with an interface card) I was looking at the info page for libc (which seems to

Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:02:31PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > Following to my prvious email > I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. > However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts > but it hangs with the following message > > VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem > Una

Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and mess with their heads. "Can I talk to Mr. Gates?" "No, sir...") Could you clari

dot matrix printer

1998-10-06 Thread Justin Maurer
we're setting up our print server at school - one machine is going to have 3 printers hanging off of it. one of them, however, is a dot matrix printer. it is a Panasonic KX-P1624. we have had difficulties in setting it up (it is a dot matrix printer). please contact me if you can help (i a

Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've got installed? In other words, how do I just get gnome (and its dependents) w

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
"Kendall P. Bullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a fallacy. (Or maybe Unix geeks aren't as smart as DOS > geeks?) I set up something of my own and am no more nor less likely > to delete the wrong file. Despite DOS's undelete, Norton's unerase, > Novell's salvage, and my own version und

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
At 05:22 PM 10/6/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... > >I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive in >the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures (after having >read the installation instruct

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Randy Edwards
DOS is fairly fussy about where it wants its partitions. If I were you, I'd make a small DOS partition with DOS (how large is this supposed to be? Beware of the ~510MB/1024 cylinder BIOS problems), install DOS onto it, and then install Debian elsewhere on the hard drive using Linux's fdisk to m

Re: Adaptec aic7XXX driver

1998-10-06 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Timm Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Does anyone know if there is a specific site for distribution of the newest | Adaptec Linux drivers? Similar to the development pages that Donald Becker | has for the tulip and epic network drivers. There's the mailing list. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

SpeakerPhone software?

1998-10-06 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Is it possible to put my phone on speakers? So that when other person talk to me by phone, I'll hear him on my speakers... I have SoundBlaster compatilbe Sound Card, and Zoltrix 33.6 Interenal Modem with speakerphone (if it is of any use for this purpose). Do I need a sofware program, or

URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to open an initial console This does not happen with the floppy boot.

Adaptec aic7XXX driver

1998-10-06 Thread Timm Gleason
Does anyone know if there is a specific site for distribution of the newest Adaptec Linux drivers? Similar to the development pages that Donald Becker has for the tulip and epic network drivers. I have noticed that the version we are using does not seem to drive our UW IBM drives at their highest

Re: HELP: lp daemon not present

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: : I am having trouble printing in WP8 under Linux 2.0 but have no problem : under any other program, eg Netscape. I have a Lexmark Doesn't WP8 write to the priner directly? WP has always done that AFAIK. Of course, I don't know how to fix the problem but

HELP: lp daemon not present

1998-10-06 Thread Albert Hurd
I am having trouble printing in WP8 under Linux 2.0 but have no problem under any other program, eg Netscape. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination in WP. When I click on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not g

URGENT !!!!!! SYSTEM SERIOUSLY BROKEN

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, Following my previous email concerning a deleted root partition the following has happened. I tried to install debian from the hamm base disks which I had in another partition but an error kept coming which did not permit installation. Both installation from disk and floppies did not

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used > to having it, you become more careless with the rm command; suddenly > you're using another box where rm is for real and you've lost real work. This is a fallacy. (Or maybe Uni

Iomega Ditto Max and LINUX?

1998-10-06 Thread Kent Andersen
Is there any drivers available for the ditto Max tape drive for linux or more to the point is there anyway I can make it work under Linux??? Thanks Kent

Multi-partitions

1998-10-06 Thread Adrian Gudas
Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive in the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures (after having read the installation instructions 100 times while on the john -- yes, I have no lif

problems with libc6-dev?

1998-10-06 Thread Mrpeabody
I did an apt-get update and I got a package error with libc6-dev anyone else get this? -jeff

setup script?

1998-10-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
Hello all. It is my intention to set up a lab of PCs here at my college to dual-boot Debian and NT. I have some questions related to setting up Debian on all these machines, in such a way that they are all identical. My basic strategy at the moment is to configure a `prototype' machine first, with

Re: ppp problems..using EZPPP...

1998-10-06 Thread Christopher Barry
EZPPP is really something for Slackware people that can't figure out how to make all the different scripts, but are simply too cool to use something like Debian that automates routine work for you. If you're using Debian Hamm or newer, as root type 'pppconfig'. Every system should come with this in

Re: pap-secrets

1998-10-06 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi again, I tried to add an '*' as a fourth field, but results remains thee same. I got "bla-bla check your password". However, thanks for your advice. Is there any other ideas? Eugene. On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > The new ppp requires that you have a fourth field for acceptab

Re: debian 2.0.2 cd from lsl

1998-10-06 Thread King Lee
Hello, I was about to order the debian 2.0 version from LSL, but noticed they were selling Debian 2.0.2. The Debian News does not mention a 2.0.2 version, so is this a beta version? what's going on? Thanks in advance. King Lee

dselect package list upgrade

1998-10-06 Thread Mark Fardal
Hi, I have had my linux box (Debian Linux 2.0.33) for six months, but am only now trying to use dselect. The package I wanted was not listed in the package list, so I figured I needed to upgrade the list. When trying to set up the ftp method of accesssing packages, I get a warning message:

Re: jdk: Can't find class...

1998-10-06 Thread Thomas Apel
Thomas Apel wrote: > > The problem is the following: > > $ java HelloWorld.class Of course I should have typed "java HelloWorld" without ".class"! Sorry, I guess I should go to bed now. Thomas

Re: pap-secrets

1998-10-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The new ppp requires that you have a fourth field for acceptable IP addresses. Also, you *must* have an entry in pap-secrets (a wildcard entry at least) even if you're authenticating against your regular password database (as your options shows you are). Just put in '*' as the fourth field of th

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:19:09 -0400, Jeff Miller wrote: >I recently took a class on Unix and we used Win95 machines to Telnet into >our server and vi acted "weird." The instructor acknowledged this and said >that there was nothing we could do. I would suggest using a Windoze X >Client software

Kernel compiled help?

1998-10-06 Thread Person, Rod
I got my kernel compiled, I choose sound but still none the. How do I know if its working or not? I got this sound card out of an IBM aptiva dx66...I'm testing it to see if it works (it was my dads, I gave him my card that does work). I tried /dev/sndstat and got a permission denied message...as

ppp problems..using EZPPP...

1998-10-06 Thread Person, Rod
Hey again, I don't know about this one I installed EZPPP and it worked fine, except the ppp connection died before I could figure out why mozilla could find the server. But here is my porblem... Now it doesn't dial my modem! I did nothing to it just turned the machine of for the night. Turn

Re: NIS/NFS packages?

1998-10-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, install the nis and netbase packages. The NFS is just mount -t nfs server_directory client_directory But you have to start /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs at server and client. NIS is bit more dificult. Tomorrow I wrote more to you. I didn't have

Re: pap-secrets

1998-10-06 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: In my pap-secrets I have the following # INBOUND connections # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd #* moose "" * * * "" * Peter -Original Message- From: Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: deb

Re: FW: PPP Errors

1998-10-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ECO" == Erik Ch Ohrnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ECO> Oct 6 01:26:50 linux486 chat[3194]: Password: ECO> Oct 6 01:26:50 linux486 chat[3194]: -- got it ECO> Oct 6 01:26:50 linux486 chat[3194]: send (^M) ECO> Oct 6 01:26:51 linux486 chat[3194]: send (\d^M) ECO> Oct 6 01:26:5

NIS/NFS packages?

1998-10-06 Thread Vincent Murphy
I want to set up one debian box as a NIS server and sharing a directory as NFS, and another to share its passwords and mount the shared dir off the other. What packages do I have to install? Any other advice? regards, vinny

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-06 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Now I feel bad ! Don't mean to be too critical, but ldconfig would not make linux unbootable unless you had messed around with the location of certain critical dynamic libs. Did you modify around with /etc/ld.so.conf, or move around any of the libs in /usr/lib, /lib, or /usr/local/lib ? If so, th

pap-secrets

1998-10-06 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi All, Playing with ppp I have found that It is impossible to connect from w95 box into linux if there exist /etc/pap/pap-secrets file. Everything is ok when I delete this file. It looks like w95 can not use PAP. Is it true? Or there are possible errors in /etc/ppp/options? As I understand the ma

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan Hendler
I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... boot: [I hit Enter.] Loading lowmemrd.bin ... That's as far as she goes. It hangs there, all night. I have to hard reboot. Using the resc1440.bin image I get... S

Re: Sound Blaster

1998-10-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Miller wrote: > > I am running the latest Debian release. My CD-ROM is connected to my Sound > Blaster 16 and was detected with no problem. I don't have sound, though, and > I am not sure what to do about it. Do I really have to recompile the Kernel > to support my sound card? Or, can

Re: Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:47:13AM -0400, David Frye wrote: > Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that > they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the > easiest and most reliable to use? I used to use efax. It has one shell script that does everyt

jdk: Can't find class...

1998-10-06 Thread Thomas Apel
The problem is the following: $ java HelloWorld.class Can't find class HelloWorld.class As far as I understand the java_wrapper script even "./" should be in the CLASSPATH. But why doesn't this work then? When I make the .class executable and add the "binfmt_java" module to the kernel I can execu

Re: Can't load library

1998-10-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Ken Archer wrote: > Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and running on Debian 2.0, I get > the error message that: > > Netscape: cannot load library "libXpm.so.4" > I have the same Netscape running fine on a Suse 5.2 partition with libXpm.so.4 > installed in the same default directory (/usr/X11R6/lib)

Re: Netscape and libXt.so.6

1998-10-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Dahlberg wrote: > > Could anyone help me out with this problem? > > I installed Netscape Navigator 4.06 (base install, not Communicator) on > Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) in /usr/local/netscape according to Netscape's > installation instructions. I try to run the executable but I get the >

Re: Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I've actually found efax to be more robust than sendfax (from mgetty-fax) but I've never tried to use hylafax. There was some configuration involved with efax but efax can handle Class 1 operation which sendfax can't (at least not the version I used). This may or may not be an issue for you. Bo

dhcpcd probs

1998-10-06 Thread Peter Gruber
Hi all I have some problems using the dhcpcd package on my systemI worked fine, until my university decided to put up an firewall (everything can go out, but no port connections in) in front of us. Apparently the DHCP-server isn´t on my side. Has anyone some ideas to solve the problem ? (there i

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-06 Thread Kent West
At 09:10 PM 10/6/1998 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > >> Sincerely, >> >> Ray Ingles (248)377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Free Stereogram! >> Try to make the two "O"s in the next row look like three: >>

FW: PPP Errors

1998-10-06 Thread Erik Ch. Ohrnberger
Dear fellow Debian users, I'm having a little bit of trouble in establishing a PPP connection to my ISP, Sprynet. I have been watching the PPP questions in this forum, and have adopted the wait 1 second (\d) statements at the end of the script after a successful connection in order to pro

Re: Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, David Frye wrote: > Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that > they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the > easiest and most reliable to use? I've been pretty happy with hylafax, although the version in slink doesn't seem t

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
It really depends on what setup they are using for the service. Here in Baltimore, we have the Motorola modems that uses the cable for the back channel, but I have heard that in some markets they are using a version that requires a separate phone line for the back channel. If they have the same

pgplot examples for c ?

1998-10-06 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed the debian package pgplot*.deb, but there are available in that package only examples for fortran (f77). I cannot find such examples for c. It is possible to get the needed examples for c without rebuilding (recompiling) the package from resources ? Thanks in advance, Jan

Graphics card Matrox Productiva AGP

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

1998-10-06 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hai, you need to download netscape 4.0x from netscape server the put it in the /tmp dir (make a backup it will be delete after it reboot) now run dselect put in your CD (Contrib) in the cd rom the choose the access mode to cdrom then choose the path (forgeten I think 2 and 3 ) to the fol

Re: Gnome

1998-10-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Search in unstable section (slink directory). I have Gnome 0.30 installed and running in my machine. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 06:01:59PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Hi all!! > > Is Gnome available to download in the Debian FTP

Gnome

1998-10-06 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!! Is Gnome available to download in the Debian FTP site? I have been looking for it, nut did not found it. Thanks

RE: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives?

1998-10-06 Thread Lewis, James M.
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread. Did anyone mention possible changes in scsi termination??? jim -- From: Paul Slootman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 11:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:

Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread David Frye
Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the easiest and most reliable to use?

Re: KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, mbanck wrote: > 2. using the qt-rh5.1-binaries. > seconds I tried to use the binaries for redhat 5.1 with alien. Unfortunately, > alien makes a 'qt'-Package instead of a 'qt1g'-Package required by KDE. > Is there a way to rename packages I h

Re: KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello, > > I am trying to install KDE 1.0 (BTW, I haven't found it in Hamm, is that t= > rue?). > The problem is the qt-library. I got two choices to install it but both do= > n't work: > > 1. compiling the sources. > 2. using the qt-rh5.1-binaries. 3. Install the debian packages. They ar

Re: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives?

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives? Newsgroups: linux.debian.user In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Albert Heijn Winkelautomatisering Cc: Bcc: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Now when I reboot the scsi controller sees the scsi

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-06 Thread Chan Min Wai
Now I can run the Kde with startx but Now I cannot boot Linux... Wah ...Sad case Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > When I installed kde, all I had to get it working correctly was log in as root > and execute: > > ldconfig > > Then everthing worked correctly > > On 04-Oct-98 Chan Min Wai wr

Re: Need help with Internet connection ISDN.

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >After hours of reading howto's and scratching my head I finally got Debian >to recognise my Teles 16.3 ISDN-card. It works, and I can call myself >between two TTY's with minicom. Talking to myself is quite boring in the >long run, and I just can't figure o

Re: moving "/" sda4 --> sdb1

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: > > : greetings, > : > : I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT >;0) > : ), what are the steps necessary. > >login as root > >mke2fs /dev/sdb1 >mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt >cd / >find . -xdev | cp

Sound Blaster

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
I am running the latest Debian release. My CD-ROM is connected to my Sound Blaster 16 and was detected with no problem. I don't have sound, though, and I am not sure what to do about it. Do I really have to recompile the Kernel to support my sound card? Or, can I configure it as a module. S

Re: ISDN: HOW TO start?

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the >kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, I don't think that the AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card is supported. Have you managed to get the kernel (i.e. the his

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > > I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) running. > Congratulatons! What did it take? just about everything blocked :) There is physical hardware flow control, for bit 7 both hi & lo, and I don't know what others are screwy. Plus

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:46:50AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on > my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). > > When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just > about no matter which key I pr

Re: [EDI software]

1998-10-06 Thread Greg Vence
EDI = Electronic Data Interchange. It is a layer in Electronic Commerce. However, I haven't seen it on Linux, but haven't really looked either. Syed Huq wrote: > > Peter, > > Did you mean EDA ?? What is EDI ?? > -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED tim

KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread mbanck
Hello, I am trying to install KDE 1.0 (BTW, I haven't found it in Hamm, is that true?). The problem is the qt-library. I got two choices to install it but both don't work: 1. compiling the sources. I am using linux-g++-shared as config and get this output: #make cd src/moc; make make[1]: Enterin

slib installation failed

1998-10-06 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
Hi all, I cannot install slib on my debian machine. The reason seems obscure to me. Here is the log from dpkg: > Preparing to replace slib 2c0-3 (using slib_2c0-3.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement slib ... > Setting up slib (2c0-3) ... > guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guil

Re: Fwd: Re: [lug] recompiling kernel and not loosing sound support

1998-10-06 Thread D'jinnie
I had something of the same problem - turned out that my SB-compatible card is on IRQ 5 instead of default 7, I change the setting in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/Config.in and all worked well. It could be something similar, maybe IRQ or DMA conflict... good luck --- Just call me a "sugar vampire"

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread pussy
> My local cable company is now offering high-speed cable modem service. > The following excerpt is from their web page Q&A section. I am running > Slink with IPV4 (I believe). > > > Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? > At this time, @Home supports the following: Windows 95, NT workstations

help with fonts in X ?

1998-10-06 Thread Adam Lazur
I'm failing to see how I can use a particular font in certain X applications. I installed rasterman's nexus font (available from enlightenment.org or somewhere similar) as a fixed width font and use it in my rxvts (rxvt -fn nexus) and it works fine. However, I'd like to use it in The Gimp, maybe Ne

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Rothanburg
It really depends on what setup they are using for the service. Here in Baltimore, we have the Motorola modems that uses the cable for the back channel, but I have heard that in some markets they are using a version that requires a separate phone line for the back channel. If they have the same

Graphics card Matrox Productiva AGP

1998-10-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one i

Re: DontZap zaps...(X problem)

1998-10-06 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to prevent X server from being killed by the > CTRL-ALT-backspace keystroke. I know that putting "DontZap" in > XF86Config would do that on redhat. The Debian docs say the same thing. > However, this "DontZap" method does not wo

about update command

1998-10-06 Thread Sakai Atsushi
I have a question about update command. The document "The Linux Kernel" v0.8-2 page 115 # update -d is written but I cannot found the command w/ -d option. I want to see the buffer parameter like bdflush version 1.4 0:60 Max fraction of LRU list to examine for dirty blocks .

Re: Ax25-utils crash , Help me !

1998-10-06 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Tony, just a good guess based on the fact that ALL of Linux crashes. It sounds very much like a Hardware failure. As a rule software will not crash Linux. Now the z8530 hardware is capable of bringing down Linux if it fails. So suggest you look at the driver software first and then the

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:46:50AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on > my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). > > When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just > about no matter which

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread servis
*- Hamish Moffatt wrote about "Re: Safe rm available?" | On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not | | This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used | to having it, you

Re: Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread servis
*- Nathan O. Siemers wrote about "Where is Bo?" | | I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an | old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost | :( | | I've seen the address of the bo site somewhere, but I just spent an | hour looking through the we

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
I recently took a class on Unix and we used Win95 machines to Telnet into our server and vi acted "weird." The instructor acknowledged this and said that there was nothing we could do. I would suggest using a Windoze X Client software in place of Telnet. We use Exceed and it works well. Ther

cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You have comcast right? I am also on comcast, but they just took over jones intercable and have yet to 'upgrade their system' sometime next year before they will offer us the service. Anyway I looked on the comcast web site and found out some details on the service. There was a line that sai

Re: Network Card probs

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
Go to their web page and look for instructions on your specific card >>> "Christopher J. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/5/98 11:06:25 PM >>> Now X works well... now I need help on My network card. It says on the cover that it's compatible w/ Linux... I'm just wondering how compatible. I have a

debian image mirror at fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de removed

1998-10-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
we ran out of disk space, don´t expect new hardware and need the disk space for the day to day stuff. sorry. maybe someone else can provide a rsync access to debian cd images in europe ? andreas

Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/06/98 at 12:24 PM, H C Pumphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >No-one mentions the 3181x / 3151x so I can't tell from this what to do >about my card. If anyone can tell me what to do or point me at the right >documentation, I'd be grateful. If it is neither o

Installation problem

1998-10-06 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!! I just got Debian 2.0 and tried to install in my two computers. One is a 386 with 20 MB of RAM - the installation was successful. The other one is a Pentium MMX 200 with 64 MB of RAM - here the installation script (install/boot.bat) stopped when detecting hard disks. This is the output

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-06 Thread Blazej Sawionek
LUK ShunTim wrote: > KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Sorry I don't uderstand what you are trying to do, but 4.5bPR2 is already available - maybe that can help you? Blazej

Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi debian users and SANE people: This is tangential to, but not unconnected with the recent request on debian-user for advice about what scanner to get. When I bought my Debian system recently I got an ARTEC AT12 scanner because (a) it was on the SANE supporeted list (b) it is alledgedly a very g

Re: URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

1998-10-06 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi: To my knowledge there is no way to recover the root. You could however try to re-activate that partition and see what happens. I doubt it will work because mkfs resets the inode tables. When you re-activate/create that partition again everything on it is reset. So, you have to re-install the

URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I was having problems with the network so I deided to use the rescue disk to configure my machine with no network. By mistake (big mistake !!!) I chose to initialise the root partition rather than mount a previously initialised partition. The hard disk did not work a lot but my root par

Re: TALK: socket error

1998-10-06 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:33:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Howdy all! > > Does anyone know what this error is telling me? > > [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). > Press a > ny key...] > > I'm running netstd version 3.07-2 on the system that's h

Kai's mail setup seriously hosed

1998-10-06 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I have seriously hosed my mail setup in the past few days and might have deleted mail you sent between October 1st and a few minutes ago. Please accept my apologies for this mishap; I am truly sorry about this. Could you resend your message, please? If you haven't sent me a message since October

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-06 Thread Pere Camps
Nils, > It is not the computer that needs an IP address, every single network > interface on the computer will need a unique IP address (except if you have > point-to-point interfaces, but that doesn't apply in your situation) First question: can I make an eth behave as a point-to-point i

Re: Memory usage

1998-10-06 Thread Dirk Bonne
Pat O'Brien wrote: > > If I have 192Mb of ram, how do I indicate to the kernel that I > have it. > Write append="mem=192m" in lilo.conf and run lilo again. The kernel must be said explicitly how much memory you have if you go above 64M. Dirk

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-06 Thread Pere Camps
Toby, > Then use ipfwadm to forward any packets from your LAN to the Net. > A good help is the HOWTO docs on Network and Firewalls. I'm trying to make a simple setup with ipfwadm: just to move all the packets from one eth to the other, but I've yet to succeed. I'll keep trying th

Setting terminal type for telnet sessions only

1998-10-06 Thread David Karlin
Hello, Thanks to a suggestion by Michael Stone, I tried TERM=vt100 from the command line, and vi now seems to work properly in a telnet window. Very nice. Thank you Michael. How can I set my login script to set TERM=vt100 *only* for telnet sessions, and not for console (or other) logins? As I un

Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-06 Thread LUK ShunTim
Hi, When I wanted to bookmark a page by dragging the "location" icon into the bookmark file, it just wouldn't work. I'm using hamm, kernel 2.0.34, KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Have I missed to install anything? Regards, ST --

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles (248)377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Free Stereogram! > Try to make the two "O"s in the next row look like three: > OO > n n n n n n n n

Re: OFF TOPIC - UK TV PROGRAM ABOUT LINUX???

1998-10-06 Thread P J Barbera
Hey, do you want a Dressman or a Killer ?? :) Pete Ian Stuart wrote: > > Ian Stuart wrote: > > My only downer comment would be to Linus: "White socks and sandles? > Please!" > > -- > Ian Stuart > Computing Services > The University of Edinburgh > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EM

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used to having it, you become more careless with the rm command; suddenly you're using a

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