Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-07 Thread mwb
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give > magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful > information)? > You'll need to get ghostscript from the slink distribution. This has support for the 'generic' hpdj

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > [snip] > > > I drag the 'location' icon to the bookmarks menu to the left. It looks > > like it shrinks, then it opens the menu, and there is a placement bar that > > follows the mouse. one click, and the bookmark is dropped

Re: aic7xxx parity error

1998-10-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rahul Sood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | After upgrading to Debian 2.0, I see the foll kernel message every now | and then: | | kernel scsi0:0:0:0 Parity error during phase Data-In | | Is there a patch for this? I never saw this with Debian 1.3.1 | SCSI controller is Adaptec 2940UW Hmm. Seems l

Re(2): Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You can get to a text virtual console from X with Ctrl+Alt+F1 through >Ctrl+Alt+F6. Alt+F7 will usually get you back to X, since X runs on the >first free virtual console, and Debian (like most distributions) runs >'getty's on consoles 1-6 by default. Thanks... but I we

aic7xxx parity error

1998-10-07 Thread Rahul Sood
After upgrading to Debian 2.0, I see the foll kernel message every now and then: kernel scsi0:0:0:0 Parity error during phase Data-In Is there a patch for this? I never saw this with Debian 1.3.1 SCSI controller is Adaptec 2940UW -R. Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: couple of question..

1998-10-07 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 7 Oct, tracheotomy_bob wrote: > First the most important question. Does anyone have experience running a > Matrox Millennium G200? > I assume it needs special drivers as they're not standard in XFree86, so > where do I get them from? > Can anyone recommend a truly excellent card for X. Not

Re: Re(2): Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
You want a console shell? Try the keys: -- This will get you to a tty virtual console, where you can login. The first virtual console -- is probably busy running x (maybe not, if you use xdm). The others will give a login prompt. If you want back to X, it's --... ---Adrian Gudas <[EMAIL PR

Re(2): Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 05:36 PM 10/7/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >I know -- but since X is configured to start up when the system boots, it >just goes right back in. I can't shell! > >Heeellp! :-( I think you can enter linux single at the boot: prompt after a reboot. This should allow you to regain control. ===

Re: network

1998-10-07 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, Peter, I checked the dmesg and only saw "network is not reachable" is related to network. I suspect whether linux support this network adaptor (3c905b-tx). I went to 3com product category. It seems that this adaptor is made for window or NT. Actually, my machine is installed NT. It works fine w

Re: Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 05:04 PM 10/7/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: >Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at >all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into >shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to change >my config? > >PS: The mouse is an In

Font Issues (fwd)

1998-10-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
Subject: Font Issues If I use an application requiring too many fonts eg StarOffice I find that starting another application eg. Lynx has problem finding the right fonts. I can solve this simply by killing X and restarting but is there a better way to restore fonts? (This applies to colors too).

more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!!

1998-10-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
I have manage to salvage a minimal system after accidentally deleting my root partitioon. I tried to install debian stable but it did not work. I did floppy disk installation butfloppy relaiobility does not seem to be the problem. Let me explain why I have the debian disks on an unharmed partioti

Re(2): Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
I know -- but since X is configured to start up when the system boots, it just goes right back in. I can't shell! Heeellp! :-(

Re: Kernel compiling error

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Ken Archer wrote: > > Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The > same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. > > as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s > make [1]: as86: Command not found > make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 > make [1]: Leaving directo

Re: Greenbush?

1998-10-07 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, > Funny you should mention this as I ordered two weeks ago > as well and have not received anything. I have been assured by > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that my order shipped and must have gotten lost > `; ( . He (only minutes ago) sent me an e-mail indicating that a > replacement order was packa

Kernel compiling error

1998-10-07 Thread Ken Archer
Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s make [1]: as86: Command not found make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.1.122/arch/i38

Help!

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to change my config? PS: The mouse is an IntelliMouse. I specified this. Any known problems/anythi

couple of question..

1998-10-07 Thread tracheotomy_bob
First the most important question. Does anyone have experience running a Matrox Millennium G200? I assume it needs special drivers as they're not standard in XFree86, so where do I get them from? Can anyone recommend a truly excellent card for X.   If I install just the binary CD (cheapbytes

vi problems?

1998-10-07 Thread Person, Rod
Hey all, I was attempting to install siag, and the installition call for me to do the following... vi mktop.dr now this is the second thing I tried to install that called for me to use vi and everytime I do it print the file to the screen...I look at it to see if its going to do

Re: Greenbush?

1998-10-07 Thread Jeff Miller
Don, Funny you should mention this as I ordered two weeks ago as well and have not received anything. I have been assured by [EMAIL PROTECTED] that my order shipped and must have gotten lost `; ( . He (only minutes ago) sent me an e-mail indicating that a replacement order was packaged and mo

Greenbush?

1998-10-07 Thread Don Berkich
Does anybody know if there's a problem with Greenbush (the cd-burner/distributer)? I ordered Hamm two weeks ago and haven't heard a thing. Email inquiries get no response, either. -Don Berkich

Re: PS/VaulePoint Problem--Can't install.

1998-10-07 Thread Cap'n Fred
I would just like to thank you an extreme amount. I have had this problem for a while now on this one machine. Initially I attempted to build my own kernel, but failed. With the aid of your kernel I was able to begin the process of installing the Debian. Thank you, thank you and thank you. A

updating the package database

1998-10-07 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm having trouble getting dselect to find new packages. I chose the Access method as ftp and pointed it to ftp.debian.org, and went with the defaults. I then chose Update and it went through all the different sections and said that the packages were already updated. No

DOCUMENTATION: Tutorial/FAQ for APT?

1998-10-07 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
Can a Debian Guru lend some assistance? I have been looking for comprehesive information on Debian APT, and found almost nothing. I am interested in a tutorial, both as a dselect method and as a standalone. I understand that an Apt command-line and gui client are available. Are these in Slink?

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-07 Thread ...
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users > because > > foo# createuser > Connection to database 'template1' failed. > FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow" > > createuser: database access failed. > foo# >

help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-07 Thread Shaleh
Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users because foo# createuser Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow" createuser: database access failed. foo# The docs are not helping. What is the necessary steps t

Pickle

1998-10-07 Thread ...
Heres my situation, any help is appreciated. I've got a debian/slink machine currently running some network services. This machine's Ethernet card is a PCMCIA device. Currently (and until Jan 1st) I'm 1200 kilometers away from the machine. I'm trying to upgrade the software on the mac

Re: Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 04:59 PM 10/7/1998 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: >>More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out. >> >>1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error >>"mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and >>reconfigure. But how? How c

Re: request for help

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 04:06 PM 10/7/1998 +0800, Z.S. Choy wrote: >Hi , > >I've a problem which I hope I could get some help from the experts :- > >I'm a new Debian user. I'm trying to install the OS into my existing >Windows 95 pc with the following configuration :- > >133MHZ Pendium >82Mbyte RAM >Drive C: 1.2Gbyte

Re: Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 01:01 AM 10/8/1998 +1000, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: >> 2. How can I configure LILO to give me the option to boot using my DOS >> partition (/dev/hda1)? It would be nice for it to give me a menu... >To the best of my knowledge LILO does not do menus, if you put an Yes, you can kludge toge

VNCServer problem

1998-10-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I installed VNC Debian package and when I type: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ vncserver -query localhost The error is: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "jaca:" in "add" command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "jaca/unix:" in "add" command New 'X' deskt

RE: Dial up conections

1998-10-07 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Look at the pppconfig package (to find it's full path, grep for it in /var/lib/dpkg/available). It has a configuration that pretty much should get your manual modem connection working - assuming that the OS can communicate with your modem just fine (ie, your certain your modem is at /dev/ttyS1 or

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 02:18 PM 10/7/1998 +0200, Blazej Sawionek wrote: >> When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation >Most probably you use X as yourself and install WP as root. >You must enable root do display at your DISPLAY e.g.: >xhost + >(as yourself) > >Bl

Re: named-bootconf failure

1998-10-07 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Thanks Peter, Had done that but the same things happens. And even worse bindconfig takes out all the "extra" that I need to add in order to make the system secure and responsive. The problem I seem to be having is narrowed down to the named-bootconf.pl file not reading the boot.options an

Re: Hardware?

1998-10-07 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Check out www.xinside.com for supported cards for AccelX. Personally I only use number9 cards. The 32Meg IV just came out, I'm sure AccelX will have a driver for it soon. Matthew On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It

Will Apple Studio Display work w/ x86 Hamm?

1998-10-07 Thread Eric House
Anybody know if there are any problems using a flat panel/LCD display, and Apple's in particular, with Debian? I don't even know if I'll need a different driver... Thanks, --Eric House +-+ |from the desktop of:

Hardware?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Meskes
I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but wonder which one can be used under X. Also what's the better buy for the money, Pentium II or K6 II? Michael P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not subsribed

Re: [Debian]: Xkeycaps

1998-10-07 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hallo Torsten, > XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \ >MetaShift_L,Meta: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ >MetaShift_R,Meta: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ >Meta Ctrl : string(0x01B) insert() \n\ >Meta : string(0x01B) insert() \n\ >AltShift_L,Alt: string(0x01B) insert() \n\ >Al

EtherExpress 16 (was: "invisible" network card)

1998-10-07 Thread David Karlin
John, I have been using an EtherExpress 16 card in my hamm system for a few weeks and have had no trouble with it. When I installed my hamm system, there was a menu of optional modules which could be compiled in. One of the choices was EtherExpress. Perhaps you are experiencing an IRQ conflict,

Re: chat--what terminal

1998-10-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It doesn't. pppd redirects stdin/stdout to be the proper device before exec'ing chat. Eric wrote: > This is something I've never understood. How does chat know what terminal > to talk to? Does it assume that /dev/modem is a link to the terminal the > modem is on? What is the proper way, to, s

Matrox Mystique and SVGALib

1998-10-07 Thread ...
Has anyone ever gotten better than 320x200 with the above setup? As far as I can tell there is no native driver for this card. Is Matrox still withholding specs on their cards? I'm running the latest Debian packages of svgalib from slink.

Dial up conections

1998-10-07 Thread Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife
Hi all, how can I make my linux to stabilish a dial up conection to another system ( say a ISP )?? I did not find the correct way to configure my fax/modem There will be a problem if I have a fixed Ip address?? Can I get one automatically by DHCP ??? Thanks in advance! Clovis Sena.

"invisible" network card

1998-10-07 Thread John Watts
Many thanks to those who tried helping with my earlier questions on compiling the network driver I thought that I needed. Anyway, another question. I have an EtherExpress 16 network card the system I'm trying to set up as a linux box. Linux refuses to believe it's there when I try to install

RE: chat--what terminal

1998-10-07 Thread Shaleh
chat talks to the port that ppp opens. You tell ppp where the modem is. On 07-Oct-98 Eric wrote: > This is something I've never understood. How does chat know what terminal > to talk to? Does it assume that /dev/modem is a link to the terminal the > modem is on? What is the proper way, to, say

Re: named-bootconf failure

1998-10-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Try running bindconfig instead. Peter -Original Message- From: Anthony Landreneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 12:25 PM Subject: named-bootconf failure >Greetings, > named-bootconf is no longer working on one of my DNS systems.

chat--what terminal

1998-10-07 Thread Eric
This is something I've never understood. How does chat know what terminal to talk to? Does it assume that /dev/modem is a link to the terminal the modem is on? What is the proper way, to, say, send ATZ to a modem on COM 2? -- _ _ | |(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri | _| | |

named-bootconf failure

1998-10-07 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, named-bootconf is no longer working on one of my DNS systems. I have two identical systems, both doing DNS with the same software loaded. Last week, the named-bootconf stopped writing the named.conf file on the primary server. The file is empty except for the header, "t

Re: Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] | When I run Gnus, I get an error: | nntp (news) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n) | if I hit y, I get a garbage group, and that's all: |*: nndraft:drafts | If I hit n, I get the following: | Couldn't open server on news | | trn works fine

Magicfilter setup

1998-10-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful information)? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.

Dselect Location of Files

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I am trying to setup Debian Linux 2.0.34. I want to use the deb packages for Netscape and StarOffice. I have the files on a CD from Cheap*Bytes and can download it them from the Debian ftp site. I need to know the following: What directory do I place the deb package file? What directory

Take a look at www.linuxworld.com magazine

1998-10-07 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just a suggestion... Ulisses - - "Computers are useless. They can only give answers."Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comm

Re: someone pass me the dunce-cap, please

1998-10-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I sent a message to the list a couple of days ago, in desperation over my > not working .xsession file. I forgot that I wasn't subscribed to the list, > so I have no idea whether there were any responses or in fact whether > my message even appeared. But what I truly d

Re: How do I set up my linux computer as a proxy?

1998-10-07 Thread Liran Zvibel
Install squid. I don't know whether ther is a Debian package or not (I'm almost sure that Squide 2.0 (I think that it is out only few days) doesn't have a package). Search for it at freshmeat.net. Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Collin Rose wrote: > How do I se

Re: 128M memory

1998-10-07 Thread Jay Barbee
At 10/7/98 10:23 AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: >I was wondering when you use lilo to manage your boot do you need to add >the line append = "mem=128M" to your win95/98 partition for it to use the >memory beyond 64k or is this only needed when a linux partition is booted? That is simply pa

Gnus doesn't start

1998-10-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all I'm using gnus 5.6.44-1 , and emacs 20.3-1. I have a .newsrc file, which seems to be OK: $ ls -l .newsrc -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcv21mcv21 630 Oct 7 11:06 .newsrc When I run Gnus, I get an error: nntp (news) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n) if I hit y, I get a garbage gro

Re: rawrite2 & NT

1998-10-07 Thread John_Gay
>>Hello, It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm missing?<< I've used rawrite2 several times to copy Debian Linux on several WindowsNT 4 PC's here at work. I've made about ten copies for friends and

SVGALib not seeing all of my Video RAM?

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hello all, I was wondering if there is a way to specifically tell SVGALib how much Video RAM your card has, instead of relying on the autodetect. I have 8MB of SGRAM on my card (Diamond Viper V330 PCI, RIVA128), but when I start programs that use SVGALib, quake2 for instance, they only se

Re: Re(2): Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > >in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to > Hmm Do I have to reinitialize LILO in some way? I did this and > rebooted, but it still only gave me one option (Linux). Do that and it reinitiali

128M memory

1998-10-07 Thread Default Debian Reader
I was wondering when you use lilo to manage your boot do you need to add the line append = "mem=128M" to your win95/98 partition for it to use the memory beyond 64k or is this only needed when a linux partition is booted?

Re: Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Default Debian Reader
you can use xbase-configure, xf86config, or XF86Setup to reconfig your X. As far as lilo goes you need to add a lilo paragraph for your msdos partition...mine looks something like this. other = /dev/hda1 label = win98 table = /dev/hda then rerun lilo to install the new label. When this is d

Re: Re(2): Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread John B. Fink
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >other=/dev/hda1 > > label=dos > > table=/dev/hda > > > >in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to > >boot dos from the LILO: prompt by typing dos (to get a list of options > >press the tab key

Re(2): Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos > table=/dev/hda > >in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to >boot dos from the LILO: prompt by typing dos (to get a list of options >press the tab key). Hmm Do I have to reinitialize LILO in some way? I di

RE: rawrite2 & NT

1998-10-07 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I've used rawrite2 with NT without problems. I have administrator privileges on the NT box that I'm using though. (Maybe that's important for writing to the floppy drive through DOS under NT? I wouldn't think so, but I don't know.). I also use a DOS program named hd-copy (search for it on the w

Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[

1998-10-07 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Havoc, > > And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ? > > I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC?? > > Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's > discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw): Hm, I couldn't find this in the manual. Maybe that

Re: Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out. > > 1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error > "mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and > reconfigure. But how? How can I run

Re: rawrite2 & NT

1998-10-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Greg Vence wrote: : Hello, : : It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? : I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm : missing? rawrite2 works with NT Workstation 4, SP3 here. It also works fine on Win95. -- Natha

Re: Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out. > >1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error >"mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and >reconfigure. But how? How can I run the X configure program again? (You >know, th

Newbie questions

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out. 1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error "mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and reconfigure. But how? How can I run the X configure program again? (You know, the one

locked keyboard & messed screen

1998-10-07 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I having some troubles to reset keyb and screen of a linux server. I can connect to it via ssh/telnet but can't reset its local login prompt. The keyboard is locked, crtl+alt+func didn't work; the screen is messed with several graphics patterns. The problem started just with a startx

Re: running X windows

1998-10-07 Thread Immanuel Yap
Bostjan JERKO wrote: > > I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary > user. It works fine if I log on as root. > I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running. > The messages I get are : > > _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... So

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 7 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: > Hello ! > > When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't > start graphical installation so it starts with text installation. I > would like to start graphical installation, but I guess that I am > missing some libraries. Can anybody t

Re: network

1998-10-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > I installed the debian but the network part does not work. I have a 3Com > Ethernet XL NIC adaptor (3c905b-tx). Does somebody have experience with > this kind of network problem. Thanks. > I recently mailed to this list about my problems with exactly the same card. The problem is in t

Re: network

1998-10-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Zheng What does the dmesg command say? Did it see the card and load the driver at boot time? If so, what does ifconfig say? Peter -Original Message- From: Zheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 9:04 AM Subject: network

network

1998-10-07 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, I installed the debian but the network part does not work. I have a 3Com Ethernet XL NIC adaptor (3c905b-tx). Does somebody have experience with this kind of network problem. Thanks. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-m

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net "J.

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net Pi

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I appreciate your getting back to me. Yes, I am in the root account. I, am not at my Linux computer, but, I can be in the directory /usr/src/linux. Yes, I installed the source of the linux kernel. Since I am new to Linux, I am not sure what details might be helpful. Brian werewolf.net Paulo Hen

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Pierre Blanchet
> I look forward to hearing from someone who can offer help on making > "make config" work. > > I followed the instructions of > http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html, "The Debian > GNU/Linux FAQ: Debian and the kernel." > > Installed: gcc, libc6-dev, bin86, binutils, and gawk.

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread \"J.H.M.Dassen\" <\"J.H.M.Dassen\"
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armstrong wrote: > Typed:make config which resulted in the following: > > make:***No rule to make target config! Stop. You need to be in the top level directory of the kernel source to run "make config". HTH, Ray -- Ob

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Are you in the root account? Are you in directory /usr/src/linux? Have you installed the source of the linux kernel? Give me more details and we can help you. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armst

rawrite2 & NT

1998-10-07 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm missing? I'm not sure if I can find a Win95 box. But would it work there? Thanx -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free

Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I look forward to hearing from someone who can offer help on making "make config" work. I followed the instructions of http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html, "The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ: Debian and the kernel." Installed: gcc, libc6-dev, bin86, binutils, and gawk. Executed:

Re: Where is fdformat, mkfs.[fat|vfat] ?

1998-10-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:41:18PM +0700, Oleg E.Krivosheev wrote: > the fdformat was/is mentioned in the several > HOWTOs. Is there debian (hamm/slink) package > where i can find it? I believe "fdformat" has been superseded in hamm by "superformat" and "mformat". "locate format" : /usr/

Re: How can I see which host a user is logged in from?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tomas Petersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I see which host a user is logged in from? > If I use finger, the hostname gets truncated. last -ad | less Mike Stone

How can I see which host a user is logged in from?

1998-10-07 Thread Tomas Petersson
How can I see which host a user is logged in from? If I use finger, the hostname gets truncated. /Tomas

Is PPP needed for ISDN?

1998-10-07 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, 1) is PPP support needed for ISDN (which uses, as the documentation says, syncPPP instead)? At the moment, I have PPP as a module in the kernel and I am about to try an ISDN connection. 2) Is VJ compression advisable/irrelevant/dangerous? There are warnings against VJ in s

X Installation

1998-10-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to graphics mode. All the screen went blank, so I had to reboot. Now, how can I

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Udell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How would I clean up the boot process of these old first >install modules..that arnt needed anymore and my present >kernel handles fine ? edit /etc/modules Mike. -- "Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will?"

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
> When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start > graphical installation Most probably you use X as yourself and install WP as root. You must enable root do display at your DISPLAY e.g.: xhost + (as yourself) Blazej

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Steven Udell
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > > Hello Anthony: > > There is a file in /usr/sbin call update-rc.d. It permitts > the addition and removal of startup files from the respective > run-level directories. > > >My debian system is starting various processes which I don't need. I > >presume > >I could prev

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Anthony: There is a file in /usr/sbin call update-rc.d. It permitts the addition and removal of startup files from the respective run-level directories. Peter -Original Message- From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 0

What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
My debian system is starting various processes which I don't need. I presume I could prevent this by deleting the links in /etc/rc0.d but is this the correct way to do it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

Re: Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: > Could you clarify another couple things: > 1. Does fips work with FAT32? I have it, but I've been too scared to use > it. I believe the most recent version does. > 2. How does lilo work? (Any complications I need to know about...?) I won't add much to

Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation so it starts with text installation. I would like to start graphical installation, but I guess that I am missing some libraries. Can anybody tell me which libraries are needed for Wordperfe

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 07 October 1998 01:42 Subject: [off topic] A pause in C? > >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

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Michael Beattie wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: > > > May be I have not made myself very clear. > > What I would like to do is something like this. After I read a web page > > in Netscape, I would like to bookmark it. There is a "Location" icon in > > the Netscape browser window

Re: moving "/" sda4 --> sdb1

1998-10-07 Thread John Leget
Thanx to everyone, >;0) All sorted, unfortunately i'll have to move it again as the original partition was larger than i remebered . At least ive had practice. My problem was i overlooked duplicate entries of root= in my lilo config :(. Id fixed the first one and neglected to check the rest of the

request for help

1998-10-07 Thread Z.S. Choy
Hi , I've a problem which I hope I could get some help from the experts :- I'm a new Debian user. I'm trying to install the OS into my existing Windows 95 pc with the following configuration :- 133MHZ Pendium 82Mbyte RAM Drive C: 1.2Gbyte (primary ide master) Drive D : 850Mbyte (2ndary id

Re: // in paths

1998-10-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > When I type (in bash): > >% type foo > > it returns > >foo is /usr/local/bin//foo > > with two /'s before `foo'. (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.) > Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone know what's causing it? Or how to > fix it? > This is what you get if t

Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-07 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi George On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, 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

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