Re: Backspace in xterm (again) [FIXED]

> > Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous > > Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. ... and now it works fine! Thanks to everyone for making a wonderful system where all the bad things go away and nice surprises show up a

Security problem

Hello, At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges. Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened. The Lan Watch showed someone form Israel send a very long packet to mountd. Shortly after, tw

Root Change Password

I'm trying to change the root password on my Debian 2.0 box. I log in as root, locally, and run passwd. Everything appears to change normally, but the password remains the same as before. Reboots do not seem to cure this. Please help! Thanks Adrian

Re: Configure PCMCIA *FIRST* (Was Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.)

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 05:40:25PM +, Jim wrote: > Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and > configured from default menu choice "Configure Device Driver Modules" first, > and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't > initializ

Configure PCMCIA *FIRST* (Was Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.)

Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and configured from default menu choice "Configure Device Driver Modules" first, and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't initialize (boy am I getting an education) I am thinking re-install? W

Re: limiting ftp access from web page?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Colin Telmer wrote: > I have my ftp directory linked from my web page and want to limit access > to certain domains. Any idea how I can do this? I am running debian slink. > Cheers. > tcp_wrappers See hosts_access(5). noah PGP public

Re: GDB and ADA.

> > What is the best way to have hamm system support debugging of ADA programs > > in > > gdb ? > > Install the slink version of gdb, try if it works; if it doesn't, submit a > useful bug report. > >dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/gdb_4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gn at.deb > Note t

limiting ftp access from web page?

I have my ftp directory linked from my web page and want to limit access to certain domains. Any idea how I can do this? I am running debian slink. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Re: Problem with man

Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > Try, as root, executing > > mandb > > This should hopefully update your man database. > > Though I have to admit, I'm having problems with the whatis feature, and I'm > trying to figure out when it stopped working - when I updated to the latest > slink or kde. Di

Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.

I assume you run bind. Write a script to go in ip-up.d that does something like: 1) dig @theispdomain | grep "IN NS" > afile 2) extract the IPs of the servers and sed them into the forwarder line in named.conf 3) ndc restart in ip-down.d you'll want to restore the named.conf to something 'norm

Mounting /fd0 (Was Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.)

I see, I must have been confused when the archive tried to open man and found it wasn't there. I wonder then why is the reference to man in the archive at all. Thank you for your help. And thank everyone for your help. This is a lively group! Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get t

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of see the sig below > me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list > file as > > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > > But I don't thi

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mitch Blevins writes: > > For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for. > > Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux? Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm) that I had heard of it working... Anybody out th

Printer stops after half of page

Hi, my printer ( hp deskjet 500, debian hamm ) stops after a few lines and stays busy forever. I tried dvi and ps via magicfilter. Half of the page comes out, then the printer stops, busy light on, and nothing happens. lpq says no jobs. Does anyone know the problem ( and solution )? Greetings, C

X warnings (was: emacs warning)

Actually, it looks like the problem is directly related to upgrading all the X libraries and stuff. Any X application now generates the following warnings: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset However, everything seems to work fine and

Re: what is the recommended way to downgrade?

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 02:00:15PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > What is the correct way to downgrade a package? > I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants > to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to > downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3

emacs warning

I recently upgraded emacs, xbase, xlib6g, etc. to the latest versions in slink and now I get the following warning whenever I start emacs: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default Does anyone know what this is and how to get r

Re: smail config broken?

At 23:49 Uhr -0700 21.10.1998, George Bonser wrote: >Exim is a much better choice. Any chances that this will replace Smail as Debian's de-facto default MTA in the near future?

Re: Unidentified subject!

Please forgive me for the crossposted reply, I've trimmed some addresses out. On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote: > Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future > of Linux IMHO. I2O also springs to mind, and Intel may help with > this. We've seen

Re: Problems with xbase/xserver upgrade

My experience is similar. I notice that xset is now missing. -- Stan

When will X be working properly?

Hi, Does anyone have idea when X will be functioning properly again? I've really hosed my X setup with the current packages. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so daring when I installed the current X packages. :) Thanks, -Ossama __

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for hamm (2.0). He was NOT using apt under dsel

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

Well there is something you can do... 1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory space. 2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as above. Now we know why intel and ms want isa to

Re: (offtopic) comic strip?

Yes! I knew debian people could read minds! Thanks to everyone who replied =) --- Man was created before woman, obviously as a prototype. Thus, they represent an experiment, rather than the crowning achievement of creation. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) f

Re: (offtopic) comic strip?

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:29:40 -0500 (CDT), D'jinnie wrote: >some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny >comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any >clues please let me know :) www.userfriendly.org -- Steve C. Lamb | I'

Re: (offtopic) comic strip?

> some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny > comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any > clues please let me know :) > Could it have been userfriendly ??? http://www.userfriendly.com Olafur Jens Sigurdsson

what is the recommended way to downgrade?

What is the correct way to downgrade a package? I can remove it and then reinstall, but removing xbase wants to remove an awful lot of other packages with it. (I want to downgrade xbase because, after installing Version: 3.3.2.3a-4, I don't seem to have xset anymore.) $ dpkg --search xset xload

gigabyte ga-6xds

Hallo again, Is anyone using a Gigabyte GA-6XDS Motherboard? I know it comes with onboard SCSI (plus) but it uses an Adaptec 7895 chipset (minus). So I need to know how easy it it to use linux with this board. Is there a kernel that readily supports this chipset or is it better to purchase a se

Re: Locale "C" in X missing?

After upgrading to the latest available XF86 Debian packages my programs > no longer run properly. For example, one commercial package gives the > following error: THere are two versions of xbase/server/fonts in slink right now. one seems to be based on libc5. I didn't find a solution, but af

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote: > > What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP > > connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my > > mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, I tried that and just about every other combination I can think of. The > only one that gets the Packages list is the original version (which was > suggested by someone here) but it won't actually install anything. I can > however install from t

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

On 22 Oct 1998q, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. > > It > > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > > cdrom. > > > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > >

problem getting sound

Hello people, I think this is the last of my confguration problems, so bare with me. I'm trying to get my SB32 to work, obviously it's fine under windows, so they're the values is used after doing a pnpdump. (see below for full isapnp.conf). I've built sound into the kernel using these values

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory [...] > Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer [...] > I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible. Since the PC

Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

Rick Younie wrote: > If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode > instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the > window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a > language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line > feed pairs with a li

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

Mitch Blevins writes: > For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for. Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Locale "C" in X missing?

Hi, After upgrading to the latest available XF86 Debian packages my programs no longer run properly. For example, one commercial package gives the following error: Error: X does not support locale C. Netscape complains about missing NLS stuff, and another program segmentation faults.

(offtopic) comic strip?

some time ago, (I think it was on a debian list) a URL to a pretty funny comic strip was posted. I don't even recall the name :( If you've any clues please let me know :) --- If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote: > What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP > connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my > mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff > (actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to

Problems with xbase/xserver upgrade

I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow they deleted (at least) the "xdm" executable. Some of the message during the failure said that the file /var/dpkg/(i forgot dirname)/tmp.ci/preinst does not e

where does failed mail go in exmh?

while fighting slink, i ran FreeBSD for a day. Don't do this with your ext2 partitions; it doesn't work quite right (@!*#(*&$((). ANnyway, I had to modify my .maildeliver for the different location of rcvstore. I forgot to undo this before logging in after i restored my file system, and it

Alien and rpm

I would suggest that it is better to convert the rpm packages to deb with alien before using. I have been doing this for months, and I have not have one (obvious) problem yet ... the packages convert without fail and install and run just fine. The reason I suggest doing this instead of installing

Re: Why can't I execute a script??

Peter S Galbraith wrote: > If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where > you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin > directory! (Same privileges are required) > > Just a thought. Just make the . directory the _last_ part of your pat

Re: Unidentified subject!

Hope you don't mind... Out of my reply I have clipped a great many adresses. I would imagine Alan Cox and Linus Torvalds are very busy men and don't need my chatter :) - and the Debian-user list is the only one I am on that even seems mildly aprorpriate (btw sending it to multiple redhat adresses

Re: Why can't I execute a script??

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : "Helge Hafting" wrote: : : > You don't have "." in your path, so files are *not* considered executable : > just because they are in the *current* directory. : > : > This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called

Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jim wrote: > Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. > > I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ > and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file. > > I have downloade

Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:04:16PM +, Jim wrote: > Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. > > I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ > and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.

Re: Base2_0.tgz missing man command.

*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. Hello, and welcome :-) | I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from | ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ | and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file. Tha

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

*- Lukas Eppler wrote about "Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors" | On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote: | > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a | > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone | > using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) |

Re: Why can't I execute a script??

"Helge Hafting" wrote: > You don't have "." in your path, so files are *not* considered executable > just because they are in the *current* directory. > > This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called > "ls" or similiar in his home directoy. If you try to look at his

Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??

> I dwnloaded newsletr.tar.gz from the CTAN site. On attempting a tar > xvfz, I got: > > icarus:~/writing/newsletter> tar xvfz newsletr.tar.gz > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next file header > > Is there anything I can do to recover the file, or am

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Frock wrote: > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone > using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) Once someone posted this script to find the fastest debian mirror, which could

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I retrieved dvisvga and dvilx from slink. I tried to install them > with dpkg. Each attempt fails with > the message tetex-bin is required but not installed. What am I missing > about this? >chuck kaufman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] See

idea's?

I have two debian 2.0 boxes that have Spellcaster ISDN cards installed. These machines are using CIPE to provide a encrypted link to each-other across the internet. Currently the boxes are both online 24/7 and I've just been informed that if the remote box remains online full time they w

Base2_0.tgz missing man command.

Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux. I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file. I have downloaded another copy of base2_0.tgz from ftp://ftp.dt

Re: need help getting X server running...

What I don't really understand is why XF86Setup was able to function just fine with the S3 setup, but the actual S3 X server package failed... But I'm just trying not to think about it too much. = That's because XF86Setup doesn't use the S

Re: linux first boot

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote: > When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot: > prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick > to read and then my pc re-boots itself. There are 4 different boot images on the cheap byte

Unidentified subject!

Hi, I don't mean to "spam," but I am concerned. Please disregard as appropriate. I'll keep it short. I'm mainly just an end-user FWIW, I have no clout, no special programming skills, and little spare time. Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future of Linux IMHO. I2O als

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

Paul writes: > I've come to the conclusion that the best way of doing what I'm after is > to dial up manually, using pon. This is no problem. Diald doesn't really > offer me anything extra here, as I basically don't want to dial up on > demand... BUT, once I am online, I'd like to be able to get at

RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

>From: Mitch Blevins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Moore, Paul wrote: >> [snip] >> The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no >> reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald >> proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link >

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

Anthony Campbell wrote: > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > cdrom. > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

Moore, Paul wrote: > [snip] > The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no > reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald > proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link > came up again, diald started a SECOND copy of slr

Problem with dbf2mysql 1.10b-2

I have installed the package dbf2mysql 1.10b-2 but I run it dbf2mysql: can't load library 'libmysqlclient.so.3' Ciro Marino

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

I retrieved dvisvga and dvilx from slink. I tried to install them with dpkg. Each attempt fails with the message tetex-bin is required but not installed. What am I missing about this? chuck kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Paul Seelig wrote:

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

Moore, Paul writes: > Can diald be persuaded to do this (hangup-only, no dialup function)? If > not, how do I get at the ppp link stats to monitor packets going > through? If I can monitor packets/sec across the ppp link, or maybe > traffic over the modem, I could write my own monitor-and-time

alien or rpm?

Hey. I was wondering, what would be a better idea, to install an RPM package by converting it first to .deb with alien, or just by using RPM directly since it's there? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the O

Re: smail problems (dial-up)

Leon Breedt writes: > > I found a command "runq" which seems to push stuff through. Is that what > > it's for? If so, how do I get this to happen automatically when I start > > the PPP link? > > any scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ get run when the ppp link is established. > so, in your case, i

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

I use "pidof" for this purpose. Seems to work better, for me at least, than searching for strings in the output of "ps" You can discard the output of "pidof" and use the return value. Something like shown below. Substituting the program you want to monitor for "suck". while pidof suck > /dev/null

Re: libc6_2.0.7u-3/Gimp install problems

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Kevin Glynn wrote: > > I'm sorry, I can't answer your question. However, I would like to > install a UNAX 1220S scanner on my Debian box too. I've been told > that the SCSI adapter card that comes with the scanner isn't supported > by Linux (a DTC 436E). Is this true? >

RE: STRANGE ERROR

kernel 2.0.34 Thanks On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Guessing, but it sounds like a kernel bug. You neglected to mention what > kernel you have. > > > On 22-Oct-98 Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Hi Everybody > > > > Today, I have discovered a strange warning in /var/log/messages: > > >

Re: need help getting X server running...

> Folks, > > I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server > working. I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling > me I had established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving > the config to XF86Config, and run startx, I get the followi

Re: Install question

> Hello! Hi :) > I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and > Linux. > In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own > the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of > partitioning is the best. He will use System

Re: need help getting X server running...

At 09:06 PM 10/21/1998 -0700, Jesse Evans wrote: > > Folks, > > I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server working. > I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling me I had > established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving the config to

Re: plog permissions

XRD Lab writes: > After some time, whenever I tried to plog, I got 'Permission denied' > message. I tracked it the changed group ownership of /var/log/ppp.log > from dip to adm. I reset it. It changed again. Should ppp.log belong to > adm or dip? If it is being changed periodically, where can I dis

RE: Install question

I'm currently tri-boot using System Commander myself. My hardware: 64MB RAM 5.5 GB HD My installation process was: Fdisk drive as FAT16 into primary & extended partition leaving about 1.5 GB as unpartitioned freespace. Installed Win98. Installed System Commander. Installed NT WS into the same par

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: > The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no > reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald > proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link > came up again,

Re: linux first boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I had this problem with a year old TX motherboard. There was a problem with a buggy bios that didn't init the keyboard correctly. Fix was to flash upgrade the bios. On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote: > I can't install linux. > > When

Re: Install question

Jamie Hart wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:53 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Install question > > Hello! > > I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT > an

Re: exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork -> reboot

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hannu Koivisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I >have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new >processes can't have been started. "vfork: resource temporarily >unavailable" is what my shell

Re: dvi viewer in 2.0

Ja napot It's not very often I get to use my two words of Hungarian, especially now that Nepkosarsaszag Ut is obsolete. Thanks for the opportunity and the help. I'll try it. Someone suggested I just get xdvi out of the tetex-bin package and inst all it. I tried that and it did not

Re: Install question

> >> Hello! > >Hi :) > >> I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and >> Linux. >> In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own >> the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of >> partitioning is the best. He will use

exim/cron causes process pollution? Can't fork -> reboot

Greetings, Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new processes can't have been started. "vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" is what my shell (zsh) says. If, with echo `< file`, I examine the contents of /pro

Re: linux first boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Paloschi Diego Esteban (ceb1_98) wrote: > When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot: > prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick > to read and then my pc re-boots itself. The problem has

Re: Install question (fwd)

-- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Install question hello, i just did a nt, linux install. read the howto of nt-linux. Install Nt first then win98 then linux. use nt's boot loader to boot 98 and linux. if you need

RE: Install question

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Install question Hello! I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and Linux. In which order must he do th

Re: Pokey The Penguin

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mats Eriksson wrote: > Are there any plans to include Pokey The Penguin strip > (http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/) packages in Debian ? You must be joking :-) !!! /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ (\/ __)_www.fmf.uni-freiburg

Re: Seyon and ISDN, step 2.

Dear Martin, my previous message probably started while I was getting a disturbance on the line: this is the ocrrect one. As I said, I am starting seyon with seyon -modems /dev/ttyI0 & my .seyon/startup now contains these lines (I have changed my phone number) echo "Initializing modem..." trans

Re: Seyon and ISDN, step 2.

Dear Martin, as I said, I am starting seyon with seyon -modems /dev/ttyI0 & my .seyon/startup now contains these lines (I have changed my phone number) echo "Initializing modem..." transmit "AT&e22s14=3^M" echo "Current settings:" transmit "AT&V^M" and my .seyon/phonelist this one (phone n

Pokey The Penguin

Are there any plans to include Pokey The Penguin strip (http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/) packages in Debian ? Mats Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

On: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:16:30 + (GMT) Pere Camps writes: > > Hi! > While using mtools I get the following error: > > floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device > not configured Cannot initialize 'A:' > > And whilst using mpg123 I get this one: > > Sound e

Re: XDM and XDMCP

I've got it setup at work. All I've done is install the XDM package with dselect and have it start automagicly. I use it on a few systems and connect from Win9x machines running Xwin32. Steve. Michael Beattie wrote: > I would like to get XDM to work over my local network so that I can log > in

Re: Install question

> Hello! Hi :) > I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and > Linux. > In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own > the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of > partitioning is the best. He will use System C

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > It seems that ftp1.us.debian.org has had a recent surge in popularity, to > the point that it was saturating it's outbound connection! Unfortunately > this has resulted in it being shut down :< > > We have quite a few mirrors around the world, a parti

linux first boot

I can't install linux. When I boot my pc with the debian first install I get to the boot: prompt ok. When I press enter, a quick page of info passes by to quick to read and then my pc re-boots itself. I can't locate what the problem is. I have a 2.1GB IDE hard disk (Samsung). And an IDE controlle

Install question

Hello! I have a friend that wants to install in his new 6GB HD Win98, WinNT and Linux. In which order must he do the process? I suppose that Win98 will try to own the whole computer when installing, and I don't know what kind of partitioning is the best. He will use System Commande r to select t

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org and FTP mirrors

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 03:03:53AM +0200, Frock wrote: > I'm submitting this as a bug in hope that we might want apt to use a > random ftp-site carrying debian when installing - instead of everyone > using the same host (ftp1.us.debian.org) Since it's a conffile, is it unreasonable to expect peopl

[Fwd: Admin tool needed]

I can't check it yet, i'm having trouble with my cd rom ( just stop working - maybe i'll have to change it ) , but i dont remember this package... and i used dselect many times... thanks.Clovis.--- Begin Message --- When Michael Beattie wrote, I replied: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servi

RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

>From: Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: >> Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your >> query script) as the last item in ip-up. > >Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' - >so the leading 'z' puts t

Re: Unpartitioning a disk

David Sherow wrote: > > Try partition manager look for it on download.com or hotfiles.com. It's > shareware, but > it gets the job done > P.S. after you set you partitions uninstall the advanced boot manager. If you > installed it that way it will boot straight into windows. > The web site for

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote: > First problem was that I can't do the necessary "kill -HUP " > to force the link up unless I am root. I don't really want a setuid root > script to do this... Also, getting the PID of diald is (slightly) tricky > in a script. Never mind, I can fix this up

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