Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-25 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Ok, still having a problem. Let me do some more explaining. This was a TAR file from another machine, I needed to make a copy of the tar file in order to distribute the data. THe file was tar'ed with a user and group ID that doesn't exsist on my system. So I am getting these errors: # tar -cvf /

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> On Sun, Oct 25 1998, D'jinnie spake thus: > > > I had this problem right before my hd went bad :( It might be very prudent > > to run fsck on it... > > hmm...i've only had this problem running 2.1.x kernels, not stock hamm 2.0.34. I've seen it before on kernels prior to 2.1, but I don't reca

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who > > created it can legally redistribute it. > There a few side-solutions then: > > - Debian community asks StarDiv the permission not likely to be granted; stardiv requires registration on a web page. However, FreeBSD

Re: dos2unix?

1998-10-25 Thread servis
*- Nuno Carvalho wrote about "Re: dos2unix?" | On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: | | > I always thought there was a package called "dos2unix" to convert dos | > text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there | > such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's it

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-25 Thread servis
*- Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote about "Re: tar and the braindead man" | On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape. | > Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if | > it was over 50% full? | > | >

Netatalk printing, DJ 500

1998-10-25 Thread Thomas Adams
I want to print from my Mac to a HP DJ 520 which is connected to the Linux box where magicfilter with the DJ 500 filter is installed. Can anybody recommend a good PPD file? I tried the HP LJ III (si) so far, without luck. Because I do not know what to look for I fear I have to check out every PPD

magicfilter problem

1998-10-25 Thread Thomas Adams
I installed magicfilter and have a problem with a ps file. Magicfilter itself sort of works, a "ls | lpr" worked. Then I tried it with "toc.ps" from the cnews doc. This prints until the line "4 Implementation" is reached (only the upper half of this line is printed, btw). Then the page just sits t

Re: Margin printing ... (Thanks)

1998-10-25 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Thanks for your help! :)) It really solved my problem. There could be better ways but this one is simple and efficient, i think. At least worked! :) On 25 Oct 1998, Carl Johnson wrote: > There might be better ways, but one way is to enable 'fullpage' mode. > Just select the 'Layout' menu, and

Re: dos2unix?

1998-10-25 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > I always thought there was a package called "dos2unix" to convert dos > text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there > such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's its name? Try do a script it something like: cat | se

Dselect Woes Revisited

1998-10-25 Thread Patrick Durusau
Greetings, Yes "Install All Packages" would be incorrect due to conflicts between packages. As I indicated in my earlier post it was also not possible to select the packages listed on the initial screen, as a return there simply dumps the user into the "Select" screen. Packages such as "admin," et

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-25 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape. > Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if > it was over 50% full? > > Do this instead: > > tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/thedirectory > > where /dev/st0 is the

dos2unix?

1998-10-25 Thread Thomas Apel
I always thought there was a package called "dos2unix" to convert dos text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's its name? TIA, Thomas

Re: Margin printing ...

1998-10-25 Thread Carl Johnson
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm using LyX and I'm writing a work very important... My problem is that > on LyX appears the margins just i would like to get on printer. > Unfortunally the text on my printer appears with big margins! ;( > > What should I do to get smaller

Netscape

1998-10-25 Thread Vince Rosso
When I try to run Netscape from a term window I get this error: netscape: locale `C' not supported. If the $XNLSPATH directory does not contain the proper config files, Netscape will crash the first time you try to paste into a text field. (This is a bug in the X11R5 libraries against which thi

xvidtune

1998-10-25 Thread Vince Rosso
When I try running xvidtune it tells me "Please install the program before using" Since xvidtune is part of the XF86Setup package I figured it was installed. XF86Setup works fine, but when it tries to run xvidtune, it also fails. Any ideas? --Vince

re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Preston Landers
Yes, I have noticed this too, only on 2.1.x kernels. Doing 'shutdown -r now' seems to take care of it for me. > Subject: Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL > > On Sun, Oct 25 1998, D'jinnie spake thus: > > > I had this problem right before my hd went bad :( It might be very prudent > > to run f

how to make diald and pppd work together (re "peer refused to authenticate")

1998-10-25 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
How is diald supposed to be set up in Debian 2.0? I got PPP working with the pon script by setting things up with pppconfig. Now I'm trying to set up diald. I'm getting a PPP error message, and it's not clear which way it should be fixed. More generally, it's not clear how much of the pppd s

Re: tar and the braindead man

1998-10-25 Thread servis
*- Anthony Landreneau wrote about "tar and the braindead man" | Greetings, | Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape drive, a | directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple enough, | but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was: | t

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-25 Thread David Frye
Here is how to install StarOffice: mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib cd /usr/local/StarOffice/lib ln -s libc.so.5 libXpm.so.4 ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.38 libc.so.5 cd where ever your untar'd version of StarOffice is ./Setup Prior to running Setup, I edited it to reflect t

Margin printing ...

1998-10-25 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm using LyX and I'm writing a work very important... My problem is that on LyX appears the margins just i would like to get on printer. Unfortunally the text on my printer appears with big margins! ;( What should I do to get smaller margins on printer !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno

tar and the braindead man

1998-10-25 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Got what I thought was a simple problem. I have a 2GB DAT tape drive, a directory that I want to backup to that tape drive. Seems simple enough, but I can't seem to get it to work. I thought the command was: tar -cvf thetarfile.tar /usr/thedirectory But it isn't working. Now I

RE: IP_Masqing w/ipchains

1998-10-25 Thread Jon Burchmore
> On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:57:10 -0500 (EST), Ben Collins wrote: > > >ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASK > > That is what I tried and it didn't work for some reason. > Tried it with > ipfwadm-wrapper as well, no go. Finally installed ipmasq and it > did it

Re: dselect Woes

1998-10-25 Thread Jim foltz
Hi Patrick, I suggest that you not change the package selections during the initial installation. You can always go back and add/remove packages later. Don't try to add/remove too many things at one time, the dependancies become difficult to sort out. On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 03:09:24PM -0500, Pa

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread Daniel Martin
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanx but nope, thats not the problem, sysklog 1.3-30 is installed and > > permissions > > > Any other takers >;0) > > I'll take another swing :) > > Could something have switched you to/from shadow passwrds? This > is another popular w

Re: dselect Woes

1998-10-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 03:09:24PM -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > (I would think "all packages" would mean exactly that but it > apparently does not.) You cannot install everything. This is intentional: the distribution contains many packages which conflict, that is, which cannot coexist in a m

dselect Woes

1998-10-25 Thread Patrick Durusau
Hello, I am trying to install the Debian Release 2.0 (CheapBytes) and am having trouble with the dselect utility. If I am reading the help file correctly one can highlight "all packages", press return, and then proceed to installation. When I do that there are an enormous number of packages that

Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....

1998-10-25 Thread D'jinnie
:If you are one of those extravagent people who has more than one :computer, you could always run something like PostgreSQL or mySQL and :use their ODBC drivers to use them as a backend, but do all your :database design on Access... I'm thinking of doing this myself at the :moment with my homicide

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:27:04 +1100 Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:22:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My system hasn't recognized daylight saving either, I don't think >> it has to do with the bios... is there a way to automate these >> changes? > > Linux will only

ATI Xpert@play 98 at 1600x1200 resolution.

1998-10-25 Thread Oz Dror
I Would like to get the ati card above, does it work fine at the 1600x1200 resolution. does it work in accelerated mode on 32bits color at 1600x1200 How would it be compared to my current card the diamond 3240 (diamond video vram 64) -thanks -- <<

GPL-like office suite package?

1998-10-25 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hello! Today many users like to use StarOffice and/or other graphical WYSIWYG office suites. Is there any project to make a GPL package with all the "userlikeness" of these packages, with the same resources (and less bugs ;-)) that MS-Office has? Things like hundreds of functions, not very str

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread john
wb2oyc writes: > I'm not sure how to tell the ppp daemon or chatscript to tell you that Replace the 'ATZ' in your chatscript with 'ATW2'. Add '-r /etc/ppp/speed' to the options given to chat and add 'REPORT CONNECT' to the top of your chatscript. The speed will appear in /etc/ppp/speed. -- John

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > No reply, so some more info: > > > > when trying /etc/init.d/exim start|stop|reload or anything, I get no > > message like starting MTA I suspect this may be connected wi

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread Leon Breedt
On Sun, Oct 25 1998, wb2oyc spake thus: > Check your modem manual. There is an AT command that will tell your > modem to report not the DTE port speed (the speed of the interface > between your serial port and the modem itself), but the actual carrier > speed--the speed of the modem to modem con

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Leon Breedt
On Sun, Oct 25 1998, D'jinnie spake thus: > I had this problem right before my hd went bad :( It might be very prudent > to run fsck on it... hmm...i've only had this problem running 2.1.x kernels, not stock hamm 2.0.34. ideas? leon -- __ _ Leon Breedt

stereo or mono on CD play (xmcd)

1998-10-25 Thread Jinsong Zhao
I finally got xmcd work on my computer. But problem is my CD driver is OEM without specific brand. Then I use other non-SCSI in xmcdconfig. What have I got? I can only hear the right channel. After I ran xmcd, the buttons (for simple music playing) on the front panel of the CD drive are also disabl

Re: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed

1998-10-25 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "JC" == JC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> Hi Gang: I keep getting this error trying to start XServer. JC> XF85Config works great but I think something is wrong with JC> xinit. I think you will see that the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver reads '/usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE'. It shou

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread wb2oyc
>How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? > Check your modem manual. There is an AT command that will tell your modem to report not the DTE port speed (the speed of the interface between your serial port and the modem itself), but the actual carrier speed--the speed of

Re: Printing Problems

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have been trying to follow the Printing-HOWTO instructions, but to no > avail. Unless you have a really obscure printer, your best bet is to install magicfilter. This takes care of it all for you... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Stewar

Printing Problems

1998-10-25 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have been trying to follow the Printing-HOWTO instructions, but to no avail. In my printcap I have lp :sd:/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sh: (I don't have a filter yet, I am just trying to get something out of the printer) When I type 'lp test' I get an error message: transf

My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, No reply, so some more info: when trying /etc/init.d/exim start|stop|reload or anything, I get no message like starting MTA I suspect this may be connected with my problem. How can I get it working properly, please? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of th

Re: X windows Managers

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Derek McCabe wrote: > Ive been able to boot X, but I would like to run a windows manager with it > like window maker, but I get a Xterm window, and when I try to manually run a > manager, I cannot click on the buttons. What did I do wrong? I dpkged the > files, and they see

Re: IP_Masqing w/ipchains

1998-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:57:10 -0500 (EST), Ben Collins wrote: >ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASK That is what I tried and it didn't work for some reason. Tried it with ipfwadm-wrapper as well, no go. Finally installed ipmasq and it did it for me. Hate it w

Re: staroffice .. libXpm.so.4 missing

1998-10-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I was told that the correct lib could be found in the xpm4.7 package under oldlibs. I installed this and it worked! ---Kirston Akos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > Please check the /usr/X11R6/lib directory. May be the version number is > diferent. > I have the same problem in spite

RE: StarOffice

1998-10-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
> StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who > created it can legally redistribute it. There a few side-solutions then: - Debian community asks StarDiv the permission - StarDiv does it on its own - There's a script used to install StarOffice 3.0 The same could? be

X windows Managers

1998-10-25 Thread Derek McCabe
Ive been able to boot X, but I would like to run a windows manager with it like window maker, but I get a Xterm window, and when I try to manually run a manager, I cannot click on the buttons. What did I do wrong? I dpkged the files, and they seem to install correctly...     Is this common f

Re: StarOffice

1998-10-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > StarOffice runs as good on Debian 2.0 as it does prior versions. > > Please file this message and pass along. It seems that every week > > someone asks how to install StarOffice, and fails to look back > > through the archives of this mailing list. > > > > Why doesn'

Re: RTF reader

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:59:14AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good package for viewing .rtfs? My soundcard CD has > > it's doc's in this format, and I need to read them in the hopes that it > > will contain the IRQ and DMA val

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread wb4mle
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:28:05 + (GMT), you wrote: >How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? > > > Put "REPORT CONNECT" at the beginning of your chatscript. -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA 0x935801A9

RE: StarOffice

1998-10-25 Thread Christian Lavoie
> StarOffice runs as good on Debian 2.0 as it does prior versions. > Please file this message and pass along. It seems that every week > someone asks how to install StarOffice, and fails to look back > through the archives of this mailing list. > Why doesn't someone make .deb files out of the pack

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
richard wrote: > > How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? > 'plog -f' will show the connect speed in its output. Use ctl-c to exit when done. -- Ed C.

[no subject]

1998-10-25 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I am new to debian linux (not new to linux in general), and still trying to install debian 2.0. All kernels I tried to boot on my machine, hang after they found my CD-ROM drive (FreeBSD boots clearly) My setup is: ASUS SP98AGP-X K6-233 Adaptec 2940UW (rev 1.32) 2 x SCSI hardisks IDE-CDROM 12

modem connection speed

1998-10-25 Thread richard
How can I tell at what speed I am connecting to my ISP under linux? * * "This job's too hard for us" -Andy and Randy Pig *

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread D'jinnie
I had this problem right before my hd went bad :( It might be very prudent to run fsck on it... --- Never let your schooling interfere with your education. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: IP_Masqing w/ipchains

1998-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is what I have: ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASK You may need to change the 10.* and netmask to suit your network internal network. On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > OK, I've got 2.1.126 and ipchains instal

Re: Missing rgb file

1998-10-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
jeb hat gesagt: // jeb wrote: > I get the error message below when I try to start X. > > Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' > > I used "find" to confirm there is no rgb file on my system anywhere. > > So, somehow the file must have disappeared, or it's named differently > or > > Do

Re: Siag Office or wmfind..any successfully compiled these.

1998-10-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Person, Rod hat gesagt: // Person, Rod wrote: > What's Up, > > I have been trying to compile Siag office and wmfind for awhile now, but > I can't seem to get them to compile. > > For Siag office, I have no clue as to why it won't compile. I have xpm, > Xaw3d, tcl\tk and perl, but it will not mak

Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux

1998-10-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:34:31PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Isn't there a change from gcc to egcs or something? Currently the situation is this: The Debian C compiler is gcc or egcs, depending on architecture. On Intel x86, it is gcc, because of its stability. The C++ compiler is always eg

StarOffice

1998-10-25 Thread David Frye
Here is how to install StarOffice: mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice mkdir /usr/local/StarOffice/lib cd /usr/local/StarOffice/lib ln -s libc.so.5 libXpm.so.4 ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.38 libc.so.5 cd where ever your untar'd version of StarOffice is ./Setup Prior to running Setup, I edited it to reflect

fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, These days, when I reboot my machine, the file system is not always unmounted. The machine says that the file system is busy and cannot be unmounted and reboots. Any idea ? TIA, Ionutz PS: I don't know if this is useful, but here it is: My kernel 2.1.125. The .config file that I used is a

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Thanx but nope, thats not the problem, sysklog 1.3-30 is installed and > permissions > Any other takers >;0) I'll take another swing :) Could something have switched you to/from shadow passwrds? This is another popular way to loose your root password :) If you're not using shadow passwords,

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:22:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My system hasn't recognized daylight saving either, I don't think it has to > do with the bios... is there a way to automate these changes? Linux will only change the system clock if it is actually running at the time of the chan

Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!

1998-10-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:43:16AM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Before going for all these detailed solutions, let me say that my HP 6L As does my 5L. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hami

Re: no pcmcia drivers on install

1998-10-25 Thread wb2oyc
>Uh, it's on the _previous_ menu. When you are offered "Install Drivers" >select "Alternate: Install PCMCIA Support" _FIRST_. I may be wrong about this, but from the past, this option is intended for those that need pcmcia support during the install. For example, an ethernet pcmcia adapter will b

Missing rgb file

1998-10-25 Thread jeb
I get the error message below when I try to start X. Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' I used "find" to confirm there is no rgb file on my system anywhere. So, somehow the file must have disappeared, or it's named differently or Does anyone know how the "rgb" file gets install

PERMISO DENEGADO EN FS Y RCP

1998-10-25 Thread PEDRO FERNANDEZ
He empezado hace poco a trabajr en Linux. Tengo un problema que es el siguiente: Después de instalarlo, y al montar un FS de un sistema (antiguo), System V, interactive, me encuentro que me responde permiso denegado, así mismo, me responde lo mismo cuando trato de hacer rcp desde

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Thanks, > I spent the better part of the day trying to figure this one out. Not only > did > I lose the ablilty to become root, but my machine hung when trying to start > the > postgresql postmaster (which I believe needed root privlages). I was stumped > because I was able to boot up from m

Re: Downloading install files

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Richard Davis wrote: > I'm an absolute greenhorn with debian so I'm sorry if this is stupid > How do you download the linux file? > When I download it, it downloads as an html file. > I know it is not an html file, but what am I doing wrong? > Everything else downloaded fine.

help with Canon LaserShot A404 F

1998-10-25 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have a Canon Laser JEt A404 F printer and I would like to use it from unix through samba. The printer is shared on a Win95 pc. I have GS and MAGICFILTER but I do not know what filter ot use ! TIA, Ionutz

Re: DayLight Saving - in Australia

1998-10-25 Thread homega
David Brown dixit: [Charset x-UNICODE-2-0-U unsupported, skipping...] My system hasn't recognized daylight saving either, I don't think it has to do with the bios... is there a way to automate these changes? Your message appears with an "M" next to it in my mail reader, and when I did the "reply"

Re: staroffice .. libXpm.so.4 missing

1998-10-25 Thread Kirston Akos
Hi! Please check the /usr/X11R6/lib directory. May be the version number is diferent. I have the same problem in spite of that I have these libs (only different version number) in the directory above. So when I make sym. links with the correct name the netscape and lot of program exit with segmen

Re: Setting variables for menu access

1998-10-25 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"David Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Greetings Debianites, | | I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for. | | My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells | me I don't have my CVROOT variable set. If I run it from xterm, everything | i

Re: CDs

1998-10-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 24-Oct-1998, D'jinnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess this is pretty offtopic but I thought I'd ask :) Having looked at > pretty much all the debian cd vendors, and not being too happy with any > of them, I half-considered getting some pressed and selling them just for > the price of the pr

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-25 Thread Bill Van Devender
Thanks, I spent the better part of the day trying to figure this one out. Not only did I lose the ablilty to become root, but my machine hung when trying to start the postgresql postmaster (which I believe needed root privlages). I was stumped because I was able to boot up from my rescue disk and

Re: problem in kernel building: as86

1998-10-25 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jinsong Zhao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm building the kernel 2.0.35 for SB AWE card. When I run "make > zImage", it ends with "as86 not found". I link as86 to /usr/bin/as, > then it complains about the "unrecognized option -O". > > Which package should I install to get as86? bin86 Mike St

problem in kernel building: as86

1998-10-25 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi, I'm building the kernel 2.0.35 for SB AWE card. When I run "make zImage", it ends with "as86 not found". I link as86 to /usr/bin/as, then it complains about the "unrecognized option -O". Which package should I install to get as86? Thanks! Jinsong

Re: Downloading install files

1998-10-25 Thread Jim
Right click on the filename and choose "save link as..." Richard Davis wrote: > I'm an absolute greenhorn with debian so I'm sorry if this is stupid > How do you download the linux file? > When I download it, it downloads as an html file. > I know it is not an html file, but what am I doing wrong

Re: no pcmcia drivers on install

1998-10-25 Thread Jim
Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > Hi All, > > I posted a few weeks ago about not begin able to get my pcmcia card to work > on my TI/Acer 610CD laptop. A similar occurrence happened to me. I had Debian install the pcmcia drivers but when all was finished I found I had no /lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia. Wh

Re: Downloading install files

1998-10-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
Richard Davis wrote: > I'm an absolute greenhorn with debian so I'm sorry if this is stupid > How do you download the linux file? > When I download it, it downloads as an html file. > I know it is not an html file, but what am I doing wrong? > Everything else downloaded fine. I assume you are usi

Re: creating preselected configurations for DSELECT

1998-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 11:26:20AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Milan Durovic posted this before but seemed to have payed any > attention to it. His idea sounded great to me (I'm sure it will also > sound great to you those who are in the computer realted businesses) > so Im posting this agai

Re: no pcmcia drivers on install

1998-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 10:50:34PM -0400, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: > --- Pann McCuaig wrote: > Uh, it's on the _previous_ menu. When you are offered "Install Drivers" > select "Alternate: Install PCMCIA Support" _FIRST_. > --- end of quoted material --- > Ok, I've done that. Perhaps I've misunde

Re: installing debian

1998-10-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 12:18:25PM +1100, Corbishley Family wrote: > I retrieved it from the net on one machine and I want to install it, by > floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk. > > I have got through the low mem disk fine (partitioned hard disk into > Linux, Linux swap, Minux

Re: creating preselected configurations for DSELECT

1998-10-25 Thread chadi
Milan Durovic posted this before but seemed to have payed any attention to it. His idea sounded great to me (I'm sure it will also sound great to you those who are in the computer realted businesses) so Im posting this again. Hope to hear something from you guys ! Cheers, Chad

Downloading install files

1998-10-25 Thread Richard Davis
I'm an absolute greenhorn with debian so I'm sorry if this is stupid How do you download the linux file? When I download it, it downloads as an html file. I know it is not an html file, but what am I doing wrong? Everything else downloaded fine.

Re: no pcmcia drivers on install

1998-10-25 Thread Daniel E. Hollis
--- Pann McCuaig wrote: Uh, it's on the _previous_ menu. When you are offered "Install Drivers" select "Alternate: Install PCMCIA Support" _FIRST_. --- end of quoted material --- Ok, I've done that. Perhaps I've misunderstood how one configures a pcmcia card in the install script. I have a net

IP_Masqing w/ipchains

1998-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
OK, I've got 2.1.126 and ipchains installed but now I am stuck on what to issue to get masking enabled. I tried doing it manually as well as using ipfwadm-wrapper to no avail. Does anyone have a simple drop in command or two to get them going? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opin

installing debian

1998-10-25 Thread Corbishley Family
Hi, I downloaded Debian last night and I cant seem to install it. I retrieved it from the net on one machine and I want to install it, by floppy to an old 386 with 4MB ram and 120MB hard disk. I have got through the low mem disk fine (partitioned hard disk into Linux, Linux swap, Minux/Linux).

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: > Eeek, > > Just made the mistake of trying a terminal switch whilst running quake2 > 3.2 beta ( curiousity did indeed kill the cat here ) anyway > resulted in a total lockup. took of 3dfx loop cable and bypassed monitor > no luck :(. > No response on numloc

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: > Folks, > > Thanks for the tips, but so far still no joy. > > Regarding posting all the messages, I can't even read them all. > As the messages start to scroll up, the display blinks (trying to go into > graphics mode, I suspect,) then comes back

Re: matrox marvel g200

1998-10-25 Thread Max
> From: Michael Sicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: matrox marvel g200 > > does xfree already support the matrox marvel g200 (agp version)? if not, > which x server and settings can i use until then? S.U.S.E. has a server that supports the Millennium/Mystique G200. It may work for the Marvel

Re: Setting variables for menu access

1998-10-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
"David Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Set them in your ~/.xsession file. > Greetings Debianites, > > I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for. > > My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells > me I don't have my CVROOT variable se

Re: root - password wiped ?? how ??

1998-10-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
you probably upgraded to sysklogd .29 a few days ago . . . startp in single-user ("linux single" at LILO) and ugrade to .30. Or, once in single usr, chmod +x /etc/init.d/sysklogd (i think that's the right file), and it becomes executable. Of course, there's worse variants of this problem. By t

Re: Bug in CD-ROM modules ???

1998-10-25 Thread Mark Panzer
ivan wrote: > > Hello, > > This is further to my post last titled "THIRD TIME - please help". I am > sorry but I haven't got a copy because I had to format my Win95 partition > and re-install. > Hey I know the feeling. > No doubt you are all bored of this but I have tried all of the suggestion