On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 02:15:53PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> What is possible is to use the apt method in dselect to install new
> packages, but it would seem this is not safe, as I get the following:
[snip]
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
> This should NOT be don
Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r
> was recognized?
>
> NatePuri
> Certified Law Student
> & Debian GNU/Linux Monk
> McGeorge School of Law
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://ompages.com
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Roy, Purna wrote:
> Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other
> settings for this ?
>
> > --
> > From: Branden Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999
> > I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping
> > someone could help me with.
> >
> > My win95 box cannot be seen by smbclient, and my linux box cannot be seen
> > by my win95 box. Both can ping each other, however, so I don't think it's
> > an ether problem.
> #1
Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Sorry if it is off topic. But how do I insert an
> > eps file that I have done in TkPaint in a TeX document?
>
> Insert:
>
>\usepackage{epsfig}
>
> at the top of the document, then do something like:
>
> \begin{center}
> \epsfig{file=filename.eps,width=150mm}
Roberto Magana wrote:
> \documentclass[][...]
> \usepackage{epsfig}
>
> \begin{center}
> \epsfig{file=myfile.eps, height=4cm}
> \end{center}
> ...
> this will put the figure "myfile.eps" 4 centimeters from the top, centered.
> More information can be found in "The Latex Companion Guid
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable but we can't
> all get a zip or LS120. Debian doesn't overwork them, they just fail.
> I bought 100 new Fuji floppies and 15 out of 100 would not even
> format, on Win95 or Linux!
I wonder wh
> Sorry if it is off topic. But how do I insert an
> eps file that I have done in TkPaint in a TeX document?
Insert:
\usepackage{epsfig}
at the top of the document, then do something like:
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=filename.eps,width=150mm}
\end{center}
at the appropriate pla
Interesting glitch in Pine 4.10
My ISP requires that my mailer send my login ID and correct domain name.
Configuring Pine for that was no problem, however, I use a remailer
service for my primary email address, that way when I relo and switch
ISP's my email stays the same.
I read through the arch
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
[cut]
> I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
> which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By
> the way does anybody think it would be easier to use the
> PnP mode, rather than hardwiring to COM3,IRQ4 ?
>
> The problem I
On 01-Mar-99 Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The last thing I expected to have problems with during my
> recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but
> guess what?
>
> I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
> which jumper switches to use, my modem is using tt
On 01-Mar-99 Ben Frame wrote:
> I am trying use a mounted filesystem as my /var. To
> accomplish this, after I mount the other filesystem, I type
> "mv var /mnt/destination" (/mnt/destination is the
> directory that is mounted to another machine) and it
> says, "cannot move 'var' across files
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > As Deb becomes bigger, attracting more users, with some
> > of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install
> > problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes
> > dselect? :-) ).
> No, there's at
*- On 1 Mar, Yi-ping Chang wrote about "How to keep both kernel-2.0.36 and
2.2.x? (in terms of lp setting)"
> Hi, there:
>
> I would like to keep both kernel-2.0.36 and 2.2.x in my machine. As you
> all have known, 2.2.x change the LPT1 as lp0. That becomes a problem if I
> want to keep both v
Hi,
The last thing I expected to have problems with during my
recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but
guess what?
I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By
the way does anybody think it would be easier
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 12:05:26PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> Here is my dmesg output:
>
> Linux version 2.2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #50 Sun Feb 28
> 19:42:41
> PST 1999
> Detected 266618583 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 Bog
I am trying use a mounted filesystem as my /var. To
accomplish this, after I mount the other filesystem, I type
"mv var /mnt/destination" (/mnt/destination is the
directory that is mounted to another machine) and it
says, "cannot move 'var' across filesystems: Not a
regular file"
I understan
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this
> message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log:
> Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4e
> magic=0x30c5fb97]
> Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: rcv
Nope, you need Win95 for long file names. Even DOS 6.22, the last in the
stand-alone DOS versions, doesn't do long names. What you could do is get a
Win95 boot disk and reformat the DOS drive and then have the long names
visable to Linux, but Win3.1 would still see only 8.3
At 05:22 PM 3/1/99 E
> You may try to edit the `acroread' executable by adding
>
> export -n LD_PRELOAD
>
> to the top. This should make the Acrobat work as helper.
Thank you, that did the trick. Acrobat now seems to work both as a helper
and as a plugin (I have not done any stress testing). Is the maintainer of
the
Hi,
On Sat, 27 Feb, 1999 à 02:02:37PM -0600, Roy-Anders Larsen wrote:
> Is it possible to re-size the extended partition without losing the
> logical drives ?
Yes : run fdisk and note the *exact* location of each logical partition
(ie : starting and ending cylinders). Then delete all the logical
\documentclass[][...]
\usepackage{epsfig}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=myfile.eps, height=4cm}
\end{center}
...
this will put the figure "myfile.eps" 4 centimeters from the top, centered.
More information can be found in "The Latex Companion Guide" by Goosens,
Mittelbach, and Samarin. F
In a message dated 3/1/99 4:06:05 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in
> your
> kernel, you can mount it after you login. This will give you full
filenames
> rather than 8.3 names.
>
I can't imagine t
At 10:16 AM 3/1/99 -0600, Keith Saxon wrote:
>I'm trying to install .deb files from a DOS partition.
>
>
>I have /hda1 (linux primary), /hda2 (linux swap), /hda3 (ms-dos primary).
Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in your
kernel, you can mount it after you logi
Hey! UW has given me permission to distribute PINE. COOL.
Here is the agreement for all to view:
By this message you have our permission to proceed to distribute the
debian modified version of Pine, from your web site, assuming you've read
our legal notices (see http://www.washington.edu/pine/l
Hi all,
Sorry if it is off topic. But how do I insert an
eps file that I have done in TkPaint in a TeX document?
Have a nice day,
Paulo Henrique
Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other
settings for this ?
> --
> From: Branden Robinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 11:58 AM
> To: Roy, Purna
> Subject: Re: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD)
>
In a message dated 3/1/99 3:28:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> For now, I would prefer to simply get a CLI login and do startx when I want
> it. Once I get everything set I wouldn't mind automatically doing a startx
> but I hav concerned about the underlying login fail
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 02:59:33PM -0600, Mike Merten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble
> getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO,
> both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one.
> It's a bran
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:27:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Been having some problems with two of the HDs in one of my machines.
> Both are Quantum TMs (a 2.3 and a 3.2, i believe), both on the first IDE
> chanel.
>
> The drives will pause and make a funny noise (which is never
I completed installing slink and now X comes up automatically. My first
login is always refused and the second one works. If I try to Quit X I am
forced back to the X login.
When I bring up xterm and do a 'shutdown -h now' I see that my original CLI
login has been repaetedly failing to login on
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 17:57:32 -0300, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
> I had to hack the vnc* source code (for it to use more displays than it
> was...). Now, I am trying to "diff" the old one with the new one, but I
> would like diff's output to be like debian's diffs. Is there any standard
> to di
On 01-Mar-99 Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I had to hack the vnc* source code (for it to use more displays
> than it was...). Now, I am trying to "diff" the old one with the new one,
> but I would like diff's output to be like debian's diffs. Is there any
> standard
Hi All,
I had to hack the vnc* source code (for it to use more displays
than it was...). Now, I am trying to "diff" the old one with the new one,
but I would like diff's output to be like debian's diffs. Is there any
standard to diff files when you are making *.deb packages?
"Gary L. Hennigan" wrote:
>
> I have mathematica installed on my system and was thinking it'd be
> nice to make this available via the menus. I know Debian has a nice
> method of doing things like this but I can't seem to make it work. I
> THOUGHT it was as easy as adding a menu entry in /etc/menu
Has anyone else had problems with v2.2.2?
I just downgraded to 2.2.0 because my ppp connections were sluggish, and
my screen actually froze on me!
I couldn't believe it. So now I'm running 2.2.0 just to see if I keep
having these problems
Any other stories like this?
NatePuri
Certified Law
Pere Camps wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> What update procedure should I use in order to upgrade to slink
> from hamm? Just point dftp to the new ftp directory and upgrade?
>
> What are the main differences between the two releases (ie: smail
> vs exim), that I need to look up to make sure t
It's due to a BUG in 2.0.x kernel on which depends RealAudio.
(/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes)
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:43:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] called Bob Nielsen
wrote a 0.5K and a 15 line message : "realaudio with 2.2.2" To Debian User List
:
> I saw some messages about realau
You can use Smail & load it from inetd.
Smail is easy to configure with the script smailconfig provided.
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:24:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] called Eloy A.
Paris wrote a 0.5K and a 15 line message : "Best mail transport agent for a
desktop PC" To Debian User List :
> Hi,
I have a "co-located" debian server (i386, hamm). My ISP moved
offices so the machine had to be taken down and rebooted. Now
dmesg shows:
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
loading device 'eth0'...
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at
Hi, there:
I would like to keep both kernel-2.0.36 and 2.2.x in my machine. As you
all have known, 2.2.x change the LPT1 as lp0. That becomes a problem if I
want to keep both version of kernels. Any body got a solution?
My idea is to modify the initializtion script (/etc/init.d/lpd) to
recogni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have
> installed
> apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to
> ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an
> apt-get update followed by an apt-get dis
Here is my dmesg output:
Linux version 2.2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #50 Sun Feb 28
19:42:41
PST 1999
Detected 266618583 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS
Memory: 387708k/393216k available (968k kernel code, 408k reserved, 4072k
da
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:15:49PM +1100, Craig McVean wrote:
> HI.to all at luv I have been running hamm since it was released and LoVE
> it. ANYway my problem is that i stuffed up my x server a while back (by
> doing a very stupid thing i tried to install the scitech display doctor
> server...Ikn
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be
> to save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the
> selection on a new system so I don't have to do it everytime. Maybe
> this feature is already there and I don't k
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:54:27AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One other item that might help
>
> /use/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.
Thank you for noticing this! It's the first unsolicited comment I've
gotten about it.
BTW, folks, I am extremely receptive to suggestions for additions to this
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
> apt-get update works, but (for example) apt-get install joe tries to
> install from
> /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/joe_2.8-10.deb
> which clearly does not exist.
>
> Which line do I need in sources.list for my broken cd?
>
If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be to
save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the selection on a
new system so I don't have to do it everytime. Maybe this feature is already
there and I don't know about it...
Wayne
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Randy
Wayne:
Thanks for the response. Another responder's response led me to learn more
about
Lilo. With a de-installation & re-installation of Lilo, I'm now booting up
my new
kernel.
I keep getting lost in the details and sometimes can't see the obvious, such
as: "Make
sure the switch is on the
>
> For information, the network card is a standard PCI NE2000 (Netvin NV5000,
> to be exact). Like I say, it's definitely possible to get it working
> because it works with the default kernel! I want to get this sorted out so
> I can upgrade to kernel 2.2 with some confidence it'll work.
>
Well
Also www.zip2.com can also provide directions.
Dave
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 02:14:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAI
Hi,
I've some problems on running some KDE applications and don't know how to
resolve it.
Could someone help me ?
bash-2.02$ kppp
kppp: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: __pure_virtual
bash-2.02$ kfind
kfind: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.2
I have the Debian HAMM distribution with the 2.0.34 kernel. My network
works fine when I use the kernel that came precompiled with the CD.
However, when I try to "roll my own" it stops working. The network card is
still correctly detected on bootup, but I get these messages when the
network configu
On 01-Mar-99 Tim Buller wrote:
> We are investigating the possibility of replacing a departmental NFS
> Server which is currently a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris with some kind of
> i386 hardware running Debian 2.1. This server would support about 500
> users, 100 of which may be active in any one
Subject: CD-RW mount errors
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:45:29PM -0800
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> When I mount /dev/hdd I get:
> office:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom
> ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue
Subject: remove plip from kernel
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:08:51PM -0800
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to compile plip out of the 2.0.36 kerenel(slink, hda5), so I
> can
> use lp, without success.
I found the following message in my syslog after another machine (running
RedHat) connected to mine to send me mail. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm).
Mar 1 04:26:22 lilypad kernel: MASQ: reverse ICMP: failed checksum from
205.xxx.xxx.xxx! (I have replaced the actual IP address with "x"'s
What
I had a similar problem with a bad IDE controller once. If you've upgraded
your kernel recently you might need to look at the kernel docs. related IDE
chipsets and see if yours has any known issues. You might also want to
check for loose cables, poor cable routing, bad power supply etc. I doubt
Peter Ludwig wrote:
> January 1999 have net account will download!
> At the beginning of the year I'd gotten very bored with everything and
> decided to attempt to download and install debian off the net. This time
> things went great. To summarize the good points I have found with debian
> :-
At
http://homey.physics.arizona.edu/reports
These pages list which packages are new, which are upgraded, etc.
These pages may be available at debian.org later.
--
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
We are investigating the possibility of replacing a departmental NFS
Server which is currently a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris with some kind of
i386 hardware running Debian 2.1. This server would support about 500
users, 100 of which may be active in any one week. It would have ~50 GB of
RAID5 stor
Subject: Debian Kills Disks
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 06:39:39PM -0500
In reply to:Jerry Human
Quoting Jerry Human([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello Debian Geeks:
>
> Before you get upset let me declare that I'm a Linux/Debian newbie geek
> wannabe. I've only recently (a month ago
Subject: Fw: Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:56:02PM -0600
In reply to:Larry Shields WD9ESU
Quoting Larry Shields WD9ESU([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> This is my second request for HELP! with a FX001D Mitsumi CD-ROM drive,
> mabe this time I will
I'm using an IBM Thinkpad 560 for my first install of Linux. I get no errors
during install, but during my first reboot (and all subsequent ones) I get
error 0011. The text says something about RAM address conflict at 000D424. I
can't remember exactly, but can find out if it will be helpful. I've d
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive...
> >
> > /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > deviceBootBeginstartEndBlocksIDSystem
> > /dev/hda1 *11
I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
keep getting empty gif files. Here's a sample attempt;
shandy% cat data
0.3 1.2
0.5 1.34
0.7 1.6
shandy% graph -T fig < data > file.fig
shandy% file file.fig
file.fig: FIG image text, version 3.2
shandy%
So f
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:54:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] called Cuno
Sonnemans wrote a 0.5K and a 20 line message : "DPKG" To Debian User List :
> hello,
>
> I've downloaded libstdc++2.9-dev and g++ 2.91.61.
> They Depend on each other.
> When I run dpkg i libstdc++2.9-dev, it says de
Hi Debianers!!
Do someone know what is wrong with my box?
It has been a month that I try to configure my on-board SoundPro and it
simple doesn't work!!!
My main board is MS-7016S from MATSONIC, and in its manual is said that
"OnBoard SoundPro supports the following features
Try "dmesg | more" or as root, look at /var/log/messages.
HTH.
-Ian
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r
> was recognized?
>
> NatePuri
> Certified Law Student
> & Debian GNU/Linux Monk
> McGeorge School of Law
as root type: dmesg > save.file.
Paste the save.file into your email.
On 01-Mar-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r
> was recognized?
>
> NatePuri
> Certified Law Student
> & Debian GNU/Linux Monk
> McGeorge School of Law
> [EMAIL
> of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install
> problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes
> dselect? :-) ).
While dselect does have an odd interface, I definitely like it. I can see
the original author's motive for force-feeding help screens, which I
Type
dmesg | less
at a prompt and the message will be displayed.
Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r
> was recognized?
>
> NatePuri
> Certified Law Student
> & Debian GNU/Linux Monk
> McGeorge School of Law
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http:/
Subject: samba 2.0 troubles
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:27:12PM -0500
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I'm having problems with samba 2.0 (the .deb in potato) that I was hoping
> someone could help me with.
>
> My win95 box canno
Subject: Problems with my HD
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:59:15PM -0600
In reply to:Larry Shields WD9ESU
Quoting Larry Shields WD9ESU([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I used Fdisk which showed me this below, and would like to know if someone
> can tell me what ca
Jerry,
It would be *very* helpful if you could include the exact error
messages that you get, word-for-word, what you were doing when you
received them, and how to reproduce. Otherwise, we really have no
idea what to do to fix.
However, you can wipe out the partition table and master boot record
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or
> symlinks.
There are ext2fs flags to make files undeletable. You should be careful
about deleting such files; it can be done tho.
What are you trying to delete?
Matthew
-
Hi,
I wonder if Linux runs on a HP NetServer with EISA AIC 7770 SCSI Adapter.
Booting the slink or hamm rescue disk ends in an error. The adapter
gets recognized but then the kernel can't cope with it after downloading
its instructions.
Do I need to build a custom kernel to get it done?
Regards
Hi. I'm having problems with the permitions for using pgp and gpg. It's
diferent symptoms but the problem it's the same (I think). Let me explain
the problem:
With pgp:
-
When I try to make my own .deb packages, using 'build -rfakeroot', the script
breaks when running pgp with this error:
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 06:12:21PM -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> >
> > Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
> > problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
> > I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then it
> > te
How do I find what my dmsg was so that I can show y'all whether my cd-r
was recognized?
NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ompages.com
A couple of days ago I asked the list this question:
>Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them
from a DOS partition with dselect?
I thought I had seen a list of filenames at a Debian FTP site which had 8.3
filenames for .deb packages which dselect would recognis
it wouldn't happen to be an nfs mounted directory would it?
ben
Person, Roderick wrote:
>
> What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or
> symlinks.
> Is there anyway to correct this problem.
>
> I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of.
>
> --
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:51:00 -0500, Person, Roderick wrote:
> What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory
> or symlinks.
A failed fsck at boot time, causing the filesystem to be mounted read-only.
> Is there anyway to correct this problem.
Make sure the filesyste
What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or
symlinks.
Is there anyway to correct this problem.
I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of.
perhaps what you trying to delete is in a nfs mounted system?
--
Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!...
In a message dated 3/1/99 12:34:08 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Or better, delete the /lib/modules/ directory before
> installing the new kernel-image .deb
>
> It should warn/ask you about this when installing the .deb
>
Even better yet - rename the current dir in c
Hi!
When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in
its directory structure.
# ls /mnt/cdrom
binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386
# ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386
Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio net tex doc ...
So, binary-i386 is complete.
My /etc/apt/sources.list says
deb
Subject: Help
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:56:25AM +
In reply to:Pat Neumann
Quoting Pat Neumann([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
> problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
> I try
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 06:12:21PM -0600
In reply to:Andrei Ivanov
Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> >
> > Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
> > problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then
What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or
symlinks.
Is there anyway to correct this problem.
I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/01/99
at 03:21 PM, "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I had been meaning to ask about this as well. There are the none-free
>ubcmpeg and ubcmpeg_play packages, but when I tried these, I wasn't too
>impressed with the compression/quality trade-off.
Subject: Help
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:56:25AM +
In reply to:Pat Neumann
Quoting Pat Neumann([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
> problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
> I try
Subject: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 05:29:44PM -0600
In reply to:rich
Quoting rich([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my
> TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's l
Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> Is this showing up in the same thread? I'm using reply in PINE.
It is here.
>
>
> As to my compile, I unselected ide-cdrom. There is only scsi emulation
> and generic scsi compiled in as to cdroms. My kernel version is 2.2.2.
>
> What option is ide-scsi? Is it scs
I hope somebody can give my some advice. My problem is that my
cd-rom drive is not always recognised by the BIOS when my
machine starts up, I have the bios set to auto configure. When
this happens it does not appear in the Debian startup screen.
and when I try to mount it I get a message like i
I have mathematica installed on my system and was thinking it'd be
nice to make this available via the menus. I know Debian has a nice
method of doing things like this but I can't seem to make it work. I
THOUGHT it was as easy as adding a menu entry in /etc/menu, so I
installed a file called /etc/m
Joseph - - I tried to reply to your message that you sent to me concerning
my CD-ROM drive, but the message came back with the following address had
perminate FATAL errors... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...User unkown...
So figuring that you had seen my message here on the Users List I would
reply to you a
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:56:25AM +,
Pat Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi I am new to Linux, and am learning fairly quick. But I am having
> problems getting my Xserver to work at a higher color depth then 8. If
> I try and remove that particular setting in the XF86Config file then
George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > What is "base"? I have three systems (hamm, slink and potato) and none of
> > them list a package by this this name in dselect (I don't recall it from
> > rex, either.) I do see base-files, base-passwd, xbase, etc.
>
> I thi
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500,
D Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems.
> Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system
> date and time using 'date'.
>
> Can anyone give me an exam
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