adding new libs (.a) to debian (gnome xml)

1999-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to add the gnome_xml libs to debian. Due to the fact that i couldnt find a .deb I compiled the package, did make install which copied the said libs to /usr/local/libs. I then added the directory to /etc/ld.so.conf (i hope i'm not getting the file name wrong) and then ran ldconfig. Then when

Re: Copying system to another disk

1999-04-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
I just tried doing this, and ran into an interesting problem. I think that it had to do with copying /lib over, but when it finished untarring the new system, it just gave me a login prompt. I logged in, got the message of the day, told me I had no mail, and then gave me the login prompt. whe

Re: tz screwed up with new libc 2.1

1999-04-27 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I just upgraded from 2.07 to glibc 2.1. : alls well except the octton picking time zone. libc6 now provides timezones, and therefore must conflict with timezones. So my suggestion is to install libc6, and not timezones. : if i have /etc/locatime --> /

Copying system to another disk

1999-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to copy the whole system to another disk to run on another computer (after copy it i can take care of configuration). Seems to be easier and shorter then downloading about 300 megs. I was wondering how do i go abou doing this. If anyone knows the answear or can point me to an apropriate HO

Re: How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-27 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: Your problem was you didn't upgrade fully... Debian Potato is a major change from slink (2.2). Potato binaries will not always run reliably on previous systems, because Potato now run glibc2.1 while slink run glibc2.0 : I've sworn off the unstable direc

[OFF-TOPIC] which computer rack?

1999-04-27 Thread Obi
Sorry for the off topic question, but since it looks like few people on the list had to deal with cluster of PCs I was wondering if I can get any advice on a computer rack. We'll have about 6-8 machines (running Debian of course :)). Thanks! graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u

defrag

1999-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i go about running defrag on the system. I get either an answear that it can't run on a mounted filsystem or that it can't work on the disk. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

potato's octave?

1999-04-27 Thread Obi
I keep getting seg faults when I try to run it. Am I the only one? graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u so

Copying system to another disk

1999-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to copy the whole system to another disk to run on another computer (after copy it i can take care of configuration). Seems to be easier and shorter then downloading about 300 megs. I was wondering how do i go abou doing this. If anyone knows the answear or can point me to an apropriate HO

limiting per user CPU time

1999-04-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any way to do that? I've read ulimit(1), but that only applies to bash(1) and it's sons (and it can also be changed). Another option would be automatically nicing proceses that use more CPU time than their quota. TIA! -- p.

Re: Packages

1999-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a new user, and i'm pretty unfamiliar with debian. I'm trying to install > programs on my other computer using floppy disks. I used dselect to choose > my access method, but dselect won't recognize anything i put on floppy. I > got the "packages" file off of the

FW: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-27 Thread simonst
For my new 8.4gb hard drive, I placed the Win95 partition at the front, and Windows FDISK thinks there are 1023 cylinders. Linux knows about the full 4088 cylinders, via LOADLIN boot parm "HDA=4088,64,63". Now both systems boot ok, and I don't have to use MaxBlast. > -Original Message- >

RE: Installation

1999-04-27 Thread Dan Willard
On my box, at any rate, the /dev/scd0 means the first scsi cdrom. Has been that since I first put it on there. I suppose that I could be other scd#'s, since I'm just going by what my box says. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: atx and fan (noise) control

1999-04-27 Thread Ray
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 11:33:55AM -0700, Jinsong Zhao wrote: > > One annoying thing is that the fan is always on, making the room very > noisy. Before buying an ATX, is it possible to turn off the fan on a > command line? Which fan? Most modern systems have at least 2 fans and sometimes 4 or mo

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-27 Thread Helge Hafting
> On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote: > > > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real > > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb. > > (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's > real-mode limit is 1 MB. The processor do indeed have 1MB to play w

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-27 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? > > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it. > [snip] > It's much better to try to get a

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Helge Hafting
> I'm curious about virii and Linux... > > Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if > virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Obviously the security > features of Linux can prevent some virii from affecting certain files on your > system... but what

Re: Installation

1999-04-27 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Kent West wrote: > At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was something > >like "can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a block > >device anyway [snip] > answers, but you migh

Re: df

1999-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Sami Dalouche wrote: >I think it doesn't apply specificaly to debian, but I've a 10 GB HD and when > I do a df, it only shows me 8.5 GB. >It's not only a bug in df because all my Linux is limited to 8.5 GB ! >I don't understand why, it's UDMA/33 and Linux recognises it as Ulta DMA.

lost sound after changing video card

1999-04-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I don't think that these should be related, but I've lost my sound after changing video cards. eyry:/home/hawk# lsmod Module Size Used by ne 5372 1 83905944 0 [ne] eyry:/home/hawk# modprobe sb /lib/modules/2.2.6/misc/sb.o: init_mod

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-27 Thread Peter Allen
--- Begin Message --- I am pretty sure it is a hardware limitation Are well, it doesn't matter particularly. Peter Allen Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote: > > > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real > > mode, which is limit

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Peter Allen
--- Begin Message --- Tony Crawford wrote: > > Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 17:59): > > > You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This > > makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things > > I have most everything in modules that goes

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ian Peters
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 11:03:25PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > Ian Peters wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 15:45): > > > > wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making > > > that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper > > > first!) > > > > Uhh ... it's not

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Peter Allen
make zlilo works for me. Peter Allen Tony Crawford wrote: > > Ian Peters wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 15:45): > > > > wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making > > > that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper > > > first!) > > > > Uhh

Re: Lothar Project

1999-04-27 Thread MallarJ
Three whips of the noodle for Sami for attempting to start the KDE/Gnome flame war again. :) I think a better approach would be to make it either non-X related, or make it xlothar - so there remains a choice in desktop environments while still being able to use this great functionality. -Jay

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-27 Thread Ray
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it. Be VERY carefull with these types of utils. If you ever have trouble with the drive it w

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Tony Crawford
Ian Peters wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 15:45): > > wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making > > that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper > > first!) > > Uhh ... it's not supposed to be. It's not smaller, just contains > logic to handle loading th

Re: how to verify duplex in linux?

1999-04-27 Thread Ray
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 07:17:08AM -0700, POP3 for aphro.. wrote: > it's possible linux still is not in half duplex mode(or maybe windows > isn't) That would be my first guess. is there a way to check wether i'm in full/half duplex? Well, the collisions are a pretty good indicator of that but a

df

1999-04-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
I think it doesn't apply specificaly to debian, but I've a 10 GB HD and when I do a df, it only shows me 8.5 GB. It's not only a bug in df because all my Linux is limited to 8.5 GB ! I don't understand why, it's UDMA/33 and Linux recognises it as Ulta DMA. My Motherboard support it's size, so I

Re: Installation

1999-04-27 Thread Kent West
At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was something >like "can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a block >device anyway A block device is a device that reads/writes data in chunks, like a hard driv

Re: What are the Bogomips for a P166?

1999-04-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
My cyrix P166+ (a 133 Mhz CPU) displays : Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 132.00 BogoMips On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 11:42:52AM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > Hi. > > I'm having a problem with a machine in the lab. It's a Pentium 166 with 32Mb, > but the reported Bogomips are just 66.??. Somehow, t

Re: Lothar Project

1999-04-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
But the Desktop Manager is KDE and Debian doesn't have KDE package (It's better like this). So Debin could make another project : glothar wich includes gnome instead of KDE On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 09:51:25AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > Sticking with the idea of making Linux (Debian) easier to in

Re: What is /etc/.pwd.lock for ?

1999-04-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
Is it not a lockfile for vipw or other similar utils which are used to change the /etc/passwd cleanly ? On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 09:48:06PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > I deleted /etc/.pwd.lock on a test box I play with. It was dated 15 > apr. I thought it was just a stale lock file fr

Re: X Window

1999-04-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
Are you sure you have the pkg xclients-base installed ? On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Pietro Francescatti wrote: > I installed Debian Linux on a X86 machine. I cannot run X Windows. The answer > to the commands startx or xinit is: " Unknown command" > I have installed an X server as we

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-27 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote: > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb. (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's real-mode limit is 1 MB. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.9

Re: System.map (fwd)

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fethi A. Okyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1. >DO I need a separate System.map file for each >kernel that I compile, cause each time it also >spits out a new System.map file. Well, things like klogd and ps like to look at the System.map of the running kernel to be

Re: VB asp on Apache

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can apache serve VB asp pages? Sure, apache can serve them, but there is no VB interpreter for Linux so the output will look not quite the way you intended it. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of m

serial port problems

1999-04-27 Thread Mark Ewing
I am a new Debian user and am having problems getting my modem to work. Setserial finds the ports fine during startup but when I either run minicom or try to start a ppp session there is no response from the modem. I have a USR internal sporster which is not a winmodem, but to be safe i hooked up m

System.map (fwd)

1999-04-27 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
1. DO I need a separate System.map file for each kernel that I compile, cause each time it also spits out a new System.map file. 2. If the answer is yes, how do I specify each system.map that correspond to their kernel in my lilo.conf file (i.e how are they supposed to be stored??) ~~~

VB asp on Apache

1999-04-27 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can apache serve VB asp pages? TIA! -- p.

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ian Peters
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Tony Crawford wrote: > It did work, in the sense that a kernel was compiled ... but it > wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making > that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper > first!) Uhh ... it's not s

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
H C Pumphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Yike. That is a nasty thought. I have Debian and W98 on separate physical | discs at home and W98 refuses to acknowledge the existence of the Debian | disc. Hopefully a W98 virus would trash W98 on hda and leave my Debian | setup on hdb alone, except that

checking system integrity? which files are from debian / which have been modified

1999-04-27 Thread .Oliver_Thuns.
Hi! How could I check, if there are files which are not from debs and if there are modified files? Oliver -- I'm busily ignoring some thousand of implications I have determined to be irrelevant.

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread H C Pumphrey
[Tale of W9x virus rubbing out both W95 and Debian by trashing boot sector snipped] Yike. That is a nasty thought. I have Debian and W98 on separate physical discs at home and W98 refuses to acknowledge the existence of the Debian disc. Hopefully a W98 virus would trash W98 on hda and leave my D

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm curious about virii and Linux... > > Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if > virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Jay, Linux is immune to most viruii :) that affect LOSE 95/8 because most v

Re: Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eugene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>ying shang wrote: >>> >>> When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I >can >>> not find out where is the home directory of the apache. >> >>The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for examp

KDE and .Xdefaults

1999-04-27 Thread Ralf Comtesse
Hi, I just installed KDE from ftp.kde.org. It is the slink version. My box is running potato. The main problem at the moment is, that on startup neither my .Xdefaults nor my .xinitrc is read. I applied the changes to /etc/X11/Xsession as described in the kdm pages. But the defaults or inits are

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
raymond rote, > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. > > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system > > as well ? > Well, *maybe*. If it's only approximate, you could be in trouble. I'd > advise looking for a disk

save mail -- trouble.

1999-04-27 Thread nate
I was wondering if anyone know what savemail was. One one of my debian 2.1 systems I get the error/warning savemail: cannot save rejected mail anywhere (no such file or directory) something like that. I checked cron..didnt see anything that would be savemail..i looked at running processes..same

Re: Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread James M . Mastros
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:02:14PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available > because there was a backup. Wouldn't running apt-get update remake that file anyway? > But some other files was ruined, such as emacs19.list > and ed.list dpkg would not run because o

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I'm curious about virii and Linux... > > Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if > virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Obviously the security > features of Linux can prevent some virii from affecting certain files

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Tony Crawford
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 17:59): > You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This > makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things I have most everything in modules that goes in modules ... > floppy > disk, tape, cd-rom drivers, ne

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #763

1999-04-27 Thread Bryan_Coleman
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atx and fan (noise) control

1999-04-27 Thread Jinsong Zhao
After about less than three years owning a then state-of-art Pentium MMX computer, recently I found that computer is out-of-date again. One annoying thing is that the fan is always on, making the room very noisy. Before buying an ATX, is it possible to turn off the fan on a command line? How is Li

Re: Scanner

1999-04-27 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Sean wrote: > So why is it that parallel port scanners don't tend to be supported, but > their SCSI cousins are. I wouldn't think that there would be that much > difference between the hardware on a SCSI scanner vs a parallel port > scanner. There isn't, not inside the scan

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-27 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-27 17:40, H C Pumphrey wrote: > Both SANE and the kernel have had updates since I last had a go at the > scanner -- I don't know if it is a SANE backend problem or a SCSI card > driver problem. I build new kernels and SANE versions every so often and > it has gone from no response (2.0.

Re: Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Apr, Helge Hafting wrote about "Fixing dpkg database after disk crash" > > I had a filesystem crash that damaged a few files. > dpkg wouldn't run after this, complaining about > errors. (dselect was running at the time of the crash) > > I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available > be

Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread Helge Hafting
I had a filesystem crash that damaged a few files. dpkg wouldn't run after this, complaining about errors. (dselect was running at the time of the crash) I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available because there was a backup. But some other files was ruined, such as emacs19.list and ed.list

Re: Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Thanks, I have got it working now.

Re: cd-rw mount and mkfs?

1999-04-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jinsong Zhao wrote: > Using SCSI emulation, I can mount an existing cd: mount /dev/sr0 /mnt > I can also blank the cd-rw by: cdrecord -blank all -dev=0,0 > Now I want to make a file system as: mkfs /dev/sr0, but it failed. > My next intended action is to mount it so that I can write files on to i

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-27 Thread Peter Allen
It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb. The kernel can be copied starting at address 0x1, which takes the available space down to 576Kb, then I think there must be 64Kb used at the other end, hence the 512Kb as a pose to 640Kb

Re: kernel 2.2.6

1999-04-27 Thread Helge Hafting
> Yes! But could anyone explaing to me why it is must be less than 512kb?? The boot loader doesn't run in protected mode. It runs in a 8086 compatible mode that the pc BIOS set up. The cpu can only address 640kB of memory in this mode. Some of this space is needed for the boot loader itself, so

cd-rw mount and mkfs?

1999-04-27 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Using SCSI emulation, I can mount an existing cd: mount /dev/sr0 /mnt I can also blank the cd-rw by: cdrecord -blank all -dev=0,0 Now I want to make a file system as: mkfs /dev/sr0, but it failed. My next intended action is to mount it so that I can write files on to it. So looks like I cannot tre

System.map

1999-04-27 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
1. DO I need a separate System.map file for each kernel that I compile, cause each time it also spits out a new System.map file. 2. If the answer is yes, how do I specify each system.map that correspond to their kernel in my lilo.conf file (i.e how are they supposed to be stored??) ~~~

Re: Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread Eugene
-Original Message- From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 1:21 PM Subject: Re: Apache? >ying shang wrote: >> >> When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can >> not find out where is the home directory of

Re: Scanner

1999-04-27 Thread Sean
So why is it that parallel port scanners don't tend to be supported, but their SCSI cousins are. I wouldn't think that there would be that much difference between the hardware on a SCSI scanner vs a parallel port scanner. Sean -- I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like.

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread MallarJ
I'm curious about virii and Linux... Am I wrong to assume that Linux is not immune to virii (I don't even know if virii is a word - but it just sounds cool :) ? Obviously the security features of Linux can prevent some virii from affecting certain files on your system... but what about the bo

Re: X problems

1999-04-27 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, You can edit your xf86config to get high resolution. When I try to use configuration software, it always set to default resolution. If you are satisfied with a certain configuration, you can copy the xf86config to your disk for your furture use. I use the same xf86config file for debian and re

Re: Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread ktb
ying shang wrote: > > When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can > not find out where is the home directory of the apache. The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for example used with the program Joe, ~$ which joe /usr/bin/joe or you could use,

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Jan Muszynski
Assuming it was the CIH virus (and there's an excellent chance it was) here's an extract from DataFellows web site about this virus: > What makes the CIH case really serious is that the virus activates > destructively. When it happens the virus overwrites most of the > data on the computers hard

PCI serial card

1999-04-27 Thread Sam Payne-Tingleff
I'm new to Linux and I just moved from Red Hat to Debian. Before installing Debian I put in a SIIG PCI serial card and removed my ISA serial card. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't seem to see the card. Any tips? Thanks, Sam

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table. You almost certainly got hit by the

Re: LILO boots automatically

1999-04-27 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Fethi A. Okyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have a working lilo.conf with a few > extra options such as offering two+ kernels a > boot time, thanks. Sure. The parameter you are looking for is called "delay", and it indicates the time LILO willl wait for you to chose which kernel

Re: wdm + WindowMaker 0.53 sorrow

1999-04-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[don't you read the mailing list where you post questions to?] On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 06:40:01PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I don't like the Login.app because of its lack of functionality. I > want wdm back. I tried installing libwraster2 package from Potato, but > wdm package won't install

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-27 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, joost witteveen wrote: > Je 1999/04/27(2)/ 9:04, H C Pumphrey montris sian geniecon skribante: [Snip - how to bludgeon yucky DTC3131 SCSI cards to work with Linux] > Just tell mi where I can send that check for GBP 15 that you've just won! I'll just hold it on account --

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table. > > i can remember approximate partition sizes and

Re: Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread Jan Muszynski
Having just gone through this :) When you download the files from Netscape make sure you download the glibc version. This is the 'unsupported' version. Then try again (using the Debian installer). On 27 Apr 99, at 17:55, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote about Netscape install problem: > Hi, >

Re: Network problems with Vortex Adapter... outputs

1999-04-27 Thread Ries van Twisk
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LILO boots automatically

1999-04-27 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I've compiled a kernel and tested it using a floppy disk, everything worked fine except some problem related with the system.map I guess, but this is not what my question is about. Then I wanted to boot the new kernel by simply adding a few extra lines to lilo.conf and run lilo. But now I real

Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread ying shang
When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can not find out where is the home directory of the apache. Thanks, -Ying Shang

Re: Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Thanks for your reply Robert. However, I did use the netscape4 installer. Any ideas? On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:01:50PM +0200, Horvath Robert wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the followi

Re: setting dns values

1999-04-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: setting dns values Date: Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:33:21AM -0500 In reply to:Jonathan Guthrie Quoting Jonathan Guthrie([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Quoting Micha Feigin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Where do i write the dns values for

Re: Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/27/99 11:02:19 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following > error: > > can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it. >

Re: Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread Horvath Robert
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following > error: > > can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it. > > Can anybody help me out here,

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Tony Crawford wrote: > > I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting > in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new > processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install > the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and

Netscape install problem

1999-04-27 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Hi, I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it. Can anybody help me out here, please? Thanks Robert-Jan

Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of virus destroyed boot sector with partition table. i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. Is there any way to reco

Re: modeling software

1999-04-27 Thread John
There are a few tool for linux, but as far as I know dia is the only thing that it completely free. You can get a very nice tool for Java and C++ (and OO Cobol ??) modeling which is called 'Together' from Object International http://www.oi.com This tool is 'free but limited'. Which means that yo

lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi Gang! I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and the new one is <90

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-04-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. Chea

Dialup question

1999-04-27 Thread rob
Hi Does anyone know how to setup debian to be a dialup server? If so, please tell me how! Thanks Robert Horvath Technical University of Budapest

Re: Creating PDF files

1999-04-27 Thread John
Thats cool, so all I have to do is write a neat GUI front end and I have adobe distiller, Nice... Thanks for your help. John. Martin Oldfield wrote: > > You might have more success in keeping links if you translate the html > to ps with html2ps and then run GhostScript to get a pdf file. The > m

network card problem

1999-04-27 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not successfully detecting the ne2k (well, encore enl832tx, which has a realtek chipset according to

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-27 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/04/27(2)/ 9:04, H C Pumphrey montris sian geniecon skribante: > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, joost witteveen wrote: > This sounds as if it could be the same card as is supplied with the Artec > AT12 scanner. Here is the message I sent to SANE-Devel recently about > this. I have updated it slightl

Re: Creating PDF files

1999-04-27 Thread Martin Oldfield
You might have more success in keeping links if you translate the html to ps with html2ps and then run GhostScript to get a pdf file. The manual for this program says: The PostScript code generated by html2ps contains calls to the pdfmark operator, that are instructions to a PostScript-to-PDF conv

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-04-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Since the license allows electronic redistribution, it could go > > into non-free. I wonder why it hasn't been packaged yet. Dale? > > > > I'd do it, but it seems silly if the author can but chooses not to. > > To be h

Re: Fwd: Hope for us all (Sorry...)

1999-04-27 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Matthew Myers wrote: > > My name is Jayson Martin from Littleton, Colorado [...] [...] > > ***Copy this letter, add your name and forward it to as many people as > > you know. thank you. I can't find any mention whatsoever of a Jayson Martin on the Web (Altavista) or on Usen

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-04-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > "David B.Teague" wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Cliff Draper wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. > > > Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Clif

Re: deb vs. rpm

1999-04-27 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > So if I understand you and others who have replied correctly, the > main advantage is the automatic dep-resolustion via ftp. > But it seems to me that this has nothing to do with the deb format > itself. Instead it is something that results out of Debian making >

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-27 Thread Kevin Dalley
joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the SANE docs told me the UMAX 1220S should work OK, > I just bought one of those scanners. > > The scanner came with it's own ISA SCSI adaptor. The vendor > already told me the card was somewhat strange, but well, > I went for it. Anyway, I cannot

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