*- On 29 May, David Karlin wrote about "specification of mailhost password to
fetchmail on command line."
>
> There is, however, no mention of the syntax for .fetchmailrc.
>
man fetchmail
CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
Basic format is:
poll SERVERNAME protocol PROTOCOL username NAME pa
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 06:03:04PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Why are the menuconfig boxes now shown with ascii characters (*, |,
> > etc.) instead of real lines as in earlier versions?
>
> What's your TERM environment variable set to? On my system, if it'
if i'm not mistaken, the proper way to do it is to go into /dev as root and
run ./MAKEDEV audio.
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net
help, I got sucked into /dev/null
-
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net
help, I got sucked into /dev/null
that is calling for libtermcap, which you don't need to use technically.
ncurses can
i tend to agree with Daniel. my situation of use is quite the same, but my
system gets heavy usage and i never have problems i can't take care of. only
minor ones so far luckily. i had more problems with slink but who knows why.
add|t|on, [E
Subject: LILO Problem
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:48:22PM -0700
In reply to:Lorne Williams
Quoting Lorne Williams([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi gang. I've read every scrap of documentation on lilo I can find *twice*,
> and I'm still discombobulated. Here's my situation:
[snip lilo
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Mark Nellemann wrote:
>Whenever I install a Debian (slink or potato), it seems that the sound
>devices (/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, ..) is missing. So I install the devices
>with a script from a 2.0.x kernel found in Documentation/sound.
>
>Am I wrong or is this the right thing to
i believe you're missing a ncurses dev lib.
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net
help, I got sucked into /dev/null
- Original Message -
From: Johan
I have a computer running mostly slink, with a small amount of potato
thrown in. It completely fails to recognise my serial mouse, no matter
what device or protocol I give it. gpmconfig instantly decides that the
modem device must be the mouse, I guess because it's the only one with
any activity. G
I've just installed the jdk and tried some applets that worked perfectly
well (from local files or across the Internet) with Netscape, IE or
appletviewer under win95. Running them under Debian in X overwhelmed the
system if there was any significant redrawing of the screen required - it
couldn't
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Why are the menuconfig boxes now shown with ascii characters (*, |,
> etc.) instead of real lines as in earlier versions?
What's your TERM environment variable set to? On my system, if it's
"linux", "rxvt", or "xterm-debian" it uses color and lines. "vt1
>> "BB" == Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> I'm puzzling over an odd problem. I can run X just fine when I
BB> log in as a normal user and run startx. However, if I let Debian
BB> (potato) boot so xdm is started when the system boots, I can't log
BB> in at all. In fact, xdm seems to
The laserjet 6p still supports the PCL5 language of its predicessors.
Experiment with the varous lj filters (I would start with ljet4) untill
you find the one that works best.
Magicfilter is setup so that you can print most files, from text to jpg to
postscript. If all you want to do is text or r
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 04:11:06PM -0600, David Karlin wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using the following fetchmail command to download my mail from
> my smarthost:
>
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -u funk48 travelin.com
>
> This command causes me to be prompted for my mail password, but
> I'd like to
Look under the "Run control heading in the fetchmail (1) man page, it is
there. However, here is mine (with accounts, machine names, and passwords
removed).
#poll mail.myoldisp.net proto pop3 user pass
poll pop-server.mynewisp.com proto pop3 user pass
poll mail.myschool.edu proto pop3 user p
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:48:22PM -0700, Lorne Williams wrote:
> Hi gang. I've read every scrap of documentation on lilo I can find *twice*,
> and I'm still discombobulated. Here's my situation:
>
> Dual boot Linux/Windoze, two IDE drives,
> First drive
> /dev/hda1 Win95
> /dev/hda2 Linux /usr
>
Hello,
I'm using the following fetchmail command to download my mail from
my smarthost:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -u funk48 travelin.com
This command causes me to be prompted for my mail password, but
I'd like to be able to run this as a script in a cron job, i.e. to
to have this script
Subject: Exim filters instead of procmail?
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 04:22:54PM +0100
In reply to:Phillip Deackes
Quoting Phillip Deackes([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail
> and procmail for fetching my mail from my IP's
Hi,
With Exim as the MTA and Fetchmail as the POP agent, I'm having the
following problem:
$ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id
seems to download correctly all mail stored in my ISP, but I always get
to read (with Mutt) all messages EXCEPT FOR one. Since fetchmail
downloads a number "x" of mail messages,
Hi gang. I've read every scrap of documentation on lilo I can find *twice*,
and I'm still discombobulated. Here's my situation:
Dual boot Linux/Windoze, two IDE drives,
First drive
/dev/hda1 Win95
/dev/hda2 Linux /usr
/dev/hda3 Linux swap
Second drive
/dev/hdb1 Win data
/dev/hdb2 Linux /. vmlinuz
I am trying to useg magicfilter with an HP Laserjet 6pse. It does not seem
that magicfilter has a filter for a 6P.
Can someone tell me how to set this up? I am assuming that all I need to type
is lpr 'file' to print a file. Does this also apply to postscript files? i.e.
lpr file.ps?
Thanks
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 04:44:37PM -0400, Matthew McFarlane wrote:
> I have HAMM installed. I have the slink distro files. what's the best
> way to upgrade (apt?) and how?
apt-get dist-upgrade
There is an upgrade guide somewhere in the top level directory
structure.
Bob
--
Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:55:37PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > I have uppgraded from slink to potato (I now understand the word
> > unstable=)
> > And downloaded kernel 2.2.9. But when I type menuconfig I have got
> > following
> > error mess
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know about the vert refresh and hor sync rate, KTX CAD-55D 14"?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kyle
You can check the docs for X first. Then there are some web databases for
monitors.
Here is one, for example: http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitor.html
Try the manufacturer page a
Hello,
Does anyone know about the vert refresh and hor sync rate, KTX
CAD-55D 14"?
Thank you,
Kyle
Hi !
Whenever I install a Debian (slink or potato), it seems that the sound
devices (/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, ..) is missing. So I install the devices
with a script from a 2.0.x kernel found in Documentation/sound.
Am I wrong or is this the right thing to do ?
Regards ..
Mark Nellemann
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:21:38PM +, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote:
> Hello Debian users!
>
> I´m trying to compile Pine 4.10 in a slink. But I have some problems.
> When I complile Pine. I found this message:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory
>
> I change
yOn Sat, 29 May 1999, Matthew McFarlane wrote:
> I have HAMM installed. I have the slink distro files. what's the best
> way to upgrade (apt?) and how?
The instructions are in the file main/Release-Notes.
I think I added apt as a method in dselect, and then let dselect to its
thing.
...RickM..
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> Hello!
> I have uppgraded from slink to potato (I now understand the word
> unstable=)
> And downloaded kernel 2.2.9. But when I type menuconfig I have got
> following
> error mess.
>
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Fetchmail can get your mail for you and deliver it to port 25 (to
> Exim).
> That is what I do. Then use an Exim .forward file to do what you are
> doing
> with Procmail. There is filtering documentation at
> http://www.exim.org and
> there are also sample
I have HAMM installed. I have the slink distro files. what's the best
way to upgrade (apt?) and how?
Matthew McFarlane
-
John Bagdanoff writes:
> OH, MAN!! You mean I have to install _REDHAT AND EMACS_ to find the
> fountain of youth??!!
No. Just run 'apt-get install lazarus'.
You'll need the appropriate sources.list line, of course.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Hi
I am trying to upload my PGP public key on a public key server. The PGP 5
documentation found under /usr/doc/pgp5i/README claims that PGP5 can interact
with key servers, but it does not say how to do this.
Has anybody done this already ?
Rene
--
---
On Saturday, May 29, 1999 at 08:28:18 +1000, Damien Love wrote:
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-UIDL: a8a5be96779e7bfa38df9e37c980d56d
>
> BladeEnc - http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625/
That site states it requires frames to access it. :(
(Why do people do that?)
--
PGP Public Key avai
My lexmark Optra e310 has native postscript support and emulates pcl6.
<$350. I shopped and bought it for exactly that reason. Works fine
on NT also.
It seems rather normal to check if desired hardware works on your
system before buying.
there is also a compatability database at suse.com to p
Hello Debian users!
I´m trying to compile Pine 4.10 in a slink. But I have some problems.
When I complile Pine. I found this message:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory
I change the value from termcap to terminfo. But I found the
following message:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot
>> "M" == Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> I am trying to install GNOME onto my other computer from floppies.
M> What is the easiest way to do this?
Eek. This is no fun. Especially as some packages won't fit on one
floppy. I never did something like that before, so I can't help you
here.
I've just installed KDE, from
http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/
using apt-get.
If there are other newbies out there who don't
know how to install KDE, email me directly
(not via the list) and if there's interest, I'll create
a web page.
I'm pleased to have KDE up and running. I use it
on my Red Hat syst
The answer to this is interesting and should be in the docs somewhere,
but I sure couldn't find it.
Emacs DOES NOT seem to care about KEYSYMs at all. It is only interested
in the Modifiers.
As far as emacs is concerned MOD1 = META and MOD4 = ALT
You can (using xmodmap) have MOD1 and MOD4 genera
I believe you will find all the documentation you need for this is in
/usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz. HTH.
Cheers
Dave
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 16:22 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail
> and procmail for fetching my mail from my I
I am trying to install GNOME onto my other computer from floppies. What is
the easiest way to do this? I went to the url given with the original email,
and it talked about task* packages, yet they aren't on the FTP site. What do
I do? Thanks.
On 29-May-99 Randy Edwards wrote:
>I'm running potato with potato's netscape 4.6 (smotif). Often, though
> not 100% consistently, Netscape will not exit properly when I do a "File ->
> Exit" (Alt-Q) and/or click on the X widget to close the window.
>
>I know this is happening because the
On 29-May-99 Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail
> and procmail for fetching my mail from my IP's POP server and sorting it
> into folders. I understand exim has its own mechanism for sorting
> incoming mail - can fetchmail pass mail onto
Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
> does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
In the past a program called seejpeg has floated around; it does what you're
looking for. When executed on cmdline it will display the image(s) you ask
f
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
> does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
> Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the
> list. Thanx
Dan
zgv displays jpeg and gif files, perhpas other formats.
zgv is availa
I've also found the source to 8hz-mp3 (see the cd recording howto).
bladeenc is a little slower than 8hz-mp3, but maybe gives higher
quality. The bladeenc site indicates that they are fighting patent
infringments so it might disappear soon, thou he is optimistic that
swedish patent laws might pro
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
> I got X windows running, with default window
> manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
> didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
> into graphics mode and gave me a login windo
Sorry, this was meant for my local LUG. I should use my glasses when
I'm sending messages.
John
John Bagdanoff wrote:
>
> OH, MAN!! You mean I have to install _REDHAT AND EMACS_ to find the
> fountain of youth??!!
> I'd rather use the energy to dig my grave :-) (<--note the smiley,
> Nathaniel
Daniel, first of all I would recommend
read output from
man procmail,man procmailrc, man procmailex
I an also show my .procmailrc file
that is made after examples from the manual
==
:0 c
backup
:0 ci
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t | sed -e 1,50d`
I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail
and procmail for fetching my mail from my IP's POP server and sorting it
into folders. I understand exim has its own mechanism for sorting
incoming mail - can fetchmail pass mail onto exim and get exim to sort
it? Can anyone poin
OH, MAN!! You mean I have to install _REDHAT AND EMACS_ to find the
fountain of youth??!!
I'd rather use the energy to dig my grave :-) (<--note the smiley,
Nathaniel)
John
"W. Reilly Cooley" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, John Bagdanoff wrote:
>
> > This was a feeble attempt at humor referr
And that's a problem???
Sean
Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> > Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
> > does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
> > Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the
I'm running potato with potato's netscape 4.6 (smotif). Often, though
not 100% consistently, Netscape will not exit properly when I do a "File ->
Exit" (Alt-Q) and/or click on the X widget to close the window.
I know this is happening because the next time I go into Netscape, all of
the mai
Kyle Landon wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all
> files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. I
> can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot
> seem to do much at the $.
A
Quoting Eric House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Scenario: Machine 1 running Gnome with theme 1; machine 2 running Gnome
> with theme 2. I run gtk/themes-aware application on machine 1 but
> displayed on machine 2 via xhosting.
>
> Expected result: application is rendered with theme 2 like all the other
Subject: Procmail
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:51:00PM +0200
In reply to:Daniel
Quoting Daniel([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Anyone knows where to get info or a howto for procmail?
> I am specially interested in the organization for incoming mail into
> separate folders since Netscape f
Subject: How do I apply a kernel patch?
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:35:17PM +0200
In reply to:Johann Spies at Johann
Quoting Johann Spies at Johann([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> According to the Kernel-HOWTO I should do the following:
>
> So, continuing with the example above, let's
> Hi all,
>
> First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all
> files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. I
> can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program.
Hmm, what program? You mean Linux itself?
I cannot
> see
"N. Raghavendra" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives.
> There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy
> drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and
> the other floppy drive as B:. But
Barry Kauler wrote:
>
> I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
> I got X windows running, with default window
> manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
> didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
> into graphics mode and gave me a login window
> for fvwm.
> In Red Hat, this is con
Barry Kauler wrote:
>
> I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
> I got X windows running, with default window
> manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
> didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
> into graphics mode and gave me a login window
> for fvwm.
This question is asked r
Hi,
On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
> does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
> Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the
> list. Thanx
zgv but it uses svgalib
--
( >- Laurent PICOU
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
> I got X windows running, with default window
> manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
> didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
> into graphics mode and gave me a login windo
On Sat, 29 May 1999 03:56:49 +1000, you wrote:
>There are very comprehensive docs in /usr/doc/apt.
I don't feel that
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/apt/examples > cat sources.list
|# See sources.list(5) for more information
|# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
|deb http://ftp1.us.
I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
I got X windows running, with default window
manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
into graphics mode and gave me a login window
for fvwm.
In Red Hat, this is controlled by /etc/inittab, which
sets t
Procmail is well documented. Look at the procmail(1), procmailex(5),
procmailrc(5) and procmailsc(5) manual pages using "man" (omit the
section number).
Regards,
Remco
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 14:51, Daniel wrote:
> Anyone knows where to get info or a howto for procmail?
> I am specially intere
Anyone knows where to get info or a howto for procmail?
I am specially interested in the organization for incoming mail into
separate folders since Netscape filters wont work right for me and I
have tried everything to make them work right!
Thanks
Daniel
Hmm I think ggi has made accelrated fb device for the millenium card.
well the you can run xggi and you hvae yourself an accelrated X on a
millenium card.
/nisse
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Oh the other h
Hello!
It's me again.
For all of you, I apreciatte your concern and for having let me know
what really "unstable" means. Maybe I was being too exciting about
potato packages since I like a lot how my debian distro works and how it
is made. Well, what I really want to say to those of you who have
According to the Kernel-HOWTO I should do the following:
So, continuing with the example above, let's suppose that you have
`patch46.gz' in /usr/src. cd to /usr/src and do a `zcat patch46.gz |
patch -p0' (or `patch -p0 < patch46' if the patch isn't compressed).
You'll see things whizz by
Hi,
Is the any technical reason why I should fdisk an extra IDE hdd and
not mkfs the whole thing at ones? Apart from: "hdb: unknown partition
table" at boot time everything works perfectly..
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Remco
--
Kosto World Trade Center anthrax plutonium SEAL Team 6 Nazi nuclear B
Check out www.linux.com
Its VA research. Not sure what they have but they advertise that their
website is powered bu Debian. They are a Linux Hardware vendor.
Robert
<
The Debian GNOME team has recompiled the GNOME packages, as present in
the Debian developement tree, for the stable Debian release 2.1 (slink).
This update contains the current GNOME core packages, as well as
current versions of GNOME aware applications and window managers. A
valueable new packag
>> "BB" == Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall?
Because you selected some new package (from unstable?) and refused to
upgrade some key package (libc6ß), so these packages can't be
installed any more? Or maybe you hit "-"
>> "RF" == Rene Feenstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RF> I got my analog modem working a few weeks ago but now i', trying
RF> to setup my isdn modem = Teles 16.3 I got it included in the
RF> kernel and i can see it installing well but when I try to call out
RF> with it with pon isdn ( my pon conf
>> "NC" == Nick Cabatoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NC> Is there any way of getting complete bug reports (including those
NC> that have been closed) for a particular packages? I think I've
NC> found a bug in librx1g/regexec(), and was hoping to verify that.
Check bugs.debian.org/librx1g
You c
>> "D" == Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> I really dont think Debian is ever being unstable...
You are not that long with Debian and are not that involved with the
developement, right? Sometimes there are even mails to debian-devel
explicitly asking not to update some packages as a upload
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Charlie Hedlin wrote:
> I wanted to download the i386 and Alpha cdrom images, but do not seem to
> be able to connect to cdimage.debian.org (either http nor ftp). These
> images don't seem to be on the standard ftp mirrors either. I have
i got at least the i386 images from
Hi Kyle
Im a newbie too! I've got almost the same problem as you do. But: are you
installing from a CD? You might want to try specifying the path to the cd
when using the dselect command.
There seems (from my limited experience w/ dos and Linux) to be a problem w/
the partition table, some little f
Hello!
I have uppgraded from slink to potato (I now understand the word
unstable=)
And downloaded kernel 2.2.9. But when I type menuconfig I have got
following
error mess.
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linu
Hi,
I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives.
There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy
drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and
the other floppy drive as B:. But Linux seems to reverse this order: it
s
Hello. I've installed Debian from a Debian 1.3 CD and partly upgraded to
2.1 by downloading with apt. This is my first encounter with Debian.
(1) The upgrade failed because the ftp server hung up on a small number
of files. They are represented in the partial directory.
How can I restart this
Hi all,
First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all
files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. I
can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot
seem to do much at the $. I run dselect with my root accoun
Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
>
> I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been
> using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome,
> and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome
> packages.
>
> Are step my step instructions available somew
Daniel wrote:
>
> To be honest... Potato is completely STABLE.. :) I am using it and I havent
> had any
> problems so far, it just works great... I really dont think Debian is ever
> being
> unstable...
>
> Daniel
To be fair to all readers, especially newbies, this isn't good
advice t
check out the zgv program.
Sean
Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
> does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
> Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the
> list. Thanx
> _
> D
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I have these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./
> > deb http://www.debian.o
> Goran Tomic wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm totally new to this and I would really like to install
> Debian on my comp.
> First can you help me with this ftp site.I would like to know what
> files I have to
> download and what is the size of them. I'm currently using Windows 95
> and
> Windows NT 4.0 on
Hi, I'm totally new to this and
I would really like to install Debian on my comp.
First can you help me with this ftp site.I would
like to know what files I have to
download and what is the size of them. I'm
currently using Windows 95 and
Windows NT 4.0 on a separate partition (with NTF
Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which
does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that?
Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the
list. Thanx
_
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I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been
using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome,
and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome
packages.
Are step my step instructions available somewhere for getting and
installing Gnome
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Christensen wrote:
> When I tried fdisk -1 (after a DOS boot) it wouldn't recognize the
> parameter. (Maybe I have a different version of fdisk?)
You need the linux fdisk. It should be available on the rescue disk.
Just boot from the rescue disk like normal, and on the colo
Brandon,
When I tried fdisk -1 (after a DOS boot) it wouldn't recognize the
parameter. (Maybe I have a different version of fdisk?)
But I did display the partition information from the fdisk menu:
1Apri dos1024Mfat1633% (windows is here)
2 non-dos 35M
I'm puzzling over an odd problem. I can run X just fine when I log in as a
normal user and run startx. However, if I let Debian (potato) boot so xdm
is started when the system boots, I can't log in at all. In fact, xdm seems
totally hosed. It won't respond to any keyboard input. The system, it
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting
> on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can
> find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone
> had any luck?
Did you chec
On 29-May-99 Robert Rati wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting
> on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only version I can
> find anywhere (stable or unstable) on ftp.debian.org is version 5. Anyone
> had any luck?
I installed it but i
On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 10:57:55PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> I was reading somewhere recently that you should run X with a nice value
> of -10... I can't remember which document I saw this in now, I think it
> was one of the X setup HOWTOs.
ISTR it is in the XFree86 FAQ, possibly among other
Hello,
I just changed my IP and as a result, I now have new IP addresses. How
do I go about changing the IP address of my machine? I will need to
change the DNS as well...
Also, I use SAMBA and I can't remember if I had any changes to be done
there.
If you know what is involved in this, please
Scenario: Machine 1 running Gnome with theme 1; machine 2 running Gnome
with theme 2. I run gtk/themes-aware application on machine 1 but
displayed on machine 2 via xhosting.
Expected result: application is rendered with theme 2 like all the other
windows on the desktop. This is the proper model
I downloaded the non-distribution-specific binaries from netscape's ftp site,
and
everything has worked so far. I'm using potato.
Sean
Robert Rati wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed Communicator 4.6? Dselect is insisting
> on a dependency with netscape-base4 ver >= 10, but the only ve
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