re: php3

1999-08-29 Thread Michael Fox
I have a php3 html file, and inside it has the mysql_connect blah stuff, ie which mysql server to use and what username, but what is syntax for putting in a password.. I can't seem to manage to get my php3 script to logon using a username pass to the database.. Any help would be appreciated.. I h

Re: Matrox G400

1999-08-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
G200 8MB AGP, works great. I show XFree86 version 3.3.3.1 having support for G400 16MB video. I'd guess it also works well.

Re: How to set line length?

1999-08-29 Thread ferret
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Joe Bouchard wrote: > Hi, > > I am using mutt, exim, and emacs. > > I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have > something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature > in most mail systems, and it must be here, but I can't fig

Re: How to set line length?

1999-08-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:52:41PM -0700, Joe Bouchard wrote: > Hi, > > I am using mutt, exim, and emacs. > > I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have > something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature > in most mail systems, and it must be her

How to set line length?

1999-08-29 Thread Joe Bouchard
Hi, I am using mutt, exim, and emacs. I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature in most mail systems, and it must be here, but I can't figure out how to set it. I understand some email readers do

thinkpad

1999-08-29 Thread Koyote
Hey, all. Anyone have any specifics to share about installing slink on a thinkpad 755ce? (dx4/100, 16 meg RAM, 540 hdd, mwave, pcmcia us robotics (dell xj4336) modem, 1.44 floppy, no cd- can borrow one if I can't do disk install and get pppd running) Tia, Koyote

Re: HD full, 50% yester

1999-08-29 Thread qxm
If you run eggdrop, check to see it hasn't crashed, and made an infinite loop to a log file (happened to me last week) Matthew McFarlane - On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > *- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about "HD full, 50% yesterday" > > > I am being told t

dselect troubles

1999-08-29 Thread Ron Forrester
I have somehow put dselect into a mode where it thinks there are many packages to be removed, and many to be installed -- it got like this despite the fact that I have not been through selecting packages for removal and installation. I believe it ended up like this as a result of my playing with

Xemacs21 packages

1999-08-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Where and how do i get and install the xemacs 21 packages? I installed the deb but apperently it didn't have any of the packages installed, and it won't do anything about installing them, because I get one of these messages for every operation i try to perform: Symbol's value as variable is void: a

Re: Diamond Viper Driver ? (was Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770)

1999-08-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Aug, John Carline wrote about "Diamond Viper Driver ? (was Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770)" > Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > >> Which deb's do I need? W/o the dependancy thing, I'm at a bit of a loss. >> >> Thanx -- Greg >> > > Greg, this thread started with a request for the netgod web a

Matrox G400

1999-08-29 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi, I'd like to get a new graphics card and was wondering how well the Matrox G400 is supported on Linux. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Diamond Viper Driver ? (was Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770)

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > Which deb's do I need? W/o the dependancy thing, I'm at a bit of a loss. > > Thanx -- Greg > Greg, this thread started with a request for the netgod web address. I assumed that you already knew which driver you needed - my mistake ;-) Let's ask the question again,

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented > >with a nice package that allows you to install various components > >like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after > >you've ins

Re: 3com905c vs Rage128: In this corner, wearing the white trunks....

1999-08-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But! Apparently the 3com905c requires a 2.0.x kernel, and won't > work with the 2.2.x version. The Rage128 video card, not being > supported yet by Xfree86, can only work with the frame buffer > method, which apparently requires a 2.2.x kernel. I have many

Re: /dev/fd0 erased

1999-08-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Paul wrote: > all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files. > How do I restore my floppy drive? Ooops! I meant: ./MAKEDEV fd0 Sorry

RE: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-29 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! > Has anyone managed to get programs added to their panel > sucessfully (with their specified icons)? If so, please share, > and I'll pass it along to the other two unfortunate souls and the > KDE list. I've had some strange problem: The Menu Editor creates the KDELNK files in /root/.kde/

Re: /dev/fd0 erased

1999-08-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:06:15PM +0100, Paul wrote: > I`ve tried looking for "makedev" which dselect tells me is installed but > all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files. > How do I restore my floppy drive? cd /dev ./MAKEDEV fd This should create the symlinks.

/dev/fd0 erased

1999-08-29 Thread Paul
In a moment of stupidity whilst attempting to learn how to copy from hard drive to floppy disc I managed to "rm /dev/fd0". Now although "locate" still shows it as existing attempting to "mount /floppy" gives me the message "mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist" /etc/fstab looks like this:

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Adam Shand
> > Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML > > forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large > > combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows > > created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS. This has been

Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Sun 08/29/99 03:00PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > That sounds like a time-zone problem. Do you happen to be in > the US eastc-coast time zone? > No, I'm in the Pacific time-zone (US-west coast). The funny thing is that mutt sends mail with the right time, but Netscape doesn't. It appears that

Re: nfsroot package (applying to become a maintainer)

1999-08-29 Thread Olivier Kaloudoff
Thanx for your advices. Kalou

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread Mark H. Kraml
André, In Unix beware of the dot. The "cp -r *.*" will only copy directories that contain a . in the name. Use "cp -r * /dest" for best results. Also read the emails about mounting with vfat to get your long names. mk André Bell wrote: > > >How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem suppor

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
Which deb's do I need? W/o the dependancy thing, I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanx -- Greg - Original Message - > dselect reads a package list and then allows you to install from that list. > While there may be a way to update the list so that dselect can find it > (someone else may know),

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Libc6 Netscape had been working great for me. On last night's potato update the dependencies were changed (adding libc5 IIRC). The _very_next_time_ I used Netscape it crashed on a pop-up window.. -- Regards, Steve

Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all: > > I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message > is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I > reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP > masquerading set up. Could this be affecti

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and > the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them > all... (which could explain why the libc5 version of Netscape doesn't show > this problem?) For me, the libc5 v

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML > forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large > combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows > created), my keyboard stops worki

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
>How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 >characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain >DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the floppy. I can view the files

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: > >Yeah! Silly them they put it in the readme files :-) > > > >Windoze never uses them do they? > > Lost me on this one. There are 15 readme files on cd#1 and seven readme > files on cd#2, I read them all. None of them tell me xawtv is on cd#2. I > don't understand what you mean

Re: Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackman
I just looked in the CDROM HOWTO: that's not what teh device should be: you must go int /dev then ( as root) type mknod /dev/sbpcd b 25 0 also, in /etc/fstab, it's /dev/sbpcd, no partition number, it's a cdrom. make the devie, then try to install the module. for Howtos goto www.metalab.unc.edu/L

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long > file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer fi

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long You need to mount the floppy disk with filesystem type vfat, instead of filesystem type msdos.

Re: How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:48:54AM -0700, André Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long > file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Are you

Re: Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, John Foster wrote: > online ordering system). I want to be able to edit and manipulat these > files in Linux, Debian Slink. I think the problem that I have is that > the windows ascii text format is somehow different from that used in > Linu

How retain Windows long file names?

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including

Newbie needs Help!

1999-08-29 Thread Tam Ma
Hi everyone, I didn't get much responses the last time I post this message, but probably because the people who know about this problem didn't have chance to read this. Anyhow I post this message up again and hopefully there will be someone out there who know how to solve this problem. (I am reall

[stasiko@techst02.technion.ac.il: Question]

1999-08-29 Thread Hanno Wagner
Could someone please answer him? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #"Electronic Mail. Fast, r

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
>Yeah! Silly them they put it in the readme files :-) > >Windoze never uses them do they? Lost me on this one. There are 15 readme files on cd#1 and seven readme files on cd#2, I read them all. None of them tell me xawtv is on cd#2. I don't understand what you meant. BTW, since I couldn't figure

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
What do I get? I don't see an xfree86*.deb file I'd like to start from scratch if that's simpler. Thanx -- Greg - Original Message - From: John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg & Heather Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian, User Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 8:18 AM Subject: Re: X

Re: xcdroast and audio

1999-08-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Jocke wrote: | Hi all, | | I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. | When trying to mount an audio cd I just get ^^ You don't mount the cdrom when you're playing audio cds. | I can play for example wav files.

Re: Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
John D Smith wrote: > Hi all,I recently traded an older s Pentium machine, I have > loaded and configured it as a Web Server via the profile > choice during installation, So far so good. I have one or > two errors, like Apache not firing up. and lynx cant find my > domain, my next comment may have

Re: Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
Well, there's no getting around learning the "command line stuff". In many cases, the "command line stuff" is quicker and easier than any GUI. As far as the indexed help - that's a work in progress with dwww. However, you can find much info by using the 'man' command (e.g. "man apache", "man

Duplicate postings

1999-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I don't know if it's just me, but I'm seeing lots of duplicate postings from debian-user. The odd thing is that it is inconsistent: not every posting is duplicated. Naturally, I would love to see the problem fixed. Thanks.

Database Conversion questions??

1999-08-29 Thread John Foster
I have a series of large batabases that I need to be able to download from a website. They are in the MSDOS zipped format so I think the server and the system are managed using NT. The program that they are supposed to be used with is definitely Windows based (they are for an online ordering system

Re: Learning motif programing using lesstif?

1999-08-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to learn mottif programing using lesstif instead of motif? > and if so, is can anyone recommand any good documentation? > Yes, the goal of Lesstif is 100% source compatibility with Motif. From what I'v

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > - Original Message - > > Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > > > > > How do I get apt to see it? > > > > > > Thanx again -- Greg. > > > > > > > Sorry, I don't use apt. I just download the deb I want and then use > 'dpkg -i > > deb_name.deb' > > > > John > > > > Coul

basic easy to learn x toolkit

1999-08-29 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for some basic minimal easy to learn x toolkit. What i need is to display some simple graphics on the screen. I am looking to do some simple mathematic algorithm checking, and i need to disply single pixles in a window with control of their collor, using c and c++. Is there a simple wa

Learning motif programing using lesstif?

1999-08-29 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to learn mottif programing using lesstif instead of motif? and if so, is can anyone recommand any good documentation? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > *- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about "HD full, 50% yesterday" > > I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of > > capacity. The last time I was on the computer > > I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any > > other information.

Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: > >Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect > from a > >command prompt; went through the steps Access, Update and Select; and > xawtv wasn't > >found listed under "xtr x11"? > > > >It should be there, at least thats where it is on my slink cheapb

Re: HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about "HD full, 50% yesterday" > I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of > capacity. The last time I was on the computer > I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other > information. Any suggest

HD full, 50% yesterday

1999-08-29 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of capacity. The last time I was on the computer I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other information. Any suggestions on what I can check out to figure out how my harddrive reached this ca

Re: X on a Diamond Viper 770

1999-08-29 Thread Greg & Heather Vence
- Original Message - > Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > > > How do I get apt to see it? > > > > Thanx again -- Greg. > > > > Sorry, I don't use apt. I just download the deb I want and then use 'dpkg -i > deb_name.deb' > > John > Could it be downloaded into the standard location for dselect to

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Barry Rueger" wrote: >A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration >files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention >for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they >likely to be kept? Config files are named however the s

Re: Locking up X the debian way?

1999-08-29 Thread Markus Fischer
Once upon a time (around Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:09:51PM -0700 i think) Chris someone told me : > My next qestion is, is there any thing else I > can do to lock up X? Can someone point me to X secure howto? Any help on > this would be very help full. If I unterstand you, you want to lo

Re: http -> telnet

1999-08-29 Thread Kris
Oz Dror wrote: >The problem with httptunnel is that at work I have windows 95 computer >and I am not alowed to install any software on it. In fact each night >any installed software is erased. >Do I have two problem >1. I do not know of htc for windows 95 >2. I am not sure that I can get away by i

Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Barry Rueger
Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around. Th

Re: Need "ä" in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Patrik Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run latex on this file I get a heap of error messages: > ! LaTeX Error: Command \Diamond not provided in base LaTeX2e. My LaTeX Companion says on page 184 that \Diamond was defined in LaTeX 2.09, but it is no longer defined in the base setup of

Re: Need "ä" in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Patrik Magnusson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Magnusson) writes: > ! LaTeX Error: Command \Diamond not provided in base LaTeX2e. Hmm, there is something annoyingly magical about this list: Whenever I write to it the answer sits staring in my face ten seconds later. All I neede

Need "ä" in a label, in a plot.

1999-08-29 Thread Patrik Magnusson
I've been using 'gnuplot' and 'gri' for a while to produce neat-looking plots. 'gnuplot' for the simpler stuff, and 'gri' whenever I needed greek letters in the labels. Last night I got stuck. I need an "ä" (a with two dots above) in one of the labels. In 'gnuplot' I tried to set label "...ä.

xinetd vs rlinetd

1999-08-29 Thread meridian
Hi, I was thinking of changing inetd to something with a little more logging capabilites, however there seems to be two available alternatives, xinetd which appears to have bbeen around some time, and rlinetd which is new but admits it has been somewhat ripped off of xinetd. I havent done a thoroug

xcdroast and audio

1999-08-29 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I can mount both my cdrom and my cdrw with data cds. When trying to mount an audio cd I just get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems my fstab looks like /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0

Re: nfsroot package (applying to become a maintainer)

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: > How can i become part of the >Debian maintainers ? Load package developers-reference and follow the instructions in chapter 2. However, ignore the bit about waiting 7-14 days; at the moment it's more like 7-14 months, because the new-maintainers team is overload

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 18:38:05 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Ted required statically linked versions of the libraries... You may want to use the source package from unstable then; it produces a dynamically linked Ted package. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

nfsroot package (applying to become a maintainer)

1999-08-29 Thread Olivier Kaloudoff
Hello . the package "nfsroot" is in : project/orphaned/nfsroot_0.5.1.tar.gz (as of Debian 2.1), but i found some related tools which could me merged with nfsroot and provide a better tool. How can i become part of the Debian maintainers ? Olivier Kaloudoff

How to kill a process (if kill -9 does not work)?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi there! I ran into a problem today where xcdroast crashed several times when reading a cd image off a cd and I wanted to kill it. No big thing I thought, send it a SIGTERM, if this does not work, use a SIGKILL. Well, I did so but after I sent it a SIGTERM using kill -s 9 `ps` still showed the

Re: [Debian: Install] SCSI-Controller with AIC 6x60

1999-08-29 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
> But now I must install the SCSI-Controller AH1502 (AIC 6x60). > > In the BASE installation is no option to select Adaptec controller. > How can I install it ??? I searched through archives a few days ago about installing driver for adaptec ava-1505 (ISA bus). In one post, the author said that

[Debian: Install] SCSI-Controller with AIC 6x60

1999-08-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have tried it again to install the BASE of Debian 2.1 from Floppy. OK, it works. But now I must install the SCSI-Controller AH1502 (AIC 6x60). In the BASE installation is no option to select Adaptec controller. How can I install it ??? I have this question, because the controller is n

Where to from here guys ... help next steps for newbie sprog, WINZ refugee

1999-08-29 Thread John D Smith
Hi all, I recently traded an older s Pentium machine, I have loaded and configured it as a Web Server via the profile choice during installation, So far so good. I have one or two errors, like Apache not firing up. and lynx cant find my domain, my next comment may have been fielded here

Re: Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hans > 1) I made the following partitioning. >/dev/hda5 50M (for /) >/dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) >/dev/hda7 250M (for /var) >/dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) >/dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) >/dev/hda10 1500M (for /home) > 2) I installed the base on /dev/hda5 and I can boot

Re: Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hans, the traditional way of tackling multiple filesystems is to mount all those filesystems *before* installing. I suppose after-the-fact isn't impossible.. A few notes -- each filesystem will have a lost+found directory. cp probably won't do such a good job of moving everything. One common su

Re: KDE doesn't start after crash

1999-08-29 Thread Gerald . Preissler
I'm not sure about this, but you might get around your problem by deleting or renameing your ~/.kde and ~/.kderc. You will lose the settings for your kde progs, though. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Partitioning done. And then?

1999-08-29 Thread Hans van den Boogert
I have one of those bright days and for the life of me can't think of how to proceed. 1) I made the following partitioning. /dev/hda5 50M (for /) /dev/hda6 100M (for SWAP) /dev/hda7 250M (for /var) /dev/hda8 550M (for /usr) /dev/hda9 550M (for /usr/local) /dev/hda10 1500M (for /h

Re: help

1999-08-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Beverley Eyre wrote: > Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. > I got this addy from the debian webpage. > > Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend > a hand? > ---end quoted text--- Hi Beverly, Second question first. Yes, this is

Re: help

1999-08-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Beverley Eyre wrote: > > Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. > I got this addy from the debian webpage. > > Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend > a hand? > > TAI > > Bev > > Beverley Eyre If you are asking how to j

help

1999-08-29 Thread Beverley Eyre
Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. I got this addy from the debian webpage. Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend a hand? TAI Bev Beverley Eyre

PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
CAD CONSULTANCY CAD CONSULTANCY (CADS) , India is a premier PCB design house providing high quality designs at affordable cost and with in short turn around times. We undertake designs from simple to very complex multilayer boards. Our customers include Defence labs, aerospace Indust

PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
CAD CONSULTANCY CAD CONSULTANCY (CADS) , India is a premier PCB design house providing high quality designs at affordable cost and with in short turn around times. We undertake designs from simple to very complex multilayer boards. Our customers include Defence labs, aerospace Indust

PCB DESIGN SERVICE

1999-08-29 Thread cad consultancy
CAD CONSULTANCY CAD CONSULTANCY (CADS) , India is a premier PCB design house providing high quality designs at affordable cost and with in short turn around times. We undertake designs from simple to very complex multilayer boards. Our customers include Defence labs, aerospace Indust

finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)

1999-08-29 Thread André Bell
>Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a >command prompt; went through the steps Access, Update and Select; and xawtv wasn't >found listed under "xtr x11"? > >It should be there, at least thats where it is on my slink cheapbytes CD. dang, I thought debia

Still can't get a DHCP address

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Lesage
Well, I'm still unable to get an IP address, using either dhcpcd or dhclient under slink. I'm using loadlin to boot the computer (LILO won't install on it). I'm including (1) the contents of my loadlin param file. (2) is a dump of dmesg. There's a number of errors in there (apache, for example) I

Memory management

1999-08-29 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. Ever since I went from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 (Still glibc2.0), my system has been having an interesting memory management. 1. When Iboot the syste up, memory consumed is right where it should be. Shortly after a startup, memory usage goes from 20M (Right after boot) to completely fill the

Locking up X the debian way?

1999-08-29 Thread Chris someone
Hi there, thanks to every one who responded to my post to configure X, well I was editing the wrong file: /etc/Server and I should of been editing /etc/Xserver. I have X up and running fine now, and now I have a few qestions about locking up X. When I start X I have this command in .bash_prof

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mark > > to find out info about the other machine... > > why not try the following ?? ( an expect script can gather the info > > quickly ? > > Is this not exactly the purpose of queso? donno i don't go poking around on other people smachines... but now I want to figure out how to do

RE: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread B. Szyszka
> This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any > suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old Win98 > box, but I keep it around for just that one thing. Please keep me CC'd, as I > don't subscribe to this list. Thanks. A great site on various ICQs for

Re: Install problem: LI, than nothing else

1999-08-29 Thread KaHa
Walthier Mate Tamas wrote: > I tought I've allready installed DebinLinux but I never got over the > "LI" after several times. Try putting the line: linear in your /etc/lilo.conf, right below the line that says "compact". Then run /usr/sbin/lilo, and reboot. > An other problem: I created a boot

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 05:43:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > to find out info about the other machine... > why not try the following ?? ( an expect script can gather the info quickly ? Is this not exactly the purpose of queso? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpine

Re: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Nathan Sandver wrote: > This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any > suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old I use MICQ. It's public domain and the latest version (0.3.4) is almost even stable - at least when it loses its

Re: How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive

1999-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the info. I have some more info, for anyone who's following this thread, and some questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : see questions 1+2 below--I wasn't sure exactly where to send this). Info: the site referred to in the release notes is ftp://kalle.

Re: What CD vendor ?

1999-08-29 Thread John Foster
Tony Schonfeld wrote: > > hello , > > I have become a unconditional user of DEBIAN and will not want > to change for an other version. > Each time that I have tried other thing ( Suse, mandrake ) > I have found that there was a void . > It is well true that when one has tried debian for

Re: ICQ client

1999-08-29 Thread ferret
I've been a zicq user for several months. Works great, if you don't use -O or -O2 optimisation to compile it. :> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any > > suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid o

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:20:12PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > > Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? > > > > clear > /tmp/clear.txt > cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue > /etc/issue If memory serves, the redirection ge

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? > clear > /tmp/clear.txt cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue > /etc/issue HTH, Pete. PS. clear is in ncurses-bin

Re: StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Aug-1999, Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I > need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version > 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB > system. But it does a decen

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote: > > I thought of this, heck what about an executable > > bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb... > > Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java > or other binfmt

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:08:16PM -0500, David Blackmad wrote: > I thought of this, heck what about an executable > bash, tcsh, kernel-source, gdb... Heh heh -- I didn't even think about executables. Of course, for some java or other binfmt binaries, that might be sotr of nice. > > > > But,

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I can't compile Ted (richtext word processor) > > I keep getting the error > > ld: cannot open -lXm: No such file or directory > > Usually this means that the -L is set wrong but it says: > > (beginning clipped) > -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-29 Thread David Blackmad
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 06:35:48PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: > > I came up with a better idea (I think). > [...] > > Get ready: > > 2 programs filer & apt-get-filer > [...] > > You know, this idea isn't bad :) I could honestly see this thing > worki

Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?

1999-08-29 Thread John Carline
André Bell wrote: > I'm having "issues" trying to install single applications from the cdrom. > For example I can't find xawtv using dselect on the cdrom so I can install > xawtv to my harddrive. > Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a command prompt; we

Re: gnome, soundcard... not working quite right

1999-08-29 Thread Jaron Abbott
Yup, it's there. MAKEDEV audio seems to run okay, cat sndstat still returns the same response. In case it's relevant, I don't think I mentioned that I'm running Potato. Thanks David Blackmad wrote: > > Check if you *have* a /dev/sndstat, teh module might be loaded with no > device to work with

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