Re: where to get powerpc debian cd

1999-11-02 Thread Adam Shand
> Basically, you need to wait for Potato to become stable, or find someone > who can run the CD build scripts for you. Try asking on debian-powerpc > or whatever the port list is. i can wait for that, hopefully it shouldn't be too far off. i don't really need it for anything, i'm just dying to

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Nick Phillips wrote: > > > > > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. > > > > IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets > a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the > front of the disk... You *can* boot linux from a logic

Re: apt-get failed

1999-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Upgrade debconf by hand to the current version in unstable. jack wrote: > hi, > > the error message is: > > debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > w3-el-e20

Debian user list

1999-11-02 Thread raymond ferrari
I am receiving all my messages twice, or at least the responses to my questions, come back doubled up. Meaning, the person responding to my questions; on this list; help me by responding, but there message is there twice. ?What to do;.)Ray Ferrari

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
--- Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm probably just going to re-download the whole > thing > > and try again. > > Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or > 2.0) at a local > 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient. Believe me, I would if I could. Unfortunately I live

Re: Debhelper for slink

1999-11-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* XRDLAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under > slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade As it is "only" a Perl script, you can just use the package. > before I can do that? AFAIK, it needs a newer Perl

w3 and .mailcap

1999-11-02 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hello Emacs/w3 doesn't seem to recognize the way metamail handles .mailcap commands, for example the %s to pass the filename as an argument to the program. I know its w3 because lynx works fine with it. Is there any way w3 can be set to recognize this?

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:43:00PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: > You have to edit your local /etc/printcap. > Add a line > rm=YOUR_SERVER_IP:\ > rp=lp:\ > > But I think that you only have to uncomment und modify some lines in your > standard > Debian /etc/printcap. i'm currently having the sa

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-02 Thread Tim Burgess
> Anyone know this particular card (27247B) or preferable settings and > parameters? The card's defaults should be x300 & IRQ 3. If that doesn't work, you should be able to download the drives from www.hp.com _Tim Burgess_Ba.App.Sc.(Hons) RMIT__ | Masters Candidate

Re: LILO

1999-11-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Please help...I just re-installed Debian completely from scratch after > having some problems with xwindows. I am dual booting using Boot Magic. > Everything went real well this time. However, now when I want to go into > Linux, Lilo hangs at boot up and won't do anything. What has happened, > an

apt-get failed

1999-11-02 Thread jack
hi, the error message is: debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: w3-el-e20 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtkmm The following packages have been ke

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, David Weinehall wrote: > Just one question: aren't you violating the license by doing this? Probably :-) I don't know really. Other distributions are doing it and there doesn't seem to be a problem. Debian is probably just being extra-anal about the whole thing but hey that

Re: Urgent: How do I relay mail

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > no mail at all (only from the localhost). How can I convince > my mailserver to start relaying mail? Which MTA are you using? With exim (the default for Debian), you can set the "relay_domains" parameter in exim.conf to include

Re: where to get powerpc debian cd

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 11:03:18PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > is there somewhere i can buy a powerpc debian install cd? > or do i need to wait for potato to become stable? Basically, you need to wait for Potato to become stable, or find someone who can run the CD build scripts for you. Try as

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Don't worry about it, I've got them. They're online now, as is your HTML > index. > Super! Don't forget to add Thanks to Noah Meyerhans for hosting this page somewhere. :-) > > > > Also they probably should be made apt-getable at some point.

enlightenment themes

1999-11-02 Thread Justin Hagemeier
I have the unstable distribution of debian and enlightenment 16.1 does not seem to want to display backgrounds when I introduce new themes. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks Justin

Re: dv_version? what is that about?

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:37:33PM -0500, Jacob Schmude When trying to upgrade to the latest potato release I get the following error: > db_version: command not found > dpkg: subprocess exited with status error 127 Some package appears to want debconf around. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

xterm in potato can't open ttys

1999-11-02 Thread ferret
I just updated one of my systems to the newest potato as of Oct 31. I'm running xterm 3.3.5-1, libc6 2.1.2-9, kernel 2.1.2 with kerneli and ext2 compression patches. My kernel has /dev/pts support compiled and working. As root I can run xterms and see them using pts/* with a 'w' listing. The pro

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I've received svral reports that the pine 4.20 .debs I've put on > http://debianpine.tripod.com are corrupt. Have you had this problem? Hav > you successfully bean able to install them? In either case can you let me > know which Os, browser, and dpkg

Japanese?

1999-11-02 Thread Tracheotomy Bob
Does anyone know if a full Japanese character set is available for TeX? -- "This job's too hard for us!" - Andy and Randy Pig

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-02 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:18:00PM +, John wrote: > Kern.log says the kernel is not compiled for ppp (I've not used any > modules). > > My limited experience indicates, therefore, it must have to do with > the kernel - but what? I enabled 'networking support' which seems the > only relevant o

tkrat problem

1999-11-02 Thread Tracheotomy Bob
Hi all, I'm trying to use tkrat but I have this problem where it keeps locking the mailbox. Any time I start tkrat it creates a lock file in the mail box, then it won't close because the mailbox is locked, the only way out is to kill the rat. Any subsequent mail program can't open the mailbox e

Re: uninstall/reinstall

1999-11-02 Thread Corey Edwards
Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the dependencies correctly, so if you want to download the actual deb file, you could do that. Corey Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LILO

1999-11-02 Thread raymond ferrari
Please help...I just re-installed Debian completely from scratch after having some problems with xwindows. I am dual booting using Boot Magic. Everything went real well this time. However, now when I want to go into Linux, Lilo hangs at boot up and won't do anything. What has happened, and what do

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Can you give me ftp upload access? Or I can mail the files to you. (They > are pretty big though.) Don't worry about it, I've got them. They're online now, as is your HTML index. > > Also they probably should be

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Can you give me ftp upload access? Or I can mail the files to you. (They are pretty big though.) Also they probably should be made apt-getable at some point. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tu

Re: gimp segfault within script-fu

1999-11-02 Thread Kevin Dalley
Ingo Reimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for that hint, but i have been using the unstable releases of gimp > from the beginning on. Unstable and unusable is something quite different, > don't you agree? Unstable suggests that it is in danger of being unusable at any time. When it becom

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Dysthe wrote: > I just want to make sure I understand this. If I install cosole-tools > without having debconf installed will console-tools be operating > differently than if I install it with debconf already present? The postinst scirpt will be. > Also, will installing debconf later "

Re: Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I've received svral reports that the pine 4.20 .debs I've put on > http://debianpine.tripod.com are corrupt. Have you had this problem? Hav > you successfully bean able to install them? In either case can you let me

problem in creating java executable

1999-11-02 Thread paparao
Hi, this is paparao from kachina. i have downloaded the file guavac_1.2.2.deb.deb from http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl , can you please tell me how can i create java executable file with that, and one more thing is what is the type of this file and how can i open it.please send me the d

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Nov, Joey Hess wrote: > console-tools does different things depending on if debconf is installed or > not, but the bug is in console-tools. > I just want to make sure I understand this. If I install cosole-tools without having debconf installed will console-tools be operating differently th

Are you having trouble downloading my pine .debs?

1999-11-02 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I've received svral reports that the pine 4.20 .debs I've put on http://debianpine.tripod.com are corrupt. Have you had this problem? Hav you successfully bean able to install them? In either case can you let me know which Os, browser, and dpkg version (dpkg --version will tell you you used.) I'

Re: exitcodes

1999-11-02 Thread SGaerner
the exit code is stored in the variable $?. Richard Clarke wrote: > I know this is slightly off topic, but could someone tell me how I can > retrieve the exit code from a unix program and store it into a shell > variable > > Richard > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /

Strange network problems on ppp interface

1999-11-02 Thread Dylan Thurston
As of yesterday, I've been having some strange problems connecting through my Ricochet modem. I'm able to connect and ping places just fine; however, all useful connections (e.g., telnet, ftp, or http) fail: with telnet, for instance, I get the standard connect messages Trying 128.32.183.1... Con

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread SGaerner
You have to edit your local /etc/printcap. Add a line rm=YOUR_SERVER_IP:\ rp=lp:\ But I think that you only have to uncomment und modify some lines in your standard Debian /etc/printcap. Brian Schramm wrote: > I hope this gets to the list. I never saw my question post the last > time.

need help with HP ethertwist jumper settings and parameters

1999-11-02 Thread Jussi Mattila
Autoprobing fails during installation (trying to install over network), and I think its the parameters and the card jumpersettings that are the problem. Anyone know this particular card (27247B) or preferable settings and parameters? Jussi ps. I'm a new

using latin american characters

1999-11-02 Thread Scott Barker
Is there a howto or some other document somewhere that gives step-by-step instructions on how to set up most programs to use the latin character set? The keyboard howto told me how to setup emacs and less, but I can't find information anywhere on how to setup netscape to allow the input of accente

Re: html to postscript converter

1999-11-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Where can I find a html to postscript converter for slink? $ dpkg -s html2ps Package: html2ps Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 304 Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.0b1-6 Depends: perl (>= 5.003), pe

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Nick Phillips
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. > IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the front of the disk... I couldn't tell from the bits of previous posts I could see exactly how

Xserver tune up tool

1999-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If I am not mistaken there was some message the other day about a tool that automatically detects and indicates the xserver and parameters that your machine has. Does any one know anything about this? If so, how do I implement it in a slink system? Thanks, antonio

html to postscript converter

1999-11-02 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Where can I find a html to postscript converter for slink? I can perform the conversion by using netscape->SaveAs, but this way I have to open and SaveAs each file, which is very tedious and embarrasing. Thanks in advance, Manuel Arenaz

Password encryption

1999-11-02 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi everyone, Today, I've just realized that the passwd package uses encryption. The problem is that I wonder why it's not in the non-US section. Every package that uses encryption seems to be in non-US, so why isn't passwd in non-US too ? Bye, sami -- E II A NN N

Re: Problem with dselect in unstabke (fwd)

1999-11-02 Thread Stan Brown
Forwarded message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 2 14:05:30 1999 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problem with dselect in unstabke To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:46:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fr

aliases,hosts

1999-11-02 Thread Attila Csosz
Where can I find documentation of using and the syntax of /etc/aliases, /etc/hosts ? (I've found no man page) Thanks Attila -- --- - Debian 2.1 Linux / 2.2.9 / qmail - - Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]-

Re: IP--->Domainname--->OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
if i understand what your asking all you want to do is have your machine recieve requests for mymachine.domain.net, so if someone types in http://mymachine.domain.net they hit your machine, or if they email you at mymachine.domain.net it comes to you .. ?? just set a domain up and point the domai

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-02 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > Hans Gubitz said > > > xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: > > > ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > > > ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > Deinstall tks

Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
2.2.10 works great as for wine, the wine released on 1030 seems to work ok, the one that came out in sept was badly broken. but all i run in wine is cdrwin .. still tryin to get unreal or somethin runnin under wine, everytime i run it it just chews up 500+mb of memory and dies. :( nate

Re: [root: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

1999-11-02 Thread John Pearson
As far as the cnews angle is concerned, this seems to be a minor misfeature of the cnews package. The script in /etc/cron.daily/cnews is run as root, and su's to user 'news' while the current working directory is /root, resulting in nasty messages. I have attached my slightly edited copy of th

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Nov, Account for Debian group mail wrote about "Code Freeze for Potato" > > Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 1 as planned? > Nope, it has been pushed back a week. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: exitcodes

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Nov, Richard Clarke wrote about "exitcodes" > I know this is slightly off topic, but could someone tell me how I can > retrieve the exit code from a unix program and store it into a shell > variable > In most shells the exit code of the previous command it stored in the shell variable $

Re: IP--->Domainname--->OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > To further simplify, I am stuck with a _public_ domain (a > static one) delegated for a DSL connection. We'll call it > static.domain.name.net. I want to exchange traffic for > mymachine.domain.net (I own domain.net). There is o

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

1999-11-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:49:09 -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 1 as planned? No due to hardware problems for the release manager. The freeze has been moved to Sunday Nov. 7th. HTH, Ray -- RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may not be a

mrtg problem

1999-11-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
After upgrade to mrtg in potato, I get Attempt to free unreferenced scalar during global destruction. Seems to be working ... haven't had time to dig through the code and see what the deal is. Anyone else running mrtg? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mail

Re: Perl termcap error during apt-get?

1999-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Lewis wrote: > Getting the following error during a recent dselect/apt-get: > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 > > Configuring packages... > /tmp/fileCfnBOx: /user/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory

Code Freeze for Potato

1999-11-02 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 1 as planned? Thanks, Ken Rea

exitcodes

1999-11-02 Thread Richard Clarke
I know this is slightly off topic, but could someone tell me how I can retrieve the exit code from a unix program and store it into a shell variable Richard

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Dysthe wrote: > Seems debconf is to "blame" for this: No. > I uninstalled debconf (and a couple of packages depending on it, Real > Player was one). I then installed console-tools again without debconf > and the install went fine. Then I resinstalled debconf and the pakcages > I need th

Re: Debhelper for slink

1999-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
XRDLAB wrote: > I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under > slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade > before I can do that? What was the error message? -- see shy jo

staroffice and duplex printing

1999-11-02 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi there, did anyone manage to perform duplex-printing of star-office documents? I have a Digital-Printserver LN17 with duplex option, which i can controll either by the pstools package (pslpr with *.ppd) or with a2ps --sides='duplex'. But, if a. .. i use the same ppd file and click on (*) duple

Re: NIS

1999-11-02 Thread Paul Miller
Marcin Kurc wrote: > > Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile > it but it still does not work > No bugs for me...I have about 20 systems using the NIS package. Try running ypbind with the -debug flag and see if that gives more info. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL

Re: IP--->Domainname--->OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
To further simplify, I am stuck with a _public_ domain (a static one) delegated for a DSL connection. We'll call it static.domain.name.net. I want to exchange traffic for mymachine.domain.net (I own domain.net). There is only one IP address, and this is one potato box that is running bind.

Re: hwclock, date, and utc

1999-11-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Nov 1999, Michael Perry wrote: > Greetings- > > I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to > utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only > run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook > laptop, I can res

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-02 Thread John
on 27 Oct 99, Brad wrote...inter alia, > >> If there is nothing sinister arising out of the above, I propose to apply >> patches 2 to 7 and then on to 12. > >Go to 13, it fixes some problems with 12. In particular, i wouldn't bother >to compile 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, just do the patching. > I haven

Re: kernel upgrade options addtl

1999-11-02 Thread John
on 27 Oct 99, Brad wrote... > I forget to mention in my earlier message that I had read 'Linux kernel release 2.2' and 'changes 2.2 kernels' notes. Not sure I understood everything, but I ensured I had the minimum requirements including ppp v2.3.5 (confirmed by 'pppd -v'). John.

IP--->Domainname--->OtherDomainname

1999-11-02 Thread Art Lemasters
How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP->1stDomainname-->2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated to a domain (e.g., hidden.static.domain.name.net). I want all traffic (on the same

Re: xcdroast

1999-11-02 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> Hans Gubitz said > > xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: > > ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > > ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel" > > > > In the Setup-menu Defaults has no entries. > > > Thes are two separate issues.

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: > Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has > a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm l

Re: gnome-session only starts enlightenment

1999-11-02 Thread David Z. Maze
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS> I'm having a hard time getting gnome-session to start any window manager PS> other than enlightenment. I've tried exporting WINDOW_MANAGER PS> immediately before calling gnome-session but to no avail. You need to go into the GNOME Control Center and cha

Re: [A try again . . .] Mail Server

1999-11-02 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hello List ! > > > 1. What is the best mail software for Redhat ? > INFO : The mail server has to be SMTP / POP3 and WILL have a very nasty > load of users. I would say qmail 1.03 :) > > 2. What would be the best platform for this server ? > INFO :

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I thought that might be the case. However anyone installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0 kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people would need that much swap anyway. --- Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Re: debian > installati

Re: [A try again . . .] Mail Server

1999-11-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Dear Mentor List; 'debian-mentors' is for technical help for packaging software for the Debian distribution. 'debian-user' is for usage questions. I am copying your mail there. You will probably get much more help from them. Julian > I would like to apologize for my previous mail whe

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Re: debian installation woes" > 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you > can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes file in the kernel source documentation Util-linu

S3 trio 3D

1999-11-02 Thread Hongyu Lu
I tried to setup X for S3 trio 3D in debian, but falled. I already upgraded the XSVGA to 3.3.5(this worked fine for my previous Redhat 5.0), but I can only get the 800*600(8-bit) config work for me. Any idea? Thanks. Hongyu

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>1: w95 (1 gig) >2: extended (the rest of it) > 5: linux (1gig) > 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) > 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) > 8: linux swap (150 megs) There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a 1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem. Just to b

Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-02 Thread m_shapiro
I am running slink with kernal 2.0.34 and am thinking about upgrading to kernal 2.2.10 (I have seen posts about problems with 2.2.11 and 2.2.12, no news, yet on 2.2.13). I don't have any dire need to upgrade, so I'm not sure if it is a good idea, or just wait until potato is upgraded to stable and

uninstall/reinstall

1999-11-02 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi folks, just some practical question. Does there exist a simple mechanism to reinstall a package, that might be broken by some error? If i use dselect, all dependencies are also checked and lots of packages might be removed. would dpkg -r --force-depends XXX ; apt-get install XXX do what i

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: > > I will report this as a bug, anyone else get this also? > > -Todd Yes, and I tried to uninstall and reinstall. It just got worse. New error messages. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://od

libslang problem after upgrade to potato

1999-11-02 Thread Neil Booth
After doing a distribution upgrade from slink to potato, I keep getting errors about /usr/lib/libslang.so not existing. Doing "ldconfig /usr/lib" results in ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.s

Re: What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:09AM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: > > > Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? > > It's the current released version of Debian. Our releases have version > numbers assigned when they are released, and until then they are known > by "code names

hwclock, date, and utc

1999-11-02 Thread Michael Perry
Greetings- I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, I can reset things using the hwclock commands and then set

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Further to PPP to ISP saga - > > once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so > excuse formatting) ... > > DestinationGateway Genmask Flags MSS Win irtt Iface > > 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 15

Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 31 Oct, Pere Camps wrote about "Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages" > Phil, > >> You don't need to install any glibc2.1 packages to run kernel 2.2 - I'm >> doing it right now. You just need to update some programs as per the >> kernel documentation (best by compiling from scratch,

Perl termcap error during apt-get?

1999-11-02 Thread Charles Lewis
Getting the following error during a recent dselect/apt-get: Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Configuring packages... /tmp/fileCfnBOx: /user/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --ap

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/11/99 Mock Ko wrote: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) ^ 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now (I was usin

Re: NIS

1999-11-02 Thread sharkey
> Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile > it but it still does not work Works ok for me... Eric

STS

1999-11-02 Thread Tim Bedding
Space-Time Systems is a UK company which supplies Linux systems. Does anyone know anything about them? I have their website address. Are they any good? Tim freely-modifiable software advocate

NIS

1999-11-02 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there bug in NIS package? It looks like ypbind dies, I've tried to compile it but it still does not work -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

Runtime kernel parameters configuration

1999-11-02 Thread Onno
When I was configuring kernel 2.2.13 (make menuconfig) I was looking for IP: always defragment (CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG) and I couldn't find it. It had to be somewhere because its required for masquerading. Then it hit me, some kernel options are moving to /proc/sys/* and can be configured at run

Backup Media

1999-11-02 Thread Bernadette McKevitt
I am based in small office with 2 pc's and 1 laptop.  The computers are set up on a local network and I am trying to decide which backup media device would be best for this office.   Bernie,

Re: console-tools-data errors on install.

1999-11-02 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has > a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. > > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/Rea

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] > Other hardware: > - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't > find the module to install this card in the installer) This uses the pci-ne2k module. > - SB16 > - Riva TNT2 AGP > > I've gotten it to install and reboot

Solved! (WAS: Re: problems with "mirror" /// Re: BUG: wu-ftp 2.6.0 !? (was: Mirror bug)

1999-11-02 Thread Onno
Mirror was the problem. There is a new version of mirror available in potato that fixes the problem. Read the docs for more info... In short: upgrade mirror Thank you all for the help, Regards, Onno

Urgent: How do I relay mail

1999-11-02 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I need to setup an (internal) server that will relay mail. I does not need to accept mail from outside it will just have to forward mail from anybody who can reach it to wherever it has to go. I Installed sendmail but the default setting for it is to relay no mail at all (only from the loc

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =) I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec 2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: l

Re: What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:11:09AM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: > Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? It's the current released version of Debian. Our releases have version numbers assigned when they are released, and until then they are known by "code names". Slink is the name for Debian 2.

Re: .zip file

1999-11-02 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I recently recieved a .zip file in the e-mail, and when I tried: > > $ gunzip file.zip > gunzip: zile.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored > > What am I doing wrong? > Better try "http://packages.debian.org/unzip";. But it should already be on your Debian C

.zip file

1999-11-02 Thread Ralph Winslow
I recently recieved a .zip file in the e-mail, and when I tried: $ gunzip file.zip gunzip: zile.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored What am I doing wrong? -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ i

What is slink, in the Debian slink?

1999-11-02 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Sorry, what is slink, in the Debian slink? -- Abracos, Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.871 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vamos catalogar o Linux no Brasil?: http://members.xoom.com/riba/ http://www.terravista.pt/Guincho/5560/

Help! My linux is gone with an error message

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
I get this message from the console when I'm working TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone. Use /dev/vcs and the system goes down. I cannot do nothing and I must power off my machine. I have debian 2.1r3, and I don't install unstable packages. I've done memtest86 this weekend and I didn't get any error

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