Installing Slink (continued)

1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
Is there a place to submit narratives of difficulties with login etc.? I Maybe I (or someone) could write up a clarification or a blow-by-blow explanation for this kind of stuff, which must seem terribly obvious to y'all. Or perhaps there already is a blow-by-blow that I should be reading? For m

Re: How to change the background highlight in Netscape searches ????

1999-12-01 Thread Martin Dickopp
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > When I do a "Find in page" on a Netscape page, the found term is > highlighted by a change in the background colour which is almost > invisible. > I would like the background of found terms to become RED for all of my > users > > Which X11/Ne

Canon BJC-1000 printer

1999-12-01 Thread John Hasler
Has anyone had any luck getting a Canon BJC-1000 printer to work with Debian? I've tried the bj200 driver, but I don't know for sure that the (brand new) printer is working. I don't have Windows. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Can anyone tell me what happenned to netdate? It used to be part of netstd, but doesn't seem to exist in potato anymore... Thanx!

Re: Invoking /etc/isapnp.conf

1999-12-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:26:51PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote: > In Debian, what is the "best" way to invoke > the /ect/isapnp.conf file on bootup so that the > NIC is recognized ? > > In Red Hat, this is invoked by default via > the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script. Just make sure you install th

mod-auth-mysql

1999-12-01 Thread Joe Block
Has anyone gotten mod-auth-mysql to build correctly on slink/x86? I'm trying to puzzle out what I need to tell configure so it'll produce a working makefile. I looked and didn't find a deb for it in stable or unstable. Yes, I have mysql-dev & apache-dev installed. Thanks, jpb -- Joe Block <[E

Re: Invoking /etc/isapnp.conf

1999-12-01 Thread Brad
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:26:51PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote: > > In Debian, what is the "best" way to invoke > the /ect/isapnp.conf file on bootup so that the > NIC is recognized ? Install the isapnptools package. This will automatically setup scripts in /etc/init.d and symlinks from the proper

install of modue for intel etherexpres pro hangs

1999-12-01 Thread Jim Richards
Hello, I'm trying to follow the installation programme and when it comes to installing modules I pick the net -> ether express pro module, do the install and it hangs while trying load it into the kernal ... I've done solaris installs on this machine and it detects the card, and when windows was

Linux utility to recover NTFS

1999-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm setting up to install debian, but one problem first. An NT installation broke an NTFS partition, and my red hat installation. so i'm moving to debian. I need to recover the data in order to make room for debian. There must be such a tool. I just read this in the new o'reilly book learning

Re: Can libqt1g and libqt2 coexist?

1999-12-01 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Pollywog wrote: > > On 04-Dec-1999 Cyrus Patel wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've got kde.tdyc.com in my sources.list and currently have libqt1g > > installed. > > > > However, I was playing around trying to compile some apps that need qt2 and > > when I tryed to install libqt2 it asked to remove

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1999-12-01 Thread stake
Sorry i know this is stupid but im looking for drivers to my network component (Nile VIA VT86C916) it was given to me for free & i cant find drivers (i have only the hardware) Can u help me ?

Re: startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Great. Hopefully this is all that's missing. Installing now. Robert Thus spake Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > > ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: No such file or directory > > > > And a "

Re: Help with ethernet printer

1999-12-01 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > I then went about trying to configure my printcap file manually, but > > I'm a little confused about all the settings it needed. > > > > Here's what I have in it: > > > > lp|x4520mp|Xerox 4520mp:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/x4520mp:\ > > :rm=jchawk5:\ > > :rp=x4520mp_4:\ > >

Invoking /etc/isapnp.conf

1999-12-01 Thread Howard Mann
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi, I am planning a move from RH to Debian. I will configure my eth interface during the installation. However, I use isapnptools for my ISA EtherEZ NIC, which works fine. In Debia

Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

1999-12-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > When I had this problem, I read the relevant docs ;). Removing the > /etc/cram-md5.pwd file caused authentication to work in the old > (insecure) way. A better solution is to add the appropriate users to > this file. > Stuart: I hope it's something as

Re: Help with ethernet printer

1999-12-01 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Dec-1999, jchawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then went about trying to configure my printcap file manually, but > I'm a little confused about all the settings it needed. > > Here's what I have in it: > > lp|x4520mp|Xerox 4520mp:\ > :sd=/var/spool/x4520mp:\ > :rm=jchawk5:

Re:

1999-12-01 Thread Kent West
Ray Woodcock wrote: > Greetings. > > I am installing slink. I am at this choice: > > Configure Device Driver Modules > Select Category > Block -- disks and disk-like devices > > I am using a PC that runs Win98 on C and will run Linux on D. I have > configured and mounted Linux partitions o

Re: Kernel

1999-12-01 Thread Nitebirdz
Aside from the Kernel-HOWTO, I also found a couple of other interesting resources that could help. ext offers some interesting tips on kernel issues (do a search within the page itself): http://news.tucows.com/ext2/articles.shtml "Dispelling the kernel compiling myth", by Jean Francois Martine

Re: none

1999-12-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ray Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings. > > I am installing slink. I am at this choice: > > Configure Device Driver Modules > Select Category > Block -- disks and disk-like devices > > I am using a PC that runs Win98 on C and will run Linux on D. I > have configured and mou

Re: Which window manager do you recommend?

1999-12-01 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
I've grown fond of scwm. Like sawmill, it's an extremely configurable window manager, using guile (instead of sawmill's elisp-ish language) as an extension/customization language. --Miguel Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999,

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1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
Greetings. I am installing slink. I am at this choice: Configure Device Driver Modules Select Category Block -- disks and disk-like devices I am using a PC that runs Win98 on C and will run Linux on D. I have configured and mounted Linux partitions on D using Partition Magic 4.0. The pa

Re: startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > {0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: No such file or directory > > And a "find / -name startx -print" doesn't find it > either. # dpkg -S startx xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/startx.1x.gz xbase-cli

Re: please help with info on stable to unstable upgrade (partitions,LILO etc)

1999-12-01 Thread Brad
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 10:06:04AM +0100, Robert J. Alexander wrote: > > Now, could I use the unstable floppies to install the system on a > different root partition but share the same /var, /home, /tmp > filesystems ?? You probably won't be able to share /var. dpkg keeps various information in t

Re: base-passwd seg fault

1999-12-01 Thread The Doctor What
Bug Tracking is your friend... :) See: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=51577 Summary: Fixed in 3.1.5 which (I assume) is pending being moved into the main archive. Ciao! -- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain

Re: Bug#51668: imap 4.7 introduces login failure

1999-12-01 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthew Eaton wrote: > > > Package: imap > > Version: 4.7-1 > > > > With the new imapd 4.7, it no longer authenticates correctly. All the > > other services still work fine, but imap 4.7 no longer authenticates > > users, all logins are failures.

Re: startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
{0}:dogbert:/home/nomad>ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/startx ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: No such file or directory And a "find / -name startx -print" doesn't find it either. Thus spake Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 12:17:23PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > Ok, >

Re: startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 12:17:23PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Ok, > I appear to have xserver, etc installed correctly and E. Now when I do > a "startx" it can't find it. Anyone know what package would have that > in it? I know how to find out what package contains a file, but what >

startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I appear to have xserver, etc installed correctly and E. Now when I do a "startx" it can't find it. Anyone know what package would have that in it? I know how to find out what package contains a file, but what if you don't have that file installed. Robert -

base-passwd seg fault

1999-12-01 Thread paul
Hello again I`ve nearly managed to upgrade cleanly from Slink/2.0.36 to Potato/2.2.13 with only problems of my own making except for one last thing, dselect won`t complete the installation of base-passwd. This is what it tells me: --

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #2082

1999-12-01 Thread Glen S Mehn
Did you check the bootprompt HOWTO? There are sometimes special parameters for SCSI cards. The kernel won't compile with multiprocessor support on the install-- it'll just use the first processor. So you'll need to recompile after your install with multiprocessor support. Regards, glen > Subje

Help with ethernet printer

1999-12-01 Thread jchawk
I have a Xerox 4520mp printer. It has a nic card onboard. I have it connected to my local network. It is a postscript printer. I am trying to set it up under debian. I can't seem to get it to work. I added the printer to the host file. I installed the lpr package (so I am assuming that is w

Re: HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-12-01 Thread Klaus Drews
Hi, this is a reply to an older message. Question was, how to upgrade to perl5. Here is the answer from the perl5-base-package: coma:/usr/src/packages# dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb (Reading database ... 53468 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-5.005-base (from

Re: Refresh rates, monitor resolution, modelines and such

1999-12-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Well, the only one that seems to work is the 1152x768. :( All others > get discarded, I guess (I have them all entered in the "Display" > subsections). Several questions: > > 1. Can I somehow compute my own modelines? What info would I need for >

Refresh rates, monitor resolution, modelines and such

1999-12-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've been trying to get some performance out of my ViewSonic GT755. It's capable of doing 1600x1200 @ 69 1280x1024 @ 80 1152x870 @ 94 1024x768 @ 106 I went to the online modeline generator, entered the monitor's params and got some modelines for the modes I wanted:

Emacs, Mule and Wnn

1999-12-01 Thread Vachi
Hi, I have just install Potato on my PC. I was using emacs on slink and was using Wnn for Japanese input. However, there is no more emacs-wnn binary now and I can't use Wnn on emacs anymore. Do I have to switch to mule2-wnn? I think mule was a part of emacs. Why did they separate it into emacs pa

Python

1999-12-01 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I installed: python-base -doc -examples -misc -stdwin When trying to execute scripts (eg. `wpi.py') I get the message: ImportError: No module named stdwin. How can I deal with that? Anything else should be installed? Blazej

Re: 3c905 full-duplex

1999-12-01 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:03:58PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote: > > Is there a way to force a 3com905B NIC into full-duplex mode > when the driver is NOT used as a module, but compiled into kernel? > I didn't find any appropriate kernel parameter ... Download the driverdisks from 3Com or just numbe

Re: Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450

1999-12-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello! > > I have a dual Pentium III 450 system with an Asus P2B-DS/350 main board, > in which I removed everything but the floppy drive and the IDE CD-Rom, > master on the second channel. > > The standard Debian boot disk hangs probin

Re: accton: Function not implemented error

1999-12-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:03:32AM -0500, Daniel wrote: > When trying to run accton, I get the error message: "accton: Function not > implemented". And ideas on what that means? Probably that your kernel was compiled without BSD process accounting (CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT in the kernel configurati

Re: hard drive not found

1999-12-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard > drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. Ok. Do you happen to know what hard drive you have? I would not be surprised if your problem is

dselect apt-get dpkg explanations

1999-12-01 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Does anybody know about a really good explanation of the combined use of dselect, apt-get and dpkg, especially after you have made a mess of everything ? The documentation I found in the slink distribution is either introductory or incomplete or referring to each other or to non-existent man pages.

Re: [UPDATE] Network Modules :

1999-12-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Neil D. Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello all; > > Here is a small update on what I have done so far, and what errors I'm > getting. I haven't slept much, since this has been eating my head inside > out. I have cut down from three network cards to just two of them. So, > the steps

Re: hard drive not found

1999-12-01 Thread Kent West
Rick Dunnivan wrote: > I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western > digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, > my hard drive is not found. I see in the install > documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. > How do I know if this is what I have? This is the > f

RE: Can libqt1g and libqt2 coexist?

1999-12-01 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Dec-1999 Cyrus Patel wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got kde.tdyc.com in my sources.list and currently have libqt1g > installed. > > However, I was playing around trying to compile some apps that need qt2 and > when I tryed to install libqt2 it asked to remove all my apps that use > libqt1g

3c905 full-duplex

1999-12-01 Thread Igor Mozetic
Is there a way to force a 3com905B NIC into full-duplex mode when the driver is NOT used as a module, but compiled into kernel? I didn't find any appropriate kernel parameter ... Becker's program returns: vortex-diag.c:v1.09 7/28/99 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cycl

Re: Kernel Version

1999-12-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Neil D. Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again from the kernel virgin man; > > I was wondering what the hell to install from all of this. I suppose > that the docs would be the most important thing for me. But, do I need > all of these ? > > kernel-doc-2.1.125 2.1.125-1 (675.6

Can libqt1g and libqt2 coexist?

1999-12-01 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi all, I've got kde.tdyc.com in my sources.list and currently have libqt1g installed. However, I was playing around trying to compile some apps that need qt2 and when I tryed to install libqt2 it asked to remove all my apps that use libqt1g and libqt1g itself. Is there anyway I can have both

LxA - linux appliances

1999-12-01 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
My apologies to those who have already seen this. This subject was originally discussed on the debian-firewall list, but I though there might be some on the other lists who would be interested as well. I have arranged and posted the results of my experiments in building single floppy 'linux app

Re: Snafu

1999-12-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ray Woodcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm somewhere in the process of installing slink. There was an > interruption during installation, I rebooted, etc. I guess I could wipe > out the disk and start over, but I'd kind of like to understand where I > am and why. The $64000 question is wher

Re: Setting up PPP on Debian

1999-12-01 Thread dyer
"Denis J. Cirulis" wrote: > Hello ! > > I'm a little new to Debian and i want to setup dialup client on Linux to make > a dialup connection to my workplace > What is the easyest way to make this connection > > I don't want to make it from X using something like KPPP or similar. Simple > script b

Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450

1999-12-01 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
I know that this would't help you but.. I got an ASUS P2B-D with both CPU. Every time I run X the system crashes, even if i setup the kernel to use only one CPU. I'm running an X server from other machine to log in, and that solved my problem for the moment. ( Never crashed for months ) The k

accton: Function not implemented error

1999-12-01 Thread Daniel
When trying to run accton, I get the error message: "accton: Function not implemented". And ideas on what that means?

Re: remote power on

1999-12-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 03:09:49AM +0100, luis wrote: > > > > (how) can i power on a remote machine (via internet) using a modem ? > > > > Wouldn't the machine have to be on to listen to the modem ring? Well I'm not sure if the "(via internet)" is me

Re: same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-12-01 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Where did you get sawmill 0.17 from? I'm running Potato and the latest available deb version is 0.16-1. Are you compiling that yourself? -- Pedro > "Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:26:46PM +, > Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following looks to me

Re: Unmet dependencies

1999-12-01 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:15:32PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > After running apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade and downloading > tons, I got the following umet dependencies: (Says file 404 not found) > info 4.0-1 > debian-policy 3.1.1.0 > dnsutils 1:8.2.2p5-1 > rcs 5.7-12 > catdoc 0.91.

Unmet dependencies

1999-12-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After running apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade and downloading tons, I got the following umet dependencies: (Says file 404 not found) info 4.0-1 debian-policy 3.1.1.0 dnsutils 1:8.2.2p5-1 rcs 5.7-12 catdoc 0.91.2-2 libwww-perl 5.4-1 scwm 0.99.5.1-1 xdaliclock 2.14-3 xscreensaver-gl 3.21-2 a

Re: Kernel Version

1999-12-01 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
"Neil D. Roberts" wrote: > Hello again from the kernel virgin man; > > I was wondering what the hell to install from all of this. I suppose > that the docs would be the most important thing for me. But, do I need > all of these ? > > kernel-doc-2.1.125 2.1.125-1 (675.6k) > Linux k

Kernel Version

1999-12-01 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hello again from the kernel virgin man; I was wondering what the hell to install from all of this. I suppose that the docs would be the most important thing for me. But, do I need all of these ? kernel-doc-2.1.125 2.1.125-1 (675.6k) Linux kernel specific documentation. kernel-so

RE: Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450

1999-12-01 Thread Paul McHale
I am pretty sure the Asus uses the standard Adaptec chipset which other have reported as problematic with Debian. Here is an excerpt from a previous post I saved: - I've got an unofficial installation diskset for slink that's setup specifically for the Adaptec SCSI controllers. You c

Re: Athlon and debian

1999-12-01 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
> i have installed an k7+debian system a week ago I saw your message in the mailing lists's archive :) > what i finally did was to obtain the 2.2.13 five first installation > disks (rescue, root, 3 of drivers) from the debian ftp site I thought these boot stuff was being worked

[UPDATE] Network Modules :

1999-12-01 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hello all; Here is a small update on what I have done so far, and what errors I'm getting. I haven't slept much, since this has been eating my head inside out. I have cut down from three network cards to just two of them. So, the steps I would presumebly have to follow would be these : 1.

slink to potato upgrade procedure

1999-12-01 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
I downloaded a week old potato snapshot binary-i386 and binary-all directories what should i do now ? i don't want to upgrade every package manually. Is there any rules how can i use apt-get across my LAN to upgrade distro automatically ? -- +-------------------

Re: disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:33:51AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On 1 Dec 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > > > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > > | I forgot to say that I already did this: went to single mode (init > > | 1), then ran: mount -t ext2 -r -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX /mount

Re: disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Martyn Pearce
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: | Yes, it's interesting. | The box is at work (here). I think the hardware (fan cooler, power supply, | etc) is OK. This is a new machine (arrived last friday Nov 26th). | | Yes, the machine is permanently networked but I can't say which other | processes

Re: disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 1 Dec 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > | I forgot to say that I already did this: went to single mode (init > | 1), then ran: mount -t ext2 -r -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX /mount-point > | Then, e2fsck -c /dev/sdaX > | > | Well, no badblocks, no problem

FORGET WHAT I SAID

1999-12-01 Thread Neil D. Roberts
FORGET WHAT I SAID: I'll start again. . .The configuration I have is the following: /etc/conf.modules: alias ne0 ne alias ne1 ne options ne0 io=0x320 irq=09 options ne1 io=0x200 irq=03 /etc/modules: ne0 ne1 When I did "modprobe ne", "modprobe ne0", "modprobe ne1", "modprobe ne2" I got absolu

Re: disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Martyn Pearce
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: | I forgot to say that I already did this: went to single mode (init | 1), then ran: mount -t ext2 -r -o remount,ro /dev/sdaX /mount-point | Then, e2fsck -c /dev/sdaX | | Well, no badblocks, no problem at all in the whole disk. | Where/what

Re: Help on modules please

1999-12-01 Thread Neil D. Roberts
Hi Marc; Thank you very much for this help. I have the following configuration right now, and when I did "modprobe ne", "modprobe ne0", "modprobe ne1", "modprobe ne2" I got absolutely no error messages in the kern.log or syslog. Anyway, the problem arises when I am booting up the system.

Re: disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On 1 Dec 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > | Hi, > | > | I'm having a strange problem here (ok, maybe it's not a real > | problem, yet). Every day (at least for the last two), I'm having a SCSI > | disk error entry in my kern.log, occurring at 6:25 am. > |

disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Martyn Pearce
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: | Hi, | | I'm having a strange problem here (ok, maybe it's not a real | problem, yet). Every day (at least for the last two), I'm having a SCSI | disk error entry in my kern.log, occurring at 6:25 am. | Yes, only at this exact time I'm having problem

Problems with Asus P2B-DS/350 and double PIII 450

1999-12-01 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I have a dual Pentium III 450 system with an Asus P2B-DS/350 main board, in which I removed everything but the floppy drive and the IDE CD-Rom, master on the second channel. The standard Debian boot disk hangs probing the Adaptec SCSI card bundled in the main board; I tried making custom b

Setting up PPP on Debian

1999-12-01 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! I'm a little new to Debian and i want to setup dialup client on Linux to make a dialup connection to my workplace What is the easyest way to make this connection I don't want to make it from X using something like KPPP or similar. Simple script based connection . Is there any good guid

Re: Xlib / imake

1999-12-01 Thread Martin Waller
Hi all, I'm working my way through the O'Reilly Xlib book for something to do at work and I've hit a problem. If I try and build the first "basicwin.c" file using $gcc -g -owin basicwin.c -lXlib Try adding -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the command line before -l and using -lX11 instead

disk error at scheduled time

1999-12-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having a strange problem here (ok, maybe it's not a real problem, yet). Every day (at least for the last two), I'm having a SCSI disk error entry in my kern.log, occurring at 6:25 am. Yes, only at this exact time I'm having problems. I ran 45+ kernel compilations

Network Printer

1999-12-01 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I have a stand-alone network printer (Xerox NC 60 PS3) and try to use it with Debian potato. When I send a job to the printer via the printing daemon (lpr), everything seems normal, I mean the job is removed and I got no error messages, but the printer prints nothing. Now, I tried both Lpr

cannot kill xcdroast

1999-12-01 Thread Alberto Maurizi
I have a problem with xcdroast. It runs into problems when mounting a disk partition for writing the cd image. From that moment I cannot umount that partition ("umount /dev/sda3" hangs the terminal (no Ctrl-C, no Ctrl-Z ...)), and it's impossible to kill xcd

How to change the background highlight in Netscape searches ????

1999-12-01 Thread Robert J. Alexander
When I do a "Find in page" on a Netscape page, the found term is highlighted by a change in the background colour which is almost invisible. I would like the background of found terms to become RED for all of my users Which X11/Netscape file should I tweak ? Thank you very much. Bob Ale

please help with info on stable to unstable upgrade (partitions,LILO etc)

1999-12-01 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I have a Debian stable system doing quite a lot of stuff (DNS,SMTP,POP3,HTTP,Netscape roaming server, rsync mirror of Debian unstable, lpr server, INN news server, FTP server etc etc). Now I started adding quite a lot of packages from unstable but I am starting to have a messed up situation. I wo

Re: bind TTL problem

1999-12-01 Thread aphro
thanks! ill try it out, i still find it odd that it did this for only 2 domains ...these may be the only 2 since i upgraded bind, but i got about 55 others that do not give this error..i suppose i should change all them as well and add the $TTL at the top of the file as well.. thanks again both ia

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-12-01 Thread Richard Stallman
++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB) Reducing incompatibility between the variants of the GNU operating system that use Linux as the kernel is a useful job. The GNU Project would be happy to cooperate with other people on this, if they approach us in a cooperative spirit r

badblocks, e2fsck, and disk error

1999-12-01 Thread Nagilum
Hello. I started getting a disk error on my Maxtor 17.2 GB disk tonight. It's been running fine for over 2 months, and my current uptime is 63 days with no apparent disk problems. Here's how I have my disk partitioned: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda2

Re: Snafu

1999-12-01 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, The system boots and reboots OK. I've been playing around with bash commands. Not all of the ones I read about on Web pages seem to be working. Now I want to run dbootstrap to configure my base system. But when I type dbootstrap at the $ prompt, I get "command not found." I go to the

hard drive not found

1999-12-01 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. How do I know if this is what I have? This is the first time I've attempted to insta

Re: /etc/profile

1999-12-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:29:12PM -0800, Fish Smith wrote: > PATH=/sbin > > modprobe sound > insmod uart401 > insmod sb io=0x200 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 > insmod mpu401 io=0x330 > insmod opl3 io=0x388 > insmod v_midi > > This is the same script I run as root to configure my > sound card modules. >

Masquerade-envelope with exim?

1999-12-01 Thread John Dalbec
How do I do the equivalent of FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) in exim? How do I masquerade the "sender" name? I'm using the sample rewrite with bcrfF. Thanks, John

How do I upgrade to the new software RAID?

1999-12-01 Thread Scott Thomson
Hi I am running Debian 2.1 with Linux 2.2.12 and the old software RAID in personality 5. I've been told I should upgrade to the new RAID to take advantage of autodetect and persistant superblock, etc, especially since the root parition is a md. What is the best procedure to upgrade? I am prepared

mib.txt

1999-12-01 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all. i've posted this message to the mrtg mailing list as well, in case any of you are seeing it twice. i have the CMU SNMP package installed on a 2.0 debian box. i can see the TUBS section within the mib.txt, however when i browse the machine with getif, i can't see any additional OID values

Re: compile with -lshadow

1999-12-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 02:54:02PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > What package do I need in order to be able to compile > with the option: > -lshadow Shadow functions are built into glibc, so you don't need this library. -- ---===-=-==-=--

Re: /etc/profile

1999-12-01 Thread Fish Smith
I knew that, technically speaking. =] In all my ~/.profiles I had the semicolons, but when I switched all my functions to a centralized location I kinda forgot. oops. Okay, eine neue frage, bitte. What's the deal with /etc/rc.boot I put a script in there that looks more or less identical to the ot

compile with -lshadow

1999-12-01 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, What package do I need in order to be able to compile with the option: -lshadow Thanks Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Commun

Re: Clock problems

1999-12-01 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Mon, 1999-11-29 at 15:28:57 -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > I think this is caused by the file /etc/adjtime, which is supposed to > adjust for clock drift, but gets skewed when you first set the hard- > ware clock. Remove the file, then re-set the clock. It will be re- > created as needed. > >

Re: Tape problems

1999-12-01 Thread Gareth
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:13:29AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > my tape drive is causing problems. It worked fine on a > previous kernel version, but under my current one, it refuses to > co-operate (2.3.13). It's a SCSI tape drive, and responds to SCSI: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/matthew#

kernel upgrade

1999-12-01 Thread byoung
hi, i'm sure many of you have already done this (or so i hope). For various reasons, i need to go to kernel 2.2. I am wondering what packages I must upgrade in order to use 2.2? The packages currently installed are the predefined "comprehensive developers" set in debian 2.1 (what was the nick n

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-12-01 Thread Xavier Drudis Ferran
I recently did something similar (although I didn't want all exactly equal for all partitions), and found a mini-howto very useful. But I don't know where I got it. I think I found it either through the www.google.com or www.alltheweb.com search engines. I'll copy the first lines and contents

Tape problems

1999-12-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, my tape drive is causing problems. It worked fine on a previous kernel version, but under my current one, it refuses to co-operate (2.3.13). It's a SCSI tape drive, and responds to SCSI: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# scsiinfo -i /dev/nst0 Inquiry command --- Vendor:

Re: bind TTL problem

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Lamb
Try adding a value like this to the top of your zone files: $TTL a note from the isc states - (http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config_hints.html) config hints for bind 8.2.2: In BIND 8.2.1, the TTL value in the SOA record now applies to negative responses only. Add a line "$TTL " at t

Re: bind TTL problem

1999-12-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate Add the following BEFORE your soa record below $TTL1 @ IN SOA ns1.firetrail.com. hostmaster.mail.firetrail.com. ( blah blah... have fun alvin > im really not sure what is causing this ..i just added 2 new domains to my > named and both of them the system says:

Re: keyboard mapping

1999-12-01 Thread Nathan York
sorry for the grief. i had to do a kbdconfing, rename the file it put in /etc/kbd/ to defualt.map.gz then i had to run keytab-lilo.pl /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz > /boot/kbd.us then i had to add a line in lilo.conf: keytable = /boot/kbd.us so my problem is now fixed craz > some ho

Snafu

1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
I'm somewhere in the process of installing slink.  There was an interruption during installation, I rebooted, etc.  I guess I could wipe out the disk and start over, but I'd kind of like to understand where I am and why.   The system boots and reboots OK.  I've been playing around with bash

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-12-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:16:04PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > egm2 >Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any > egm2 >idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is > egm2 >that breaks it. > > from what i

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