Re: ¿Debian en Linux-Expo ?

2000-04-24 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Sería mejor quedar el martes por la tarde la gente que vaya a ayudar a organizar el stand. Yo estaré por allí casi seguro, en cualquier caso. Saludos, Jesus. Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a writes: Sí, creo que lo mejor será organizaros allí mismo el

Re: Nucleo se frie

2000-04-24 Thread pepesan
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 06:31:04PM +0200, pepesan wrote: Danito wrote: Estoy utilizando el Nucleo 3.99pre5 simplemente porque tiene soporte Plug and Play para mi tarjeta de sonido (SB64). Lo que me Ha sorprendido es que al apagar el ordenador el núcleo se quedó frito dandome un

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 22 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 18:09:53 +0200, Santiago Romero contaba: he estado LITERALMENTE _horas_ contestando a las preguntas de los scripts de los .deb. Piensa que como no puedes volver atrás (rectifico: no sé volver atrás) me tengo que pensar cada pregunta 1000 veces para dar la

Re: Texto en DOS a LINUX

2000-04-24 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 22 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 17:54:56 +0200, Santiago Romero contaba: Eso es el ^M que ves (el 13?). a b c d e f g h i j k l m sí, el 13. compiler @ iname,com -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]Linux 2.2.14 - Reg. User #87069 lynx -dump

Xfree86

2000-04-24 Thread jorge chavarriaga
Estoy en el trabajo de instalar el Xfree, he tenido algunos problemas ya que la version que tengo instalada no soporta mi tarjeta de video, alguien me informo que el XFree86 3.3.5 ya tiene soporte para mi tarjeta de video, donde encuentro esta version para instalarla? Que archivos son

Copiar archivo particion DOS a particion LINUX

2000-04-24 Thread jorge chavarriaga
Me podrian indicar como puedo pasar un archivo de una particion DOS a una particion LINUX. Que nos sea a traves de diskette ya que el archivo mide 3MB. Gracias Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

RE: Lilo de Corel(otra vez)

2000-04-24 Thread ADnoctum
servidor ftp de corel no están presentes ni los binarios ni los fuentes del lilo modificado (el lilo que se puede bajar es idéntico al del slink). Pues yo tambien me la pasé un rato mirando y encontré esto que tal vez sea lo que tu quieres:

Problemas con una Trident Blade3d

2000-04-24 Thread Miguel Angel Rodr?guez
Hola. Luego de varios años con Slack (casi 4), me he pasado a Debian. Estoy intentando instalar las X con una tarjeta Trident Blade3d de 8MB en Potato. Por más pruebas que he hecho siempre se me cuelga el sistema. Esto es parte del mensaje de las X:

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 02:01 AM 2000-04-24 +0200, Hue-Bond wrote: El sábado 22 de abril de 2000 a la(s) 18:09:53 +0200, Santiago Romero contaba: he estado LITERALMENTE _horas_ contestando a las preguntas de los scripts de los .deb. Piensa que como no puedes volver atrás (rectifico: no sé volver atrás) me tengo

Re: Xfree86

2000-04-24 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 11:58 PM 2000-04-23 -0400, Xavier Andrade wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, jorge chavarriaga wrote: Estoy en el trabajo de instalar el Xfree, he tenido algunos problemas ya que la version que tengo instalada no soporta mi tarjeta de video, alguien me informo que el XFree86 3.3.5 ya tiene

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Miquel
El sáb, abr 22, 2000 at 09:48:56 +0200 Francisco José Avila Bermejo va dir: El sáb, 22 abr 2000, Santiago Romero escribió: bueno, yo nunca he negado a Debian que el hecho de que no incluya todas esas herramientas user-friendly de autoconfiguración sea lo mejor para aprender Linux.

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Santiago Romero wrote: Ahora mismo con Redhat en 40 minutos (comprobado) instalo y configuro un Linux para cualquier menester (servidor, cliente, Desktop, lo que sea), por supuesto hablo de a mano, y usando algunas de las herramientas de Redhat (nada de kuzdu y

Re: Copiar archivo particion DOS a particion LINUX

2000-04-24 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, jorge chavarriaga wrote: Me podrian indicar como puedo pasar un archivo de una particion DOS a una particion LINUX. Una posible forma de hacerlo es montando la partición dos como fat o vfat y hacer un cp directamente. Para montar la partición dos, quizás tengas que

Re: Pregunta técnica sobre C

2000-04-24 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Francisco José Avila Bermejo wrote: ¿Cómo copiarias una estructura con esto campos? Más o menos como indicabas. // Copiamos la lista de alias ptr = tmp-h_aliases; ia-h-h_aliases = new char*[16]; Eso es muy peligroso. Nadie te dice que van a ser 16 alias, y o te

Re: Archivos .deb

2000-04-24 Thread Eduardo Urrea
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, jorge chavarriaga wrote: podria alguien explicarme que son los archivos .deb y como se instalan. Es el formato de fichero de Debian y para instalarlos se pone: dpkg -i fichero.deb Claro que si quieres mas info, remitete a la maravillosa ayuda de Linux: man dpkg :PP

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Para esto está 'debconf'. La idea de este programa, que se espera que empiecen a usar los paquetes de Debian en un futuro (quizás se convierta en algo de obligado uso, aunque aún está en desarrollo), es que el usuario selecciona los niveles de preguntas que quiere responder, pueden ser

Re: ¿Es esto normal con la llamada 'gethostbyname()'?

2000-04-24 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Francisco José Avila Bermejo wrote: El vie, 21 abr 2000, Francisco José Avila Bermejo escribió: Estoy haciendo un programa chorra para redireccionar correo y me he encontrado con una curiosidad del gethostbyname(). El caso es que siempre devuelve un puntero a la misma dirección, por lo

RV: samba

2000-04-24 Thread Alex Fredes
por favor chicos Alex Fredes Roxi Ingeneria y Servicios http://www.roxi.cl -Mensaje original- De: Alex Fredes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes 18 de Abril de 2000 05:38 PM Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: samba Importancia: Alta Hola foro, Me podrian

Reunión de Debian durante la Linux Expo

2000-04-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Aprovechando la celebración de la Linux Expo en Madrid y la asistencia del Presidente de Debian Wichert Akkerman a la misma, se va a celebrar una reunión informal (BOF) a la que se invita a todos los usuarios y desarrolladores de Debian, que tendrá lugar el Miercoles a las 17:30.

Voluntairos para el stand de Debian en Linux Expo

2000-04-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
La organización de Linux Expo ha ofrecido a Debian un stand en la zona de expositores que va a ser utilizado para dar publicidad de Debian. En dicho stand van a estar presentes desarrolladores y voluntarios para responder las preguntas de los asistentes a la exposición (será también una

xfree; combinacion de teclas

2000-04-24 Thread Alex Fredes
Hola. Si no me equivoco, existe una combinacion de teclas para cambiar , por ejemplo de 600x400 a 800 x 600 (resolucion de pantalla)Es cierto o no? Cuales son esas combinaciones de teclas?? tengo el slink Gracias Alex Fredes Roxi Ingeneria y Servicios http://www.roxi.cl

Re: xfree; combinacion de teclas

2000-04-24 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 12:18 p.m. 2000-04-24 -0300, Alex Fredes wrote: Hola. Si no me equivoco, existe una combinacion de teclas para cambiar , por ejemplo de 600x400 a 800 x 600 (resolucion de pantalla)Es cierto o no? Cuales son esas combinaciones de teclas?? tengo el slink Ctrl + Alt + '+' El '+' debe ser del

Re: Voluntairos para el stand de Debian en Linux Expo

2000-04-24 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Como dije, estaré en el stand de Hispalinux todo el miércoles, lo cual quiere decir que esta're a dos metros del stand de Debian :-D. Pedid lo que necesitéis. Estaré mañana por la tarde a eso de las 5 en la puerta de l Palacio. Por cierto, rogaría que si Wichert se para por el stand de

Problemas con S3 Trio3d

2000-04-24 Thread dfm
Hola Hace no mucho vi que se hablaba en los topics de los correos sobre problemas con las X y esta tarjeta, el caso es que disculpadme repetir el tema pero no he podido leer esos correos y además en esta dirección ya no estoy suscrito (asi que responderme con CC: a esta dirección please). El

Re: Hora y BIOS

2000-04-24 Thread Conrado Badenas
Juan Leseduarte wrote: Supongo que consiste en el mensaje que ya enviaron a esta misma lista hace un tiempo. Era realmente muy interesante, y era específico para Debian, ya que Como supongo que hablas del email que escribí en noviembre: ¡muchas gracias! El documento En-Hora-Como.html no tiene

Re: xfree; combinacion de teclas

2000-04-24 Thread Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
Las teclas son Control+Alt+ signo +/- en teclado numerico Pero solo cambia de resolucion si tienes varios modos definidos, como 640x480, 800x600, etc. Si en la configuracion de las X hay un solo modo, no hace nada :) Saludos Miguel Alex Fredes wrote: Hola. Si no me equivoco, existe

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Santiago Romero
he estado LITERALMENTE _horas_ contestando a las preguntas de los scripts de los .deb. Piensa que como no puedes volver atrás (rectifico: no sé volver atrás) me tengo que pensar cada pregunta 1000 veces para dar la respuesta al script. En cambio en redhat como la configuración es

Re: Logs de IPCHAINS

2000-04-24 Thread Santiago Romero
El dom, 23 de abr de 2000, a las 07:32:35 +0200, Raul GN dijo: ¿Qué regla he de poner en el syslog.conf para desviar los mensajes del ipchains a un fichero ipchains.log en lugar de al messages? (para que el messages no crezca enormemente y poder controlar el tamaño de los DENYs

RE: xfree; combinacion de teclas

2000-04-24 Thread Alex Fredes
Gracias a todos, solucionado. UNa consulta, como hago para que por defecto , al iniciar el x windows me deje la configuracion(1024x 768) por defecto y no tener que usar la combinacion de teclas para ajustar gracias Alex Fredes Roxi Ingeneria y Servicios http://www.roxi.cl -Mensaje

Re: Xfree86

2000-04-24 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Sun, Apr 23, 2000, jorge chavarriaga... Estoy en el trabajo de instalar el Xfree, he tenido algunos problemas ya que la version que tengo instalada no soporta mi tarjeta de video, alguien me informo que el XFree86 3.3.5 ya tiene soporte para mi tarjeta de video, donde encuentro esta

Re: Me presento a la lista.

2000-04-24 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Santiago Romero wrote: Ahora mismo con Redhat en 40 minutos (comprobado) instalo y configuro un Linux para cualquier menester (servidor, cliente, Desktop, lo que sea), por supuesto hablo de a mano, y usando

Re: Texto en DOS a LINUX

2000-04-24 Thread Maguila
jorge chavarriaga wrote: Estoy tratando de pasar el archivo XFF86Config. del DOS a Linux, pero cuando veo el archivo en Linux, esta lleno de caracteres de este tipo ^M por lo que el archivo no me sirve. Hay algun comando para eliminar estos caracteres ? Mirate el man de dos2unix Cada

RE: xfree; combinacion de teclas

2000-04-24 Thread Alex Fredes
ok, solucionado, gracias Alex Fredes Roxi Ingeneria y Servicios http://www.roxi.cl -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes 24 de Abril de 2000 01:36 PM Para: Alex Fredes CC: 'Usuarios de Debian en español' Asunto: Re: xfree; combinacion

Re: Pregunta técnica sobre C

2000-04-24 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Francisco José Avila Bermejo wrote: Si se hiciera algo como lo que yo quiero para C++ y se extendiera, crecerían los programas para Linux, y su calidad. Conoceis alguna lista de programación C++ o que se hable de programación orientada a objetos en

Re: samba

2000-04-24 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Para lo que Alex, precisa necesita básicamente del paquete smbclient, aunque no le sobrará instalar Samba. Para utilizar impresoras en red, si éstas tienen una controladora JetDirect, no necesitas Samba: basta con configurar adecuadamente /etc/printcap (con el controlador viene

Re: RV: samba

2000-04-24 Thread Jaime Fernández Martínez
Alex Fredes escribió: por favor chicos Por favor, ¿qué? O no entiendo tu mensaje o quieres decir que en el mundo real (ese que está ahí fuera como la verdad en Expediente X) no hay necesidad de conectar una máquina GNU/Linux a un servidor NT. El purismo no nos lleva a ningún

Re: depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep for writing

2000-04-24 Thread Flavio Alberto
debian# (#) -Mensagem original- De: Marcelo Elias Del Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Flavio Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Data: Domingo, 23 de Abril de 2000 17:38 Assunto: Re: depmod: Can't open

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Debian Linux User
Pessoal, foi mal, eu quis dizer Inglês... ;-) Marcelo Elias Del Valle wrote: pessoas) pelo simples fato delas não saberem Português. -- Marcelo Elias Del ValleUIN: 30595143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tilt.8m.com MLinuxer Do you visit GamesNow today?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Debian Linux User
Legal... E valeu pelo link... Mas porque é difícil eles colocarem na distribuição oficial? Adriano Freitas wrote: Marcelo Elias Del Valle wrote: ficar pronto... - Os patches da xlib... Não seria possivel a criação de um pacote .deb com a xlib patcheada? Um pacote

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread krogerlistas
Sistema de Instalação em Português (desenvolvimento): - Revisão e atualizações do pt.po do dbootstrap... Pronto! Pessoal, Desculpem minha ignorância, mas onde se pode baixar os arquivos de instalação? A página http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/debian-pt ainda está sendo usada? Ou melhor, o

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Marcelo Elias Del Valle wrote: - Eu atualizo o meu debian pela internet todo final de semana e uso a versão unstable. Alguma coisa nessa atualização tem chances de ficar em português tb? Somente a internacionalização dos programas, edite seu arquivo /etc/environment e inclua as

Anunciando a Instalação em Português da Potato :-)

2000-04-24 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
A instalação da Potato em Português é o máximo! Passei o Sábado tentando fazer o boot-floppies compilar por completo e corrigir alguns erros, foi pouco tempo se comparado quando consegui compilar o boot-floppies da Slink... Desta vez as coisas estão mais fáceis. Foram exatas 1 hora de 50

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - And amento

2000-04-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
A pagina debian-pt mudou para http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br/debian-br. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sistema de Instalação em Português (desenvolvimento): - Revisão e atualizações do pt.po do dbootstrap... Pronto! Pessoal, Desculpem minha

Re: Sistema de instalação em Portuguêsda Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sistema de Instalação em Português (desenvolvimento): - Revisão e atualizações do pt.po do dbootstrap... Pronto! Pessoal, Desculpem minha ignorância, mas onde se pode baixar os arquivos de instalação? Ainda em fase de testes :-) ---

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: - Eu adoraria saber onde estão as instruções sobre cvs em português!!! Pronto, estão em anexo. Paulo, você pode incluir estas instruções na página da Debian-pt? --- Gleyson Mazioli da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Sistema de instalação em Português da Potato - Andamento

2000-04-24 Thread Adriano Freitas
Debian Linux User wrote: Legal... E valeu pelo link... Mas porque é difícil eles colocarem na distribuição oficial? Pelo simples fato de não ser de um interesse geral da comunidade linux. Por exemplo, será que é de nosso interesse poder escrever e ler caracteres em japonês?? Por

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Eric Hagglund
Is it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the system does boot from it, but once it does, transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard drive (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question? Sure! As soon as the floppy goes to the LILO prompt, you have a couple of seconds in which to pass boot

SVGA Text Mode ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread John Anderson
Hello, Has anyone been successful at configuring an ATI Charger video card to use SVGA text mode? I can get it to work at a generic VGA, but only at 80x25. I have tried ATI mach64, but It doesn't recognize the card as being that. The resolution I want is 132 columns by 40 rows. Any

dhcpcd and/or dhclient and NYC road runner

2000-04-24 Thread David Aronchick
Hi-- I've found a number of people mention this problem in the archives, but no answers listed. I'm running kernel 2.2.14 and the most recent package of dhcpcd (0.70-karn) and I get this error back all the time: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot assign requested address on a

Re: odd ppp performance

2000-04-24 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Lee Bradshaw wrote: [ping output snipped] This has occured with different Deb boxes and different ISPs. Seems to me that it is either a ppp bug or a kernel bug but it has persisted over different versions of both. It may be your isp. I've seen the problem where

Re: can't install debian!

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 07:20:43PM +0200, Arie wrote: I just received this message today (Sun Apr 23 16:18:03 PDT 2000), suggest you check your system clock. Dear reader, I tried to install debian and everything looks oke after installation. The program asks to reboot

Re: odd ppp performance

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:04:49PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: BTW, no need to cc: me, filters send it all to the same folder anyway. On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Greetings, I have been bothered

Re: Package Info

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: You can read the packages status file for information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from your various apt sources,

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote: Hi all! I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 04:07:26PM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: Is it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the system does boot from it, but once it does, transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard drive (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question? Sure! As soon as the floppy goes to

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote: Hi all! 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working

Re: General Protection Fault

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Eric Hagglund wrote: You can mount your fat partition at startup by inserting the text above into two files in the /etc directory. These are respectively mtab and fstab. You should only edit the /etc/fstab file. /etc/mtab is maintained by the mount program and (normally) contains a list of

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi David, 1: How about installing LILO with a real short boot delay (say 2 seconds or something) and Win98 as the default OS? Your family won't even know it's there. :) Or another option: Boot Debian using Loadlin. 2: Run dselect (as root) and install the packages man-db (the actual man

Re: General Protection Fault

2000-04-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Ron Rademaker wrote: The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M. Hmmm. Sounds like bad RAM to me. Try the old 32M or RAM from a working machine and see if

Trouble with toy network

2000-04-24 Thread Nick Willson
Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a private network (192.168.0.0). The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication appears to be taking place. Ping from either side results in 100% packet loss, and telnet from either side results in 'No

location of kernel compilation configs in potato?

2000-04-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found. However, in my new potato installation there is no such file. What I want to know is whether the kernel is compiled with IP: always defragment set to Y (as

Re: Trouble with toy network

2000-04-24 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:52:27AM -0700, Nick Willson wrote: Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a private network (192.168.0.0). The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication appears to be taking place. Ping from either side results

RE: Trouble with toy network

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Barr
Seeking help persuading a desktop and laptop to talk to each other over a private network (192.168.0.0). The 'link' LEDs at both ends remain dark and no communication appears to be taking place. Ping from either side results in 100% packet loss, and telnet from either side results in 'No

Re: Trouble with toy network

2000-04-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
All seems to be fine. Are you sure you are using cross-over (not straight-thru) cable between the cards? Just a shot in the dark. (BTW, the cable going into the DSL modem is probably a straight-thru one -- in case you were trying it to interconnect the machines.) Also, try running

How to disable KDM on broken startup

2000-04-24 Thread Erik Ryberg
Hello, I have a triple-boot machine, Windows 95, Debian, Corel. I had to reinstall Windows to try to resolve a crashing problem. (My defense: I need Windows to run GIS software). This wiped out Corel's LILO, which is fine with me, frankly. However the Corel boot disk didn't bring up corel. So

Could not early remove libpam0g

2000-04-24 Thread Bill
computer:# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libpam0g-util lynx newt0.25 ppp-pam rgrep secure-su slrn xproc The following NEW packages will be installed: bootpc finger fping

dhcp in dbootstrap AND kernel modules

2000-04-24 Thread Eduardo Hidalgo Contreras
I see the archives are still not working... :( *** FIRST QUESTION *** I am trying to install Debian with apt from an ftp but I can't get my network configured. I am connected to the internet with cable, I have an external cable modem, and I'm using a regular ethernet card (Realtek, with

Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-24 Thread Lowell Voelker
I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32 from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian? I have no way of knowing if the rescue dice will reload Win98 if I start over and set up Fat16 for the first

Re: How to disable KDM on broken startup

2000-04-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 08:16:54PM -0700, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a triple-boot machine, Windows 95, Debian, Corel. I had to reinstall Windows to try to resolve a crashing problem. (My defense: I need Windows to run GIS software). This wiped out Corel's LILO, which is fine with

Xconsole

2000-04-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am using xdm to login on my linux box. For installing some X-related stuff, I had stopped xdm and then restarted it. Since then I am not getting the xconsole window for all login accounts. Typing xconsole gives me a window with the message Couldn't open console. Tried the same thing as

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:50:25PM -0500, w trillich wrote: Maury Merkin wrote: Hi, Thanks for the wvdial tip. I've successfully been using pon and poff so far (like three hours) but I'll keep this note around for future reference. And, yes, I know all about the man and info

Re: PowerMac support

2000-04-24 Thread w trillich
Bob Kuo wrote: Dear PowerMac users, I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not found all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that almost all of the other PowerMacintoshes were supported, but 8100s were not listed as one of the

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread John Carline
David Jenkins wrote: Hi all! cut 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working properly.) I created a boot floppy

Re: Xconsole

2000-04-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:48:20AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, I am using xdm to login on my linux box. For installing some X-related stuff, I had stopped xdm and then restarted it. Since then I am not getting the xconsole window for all login accounts. Typing xconsole gives me a window

Re: PowerMac support

2000-04-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:25:19AM -0500, w trillich wrote: Bob Kuo wrote: Dear PowerMac users, I looked over the support page for PowerMacintoshes, but i have not found all of the information I require. Do you support PowerMacs 8100s? I saw that almost all of the other

Re: perldo file -- still does NOTHING

2000-04-24 Thread w trillich
appreciate the tip. i hadn't known that. still NO EFFECT, though. is there some directive i have to enable or disable to get this to work? Matt Carothers wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: the entire listing for startup.pl is: # BEGIN { use Apache(); } # --tried

Re: sawmill problem

2000-04-24 Thread Florian Bartels
On Son, 23 Apr 2000, Jan Pfeifer wrote: hi all, I've just installed the Sawmill 0.25.2-1 package, but sawmill won't run, and keep mumbling error-- (invalid-function (macro . #closure define-value)) to me, each time I run :) if I run it with the --interp option it seems to run, but

Locking keyboard disappearing VT (??)

2000-04-24 Thread Engelen
Hello, The following strange behavior happened to me twice in a short while: The keyboard would just lock, but everything would continue to work just fine like nothing happened. When I quit X, I'd usually be back in tty1, but this does not happen. The screen just blanks. I use Debain

Re: location of kernel compilation configs in potato?

2000-04-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stan Kaufman wrote: In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found. However, in my new potato installation there is no such file. It appears if you compile a kernel using the

block device name

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Morton
I am trying to install Debian 2.1 as sole OS, and the latest snag is when trying to install from dselect it asks " enter block device name [/dev/cdrom] " but I can cant find any reference to any block device name in any of the documentation . I have a ATAPI CDROM ON HDC, SO What is the

SVGA Text Mode ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi, untill someone with real knowledge help you, you may try using one of the Vesa modes (I suppose ATI Charger supports it). But to use this you will have to set the Console/Frame Buffers/Vesa VGA support for the kernel. And then select one of the vesa modes listed in the

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2000-04-24 Thread vipin Aravind
is it the linux mailing list

where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread mathieu
Hello, i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* are directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed when the system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff... Thank you for your answer, Mat

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
mathieu wrote: Hello, i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* are directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed when the system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff... Thank you for your answer, Move your script to

Re: block device name

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:29:06AM +0100, Ian Morton wrote: I am trying to install Debian 2.1 as sole OS, and the latest snag is when trying to install from dselect it asks enter block device name [/dev/cdrom] but I can cant find any reference to any block device name in any of the

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread mathieu
i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start stop part, do you know where i can find an example of something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script.. thank you Mat Move your script to /etc/init.d, complete it with a start and stop part. Then hook it into the

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
mathieu wrote: i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start stop part, do you know where i can find an example of Maybe take a look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d? Just a rough guess, there may be tons of them... Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine

reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Sven Garbade
Hallo, does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after the installation? Happy easter, Sven

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 11:47:17AM +, mathieu wrote: i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start stop part, do you know where i can find an example of something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script.. thank you Mat /etc/init.d/skeleton is an example

Re: reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Garbade wrote: Hallo, does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after the installation? You can pause resume the installation in order to install reiserfs on the system. Regards, Joey -- A

bug!!!!

2000-04-24 Thread vipin Aravind
potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found that the ps -el still shows the sh ( which corresponded to the tty line I opened earlier

Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all! I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there

Leafnode problem

2000-04-24 Thread Christopher Clark
After trying and failing to use INN, I removed it using dpkg and installed leafnode. I had to use fetch -f but after that it seemed to work fine when I manually kicked it. But when I added it to my cron.daily job ( su news -c /usr/sbin/fetch ) I get: shell-init: could not get current directory:

Re: location of kernel compilation configs in potato?

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
In a recent thread, someone pointed to /boot/config- as the source where info about the configs compiled into the kernel can be found. yes However, in my new potato installation there is no such file. ooops ... i verified it ... there is in fact no such file. i guess, you have to install

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread ktb
Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all! I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a better way of doing that?

Re: bug!!!!

2000-04-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:26:44PM +0530, vipin Aravind wrote potential bug . Iam working on a windows m/a and am using the linux server by telneting but to my surprise the /etc/utmp and the ps -el cribs . my windows 95 m/c crashed and to my surprise I found that the ps -el still

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:06:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote Hi all! I have a few questions. Firstly, how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or

Re: Initial debian problems

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was a general system-wide config-file

Re: reiserfs support

2000-04-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after the installation? You can pause resume the installation in order to install reiserfs on the system. i did it this way: on my already running suse-system

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