Re: Núcleo ltecra

2000-08-06 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Fermín Manzanedo wrote: Hola, por fin he conseguido arrancar Debian sin ningún problema en mi portátil, e incluso ya me he conectado con el otro ordenador mediante PLIP. Pero ahora quiero dar un paso más: Copié el núcleo ltecra a un disquete y le puse

xdm, runlevels y xconsole

2000-08-06 Thread David Muriel
Buenas... Acabo de instalar el xdm y me ha surgido un problema con xconsole. Antes del xdm me funcionaba bien tanto como root como de usuario normal. Sin embargo ahora, al ejecutar xconsole me dice: Couldn't open /dev/console He comprobado los permisos y estos son los que tengo: skywalker:~$

Re: Configuracion de mutt [MH--Maildir]

2000-08-06 Thread Lluís Vilanova
Bueno, me parece que he encontrado el error :P yo le decia que utilizaba Maildir, y usaba los mismos directorios creados con xfmail en formato MH. Ahora bien, como paso del formato MH al Maildir? Tengo mensajes que me gustaria guardar. Otra cosa, debe haber en cada subdirectorio de correo los

Publicite la prestacion de sus servicios en nuestra web (gratis)

2000-08-06 Thread noticias
http://www.staffdeservicios.com.ar El nuevo sitio web argentino que le permitirá en forma totalmente GRATUITA, publicar la prestación de sus servicios. Asimismo Ud. podrá buscar, seleccionar y contactar, una gran variedad de prestaciones, catalogadas por nivel de prestación, servicios y

Re: Las empresas se dejan debianizar?

2000-08-06 Thread aherrerm
Guenas El Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Antonio Castro disidio iscribir: Ojala, y otro tema es la posibilidad de aparecer en revistas. Es evidente que es la mejor publicidad para una distribucion, y en el caso de Debian (como en el de muchas otras) una buena forma de conseguir clientes

Re: Las empresas se dejan debianizar?

2000-08-06 Thread aherrerm
Guenas El Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 02:16:07PM +0200, Antonio Castro disidio iscribir: Mejor usuarios domésticos, inexpertos y otros usuarios inexpertos que son legión. Una empresa no puede olvidarse de sus secretarias. Hay usuarios inexpertos que no usan el ordenador para jugar sino para cosas muy

Re: Las empresas se dejan debianizar?

2000-08-06 Thread aherrerm
Guenas El Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 03:20:37PM +0200, JFA disidio iscribir: Debian lo tiene más resuelto de lo que pudiera parecer, hay montones de front-ends para el apt-get, como el console-apt. Además ¿ conoceis el tasksel ?, Yo no he utilizado ninguno de esos front-ends, pero voy a probar

RE: Núcleo ltecra

2000-08-06 Thread Fermín Manzanedo
Hola, con solo copiar el tecra al disco duro, hacer unos cambios en lilo.conf y ejecutar lilo ha funcionado perfectamente. Ahora toca recoger toda la información sobre como compilar el núcleo y bajarme las fuentes del 2.2.16 :) Sabreis cuando he empezado, os lo aseguro ;) Saludos,

Re: Configuracion de mutt [MH--Maildir]

2000-08-06 Thread José Esteban
Lluís Vilanova wrote: Ahora bien, como paso del formato MH al Maildir? Tengo mensajes que me gustaria guardar. Sugerencia: Crea carpetas maildir y trasladas, mediante el propio mutt, los mensajes de las MH (que mutt también entiende) a las maildir. ... Otra cosa, debe haber en cada

¿Las fuentes lat1-16 y lat1u-16 son iguales?

2000-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Saludos. Tras actualizar el paquete console-tools, que ahora requiere console-data, éste último actualiza las fuentes que se pueden encontrar en /usr/share/consolefonts/*. Antes usaba la fuente lat1-16, y esta difería de la fuente lat1u-16. No obstante, ahora ambas son iguales. Con consolechars

Re: BitchX y las fuentes en consola

2000-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Francisco Callejo wrote: Acabo de instalar BitchX y veo que al arrancarlo no aparecen correctamente los caracteres acentuados. Cuando salgo continúa el problema. Creo que tiene que ver con las console-tools o algo así. ¿Alguien sabe cómo solucionarlo? Vaya, es un alivio

Conversion de True Type a Type 1

2000-08-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Estoy utilizando ttf2pfb del paquete freetype-tools, para convertir fuentes True Type a Type 1, tal como se indica en la documentacion del citado paquete, pero despues de ejecutar type1inst, siempre hay que retocar a mano algunas cosas (el foundry, y la codificacion sobre todo),

Re: xdm, runlevels y xconsole

2000-08-06 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
David Muriel wrote: Otra cosa. Por lo que recuerdo de cuando usaba slackware y redhat, los runlevels del 2 al 5 eran multiusuario, pero uno tenia el xdm, otro no lo tenía, otro con nfs, ... Sin embargo, he buscado esta información en debian y no la encuentro, sólo pone que son

Re: Xmovie

2000-08-06 Thread Blu
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 05:51:13PM -0300, Ricardo Marcelo Alvarez wrote: Estoy tratando de compilar el xmovie (ahora tengo potato) y cuando hago make clean o make all empieza a compilar y en un momento todas las letras del texto que aparece en la pantalla se convierten en simbolos raros,

Re: Problemas de dependencia.

2000-08-06 Thread JFA
failed dependencies: /sbin/ldconfig is needed by kaffe-1.0.5-6 Creo que lo primero es que consigas este programa que está en el paquete ldso. Supongo que con esto solucionarás la mayoria de las dependencias. Las demás se suelen solucionar instalando la libreria que te pide -dev com

Atualização dos materiais dos boot-floppies

2000-08-06 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Oi, Terminei hoje a atualização e revisão do sistema de instalação da Debian e já estão enviados ao CVS. A novidade é que corrigi todos os erros no arquivo potfile que não permitiam a internacionalização integral, agora todo o sistema de instalação está todo em Português! Estou fazendo os

cedilha no xemacs

2000-08-06 Thread Itamar
Olá pessoal, Meu sistema está devidamente configurado para acentuação, entretando o xemacs não aceita o ç, mas não há problemas com os outros acentos. Uso o xemacs 20.4 mule. Alguém sabe o que posso fazer para resolver este problema? Obrigadão Itamar

Wordperfect 8 no debian potato

2000-08-06 Thread krogerlistas
Olá a todos, Alguem está usando o WP 8 com o potato? Quando tento roda-lo dá falha de segmentação :( Será alguma biblioteca? Abraços Pedro Kröger

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-06 Thread Allan Peak
I re-installed Debian with the NE2000-PCI installed, and now I don't see any error messages when I boot. However when I type ping yahoo.com it just hangs. I don't have any trouble under RedHat or Corel. Are there any files from those I could look at that would give me a clue on how to set it up

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Aug-2000 Allan Peak wrote: I re-installed Debian with the NE2000-PCI installed, and now I don't see any error messages when I boot. However when I type ping yahoo.com it just hangs. I don't have any trouble under RedHat or Corel. Are there any files from those I could look at that

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-08-06 Thread Simon Law
Was this a compilation error? Shouldn't have failed, as that is the correct and documented way of doing it. What was the error message? (I remember a friend who tried compiling and it didn't work because he didn't have bin86 installed. Would cut out because it couldn't find as86.) Of course,

Re: VMware with potato - any issues?

2000-08-06 Thread Christopher Clark
I installed it on an AMDK62/333 with 128Mram in /usr/local. Using Potato Test cycle 1 It installed no problem. Vmware complains about AMD chips and Win95, say don't use the patch supplied by Microsoft. I haven't 'optimised' it yet and runs too slow in window mode, just about acceptable in full

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-06 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 12:35:07AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I understand, was adapted from Novell's Midnight Commander file browsing utility. It

Re: displaying binary files

2000-08-06 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: Don't know when and where this thread began. So this might be irrelevant. I suppose you could write a wrapper for viewing, but MOST automatically uses the two column format used in binary editors with dots for 8 bit chars when it comes upon a

RE: only running one emacs..

2000-08-06 Thread Jonas Moberg
If I got emacs running and type emacs somefile, I'd like the emacs I already got running to open the file, not start a new emacs (atleast if I'm not in X). How? info -f /usr/share/info/emacs-e20.gz and search for 'server'... or man emacslient.. Thanks! Works fine! Just one little

Re: some tcsh questions

2000-08-06 Thread Jonas Moberg
plug subject=zsh Do yourself a favor and try zsh first... even before tcsh (in other words: get rid of that), but certainly before bash. Go with the package in potato, or better yet, with 3.1.9* in woody. I'd bet you will *not* regret it... /plug Done.. =) Now I'll just have to take

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Patrick Dahiroc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (23:57) : first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'. then put eval $(lesspipe) in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login script for your shell. I found out (to my surprise) that /etc/profile is not read. I

Re: potato installation problem: lp driver; get init_module: Device or resource busy message

2000-08-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Maybe it should be lp0? ... Maybe that's the problem? How might that be the problem? (That line is output, so it can't be the problem (the cause), although it could be symptom of a problem. However, that's output from a

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-06 Thread Allan Peak
After installation my resolv.conf file was search kc.rr.com nameserver 192.168.1.2 I manually put in nameserver 192.168.1.1 but it didn't make any difference. It still hangs on ping Did you put the IP addresses of your nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver

IP forwarding

2000-08-06 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
I can make it work by doing the following by hand: # ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward But is there a neat way of making it happen automatically by putting something in /etc/network/ or in /etc/ppp/? And can it be combined with dial-on-demand?

Re: Can't get online

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Green
You should not set your nameserver to 192.168.1.1 unless 192.168.1.2 happens to be a nameserver on your network. Since you use a web-based email address I cannot guess what your actual nameserver should be but you can test if this is the problem by pinging a server by the actual ip address.

Netscape 4.73 missing wrapper.d

2000-08-06 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, when I start netscape from an xterm, I get the following error-message: bash-2.03$ ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/wrapper.d: No such file or directory ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory Did I miss to install a package? I know that wrapper.d is in

Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread Triggs; Ian
I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the more prompt which says the percentage at the bottom changes back to readable characters and

Re: IP forwarding

2000-08-06 Thread Stan Kaufman
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: I can make it work by doing the following by hand: # ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward But is there a neat way of making it happen automatically by putting something in /etc/network/ or in /etc/ppp/? And

Re: Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Triggs; Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the more prompt which says the percentage at the

Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread USM Bish
Just jumped into the slink-potato-bandwagon a week ago being rather tired of RH and SuSE. Having the usual teething problems: 1. The init process in debian does not differentiate levels from 2 to 5, as a consequence, I am forced to boot into x-windows thru xdm. I am presently bailing out to

Re: Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The init process in debian does not differentiate levels from 2 to 5, as a consequence, I am forced to boot into x-windows thru xdm. I am presently bailing out to console using the /etc/init.d/xdm script with the option stop. I do

Re: Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, USM Bish wrote: 2. The BackSpace key needs fixing for X. However placing xmodmap parameters in .xsessions or .Xdefaults does not seem to correct the problem, and I need to repeat the same over an xterm. Is there any way out? My xmodmap is run from ~/.xsession (note: not

Help - WordPerfect still doesn't work (nor does Netscape)

2000-08-06 Thread Cam Ellison
I have managed to get WordPerfect installed, but any attempt to start it gets an error message indicating something like can't start binary file. On installation, I get two error messages, first that kernel 2.2.16 (which I now understand is buggy, but haven't had time to replace) is not

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I think it's fine. My 1-month-old system came with CorelOS preinstalled. I used it for a week until I changed it to pure debian [1]. It seemed to me a debian system, with a little GUI gloss added on top of it. E.g., iirc, it had a GUI package manager that had much of the same functionality as

Aureal Vortex patch

2000-08-06 Thread Patrick Cherry
Hi, Has anyone had any problems with installing the sound module for the Aureal Sonic Vortex2? I've downloaded the source from linux.aureal.com and applied the patch supplied from www.debian.org/~jaldhar/vortex . Followed the instructions to the tee, and it hasn't worked... When the package

Re: Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, USM Bish wrote: 2. The BackSpace key needs fixing for X. However placing xmodmap parameters in .xsessions or .Xdefaults does not seem to correct the problem, and I need to repeat the same over an xterm. Is there any way out? My

Re: Help - WordPerfect still doesn't work (nor does Netscape)

2000-08-06 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It sounds like you need to install xpm4.7 from the oldlibs section. To verify this, run ldd /usr/local/lib/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp (adjust the path to match your installation). If anything is listed as not found you'll need to install the relevant package. You can use the search form at

Re: @home network

2000-08-06 Thread adam.edgar
This may have already been mentioned but with 10/100 baseT you can not use a normal cable to connect them you have to use a crossover cable. You sould be able to find instructions online. Adam ps: sorry if this is redundant On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Jaron Abbott

Re: Netscape 4.73 missing wrapper.d

2000-08-06 Thread David Reviejo
* Gernot Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000806 19:41]: when I start netscape from an xterm, I get the following error-message: bash-2.03$ ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/wrapper.d: No such file or directory ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory Did I miss to

Re: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

2000-08-06 Thread Charles Lewis
We use debian all over this campus (routers, firewalls, mail servers, web servers, samba servers, etc) and I know that they have at least one debian box in the CS department. Charles Lewis, Director of Adminstrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX 76059 (817) 556-4720 -

Re: Help needed

2000-08-06 Thread staf
Just jumped into the slink-potato-bandwagon a week ago being rather tired of RH and SuSE. Welcome! 1. The init process in debian does not differentiate levels from 2 to 5, as a consequence, I am forced to boot into x-windows thru xdm. I am presently bailing out to console using the

ghostscript/ghostview and margins

2000-08-06 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, since my printer is a HP Laserjet 5 MP, it has its own postscript interpreter. But to be able to view ps and pdf files, I installed gs 5.1 and gv 3.5.8. My first attempt to print out a pdf file failed in that the fonts are larger and the left margin is shifted to the right, resulting in a

Re: Aureal Vortex patch

2000-08-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Patrick Cherry wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any problems with installing the sound module for the Aureal Sonic Vortex2? I've downloaded the source from linux.aureal.com and applied the patch supplied from www.debian.org/~jaldhar/vortex . Followed the instructions to

Re: VMware with potato - any issues?

2000-08-06 Thread Hans
It works like a charm. Win4Lin also works (less features, but faster), but was a bit more of a hassle to set up (ymmv). Tell me about it. I tried it today. Downloaded the .deb (which I think is nothing more than a alienated rpm), patched the kernel, installed it, but winsetup just keeps

Re: Aureal Vortex patch

2000-08-06 Thread Patrick Cherry
Thanks for the help, I downloaded kernel-headers-2.2.15 and found the header file there. I had the chmod the script (debian/rules) to 755, and then make install the module -- the last aren't on your list of instructions, but I worked that bit out. Now everything is working fine! Thanks,

Setting up a mail server, looking for some recommendations.

2000-08-06 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. Fresh from my conquering of the TrinityOS firewall, the Right(tm) way of compiling a kernel into a .deb (thanks Simon!), and getting file/print sharing (mostly) setup, I now want to tackle a mail server. I have an ADSL link @home (not through @Home, however), and I have my own

Re: Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the A better way is to use the 'reset' command.

Re: Netscape 4.73 missing wrapper.d

2000-08-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 06:07:00PM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote: when I start netscape from an xterm, I get the following error-message: bash-2.03$ ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/wrapper.d: No such file or directory ls: /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/wrapper.d: No such file or directory Did

Re: some tcsh questions

2000-08-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Jonas == Jonas Moberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: plug subject=zsh Do yourself a favor and try zsh first... even before tcsh (in other words: get rid of that), but certainly before bash. Go with the package in potato, or better yet, with 3.1.9* in woody. I'd bet you will

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I think it's fine. My 1-month-old system came with CorelOS preinstalled. I used it for a week until I changed it to pure debian [1]. I too has a similar experience: because slink won't install on my new Atlon, I installed Corel,

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my (vanilla NT 4.0) desktop at work which is set to let other 'share' its files. I tried mounting these

lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread Dale Morris
I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions /=2500 megs /usr=5000mgb /home=2500mgb /var=1250mgb the rest of the disk is just free space. When I run lilo I get the following

Re: VMware with potato - any issues?

2000-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:24:10PM +0200, Hans wrote: It works like a charm. Win4Lin also works (less features, but faster), but was a bit more of a hassle to set up (ymmv). Tell me about it. I tried it today. Downloaded the .deb (which I think is nothing more than a alienated rpm),

hosts.allow/hosts.deny question

2000-08-06 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
I posted a while back about not being able to establish telnet,ssh or smtp connections from outside my LAN to my box running Potato. This problem appeared rather suddenly after having run fine for several months. Since then a friend of mine in a different state told me that he could connect via

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:26:14 -0700, Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions /=2500 megs /usr=5000mgb /home=2500mgb /var=1250mgb

RE: Xfree mouse trouble

2000-08-06 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
I was just wondering, what are the differences (if any) between using gpm and the x-mouse?...and what are the advantages? Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message-

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 06 2000, Aaron Maxwell wrote: One gripe: my particular instance of CorelOS was missing a lot of packages hackers are used to, both on the harddrive and the distro CD. E.g., I was HORRIFIED to learn that no flavor of emacs was present :) [2] That was my biggest gripe too. :-) I

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread jack
This may or may not work for you, but I've always had luck making a small (15mb) partition for /boot at the front of the disk and just letting it go from there. Lilo seems to love it no matter the hard disk size... maybe that will help you... have a good time, Jack On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread Simon Law
Looks like your lilo.conf is wrong. There should be a line saying lba32 in there. man 8 lilo for more information. Dale Morris wrote: I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following

MS Intellepoint Optical

2000-08-06 Thread Ethan Pierce
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout all five buttons? I just bought it for q3 - works well under nt5

Re: MS Intellepoint Optical

2000-08-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't imagine why it wouldn't provided it uses a standard protocol (IMPS/2 or PS/2 or something) wether its optical or not doesn't matter. nt5, gives me the chills ugh nate On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: oldsch oldsch Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout

Re: setting up x terminal workstation

2000-08-06 Thread markm
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:57:43PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: Can someone point me to some sites that explain how to get an older computer working as a remote x-term/workstation. You may be interested in http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux/poor.html HTH, Mark

Re: some tcsh questions

2000-08-06 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:40:23PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: I've (after many years of use..) been looking up what my shell actually can do for me to make my life easier. I've been going thru the features of tcsh (first shell I ever used, but I'm determined to go thru bash and zsh or ksh