Upgrading to woody

2001-01-27 Thread Joshua Kruck
Hello, Is there a way to install woody from scratch. When i installed potato i took the disks off a mirror. Then i did a net install for the rest. Is there a way to do this for woody as well? I have been looking in the disk directories, but they all seem to be empty. am i missing something way obvi

Re: How to apt-get a downloaded deb file?

2001-01-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install > it. When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file. You need to use "dpkg" to install it now that it's already downloaded. "dpkg -i filename.deb" will do it. Regards Hall

Re: How to apt-get a downloaded deb file?

2001-01-27 Thread Frank Rocco
John Griffiths wrote: > At 11:15 PM 1/27/2001 -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install > >it. > >When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file. > > > > u need to use dpkg, eg: > > #dpkg -i foo.deb > > it mig

Re: How to apt-get a downloaded deb file?

2001-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:15 PM 1/27/2001 -0500, Frank Rocco wrote: >Hello, > >I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install >it. >When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file. > u need to use dpkg, eg: #dpkg -i foo.deb it might tell you it has dependecies which you can a

How to apt-get a downloaded deb file?

2001-01-27 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello, I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install it. When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file. Thanks Frank

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread mike polniak
Christopher R. Barry wrote: > For many years, whenever I have tried to run a program under X as root I get > a message like: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 There was a t

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Christopher R. Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to stop this # from happening. What do I do so I can run programs as root? There are two solutions, that I know of. 'xhost' changes the access controls for the $DISPLAY under whi

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > So configuring apache to log to an sql database and writing scripts to > build graphs on the fly would do the same thing, right? I'm > interested in working on something like this; my former employer > wanted stats updated weekly so I wrote a little p

Re: Unable to install LILO

2001-01-27 Thread Nate Amsden
John Johnson wrote: > > I've been trying to install potato to two machines: A > Dell Inspiron 3200 and a Compaq DeskPro 2000. Both are > older machines with pre-1998 BIOS. The Inspiron has a > 4GB hard disk; the DeskPro, 2GB. For both, I am unable > to make Linux bootable from hard disk. Strangely

Re: realplayer on debian 2.2

2001-01-27 Thread RAccess
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, T. Green wrote: > I am a novice --- please help > I want to get realplayer setup on my system i need all the info i > can get to install this > thank you > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, Mark Koopman wrote: > excuse me, did you say WebTrends is 'real-time' > > that it most certainly isn't. take a site like yahoo for example. i've heard > their estimates of nearly 500 million page views a day. webtrends is not > even close to real-time in this situation, th

Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
For many years, whenever I have tried to run a program under X as root I get a message like: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to s

USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I've gotten a Epson Stylus Color 880 that hooked up straightforward under windows connected to the USB port, but so far it is not working under Debian with a 2.4 kernel. Per all the howtos I've read, I created the file /dev/usb/lp0 using mknod, in /etc/printcap I put as the first entry: lp0 :\

realplayer on debian 2.2

2001-01-27 Thread T. Green
I am a novice --- please help I want to get realplayer setup on my system i need all the info i can get to install this thank you

Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
For many years, whenever I have tried to run a program under X as root I get a message like: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 I guess tonight I finally want to get around to figuring out how to s

USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-27 Thread Christopher R. Barry
I've gotten a Epson Stylus Color 880 that hooked up straightforward under windows connected to the USB port, but so far it is not working under Debian with a 2.4 kernel. Per all the howtos I've read, I created the file /dev/usb/lp0 using mknod, in /etc/printcap I put as the first entry: lp0 :\

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Koopman
excuse me, did you say WebTrends is 'real-time' that it most certainly isn't. take a site like yahoo for example. i've heard their estimates of nearly 500 million page views a day. webtrends is not even close to real-time in this situation, they'd kill their machines, and don't even consider NF

Security upgrade broke inn2!

2001-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, the latest security update off inn2/inn2-inews seems to have broken inn2-inews. If I downgrade to the previous versions all is working, but with the latest "inews -h

Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:17:41PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: > RCN is also DHCP only (well, maybe you can get static for more $$, I'm > not sure), but so far I've only had my address change once in 8 months, > and I think it was some kind of infrastructure change since the new > address was _comp

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:26:55PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: [ please don't cc: me on replies, I read the list ] > MUA's people are using. And I have seen Webalizer, but people want > Webtrends. Real-time on-the-fly reporting and all. That's it. So configuring apache to log to an sql databas

Re: directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Mike Egglestone wrote: > How do you find how big a directory is? > > I know "ls -l" is used quite often... but it doesn't tell me the size > of the directory... > Anyone help me on this one? How about `du -s .`? See `man du` for more. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-b

Re: directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:05:46 -0800 "Mike Egglestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ... > I've been using debian for over a year now and I still don't know this > one. > > How do you find how big a directory is? > > I know "ls -l" is used quite often... but it doesn't tell me the size of t

Re: directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread Nate Amsden
> Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi ... > I've been using debian for over a year now and I still don't know this > one. > > How do you find how big a directory is? > > I know "ls -l" is used quite often... but it doesn't tell me the size > of the directory... > Anyone help me on this one? i use

Re: directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread Erik Steffl
> Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi ... > I've been using debian for over a year now and I still don't know this > one. > > How do you find how big a directory is? > > I know "ls -l" is used quite often... but it doesn't tell me the size > of the directory... > Anyone help me on this one? man

Re: directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Mike Egglestone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # How do you find how big a directory is? The 'du' command is probably what you're looking for. The '-h', '-c', and '--max-depth=1' are popular options. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)

Re: BBDB problem

2001-01-27 Thread Dan Griswold
> "Jeronimo" == Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeronimo> :: Daniel Wagner writes: >> Hi, I've got a problem too with the new bbdb-package in >> unstable. with the new package the bbdb-complete-name doesn't >> work anymore. i always get: Symbol's function defini

directory size?

2001-01-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi ... I've been using debian for over a year now and I still don't know this one.   How do you find how big a directory is?   I know "ls -l" is used quite often... but it doesn't tell me the size of the directory... Anyone help me on this one?   thanks Mike

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-27 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > let's have a look ... > > Did you try ... ? > > http://www.linux.com/links/Documentation/ > > Also, if i'm correct you would be able to set this parameter with netconf or > would at least find the dox when you use > > man net

Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Paul D. Smith
FWIW, I've had RCN in Lexington (MA) for 8 months now and it's great; no bandwidth or latency issues at all, and I've not noticed any service outages. But, they had to basically lay all new infrastructure here so maybe it's different in Boston proper. RCN is also DHCP only (well, maybe you can ge

Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:36:22AM -0500, David Z. Maze wrote: > fast, and of not needing to deal with the phone company. We tried to > get DSL service from Speakeasy, and after a month and a half came up > with nothing (due to the, um, unique infrastructure that DSL requires > and its interaction

Re: Mozilla 0.7 && Java support

2001-01-27 Thread Denzil Kelly
You might want to try one of the nightly builds. Also, I've found that if you are playing an mp3 with xmms mozilla will not launch. And I've not been able to get it to work with helix, it won't launch at all. Thus I use windowmaker instead. Here is the output I get when I lauch mozilla MOZILLA_FIV

Re: Converting from Exim to qmail

2001-01-27 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Alec Smith, > Are there any pitfalls to watch out for as far as the above are concerned > with Qmail? Also, does a simple Howto exist which I could use as a guide to > Qmail configuration in the above described situation? On the qmail site (www.qmail.org), there is a very good document ca

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread mike polniak
Stefan Srdic wrote: > Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw > working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with > another > scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message) > > Why this module is loading I have

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread Tudor Oprea
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: > problem, but ... I don't know how to check how much of the main Deb > partition is occupied! This is, I guess, a basic admin task I should know > how to do, but ... I don't. use df, optionally with the -h(uman-readable) switch. oasis:~$ df -h Filesystem

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, staf wagemakers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote: > > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure > > web > > surfer behaviour > > anyways, only web server behaviour. > > customers ask for it :) EXACTLY. Pe

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:08:38PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > OK - please pardon me if this is a basic/duh-type question (I searched on > DebianHELP but no luck): > > I want to resize my main Debian/Linux partition to make room for a new > partition to hold FreeBSD. Take a look at GNU parte

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
OOps, > 1. Loading sg before ide-scsi is correct and needed! 1. Loading sg AFTER ide-scsi is correct and needed! OSAMU -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-01-27 Thread Glenn Becker
OK - please pardon me if this is a basic/duh-type question (I searched on DebianHELP but no luck): I want to resize my main Debian/Linux partition to make room for a new partition to hold FreeBSD. I have a 30G hd so I doubt it will be a problem, but ... I don't know how to check how much of the m

Re: What files do I need to set for NetWork Connection?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Check your system by ifconfog and route -n Edit /etc/network/interfaces My masq box for cable is attached and uses modified ipmasq package. -- On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:13:58PM -0800, Jean-Philippe Durrios wrote: > Hi, > > I have all the information from my Cable operator: fixed IP, netm

Re: What files do I need to set for NetWork Connection?

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:13:58PM -0800, Jean-Philippe Durrios wrote: > Hi, > > I have all the information from my Cable operator: fixed IP, netmask, > broadcast, gatewy, dns, nameserver, hostname, domain name, etc... > > What files do I need to modify and what should I write in it to get my > I

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Stefan Srdic
"David B. Harris" wrote: > Try adding the following parameters to your kernel: > > ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi > > You can do this with lilo.conf's: > > append="ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi" > > Or right at the boot prompt. > > David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay > Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, o

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
A bit misleading to say "edit modules.conf". I used to recompile but adding lilo entry and modules entry are sufficient. On debian you do not edit modules.conf as its comment states. Instead, set /etc/modules as following examples: (Just ide-scsi and sg are relevant entries.) My /etc/modules # /

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
After reading your message and dmesg: Your CD-ROM is still connected as IDE CD-ROM at hdc. No wonder you can not mount as scd0. Did you run lilo after adding append line? Or are you booting right kernel where you added append line? Anyway, you should read CD-Writing-HOWTO first. That shoul

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote: > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure web > surfer behaviour > anyways, only web server behaviour. customers ask for it :) -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://st

Re: Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread artlemas
The admin. at the remote Sys V server only allows binaries, although he allows them in user html spaces, too. ...doing this for a friend who has spent many years on one historical Web site. I'll look into the documentation "to setup gcc to cross compile" for Sys V, as you advised. We probably

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
ignore=hdc may not harm but it was not needed for my system with stock 2.2.18-pre21 kernel. Try following as root: # cd /dev # ln -sf scd0 cdrom If it does not work, please post /etc/fstab /etc/modules and output of # ls -la /dev/cd* /dev/scd0 /dev/hdc In my case, # ls -l /dev/scd0 /dev/

Re: unstable or testing - which one to use?

2001-01-27 Thread Erik Steffl
David Z Maze wrote: > > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DS> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > ES> what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting > ES> that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable > ES> was. what's t

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
i'm not familiar with cvsupit, but if you are just looking for CVS capabilites, apt-get install cvs will get cvs installed and you can do all your normal cvs stuff. I assume this is what you mean by manual cvs. -Casey On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, John Travis wrote: > Hello Debianites :-). > I'v

Howto (re)enable dead keys?

2001-01-27 Thread Ernst Martin Witte
Hello! How can I enable dead keys in XF86? On my console dead keys work very well. If I use startx, dead keys are disabled. If I use kdm, dead keys work in the login dialog, but after login, my dead keys are gone. My deadkey line in XF86Config is: #XkbVariant "nodeadkeys" How are the

Re: Converting from Exim to qmail

2001-01-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I've been using Exim on my Debian boxes for awhile, but would like to > convert over to QMail (in Potato) in the process of doing a major > server upgrade. > > Right now I have Exim and QPop

CVSup(it) for Debian?

2001-01-27 Thread John Travis
Hello Debianites :-). I've been too busy to track this list for a while, but I thought I get back into swing by asking a question for a friend of mine first. They don't subscribe to the list, but I figured some of the gurus here could answer the question... _ Is there an app like (

What files do I need to set for NetWork Connection?

2001-01-27 Thread Jean-Philippe Durrios
Hi, I have all the information from my Cable operator: fixed IP, netmask, broadcast, gatewy, dns, nameserver, hostname, domain name, etc... What files do I need to modify and what should I write in it to get my Internet connection to work? I cannot ping anything :-( Thanx you for you help JP

RE: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Magus Ba'al
I had to add a line to lilo to get it to use scsi-ide. Here is my entry for lilo: image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb3 label = linux append="hdd=ide-scsi" Where /dev/hdd is my cdr. You could also just type that in manually at the LILO prompt during boot. This I found on the CD BURNING HOW

Re: Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
if you really want binaries, you prob need to setup gcc to cross compile for your destination platform, unless the ATT sysV system happens to understand the i386 ISA, and ELF or a.out binary formats. If you just want to write scripts in perl/shell, they will work on the ATT box provided you stick

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Mark Koopman
better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure web surfer behaviour anyways, only web server behaviour. staf wagemakers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:46:15PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely > > a

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Casey Webster
I dont have the exact link handy, but if you visit xcdroast.org and click the ling near teh bottom for a CD writing HOWTO, it will describe how to do the following: you are not getting your cdrom under scsi-emulation because the IDE-cd driver is loaded for that device. You need to tell ide-cd not

Debian Compile for SysV?

2001-01-27 Thread artlemas
Will a woody system compile good CGI binaries for an AT&T System V system? Or would it be wiser to try to find existing public domain bins? ...trying to get a Web counter going for someone else. I'm on the Rocky Mountain Range, the snow is dumping from the sky, and there's nothing better to

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:46:15PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely > appreciated all the info and help from you guys, but the Debian server > I set up at work is now wiped. The reason I had to set it up was for > the Webtrends Enter

Converting from Exim to qmail

2001-01-27 Thread Alec Smith
I've been using Exim on my Debian boxes for awhile, but would like to convert over to QMail (in Potato) in the process of doing a major server upgrade. Right now I have Exim and QPopper doing the following: 1 - Providing primary MX service for several domains 2 - Handling outgoing mail for the

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Angel
Stefan Srdic wrote: > > Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw > working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with > another > scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message) > > Why this module is loading I h

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
Try adding the following parameters to your kernel: ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi You can do this with lilo.conf's: append="ignore=hdc hdc=ide-scsi" Or right at the boot prompt. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)

Re: fstab entry for cd-rw device?

2001-01-27 Thread Stefan Srdic
Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with another scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message) Why this module is loading I have no idea, I do not have any scsi

Re: Setting locale failed?

2001-01-27 Thread Torben Korte
On 27 Jan 2001 17:10:59 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = (unset), > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" >

Re: cups with a bjc610 anyone ?

2001-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 27 Jan 2001 21:48:22 +0100, Olaf Foellinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a > canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I > want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like > gs or does cu

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:34:34 + (UTC), Pollywog said: > Is this on a laptop? I have the same problem on my ThinkPad 560 and > since there are no error messages, I don't know why. Both of us should check the archives for debian-laptop, if your machine is a laptop, that is. -- Andrew

Re: configuring potato to recognize 3com ethernet card

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Most network cards are compiled as modules and you do not need to recompile kernel. insmod or modprobe with correct module will solve this. osamu On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:19:18PM -0600, john connolly wrote: > Off the cdrom installation of potato results in a setup that does not > utilize my 3co

cups with a bjc610 anyone ?

2001-01-27 Thread Olaf Foellinger
Hi, I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like gs or does cups works alone ? Does anyone have a ppd file for me that works ?

reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Ken Weingold
Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely appreciated all the info and help from you guys, but the Debian server I set up at work is now wiped. The reason I had to set it up was for the Webtrends Enterprise Reporting Server, which is technically for Red Hat. I was havin

Re: Mozilla 0.7 && Java support

2001-01-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:02:42PM -0100, Kristian Rink wrote: > Hello everybody... > ...being not sure if this is the list for that topic... Again, being > in search for a good web browser which (thanks to the admins of some > of the sites I have to visit more or less regularly) is able of > rende

Re: ethernet after reboot n/a

2001-01-27 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:03:50PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > eth2: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xd800, 00:80:c8:e4:83:e9, IRQ 9. > eth2: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link . > > bash-2.03# ifconfig eth2 192.168.1.1/24 up > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailabl

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Pollywog
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:33:03 -0500, Adam Read said: > When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and then my > machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do anything. > I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've tried a > completly mono

configuring potato to recognize 3com ethernet card

2001-01-27 Thread john connolly
Off the cdrom installation of potato results in a setup that does not utilize my 3com509xxx card. The config file has CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y What else do I need. Thanks JWC

Re: Gathering mail from multiple POP servers

2001-01-27 Thread Samuel Hathaway
Will, Thanks so much for the detailed information. I will set this up when I get a chance. (hah) > there's an awful lot you can do with all these -- it's kinda > like killing a mosquito with a nuclear bomb... It certainly looks that way! Actually, I have another question about exim. I have it s

Weird behavior of Java graphical programs under KDE2

2001-01-27 Thread Guilherme Ceschiatti
Hi! I'm writing to report a weird behavior of Java graphical programs under KDE2. I think it's concerned to KDE2 because it's occur only under it. I use Borland JBuilder and, after some time, the up arrow key and the left arrow key stop to work. Even if I close and restart the program again, it

Re: Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Adam Read wrote: > When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and > then my machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do > anything. I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've > tried a completly mo

Re: HELP! How do I configure LILO?

2001-01-27 Thread DSC Lithuania
Right now I am using loadlin.exe in my d:\linux directory, with a batch file "linux.bat" that has the statements   D: CD LINUX loadlin linux root=/dev/hdb4 swap=/dev/hdb2 mem=4m   (Of course, your mem statement would reflect your memory, and your swap and root would reflect your own partiti

Compiling java (gcj, jikes, kaffe...)

2001-01-27 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, This is really stupid, but I don't know any further. Every time I try to compile some java source code - actually the HelloWorld example from the Debian Java FAQ - I get error messages: with gcj: /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undef

Can't get a 2.4 kernel to boot.

2001-01-27 Thread Adam Read
When I try to boot a 2.4 kernel lilo tells me it's booting linux and then my machine stops. No error or panic messages, it just doesn't do anything. I've configured it so nearly everything is modular, and I've tried a completly monolitic kernel. The kernel is correctly configured for my hardw

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Vinod Kurup
> MediaOne is known to have some periodic routing problems, but based on > what I've heard I'd take them over Verizon. I've heard a lot of > people with similar problems with RCN to what Noah describes, I'd > avoid them like the plague. > Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use

Re: Unable to install LILO

2001-01-27 Thread David B . Harris
To quote John Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I've tried following Debian's suggestion to place a # small /boot partition at the beginning of the disk, # but that hasn't helped, either. Has anyone run into # and been able to fix this? Please include your lilo.conf and any errors you received. Davi

Re: 2 ttyS0 questions...

2001-01-27 Thread Angel
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all... > I have 2 questions regarding ttyS0. > First: I want my user name to have access to > ttyS0. where can I find info on how to do this > (i.e. which HOWTO if any) Add yourself to the diagout group, as you can see //dev/ttyS* belongs to this group. > > Second

Unable to install LILO

2001-01-27 Thread John Johnson
I've been trying to install potato to two machines: A Dell Inspiron 3200 and a Compaq DeskPro 2000. Both are older machines with pre-1998 BIOS. The Inspiron has a 4GB hard disk; the DeskPro, 2GB. For both, I am unable to make Linux bootable from hard disk. Strangely enough, though, I was able to in

Error installing base over HTTP

2001-01-27 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
When attempting to install the base over HTTP, I get the following error: "nf_http_fetchfile :: file download failed, content-length is 15698691 bytes, file is 14974976 bytes". I first got this while trying to install over HTTP from a web server on my network, so I attempted to install from http:

ethernet after reboot n/a

2001-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m running a masquerading and packet-filtering firewall on my home-machine. Since my graphics-card displayed vertical stripes whenever the harddisk was active, I powered the machine down (losing 224 days of uptime ) and swapped the gfx- and scsi-card in their respective pci-slots. I hav

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:46:57AM -, Henry Gomersall wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to > the internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installed > the base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However, >

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-27 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules > included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get PCMCIA > sources? There is the obvious pcmcia-source -- 'dat the beast? http://pcmcia-cs.sour

[OT] Toy Story

2001-01-27 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:41:58AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: > And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke > toys... :) YARTTS¹ ... One of these days I have to watch Toy Story myself. Or is there anything I have missed? =) ¹ Yet Another Reference to Toy Story -- Tommi Ko

Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
I agree the ,helixcode stuff needs to be unstable, for everything else you will be much better in the long run if you track one thing and going by stable testing or unstable is better IMHO because when a new version goes stable you will then get that without having to mess with your sources. Also k

Re: need help installing unstable

2001-01-27 Thread Ray Percival
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke toys... :) -- Original Message -- From: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200 >On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: >> Setting

2 ttyS0 questions...

2001-01-27 Thread Xucaen
Hi all... I have 2 questions regarding ttyS0. First: I want my user name to have access to ttyS0. where can I find info on how to do this (i.e. which HOWTO if any) Second: I load minicom and sometimes the ALT keys don't work (I haven't figured out why yet). when they don't work, the only way I can

Re: Where is gnuchessn ?

2001-01-27 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:44:19PM -0500, Balbir Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > The potato dristibution of debian does not install variant of gnuchess > such as gnuchessn, gnuchessx etc. Could you please point me to a > package that has these preferably deb. apt-get install gnuchess?

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Martin Albert
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Henry Gomersall wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to > .. > This particular card cannot be selected from the list of NICs during > installation (of the base system from the rescue disk). This then means I > .. > (ftp.dlinknet.com/

[OT] Broken CD-ROM drive

2001-01-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi folks, sorry for being off topic, but I wouldn't know whereelse to ask ... I think I'v managed to break my CD-ROM drive. It get's recognized correctly by the BIOS and during kernel boot, but when I try to `mount` a data CD, mount reports "No medium found". When I try `cdplay` on an audio CD,

Re: A little sed

2001-01-27 Thread A+B Frank
"N. Raghavendra" wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote: > > > - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from > > tags. I tried sed -e s/\// file.html > > > file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole > > > script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work

Re: my NIC

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do not know the solution but following may help if this is pci card. # cat /proc/pci|grep -ie ethernet or # cat /proc/pci|less This gives actual chip used on the NIC then you can decide which driver to use. I have Kingston Card and Linksys card but they use same family of chip. In my case

mysql port 0

2001-01-27 Thread Marcin Kurc
I have mysql-server 3.23.31-1 installed and it is not accepting any tcp connections. The config is alright, set to accept tcp on 3306. It worked with earlier versions, but now it shows that mysqld is running on port 0. basedir: /usr/ datadir: /var/lib/mysql/ tmpdir: /tmp/ language:

Re: Networking w/ Win98

2001-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Set your outlook express to fold after 72 chars, please. 1. You need to set network protocol to TCP/IP for WIN9x. NETbios over TCP/IP is the protocol to use for Win9x/NT anyway. NETBEUI will not work with Linux. This is depreciated even for Win only network. IPX should work

Re: Networking w/ Win98

2001-01-27 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
DSC Lithuania schrieb am 27.01.2001: >Okay, I have my system up, my ethernet NIC installed, and am getting >to like this. > >However, I was playing with the network utilities, trying to figure >out how to link to our local Win95/98 >Ethernet-10 network, and having little to no success. Part of the

Re: HELP! How do i config lilo?

2001-01-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
You have to properly set up the Lilo configuration file /etc/lilo.conf, and then run the 'lilo' command to have the changes to /etc/lilo.conf take effect. You can probably figure it out easily enough by reading the Lilo documentation, and also this HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.ht

Re: Setting locale failed?

2001-01-27 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Korte) writes: > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "de_DE.ISO-8859-1" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning:

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