Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:26:05AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Aug 12 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > > [1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK. > > What is the best current practice nowadays? > > Since I read a post by Linus on the lkml some time ago, I've > been compiling my

Re: kernel 2.4.x in potato?

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:11:25PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > took me two tries (forgot to include vfat the first time), but the > apt-get and make-kpkg utilities sure make this a lot easier than it > used to be in RedHat! Sir, your language!!! :-) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > but > unlike GNU/Linux support, Fujitsu Support doesn't function on Sundays. > It's wait and see... Amazing, isn't it? So much for superior commercial support. (Yeah yeah, I know it's not fair to compare hardware support to OS

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:42:37PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like > | this in Debian? > > So that you, the admin, can organize the runlevels in whatever way you > feel like without any (initial) interference from the installer.

Re: [ Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers]

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:04:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >[1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK. > > Please post anything you know about this. The Filesystem Hierarechy > Standard doesn't mention this. He simply means that you aren't [0] supposed to compile kernels there. /usr/src i

Re: remote administration methods

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:54:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27:54PM -0700): > > > Have you looked at bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com/)? This i

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:30:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > oop! -- I corrected a few incorrect details in my prior message > regarding the results of 2.4.7 boot partitions check and contents of my > lilo.conf file. > > I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a 2.4.7 kernel to boot. My PC

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > [1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK. What is the best current practice nowadays? Since I read a post by Linus on the lkml some time ago, I've been compiling my kernels under my own user tree, and not even bothering using /

Re: Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:02:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a > > 160mb HDD. Will I be able to install Debian on this? How about X > > windows? > > http://7thguard.net/files/DebianHOWTO.txt > http:/

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Rog?rio Brito wrote on Sun Aug 12, 2001 um 04:06:17PM: > > > Where can I get the source to the boot-floppies (so that I > > The source of BFs is in Debian's FTP pool. The patch is somewhere in > my directory, the kernel configuration file too, and the URL

Re: [Way OT] SunOS question

2001-08-12 Thread John Foster
Having just completed a port of our server product from Debian to Solaris (I wanted to try to keep the entire package environment as close as possible) I _strongly_ suggest you try to find a port of screen for your breed of SunOS. Trying to port sanely from GNU/Linux to Solaris is very trying. In p

now I am getting somewhere (iptables & sid)

2001-08-12 Thread thomas anderson
I think I now know what I need for ipmasq?... I have downloaded and installed iptables package..hopefully compiled my kernel 2.4.7 with the proper modules (anyone pls give me a list to be sure that I didn't miss something)...got a default rc.firewall script for 2.4.x kernel from http://www.e-infom

Re: Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Probably WRT console mode, don't even try X. > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a 160mb HDD. Will > >I be able to install Debian on this? How about X windows? I also a similar question a while ago... check the June

Re: Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread John Galt
Probably WRT console mode, don't even try X. On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a 160mb HDD. Will >I be able to install Debian on this? How about X windows? > >Thanks, >Deven > > > -- There is no problem so great that it ca

Re: path to image magick?

2001-08-12 Thread John Galt
one of three things: whereis convert locate convert find / -name convert On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jason Truman wrote: >Hello everyone, I'm new to the list and I'm starting off with a quick >question. > >My web host (www.f2s.com) runs Debian Linux as their main operating system. >It is my understand

Re: problems with configuring Debian

2001-08-12 Thread Paul Scott
Rafael Sasaki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:36AM +0200, fouad HENNI wrote: I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I need solution for the problems below: 1) My video card is "Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (IPC)", so I installed the XF86_SVGA server but the computer often

Re: problems with configuring Debian

2001-08-12 Thread Rafael Sasaki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:36AM +0200, fouad HENNI wrote: > I installed Linux Debian 2.2 r0 on my computer and I > need solution for the problems below: > > 1) My video card is "Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (IPC)", > so I installed the XF86_SVGA >server but the computer often blocks when

RE: Searching in dselect

2001-08-12 Thread Ian Perry
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 11:56 AM > > On 12 Aug 2001 20:59:11 -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > Is there any way of searching for a string in the short or long > > descriptions of the packages in dselect ?

Re: Installation Problem...Keyboard error

2001-08-12 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 12 Aug 2001 22:38:40 -0400, Rick Dunetz wrote: > I've done a bunch of Debian installations and I have never seen the error > message that comes up on my AMD Athlon 1.33 Gig machine (I also have a maxtor > 40 gig 7200 rpm HD with a Windows 98 partition). During the boot disk there > is an err

Re: Installation Problem...Keyboard error

2001-08-12 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 12 Aug 2001 22:38:40 -0400, Rick Dunetz wrote: > I've done a bunch of Debian installations and I have never seen the error > message that comes up on my AMD Athlon 1.33 Gig machine (I also have a maxtor > 40 gig 7200 rpm HD with a Windows 98 partition). During the boot disk there > is an err

Re: Reading a mac disk

2001-08-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 17:24 Uhr -0400 12.8.2001, dman wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: | I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my | x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a | Windows system too, but that looks h

apt-get issue(s)

2001-08-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I'm cross-posting this to user and security, because there are really two (possibly-related) issues here. Feel free to take replies to just one list or the other. On my firewall (running potato), I have been using these apt sources.list entries: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates

konqueror overriding fonts

2001-08-12 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
has anyone else had the issue with konqueror using a font (probably defined in a css) that cannot be enlarged w/o going into the settings and modifying the minimum font size? that and the font is not one of the standard fonts selected in the config... the only reason i really care is that the fon

Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-12 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:30:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Partition check: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [700/255/63] p1 p2 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4 p6 p7> > cramfs: wrong magic > VFS: Mounted root (est2 filesystem

Installation Problem...Keyboard error

2001-08-12 Thread Rick Dunetz
I've done a bunch of Debian installations and I have never seen the error message that comes up on my AMD Athlon 1.33 Gig machine (I also have a maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm HD with a Windows 98 partition).  During the boot disk there is an error message that looks like this:   Keyboard: Timeout -

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > > > > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > > > gree

Re: upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

2001-08-12 Thread John
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:28:28AM +, nestea wrote: > hi all, > > tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the > following error message. > > any idea? > > > --- > perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.

Re: remote administration methods

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27:54PM -0700): > > Have you looked at bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com/)? This is an > > almost-free software versioning system which addresses several >

Re: Searching in dselect

2001-08-12 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 12 Aug 2001 20:59:11 -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Is there any way of searching for a string in the short or long > descriptions of the packages in dselect ? Use the / key to set your search and the \ key to repeat it. It should be in the help keys description along with other useful

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | Hmmm, I was kind of wondering why no-one had suggested using 'linux 3' yet, | I guess that's why... at least if 'linux single' still works on Debian the | original poster should be able to get around his xdm problem. Thanks for

RE: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
> -Original Message- > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 10:39 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > | Hi Karsten, > | > | Every dis

epison stylus color 777i (printer)

2001-08-12 Thread R1nso13
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=464242 says that the epson stylus color 777 supports direct ascii printing. So i set up the new printer (using usb, not paralell port and an appropriate device name) and ran the command 'lptest 35 6 > /dev/usb/lp0' as root. I've tested the sa

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | Hi Karsten, | | Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a | console) by simply typing - | | linux 3 | | - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name | you have assig

Re: AW: jdk 1.3

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: | > "rio" == rio Brito writes: | | rio> On Aug 12 2001, Bob Koss wrote: | >> I added the above to sources.list, did a apt-get update, but | >> when I apt-cache search, all I see is jdk 1.1.x. I don't see | >> 1.3.x any

Re: IP masquerade not working!! :( (fwd)

2001-08-12 Thread dude
Sounds like your gateway does not know its hosts On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:11:28 +0200 (MEST) > From: Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: IP masquerade not working!! :( (fwd) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.d

RE: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
Hi Karsten, Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a console) by simply typing - linux 3 - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name you have assigned to your Debian partition in /etc/lilo.conf). Then you should be able to modify co

Re: remote administration methods

2001-08-12 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27:54PM -0700): > Have you looked at bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com/)? This is an > almost-free software versioning system which addresses several > weaknesses of CVS and might suit your needs. Larry McVoy is also pretty > keen on distribut

Searching in dselect

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Is there any way of searching for a string in the short or long descriptions of the packages in dselect ? Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: AW: jdk 1.3

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Koss
> "rio" == rio Brito writes: rio> On Aug 12 2001, Bob Koss wrote: >> I added the above to sources.list, did a apt-get update, but >> when I apt-cache search, all I see is jdk 1.1.x. I don't see >> 1.3.x anywhere. >> >> What am I doing wrong? rio>apt-get

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > > greeted with a graphical login. > > > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > greeted with a graphical login. > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if > and only if I want to start X? All of the runlevels ex

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am new to Linux > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386 > > I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login. > > When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > greeted with a graphical login. > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if > and only if I want to start X? All

Re: path to image magick?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:58:54PM -0400, Jason Truman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, I'm new to the list and I'm starting off with a quick > question. > > My web host (www.f2s.com) runs Debian Linux as their main operating > system. It is my understanding that image magick is inc

RE: wierd returnings

2001-08-12 Thread Ian Perry
Guys, I have beed talking to Mario and Karsten about this, and have apologised to Mario for going off the deep end. I have also gone through my sendmail configs and noticed that "Masquerade envelopes" was set to Y. Might be config issue on both ends. Ian

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > File is ~/.mozilla///chrome/userChrome.css > > > > Content that works for now: > > > > window{ > > font-family: Helvetica !important; > > font-size: 8pt !important;

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Would you please inform me, how I can boot Linux and stop it from | starting xdm and X-Windows. You can use Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get a Virtual Console (Ctrl-Alt-F7 is where X runs by default). You can use a virtual console

Re: Upgrading kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Daniel> I've upgraded the default potato kernel to 2.4.3 by > Daniel> downloading the sources and following the instructions in > Daniel> the documentation of kernel-package. > > Is there a reason you didn't get the latest and greatest (2.4.7)? 2.4.3 was the latest and grea

HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread gorgon
I am new to Linux I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386 I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login. When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to the X-Windows login. The problem is that X-Windows is not configured right, and I am getting multi

Re: kernel 2.4.x in potato?

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Koss
> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, can I upgrade my kernel to 2.4.? Has anybody taken a newly >> installed potato system and just upgraded the kernel to 2.4? >> What headaches are in my future? Wayne> I changed 4 boxen to 2.4.x. No worries. Wayne>

IP masquerade not working!! :( (fwd)

2001-08-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > Does any of this work directly from the gateway box without any MASQ rules > > loaded? Thank you for your help.. it is some kind of problem with my network cards... It is quite strange.. if I try to send a huge file (using ftp) from my host to the gateway it goes at the speed of light.. but

Re: Upgrading kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Koss
> "Daniel" == Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> I've upgraded the default potato kernel to 2.4.3 by Daniel> downloading the sources and following the instructions in Daniel> the documentation of kernel-package. Is there a reason you didn't get the latest and

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-12 Thread Mike Brownlow
John Toon wrote: > On 11 Aug 2001 21:06:52 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > > VIA. It's a KT133 chipset on a Asus A7V. The drives are on the ATA100 > > promise controller. > > That's very similar to mine (Abit KA7-100, with a VIA chipset, Highpoint > hard disk controller). > > If you build a correct

fixed latin2 does not work any more ???

2001-08-12 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have just discovered that after I was away for 2 weeks and did an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade the -misc-fixed-*-iso8859-2 font stopped working. Does anyone by any chance know how to fix this problem? THX in advance! Bostjan -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-12 Thread Mike Brownlow
Robert Waldner wrote: > >> > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: > >> > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few > >> > > software > >> > > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for > >> > > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated

Upgrading kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I've upgraded the default potato kernel to 2.4.3 by downloading the sources and following the instructions in the documentation of kernel-package. It worked without problems. Now I would like to upgrade the kernel using the package already distributed with woody, but I don't kn

Re: stable LyX to testing LyX

2001-08-12 Thread ktb
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 08:51:51AM +1200, David Kilgour wrote: > I would like to change from potato stable lyx to testing lyx. How to do? > Do I change apt sources list adding testing just to get this package > then change back to the old woody list? > Comment out any existing src lines in /etc/a

HP drivers

2001-08-12 Thread dude
I was reading on to set up video on the HP laptop. Ive looked at the linux laptop site It mentions the fbdev drvier. My quesion is what do i need to read to install a modules (the driver) that doesn come with the kernel thank

Re: stable LyX to testing LyX

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten Heymann
* David Kilgour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010812 23:52]: > I would like to change from potato stable lyx to testing lyx. How to do? > Do I change apt sources list adding testing just to get this package > then change back to the old woody list? For only one package i wouldn't change sources.list but si

Re: upgrade to unstable: dselect maddness? help!

2001-08-12 Thread Chris Cothrun
{snip misc whining} > I've been using dselect but it seems to get itself > stuck into a weird dependancy thing so I need some > advice here: OK, I seem to have eliminated most of the weirdness by a lucky combination of carefully eliminating the stuff that didn't want to cooperate - either by re

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread dude
YOu can just apt-get remove xdm G On 12 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > Date: 12 Aug 2001 17:39:38 -0400 > From: Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: turning off xdm? > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2

Re: turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:39:38PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > > I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was > greeted with a graphical login. > > How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if > and only if I want to start X? All of the runlevels ex

stable LyX to testing LyX

2001-08-12 Thread David Kilgour
I would like to change from potato stable lyx to testing lyx. How to do? Do I change apt sources list adding testing just to get this package then change back to the old woody list?

turning off xdm?

2001-08-12 Thread Bob Koss
I upgraded my potato install to kernel 2.4.7. When I rebooted, I was greeted with a graphical login. How can I go back to booting to a shell prompt and then starting X if and only if I want to start X? All of the runlevels except 1 seem to have xdm. Should I just pick a runlevel and delete the

osmesa,nvidia,libGL.so

2001-08-12 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
i've seen some grievances regarding osmesa and nvidia libGL.so, and i was wondering if anyone knew the status of using libOSMesa.so and nvidia's shared libs. in any case, i am trying to use libOSMesa, but i get a bunch of undefined symbol warnings, namely: _glapi_Context _glapi_add_entrypoint _gl

Re: Reading a mac disk

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: | I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my | x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a | Windows system too, but that looks harder). | | Do I have a prayer? :} Is the

Re: basedebs.tgz

2001-08-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:50:41PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Aug 12 2001, Peter Leipold wrote: > > I've found some mails written by developers that this file is not > > available anymore, but I didn't find the solution how to install the > > base system now??? > > I thin

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:31:10PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > perl /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install \ > /usr/bin/gnome-font-install /usr/share /usr/share > > (see the postinst of libgnomeprint-data) Thanks, but it didn't work... Rather verbose output: atla

upgrade to unstable: dselect maddness? help!

2001-08-12 Thread Chris Cothrun
Hi I'm setting up Debian on a computer to be used as a part time web surfing box and to use as a developmental web server and to better learn about Linux as a whole. I installed potato but it didn't seem to easily allow me to grab newer packages I wanted. I managed to hose my system (at least

Re: Mozilla: configure menu fonts?

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0400, Mark Garland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:10:26 Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've updated to a recent Mozilla under Woody/testing: > > > > Version: 2:0.9.3-1 > > > > Problem: the menu fonts are all rather larger than I'd like -- app

Re: basedebs.tgz

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, Peter Leipold wrote: > I've found some mails written by developers that this file is not > available anymore, but I didn't find the solution how to install the > base system now??? I think that the new way of installation is that the boot-floppies grab the deb packa

[ Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers]

2001-08-12 Thread Paul Scott
Guy Geens wrote: "Paul" == Paul Scott writes: Paul> I was trying not to do that but I couldn't find header files Paul> which seemed to be the exact same version as the kernel that I Paul> had installed. I did my install from official CD's but I don't Paul> remember every step. There are supp

Reading a mac disk

2001-08-12 Thread William T Wilson
I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a Windows system too, but that looks harder). Do I have a prayer? :} I've used mtools to read Mac floppies, but as far as I know these are no use for re

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 19:09:23 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Usage: run-gnome-font-install installer datadir srcdir > > What does it want as parameters? perl /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install \ /usr/bin/gnome-font-install /usr/share /usr/share (see the posti

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Rog?rio Brito wrote on Sun Aug 12, 2001 um 04:06:17PM: > Where can I get the source to the boot-floppies (so that I The source of BFs is in Debian's FTP pool. The patch is somewhere in my directory, the kernel configuration file too, and the URL the ext3 patch is in the Changelog

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 12, Hugo van der Merwe did write: > > > Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install > > > help? > > > No it doesn't, because the above file doesn't exist! ;^) > > I believe it does. At least on my system. Needs to be executed with perl. It seems t

Re: AW: jdk 1.3

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, Bob Koss wrote: > I added the above to sources.list, did a apt-get update, but when I > apt-cache search, all I see is jdk 1.1.x. I don't see 1.3.x > anywhere. > > What am I doing wrong? apt-get install j2re1.3 Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

getting woody

2001-08-12 Thread David Dayan-Rosenman
Hi all, I am trying to get woody but could not find out how to do that. Are there some ISOs available ? Thanks David

More clear ipmasquerade standard still having problems. (fwd)

2001-08-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
IP masquerade is not working for me : Just some new info in order to be more clear: >From the IP-Masquerade Howto: 7.15. IP Masquerading seems slow There might be a few reasons for this: Make sure you don't have both your INTERNAL and EXTERNAL networks running on t

Re: HELP broken dpkg ( previously HELP - installing broken libglib1.2-dev)

2001-08-12 Thread Mike McGuire
> > > > > [cruft deleted] > > Ouch. I've never had to deal with a system as > > loused up as that one. > > > > But perhaps it can be solved with a: > > dpkg --force-all -P libglib-dev (libglib1.2-dev > > libgtk1.2-dev > > libgtk-dev) > > > > Hopefully this will clean out the system making way >

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-12 Thread Guy Geens
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I'm still reading every fine manual I can but can you tell me Paul> how I identify the kernel? Are you talking about executable or Paul> source? I actually D/L'd the entired source last night but I'm Paul> not sure if I installed it corr

Re: can't start sshd

2001-08-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
> debug1: Seeding random number generator > debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.9p2 > debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1 > debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA > debug1: private host key: #1 type 1 RSA > debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA > debug1: private host key: #2 type 2 DSA >

ipmasquerade standard still having problems.

2001-08-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi. I have finally switched back to the standard kernel of the debian potato 2.2 distribution and I have installed the package ipmasq. I still have problems.. :( * apt-get upgrade from a masked machine times out!! My new configuration: * standard kernel 2.2.1

Re: Modifying a Windows 95/98 FAAT 32 partition

2001-08-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 12 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > FIPS has some disadvantages: unable to change cluster size, and requires > a defragment filesystem. Another open source alternative is GNU parted. > I prepared a set of modified boot floopies which can be used to install > Woody or Sid and contain GNU parted an

re:mssql to free database

2001-08-12 Thread Eamon Roque
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:38:02PM -0500, Matt Fair wrote: > Hello, > I am converting an ASP Visual Basic application to run on a linux machine. I > > downloaded the trial version of Chilisoft and got the ASP working, now I > want > to have the database be mysql or postgresql. Does anyone know

Re: wvdial: pppd connects to ISP -- Now what?

2001-08-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:55:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Working on laptop install (Fuji) from console. Installed minimal debian from > floppies. wvdial finds modem and connects via pppd. My problem: how to > enter commands. The console has no prompts. If I migrate to another >

Re: Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread ktb
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:02:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a 160mb HDD. Will > I be able to install Debian on this? How about X windows? > Try - http://7thguard.net/files/DebianHOWTO.txt also - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/

2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with "cramfs: wrong magic"

2001-08-12 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
oop! -- I corrected a few incorrect details in my prior message regarding the results of 2.4.7 boot partitions check and contents of my lilo.conf file. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a 2.4.7 kernel to boot. My PC has a AMD-K6-II and runs woody. My most recent attempt used the kernel

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> it is a good idea to visit the manufacturers' site. download an utility > and test the drive for errors. seagate and western digital have pretty > good utilities that run off a floppy after you boot using a dos bootdisk. Thanks for all the replies, I've downloaded a drive testing program from Fu

Re: Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Thanks for your replies... I set "PNP OS" back to "No" in the BIOS (setting it to Yes was what seemed to fix the problem last time, weird...), then I reserved IRQ's 3 and 4 for serial, 5 for my NE2K, 12 for PS/2 mouse (when I get round to fixing that one again), and booted GNU/Linux again. The RTL

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install help? > No it doesn't, because the above file doesn't exist! ;^) I believe it does. At least on my system. Needs to be executed with perl. > Ack, anyone got a fix for this Gnumeric problem? I see there are a number of bug

Small Debian Install?

2001-08-12 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm looking into buying a 386 laptop with 4 mb RAM, and a 160mb HDD. Will I be able to install Debian on this? How about X windows? Thanks, Deven

path to image magick?

2001-08-12 Thread Jason Truman
Hello everyone, I'm new to the list and I'm starting off with a quick question. My web host (www.f2s.com) runs Debian Linux as their main operating system. It is my understanding that image magick is included as one of the graphics packages. I'd like to be able to use image magick because I

Re: wvdial: pppd connects to ISP -- Now what?

2001-08-12 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Working on laptop install (Fuji) from console. Installed minimal debian from > floppies. wvdial finds modem and connects via pppd. My problem: how to > enter commands. The console has no prompts. If I migrate to another > console and i

problems with ip masquerade

2001-08-12 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! I have configured a linux box as a router for my home LAN using ip-masquerade but now I am having some problems. My configuration: * 486/100Mhz 16 Mbytes ram debian potato as a router * 56 k modem ppp link (it works fine from the router) * Kernel 2.2.17 recomp

can't start sshd

2001-08-12 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hi All, For some reason, I am unable to start sshd. I have combed thhrough many web pages and the archive, but did not find anything that sounded like my specific problem. I even resorted to a fresh install of the most recent version of ssh in unstable, but to no avail. When I run /etc/init.d/s

Re: xfree86_4.1.0-2 broken dga

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:35:18PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > All my DGA using apps have broken as of late giving: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86dga.so: undefined symbol: atexit > > A 'dpkg -S libXxf86dga.so' gives no results, but I assume it used to be in > xlibs. So were the DGA libs moved or s

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread John Toon
On 12 Aug 2001 18:43:34 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 18:37:38 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > This I can confirm by running gnome-font-install -d : > > > What is gnome-font-install missing? Any ideas? > > Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnom

Re: xfree86_4.1.0-2 broken dga

2001-08-12 Thread Sean
Sounds like you're running Sid ... libc6-2.2.3-10 is "broken". Downgrade to the one in woody, and your problem will be fixed. Sean On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:35:18 -0400 Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All my DGA using apps have broken as of late giving: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86dga.so:

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:46:42AM -0700, patrick q wrote: > Hi, > > I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg > tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible. > > I test the archives when I create them, have backups, and off-site > backups of backups, but I am

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