Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
> Subject: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting? On 27 Jan 2002 13:48:34 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Miller) said: > > I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that > is the master on the IDE bus. I've chosen to install win98 so > that I can dual boot. I've insta

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:51, tluxt wrote: > How, in that scenario, does one cause something to be gotten from unstable, > rather than stable? And vice versa? > Ie, what specific apt-get command would be used? > > Thanks! Umm if I am not mistaken it will automajically get the latest version when

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread tluxt
--- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use the pinning feature of apt. In /etc/apt/preferences, enter > > > > Package: kghostview > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 200 > > Acctually you can pin the entire unstable distribution. Add the > unstable deb sources in your sources.

Re: initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:27:47AM -0500, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru end-user-type > question here. > > I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I scrapped > the previous attempt using a kernel from kernel.org and got > the source directly fro

Re: sudo not installed?

2002-01-27 Thread nate
> hi! > > i thought sudo was installed by default.. it isnt? > > well, so should i "apt-get install sudo" then? > no sudo is not default, and yes apt-get install sudo will do it nate

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
> Use the pinning feature of apt. In /etc/apt/preferences, enter > > Package: kghostview > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 200 Acctually you can pin the entire unstable distribution. Add the unstable deb sources in your sources.list Then create the above mentioned file. then add this:

initrd.img (alert the press! end-user-type compiles own kernel!)

2002-01-27 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings. Yet another not-newbie, not-guru end-user-type question here. I'm still having trouble compiling the kernel. I scrapped the previous attempt using a kernel from kernel.org and got the source directly from debian. The kernel compiled OK, but when I updated LILO and ran it, I got the

Re: Solved: not starting xdm or gdm by default :)

2002-01-27 Thread Paul Mackinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed: > Hello, > > Thanks to all the helpful input i got, i finally managed to do not start > at the graphical login prompt by default! :D I thought to send it to > the list in case anyone else is having this problem, its pretty easy > actually: > > as root, just go to /

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 22:58, tluxt wrote: > I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and > other sw once I install the Sid package. > > Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That > sw has a malfunction, and from the bug report info on kghostvie

Re: Can't startx due t fixed fonts

2002-01-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
I didn't see the original post, but I just ran into this 2 days ago on a system upgrade. I suspect something is broken in the package dependencies, but I'm not sure where. I did many searches on google and the debian lists and found some solutions. None of them worked for me, but most of them all f

Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, tluxt wrote: >I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and >other sw once I install the Sid package. Use the pinning feature of apt. In /etc/apt/preferences, enter Package: kghostview Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 This will make the kgh

Re: S/Key Password prompt using ssh

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Aaron Brashears wrote: >I recently upgraded my workstation to the latest unstable. Then, I >attempted to ssh into a freebsd server I do some work on, but got the >following unusual message: > >otp-md5 128 fl6641 ext >S/Key Password: S/Key is a technology for one time password

What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?

2002-01-27 Thread tluxt
I want a method that will not cause apt to get confused about this and other sw once I install the Sid package. Specifically: I have kghostview installed on the woody system. That sw has a malfunction, and from the bug report info on kghostview I see that Sid has a newer package that might fix

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27 Jan 2002, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: >Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Greetings- >> >> Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphicx to >> include an eps chart exported from R: >> >> \resizebox{\textwidth}{\textheight}{\includegraphics{crime.eps}} > >Rather

Re: strange apt-get error (potato)

2002-01-27 Thread camilo
I dont think im using woody... im using potato... On 27 Jan 2002, at 20:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:10:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, im having an issue regarding ximian gnome and apt-get... > here > it goes... > > Mixing ximin with woody seems to fall int

package information (incoming and NMU)

2002-01-27 Thread dman
Hi All. Today I wanted to look for (new version of) a package that apt-cache policy said didn't exist, but I had reason to believe it did. I wanted to look at "incoming"[1]. I think "incoming" is http://incoming.debian.org, but I didn't see the package there this morning. Is this the correct p

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27 Jan 2002, Andreas Goesele wrote: >Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, if the error is indeterminate, then I would start to suspect your >> hardware. Errors such as this often indicate bad memory, in my >> experience. Getting segfaults all the time is a classic example of this

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
> > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=win > map-drive = 0x80 > to = 0x81 > map-drive = 0x81 > to = 0x80 > table=/dev/hdb > mapping causes win98 to go haywire. Atleast on my system it caused all drivers to break and basically I had to reinstall the entire thing. --

Re: strange apt-get error (potato)

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:10:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, im having an issue regarding ximian gnome and apt-get... > here it goes... Mixing ximin with woody seems to fall into this type of dependancy problem. > Any clues? Just avoid ximin like me :) ... or learn "man apt_prefe

Re: Can't startx due t fixed fonts

2002-01-27 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jason Scheffler wrote: >Everytime I go to startx I get the error message that it can't find Fixed >Fonts and x dies. Apparently this is a known problem and there is a fix for >it. But after 2 hours of searching all I have is a headache. I've poked >around in XF86Config but th

S/Key Password prompt using ssh

2002-01-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently upgraded my workstation to the latest unstable. Then, I attempted to ssh into a freebsd server I do some work on, but got the following unusual message: otp-md5 128 fl6641 ext S/Key Password: I'm not exactly sure what it's asking for, and using my password doesn't work. Using the ver

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Michael A. Miller wrote: > I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that > is the master on the IDE bus. I've chosen to install win98 so > that I can dual boot. I've installed Win98 on a second hard > drive that I installed as the IDE master after unplugging the > original drive

sudo not installed?

2002-01-27 Thread camilo
hi! i thought sudo was installed by default.. it isnt? well, so should i "apt-get install sudo" then? thanks! Camilo -- "Nunca pierdas la santa curiosidad" -Albert Einstein Registered Linux User #231105 http://counter.li.org

strange apt-get error (potato)

2002-01-27 Thread camilo
Hello! Well, im having an issue regarding ximian gnome and apt-get... here it goes... Back when i apt-get'ed ximian gnome, everything installed correctly, except for the "xscreensavers" package. Now, if i want to use apt-get, i get this message: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet de

Re: debian modules and networking Q's - just upgraded to woody and 2.4.x kernel

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, you are not alone. On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:02:49PM -0800, Chris Palmer wrote: > I'm another "normal" Debian user (non-newbie/non-guru ) and I have > some questions on iptables and using modules under 2.4.x. Yep transition 2.2 -> 2.4 using debian kernel-image is kind of tricky. > I've bee

OT: hardware recommendations?

2002-01-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. My PII-233MHz is beginning to show its age (already?!), so I'm looking for a replacement. The idea of saving a few bucks by building my own system from components has its appeal, but frankly, I'd really rather not bother with the effort of trying to make sure that all of the piece

Re: Error loading keymap !!

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 06:51 pm, kapil khosla wrote: > Hi, > Well I was doing pretty good this morning untilI broke X :-( .Here > are the messages I get when I run startx:System: > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m > us -eml "The X KEYBOARDkeymap compiler (xkb

Problem with arrow keys when running VI in xterm

2002-01-27 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, I recently updated a lot of packages (most recent update before that was probably something like 3 weeks ago) on my Debian box (running unstable branch). Now the arrow keys doesn't work in vi (nvi to be exact) any more. They do work both in "real" console (when in bash and when in nvi),

Error loading keymap !!

2002-01-27 Thread kapil khosla
Hi, Well I was doing pretty good this morning untilI broke X :-( .Here are the messages I get when I run startx:System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -eml "The X KEYBOARDkeymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> "-eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal t

Re: debian modules and networking Q's - just upgraded to woody and 2.4.x kernel

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Chris Palmer, 2002-Jan-27 18:02 -0800: > Hi, all... > > I'm another "normal" Debian user (non-newbie/non-guru ) and I have > some questions on iptables and using modules under 2.4.x. > > I've been running an older Debian system for a while and started out > with ipfwadm on a 2.0.x kernel. Some

Re: Debian woody install problems

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 05:44 pm, Robert Woodruff wrote: > Help, I am desperately trying to find someone who can give > me a little help. I am trying to install debian woody from a > downloaded disc and can get only so far until I get to the > install base function. It gives me a message of : f

debian modules and networking Q's - just upgraded to woody and 2.4.x kernel

2002-01-27 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... I'm another "normal" Debian user (non-newbie/non-guru ) and I have some questions on iptables and using modules under 2.4.x. I've been running an older Debian system for a while and started out with ipfwadm on a 2.0.x kernel. Sometime later I upgraded and a wrapper for ipchains was

Re: Debian woody install problems

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Robert Woodruff, 2002-Jan-27 19:44 -0600: > >Help, I am desperately trying to find someone who can give > >me a little help. I am trying to install debian woody from a > >downloaded disc and can get only so far until I get to the > >install base function. It gives me a message

Debian woody install problems

2002-01-27 Thread Robert Woodruff
Help, I am desperately trying to find someone who can give me a little help.  I am trying to install debian woody from a downloaded disc and can get only so far until I get to the install base function. It gives me a message of :  file:/instmnt /pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.42_all deb was

Re: Resizing file partitions

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:58:30PM -0800, Kapil Khosla wrote: > Hi , > I have exceeded my Linus Partition space and and want to :-) Linux for OS. / Linus is for the name of its creator. > increase the partition size now. > I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. >

Re: dual boot, a different problem

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:43:43PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I suppose I would have a partitioning something like: > /boot // about 10MB at the beginning of disk > / // about 2GB, the root for Debian > /alt // about 2GB, the root for the other distribution > /hdx // about 18GB, the rest

Re: installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:18, Markus Ray wrote: Hi, > > I am new to Debian and I wanted to install GNU GCC on my OS. It says in > the guide "when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in > your path or you must set CC in your env

RE:Resizing file partitions

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Agno
Kapil Khosla writes: > I have exceeded my LInux Partition space and and want to > increase the partition size now. > I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. > Is there any way of giving that space to Linux without > formatting my disk, First, make backups of everything impo

preconnect being executed twice

2002-01-27 Thread csj
My .fetchmailrc reads something like: set postmaster "foobear" set nobouncemail set spambounce set properties "" poll pop3.foovider.net user 'fooman' there with password 'foo123' is 'fooman' here preconnect 'scriptlet_invoking_popsneaker' My problem: my preconnect is being executed

Re: installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:18:53AM +0800, Markus Ray wrote: Use text to post here... Thanks, Adam

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-27 Thread Rui Fragoso
also try to figure out what speed (10, 100, autodetect) you're using on each nic. RF - Original Message - From: "Pete Ryland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian users mailinglist" Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:20 AM Subject: Re: root password forgotten > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:47:55

Re: Installing using Network and / or Cable Modem

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Adam Majer, 2002-Jan-27 12:40 -0600: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:26:43AM -0800, Ibrahim Shaame wrote: > > I installed from floppy images. At no point I was > > asked/prompted to configure the NIC. > > I think it did ask you about modules to put into the kernel.. > That is where you select the NIC

Re: installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:18, Markus Ray wrote: Hi, I am new to Debian and I wanted to install GNU GCC on my OS. It says in the guide "when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in your path or you must set CC in your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuratio

Resizing file partitions

2002-01-27 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi , I have exceeded my LInux Partition space and and want to increase the partition size now. I have 2 windows partitions on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. Is there any way of giving that space to Linux without formatting my disk, Thanks Kapil

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Jeff
Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 11:54 -0800: > I went back and they did the crossover wiring for me, now i get a green > light on both ends... still cant ping though... and i thought that was > it! I am going to reboot now and see if that affects anything... > currently have eth0 as 10.10.10.2 and 10.10

dual boot, a different problem

2002-01-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I would like to configure my machine, which is currently running potato, so that I can easily install some other Linux distribution from time to time. I'm very happy with Debian, but I'm curious about the competition. I suppose I would have a partitioning something like: /boot // about 10MB at t

Re: dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 19:00, ab.boonstra wrote: > Where would I go about info on installing Debian on my HD along side > WindowsME? > I have a Pentium3 766mh, 192Ram, 20GigHD. ( Not partitioned ) Now is the 20 gig hd going to be for both debian and ME? Cause if it is all you need to do is partit

installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Markus Ray
Hi, I am new to Debian and I wanted to install GNU GCC on my OS.  It says in the guide "when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in your path or you must set CC in your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration scripts may fail. "  The question is, how

autoconf-ed packages don't build intl/Makefile.in

2002-01-27 Thread Sanchez theSkiingCommunistCactus
I'm running the latest Debian SID, and when I try to build certain autoconf-ed packages (maybe all autoconf-ed packges, i dunno... but if i start a project in Glade, i get this behavior when i try to build it), ./configure (or ./autogen.sh) spits out the following error: sed: can't read ./intl/Mak

dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread ab.boonstra
Hello, Where would I go about info on installing Debian on my HD along side WindowsME? I have a Pentium3  766mh, 192Ram, 20GigHD. ( Not partitioned ) Am very interested in looking at Linux as an alternate OC. Thanks Bernard Boonstra Edmonton, Alberta Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT "Kyro" 32MB support in Woody textmode/XFree86 4.1

2002-01-27 Thread Sean
There is no X support for the Kyro cards. Supposedly the Kyro people were "working" on some. No word as to when they'll be released or what kind of licensing they'll have. Until then, you're pretty much fubar. You might send a polite email to the Kyro people stating that you are going to return th

Re: Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT "Kyro" 32MB support in Woody textmode/XFree86 4.1

2002-01-27 Thread David Moore
Try installing with a potato CD and apt-get dist-upgrading to Woody. The woody CDs aren't official and probably have lots of bugs. On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:19, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Subject says it all. Any idea how I can install Debian with one of > these cards. A "Woody" CD from ftp.fsn.

Re: alsa woes: everythings loads, but no sound

2002-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:21:36 EST, Faheem Mitha writes: >I think sound in Linux is a bit flaky. It never was for me. In contradiction, it ever was one of the easiest things to get working, Until alsa hit the stage. But I guess that's (part of the) price you pay for no longer being able to use

Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT "Kyro" 32MB support in Woody textmode/XFree86 4.1

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says it all. Any idea how I can install Debian with one of these cards. A "Woody" CD from ftp.fsn.hu won't even get past the first screen. All help appreciated. Not currently subscribed to the list - please cc all replies to me as well as to the list. Thanks, Andy

Re: Why don't we every see Debian articles on these sites?

2002-01-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:07:33AM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote: > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > () > >please.) > > > Karl: > (..)> > > As a matter of fact, some of the media kit I wrote for Progeny might be > very useful for this purpose with a few changes. Progeny isn't using it > any more, a

Re: alsa woes: everythings loads, but no sound

2002-01-27 Thread Robert Waldner
(pls Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed for a few weeks, tnx) On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:21:54 EST, Faheem Mitha writes: >> Of course I un-muted everything according to the FAQ. > Did you unmute everything? First of all I went with http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html (2.8): a

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Too many typos in my first posting. I hope this makes better sense:) Windoze are notorious for install inflexibility. Linux can be real easy and can be moved with minimal change (/etc/fstab /etc/lilo) M$ OS never behaves well when it is installed on 2nd/3rd drives in my previous experience. I

Re: kernel upgrade; modules not loading

2002-01-27 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 27 Jan 2002, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > This is my first time doing a kernel upgrade The Debian > Way(tm). > > I am running sid on a Celeron system and am trying to > upgrade from a 2.2.18 kernel to a 2.4.17. > > I downloaded the 2.4.17 tarball from kernel.org, and did > the following: > >

Re: alsa woes: everythings loads, but no sound

2002-01-27 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 27 Jan 2002, Robert Waldner wrote: > Hi! > > I have a "TerraTec 512i digital" sound card, which, according to > alsa-project, is supported via the fm801-module. > > So I did some RTFM, apt-got installed alsa-source, and built+installed > the proper modules_image. > > So far, so good. Everyt

Re: XFree 4.1,0 Resolution problems

2002-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:02:58AM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: > I just upgrade from XFree-3.3.6 to XFree-4.1.0 on my potato system and I > seem to have lost screen resolutions. I used to run at 1280x1024 > (apparantly interlaced according to my 3.3.6 config file), but I can't > get XFree4 to go any

Looking for people/machines with SiS 315,550,730

2002-01-27 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, if your machine has a SiS730, SiS550, SiS315, SiS315H or SiS315PRO VGA chipset, please drop me a note. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.webit.com/tw

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Windoze are notorious where it is installed. Linux can be real easy and can be moved with minimal change (/etc/fstab /etc/lilo) On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that > is the master on the IDE bus. I'v

Re: OT: Rant (re: wordperfect)

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:35 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > > WP8 retail edition (with more fonts than the discontinued free download > version) can be had via eBay for a few bucks. I purchased a copy > recently and am waiting for it to arrive. Meanwhile VMware lets me work > with a current

Re: sound wierdness

2002-01-27 Thread David Wright
looks like you haven't plugged your CD-ROM into your soundcard, right? to listen from audio cd's over your speakers you need to connect the CD-ROM drive to the soundcard. that would explain, why the vumeter doesn't show anything. Thanks for your suggestion, Willi. I actually do have the conn

Re: simple kernel question

2002-01-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 08:23:06AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:28:28 -0500 | "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:07:18AM +0800, csj wrote: | > > In what file is the definitive documentation for ALL possible kernel | > > boot parameters locate

Re: OT: Secure Email provider

2002-01-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: | Hi, | | Sorry for the offtopic post, but is anyone aware of an email | provider that uses technologies like imap-ssl/pop3-ssl/smtp-ssl, | (etc) ... | | I wouldn't mind paying a small fee or something, I'm just tired of | clear text ma

Re: OT: Rant (re: wordperfect)

2002-01-27 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
ben wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:18 am, Kent West wrote: [snip] Why oh why won't Corel release the old DOS version into the open source world? [snip Yes, but I don't particularly care if the DOS version is *made available*; I'd like it to be *made available as open source*. Then

Re: java and other plug-ins in galeon

2002-01-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:56:56AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: | I am currently useing galeon 1.0.2 and woody with some sid mixed in for | good measure. Anyway, I am trying to go to pages that have java and | macromedia flash stuff in it. I have downloaded the macromedia plugins | and installed t

Re: [R] SUMMARY: EPS->LaTeX problem

2002-01-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Earlier today I posted a problem importing an R graph into a LaTeX file of > seminar class: specifically, the graphic was showing up rotated 180 > degrees, along with the rest of the page it was on. > > In a real victory for open-source software, I got l

Re: OT: Rant (re: wordperfect)

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:18 am, Kent West wrote: [snip] > >> > >>Why oh why won't Corel release the old DOS version into the open source > >>world? > > [snip > > Yes, but I don't particularly care if the DOS version is *made > available*; I'd like it to be *made available as open source*. Th

SUMMARY: EPS->LaTeX problem

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Earlier today I posted a problem importing an R graph into a LaTeX file of seminar class: specifically, the graphic was showing up rotated 180 degrees, along with the rest of the page it was on. In a real victory for open-source software, I got lots of responses with three distinct approaches, eac

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Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-27 Thread Randy Orrison
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:38, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Nitpick: hardlinks are additional inodes pointing to the same file. Picking the same nit: hardlinks are directory entries that point to the same inode. Example: $ touch foo $ touch bar $ ls -li 144958 -rw-r--r--1 randyrandy

Re: Adrian Bunk's 2.4/spud packages anywhere?

2002-01-27 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:47:07PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: ->Oh s**t! I just noticed that apt-get is pulling 404s on ->people.debian.org/~bunk/. I see Adrian has pulled out of Debian ->and his famous 2.4-kernel-on-potato packages are no longer ->available--or does someone know of a mirror? T

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:54 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: [snip] > > I went back and they did the crossover wiring for me, now i get a green > light on both ends... still cant ping though... and i thought that was > it! I am going to reboot now and see if that affects anything... > currently have et

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 14:39, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 13:48, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > My current arrangement is hda = Debian with lilo/mbr and hdb = > > Win98. I think that I can dual boot if I can arrange it so that > > hda = Win98 with lilo/mbr and hdb = Debian. > > > >

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:23 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > Hi all - > > its that time again (debian mailing list help!) > > I set up a second box, with Caldera OL 3.1 and a 3com 3c509b card > in > > it. > > with adsl i can use it to go online fine... > > i hav

Re: lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 13:48, Michael A. Miller wrote: > My current arrangement is hda = Debian with lilo/mbr and hdb = > Win98. I think that I can dual boot if I can arrange it so that > hda = Win98 with lilo/mbr and hdb = Debian. > > Are there any lilo experts who know how to get lilo to write

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-27 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:44:32AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2002 19:51, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and > > convert it to an audio file on my computer. > > Thanks. > > This thread intrigued me, so I

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread ben
On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:23 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi all - > its that time again (debian mailing list help!) > I set up a second box, with Caldera OL 3.1 and a 3com 3c509b card in > it. > with adsl i can use it to go online fine... > i have 2 NetGear FA 310 cards in my debian box... i can u

Re: Pilot conduit for Memo Files crashes in Gnome Control Center

2002-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:37, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Hello, > > I've just bought a Visor Edge PDA (just great) and suceeded in > syncing it with my Woody box very easily. > > The only problem I've got is that it seems impossible to setup > the "MemoFile" conduit in the Gnome Control Center : i

lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?

2002-01-27 Thread Michael A. Miller
I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that is the master on the IDE bus. I've chosen to install win98 so that I can dual boot. I've installed Win98 on a second hard drive that I installed as the IDE master after unplugging the original drive. Now what I'd like to do is to pu

Re: Quake III

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:45:26AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > > > On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:15 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > > > Where does it say that? And if tha

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. Please help!

2002-01-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd ask on the kernel mailing list and/or on comp.os.linux.system. > > Thanks. But where would I find comp.os.linux.system? My news-server > doesn't provide it nor did I find it on googles group

Re: Installing using Network and / or Cable Modem

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:26:43AM -0800, Ibrahim Shaame wrote: > I installed from floppy images. At no point I was > asked/prompted to configure the NIC. I think it did ask you about modules to put into the kernel.. That is where you select the NIC under network support or something [very long ti

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:02:56 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Umm...little help? > > > > > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > > > Filesystem

Re: OT: Secure Email provider

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:39:26AM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Sorry for the offtopic post, but is anyone aware of an email provider > that uses technologies like imap-ssl/pop3-ssl/smtp-ssl, (etc) ... > > I wouldn't mind paying a small fee or something, I'm just tired of > clear text mail systems.

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/01/02 Brenda J. Butler did speaketh: > So root's been writing into its 5% reserve, and now a non-root > process wants to write and is being refused? If it was bigger it > would be a contradiction of the assertion, but smaller seems consistent. Considering that the problem was logfi

Pilot conduit for Memo Files crashes in Gnome Control Center

2002-01-27 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, I've just bought a Visor Edge PDA (just great) and suceeded in syncing it with my Woody box very easily. The only problem I've got is that it seems impossible to setup the "MemoFile" conduit in the Gnome Control Center : it just crashes when I try to enable the conduit... Here are the pac

Re: wvdial & routing

2002-01-27 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:06:24PM -0800, CogSci-Klaus wrote: > Two problems: > > 1) Still struggling with my internet connection when I'm not root. As user, > wvdial compains about pemission denied for /dev/ttyS0. After every reboot the > change of permission is reversed again. How can I make it

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-27 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:27:09PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 26/01/02 Adam Majer did speaketh: > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > Umm...little help? > > > > > > rabbit:/home/msoulier# df . > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely > new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or > sid? > > Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of > "mov

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:53:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote: > Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800: > > You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there > > while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC > > to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long

OT: Secure Email provider

2002-01-27 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hi, Sorry for the offtopic post, but is anyone aware of an email provider that uses technologies like imap-ssl/pop3-ssl/smtp-ssl, (etc) ... I wouldn't mind paying a small fee or something, I'm just tired of clear text mail systems. Thanks for your time, and thanks in advance for any info you m

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks - I started with your suggestion, played around a little bit, and ended up with: \includegraphics[scale=.37,angle=270,keepaspectratio=T]{crime.eps} which works adequately. I would still love to know why the rotation happened, since the graph displays right-side-up in gv. The fact that even

Re: Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings- > > Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphicx to > include an eps chart exported from R: > > \resizebox{\textwidth}{\textheight}{\includegraphics{crime.eps}} Rather than what you have above, what about something alo

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X?

2002-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:26:02PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > What is X? The X Window System. The most common GUI for unix-type systems. > How do you run it in case I have it? If you have a GUI (which is pretty much a given if you're running Netscape or Mozilla), X is already running. --

Urgent LaTeX problem - any ideas?

2002-01-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Using the seminar package to develop a lecture, I'm using graphicx to include an eps chart exported from R: \resizebox{\textwidth}{\textheight}{\includegraphics{crime.eps}} For some odd reason, the *entire* slide (include page number) is rotated 180 degrees (upside-down). So I tried

Re: Quake III

2002-01-27 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > > On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:15 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > > Where does it say that? And if that's true, are the any other > > > distributers of games for Linux? > >

Re: simple kernel question

2002-01-27 Thread csj
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:28:28 -0500 "Eric C. Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:07:18AM +0800, csj wrote: > > In what file is the definitive documentation for ALL possible kernel > > boot parameters located? Things like "hdc=ide-scsi" or "apm=on" which > > you stick in

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