Re: Non-existent .deb's

1996-08-22 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote: If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk. But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists, either. I kind of like that information,

Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]

1996-08-20 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 05:47:04 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: However, stupid people can also write mail user programs that automatically run a program that comes in e-mail. Even more stupid people use such UltiMail/2 Lite for OS/2 (comes with the Internet Access Kit) has such a feature. However,

Re: ftape format warning!!!

1996-08-20 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Mon, 19 Aug 96 16:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar generates a single Tape ARchive (that's why it is called `tar') and knows nothing about multiple files or positioning of a tape, it just reads or writes from/to a device. mt knows everyting about moving the tape back and forth, but

Re: dselect returns error code

1996-08-16 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:22:38 +0200 (MET DST), Heiko R. Selber wrote: Hi Net, Hello! gcc-2.7.2-8 could not be installed (depends on binutils-2.6-2 which is not installed) This is because binutils is not installed. It needs to be installed first, as there are utilities in there that are

Re: A few stupid(?) questions...

1996-08-14 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:31:04 -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: /usr/doc/fileutils. You will see a file called color-ls.gz with more details. Briefly, you can simply execute Ah...that might explain why I don't get the 'ls -o' ability. Didn't realize Debian just copied it in, and never bothered

Removal of a package when using dselect

1996-08-14 Thread Daniel Lynes
I remember somebody saying something about a certain program being removed when they ran dselect the other day? Well, I found out what the problem was, by monitoring my installation closely. The first time you run the 'remove selected programs' option from the dselect menu, it removes that

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-13 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:06 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: most cases hardware will be blamed, even though the problem appears on a variety of memory/CPU/motherboard/add-on configurations, and the same configurations can run other OSs (*including* older versions of Linux) The external

Re: A few stupid(?) questions...

1996-08-13 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:10:24 +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote: 1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the | I guess you mean ./, don't you? ---+ Oops. :( Check your PATH setting: is . part of the search path? Yes.

Re: Formatting a 4GB Partition

1996-08-13 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +, Karsten Mueller wrote: I tried to install Debian 1.1 on a 4GB Partition using the kernel 2.07 There was some kind of a bug in 2.0.7, so 2.0.8 was released; similarly for 2.0.8-2.0.9 and 2.0.9-2.0.10. 2.0.8 is however, stable. This is the kernel which the

A few stupid(?) questions...

1996-08-12 Thread Daniel Lynes
Ok, I've got a few questions for problems that are for the most part annoying the hell out of me. 1. The Bourne Again SHell seems to require a '.\' before the executable name in order to be able to execute the program (all programs in the /usr/games directory). 2. I've created .bashrc,