Re: cdrecord can't get mmap on /dev/zero

2001-05-13 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, there is a bug with cdrecord and kernel 2.2.x try using 2.4.x kernels. Paul On 12 May 2001, Graham Williams wrote: > Using cdrecord 1.10a18-2 on an up to date Debian unstable installation > with kernel 2.2.18 (self compiled) trying to write to CD writer: > > cdrecord: Invalid argument. C

Re: Printer, Sound card

2000-02-07 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi there, it doesn't matter what distribution you use to get things things working because you have to do the same things for each distribution that you try. to get things like sound and printing you have to compile them into the kernel. I forget the exact configuration to get things working. but l

Re: What is apt-get

2000-02-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, apt-get is the front end to dpkg is simplest terms. What is dpkg you ask. dpkg is the package manager for debian. get to know apt-get it makes installing debian packages a dream. Here some information about apt and dpkg. Package: apt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: ad

Re: kernel panic on hda

2000-01-30 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Steve, it looks like you might have misconfigured the kernel. did you include ext2 filesystem in your configured kernel. Paul On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, steve doerr wrote: > I just compiled and installed the 2.2 kernel with the debian kernel > package and I got the following error on booting: > >

PPPoE Client?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on h

3d cards

1999-06-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, can any one tell me what a good 3d card to get in a p2 400. i ordered a voodoo banshee. is that ok? paul

playing music with scsi emulation

1999-05-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just noticed a problem playing audio cd's on my cdrom. I have two hardrives on the primary interface. I have an hp7200i cdrw on the secondary master and a liteon 32x cdrom. I have kernel version 2.2.7 compiled and installed from source. I have configured and compiled (successfully

Re: reading /usr/doc files

1999-02-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, if these are in text format you could use zless or zmore. Paul On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This might be an ideal solution for you.. 2.2. Script to view those compressed HOWTOs. Didier Juges, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a newbie to another, here is a short

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-29 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, why don't you turn that option off in the bios? It will make life a whole lot simpler. just a suggestion. don't let windows dictate what you do with your computer. Paul On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Continuin

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
sp. I hope this helps you. Paul Let me know if you need specific information and i maybe able to help you. If I can't some else on this list probably could. On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: At 11:46 AM 1/27/1999 -0500, Paul McDermott wrote: >hello, I do sympathize with lack of

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello there, to get a ppp connection running. use pppconfig. the package doumentation is store in /usr/doc/ directory. if you need more help i or some one can help you. another good modem package is minicomm is very much like dos's telix. do a dpkg --help. I love dpkg and the flags it uses to f

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello there, here here! This is what I was trying to get accros but I was not able to articulate my answer as well as you just did. Although I did not say the following "Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 7:34:37 PM Central Standard Time, >

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, I do sympathize with lack of knowledge at installation time. We were all there at one time or another. (including myself, I have had to reinstall more then one do to a lack of understanding of linux and the operating system. I would hate to see the boot disks reach 10 disks but I can assume

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Well think about this? do you need to install all of the pakcages under windows3.x or windows9x to get it to work. games solitaire and mindsweeper. you don't need man-db to get linux running. that is the issue not the convience of the "newbie" to make it easier to install. if you want that try win

Re: your mail

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello ttyS1 is comm2 ttyS0 is comm1. this should take care of the problem hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: Hi , I'm the person whose mail you'd replied to regarding whether I'd have problems with my mouse since it wasn't plugged in at the time of installing L

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, netbase and netstd allow for telnet and ftp access to your machine. the base disks allow for telnet and ftp out but not in. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > PPP is essential if you

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, lets start with pcmcia, do you have a laptop? ppp do you want to get more packages then the ones on the base-disks, ie man and manpages. printer support, you can choose it in the modules section of the installation process. ZIP drive, are you going to be installing from this. if yes how do

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
Your new, to these boot disks, I remember when there was only five disks. Now there is seven not including the boot disk you made. the man-db would fit on a floppy, but what language are you going to put on it english? what about everyone else. how hard is it to get the man-db file and the manpage

Re: man missing ?

1999-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, very simple. Man-db is not necessary to run linux. it is nice to have but if you don't have man linux can still run. the other reason why man is not included in the base distribution is the space issue. Paul On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30

[kirk@braille.uwo.ca: question on keyboard menu choice.] (fwd)

1999-01-22 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends, can somebody on this list help me and/or us. Paul -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kirk Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: question on keyboard menu choice.] --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Kirk Reis

Re: Missing packages files

1999-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd [paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz ldso: /usr/bin/ldd tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf ldso: /usr/lib/lddstub php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccollobj.html debhelper: /usr/man/man1/dh_build

Bells, whistles & Other noise makers

1998-12-05 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I fixed my sound problem recently. To bring everyone up to date, I had a pnp sound card that I could not get sound working. I needed to load the soundlow module for it to work. Now that said. I have a question on making a sound with the <^G>. I am trying to insert the bell char

Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is broken it gives me the following error. wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load fon

kernel 2.1.128 & sound

1998-11-15 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log

compile error with a source package

1998-11-13 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello there, I got a source package for my hp scanjet scanner and tried to compile it. I'm new at programming or fixing code. I was wondering if you could give me some pointers where to look to fix the error, I am also going to give you the lsm of the package that I am trying to compile. Thanks

Yet another lilo question!!!

1998-11-06 Thread Paul McDermott
What I want to do is very simple. Yet i can't find a solution to the problem. Here is the situation. (I am asking for someone else i may not have all the correct informatiofn) partion my drive with the following hda1win98 4gig hda2/ 100megs hda2swap 64mgegs hda3/usr 2gi

emacs where is it?

1998-11-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian friends. I used dftp to upgrade my system this week and it upgraded emacs20-el to version emacs20-el_20.3-4.1.deb the emacs corresponding to this is only emacs20_20.3-4.deb. What's going on. I tried to install emacs20_2-7.deb from hamm and the corresponding emacs20-el package. I g

Kernel question

1998-10-29 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the maintainer of the bootdisks. If anyone could help me out I would really appreci

Re: Install question (fwd)

1998-10-22 Thread Paul McDermott
-- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Install question hello, i just did a nt, linux install. read the howto of nt-linux. Install Nt first then win98 then linux. use nt's boot loader to boot 98 and lin

kernel manpages?

1998-10-12 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are the ninth section. debian only supports the following: This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.

misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. Any help would

ppp won't work under new kernel

1998-09-20 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, just compiled the new kernel that is 2.1.122 with ppp, slip and cslip support. I am having some trouble. It works fine the first time I boot up but anytime after that it does not. I searched high and low in the mailing list archives to find the answer. I remember seeing a simila

following symlinks?!?

1998-09-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in getting files that are symlinked to other places. I cannot for the life of me find o

Wodperfect 8 to pdf format

1998-09-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, is there a program for linux or the debian distribution that wil convert wordperfect 8 documents into the pdf format. If any can help I would very much appreciate it. Thanks for the help in advance. Paul

pine installation

1998-08-25 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi everybody, I have downloaded the pine packages and don't know how to install the packages. Please help me. thanks in advance. Paul

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-19 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello you need the following package: Package: netstd Version: 3.07-2 Priority: standard Section: net Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pre-Depends: netbase (>=3.00), libc6, libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-4), libstdc++2.8 (>=2.90.26-1), ncurses3.4 Suggests: wu-ftpd, mail-transport-agent Replaces: p

X-server problem

1998-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, well here we are again. I have a new pentium II 300 with a ATI-Xpert-XL 4meg AGP2 with 3D and enhanced MPEG. Ok when I tried to run SuperProbe, SuperProbe did not recognize the card. The message that I got was: Before submitting a report, please make sure that you have the la

Re: CLUE: [Fwd: WordPerfect 8 for Linux Prerelease]]

1998-08-07 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, you are correct on both accounts the other files are "broken down" of the big one. Hope this helps Paul On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 08:44:44AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Hopefully they'll come out with Quattro Pro one of these days. > > Doe

Re: xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table? If not do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start That should give the logon screen for X. Let me know how things work. also if you suspect xdm errors look at the file /var/log/xdm-errors. Hope this helps On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote

Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i put together. I read through the documentation, but i am confused.

Re: XWindows

1998-06-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, you need the following for a mimimum x install. xbase, xbook, xfntbase, xfntbig, xfnt100 xfnt75, xfntcyr, xfntpex, xfntscl, xfntil2, xlib6g, xserver-whatever-your-video-card-is (usually xserver-svga) there is also xmanpages and xext. you can download them via ftp and use dpkg -i to instal

real audio for slink?

1998-06-15 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink uses old libs ie xlib6, g++27, and lib5 i don't want to put them on unless I have to.

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, you can mount multiple devices by making directories in / ie mnt2 and mnt3 or what ever you want then mount them normally. I hope this answers your question. Paul On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > A big thanks to all who have responded to my questions. I can now

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hell santiago, [paul:~]$ mail -v paul Subject: test procmailrc test testing tested failed! Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121 director user matched user paul transport local uses driver appendfile appendfile: write to file /var/spool/mail/paul write_log:Delivered TO:paul

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
that I can use to make procmail, smail and pine work? Thanks again for your suggestion. Paul On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > hello my debian user friends, I have just upgrad

Re: Fresh install. Little troubles.

1998-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
hello Julian, first we have to get your base system up. You have to decide if you want libc5 (bo) or libc6 (hamm) It is not a good idea to have half and half. To upgrade to hamm there is a howto that tells you how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. It is on the debian site somewhere. Once you have

procmail woes

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where I ran into trouble. These are the versions of procmail and smail smail 3.2.0.101-4.3 Electronic mail transport system. procmail3.

Re: deb package for Netscape 4.05 installer on Debian 1.3.1 ?

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, just a suggestion the netscape.tar.gz file comes with an install script and does not need the debian package. just run the install script as root and your laughin'. Just a suggestion. Paul On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > > You could download the netscape 4.05 on tar.gz form

Thank you for all of your help.

1998-06-08 Thread Paul McDermott
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you nice debian users for taking the time to help anybody and everybody who comes on the list. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

isapnptools confusion.

1998-06-05 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello my debian friends, I just got a pentium II with an awe64 sound card, and I want to have sound capability. I know I have to recompile the kernel for this to work. I also know that I have to use isapnptools. I am running slink (2.0) kernel version 2.0.33 (from the base disks) I have no

changing networks?!?

1998-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
et out. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. If you need more information to help my conversion, please don't hesitate to ask and i shall provide. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 Lond

server up or down?

1998-05-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, can anyone read this? :) is the server up or down. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http

Re: Debian Linux Problem

1998-03-26 Thread Paul McDermott
/xdm-error file. email me if you need more info. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.c

Re: 2 questions

1998-03-25 Thread Paul McDermott
-- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Adam Edwards

2 questions

1998-03-23 Thread Paul McDermott
overlayed onto the quickcam window image. My question is. Can I? and How do I do it in html. I've looked through the html help files in lynx and I can't seem to find the answer. I hope this is understable to you and you have some suggestions. Thanks for your help. -

Re: grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
hello and thank you for replying to my message. Can you explain to me on how to use it. thanks again. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email

grabbing root window images.

1998-03-18 Thread Paul McDermott
vance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone: (519) 661-3061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: http://www.braille.uwo.ca/~paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

viewing binary files

1998-03-12 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. -- Paul McDermott The Computer Braille Facility The University of Western Ontario University Community Centre 215 London, Ontario N6A 3K7 Phone

web interface

1998-03-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. Paul -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL P

lynx play sound files

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie .wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a .mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

wtmp upgrade problems

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous ftp account.

anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I have an anonymous ftp site up and running. I want to add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was won

Re: X-Windows Question

1998-02-20 Thread Paul McDermott
hello, what does your xdm-error file in /var/log say? Paul On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Hubert Fauque wrote: Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I get the dread: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X > try xhost in your .

modconf & whiptail

1998-02-19 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I am trying to install modconf but it depends on whiptail. Whiptail is not a package. I installed newt0.20 (gave me /usr/bin/whiptail) but that did not help. There has been discussion abot this topic but no one really knows what to do about this situation. There was a possible re

Re: mac & linux

1998-02-05 Thread Paul McDermott
hello eric and everyone else. I looked at the web-page but could not find a way to make bootdisks and then use them. Any more help woud be greatly appreciated. I subscribed to the 68k mailing list (that is debian's) but have not heard of anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EM

mac & linux

1998-02-04 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-28 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, my experience with the upgrade howto from debian proved to be an invaluable asset. U had to dpkg --purge the development packages manually using dpkg. That was ok. I downloaded the entire hamm distribution and I have installed the base, admin and am starting on the lib and develo

another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all

upgrading from libc5 to libc6

1998-01-27 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

error with dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, i was updating serveral 486's over the weekend and I get the following error. [root:/home/paul/tmp:]$dpkg -i gcc_2.7.2.1-9.deb Selecting previously deselected package gcc. (Reading database ... 6871 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gcc 2.7.2.1-4 (using

old version of dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone is there an old version of dpkg before 1.0.8 or something like that. If someone could point me to an ftpsite. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

netscape3.04 installer

1998-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, i was wondering if there was a deb installer for netscape3.04 file. if there is can somebody point me to the right place. Thanks in advance. paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [E

ms exploer anyone?

1998-01-06 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everyone, happy belated holidays. Has anyone got the new micro$oft internet explorer to work yet. Does anyone want to? I was just asking. Please don't flame me. I hate micro$oft and especially that bill guy who runs it about as much as the next debian user. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Xvfb package for stable

1997-12-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody is there an Xvfb package for stable. I can find one for unstable but not for stable. I don't want to upgrade totaly to unstable just yet. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

upgrading from libc5 to libc6?

1997-12-17 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but could not see any reference to it. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

pgp package?

1997-07-24 Thread Paul McDermott
hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib, stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, there are a couple of things to consider ie 1) is a single user system or a multi-user 2) how much space do you have to allocate to a swap partition 3) What type of processes are you running ( are they memory hogs) Now that I have probably made you really mad. here is what i think single us

Re: How to delete a directory tree.

1997-07-22 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, rm -rf directory name/* hope this helps. Paul On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > I was looking around the ohter day and found a couple of old > mirrors that there is no interest in any longer and I want to remove > the entire directory tree that they are in. What is the simples

netscape communicator error

1997-07-21 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program. Everything works except when I start netscape I get the following error. Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this english language version

xterm error (fwd)

1997-07-18 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, my friend gets this error when starting an xterm session. No other X programs gives him any trouble. We have reinstalled the xterm program from /usr/X11R6/bin and that it does not do any good. He installed libc5_4.0.33 but that did not fix the problem and we installed the latest loc

x question

1997-07-18 Thread Paul McDermott
hi folks, I got xfee86 3.2 on my system and xdm running. How can I setup x to run remote x-servers on other debian machines. there was a file in/etc/X11/Xsession which i have set so that anybody can use the xserver. What else do i need to do? thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Problem with mouse and X on TI Extensa 575CD laptop

1997-07-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hi, what is the problem exactly. do you have errors? What is happening? Paul ps need more information before i can help you. On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > > I have tried to install Debian 1.2.4 on a laptop computer. Everything > seems to be okay except that I cannot get X and t

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Phil is on the right track. libc5... is a base package and gets installed during the base system. the other thing you could try is to dpkg --help and take a look at the force and remove options. try not to install base packages as much as possible. When installing debian you should look at

playing wav files under netscape

1997-06-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi everybody, I am having a problem playing wav files in netscape. I edited the general preferences helpers audio/wav helper. I am using bplay_.096-1 i think. I get the following netscape error: Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) bplay: input file less then 20 bytes long I

Re: xdm

1997-06-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, what exactly is the problem with xdm? To get more information about the config file there should be a file in /usr/doc/X11/debian.README It tells you all of the switches and flags for the variables in the config file. Me and other people on the list can't help you if you are not more spe

Re: Cleaning Debian Filesystem...

1997-06-16 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Chris try dpkg -r package name or dpkg -p package name. hope this helps Paul On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chris Jason Richards wrote: > Has anyone come up with a decent way to audit a filesystem... so the admin > can wipe out tons of stuff that is only partially installed or not > removed completely,

Re: ntalk ??

1997-06-12 Thread Paul McDermott
I don't know of ntalk, but there is a ytalk if that helps. It is in the stable binary directory tree. Paul On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > Is there a debian package for ntalk? I have used the search engine on the > web site and searched the ftp site with no luck... > > Thanks, > Dennis > >

Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

1997-06-12 Thread Paul McDermott
997, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It > > takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. > > For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my > > websit

connectix quickcam difficulties

1997-06-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my website. The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable pixilmap

Re: Video confrencing.

1997-06-11 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Rick, yes there is it is called vic-cqcam it is in the unstable/x11 directory. I've installed it but have not tried it. Give me a shout when you have it running. Description: vic-cqcam is a video conference over the Internet This is a version of vic with a driver for the Connectix Color Q

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Chris, you could /etc/X11/Xserver. and see if this helps. Paul On 9 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote: > > The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to > monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to > run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v n

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Paul McDermott
If you want to unsubscribe be my guest. Paul On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are > non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong > to other forums.

Re: EXT2-fs warning....

1997-06-06 Thread Paul McDermott
hi I have a similar problem with a fijitsu 2.57gig drive. what kind of drive do you have and any other information would be useful to help you out. Paul On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > This is a first for me > > This has just started showing up on the console and in /var/log/m

Re: mirror

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
hi timothy, you might want to try ncftp, this is a nice program. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle to learn how to setup my Debian/Linux to > connect to an ISP. I'd like to know if there any doc. for > (privately) mirroring the debian distribution. >

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
thanks jens, is there a way so i don't have to type the command all the time? thanks again. Paul On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Paul McDermott wrote: > > > > Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few > > weeks. I am having pr

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi Roberto, I did use su. I can't run any x programs as su, only as user paul. Any other ideas. On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Roberto Magana wrote: > Use su - > > % > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roberto Magana. Escuela de Fisica UCR. >

SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi folks, I just installed X version 3.2 on my system this past few weeks. I am having problems do things as su. ie for the first error message is one that I receive whenever I try to run an X program as su. This error message is when I was trying to use xclock. I have check xclocks permissi

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
sorry lamar, look in the file Xservers in /etc/X11/xdm that is where you change it. sorry for the miss information. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with X

1997-06-02 Thread Paul McDermott
hi Lamar, I had something similar happen to me. The problem is in your /etc/X11/Xserver file the last line should contain the following: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X The reason why you are not getting anything on tty7 is that you are not starting your xserver. I hope this helps. Just for grins do

Re: Newbie Question (sorta :)

1997-05-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi Adam, you go through the install again by choosing your keyboard, activating your swap drive, mounting your hardrives and then choose to configure your device drivers. I hope this helps Paul On Wed, 21 May 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Hi. > > I was getting a new unix trainee to install debian

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