Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Richard Alhama
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Tom Lovie wrote: Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across filesystems every time that I rebuild the

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] qvirtual option in fetchmail

1999-01-05 Thread Richard Alhama
On 5 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: I can't fetchmail when I switched to qmail. I never had to use the qvirtual option when running qmail on my home system. (I used fetchmail with qmail before the qvirtual option existed.) What are you trying to achieve? The answer to your problem, BTW,

[OFF-TOPIC] qvirtual option in fetchmail

1999-01-04 Thread Richard Alhama
any1 here who know what to put on the qvirtual option of fetchmail I've read the docs, manpages and tried different parameters but fetchmail barfs: fetchmail:/home/keyoz/.fetchmailrc:8 server option after user options at Deliver-To (or any other text after qvirtual) I can't fetchmail when I

qmail/serialmail help

1999-01-03 Thread Richard Alhama
Hi All! Happy New Year! Well, I finally decided to use qmail for my MTA. Now I can't send mail except logging into my shell account (slooowww). Any1 here knows how to configure qmail/serialmail on a dynip address? TIA k e c h i e

qmail/serialmail followup

1999-01-03 Thread Richard Alhama
fetchmail error: SMTP listener refused delivery not flushed... TIA k e c h i e

Re: I tweaked my Linux box too much!

1998-12-14 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: I know you know the old saying, If it's not broke don't fix it. I was trying to tweak my X Window System display by running XF86Setup utility. I had had a nice display setup already but I thought if I tinkered with it some more I could get

qmail on dial-up ppp

1998-12-12 Thread Richard Alhama
Hi every1. I've reinstalled hamm on my machine (after I've hosed init) and I decided to give smail a try for a change (from sendmail8.8) but when I procmail it gets bounced. I exactly can't describe it but I think it has something to do with permissions. I've check the permissions on

Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?

1998-10-19 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive

Re: GNOMEish Window Manager

1998-08-11 Thread Richard Alhama
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi Damon WindowMaker is another one I use sometimes, but when apps are iconised, they sit behind the panel, which is annoying. Also tried IceWM, which is a little ugly (IMHO), and already had a start-bar type thing, which again sits behind the panel

Re: change from fvwm95 to kde?

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Alhama
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Edward J Young wrote: I installed Debian 2.0 with fvwm95 as the window manager. I'd now like to use kde. I installed all the packages and am able to run kde, but it seems to be running on top of fvwm95. How can I change the window manager to kde? Where is the

Re: GNOME 0.20

1998-08-03 Thread Richard Alhama
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my

Re: American Cancer Society Email... HOAX! (fwd)

1998-07-31 Thread Richard Alhama
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote: Richard L. Alhama a écrit: ... DEATH TO SPAMMERS! Aardvark Daily Spam not ours says American Cancer Society ... Not only that, but think seriously : If they think about giving money, WHY

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-30 Thread Richard Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote: These days, Linux being hard to install is true only in the sense that almost everyone installing it is starting out with something like Win95 already on their machine. That immediately causes problems like setting up a dual boot and partitioning to

Re: install help ?libc5?

1998-07-25 Thread Richard Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, John McPeek wrote: I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release. I got though the install and selected the standard package for dselect to install. After hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed because of a libc5 conflict and shortly

Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

1998-07-24 Thread Richard Alhama
I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98. And I also have some packages from slink. Now my question is: What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical Debian GNU/Linux 2.0? Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup? /\ Richard