Re: Booting from floppy

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Mognet
Hi, On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:43:38AM -0700, Shane wrote: > > Hello, > I have created a boot floppy with the > following commands(debian 2.2). > > # dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync > # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda ^ I believe this should be your root partition. Is i

Re: Fetchmail

2000-06-05 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:44:20AM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > I was wondering if I moght ask you a question. I got my linux box to mail > > out but I still cant get it to receive mail. Its giving me connection f

Re: fetchmail error

2000-05-02 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 07:15:32PM -0400, addiction wrote: > > i was wondering if anyone had any idea what this error means. i never had > any problem with mail retreival until recently (nothing has been changed on > this end). > > Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognit

Re: framebuffer leaves the consolle in ruines

2000-04-26 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:37:36PM +0200, Joost Claessen wrote: > Hello ppl, > > Lately I have being using the video framebuffer. Now my console > looks nicer, quake runs faster ect. But now and them I use expermintal > software and my consolle crashed very hard leaving the consolle unview

Re: Newbie installation questions

2000-04-24 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote: > Hi all! > > I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on > my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for > me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an ex

Re: error in exim log

2000-04-11 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:22:20PM -0500, ktb wrote: > What does this mean in my '/var/log/exim/mainlog' ? > > fire:/var/log/exim# less mainlog > 2000-04-10 20:17:37 Start queue run: pid=709 > 2000-04-10 20:17:37 12e8Iw-Zy-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery > defer > (13): Perm

Re: slow sending mail

2000-04-10 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:31:25PM -0500, ktb wrote: -- snip > get mail. I have two isp's and both were the same in that regard. The > messages I did send didn't arrive for an hour or two later. All the while I > could send and receive email almost instantaneou

Re: FreeWWWeb

2000-04-08 Thread Robert Mognet
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:59:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Hello, - snip - > Notice that the username includes the "@freewwweb.com" part; is that > insane or what?! I never could get fetchmail to work with the resultant > address of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@freewwweb.com" o

Re: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-02 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:57:04PM -0500, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: > > 2. I downloaded a file from the internet through lynx for the browser I > used to use in Windoze. Now I can't find the file. Where would lynx have > dropped it. > You can tell lynx where to put downloaded files. In th

Re: cron

2000-03-31 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, man -a crontab This will get all crontab help files. crontab(1) explains how the crontables work. crontab(5) shows how to configure the time settings to run things. hth, Robert On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:51:15AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > As I understand it, cron runs important

Re: serial line initialization

2000-03-31 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:27:56AM -, John Conover wrote: > > I just upgraded from Slackware 1.2 to Debian 2.1, (yes, it was a big > jump.) > > Do I still have to: Have a look at /etc/init.d/setserial > > ${SETSERIAL} /dev/cua2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi > /bi

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Mognet
? It's one of those rare books which says little and teaches you a lot. That book gets my vote as a model for welcoming tone and clear presentation (it can also teach you a lot about Linux). I only mention it because I haven't seen one like it for Linux. Although, IMHO, "A Practical Guide to Linux" by Mark Sobell comes close. Regards, Robert Mognet > > Erik Ryberg > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: Help

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Mognet
snip -- > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:20:57AM -0800, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years > > easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list. > > Since more and more people from corel and storm

Re: printer port

2000-03-28 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 07:53:09PM -0500, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I have a computer where Linux will not recognize the parallel port. (OS/2 > and DOS do recognize the port). Need more information. Any error messages ? Kernel ? Parport support ? Output of 'cat /proc/devices' ( is there an

Re: exim ...

2000-03-28 Thread Robert Mognet
Hello, On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 03:03:28PM +0300, Tolga KIlicli wrote: > I canoot receive mails via exim although I can send... > I cannot figure out the problem, everything seems usual... > > When i send a mail from a different host it is rejected. Any useful rejection messages ? Perhaps you

Re: System map doesn't match kernel data

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Mognet
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:27:20AM +0100, steve doerr wrote: Hello, > I get the following error on boot: > > parport_enumerate} {parport_enumerate_R2gig_8ccc39f1} > Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.14 does not match kernel data. > > But when I look in my messages log, what's below is the only thin

Re: s...l...o...w... ppp xfers

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Mognet
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:13:34AM -0600, Rick Hayter wrote: > I'm looking for some troubleshooting help. > Slink is working like a champ in all aspects but ppp connection speed. > Actually, I connect at high speeds, but my sustained throughput runs from > only 200-400 bps! When first downloading,

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Mognet
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:57:14PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > with whitespaces. How can I do that? You might use mmv. If your files are: foo_bars then use mmv "*_*" '#1\ #2' (quotes required) ht

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Mognet
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:09:59PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > > with whitespaces. How can I do that? you could try mmv for example, if files are: foo_bar just do mmv "foo*bar" foo\ bar (the quotes are r

Re: configuring lilo.conf

2000-03-16 Thread Robert Mognet
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:50:24AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm using a proprietary, Creative external CD-ROM drive. I have built > in kernel support for this (sbpcd), but it has to scan for my drive > everytime. I want to configure lilo so that it doesn't have to do this You h

Re: Possible convert

2000-02-03 Thread Robert Mognet
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Re: bad modem?

2000-01-31 Thread Robert Mognet
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Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Mognet
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