Re: kernel-package difficulties

1998-04-06 Thread Sen Nagata
thanks for the response -- at some point around Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:43:23 -0400 Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 10:19:46PM +0900, Sen Nagata wrote: Symptoms: hello- =20 i've been trying to build a custom kernel package using the kernel-package

kernel-package difficulties

1998-04-05 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've been trying to build a custom kernel package using the kernel-package debian package and am having some difficulties. i was able to build one custom kernel package successfully (normally), but since the first image, i keep getting kernel package files w/ names like:

kernel-package instructions questions

1998-03-30 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've started to use kernel-package and have a few questions. 1) after doing a make config (or menuconfig, etc.), there is some mention on the screen about doing: make dep; make clean however, in the kernel-package docs, the next step after doing a

Re: xcopilot and rom image

1998-03-25 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 24 Mar 1998 20:42:03 -0800 Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: i'm trying to get xcopilot working and am having difficulty getting it to notice my pilot rom image file. can anyone give me any pointers? Copy it to ~/.xcopilot/pilot.rom thanks, this worked

Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-23 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:56:01 -0800 Mats Rynge [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: What about CTRL + C. Is that a signal? If not, how can a do something before exiting from CTRL + C? IIRC, CTRL + C is often associated w/ a signal, but is not actually a signal itself. isn't it often

Re: debian on a laptop?

1998-03-23 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:46:44 -0500 (EST) Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Anyway, my concern really isn't the memory requirements but rather the fact that laptops seem to have weird video chips. i run debian on a digital hinote ultra 2, and x works fine -- someone had

trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall

Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:36:07 +0900 Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: at some point around Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed

forwarding pop3 over ssh

1998-02-26 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:08:10 +0100 Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Carey Evans hat gesagt: // Carey Evans wrote: Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so easy with a sniffer. can

hamm installation disks (1998-02-21)

1998-02-22 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- not sure if this is where i should mention this -- please redirect me if that is the case :-) i've tried the hamm installation disks dated 1998-02-21 and cannot partition the hard drive i want to install on to. i get a message about not being able to detect the hard disk. during

FSDEXT2, mounting linux partitions under windows 95 read-only (was Re: Linux on top of win95)

1998-02-21 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:18:54 +0100 (CET) Fredrik Ax [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Peter van Sebille has written ext2 drivers for Win95. The driver is called FSDEXT2 and is at the present available in the incoming folders of sunsites e.g.

cfs package orphaned

1998-02-21 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Sat, 21 Feb 1998 01:37:57 -0500 (EST) Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: [comments about cfs snipped] If this hasn't been reported as a bug yet on the bugtraq system, you ought to report it. Also it would be good to mention that 1.4.0beta is out. the cfs package

Re: Linux on top of win95

1998-02-19 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:40:53 + (GMT) David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I don't see where UMSDOS comes into this. i was giving a reference for an alternative way to get linux running alongside w95 -- using loadlin. i should probably have worded my message better

Re: Linux on top of win95

1998-02-18 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 98 20:07:11 -0600 Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: If you set up LILO when you install it, and then tell LILO how to find the Windows partition, you can easily do a dual boot. Superior to doing

Re: Installing UMSDOS

1998-02-17 Thread Sen Nagata
i believe there is a UMSDOS howto at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html i found this to be pretty helpful when installing umsdos for my machine. -sen at some point around Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:37:21 +0100 Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: HEllo ! Can anybody tell

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on.

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Thu, 12 Feb 1998 04:03:45 -0500 Matt Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: My problem is that I don't know where to tell programs like gpm or X Windows where the mouse is actually at in /dev. I've read through the manpages, the FAQ's and many of the HOWTOS and I'm at a

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Sen Nagata
perhaps you will find: http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man1/preline.html useful...(also searching for 'procmail' at http://www.qmail.org/ may be helpful) -sen at some point around 8 Feb 1998 16:20:26 - David Maslen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to

reverse video going away in xterm?

1998-02-07 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this behavior? (or perhaps where to start

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-05 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Mon, 02 Feb 1998 13:05:23 +0100 Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I've upgraded XEmacs from 19 to 20. When I try to start it, it returns XEmacs: `getwd' failed: errno 0 The point is that it can only be started from root directory. I've read in

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-04 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Mon, 02 Feb 1998 13:05:23 +0100 Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I've upgraded XEmacs from 19 to 20. When I try to start it, it returns XEmacs: `getwd' failed: errno 0 The point is that it can only be started from root directory. I've read in

Re: would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-02-03 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:09:44 +0200 Tommi Virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: There's qmail-src on hamm. Qmail isn't freely distributable in binary form, so you have to compile it yourself (it produces a neat debian package). Do a minimal hamm upgrade and

would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-01-26 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- i'd like to use qmail on my debian box running bo and i'm wondering if anyone else has that setup already. i haven't actually installed any packages (on this particular machine) using dselect/dpkg yet (except pcmcia-cs), so smail is not installed yet. is there a qmail package for bo

SEUL's choice of sendmail

1998-01-15 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: We will be using Sendmail (which is the only one we can distribute easily) and probably procmail for mail deliver. This is what red hat uses and we won't change it unless we need to. is

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Jan 1998 07:57:06 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Sen Nagata writes: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well

init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've been wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are w.r.t. organizing the run-level changing/initialization scripts in the current manner. right now there are a number of scripts stored in init.d which are referenced by symbolic links from each of the rc*.d directories,

debian 1.3 on digital hinote ultra 2?

1998-01-02 Thread Sen Nagata
hello, has anyone had any success installing debian 1.3 on a dec ultra hinote 2 latop? trying to install w/ the vanilla installation disks left me without pcmcia access (and hence no ethernet support in my case). could it be that the tecra disks should be used for the hinote as well?

Re[2]: Xfree86 question

1997-12-25 Thread Sen Nagata
there's 'the linux explorer' -- not really like m$'s file manager... http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer/ at some point around Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:16:14 -0800 (PST) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: FileRunner does a nice job. On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi!

Re[2]: questions: Non-internet connected IP Address default ???

1997-12-09 Thread Sen Nagata
about private ip address spaces: Address Allocation for Private Internets is rfc 1597 http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1597.txt people may want to have a look at: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/rfc1597.html which also talks about: Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices

Re: lilo to prepare new hd on floppyless system

1997-12-05 Thread Sen Nagata
does this help? -sen http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html at some point around Thu, 04 Dec 1997 16:48:57 +0600 Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: My new drive came, and i'm trying to do a fresh install, as some stuff got tossed in strange places a few months

preparing a minimal system

1997-12-05 Thread Sen Nagata
hi- i am attempting to install a system that has as small number of files as possible (note: i am not necessarily trying to make an installation that will fit on a floppy). in addition, i would like to be able to perform the preparation of hard drives for target machines on a machine other