ive/mirror/hamm/non-US/
flags_recursive=-lRaL
/etc/mirror/packages/hamm --
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
-package". This package contains scripts that
allow you to easily compile the kernel into a ready-to-install
kernel-image.deb package.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
f StarOffice that is
statically linked against Motif (or buy the Motif libraries).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rst two parenthesis as part
of a (( )) construction (which has a special meaning). Wether this is
an error or a feature is a subject of discussion, but the problem
dissappears in version 2.01
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lesstif
(the free Motif clone). Lesstif is still not fully compatible with
Motif.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
e these messages?
type "unset LANG" (or put it in /etc/profile)
I don't know if this is the Right Thing, but it works.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Difference between the computers: I use xdm, he doesn't,
When using xdm, the relevent file is ~/.xsession
When using startx, the relevant file is ~/.xinitrc
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor
"David E. Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sten Anderson wrote:
> >
> > I disagree. Loadlin is perfect in this case. ...
>
> Sten,
> Does this mean that Loadlin can boot linux when it's in another
> partition?
Yes!
In this case, y
Fred Handloser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, is there a way to write the boot screen information to
> a logfile. Most of the information has scrolled off the screen
> by the time I get the kernel panic.
The messages are written to /var/log/messages. Also try "dme
t; the parameters which correspond to my system.
I don't know much about your ATI card, but I suggest that you install
the xserver-vga16 package and run the program XF86Setup. It usually
does a better job than xf86config.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the
is only useful on
floppies).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
"Fabian Knittel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> boot=/dev/hda3
> root=/dev/hda3
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
A shoot in the dark: Try putting the
If there's some advantage to this could somebody let me know what it
> is? I may find a need for a similar setup in the future.
The only reason to use extended partitions is that most OS's don't
like more than 4 partitions. Like I said above, Linux doesn't care if
the partiti
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sten Anderson wrote:
> >
> > Sven Garbade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > 1. First, the Linux Loader LILO doesn't work correctly.
> > >
> > > # LILO configuration file
> &
hould be active. With my above suggestion, it
should be hda2
>
> 2. I've installed XEmacs. The keys "Backspace" and "Delete" work both as
> "Backspace".
> I'd like it, that "Delete" works as "Control-D" (^D).
Try M-
he disk, thus the kernel must reside on a physical
location on the disk that is reachable by BIOS functions, i.e. within
the first N sectors (N=1024 IIRC). This is easily obtained by
partitioning the disk and putting the kernel on the first
partition. The rest of the Linux installation can resi
uld generate user.dvi and
tech.dvi. If you prefer postscript try "dvips user.dvi -o"
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
the Bo
base system using the base floppies. At the end of the installation
process dselect is started. Quit immediately, and do a manual bo->hamm
upgrade of the base system (by using the script or the howto). When
then the base system is upgraded to libc6 you can start dselect again
and point it t
e
libs were removed, in any case you can ignore the warning (unless of
course that you depend on these libs, but you don't).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
used on many other unix
installations.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
is used for xdm logins.
> I symlink them together here for convenience.
I believe that the .xsession script must also be executable. The first
line in the script should be "#! /bin/sh", then do "chmod +x .xsession"
(or do this to .xinitrc if you use the symlink method)
- Ste
partition
read-only
in lilo.conf
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ian rescue disk is also usable). You could also write the
bootloader to the bootsector of a floppy in order to test your boot
configuration (use "boot=/dev/fd0" in lilo.conf).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ast step you should reconfigure LILO to give you a proper
dualboot setup.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
e applied before reading the LILO user guide and
the HOWTO's concerning dualbooting of Windows and Linux.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
oes
not operate well with a libc6 based system. I have managed to patch it
so that runsocks works with most programs. But some programs still
segfaults (eg. dselect). If you have been more succesfull than me, I
would like to see your patches.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L
ere you intend to install Debian. If you are short of
unused partitions you can disable swap and format the swap partition
for this use.
I hope this gets you started.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ould use
Loadlin for that purpose. If you already have a Slackware
installation, I guess you could configure LILO to boot the contents of
the bootdisk from your harddrive.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone have a configured printcap entry and/or /etc/magic file
> configured for a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 6L printer and MagicFilter?
Use the script 'magicfilterconfig', and select the driver 'ljet4'.
- Sten A
on. Unpack it to a temporary location, and
use the tools in the package 'kernel-package' to compile the sources
directly into a kernel-image package (and optionally a kernel-source
package). It is actually very easy.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the
is available at
ftp://ftp.netscape.com
in the directory
/pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/base_install/
No renaming is necessary.
It works for me...
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTE
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,
/etc/lynx.cfg
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nk he is looking for the tools to automatically create a
kernel-image...deb from the original kernel sources. If that is the
case, they are in the package named kernel-package (section misc).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"
(tip: type "tail -f /var/log/syslog" as root). Try also
crontab -l (as user sanchez again) to check that the crontab was
really changed. Try also deleting the files /var/spool/cron/allow and
/var/spool/cron/deny
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th
equire a lot of
floppies), thus the Packages file from the distribution does not
coreespond to the packages you have. I recommend that you first copy
all your packages to a directory on the harddisk, and then let dselect
scan this directory.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI
rpose. The program pstree is an excellent tool to see the effect of
this. However, the improvement of performance by this is barely
measurable. I am simply arguing that while it is generally a good
idea to uses exec, it is not that important, and certainly not
required. In fact it might give
o start up and
> then hit Ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a console...
>
I could add to this that in order to stop xdm from starting up at boot
time, you need to edit the file /etc/X11/config (as root). Change the
line "start-xdm" to "no-start-xdm".
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBS
aker, for example,
has two exit options: "exit..." and "exit session...". This way it is
optional whether all X clients should be killed or not. It is correct
that if you kill a window manager manually (kill ), it should not
kill other X clients (except perhaps it children).
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I prefer), and I haven't run into any problems. Am I doing
> something inherently bad?
No, there is nothing wrong with that. It is a very common setup, and
especially useful if the window manager is unstable.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t
Every program started in .xinitrc should have & appended EXCEPT
the window manager.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
t 16) e 2 logical for linux =
>
> That's the problem-^
>
> When You install debian (or most other distributions), you must remove these
> pseudo-partitions as only DOS understands them.
Are you saying that linux can't handle logical partitions? I am
currently r
your display). Debian uses authentication by default, but this
can be disabled. Unfortunately for you, I can't tell you how - you
will have to browse the man pages. For a start you can try to
circumvent it with "ln -s /home//.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority".
- Sten Anderson
--
these scripts are actually readable.
And if you don't like man pages, I highly recommend installing tkman.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Subject: Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
From: Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:17:43 +0100
In-Reply-To: Gilbert Laycock&#
is probably not complete, but is is a start.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
better than red. But why use text at all?
Why not just let the penguin be the the logo? Then it can be used with
or without text, depending on the context.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MBR in the hands of W95. Of
course you should always have a bootdisk ready, just in case W95 for
some reason becomes unbootable.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/linux/sag/
The book is part of the Linux Documentation Project
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/
> Secondly, I'm looking for a breif but complete listing bash and
> external commands.
The man page for bashis obligatory reading. Its rather long, so i
recom
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Polls are cool, but when you get 100 messages on debian-user between
> midnight and 2 P.M. (California time) you have to figure that there's
> somebody using the software.
Just out of curiosity: How many subscribers are there t
; field, like what I saw someone's doing (like the one in THIS
> message)?
>
It would be stupid to enforce restrictions like that on the
messages. Your sorting problems should be solved in another way. I
suggest you sort by the resent field. All messages in this list
contain the header: &q
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > A third proposal:
> >
> > 3) Write a "Debian Novice Guide" (lets get rid of that ugly
> >n... word!), and make this guide a frequent posting
27;ve been a windows user for a great many
> years. Any book (in print or online) and/or guides, FAQs, would be
> helpful. Thanks.
"man X" reveals a very good introduction to the topic.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ick
and write the dam'n thing... Dont expect me to write it, I am a novice
myself - a few weeks with Debian after a few months with
Redhat. (Maybe that will cheer up those that were depressed by the
initial posting in this thread.)
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ilicon Integrated System Pentium(r) to PCI bridge (original)
is currently unsupported (the mysterious 5107).
Perhaps you should post your problem to comp.os.linux.development.system
That is apparently where the kernel hackers hang out, when they are
not busy writing PCI drivers.
- Sten Ander
Depth32
Modes"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
*** End sample ***
BTW: This is described in detail in "man XF86Config".
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fter all?
A list only for us newbies would result in a lot of questions and no
answers. We need a list that is read both by newbies and experienced
users.
The best chance of an answer is probably to post the questions
to one of the developer lists, if that is where the experts are
hiding.
t to
run X applications. However, the procedure must be repeated every time
a new cookie is generated, i.e. every time the user logs in.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
170. :-(
Se the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.MGA for details.
- Sten Anderson
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
58 matches
Mail list logo
