Re: New outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Xucaen
what??? no GOTOs??? ;-) --- Juan Alberto Cirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All. I have viewd the code for the new email > virus. As you all know > it's a VBS file. I don't do VBS so I really > don't know how it does what > it does. Anyways Here is the text. Can someone > enlighten me:

RE: Here you hav, :0)

2001-02-13 Thread Xucaen
Mad geniuses at work! ;-) --- Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let's convert it to perlscript ? > > wahahaa > > -Original Message- > From: William Leese > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:44 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: H

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-12 Thread Xucaen
--- Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:47:36AM -0800, Erik > Steffl wrote: > This thread has gone on quite a while and there > has been some misinformation, > but the above seems dead on. I'd would add > that the font file names must > be lower case for mkttfdi

Re: update-menus not working? Here is my info.

2001-02-11 Thread Xucaen
--- joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2001/02/10(6)/10:02, Xucaen wrote: > > > > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \ > > > > section="Apps/Editors" \ > > > > title="jed" \ >

update-menus not working? Here is my info.

2001-02-10 Thread Xucaen
Hi. sorry it's taken me so long to do this. It's been very busy here. I am also replying to the list, in case someone else has something to add or is having a similar problem. --- Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, > Xuc

Re: OT: autoresponder at unix,inc / info@listbank.ne.jp

2001-02-09 Thread Xucaen
have to ask even more of the same questions, and each person would have to reply to every single duplicate question instead of being able to look it up in the archives. my $.02. xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Xucaen
ok! I called 911!! they will be there shortly!!! --- Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > > Johan Groth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > > So now I got an unstable :-) system which > is not so good I think. So what > > > would happen if I change unstable t

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-02-09 Thread Xucaen
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OT: Engli plurali (was Re: virus detection)

2001-02-06 Thread Xucaen
> However, there is no such word as 'virii'. > There is one virus and two viruses. > The word virus is like the english work fish. > wow. virus -> viruses fungus -> fungi fish -> fish or fishes /*Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (c)1979*/ very strange.. now, if only they would add the

Re: What is bounce-debian-user ?

2001-02-01 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mine reads: > > Status: U > Return-Path: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not sure, but I think in this context, "bounce" means the e-mail was "bounced" to the user from the server. I would think we all get messages that are "bounced" from "debian-user" list.

does anyone here use update-menus?

2001-01-31 Thread Xucaen
on="Apps/Editors"\ title="Emacs 20"\ command="/usr/bin/emacs20"\ icon=/usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/gnu.xpm the only difference is the icon, but that shouldn't matter.. does anyone else see something that maybe

update-menus not working?

2001-01-30 Thread Xucaen
on="Apps/Editors"\ title="Emacs 20"\ command="/usr/bin/emacs20"\ icon=/usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/gnu.xpm the only difference is the icon, but that shouldn't matter.. when I run update-menus (as root) it doesn't add

Jed

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
would anyone care to comment on this (just for the sake of my own curiosity)? -- > > > > Incidently, I finally installed debian this > weekend. The way it is > > installed appears to me to be quite > convoluted and, in particular, > > breaks my .jedrc script. > > Do I ever a

Re: /dev/ttyS* permissions

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
+w to my $.02: I just su to root and run wvdial rather than changing the permission. xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
may be mistaken, but doesn't the device need to be exactly the same in both? xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

making keys work in editors under xterm

2001-01-28 Thread Xucaen
Hi all I use ae, and also jed under xterm. is there a way to make the "delete", "insert", "home", "end" keys to work? Is there a way to cut or copy text from xterm and paste into another xterm or into another application net

2 ttyS0 questions...

2001-01-27 Thread Xucaen
the only way I can exit is to close xterm (or eterm, whichever I am using at the time) but when I do this, ttyS0 remains locked and I don't know how to unlock it. How do I unlock ttyS0? thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy th

xfree: what is dri and nvidia

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
--- "Dr. Aldo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xucaen wrote: > > Its faster and supports DRI. And with the patch > from Nvidia it rocks in > my Riva TNT. what is DRI? what is Nvidia? what's a Riva? why don

xfree 3.3.6 and 4.x

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
changed between 3.3.6, and 4.x? I'm using 3.3.6 now, and it seems ok to me.. is 3.3.6 incompatible with any new software? thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
stable/graphics/xli.html that's strange, I did search for xli, but nothing came up.. is this the same as xloadimage? because I found that and installed it, now I use a utility called xsetbg to set the background. workes awesome! xucaen __ Do

which is the most "unstable"

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. I'm a tad bit confused about the order of precedence on the 3 debian distributions. I understand "potato" == "stable", but what comes next? is it "woody" == "testing" then "sid" == "unstable"? in which order of

about stable and unstable

2001-01-26 Thread Xucaen
you want more recent packages, you > should change all references > to "stable" or "potato" in your > /etc/apt/sources.list to either > "testing" or "unstable". > ahhh.. so maybe this is how I

SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
ans that it > overrides any system default, no? > Are you exec'ing a WM? > this was exactly my problem. I thought that fvwm was being started by some other process. I didn't think it was an if/else situation, but rather a do this and

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
th > gimp ?? Speaking of gimp, > how are you telling it what format to use ?? I > think you have to tell > gimp to use "jpg" or "bmp" format ... just > naming it that way *may* not > do it. correct. I tell it specifically which format to save as. I have saved as

SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
exec fvwm & and all is well. :-) does anyone know why creating .xsession causes fvwm to NOT load anymore? I'd really like to know why thanks again!! xucaen --- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Hi all..

Re: xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroo

jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > > aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap > ~/new.bmp > > xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: > &

xsetroot -bitmap???

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
hi all.. sorry about all the stipid questions is there an xsetroot HOWTO out there? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls aim.xpm new.bmp test test.xpm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xsetroot -bitmap ~/new.bmp xsetroot: bad bitmap format file: /home/xucaen/new.bmp

Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
--- Pascal Hos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here's what's happening: > > I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to > restart > > immediately upon login (I type my password, > hit > > return(enter) and poof! the screen flickers > and > > I'm prompted again for user name and > password) > > > > I'v

~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Xucaen
> To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I created ~/.xsession and added the line > > Try 'chmod +x ~/.xsession'. > Hi all.. here's what's happening: I created ~/.xsession and it causes X to restart immediately upon login (I type my password, hit re

Re: xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
d ~/.xsession and added the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" and X went t into a loop. It would let me log on, then X would restart. I deleted the file. for some reason, the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" only works when I put it in xdm. any ideas? xucaen > -casey > >

xinitrc isn't being read??

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. is there any reason why xinitrc isn't read when X starts using xdm? t

change background color of X?

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. what changes the background color of X? I don't even know what to look up in man for this. I just wanted to change the background from the default gray to something else.. thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the t

Re: internet connection sharing

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
rward -s 192.168.0.2/24 -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.4/24 -j MASQ # see man ipchains for parameter definitions. hope this helps! xucaen --- Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i have recently installed a network of to Linux > boxes. > one of them

FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
ow do I add items to the menu so they won't get deleted? and what is the menu package? (I don't like to install packages if I know nothing about them. I'm still learning the system and I don't want it suddenly changed half way thru my

Re: minicom

2001-01-24 Thread Xucaen
ccess to ttyS0? (I knew I forgot something.. ;-) I know, I know.. man * xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: minicom solved

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
will definately check man minicom (maybe if I write "see man" on the chalk board 1000 times I will remember?) thanks!! xucaen --- Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:14:49AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > No, I did not. what does -

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any documentation. thanks!! --- Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try minicom -s > > HTH > > Frank > > - Original Message - > From: "Xucaen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: &g

minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Xucaen
to poke around on the web to look for info, but I thought I'd check here as well. thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
I couldn't get onto that web site. is it down?? --- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William Leese wrote: > > You may be interested in my debianized driver > package for Aureal chipset > sound cards > (http//www.braincells.com/debian/aureal/) > > Contrary to w

OT: check book balancer - xacc packages

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
is (besides their version numbers ;-). The xacc-smotif description says it is "linked statically with Motif. It may be more stable than the Lesstif based version" what does it mean to be statically linked to Motif? What is Motif? What is Lesstif? thank

Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
med that it was v4.76. I suppose it is possible that the "4.76" is the version number for the entire communicator suite, of which the browser is v4.08. Does anybody else know anything about this? xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: "netscape-base-4" dependency?

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
gt; i installed this yesterday. I used: apt-get install navigator-smotif-476 This installed just the web browser and all of its dependancies. xucaen. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

The "debian" way (was: kernel-source-2.2.18pre21)

2001-01-22 Thread Xucaen
the "debian" way? comments? opinions? thanks for indulging my knowledge-quest! xucaen P.S. I've successfully installed debian on 3 intel machines so far and all is working smoothly. I love debian! (Can I get this on a bumper sticker? ;-) --- Ralf Batri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

kernel-source-2.2.18pre21

2001-01-21 Thread Xucaen
alling the aureal vortex sound drivers (from sourceforge) but I need to rebuild a kernel that includes soundcore because of unresolved errors (? at least that what the README says) Has anyone else done this? thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo

"true?" rescue floppy

2001-01-19 Thread Xucaen
scue floppy, look at Tom's > Root/Boot Disk at > http://www.toms.net/rb/. It isn't Debian > specific, but it works well > on my Debian system. > > Bob > -- what do you mean by "true"? I thought the "resuce" disk he was looking for was the boot disk for

Re: rescue floppy

2001-01-18 Thread Xucaen
here are the disk images for debian 2.2r2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r2/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ --- Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > I have been looking for a rescue floppy image > on ftp.uk.debian.org > but i can't seams to find one. > >

Re: Soundcard: Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
e and someone else.... xucaen --- William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > at the end of this month i'm planning on buying > a new comp. system, this will > be part of a small home network and will be > running debian and Win98se for an > ocassion

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
--- Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > card. The card started dropping packets and > causing collisions under only 50% of what the > interface would have been capable of if it were > built-in to the kernel. > why? xucaen

curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Xucaen
n, accessible by > CTRL+ALT+F8. You can also > embed an X session in a window; 'man Xnest' for > more info. > Hi all, curious here, is there a practicle reason for doing this? What is the purpose? xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

xfstt??

2001-01-16 Thread Xucaen
--- "David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* > about what ths has over > the regular way X handles fonts, but I use > 'xfstt', which handles > truetype fonts. > is xfstt a font server that can be used in place of xfs? ___

what exactly is xdm and xfs??

2001-01-16 Thread Xucaen
various XF86 packages (xserver-vga16, xserver-common, xf86setup, fvwm, and a few others) using apt-get onto a different machine. I chose not to install the xdm and xfs. much to my amazement startx works perfectly. why does X work without xdm and xfs? forever curious, xucaen

which module should I use with a sound blaster 16 ISA card?

2001-01-16 Thread Xucaen
sbpcd finally works for CD rom, but which module will get me sound? xuc __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread Xucaen
have only the s3 server installed. So, if I wanted to change from 640x480 (which I have) should I also install the svga server and make it the default, or shouldn't I just stay with the server that was made for my vidoe card? thanks xucaen __

Debian compatibility(?)

2001-01-15 Thread Xucaen
--- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > think so. Debian requires that > all packages installed be done through it's > packaging tools to maintain it's > database. It also lays things out on the file > system a little differently > (better than most). what's this?? Does this mean

rescue kernel image

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
d onto the rescue disk? i need this to install from CD. thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

as86 solved

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
thanks all!!! i've installed bin86 and the kernel is compiling away. I wonder why bin86 wasn't included in the dependancies for kernel-package and kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 anyhoo, thanks!!! xucaen the forever grateful debian newbie ___

as86 command not found

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
it be installed via apt-get? as always, my most humble thanks!!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

rescue disk doesn't support soundblaster

2001-01-14 Thread Xucaen
out there that describes how to 1) install from CD using the sbpcd or 2) make a new rescue disk that has sbpcd compiled in or 3) how to load the sbpcd module from the rescue disk I'm sending this to the user list in the hopes that a debian developer might have the answer. thank

sbpcd mount fails during install

2001-01-13 Thread Xucaen
you ever get an answer to this? I'm trying to salvage an old 486 66mhz that was running win 3.11 with a sound blaster 16 CD. everything works. when booting from the 'vanilla' rescue.bin, at the boot: prompt, I type: linux sbpcd=0x220,5 I have also tried: linux sbpcd=0x220,SoundBla

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-13 Thread Xucaen
but if you kill the netscape process, then it isn't still running somewhere on your machine and deleting the lock file is perfectly valid. isn't it? comments anyone? xucaen --- Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > &

Re: /etc/resolv.conf not there with potato

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
creating it and while that is strange. I have debian 2.2r2, and I do have resolv.conf. of course, I am not using it at the moment but it is there. xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
. well, now... how about that... .. thanks! --- Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clicking the Debian logo on the top of the main > page takes you there. > > Diego Biurrun > > > Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How come the

Re: Debian Image

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
How come there is no link to this from the main page??? --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MBDNSumedha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to include the Debian Image on my > Software Application > >report. Would you mind giving me permission to > so? This is purely > >academic.

Re: init / rc0.d

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
g to type ./ I had assumed that the current directory was automatically checked first. thanks again! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: init / rc0.d

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
ries and not > anything like > "tcp/localhost:7100" or "unix/:-1", then you > don't need xfs. If it > does list one of these, you probably want to > leave the xfs link to > start the X font server at boot time. > I'll check this out. Thank you

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
t; (or did i miss what you wanted?) > I have this same exact problem! /etc/hostname only changes the machine name. How do you go about changing the domain name of the machine? also, is there a way to get exim to add a resolvable domain name without having to change the domain of the machine? xucae

Re: init / rc0.d

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
other question. If I remove the symlink to xfs and xdm, will there be any services or anything that will not get started via startx? I'm still having a problem where when I remove xfs and xdm (or simply just xdm) and use startx, then XF86Setup crashes the system. thanks! xucaen __

Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape

2001-01-12 Thread Xucaen
--- ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be a strange request but I'm trying > to write a little > wrapper of sorts for Netscape that removes the > lock file > automatically after killing the browser when > it hangs. The > problem I'm having is finding a site that > h

GTK??

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
> All of the languages I have listed have GTK > bindings. If you plan on > using GTK, check out Glade. (it is listed on > the GTK web site) Glade where is the GTK web site? I keep hearing about GTK hoping I would pick up on what it is but so far I haven't a clue... thanks!

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
--- Mark Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > During the last few weeks, there have been > > discussions about how to keep X from > > automatically starting upon booting the > system. > > Most replys leaned towa

Re: Why do I get this error message?

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
eing a specific setting for a microsoft keyboard in the debian installation. xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: Serial terminal software.

2001-01-10 Thread Xucaen
x27;ll give this one a shot.. now all I need is a good old-fashioned BBS! ;-) xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: (OT) exec nonreadable shell scripts

2001-01-10 Thread Xucaen
would writing scripts in a compiled language like C be a solution? can a user have permission to exec a script contained in a directory they don't have read access to? xucaen --- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that is what I was afraid of. I'd given some > thoug

Re: Getting out of X

2001-01-10 Thread Xucaen
did you install the correct X server? That could be causing the problem as well.. what kind of video card do you have? xucaen --- Jeff Binder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried switching ttys, but nothing happens (or > if it does, I can't tell because the screen is > white

Re: Gravis Gamepad Module

2001-01-10 Thread Xucaen
hi. according to the hardware-HOWTO,(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.1) you need to download a driver from creativelabs for the soundblaster Live card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it's worth mentioning. good luck! xucaen --- Scott Patters

OT: X window-managers

2001-01-09 Thread Xucaen
f a window manager anyways) when I can get the same functionality from a smaller, yet configurable, window manager? comments? opinions? thanks!!! xucaen --- Daniel Oxenhandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, > > I don't know about item #3, but I have been > very happy w

fixed: apt-get netscape v4.76 problem

2001-01-07 Thread Xucaen
good morning all!! It appears I installed all the packages except for the one I needed. netscape-smotif-476 is the one I needed, and it takes care of all dependencies. The descriptions for the packages at the debian web site is what confused me. thanks again for all your help!! xucaen >

apt-get netscape v4.76 problem

2001-01-06 Thread Xucaen
installed netscape, please, how did you do it?? Good night, all.. I've been at this for quite some time, and now it is time for sleep. :-) thankyou all who have replyed to me tonight. Your support has kept me from going mad. xucaen xucaen --- Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi a

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-06 Thread Xucaen
--- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:57:57PM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > > > --- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:12:56PM -0800, > > > Xucaen wrote: > > > > in /etc/rc3.d I canged t

Re: runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-06 Thread Xucaen
--- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:12:56PM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > in /etc/rc3.d I canged the symlink of S99xdm > from > > ../init.d/xdm to /dev/null > > Aargh! Don't do that. Just remove the symlink > S99xdm and XDM wil

runlevels and XF86Setup??

2001-01-06 Thread Xucaen
t the system. The I use startx to start XFree. Inside X, I try to run XF86Setup and the system hangs. I changed the symlink of S99xdm from /dev/null back to ../init.d/xdm This makes X start automatically when I reboot the system. XF86Setup runs without any problems. comments? suggestions? X

netscape v4.76 libc problem

2001-01-06 Thread Xucaen
6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/netscape$ I installed netscape as root using the ns-install script that came with netscape. thanks!!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! P

Re: MKBOOT problems

2001-01-05 Thread Xucaen
te: > When I mount it, I'm not giving any arguments. > Is -ro a default argument? > > -- Original Message > ------ > From: Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:55:07 -0800 (PST) > > >are you mounti

[slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books on the list, but nothing definitive... can anyone recomend a good system administration/network administration book? just curious to hear people's opinions. thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: Official Debian

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
Hi. the latest stable release of Debian is 2.2r2 I ordered my CD's for $10.00 from https://www.justwebit.com/cgi-bin/e/eshopdb.cgi?9713 They download all the latest images from most of the major linux distros and burn their own CD's. the CD's are bootable. good hunting! xucaen

X in startup

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the command line using startx? (i'm asking because I don't have X installed right now, but will in a few weeks..) thanks!! xucaen --- David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after booting up press F1 to go > i

Re: fdisk program in MSDOS

2001-01-03 Thread Xucaen
are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? you should be using the linux fdisk. --- Michael Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently bought a debian software > package and I've been reading the book > 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the > fdisk utility on my hard driv

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Xucaen
huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in the man pages (man gcc) why does it do this? I am having similar problems with iostream.h --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:05:50PM +, paul > wrote: > > hello all, > > i'm trying to compile (gcc filename.c)

Re: potato_install

2000-12-31 Thread Xucaen
tion 4.3 Creating Device Files and Setting Boot Time Parameters in the CD ROM HOWTO. hope this helps... xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Network config...why so many??

2000-12-26 Thread Xucaen
aces file. why have all of the other files if everything can be configured in this one interfaces file? xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Xucaen
tables. > > HTH > > Stephan > this sounds good. I will see if I can install it. thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Xucaen
point it to slashdot... and you will see :) > i've never heard of w3m. what is the package name for apt-get? is this a text-based file manager? xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

removing XFree

2000-12-23 Thread Xucaen
I know this sounds strange, but I want to remove Xfree. I have tried "apt-get remove" with every combination of X11 and Xfree I could think of, but to no avail. What is the exact name of the Xfree package that should be used with apt-get? __ Do You Y

Navigating your drive in text mode (was: Re: configuring network card solved.)

2000-12-23 Thread Xucaen
an > installation, speak up now and we'll try and > help you in ways that won't > require you to reinstall Debian. > well... now that you mention it... ;-) no, seriouisly, I just have to figure out the nameing conventions used on the system for all config files. can you recomend

Re: configuring network card solved.

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
I just want to say upfront that I have nothing but good intentions. If my words sound harsh or unfriendle, it is not meant to be so... --- "S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "xucaen" == Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes:

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
--- Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato > and my cdrom seems to have the following > problems : > Most of the time I get errors like : > > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy } > hdb: ATAPI reset complete > isn't the CD ROM drive sup

PowerPC boot disk with USB support????

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
keyboard. He has a USB keyboard and we think he needs a rescue disk with USB support. Does anyone know where I can find a rescue and root disk in hfs format with USB support? thanks! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores

configuring network card solved.

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
there it was; network card, gateway, hostname, IP, nameservers.. I'm surprised that debian doesn't have this installation program available after installation is completed so that we can go back and change/add network settings.. xucaen ___

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
7;t find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere, and I'm loath to just > add it to the .config, > not knowing if it's supported in 2.2.17 > > Any Ideas, > -Jon > not sure if this is relevant, but I thought I read somewhere that you

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