RE: Laplink and DOS?

1999-06-03 Thread joop . vson
I've got a Debian-box, a small laptop with DOS, and a Laplink cable. What is an easy method to connet the Debian-box and DOS-box with the Laplink-cable so that I could easily at least copy files from the othe machine to the other? (The Debian box hasn't got any DOS-partition, so

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-27 Thread joop . vson
I am running slink on 5x86/100, 32 megs of RAM and I quite like it. I'd like to have 48 megs just because I run samba and NFS and wannna to have some services on it. I use netscape (4.6 now) and i had staroffice installed but i removed it cause i didn't like it... Now, the only one problem

Re: System crash!!! How do I recover when my disaster disk doesn 't boot

1999-05-26 Thread joop . vson
Now my system hangs during boot. I can't seem to recover with my disaster disk. The disaster disk fails giving me the Loading Linux ... and then Boot failed error. I guess that disaster disk has been made during the installation process, it tries to jump to the linux on your harddrive. Try

Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?

1999-04-26 Thread joop . vson
I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch HF is

Re: Debian Packages compiled with PGCC

1999-03-03 Thread joop . vson
Why not add a kind of VIEWPATH environment variable to the install tool. (like in some compilers) The package that is found first in the list of directories will be installed Joop

Disk-Disk

1999-02-26 Thread joop . vson
Are both disks IDE ? Are they both on the same controller ? Which disk is the master, which disk is the slave ? You can only boot from a master disk. Set the jumpers right (I hope you still have the documentation for the disks) Success, Joop

Re: NE2000 PCI Card

1999-02-16 Thread joop . vson
The NE2000 PCI-module is probing a number of addresses, make sure that your card is configured for one of those addresses. This can probably be done with the DOS-program (sorry) you have got with your card, Joop

Linux box as printer server

1999-01-21 Thread joop . vson
This is not a specific Debian question but I hope someone can help me. I am trying to set up a linux box as a printer server. Printing is to a LaserJet5 (jetdirect with IP-number NPIxx). I installed magicfilter and ghostscript, adjusted the printcap file according to the Printing-HOWTO and