On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
cd /dev
ln -s lp0 printer
I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem,
not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in
/dev for large files with the names of devices - sometimes
Ufff, problem solved !!!
Thanks to Allan Black I now understand the whole thing a bit better
(hopefully).
Restarting lpd didn't help; but rebooting the machine re-created my lost
socket :)
The only problem I still have to deal with is to cool down those users
who got logged out without
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Allan Black wrote:
Correct. /dev/printer is created by lpd, when it starts up.
The only way to create it is to restart lpd. Try:
kill lpd
remove /dev/printer
start lpd
lpd should then create /dev/printer.
Hi Allan,
first of all many thanks for your excellent
OK. Remove /dev/printer and start lpd. It'll probably create the socket on
its own. See why it doesn't start from one of the /etc/rc.d files.
Bruce
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Rolf, I am a newbie, i recently spent time going round and round
with lpc trying to get my printer going till my head was in a
whirl with it.
I can't remember all the symptoms, and it is only debian 0.93 but
the cure was getting a match between entries in /etc/printcap and
/etc/conf.modules and
Hello,
Due to my impatience, I purged the old base-package after upgrading to
1.3 (it was listed as obsolete in dselect) without looking at it's
contents first :-(
Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
the machine didn't boot anymore since it was unable to open
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Rolf Obrecht wrote:
Hello,
Due to my impatience, I purged the old base-package after upgrading to
1.3 (it was listed as obsolete in dselect) without looking at it's
contents first :-(
Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
the machine
Figure out which port you are using of /dev/lp0 through lp3. It's most
likely lp0. Do this:
cd /dev
ln -s lp0 printer
I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem,
not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in
/dev for
Hello,
Due to my impatience, I purged the old base-package after upgrading to
1.3 (it was listed as obsolete in dselect) without looking at it's
contents first :-(
Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
the machine didn't boot anymore since it was unable to open an
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Rolf Obrecht wrote:
: Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
: the machine didn't boot anymore since it was unable to open an initial
: console. Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and
: extracting the previously (on a
On Jun 23, Ed Urenda wrote
Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated:
I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the
rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the
system.
The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_table
Hello, any help with the folowing would be greatly appreciated:
I have an ide with debian 1.3 and win 95 on it and decided that the
rewrite_table option in lilo would be the easiest way to dual-boot the
system.
The recompilation of lilo with the rewrite_table option was successful,
but when I
I realize this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I currently cannot
access any news groups and hopefully someone here can help me with this
problem.
I have been using the slrn_0.9.3.2-2 package as a news reader and suddenly
it isn't working any more. It turns out my ISP's news server just
I am far from being knowledgable on Linux but I struggled with this
recently and this worked for me on debian 1.2 with the most recent deb
version of slrn. Go to the appropriate line in your .slrnrc script file.
Remove the % sign to uncomment the line. You do need to use the quote
marks.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi, I am installing debian on a second hard drive on a machine that is
currently running win95 and is connected to the internet via a cable modem
and dhcp. I plan to boot linux via a bootdisk (so that the person who owns
the compute doesn't see anything to do
You can still use lilo with a very short timeout value with win95 the
default. lilo will just flash on the screen briefly.
You could use a multi-config setup in the win95 partition which I believe,
it's been a long time, can be transparent to the user.
The only warning I would give you is that
I have System Commander as well. What it wants to do to laod linux is
find lilo on the boot(right word?) sector of the partition linux is on,
not the MBA of the whole disk. Lilo can be configured this way, but I'm
not sure the Debian distribution has an option set up for doing it on
install
Hi there!
Thanks for reading this!
Need help !!!
I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
install it on my computer.
I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
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currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had
win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I
installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After
rebooting I got new boot option : Linux
From: val.tamarov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it Bootable,
350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
the first IDE controller (most systems don't have a second IDE
Bruce Perens wrote:
From: val.tamarov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it Bootable,
350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap
Your file /etc/lilo.conf should look like this, given that drive D is on
the first IDE controller (most
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Subject: Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
Hi there!
Thanks for reading this!
Need help !!!
I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to
install it on my computer.
I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am
currently using System
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, William Chow wrote:
I think that the lpr in Debian is broken. I had a similar problem, so I
pulled lpr off of my Slack installation on another machine. Hopefully you
can do the same.
Well, I investigated a little further. Another list reader pointed me to
the fact that
Hi,
In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2
from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to
all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great!
I'm having a problem getting lpr to function though. I'm using the same
printcap as
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Rich Kolbush wrote:
Hi,
In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2
from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to
all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great!
I'm having a problem getting lpr to
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
Also, how do you go about getting/installing TeTeX in Debian?
Anyone know of any plans to make a debian package out of this? I use TeTeX
on a Slackware system and am very impressed with it.
--
This
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote:
As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
LaTeX packages I
On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote:
As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine.
What sort of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other
people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope linux
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
What Im driving at is... for a writer, make an environment
suitable for writers... and for an office worker set up an
environment for an office worker... each can be based on a
common os... but to try and create a one setup to serve
all... will only fail
While watching the discussion concerning dselect that went on
a while back it occured to me the deselect may not be the best
place to implement role based system configuration (a setup
based on what the intended user will be doing). It seems to
me that dpkg should (already) support recursive
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
able to encourage them if Linux become more user friendly. Most computer
users are computer illiterates and the program user-interfaces must
overcome that problem.
This is not directed at Johann or anyone else in particular. In fact,
this message
Hylafax is actually quite easy to setup... but you have to run a program
called faxsetup... this program runs a configuration checkup to verify that
the program can run and starts the server. It supports class1 modems.
To add a modem, you then use 'faxaddmodem' which asks a series of
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other
people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
to be a suitable replacement OS for computer illiterates and other
people who
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
And I certainly don't know how I can flush the toilet and it manages to
go _uphill_ to get out of my neighborhood.
No, but it probably took you a while to get potty-trained. Same with
learning to drive a car -- anything worth doing will require
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Ami Ganguli wrote:
What will the user do in 3 months
when something goes wrong (as things do inevitably happen)? He or she
might not even know where to begin looking let alone be able to fix
the problem.
The same thing the user would do with Win95. Call somebody
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
able to encourage them if Linux become more user friendly. Most computer
users are computer illiterates and the program user-interfaces must
overcome that problem.
I don't think linux is intended to
As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine.
I also want to use my Linux-setup for faxes. I
Paul == Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul --cut-here---
Paul You just have to append the following lines to
Paul /var/lib/dpkg/status:
I thought the ``provides'' field should contain ONLY the ``agreed''
(discussed in debian-devel)
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote:
I thought the ``provides'' field should contain ONLY the ``agreed''
(discussed in debian-devel) virtual package names. Does dpkg work if
the virtual package names are not official?
Obviously it does here without problems. Sorry, i don't know of this
On 6 Jan 1997, James LewisMoss wrote:
I'm not in any way involved with NTeX development, but I have installed
it on SGIs, Ultrix, and DecUnix machines (as well as Linux) and while
the earlier NTeX distribs were fairly difficult, the latest comes with
precompiled binaries for many different
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
Given my current frustration in
dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX
stuff that is presently on this machine (standard Debian 1.2 packages),
I want to try out TeTeX.
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
I tried searching around for teTeX whis morning, and I found a lot of
FTP-sites carrying the files, I also found the maintainer's address and
the mailing-list. BUT do you know if there is a teTeX web-page somewhere,
where some general information,
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all
bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion
and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory
Then I guess I should be installing
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some
TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with
a new problem once I fixed one.
Then you'll be really happy with teTeX! Today i had a notice by Thomas
Esser
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you
should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about
If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :)
Someone actually told me that I should install
Hello Debianites.
I've seen discussions regarding this issue before. I have a Debian
machine at work which needs to be a reliable platform for Scientific
documment processing in TeX/LaTeX. Given my current frustration in
dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX
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