Re: user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-19 Thread tko
John Scroggins writes: > > the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance > to me, as I am a > "that person" . John, everyone has to start somewhere 8-) > i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of > assistance out there i have well over 9

user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-17 Thread John Scroggins
resolution... i have seen the co-laboring efforts of all the people involved on this list I know something good will come out of this my thanks to the team that suports this list ..

Re: Thanks and a question

1997-10-31 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Howard S. Ostrowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It turns out that my problem was due to the fact that I had > LD_PRELOAD set to libgnumalloc.so.5, which is apparently no > longer needed with libc6. But my question is this: I had > added this environment variable long ago because it was needed

Thanks and a question

1997-10-30 Thread Howard S. Ostrowsky
info is a very unenlightening line in the manual for ld.so. Can someone point me towards an explanation of how this variable helps "badly written programs don't crash so often"? Thanks,Sherm Ostrowsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &qu

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-30 Thread Dima
Thalia L. Hooker wrote: > Hi, > ... > I tried the kernel package and compilation went fine except it didn't seem > to compile any of the new modules even though I requested SCSI support, > SCSI disk support, and the driver AHA152x. I say this because when I > noticed it had not detected an

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Thalia" == Thalia L Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thalia> Hi, I finally got over my signal 11 problems and can now Thalia> recompile a kernel. The problems seem to have been due to bad Thalia> RAM. I reinitialized my partitions because I was afraid I Thalia> would run into filesystem p

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mike" == Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> I'm thinking of starting a Debian custom kernel faq that would Mike> address issues such as Ignus' questions and my own experience Mike> with pcmcia and the kernel. Any one interested in contributing? Please include the Proble

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Thalia L. Hooker
Hi, I finally got over my signal 11 problems and can now recompile a kernel. The problems seem to have been due to bad RAM. I reinitialized my partitions because I was afraid I would run into filesystem problems due to the numerous times my computer froze when I was trying to recompile a kernel.

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Ignus" == Ignus Fast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ignus> I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running: Ignus> 'make xconfig', followed by Ignus> 'make kpkg-clean', This is the wrong order. Try make-kpkg clean, followed by make xconfig Ignus> 'make-kpkg

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Mike Miller
You might have better success it you make your modules using make-kpkg rather than make-ing in the source directory. Try executing `make-kpkg --targets' to get a list of targets (which includes modules). Caveat - I haven't made modules with make-kpkg myself, so I don't know what pitfalls might aw

Re: Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Ignus Fast wrote: > I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running: > > 'make xconfig', followed by > 'make kpkg-clean', > 'make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 kernel_image' > 'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb' Ready?!? > 'make modules' > 'make m

Thanks for the help with compiling a new kernel... BUT!

1997-10-29 Thread Ignus Fast
I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running: 'make xconfig', followed by 'make kpkg-clean', 'make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 kernel_image' 'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb' 'make modules' 'make modules_install' to create a custom kernel boot disk. But

network setup confusion - thanks, less confused

1997-10-28 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
those brings up the xdm login screen for those machines. My linux machine is also on the list but is only 'available'. Selecting it just brings up a message (after a long wait...) saying it can't open display at . I dunno quite what the prob. is here... Thanks again for the help getting me this far, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: THANKS 4 - WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

1997-10-20 Thread Dima
JD Thomlinson wrote: > Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list! > Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant > flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner, > it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about > real code and what's goi

Re: THANKS 4 - WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

1997-10-19 Thread JD Thomlinson
Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list! Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner, it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about real code and what's going on in NT. This I can take to som

thanks Re: freeware/shaware collection

1997-10-13 Thread Wiria Amadja Kusuma
thank you for all your help, I usually do find all my application from sunsite.unc, thanks again. -Original Message- From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wiria Amadja Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 2:22 AM

Re: Multiple network cards. Thanks!

1997-09-24 Thread Mike Patterson
onfig eth1 207.141.63.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 route add -net 207.141.63.119 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth1 route add default gw 207.141.63.119 (I have an internal BNC network running off eth0, and the rest of the internet on eth1 goi

RE: [Q][Thanks] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-23 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! If I remember correctly, you said you installed magicfilter. So delete or rename your printcap file and run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig as root, to create a new /etc/printcap file. I think magicfilterconfig copies a filter into your /usr/sbin directory, so all you have to do is tweak i

RE: [Q][Thanks] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to thank all for the valuable input. > Yesterday, I returned Lexmark 7000 and bought > Epson Color 800 Stylus (the color intensity is better > on this printer anyways, however, to be fare -- Lexmark > has laser quality black&whit

RE: [Q][Thanks] How to Print in DEBIAN

1997-09-23 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
next. I read printcap manual page but it talks about a simple bash script to print somehow to the printer -- I have no clue as what it talks about... actually. Thanks in advance for any help, Vladislav >-- >From: Steve Mayer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, Septemb

Quick Apology and WAVE thanks,

1997-08-13 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
Debians, just a quick apology for sending my question about Wave twice. The first I sent went through my Windows NT mail server at work. The server is usually 90% of the times down, and even local mail arrived 2 days late. My second request went through my Linux provider and

Re: Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > Well looks like I am going to gve Deban a try. Thanks for all the > suggestions and offers. I received 30 some odd mail on my first day -- > I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. One last > question --> where is th

Re: Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: > I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. Don't worry, the hostile and rude answers are given to you later. > One last question --> where is the best and most inexpensive place to get > a Debian CD distribution. Check out http://www

Thanks (was Future debian user)

1997-07-14 Thread Shaleh
Well looks like I am going to gve Deban a try. Thanks for all the suggestions and offers. I received 30 some odd mail on my first day -- I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions. One last question --> where is the best and most inexpensive place to get a Debian CD distribut

Thanks! (was Re: Total Newbie partition question)

1997-07-07 Thread Dan Hugo
Thanks, Bob! I guess I should have kept going with fdisk instead of wimping out. I probably would have gone down that path eventually. I asked two of my friends familiar with this (both Debian users, in fact) and both of them answered with "I don't remember exactly how that works, b

THANKS

1997-06-20 Thread Richard Harran.
correctly using the 3c5x9cfg.exe dos program, as suggested by users on this group, and now everything is hunky-dory. Thanks to everyone who helped. Rich. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Thanks (was Debian Woes)

1997-06-16 Thread Tim O'Brien
it will be. Thanks once again, Tim - LINUX 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades!! - Please direct Email to: tjobrien(at)traveller.c

Thanks

1997-06-15 Thread Dominic Torruellas
The Master > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" > to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . thanks man I ran norton on the disk and it said it wasn't able to copy system files to it, guess teh disk i

Cron setup -- thanks/summary

1997-06-05 Thread Randy Edwards
Just a quick note of thanks to all who replied about the Debian cron setup. I was thrilled with the response and it's greatly appreciated. Rather than summarize, I'll just say that if anyone has any questions about the cron setup that Debian uses please do not hesitate to mail

[THANKS] Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set

1997-03-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Thanks to all of you who helped me on that problem. Now everythings works fine except pari but I think that now I'll be able to cope with it. I have to apologize because as one of you pointed out to me there was a FAQ answering to the most part of my problem. Laurent.

Re: HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

1997-02-24 Thread Rob Browning
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mind you, I can't see anywhere in /etc/init.d/* where it only > starts xdm based on the runlevel, nor in the inittab. I think the information you want may be in /etc/init.d/README -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

1997-02-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while > holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then > removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your > help everyone, you are incredible! But isn't that the wron

HELP! locked out of X - problem solved THANKS!

1997-02-24 Thread Daniel Robbins
I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your help everyone, you are incredible! -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer

Thanks (Upgrading by shaky ftp...)

1997-02-19 Thread Michael Tempsch
Thank you all for replying! (Kevin Traas, Shaya Potter, Rob Williams, Greg de Freitas, James LewisMoss) >From your responses I conclude that dselect, as I thought, will do the right thing. I just wanted to make _sure_ it wouldn't mess things up... Seems like the phoneline will be busy tonight,

Many thanks (was Re: setting up authentification for reading news)

1997-01-20 Thread Joseph Skinner
many thanks to all the suggestions that I got for setting up authentification for news. I solvered the problem in the short term by writing a quick and nasty version of suck in python that would handle authentificaton and this seems to work well for the moment. Amny thanks Joe

THANKS and Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-23 Thread M . Arifi Koseoglu
ing dselect as suggested by several of you, I was happily back in business. THANKS VERY MUCH ! Cheers, Arifi -- Arifi Koseoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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