Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > >(BTW, LILO will not install on an extended > > partition AFAIK) > > HI looked through the docs for this kind of limitation but > didn't see anything that pointed to this fact. Will be checking this out > again though. Sure it will

Unidentified subject!

1997-09-27 Thread maor
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 26 Sep 97 10:51:11 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:34:08 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Onyskiw) Organization: home Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Disapearing /dev/tty0's X-Mailer: PCElm

NFS expert, please diagnose this

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Str|mberg
I've mailed to debian-user twice earlier about this but I haven't gotten any responses at all. If you know NFS, please try this an tell me if it works for you or not. As it doesn't work for me and I think it wont work for you, I suppose I'd file a bug report but I don't know if it's the nfsd, lib

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-27 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > > nedit: > > > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > > Warning

installing twin and other questions

1997-09-27 Thread tmalloy
I know someone asked about this recently. Sorry for not paying more attention. I got twin from the caldera archive. It does not seem to have compiled correctly. Can anyone tell me how they got it up and running? I am trying to install it to /twin because I have a lot of room on /. I know that

Finding and Installing LILO for Debian Linux

1997-09-27 Thread GavinWatt
I am installing Debian Linux onto my second hard drive. I need LILO to allow me to boot either DOS from hard disk 1 or Linux from hard disk 2. I have the 7 CD monster distribution I purchased from Debian. However, I cannot find the lilo.config file I need, nor Debian-specific installation instructi

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-27 Thread Lawrence Lucier
Addressed to: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian ** Reply to note from Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) > > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > > > The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. > > What steps

Re: Bruce on the internet

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sep 27, Jim Pick wrote > > > About 20 Debian Developer. Thinking of the Debian Developer's Meeting 3 hours ago we must have about 50 developers here. Actually I believe there are about 30. > Wow. That's a pretty big crowd. No wonder the lists are quiet. :-) > > It took me about 15 minute

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > out doing > > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > > and t

dlxsim etc.

1997-09-27 Thread Richard Sevenich
Is anyone in this community using the DLX software as promulgated in Hennessy & Patterson's computer architecture book? If so, where might I find a version that works under linux? Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-27 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/27 at 16:38 PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > > nedit: > > > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > > Warning: translation table synta

Re: LILO and dos partitions

1997-09-27 Thread Dale Harrison
> > I'm installing Debian over what was formerly a Slackware partition (It's > been reformatted, thank goodness) and I'm stumped as to how I'm supposed > to get LILO to work with my dos partition. Right now, my /etc/lilo.conf > is: > > compact > boot=/dev/hda1 > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vm

Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jd? wrote: : i have some .deb packkages and cant seem to install them because i get the : following error when i run dpkg -i filename.deb; : : dpkg: parse error, in file/'var/lib/dpkg/updates/0024' near line 1: : newline in field name '#padding" : : i have no idea w

Re: formatted floppy type??

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lucier wrote: : Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= : ase install disks : that don't respond to either: : : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt : : or : : mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt : : VFS gives an error message stating "Can't

Re: Basic Debian hd mounting...

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lawrence wrote: : Carey Evans wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : > % ls -l /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269 Sep 12 10:26 /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : : well not all people can execute/erase files but still not good enough, : peopl

Re: X problem after update from REX to BO (detailed error messages now)

1997-09-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > Thank for your info. and yes the server compiled with a default font > paths. > > By the way, I can still run startx with the following FontPath, and > don't know you said your won't work? > FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/li

Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Hello All, > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > nedit: > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > Warning: translation table syntax

Translation Table Syntax Errors?

1997-09-27 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and nedit: Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: translation table syntax error: %s Warning: ... found while parsing ':osfDown: Increm

I can't boot or install Linux

1997-09-27 Thread Zouave
Hi, My computer has an Intel 486 dx4 100Mhz processor, 36MB RAM, 515MB hard disk, 3 1/2 '' floppy, CD-ROM 20x, HP Deskjet 540 printer, Logitech SoundManWave (sound card), Modem hayes compatible 33600 bps, mouse Logitech Standard, Scanner Logitech ScanMan Color Pro 2000, Windows 95. My computer can

Re: Bruce on the internet

1997-09-27 Thread Jim Pick
> About 20 Debian Developer. Wow. That's a pretty big crowd. No wonder the lists are quiet. :-) It took me about 15 minutes to get a connection (the server was probably swamped), but once I got it, it worked quite well (at 28.8k). I made some screen grabs: http://www.jimpick.com/debian/bru

Re: Bruce on the internet

1997-09-27 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sep 26, Jim Pick wrote > > > Bruce Perens has just arrived at the convention in Aachen. > > His talk will be distributed over the net using RealVideo. > > If you have an RA player handy, switch to the URL as listed > > in the signature and watch Bruce on Saturday, 9/27/97. > > The talk will tak

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #795

1997-09-27 Thread Gernot Bauer
On [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maarten wrote: > > I tried installing communicator 4.03 using netscape4_4.0-4.deb, and got > the following output: > > Installing Communicator files... > > Installing Communicator Java files... > ./ns-install: line 278: 2389 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i} > 239

Re: Real Video Coverage of Individual Network Convention

1997-09-27 Thread adavis
A note of irony: I have realaudio 3.0 and wanted to listen to the conference, which I think starts in a few hours. It is offered in video, not audio; linux binaries are unavailable for the needed realplayer version. At least as far as I can tell. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: clock

1997-09-27 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I used to have a program called 'clock' which updated by CMOS clock to the > system time every night, for some reason or another dselect removed it.. > what package is this program in? Seems to have been replaced by hwclock in from the util-linux package.

clock

1997-09-27 Thread Paul Miller
I used to have a program called 'clock' which updated by CMOS clock to the system time every night, for some reason or another dselect removed it.. what package is this program in? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-m

WU-FTPD setup

1997-09-27 Thread Paul Miller
I having a little trouble setting up WU-FTPD and I'd appreciate it if someone could help me. Here's what I want to do: anonymous users: /pub /users users in 'web' group: /pub /users /users/username users in 'beta' group: /beta /source /incoming ..and of course, the /

LILO and dos partitions

1997-09-27 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
I'm installing Debian over what was formerly a Slackware partition (It's been reformatted, thank goodness) and I'm stumped as to how I'm supposed to get LILO to work with my dos partition. Right now, my /etc/lilo.conf is: compact boot=/dev/hda1 vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=linux r

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-27 Thread Lawrence Lucier
Addressed to: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian ** Reply to note from Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) > > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > > > The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. > > What steps

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Klee Dienes
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > [...] > > There may be others? The 'official' way to do th

Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...

1997-09-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, jd? wrote: > Also how do i make fvwm2 my default windows manager and how do i add > programs to my menus.or where do i find documentation on how to > customize X... Default window managers are found in /etc/X11/window-manager. The

Re: IBM THINKPAD

1997-09-27 Thread Carey Evans
"EL TUCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i´m triying to install debian ver 1.3 on mi IBM 365 xd laptop for > the first time > > i have 8mb of ram, a 810 mb hard disk drive (cyl 788 , heads 32 , > sectors 63) , but the systems stops when booting from the rescue > disk , when i pressed F4 the tabl

dpkg & other assorted questions...

1997-09-27 Thread jd?
Howdy all, First off thanx for that mouse support, after using '/dev/psaux' as the device the mouse worked fine and x was up and running quickly.thanx now, i have a couple more questions.. i have some .deb packkages and cant seem to install them because i get the following error when i

Re: Motif and libc6

1997-09-27 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with > libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release > their Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. > Mea

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Brian K Servis wrote: > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > ar -x .deb data.tar.gz > tar zxvf data.tar.gz > rm data.tar.gz > > There may be others? Well, this gets rid of the temp files: ar p file.deb data.tar.gz | ta

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Brian K Servis
Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > >I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with >out doing > >dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >and then moving the one file and

Motif and libc6

1997-09-27 Thread Lawrence
I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still able to compile Motif program?

WebMasters Help Me!!!!!

1997-09-27 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
To Any Webmaster That Can Help Me: I am a newbi, and I heard that somes companies alow me to rent space in their web servers and that I can get from them the service of virtual hosting (I mean having a URL like

Mouse Troubles....

1997-09-27 Thread Rob MacWilliams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Greetings all, > > ok first thank you to everyone who helped me earlier with the basic hd > mounting stuff.after adding a few lines to the fstab and other file in > /etc i quickly had the win95 partition mounted.. > > OK...my next scenario. >