TeTeX (was Re: SGML-Tools)

1998-03-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |However, I don't have latex (nor latex2e). I have tetex instead. I |thought tetex is a latex substition, at least when looking at basics |functionality. Indeed the sgml-tools package did not comment on this, |even though latex is one of its sugestions. And in

Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-03 Thread P. D. Tisdale
I just downloaded all of the "chunks" that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! What are the chances that every chunk is bad?? Is it possible I have downloaded an old version of t

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I'm not so sure that it doesn't. That is certainly well within the capabilities of make itself... Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: > > [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] > > As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectivel

Re: Ultra ATA HD Controller Comaptibility

1998-03-03 Thread Ender Wigin
-K Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do the Free-Ride On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Joe Hill wrote: > I am looking for a version of Linux that is compatible with my IDE HD > controller, which is an "Ultra ATA" controller on a recent Gateway 2000 PC > (300 > MHz P II). According to the Redhat site, th

Re: Slackware--->Debian

1998-03-03 Thread Ender Wigin
-K Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do the Free-Ride On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Holden Caulfield wrote: I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this question. I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there

making room

1998-03-03 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Sometimes we install packages just to test, and end up with a HD full of things we never use. Well, I don't care about small things, but the big ones... Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the "dpkg -l", so that the size of each package would be

afterstep

1998-03-03 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
I upgraded afterstep to 1.4, but I had to downgrade it back to 1.0, cuz the new one did not get any of my old confs, and looked horrible! Did I do anything wrong? -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Igor Grobman
> On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, "I&IR" == Ivan & Ines Rojas wrote: I&IR> Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which I&IR> wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. I&IR> I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the

Re: smail - Is smarthost behavior correct?

1998-03-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost, > the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my > machine. I have smail configured with my ISP, metrolink.net, as a > smarthost for all mail. However, smail seem

Re: Kernel Customization.

1998-03-03 Thread shaul
> You seem to only have one kernel on your machine. That is the > reason that you have judt /vmlinuz and no /vmlinuz.old. When you > install the next kernel version, you shall get the second link in /. > > As to the names in /boot, the names are /boot/vmlinuz- > If you need more than o

Re: Activate Lilo

1998-03-03 Thread shaul
If Linux and Win95 are on different partitions of the same HD, I think that the Win95 installation forces the Win95 to be the active partition. Therefor, you might try to use fdisk from the DOS prompt in order to make the Linux partition active. > First I have windows 95 system and I insta

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

1998-03-03 Thread shaul
> Hi, > This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. It was Paul Rightley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) question (if I remeber correctly). I was only trying to help. >It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of >the possibility of putting a mini

Moved harddisk

1998-03-03 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I have a 1.2.8 system that I boot from floppy. I moved the harddrive from (effectively) /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. I then used rdev to change the boot device and the swap device to their hdb counterparts. Should that have been sufficient? Is there a primary/secondary IDE issue (if I'm saying that right

Re: SGML-Tools

1998-03-03 Thread shaul
> $ sgml2latex -a example.sgml > SGML-Tools driver version 0.99.7 The filenames have not changed accidentally, I am running the command from the same directory where the sgml file is, I have tried it with the the sgml-tools pkg (which was not an upgrade, but a fresh installation) and it is the

crt1.c

1998-03-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi all, I'm trying to compile a tool from Irix, What I'm currently getting is a syntax type error in something called "crt1.o" checked the source and the original stable release and it is distributed as crt1.o. Does anyone know what this is and where I can get the uncompiled code? Thanks

Re: Out of PTTY's

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script > program I get a message saying "out of PTTY's" and the program aborts. > Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. You may be using all your available pseudo-t

Re: 80M Thanks, and new question :)

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
If you have successfully run autoup.sh then you need to run dselect (though do read the upgrade howto's, etc.). Autoup.sh is designed to get you to the point where deselect CAN do the upgrade. One of the problems is that with the libc5 --> libc6 upgrade many of the things that dselect/dpkg rely u

Re: New (hamm) afterstep info

1998-03-03 Thread Kevin Traas
>just wondering: is it me or is there no info on the Net on the changes that >were incorporated into the afterstep version 1.4*? I found the European mirror >that carries the tarball, but no info on what the differences are between the >1.0 and 1.4 . Any pointers would be welcome.. I'm running th

Re: Problem

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Unless I am hopelessly dense (a distinct possibility) the 1024 cylinder 'limit' is a BIOS/ROM specific issue and that there are now motherboards with BIOS/ROMs that no longer impose that limit (and that this situation has existed for a long enough period of time that virtually all newer machines wi

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I don't remember the specific meaning of lilo stopping at LI either but as mentioned it is explained in the LILO HOWTO. Answering (at least partially) the question that I think that you are asking... You probably DO NOT need to reinstall. The problem is likely just a lilo configuration problem a

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and that you installed close to the latest packages... ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff. Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP? Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account' an

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Helmut; I am not really much of an expert in this sort of problem but would like to see if I can help you to have a little better understanding of what is going on with your system (as best as I understand anyway)... The ROM portion of DOS loads and executes the mbr, including accessing the di

Re: X install/config query

1998-03-03 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> Hello: >> >> I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete >> the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else >> that I have tried seems to be). >> >> I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system. I made the smae mistake when I fi

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course this is great for maintainers who create a bin

dpkg doesn't configure perl_5.004.04-2bo1.1.deb

1998-03-03 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hi, I use bo and needed perl 5.004. I installed perl-base_5.004.04-2bo1.1 without problems, but had problems that when installing perl_5.004.04-2bo1.1.deb (I lost the output, as far as I can remenber dpkg seemed to complain about files from perl 5.004 already present belonging to other packages).

Re: How to remove Boot block

1998-03-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
The fastest way to remove the master boot record (I assume that is what you want) is to use a MS_D*S boot disk (sorry, I've carvoted with the opposition in times past) Boot the machine with the boot disk and run "fdisk /mbr" to clear the record, you will then have to run reinstall lilo (simply by

Re: wierd ppp/pon bug?

1998-03-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
You may want to reset your modem between dials (in a chatscript): "" "\nATZ\n" Actually I have a fairly complicated ppp setup (multiple numbers and login methods that are tried in order), so I have a seperate reset script that looks like: ABORTOK ABORT"NO CARRIER" TIMEOUT 5 ""

Debian install source (Was Re: Yikes, sorry.)

1998-03-03 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +, Lorens Kockum wrote: > > Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in > > /etc/passwd ? > > NIS is notorious for not working with shadowed passwords Of course, forgot

Out of PTTY's

1998-03-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hello everyone, ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script program I get a message saying "out of PTTY's" and the program aborts. Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. Regards Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread IBMackey
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ivan & Ines Rojas writes: > > > > Hi there, > > I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job > > for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. > > I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm miss

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts: > > > > "uname -a" will report your machine type, the same as in "cat > > /proc/cpuinfo". > > > > Then, whe

Re: e2fsprogs

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the > same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version! > > bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > 86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56 > /sbin/mkfs.ext2* > bob:vc-2:bob>ls

Re: ncpmount: no server?

1998-03-03 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Can you send the output from "ifconfig -a" and "slist"? E.- K.Y.Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I had been compiled the kernel with IPX and NCPFS driver which : is already connecting to the Novell netware. I have configure nwe_mars.conf : in /etc/ directory. Then I log on my user and testing 'np

smail - Is smarthost behavior correct?

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
This seems to be open season for smail questions, so I'll ask one that has been puzzling me for a long time. I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost, the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my machine. I have smail configured with my ISP,

Re: 80M Thanks, and new question :)

1998-03-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Russ Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have numerous packages installed on my system. In the case of the > xserver-svga package, the version number of the Bo package was higher than > that of the Hamm package, and it was not apparent to me that I needed to > reinstall it. Is there a script

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: > What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own > configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; > Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,... I may try that. > ... versus having visible_name set to your ISP's domai

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts: > > "uname -a" will report your machine type, the same as in "cat /proc/cpuinfo". > > Then, when you compile, you can specify an architecture. This can be i386, > i486, i586 for in

hwclock fails on some "unstable" machines

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
I have three machines running hamm. Two of them produce the error "mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting." when I run hwclock. The same version of sysvinit: bash# dpkg -l sysvinit Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-inst

Re: php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'

1998-03-03 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 3 Mar 1998, tibor simko wrote: > hello / szia :-) Szia! ;) > i am sending this message to you as to the debian php3 maintainer, > since nobody responded to my email on debian-user. php3's cgi > approach works fine for me, but not the apache module approach; here > comes the original message

lynx play sound files

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie .wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a .mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: DE-660 PCMCIA Card problems

1998-03-03 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) wrote: > If anyone read my earlier message, I have resolved my problem of how > to get the PCMCIA stuff onto a laptop without a CD-ROM or anything > like that (just copied them off my windoze machine onto a floppy and > mounted it as vfat on debian). > Now I'm won

80M Thanks, and new question :)

1998-03-03 Thread Russ Cook
First, thanks to all who offered me the solution to make Linux recognize my 80MB ram. This user list is the best thing I've seen on the net. Second, my xserver-svga is now working with my Matrox Mystique 220 card. I was still running the version from Bo. I upgraded to the hamm version, and all

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > > > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > > > probably wasn'

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > > > Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open > > postscripts, sound file, etc: > > > > sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression > > sh: -c line 1: syntax erro

Re: hamm bugs

1998-03-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:59 +0100 1998-03-02, Jonas Bofjall wrote: >I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation. >Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems >during installation which might be of value to someone: > >* The disk partitioning program did not work

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:39 -0700 1998-03-02, Bob Nielsen wrote: >This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo. > >I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo >version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to >be very careful when you do upg

RE: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:52 -0500 1998-03-02, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: >I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine. >However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from >a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk). >What should I do in that case? lilo's append option means "ap

e2fsprogs

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version! bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2* bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mke2fs 86036 -rwxr-xr-x

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I > have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and > it's configuration. > > Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are > peoples op

Re: wtmp upgrade problems

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to > hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file > wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people > logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not u

Re: e2fsprogs (Was: Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link): > > bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs > 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs > bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbi

Re: How to remove Boot block

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
Pascal MIQUET wrote: > > I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block. > > I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition. > > How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk ! > > Thanks for your help. > I don't understand what you are asking. Post yo

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > > get it to do what it can for me

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know > > > ab

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know > > about your package then? > > It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update: >

Re: LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times > on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the > expected LILO: > What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? This is the boot loader provid

remote execution

1998-03-03 Thread Ciccio
Hi, I've a debian/linux box as a server for a LAN with all kinds of windows, running samba and ksmbfs. Is there any posibility to execute remotely a non-interactive program from the linux on any of the windows? Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm not currently on this list. Thanks, ci

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > > get it to do what it can for me

wtmp upgrade problems

1998-03-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous ftp account.

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes. Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that. > But I'm trying to do a "custom" inst

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-03 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > > > > > > In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1) > > > the question: > > > > > > To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder "sent-mail-jan-1998" ? > > > > > > everytim

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Uh huh... that wasnt my question, but I have since installed procmail as a > result of that thread. I guess I have another question, the smail > configuration (transports) that procmail suggests, anybody had problems > with it?? (this one:) > > local:

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > I guess installing LILO on the boot sector of the linux partition will > have the save result as placing it in the MBR. I installed Linux first, > and then win95. It should still be possible to boot Linux, but as I have > to init my soundcard with a DOS util, I use loadlin. > Inst

LI instead of LILO:

1998-03-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? /---/ Daniel J.

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: >[snip] > > I think that is rather simple by doing (in dos) 'fdisk /mbr'. However, I'm > afraid it erases LILO out of the MBR as well. > >[snip] I guess installing LILO on the boot sector of the linux partition will have the save result as placing it in

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-03 Thread John Kloss
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > > > > > Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open > > > postscripts, sound file, etc: > > > > > > sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' f

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes. But I'm trying to do a "custom" install with alots of selected packages for a bastion host/firewall. This would be cumbersome t

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread tko
Ivan & Ines Rojas writes: > > Hi there, > I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job > for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. > I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the > ppp-on and ppp-off files. > > I have no idea if

dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > I have a particular list of packages I would like to install saved in > a file and am using a 3 CD-ROM Debian 1.3.1 set I got with Dale Scheetz's > book as my media. > > I imagine I need to mount the cdrom and use dpkg --get-selections and > dpkg --s

How to remove Boot block

1998-03-03 Thread Pascal MIQUET
I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block. I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition. How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk ! Thanks for your help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == oh, and I forgot that you need to REPAIR the win95 MBR... thought you've been having problem installing lilo... Sorry. I think that is rather simple by doing (in dos) 'fdisk /mbr'. However, I'm afraid it erases LILO out of the MBR as well. Everything the best, Peter

newbie ppp.....i need help

1998-03-03 Thread Alain Toussaint
look like you've got the same problem as me when i choose to ditch win95 and go for Linux,you need 3 files for hooking PPP to a Linux box: rule no.1-:the PPP HOWTO say that you dont normaly have to touch (read: edit) the file /etc/ppp/options ,but the one you wrote (King) should not cause problem

Re: disabling remote xdm logins

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to disable remote xdm logins from terminals and from some > remote xdm login widgets. I tried to modify the Xaccess file according to > the docs and then restarting xdm but I still can't seem to get xdm to stop > broadcasting to th

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-03 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes: > However, if smail is handed a from address (either by the SMTP "MAIL > FROM:" command or by the "-f" or "-r" option to the senmail command), > smail will use that address. Therefore it may be perfectly possible > to convince your MUA to hand sma

Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
- Forwarded message from peterp - >From peterp Tue Mar 3 10:59:38 1998 Subject: Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Helmut Leinfellner at "Mar 3, 98 10:11:20 am" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Helmut Leinfellner) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:59:38 +0100 (CET) X-

Re: Modifying Routing Tables on the fly

1998-03-03 Thread Carey Evans
"Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}') In the interests of eliminating unneeded commands, did you realise you can write this more easily as the following? USER=$(who | awk '$2=="ttyS1" { print $1 }') -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.n

disk partitions (part 3) ... :D

1998-03-03 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi ! I've still not solved the partition problem. :-( I've set CHS in the BIOS to 14848 - 9 - 63. But this is "NORMAL" and therefore DOS is in trouble. If I set it to "LBA" and 524 - 255 - 63 I'm having trouble with the MBR because lilo rewrote it (the Win95 version of the MBR) and I don't have

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Jim
> Here, learn to fish :) > http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym Give a man a fish... he'll have a meal that day... Teach a man to fish... he'll sit on the boat drinking beer all day... :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troub

Re: Slackware--->Debian

1998-03-03 Thread Jim
(The question was: "I have slackware; want debian; how reformat?") Ans: The debian installation process will take care of all that for you. You can repartition your drives -- if you want a different mix of OSes than what you had with slack. Remember to back up anything you created: songs, scripts,

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-03 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: > > > Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open > > postscripts, sound file, etc: > > > > sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression > > sh: -c line 1: syntax error

Re: Yikes, sorry. (Was Re: make-kpkg)

1998-03-03 Thread Jim
Lorens Kockum said something to the effect of: "Why get asked at all whether to run shadow passwds?" There are multiple buffer overrun bugs in the shadow passwd suite as used by debian. The bugs seem to take different forms in hamm than they do in bo; I'm not sure why. I reported this as a critic

smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-03 Thread Michael Beattie
Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and it's configuration. Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's a

Re: DMA Bus Mastering Reset on WDC AC34300L

1998-03-03 Thread cleto
Hi, > I had the same problem recently with the same motherboard. Changing the > 'PCI Latency' in the BIOS from 0 to 32 completly eliminated this > phenomenon. Since then there is no problems with bus mastering or hdparm > from bo (kernel 2.0.33). My HDD is a Quantum 1.6 G. Yes, that seems to

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Did you try to run 'pine' as root? Did it change .pinerc's onwership? > > I just tried it. No, it left the ownership alone. I haven't made any > changes to my shell setup (bash-2.01) that would affect this. > > Bob > > --- > Bob Nielsen

Re: newbie ppp install question...

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I can't tell you right now what's the problem, but please be so kind as to send me (to my personal address) your files /var/log/daemon.log and /var/log/ppp.log and I might figure out what's happening. Note that there could be your passwords visible, so erase them before you send it t

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-03 Thread Rolland Mathieu
ls latest get latest/12 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: I need help (fwd)

1998-03-03 Thread Peter Paluch
- Forwarded message from peterp - >From peterp Tue Mar 3 08:30:27 1998 Subject: Re: I need help In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Ivan & Ines Rojas at "Mar 2, 98 09:30:41 pm" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan & Ines Rojas) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:30:27 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2

Re: DE-660 PCMCIA Card problems

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
You're getting close. It appears that you have customized your kernel and now you need to downlod the pcmcia-source package and recompile it too. You are probably trying to load pcmcia modules that were built to be compatible with the stock kernel image. Follow the directions in /usr/src/modules

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly, dmesg should show a lot of the kernel messages that scrolled off to fast. Secondly; it is risky installing another instance of the same kernel version on top of the forst one, especially the modules part. My advice: before installing the new kernel (assuming 2.0.29

Re: Problem

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
I think the kernel must reside in a partition below cylinder 1024. The LILO manual (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) provides a detailed description. --Bob > Javier Leyba wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to install a Linux version 2.0.29 on my PC with > the following configuration: > > Motherboard So

19980302 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-03-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.4 1998/03/03 06:18:57 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It prov

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all > > > headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > Pine is clearly one of the better documented programs in the world of > computing. If you press the '?' key from almost anywhere other than > when in 'compose' then pine gives you help. > > As Remco mentioned the 'h' command is the one that you want to tog

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all > > > headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header,

I need help

1998-03-03 Thread Ivan & Ines Rojas
Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the ppp-on and ppp-off files. I have no idea if I did something wrong, eventhough I didn't

newbie ppp install question...

1998-03-03 Thread King Alfor
Hi, I downloaded the base install, and that seemed to work fine after intsalling it. I also bought a book "The Debian Linus User's Guide", and I followed the install like it said. I can log in as root, and dselect starts properly. Now, I am supposed to go a second v-console, and configure

Q: New (hamm) afterstep info

1998-03-03 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi -- just wondering: is it me or is there no info on the Net on the changes that were incorporated into the afterstep version 1.4*? I found the European mirror that carries the tarball, but no info on what the differences are between the 1.0 and 1.4 . Any pointers would be welcome.. TIA DamirN

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-03 Thread john
Bob Hilliard writes: > It should be possible to make any other MUA put a proper From: field in > the mail they send to smail. That isn't the problem. It is the MAIL FROM address in the smtp transaction that causes difficulty. BrightNet refuses my mail if this address is not in their domain (even

Re: wierd ppp/pon bug?

1998-03-03 Thread john
Britton writes: > An odd thing happens when I have been connected for many (many) hours, > generally anywhere from 6 to 12 or so. > ... > This has happened twice now. I suspect a bug somewhere in ppp on the pon > script, or possibly in the kernel. Possibly related: Back when I was using ppp as a

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link): bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2 Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I have

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