More Info on the AIC-7890 problem

1998-07-01 Thread Evan Van Dyke
The SCSI Controler I refered to in my post is the built-in AIC-7890 Ultra2 Wide SCSI controler on the ASUS P2B-DS motherboard(and the P2B-S/P2B-LS). When I boot up on the rescue disk I get the error: Unable to initialize WD-7000 SCSI controler. and then about 10 lines later: scsi: no controlers

SCSI aic7890 on-board-adapter (Asus P2B-LS)

1998-07-01 Thread Niels V. Pedersen
If somebody know how to get a scsi cdrom drive working with the debian dist. plz mail back. P.S. have read the SCSI-HOWTO from LDP at the sunsite-chain. Regards Niels P. / Ian J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Atapted AIC-7890 controller

1998-07-01 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Does anyone know how to get Debian(the hamm version) to recognize the Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I need to install Debian to a SCSI drive connected to the 7890(built in to my motherboard), but when Debian boots up, it says 'no scsi controlers found.' Obviously, this is a problem. :> Gett

Re: Is anacron right for me?

1998-07-01 Thread Shaleh
Anacron is called by cron. So yes it does get called periodically. I used it on my home system when I ran a dual-boot. Sometimes I was in Linux for several days, other times it was only an hour here or there. Nowadays I use cron because I have a 24-7 uptime. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *-Sha

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
If you are using apache and qmail, you have no need whatsoever for binding more than 1 ip to your system. eg, on my system, I'm doing virtual webhosting & email for a few domains. so... if you go to http://crosssound.narrows.com, you get one page. If you go to http://www3.minion.ml.org, you get a

Re: Is anacron right for me?

1998-07-01 Thread servis
*-Shaleh ( 1 Jul) | Anacron does a more fuzzy time check. It does not give precision of | "has it been one hour". It will insure that cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} | are run though. For you, I do not see the gain of anacron UNLESS your | machine is never on at the same times. Normal cron only run

Re: e2fsck

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:12:03AM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > > I had a few question regarding e2fsck. > > Can I assume e2fsck is something like Norton Disk Doctor for Linux. Yes, in that it checks and repairs linux ext2fs partitions. > When I run it, it gave me > /dev/hda1 is mounted. Do you real

Re: Bulletin Board SOftware

1998-07-01 Thread Tom Kuiper
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 1 12:12 PDT 1998 > > I am working to develop a Intranet for my company and one of the suggestions > is to use Debian. One of the features needed is a bulletin board. Is there > any software available to implement it(esp. in Debian).. > Check out WebBBS at http

Re: Is anacron right for me?

1998-07-01 Thread Shaleh
Anacron does a more fuzzy time check. It does not give precision of "has it been one hour". It will insure that cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} are run though. For you, I do not see the gain of anacron UNLESS your machine is never on at the same times. Normal cron only runs at say 1am, where anacro

Is anacron right for me?

1998-07-01 Thread servis
Hi all, I am wondering if anacron is the right package for me? My primary concern is the proper execution of the /etc/cron.*/ scripts. My system is typically up for 2 or 3 days and then shutdown for maybe 12-24 hrs and then up for 2 or 3 day, etc. It appears that anacron only checks and runs the

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Shaleh
Joseph Carter wrote: > I've wondered a lot why Debian doesn't use minigetty, but haven't bothered > to install it myself. I (and others) have asked for this a few times. In general too many people complained about changing the status quo. It is rather easy to change your getty (although you can

Re: e2fsck

1998-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Jieyao" wrote: > >I had a few question regarding e2fsck. > >Can I assume e2fsck is something like Norton Disk Doctor for Linux. e2fsck is a file system check and repair utility for ext2 file systems. It checks the self-consistency of the file system. It is run periodically on reboot, and

Quake 2 ref_soft problems

1998-07-01 Thread Eric
I recently updated to hamm, and, since I am an avid q2ctf player, installed quake2. It runs fine under X (using ref_softx), but when I try to run it using SVGAlib it says "Segmentation Fault" right after it says "Loading ref_soft.so". I have SVGAlib set up just like I did when I had bo and it use

dump & restore

1998-07-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to learn how dump and restore utilities work and I'm having not much success. I could do a dump of a filesystem using the line dump 0udf 61000 /dev/nst0 /tmp2, where 61000 is the density of my tape. If I do only this, I can restore /tmp2 without problems.

Re: Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg)

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Syed Huq wrote: > I have a Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg, parallel port). How do I make > Linux see all the files there ? > > Do I need to mount that drive somehow ? Can you tell me the commands > to use ? This really belongs in debian-user, so the To: header h

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-01 Thread matthew tebbens
I only have 1 main IP address (actually 5, but only one is used), and I host a number of domains for web space and mail I use Apache, and Qmail Both are really good for Virtual Hosting Matthew On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Ian Eure wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 02:55:39PM +, Andy Spi

Bulletin Board SOftware

1998-07-01 Thread vaidhy
Hi , I am working to develop a Intranet for my company and one of the suggestions is to use Debian. One of the features needed is a bulletin board. Is there any software available to implement it(esp. in Debian).. Regards, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /de

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:36:57AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for > what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than > agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display > linux_logo above my login prom

e2fsck

1998-07-01 Thread Jieyao
I had a few question regarding e2fsck. Can I assume e2fsck is something like Norton Disk Doctor for Linux. When I run it, it gave me /dev/hda1 is mounted. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? What is the danger of continuing? When I do a forced check on bootup (using shutdown -F) I almost

Re: Playing CD's

1998-07-01 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> I'm having a problem playing CD's using both workbone and xmcd. >> I can run 'saytime' and get somthing out of the speakers I can also >> start workbone >> and xmcd and see progress (lights on the CD and info on xmcd) but I >> don't get anything >> out of the speakers. What can be wrong. >> >>

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux

1998-07-01 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS > Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has > to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of > it (and a private practice invoicing prog) I have to keep a Windows 95

Re: kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???

1998-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Andy Spiegl wrote: > > Hi again, > I am a little clueless. I had a smail configuration problem on > my hamm, 2.0.33 system, so that a lot(!) of smail processes were > started. Soon I couldn't start any more processes and saw this > error message on the console: > Unable to load interpreter > >

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 02:55:39PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi! > > I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got > a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. > In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: Why do you w

Re: libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:51:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:54:52AM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > > ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory > > make[1]: *** [maube] Error 1 > > > > Phaktory# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: Dselect-questions

1998-07-01 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Wolfgang Gernot Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I normally do FTP-updates/installs but sometimes I download *.deb-files > and install them from "mounted-dir". I change access-method from ftp to > "mounted" and update the list. Installing works well but in the > "select"-list all packages

Dselect-questions

1998-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
I normally do FTP-updates/installs but sometimes I download *.deb-files and install them from "mounted-dir". I change access-method from ftp to "mounted" and update the list. Installing works well but in the "select"-list all packages I have installed are obsolete and the packages which are not ins

Playing CD's

1998-07-01 Thread Karsten Bolding
I'm having a problem playing CD's using both workbone and xmcd. I can run 'saytime' and get somthing out of the speakers I can also start workbone and xmcd and see progress (lights on the CD and info on xmcd) but I don't get anything out of the speakers. What can be wrong. The sound card is a Audi

printing problem

1998-07-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm having problems printing on a newly upgraded hamm system, and was wondering if anyone else has run into this. Yesterday I used the autoup.sh script, followed by 3 rounds with dselect (apt method), to perform the bo -> hamm upgrade. Everything appeared to have gone perfectly. But now if I do

kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???

1998-07-01 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi again, I am a little clueless. I had a smail configuration problem on my hamm, 2.0.33 system, so that a lot(!) of smail processes were started. Soon I couldn't start any more processes and saw this error message on the console: Unable to load interpreter And in the /var/log/kern.log: Jul

Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-01 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I am currently setting up a Mail and Webserver (hamm, 2.0.33). I have got a whole package of 256 IP addresses that I want to assign to this server. In the NET-3-HOWTO I read that I have to set it up like this: /etc/init.d/network: (part of the addresses X-ed out) #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127

Syquest

1998-07-01 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hello, I am new to this list and to Debian. I have a computer with a Syquest SparQ drive on it. Each cartridge holds 1GB. I was wondering if any one could tell or point me to detail instructions on how to install debian onto this disk. Thanks Erik -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

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hamm and login question

1998-07-01 Thread Phil Dyer
Just upgraded to hamm, and now when I login I get:Unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB'this comes after login prompt and before passwd prompt. /etc/login.defs is set to ISSUE_FILE_ENAB no What's the deeeal with that? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
G. Kapetanios writes: > mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 > I can't seem to find vflib Did you check out the japanese site? I'd assume that the library is available there, too. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: > From: "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:38:26 +0100 (BST) > > > mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 > > I can't seem to find vflib > > Can anyone help ? > > Sorry,

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Keita Maehara
From: "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:38:26 +0100 (BST) > mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 > I can't seem to find vflib > Can anyone help ? Sorry, I've forgotten it. It can also be downloaded from the same

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread G. Kapetanios
mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib >= 2.22 I can't seem to find vflib Can anyone help ? Thanks George On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: > From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:07:44 +0200 > > > > There's

Re: Upgrade to hamm ! Should I do it !? :)

1998-07-01 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > Should I wait till it wouldn't be beta test to have a more "stable" > -> > system !? > -> > > -> That's up to you. Does Bo do everything you want? Are there packages that > -> are only available in Hamm that you're interested in? Are you willing to > -> do

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Keita Maehara
From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:07:44 +0200 > > There's MagicPoint. It's absolutely free! > > > > ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/MagicPoint/mgp-1.03a.tar.gz > > Then why don't we have this already included? You can get the prep

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-01 Thread Neil Cheshire
There is a mini-HOWTO on this and using BOOTPART: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Cheers, Neil. >> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: >> >> > How can I boot WinNT4 using LILO or boot Linux using WinNT? >> > >> > I have a MS-DOS partiton that currently boots

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 01:45:35AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > hmm.. that won't work because NT is booting off the dos partition. I > tried setting the NT partition as the bootable partition and it complained > about not finding a NTLDR file (if I remember correctly). > > Because NT's boot loader

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Re: libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:54:52AM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [maube] Error 1 > > Phaktory# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 26 07:42 > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so > -> libX11.so.6.1 > lrwxrwxrw

Re: libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 09:52:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 07:01:48PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > > Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client > > bins, > > No. It is only needed to compile _static_ X client binaries. Unless you have >

Re: KDE Windows Manager

1998-07-01 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > My System is HAMM, > If I want to install KDE Window Manager, > Which packages are needed and where is it? > > Thank You! > if you start dselect and search for 'kde' you'll find various pkgs in contrib-section --- Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wie

Re: repost - fvwm95 install problem

1998-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ivan wrote: >Hello again ! > >I have recently installed Debian GNU Linux ( Bo release ) which shares a >4.5Gb H/D with Windoze (all seperately partitioned). > >I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but >then how do I tell - much X help needed !!! If it h

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. that won't work because NT is booting off the dos partition. I tried setting the NT partition as the bootable partition and it complained about not finding a NTLDR file (if I remember correctly). Because NT's boot loader is much easier to use, I'd like to use it to boot all three OSs. I'l

Re: repost - fvwm95 install problem

1998-07-01 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello again ! Where's that tentative smile? :-) | I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but | then how do I tell - much X help needed !!! Try 'dpkg -s fvwm | grep ^Status' Much X help given upon request. No fees, no strings attached.

Re: KDE Windows Manager

1998-07-01 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* "Alex Kwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | My System is HAMM, | If I want to install KDE Window Manager, | Which packages are needed and where is it? It's in package kdebase. Depends: menu (>= 1.5-5), kdelibs0g (>= 2:980312), libc6, libjpegg6a, libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1), qt1g (>= 1.33-4), xlib6g (>

Re: KDE Windows Manager

1998-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 04:52:47PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: > My System is HAMM, > If I want to install KDE Window Manager, > Which packages are needed and where is it? Use dselect or apt. Install kdebase, kdelibs, that's the core, there are some missing, but dependency should install them. There

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 07:20:55AM +0900, Yamamoto Hirotaka wrote: > Adrian Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS > > Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has > > to use this prog for prepari

Re: libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread fantomas
-> Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X -> client bins, and it is not a part of the xlib6g-dev package... anyone -> know where it's gone off to? afaik it's not required, you can compile with libX11.so which would be much better - would decrease size of binary and siz

Re: Upgrade to hamm ! Should I do it !? :)

1998-07-01 Thread fantomas
-> > Should I wait till it wouldn't be beta test to have a more "stable" -> > system !? -> > -> That's up to you. Does Bo do everything you want? Are there packages that -> are only available in Hamm that you're interested in? Are you willing to -> do a little bug testing? ok, now how to upgr

Re: Multiple Processors & Netscape Communicator V.4.05

1998-07-01 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Alex! On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! Debian Fans, > > (1) I want to upgarde my Linux system to 2 x Pentium-II system, > and I have read the document "Installing Debian Linux 2.0" on > www.debian.org , at chapter 4.13 "Multiple Processors" >

Re: SB 64 AWE-64 , 56K Flex Modem & SONY CDU-948S

1998-07-01 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! Debian Fans, Hi Alex! > (1) What is the difference between SB AWE-64 Valve > and SB AWE-64 Gold? - - the amount of memory to use more "instruments" - - the ""gold"" connectors - - The big diference of

repost - fvwm95 install problem

1998-07-01 Thread Ivan
Hello again ! I have recently installed Debian GNU Linux ( Bo release ) which shares a 4.5Gb H/D with Windoze (all seperately partitioned). I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but then how do I tell - much X help needed !!! Anyway, I have now downloaded the "lates

KDE Windows Manager

1998-07-01 Thread Alex Kwan
My System is HAMM, If I want to install KDE Window Manager, Which packages are needed and where is it?   Thank You!

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Vad Ivanov
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:25:37PM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > > > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > the login > > prompt appears. > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn

Re: NFS/Network locking available?

1998-07-01 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 11:21:45AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris > machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about > network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking > supported i

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread stick
Joseph Carter said > On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > > the login > > > prompt appears. > > > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > > > wo

Re: libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 07:01:48PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client > bins, No. It is only needed to compile _static_ X client binaries. Unless you have special needs, the dynamic library (/usr/X11R6/libX11.so) suffices. Simply com

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Shaleh
Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display linux_logo above my login prompt. When I log out Linux_logo reappears and all is fresh again.

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > the login > > prompt appears. > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > > work. > > > > TIA. > > Many folks

Re: X hates me after hardware upgrade

1998-07-01 Thread Jason Wright
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 04:09:27PM -0700, Ian Eure spewed forth: > It looks to me like there might be an onboard c&t adapter on the new > motherboard, or a second card. Check under /proc/pci and see what devices it > finds... Look and see if more than one display adapter is getting detected. > For

Re: Did I do something wrong ?

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Also, I generally don't get very many responses to my questions or posts > to the mailing list, either. If you ask me there is a conspiracy out > there where someone has setup a filter to send all of my posts to > /dev/null. just kidding.. :) Inte

Re: Sybase With Debian?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
You can check out the book "The Practical SQL Handbook" by Bowman, Emerson and Darnovsky, Addison-Wesley 1996. It is exactly what the title says, and comes with a version of Sybase on CD-ROM. I haven't fired it up, but I have the book and the CD that went with it. Don't know if it's a DOS version

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
the lone gunman wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:25:37PM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > > > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > the login > > prompt appears. > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > > work. > > > > T

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread the lone gunman
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:25:37PM +0800, Jieyao wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the > login > prompt appears. > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > work. > > TIA. Many folks suggested adding the clea

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-07-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Larry Walewski wrote: > > I think your ideas are great. I too am a newbie to Linux. First tried > installing > Caldera's OpenLinux Lite, but couldn't get it to work on my machine with > only 5 megs (probably could've with a little more work). Someone then > pointed me, thankfully, to Debian!

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Shaul wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Shaul wrote: > > > > > > If you want a v4 version, get the v4 version of the .deb installer. > > > > > > Is there a .deb v4 installer for Bo ? It seems to me that the ftp sites > > > are > > > only keeping the one for Hamm ? > > > > S

problems with diald, and local network

1998-07-01 Thread Tim Bell
I'm having two problems with a new hamm (beta) installation -- I think they're unrelated, but I may be wrong. First of all, I can't get the local network working using PCI ne2000 clone card. The output of netstat -nr is (some numbers munged to protect the innocent): Kernel IP routing table Desti

I screwed up my prcat file.

1998-07-01 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I was tweaking my prcat file and somehow saved it with nothing in it. I guess when I think to myself, "Maybe I should back that up before messagin with it." I should probably listen. Nevertheless could someone send me a copy of their prcat file or tell me where I can get one? Thanks, Keith [EMA

libX11.a?

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Eure
Hey... I'm not seeing libX11.a anywhere... It's needed to compile X client bins, and it is not a part of the xlib6g-dev package... anyone know where it's gone off to? -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-07-01 Thread Butch Kemper
At 07:53 -0500 on 6/30/98, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > And a new qpopper has been in Incoming since Saturday. > > >Patches were posted, but today a new series of attacks > >proved the patches worthless. > Where can I get that version and the source that goes with it? Thanks. Butch Butch K

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 03:37:32AM +0300, Shaul wrote: > At least the package that I found can't work on bo since it depends on libc6 > (and maybee for other reasons). > > $ dpkg -I packages/netscape/netscape4_4.0-12.deb | grep Depends > Depends: motifnls, ldso (>= 1.9.7-0), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0),

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-07-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Frank Jonischkies wrote: > I use qpoper, installed with dselect. The configuration will automatically > add a line in inetd.conf. I'd hold out for a few days. There is a remote root exploit that they are working on fixing on bugtraq right now I think. HTH, Brandon

Re: Permedia 2 AGP gfx card with Debian ?

1998-07-01 Thread Brian Weiss
that's somewhat strange since I've been successfully running a Diamond Permedia 2 (Fire GL 1000 Pro) 8mb AGP card on both slackware and debian systems using the Elsa_GLoria server that SuSE has had out since the release of XFree86 3.3.2... That's good to hear that it isnt a libc5/libc6 problem. I'