Re: AWE Kernel Patch Troubles

1998-07-03 Thread Greg Norris
Sorry, I hit the wrong key and accidently set that last one just a tad bit early... - The very same thing happened to me last week. I've attached a diff which should take care of the problem for you. Here's what you need to do (I'm assuming that /usr/local/src/awedrv-0.4.2d is where you unp

Re: AWE Kernel Patch Troubles

1998-07-03 Thread Greg Norris
The very same thing happened to me last week. I've attached a diff which should take care of the problem for you. Here's what you need to do (I'm assuming that /usr/local/src/awedrv-0.4.2d is where you unpacked awedrv into): cd /usr/local/src patch -p0 I have an AWE64 and I've been u

Re: Mirrored Drives?

1998-07-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:13:35PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: > I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system > that's using IDE drives. > > Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS > mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actua

Re: off topic: gimp

1998-07-03 Thread Anthony Fok
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:37:36AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > GIMP is a really cool graphics program, and lets you do a lot of the same > things Photoshop does. A good place to get started would be the official > website, gimp.org. > > Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > > > Hello Fellow Debian U

X11 fonts not installed??

1998-07-03 Thread Evan Van Dyke
After installing all of the X11 packages(through dselect) on Debian 2.0, I've run into problems. when I try to run XF86Setup, It says that it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pc* So I ran xf86config... then when I ran startx, it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed when I

Mirrored Drives?

1998-07-03 Thread Chris Brown
Hi, I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system that's using IDE drives. Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actually crashed, the OS would keep running or at least be restarted w

Diald connect script for chap

1998-07-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I recently switched ISPs to one that uses NT and its chap. Using the pppconfig package I have my system working so that it works fine with "pon". However, I want to get diald working. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me create a diald "connect" script that works properly in this setup. Wo

Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-03 Thread Eric
On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote: >I figured the thing to do is copy all the files on hda6 into hda5(my D: >drive), repartition hda6 into hda6 + hda7 (I should use the rescue disk for >this?), and then copy back my files from 'D:' on to 'hda6', leaving hda7 >empty for future use. (I thought

Re: PGP compiliation problems

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
Why are you compiling it?? There is a package of it in hamm already. You just have to go to a non-us server to get it. Try going to non-us.debian.org (I think). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

AWE Kernel Patch Troubles

1998-07-03 Thread Eric
I have an AWE64 and I've been using the kernel patch for it ever since I've had Linux. However, with my upgrade to hamm and the 2.0.34 kernel, I had to repatch and recompile my kernel. Along with that upgrade, I got the newest version of the AWE patch, 0.4.2d. I followed the directions in INSTAL

PGP compiliation problems

1998-07-03 Thread Eric
I've been having some serious trouble getting PGP to compile in hamm. On a freshly untarred PGP source tree, I do everything that setup.doc tells me to: (from /usr/src/pgp, logged in as root) cd rsaref/install/unix make cd /usr/src/pgp/src make linux Making rsaref gives me no errors, but the 'm

Re: Support

1998-07-03 Thread Paul Huygen
"Romilson Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >I got the Base1_3.tgz , and I don't know that i do with this file .. If you don't need this file, you can throw it away. If ther is useful material in the file, try the command "tar -xzf Base1_3.tgz" to unpack this file. >and more .. Debian linu

Re: Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
Ok, /proc DOES NOT EXIST on your filesystem. It is what is called a "virtual filesystem". It looks like files, acts like files, but it does not actually contain files on your hard drive. /proc/kcore is the contents of the kernel's core memory. It is not real and is not taking up space on your h

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-03 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>Hmm ... ok, that makes sense. When I do an ldd on erpcd on a libc5 >system it only says it's linked against libc5 ... and libdb is linked >against libc6 on hamm systems. > >tesla:/usr/annex # ldd erpcd >libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 >libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 >tesla:/usr/annex # cat /etc/debian

Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-03 Thread Dennis Dixon
What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2 separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB of free space. I figured the thing to do is copy

installing, bad primary partition fatal error

1998-07-03 Thread Avalon Rusk
I tried installing debian 1.3 after downloading it from the website. I made a rescue floppy and attempted an install from DOS with loadlin (1.6). From loadlin, I got the following message during the install process (but before configuring the monitor or keyboard): Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to moun

Re: autoup.sh by ftp

1998-07-03 Thread servis
*-Hans Ehrbar ( 3 Jul) | | Hello Brian, | | thanks for your prompt reply. I have been trying the URL | you gave me, http://www.debian.org/news#19980624, and I | checked through the whole directory tree of ftp.debian.org | but I haven't found autoup.sh anywhere where it is | accessible per ftp.

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > > They didn't have space for it anymore. It'd be an interesting thing to set > > up to give people at LUG meetings. It's kinda what I wanted to do with a > > Zip disk.. Bring me a Zip disk and I'll give you a working Linux system > > t

Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

1998-07-03 Thread d1temp
> seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally > dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the > COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks. >> Now I have >> running Netscape but it is black and white, and I don't know what to do >> *sigh*. This wouldn't be the 2

Re: Support

1998-07-03 Thread servis
*-Romilson Carvalho ( 3 Jul) | Hello Friends, | I've installed debian linux in my computer, but ,, | I got the Base1_3.tgz , and I don't know that i do with this file .. | | whats can I do ? Check out the following for the full instructions Debian 1.3 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bo/main/d

Re: autoup.sh by ftp

1998-07-03 Thread servis
*-Hans Ehrbar ( 3 Jul) | | Is there an address where I can get autoup.sh and the | other files necessary for updating by ftp? | Check http://www.debian.org/news#19980624 for a list of sites. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University

autoup.sh by ftp

1998-07-03 Thread Hans Ehrbar
Is there an address where I can get autoup.sh and the other files necessary for updating by ftp? Hans Ehrbar -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Can't connect to slashdot.org

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
HAHAHAHAHA Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few days. It is functional now, but will more than likely be coming up an

Can't connect to slashdot.org

1998-07-03 Thread Adam Klein
For the past few days, I have been unable to connect to slashdot.org using either lynx or 'telnet slashdot.org http'. Actually, I can connect; I just don't recieve any data. I haven't had trouble with any other WWW sites. Any ideas as to what might be wrong? Thanks, Adam Klein

Re: debian for public stations

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
A DX66 was my first Linux box. Runs fine, however I think you will Java rather unhappy. It will work, but it will load and change SLOWLY. But otherwise, you should not have any problems. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Require gnome file

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
Yes, it is still sitting in Debian's Incoming so if the Debian mirror you use has Incoming you can grab it from there. Otherwise I keep a copy on my website. Go to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software. Grab all the imlib 1-11 files. Ian Stuart wrote: > > I'm trying to install gnome 0.2 but I've di

Support

1998-07-03 Thread Romilson Carvalho
Hello Friends, I've installed debian linux in my computer, but ,, I got the Base1_3.tgz , and I don't know that i do with this file .. whats can I do ? and more .. Debian linux have not X windows system ? Have i that got the x in the net ? Please , sorry if my english ins't good .. because I

RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-03 Thread Dennis Dai
My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT or win95. This is quite different from what has been described in those mini HOWTOs. So

Re: Debian Linux booting details

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
Robert Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a document which would walk through all the phases and the > resources/files used by Debian Linux while booting ??? > > I went through the usual inittab, /etc/init.d files but some things are > probably escaping my attention. > > Thank you.

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: > > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > > > > I think older v

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. > > Probably yes, if a system has sufficient RAM. One would have to combine some > things: [snip] 8 MB's are perfectly fine for this. I used a setup of

distribution HOWTO

1998-07-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, I just had a peek at the linux distribution HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Distribution-HOWTO.html. The debian entry is about debian 1.3 and last updated 13 March 1997. Wouldn't it be a good idea that someone sent the maintainer a little something about the 2.0 beta? Also, de

netscape 4.05

1998-07-03 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant running netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing How do user run the netscape to execute? -- Cheers K.Y.Lo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

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

1998-07-03 Thread Lars Steinke
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Niels V. Pedersen wrote: > 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. Hmmm, "mount -tiso9660 /dev/scd0 /wherever" should do the trick... Unless, you don't have

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-03 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> > On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: >> > >(2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the >> > > isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) >> > >> > Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using loadlin from >> > windows >> > or something wierd like

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Tom wrote, > I downloaded and installed Star Office 4.0. I haven't had much opportunity > to > study it, but I did find out that it will not load PowerPoint (*.ppt) files. It will handle a single version of powerpoint, and nothing before. Version 7, I think. HOwever, it lost all the pict

Single-user vs multi-user ystem configuration suggestion

1998-07-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[Perhaps this should go to the devel list, but I don't subscribe to it (yet).] This is about Debian's sometimes not-complete configuration on the grounds that a multi-user system shouldnot enable bells for all users. I think that users would be better served if this behaviour were optional. Whe

Re: debian for public stations

1998-07-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I am new to the list and am investigating some options for configuring our > publically accessible PCs. Through various upgrades and other developments > we are also assembling a growing base of 486DX stations with 16 MB RAM. One > option we are exploring is to use debian on these units. L

Re: modem setup problem - zoltrix 33600

1998-07-03 Thread vaidhy
> I am having trouble setting up this modem. > I tried the normal settings on this modem, but they won't work. > If i'm reading the output from plog correct then it gets stuck > waiting for the login name. > It does everything before that very slowly but i got it to dial. > then i get a first line

Re: Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-03 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 10:21:26AM +, Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > From: Ionut Borcoman at debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I've downloaded some time ago the hamm. Now I need the lapack-dev, but > it is nowhere between my downloaded files. I do not have for the moment > a full connect

SCSI Disk Farm

1998-07-03 Thread Michael Laing
I volunteer assistance at several local schools in our rural district and we have been very successful in setting up debian linux-based servers that employ apache, squid, netatalk (for mac file sharing), and samba (for windows file and printer sharing). This success has lead us to experiment with

Re: Lapack question

1998-07-03 Thread chrislee
> "I" == Ionut Borcoman at debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I> Hi, How do I use a function from lapack in a C program ? Where I> are the declaration ? Do I have to make myself the declaration I> ? I use the cfortran header file from this location ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfor

Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christopher Barry wrote: > > Hi, > > I just had to deal with this problem today. Netscape is a libc5 application, > and > you'll need some packages from section oldlibs. There is a libXt.so.6 in both > xlib6g(for libc6) and in xlib6(for libc5, in section oldlibs). After > installing xlib6, > I

Re: Where is the vfat, dos support in 2.0.34 ????

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Alexander wrote: > > I just installed 2.0.34-3 source and make config did not mention the > "DOS" flesystems also tried rm .config but they do not show up. > > kernel compiled and installed just fine and runs flawlessly but of > course my > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdb6 /DATAFILES > > c

Re: off topic: gimp

1998-07-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alexander Gutfraind wrote: >Hello Fellow Debian Users! >I've noticed that many sites promoting linux and free >software >point that their site was built by GIMP. can anybody tell me > >what is GIMP? Where can I get it for a test drive? Debian packages: $ dpkg -l | grep gimp hi gimp

Re: break download

1998-07-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >- Is there any FTP programm which would permit to stop a download >in order to go on later even if the computer have been switch off ? >This could be > useful for huge files as staroffice... use the reget command in ftp or use `wget -c' -- Oliver Elph

debian for public stations

1998-07-03 Thread Rhyno Art
I am new to the list and am investigating some options for configuring our publically accessible PCs. Through various upgrades and other developments we are also assembling a growing base of 486DX stations with 16 MB RAM. One option we are exploring is to use debian on these units. Linux has sm

Re: X11 problems on a new install...

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected > all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually, > I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm > install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, an

Re: using mail on a debian system (betwin users)

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do i send mail betwin users on my debian system? > For now its mainly interest, but anyway. > Thanx > Do you have a mail transport agent like smail/exim installed? If so, use a mail program like 'mutt' to send from one user to another. The address of your '

Re: Current Mirrors? Was deselect wont ftp

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Young, Ed wrote: > > I'll be surfing the mirrors looking for one which has some recent dates on > the files. Seems that the most current is June 27th or so. Can you recommend > one? > > What do you mean "Using dselect with the apt method on a mirror > which supports http is quite >

Re: using dselect through ftp

1998-07-03 Thread graeve
On 3 Jul 1998 03:37:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha Feigin) wrote: > >I tried to use dselect through ftp. >After setting up the options it logs in to the ftp server >and then it couldn't find the directory. I checked and the >deirectory was spelled out right. anyone know the problem? > Yes Ido.

Re: serial troubles

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chea Prince wrote: > > i suspected the modem too so tried a us robotics (usually have a gdc > connected)...both behave the same. seems to be related to warnings at > bootup re: PCI ... there is a serial USB controller on IRQ 10 that is one > of the PCI devices that isn't recognized (identified by

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > > On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > > > >(2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the > > > > isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) > > > > > > Yes, you do need the isap

Re: NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Must have been a pre-release then. The Slackware 3.5 CD has v2.0 and v2.1 directories, and he was about to install the latest 2.1, until I explained that 2.1 series are developmental, so he went to the 2.0 directory and installed the newest one in there, which was a 2.0.35, because I told him it

Assigning an address to my PCMCIA card. HOW ?

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
I have a portable with an eth0 and a tr0 device properly configured. I have upgraded from BO to HAMM. I now manually give the proper ifconfig and route commands out of a batch file to configure them. I used to have an /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file in which I gave the desired values and the thing

Re: ran autoup, need deselect clarification

1998-07-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Young, Ed wrote: > > Thanx for the fast reply. > > Are you saying that if I just do ACCESS, UPDATE, and INSTALL it may add > packages that I don't already have and that this is dangerous? And that if I > run SELECT I can check out what is proposed and eliminate unecessary > packages from the inst

Where is lapack-dev ?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I've downloaded some time ago the hamm. Now I need the lapack-dev, but it is nowhere between my downloaded files. I do not have for the moment a full connection so I do not know if it is still missing or no. Can somebody be so kind and tell me if it is back and at what ftp address does it have

Re: NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:42:52AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > One of my friends just installed Slackware and had the same problem. He used > the > 2.0.35 kernel but I'm pretty certain you'll be fine with the 2.0.34. I don't > know what Must have been a 2.0.35 pre-release, or an error; fi

Re: Where is the vfat, dos support in 2.0.34 ????

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, You know Robert, you seem to be experiencing the exact same problems I've been that I've overcome in the past 2 days with my hamm install. I posted to the list about this specific filesystem support thing in the past 48 hours or so and got a ton of replies. You need to enable the 'nls' (na

Re: LILO: Unexpected EOF?

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 01:14:47AM -0400, SEGV wrote: > This used to work and bring up NT Loader. I know I have reinstalled since > then, > but why would I get this, and how would I fix it? The relevant conf entry is: > > image=/dev/hda1 > label=Microsoft Should be other=/dev/hda1 Hamish --

Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
Yuk Chris, seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks. Christopher Barry wrote: > > Hi, > > I just had to deal with this problem today. Netscape is a libc5 application, > an

Re: Vim embedded python

1998-07-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Mike Orr hat gesagt: // Mike Orr wrote: > [in vim 5.1-0.4] > :python import vim > Sorry, this command is not implemented > > :version > VIM - Vi IMproved 5.1 (1998 Apr 7, compiled Jun 16 1998 16:49:40) > Compiled with (+) or without (-): > -python > > Was there some problem getting vim-with-py

Re: Netscape install problems .. please help ???

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, I just had to deal with this problem today. Netscape is a libc5 application, and you'll need some packages from section oldlibs. There is a libXt.so.6 in both xlib6g(for libc6) and in xlib6(for libc5, in section oldlibs). After installing xlib6, I don't remember if I got one or two more error

Kernel compiling on Debian

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
2 questions for the cognoscenti : A) I have compiled quite a few kernels on Debian but am not sure I am doing the things in the easiest/cleanest way ... One thing that works flawlessly is installing the source package and then using the make-kpkg command from the kernel-package package. The same

Debian Linux booting details

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
Is there a document which would walk through all the phases and the resources/files used by Debian Linux while booting ??? I went through the usual inittab, /etc/init.d files but some things are probably escaping my attention. Thank you. -- Robert Alexander - IBM Italy work e-mail : [EMAIL PROTE

Debian HAMM LOADLIN booting problems ... any help please ??

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
I have a Debian Hamm system with kernel 2.0.34 running just fine on my /dev/hdb1. /dev/hda1 is infested by a Win95b system. I copied the /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 as vmlinuz to my /dev/hdb6 FAT partition along with loadlin.exe. Boot win95 in DOS mode, goto my d:\loadlin directory and issue my loadlin

Netscape install problems .. please help ???

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
Where is the Netscape installer package for Communicator 4.05 to be found I tried installing it out of the package system but when I try starting netscape I get a " ... could not load libXt.so.6. This file, belonging to the installed xlib6g package, is in /usr/X11R6/lib (actually its a link

Where is the vfat, dos support in 2.0.34 ????

1998-07-03 Thread Robert Alexander
I just installed 2.0.34-3 source and make config did not mention the "DOS" flesystems also tried rm .config but they do not show up. kernel compiled and installed just fine and runs flawlessly but of course my mount -t vfat /dev/hdb6 /DATAFILES command failes with " ... vfat not supported

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

1998-07-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
> > Accorrding to the kernel source, it will generate this error if it > > tries and > fails to load the interpreter for elf binairies. Oh, I see! > > because you had overloaded the system. (Though that seems a touch > > weird to me.) But it's probably true. The smail misconfiguration led to lots

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-03 Thread Andy Spiegl
First of all thanks a lot for your fast help, especially to Craig! > firstly, replace all those ifconfig & route commands with something like > this: > > i=1 > while [ $i -le 254 ] ; do > ifconfig eth0:$i XXX.231.206.$i netmask 255.255.255.0 > route add -host XXX.231.206.$i eth0:$i >

RE: Linux/WinNT dual booting (an idea...)

1998-07-03 Thread Breathnach, Proinnsias \(Dublin\)
Kendrick, You might find it a lot easier to use the NT Boot loader to boot your linux partition - I'll be trying this myself soon & I'll let you know how it goes - there's a mini howto on the subject You could also try allowing LILO to boot from /dev/hdc1 boot sector (or whatever it's on)

Netscape colors.

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
Hello all, I did a search through the archives about this and found some posts that said that Netscape will only have colored icons in the toolbar etc. in 16bpp mode. I get black and white with 16bpp, as well as 24 and 32. Why is it that the help section looks fine and is colorful, but nothing els

Config for Laptop display..

1998-07-03 Thread Ian Stuart
I'm trying to get my laptop into 1024 by 768 by 16bit colour (it's currently stuck in 8-bit colour) The Chipset is Chips & Technologies CT65550 and it appears to be doing funny things with the clock-line. thanks.. -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of

Require gnome file

1998-07-03 Thread Ian Stuart
I'm trying to install gnome 0.2 but I've discovered I need a file called "libgdk-imlib1". Anyone know where I can get it from? I've tried Jim Picks pages, debian.org & the UK SunSite mirror... -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of Edinburgh

Lapack question

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, How do I use a function from lapack in a C program ? Where are the declaration ? Do I have to make myself the declaration ? A more general question: is there a way to find out what functions are in a lib and what argumenst do they need ? TIA, Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Jens Ritter
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas H=F6glund wrote: > > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > >=20 > > I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading > > something about it on Red Hat 4.2

Re: slrnpull + trn?

1998-07-03 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Trevor Barrie wrote: > Failing that, could anybody tell me how to get _any_ newsreader to read > from an slrnpull spool? Including slrn? (I've tried both of the > contradictory sets of instructions given in the documentation, but neither > seem to work. Haven't had any luck wi

break download

1998-07-03 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hi all, Yesterday evening, I discovered I can stop a ftp download using netscape 4 and disconnect and then reconnect and go on the download at the point I left it. This doesn't work if I leave netscape while disconnected and try to go on the download later. I wonder : - Is ther

Re: ftp, telnet & ping

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
I was able to use ftp via ppp with just the base2.0, drv1440, and resc1440 files downloaded and installed. Don't know about telnet or ping. Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Alex Kwan wrote: > > > > I have installed the Base System of Hamm > > and configured the ppp, can I use ftp, telnet > > and ping comman

Re: NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
One of my friends just installed Slackware and had the same problem. He used the 2.0.35 kernel but I'm pretty certain you'll be fine with the 2.0.34. I don't know what kernel the latest bo comes with, but you might want to consider hamm, since upgrading from bo to hamm is a considerable pain but

Re: off topic: gimp

1998-07-03 Thread Christopher Barry
GIMP is a really cool graphics program, and lets you do a lot of the same things Photoshop does. A good place to get started would be the official website, gimp.org. Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Hello Fellow Debian Users! > I've noticed that many sites promoting linux and free > software > point

off topic: gimp

1998-07-03 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello Fellow Debian Users! I've noticed that many sites promoting linux and free software point that their site was built by GIMP. can anybody tell me what is GIMP? Where can I get it for a test drive? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: LILO: Unexpected EOF?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
SEGV wrote: > This used to work and bring up NT Loader. I know I have reinstalled since > then, > but why would I get this, and how would I fix it? The relevant conf entry is: > > image=/dev/hda1 > label=Microsoft > My lilo.conf says: other = /dev/hda1 label = dos table = /dev/hda for

Re: What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: > Is the gnome available for hamm ? Or slik ? If for slik, can I install > gnome on a hamm system ? The current release .20 of GNOME is waiting in Incoming (things seem slow getting into slink). You can get it from the maintainer's site -- www.jimpick.com. I packa

Re: Linked against libc5 AND libc6?

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
Frankly the only solution is to find a libc5 version of everything you need, or a libc6 version of everything you need. Sorry. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: [URGENT] smail dies on sending

1998-07-03 Thread Michael Beattie
I have had a problem with smail, and I had solved it... :) my apologies to extra bandwidth... I had better explain myself... It turns out smail could not connect to my smarthost's smtp port, but I could with telnet... bizzarre, but its true. I only now, cannot connect with telnet, so I changed

Spelling in Netscape 4.05

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I have Netscape Comunicator 4.05 on a hamm system. The hamm is rather old (more than one month), I admit. At the office I have another computer with a similar system instaled from the same CD set. At the office I am able to use spelling in Netscape. Home I cannot do this. Any clue ? TIA,

What's the state of gnome on debian ?

1998-07-03 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I am working on a project that uses gtk+. I need some widgets that are found in gnome. However, I was unable to compile myself the gnome. Is the gnome available for hamm ? Or slik ? If for slik, can I install gnome on a hamm system ? Another question would be which are the debian gnome com

LILO: Unexpected EOF?

1998-07-03 Thread SEGV
For the last few months I have been getting this error when using the "Microsoft" entry of my /etc/lilo.conf: Loading Microsoft Unexpected EOF Loading Microsoft Unexpected EOF Loading Microsoft Unexpected EOF ... until I hit CTRL. This used to work and bring up NT Loader. I know I have reinstall

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-03 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the > >> secondary > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How > >> can > >> I get the k

Re: X11 basic configuration files missing with hamm install.

1998-07-03 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hi Fellow users! I've encountered the problem too. It couldn't find a readme file in ../include if I'm not mistaken directory. It appears to be a bug, because when I looked into that directory I found that another dir was created inside the .../include .../include/include !! where the mising fil

X11 problems on a new install...

1998-07-03 Thread Evan Van Dyke
I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually, I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, and one or two other window manage

ne2000 mod

1998-07-03 Thread Babs
I am having trouble with my ne2000 it was configured properly and running earlier today. i recompiled my kernel and messed it up. had to revert to the old one then recompile it again. the either hasn't worked since. the ne2000 driver is compiled into the kernel i have tried setting the eth0 as foll

[URGENT!] smail bombs when sending!

1998-07-03 Thread Michael Beattie
I am having real big problems sending mail with smail as my MDA, which I never had until 2 days ago. When sending mail ( runq -v ) Error 164 is reported: "Connection Timed Out" I never used to have this problem, but it is really annoying! I am using a smarthost. Versions of relevant stuff: sm

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > > >(2) My Soundcard was Soundblaster 16 PnP, do I need the > > > isapnptools? If need, how to do it? (My systems is Hamm) > > > > Yes, you do need the isapnptools, unless you plan on using lo

Re[2]: egcs includes

1998-07-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this are old libg++ headers. libg++ is obsolete, don't use it if > you can help it. Thanks for the clarification. I was compiling a package whose includes "included" the header files in question, so I wasn't free to pick and choose. I guess a

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

1998-07-03 Thread paulwade
> > StarOffice 4.0 is still free. Check out http://www.stardivision.com. I've I think you mean free for non-commercial use, a term that is very misunderstood. Commercial use goes far beyond having a business with an official name. If you use this product to create signs or compose an advertisement

using mail on a debian system (betwin users)

1998-07-03 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i send mail betwin users on my debian system? For now its mainly interest, but anyway. Thanx _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/n

using dselect through ftp

1998-07-03 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to use dselect through ftp. After setting up the options it logs in to the ftp server and then it couldn't find the directory. I checked and the deirectory was spelled out right. anyone know the problem? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your f

Re: changing/adding/using fonts and ttfonts

1998-07-03 Thread Geoff Saxby
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Micha Feigin wrote: > (especially xterm), and if anyone knows if there is an editor, or/and > preferable an atachment to xemacs that i can make work from right to > left (I also need to be able to set the font to an hebrew one) Not sure if this is useful but vim has "right t

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