Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Lawrence Walton
You might take a look at this before saying that. http://www.xfree86.org/sponsors.html Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way. All users should > boycott them in general. Besides, the cards are

Re: Micropolis

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: | | : I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new | : of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive. | : The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is spel

Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > Hi, again.. > > This is getting interesting for me, because i have try to configure my > modem since about 3 weeks, and i couldnt. > Im my win95 modem prop. said its in COM3. In the Resources tab it said > "Input/Output 03

Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, we're almost there. That's just the info we need. Now, you need to create your /etc/isapnp.conf file. The easiest way to do this is to have the pnpdump command create a "template" file for you. As root run: pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf You'll then edit the file. Basically, your modem can be se

TCP/IP Ports & JDBC-mSQL & Security

1998-07-07 Thread Marcus Johnson
I'm a newbie to Linux and I've run into a problem that I can't figure out. I'm using my ISP's Debian 1.1 system and mSQL with the JDBC-mSQL driver via my shell account. I've set up an mSQL database and can query it succesfully with mSQL tools, but I haven't successfully connected with JDBC yet, no

Re: bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread john
Nathan E Norman writes: > Out of curiousity, what will happen to a PPP setup in a server > environment? (the linux box is the RAS) The files that the ppp postinst messes with are only used by pon to dial out. However, you may still need to do some reconfiguration as some of the changes in pppd a

Help with mutt

1998-07-07 Thread ej
Actually, I suppose this is more about emacs than mutt. I use emacs as my editor in mutt, and I've been trying to specify the mutt editor command so that emacs will start up in auto-fill text-mode. I've tried 'emacs -f text-mode -f auto-fill-mode', but the only way that works is if I can put the

Re: XF86Setup

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
the problem is a reported bug. The actual problem is that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled is a soft link which is set incorrectly. The soft link is set to /var/../xkb/, when it should be set to /var/.../xkb/compiled. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: deb

RE: XF86Setup

1998-07-07 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am getting the same error on a fresh Debian 2.0 install when I try to install X11. I've removed and reinstalled X twice (strictly xbase, vga16, olwm - nothing like thousands of extra packages or fonts or anything), tried checking main/contrib/non-free instead of the dists/frozen areas for package

Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-07 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, again.. This is getting interesting for me, because i have try to configure my modem since about 3 weeks, and i couldnt. Im my win95 modem prop. said its in COM3. In the Resources tab it said "Input/Output 03E8" and "Interrupt Request 05". Im a novice with that stuff and im not syre if

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread servis
*-Shaleh ( 7 Jul) | | price range. As a general comment I say avoid Diamond. For a long time | they have not supported any form of driver for their cards (even their | Windows support is not all that great). | Well according to /usr/doc/X11/doc/README:(for X 3.3.2.2) ...

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Pete Harlan
Bob Nielsen writes: > (To be fair, I haven't used Red Hat since 4.2 and it may have improved > since then, but they severely mismanaged the conversion to glibc.) He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones, methinks... Debian 1.3.1 is a year old. Six months ago 2.0 was announced as "Ne

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
It's an internal modem and not a pcmcia modem - if it was, I think it would work no problem, considering I really didn't have to do anything to get my pcmcia network card to work correctly. By the way, the notebook is not from a major vendor - it is called the Voyager 1330, advertised in Comput

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:53:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message > last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: > > >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Yobb) writes: > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? H

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way. All users should boycott them in general. Besides, the cards are CHEAP not inexpensive. There is a difference. Spend the 20 extra bucks for a Matrox. Or someone else's card. The ATi all-in-one wonder card can not be used in Linux because they re

Re: XF86Setup

1998-07-07 Thread ej
Check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/compiled for the README file. If it's there, you can just copy it /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled. I believe this was reported as an error. On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:38:47PM -0500, Mark Panzer wrote: > Debian users, > > When I originally configured X11 I dec

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Should I buy a Chevy or a Ford? (-: (Sorry for the non-US who will not > get that joke) Seriously, I have a Matrox Mystique 4mb card. I run > Xfree in 1152x864 @ 16 and 24bpp w/ no hassles. Smooth and fast. I > would recommend a Millenium for serious stuf

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Do you use xdm? X wants to know what your IP address is for its security. > Since you > don't have an IP until after dhcp does its work, this could be a problem. Actually, I had a somewhat similar problem and fixed it by keeping the dpcpcd client in

Compiling error

1998-07-07 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, When I try to compile some C program i got the following message: $ cc foo.c ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory $ I already installed libc5-altdev, cpp, libg++27-dev packages and I still have this message ! What could I resolve it ? Best regards, Nuno Carvalho P.S.

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: > >: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >: >: > echo ATX0 > com3 (or wherever Windows thinks the modem is) >: > echo ATDT01234567

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Shiraz Sayani
Thomas Apel wrote: > > [...] > > Just for the record: I also got this beanie-baby-thing twice the last > month. But not from AOL. The first was from msn.com and the second from > fuse.net. But as "Somnolent" already said I'm not 100% sure if this is > somehow related to this list. > Yep. It's pr

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes : : > echo ATX0 > com3 (or wherever Windows thinks the modem is) : > echo ATDT0123456789 : : You mean: echo ATDT0123456789 Actually I meant echo ATDT0123456789 > com

XF86Setup

1998-07-07 Thread Mark Panzer
Debian users, When I originally configured X11 I decided to only allow 640 x 480 resolution for my monitor (an old 14") but I now found out that it can do 800 x 600 and I tired to run XF86Setup but it keeps giving me the error: Not all of the X keyboard extension programs and configuration files

Re: Micropolis

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: : I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new : of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive. : The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is spelled wrong) and is not : providing any tech support :

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread George R
On 07/07/98 at 11:23 AM, Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >This from the Linux-newbies list: >From: Mike Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Donald Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Chris Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu >Subject Re: Which distribution is the best?

Re: ssh from hamm to bo machine?

1998-07-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > troi: Trying RSA authentication with key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Have you got a .ssh/identity.pub or something like this on troi? > troi: Server refused our key. ... which the server does not like? > Permission denied. Just a suggestion, Jens --- [EM

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > echo ATX0 > com3 (or wherever Windows thinks the modem is) > echo ATDT0123456789 You mean: echo ATDT0123456789 >You should hear the modem try to dial - probably a good idea to >disconnect the phone line bef

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I know, I work with youth and its quite a challenge. In their > frequently expressed opinion everything sucks and there's no value in > anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? > Also is there some kind of uninst

Re: Gnome gmc where?

1998-07-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Edward Betts wrote: > > get it and compile it yourself. > > I might do that. > ... and make a package of it yourself (for inclusion in project/experimental?) Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key finger

Re: check package consistency

1998-07-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Peter Shtinkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using Debian hamm. I had problems with my disk (fsck found bad > blocks). > Can I check with dpkg which packet need to be reinstalled ? > Thanks ! AFIAK there is no option to dpkg which performs such a test. But it is rather easy to write one: Us

Re: Making modem talk 2........................

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ok, making progress now. Here comes the hard part! You need to decide which IO address and IRQ port your PNP modem should use. In order to make things easy, let's first assume that using the same ones which Win95 assigns will work in Linux (which will most likely be true). In Win95, right-click

Micropolis

1998-07-07 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive. The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is spelled wrong) and is not providing any tech support for their products. I know this has nothing to do with

xfstt

1998-07-07 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I have xfstt font server thing installed and functioning. I was just wondering if I can have that load on boot. If so which file do I edit. Thanks, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] You only get one chance at life, but if you do it right, you only need one. http://www.naples.net/~

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Unless explicitly told to do so using xhost, X does not allow anybody > > other than the person who started it to open windows on its desktop, > > not even root. I could never figure out the proper syntax for xhost, > > however,

RE: IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
Brian, The reason nothing happens is that you are not printing to a "device". When you use the "rm=" entry you are specifying a remote machine to send the job to. That remote machine prints the job on the printer you specify in the "rp=" entry. This protocol was created to allow one unix system

Making modem talk 2........................

1998-07-07 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi again Here i am with my computer open. I have see what is in the modem board, and there said "com 1, com2, com3, com4, PNP", so i guess its a PNP modem. I have install the isapnptool package. I still cant make my modem do some noise !!! (dialing something in minicom) Thanksm for great he

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:56:29AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > >man -k keyword is much more usefull ;) > > How do you build the database for man -k? On the systems I've installed(RH, > I'm > currently waiting for Bo to arrive) man-k wouldn't br

FTP Installation Problem

1998-07-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
> > I did run pon first and listened to it dial-up. > Did it connect successfully? Were you able to telnet or ping or anything? > (I realize this seems silly, but sometimes it's the connection that's > wacky). > > If so, then the problem really is a dselect or dpkg one rather than a ppp > one.

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
>Which Matrox? Either a Mystique (4mb) or a Millenium (8 or 12mb). The millenium is out of the price range you asked for (200-240 US). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 12:17:00PM -0700, Geoff Brimhall wrote: > I'd recommend Matrox's card, because it is one of the few which currently > works well with ggi (which is still an alpha project, but *very* cool), in > addition to X. > > Which Matrox card? > -Original Message- > From:

Re: IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-07 Thread Brian Morgan
I've redone my printcap file to read: lp1|12.10.35.3|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=text:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/12.10.35.3:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: Shouldn't that lp line read lp=/dev/lp1:\ ??? I also modified my hosts.lpd

Re: bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Dennis writes: : > Upgrades do not affect the configurations, either. I'm not sure if they : > do, but if chat/pppd packages prompt you during installs/upgrade, you : > should keep the existing configuration files instead of installing the : > maintainers

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Marcus Johnson
Thank you! Marcus On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? > > Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? > > Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can > install and uninstall packa

Re: bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread john
Dennis writes: > Upgrades do not affect the configurations, either. I'm not sure if they > do, but if chat/pppd packages prompt you during installs/upgrade, you > should keep the existing configuration files instead of installing the > maintainers configs. Keeping existing config files is usually

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Geoff Brimhall wrote: : I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have been able to : utilize just about everthing it has through debian and recompiling the : kernel. : : Except for one thing - the internal modem. : : setserial does not detect the modem's COM port,

Re: Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Geoff Brimhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have > been able to utilize just about everthing it has through > debian and recompiling the kernel. > Except for one thing - the internal modem. > setserial does not detect the modem's COM port, > nor

Re: lilo & lilo.conf

1998-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: : : Does anyone know why the "table=" config statement : is required in the subsections of "other" operating systems : for the lilo.conf file ? ...why does windows or msdos have : to know where the partition information is ? : : Thanks, : Matthew : :

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unless explicitly told to do so using xhost, X does not allow anybody > other than the person who started it to open windows on its desktop, > not even root. I could never figure out the proper syntax for xhost, > however, so I usually end up just usi

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
Should I buy a Chevy or a Ford? (-: (Sorry for the non-US who will not get that joke) Seriously, I have a Matrox Mystique 4mb card. I run Xfree in 1152x864 @ 16 and 24bpp w/ no hassles. Smooth and fast. I would recommend a Millenium for serious stuff -- but that is out of your price range. As

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread ej
Unless explicitly told to do so using xhost, X does not allow anybody other than the person who started it to open windows on its desktop, not even root. I could never figure out the proper syntax for xhost, however, so I usually end up just using 'xhost +' which disables all access control and th

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
I'd recommend Matrox's card, because it is one of the few which currently works well with ggi (which is still an alpha project, but *very* cool), in addition to X. -Original Message- From: Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:0

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Somnolent
Johann Spies wrote: > > Hallo, > > I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message > last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: > > >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Please

Getting notebook internal modem to work.

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have been able to utilize just about everthing it has through debian and recompiling the kernel. Except for one thing - the internal modem. setserial does not detect the modem's COM port, nor the irq (it does register the regular external seria

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread Will Lowe
> So I startup xterm, do a 'su', and then attempt launch the X program. > > It always returns with an (paraphrased) error 'cannot connect to xserver - > permission denied'. Here you go: I'm user "harpo". I start up X. That X session is owned by harpo, _not_ "root". So root isn't allowed to c

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread ...
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Geoff Brimhall wrote: > When I log in to my debian system as non-root, I sometimes like to run a few > X programs as root. > > So I startup xterm, do a 'su', and then attempt launch the X program. > > It always returns with an (paraphrased) error 'cannot connect to xserver -

What's a good video card?

1998-07-07 Thread Adam Klein
I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'd like a recommendation for a mid-range ($100-$150) video card that works well with XFree86. Thanks, Adam Klein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Making modem talk........................

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Your modem is most likely Plug-N-Play. In order to initialize Plug-N-Play devices you need the isapnp package. Use dselect to install this package. You'll then need to customize the /etc/isapnp.conf file. Try to verify whether or not your modem is Plug-N-Play and get back to us. phillip Neumann

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
Maybe you could talk to jim pick, who is working on dwww - he might have some ideas on this. His URL is http://www.jimpick.com/ -Original Message- From: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Mailing List Cc: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 06, 19

Unidentified subject!

1998-07-07 Thread Geoff Brimhall
When I log in to my debian system as non-root, I sometimes like to run a few X programs as root. So I startup xterm, do a 'su', and then attempt launch the X program. It always returns with an (paraphrased) error 'cannot connect to xserver - permission denied'. What is causing this ? Do I need

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread aqy6633
> anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? > Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can install and uninstall packages, etc. What they were talking about is probably "dselect" - front-end to

lilo & lilo.conf

1998-07-07 Thread matthew tebbens
Does anyone know why the "table=" config statement is required in the subsections of "other" operating systems for the lilo.conf file ? ...why does windows or msdos have to know where the partition information is ? Thanks, Matthew -- table=device This specifies the dev

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:39:44 -0700 (PDT), Marcus Johnson wrote: >anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? >Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? No, I can't. I have never used RPM. However, Debian with dselect is quite hard to beat. And of course ther

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Marcus Johnson
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:23:52 -0700 (PDT), Marcus Johnson wrote: > > >This from the Linux-newbies list: > > Gotta love that "it sucks" mentality of todays youth. :/ Yeah, I know, I work with youth and its quite a challenge. In their frequently express

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread CHUCK
My kernel has complained "cannot find map file" for as long as I've used it, but it seems to run fine anyway. I just saw your advice to copy /src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map- so I tried it. The kernel boot message is unchanged. I then renamed it /boot/System.map but the boot message still

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:23:52 -0700 (PDT), Marcus Johnson wrote: >This from the Linux-newbies list: Gotta love that "it sucks" mentality of todays youth. :/ -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's.

Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-07 Thread Marcus Johnson
This from the Linux-newbies list: From: Mike Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Donald Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Chris Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject Re: Which distribution is the best? GENERALLY? (fwd) On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Donald Thompson wrote: >> Chris

Making modem talk........................

1998-07-07 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi debian users, Im just starting with linux, and have done some configuration stuff. But i cannot still make my modem "talk" I guess the first step to do, is dial a number with minicom. I cant even do this. Windows95 said, my us. robotics 33.6k is in COM 3. So I have tried the /dev/tt

Re: bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread Steve Mayer
Chea, Don't know about the PPP problem. Haven't had any here. The other problem is caused by not configuring the NLS support in the kernel. In order to get the ISO99660, FAT, MSDOS, VFAT (there may be others, I'm not sure) you need to say yes to NLS. Good luck, Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread dpk
while configuring the kernel i saw no option to choose iso9660 support ...did i miss something? Under 'filesystems' click on 'yes' for 'Native Language Support (NLS)'. Once this is done you will see iso9660, vfat, etc options. [menuconfig came up in b&w instead of color (not that i

RE: IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-07 Thread Lewis, James M.
Brian, Those things have 2 printer names configured. They are "text" and "raw". The text one adds cr when it sees an lf and the raw one does not. I don't know if there is a way to make new printer names for those things. You might telnet into it to see if you can. Umm, I just checked one and

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Johann Spies wrote: > > Hallo, > > I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message > last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: > > >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Please

Re: The search of the lost font

1998-07-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I have just made a small installation with Debian 2.0. I download it since > I donĀ“t need all of the exellent software, but I guess I have missed some > packages. When I tried to install X I am droped into xf86config instead of > XF86Setup, at that

bo-->hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-07 Thread Chea Prince
upgraded from bo to hamm on a pentium/166, no problem. compiled kernel 2.0.34 + modules...everything installed OK. but now can't mount cdrom even though cdrom support is built into the kernel and bios identifies cdrom as /dev/hdc during boot (worked fine under bo)...get following error message:

Re: Last Question (I hope!)

1998-07-07 Thread dpk
Dennis a million thanks - i just checked and sure enough dselect defaults to the /stable directories - no doubt you are entirely correct !!! surely many of the /stable packages are the same as the frozen dist and so i do not wish to download yet again everything (8-10 hours M

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: >I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message >last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: I received a message with similar text which I forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said they were dealing with it. -- Oliv

Re: helper_0.97.deb

1998-07-07 Thread dpk
http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ devel/debhelper_0.97.deb 404 Not Found I tried looking for the file on ftp.debian.org and it was not there.Any idea where I can find it. You can retreive it via ftp from debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org)

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
I never assume how much of a newbie you are (-: Ok, step one. Go to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software and get the imlib packages, you only need the -dev ones if you intend to compile things. Install them in this order: imlib-base, libimlib, libgdk-imlib, imlib-progs (then the -dev's if you want t

Ethernet problems

1998-07-07 Thread Will Lowe
My connection was fine several days ago, they took down the lan to do some work, brought it back up, and now I'm having all sorts of difficulties. It's a Dayna card (apparently Dayna's lately been aquired by Intel), and it's always worked fine with the tulip.c driver. For a while, I had no c

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-07 Thread Brian Morgan
Do I need to download EVERYTHING that has gnome associated with it? Or just the libs / core / whatever else? Do I have to download and unzip, or is there a way to use dselect (I didn't find any packages file). What do I do with that imlib. Remember, I said I was a newbie. Thanks, Brian Sh

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-07 Thread Patrick Olson
> -> I get this in /var/log/messages: > -> > -> Jul 6 16:59:56 server2 kernel: Cannot find map file. > -> > -> when my computer boots with the new kernel. > > when you compile the kernel, copy vmlinux or arch//boot/zImage to > /boot and don't forget System.map (from/usr/src/linux) - that's the

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
GNOME v.20 is sitting in Incoming (still). You can get debs of it from www.jimpick.com and the imlib it needs from www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software. You will find installing the debs MUCH nicer than trying to compile it. Brian Morgan wrote: > > Could someone walk a newbie through the process of

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread CHUCK
In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system from scratch." Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are? chuc

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Please Read >Hello, my name is Andy. I know whe

pon troubles

1998-07-07 Thread Wandersmann
I'm trying to do dome dselecting via FTP, but I can't even seem to establish a connection to my ISP. Via pppconfig, I have configured my new Hamm system such that my modem port is ttyS2 (COM3), with maximum speed 115200, and all other ISP dialup and login info seemingly correct. Yet when I try

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-07 Thread m*
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 11:53:32AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: >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 > $i=$

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Do you use xdm? X wants to know what your IP address is for its security. Since you don't have an IP until after dhcp does its work, this could be a problem. Mark H. Mabry wrote: > Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the > process of converting from modem ISP access to

Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11

1998-07-07 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 01:16:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > David R. Robison wrote: > > > > X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed > > > > Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. > > XF86_NONE indicates you haven't selected a default X server. The > server you

Re: Using YARD to create boot floppies?

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Gary L.Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for | emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and | I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and | prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine

Debian-2.0-beta upgrade: my experience (after the 1st time)

1998-07-07 Thread James D. Freels
I now have a total of 4 Linux machines running Debian-2.0-beta (including one DEC-Alpha running the current hamm tree). Except for the DEC-Alpha, all of these machines were upgraded from 1.3.1r6. After my bad experience with the first upgrade, I wanted to state how my subsequent upgrades have bee

Re: Browser search

1998-07-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've > have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and > higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you > could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Is this a

Browser search

1998-07-07 Thread doug warthen
I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Thankyou. Douglas --

Re: What is apt-get Install

1998-07-07 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: > Would someone please explain that > 1) What is the apt-get install apt-get is a program and it comes with the apt package. Normally, one would do: apt-get update Which gets the Packages.gz files from the archive (ftp or cdrom, or whatever is in your /

strange lock up problem

1998-07-07 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hello, just started with this list so hope this msg gets there. I ahve a pII/266 system with 256MB RAM, 4 IDE hard disks, and 1 4.3GB SCSI and 1 23GB SCSI disk, onboard AIC7888 SCSI controller, 3c905 card, floppy drive, (can't remember which chipset we are using on this board). Running low loads

RE: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
> From: Len Cumbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:19 PM > To: S K; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dual boot?? win98??? > > Look into System Commander. It's a boot manager with > specific support for > Linux > as well as the various flavors of Windows, DOS,

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Len Cumbow
At 06:29 AM 7/7/98 PDT, S K wrote: >i'm trying to install debian linux, but not entirely ready to throw away >my windows 98. is it possible to use both on a single machine, perhaps >through dual boot? (if so, how?) does win98's fat32 cause any trouble >for this? > >thanks in advance > >[EMAIL

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote: > Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the > process of converting from modem ISP access to using this > cable-modem. > > I get a complete lock-up of Linux when I try to run both X11 and > dhcpcd. I can run either one alone and

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Evan Van Dyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > From: S K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM | > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | > Subject: dual boot?? win98??? | > | > | > I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to | > throw away | > my windows

Re: More Urgent HAMM Install help needed

1998-07-07 Thread Ivan
Can't argue with you on any of your well made points ! Consider the lessons (almost) learnt. LESSON 1. Duly noted but (please note i am not at all ungrateful for your advice) having had the true stupidity of my ways pointed out to me (using the stable rather than the frozen dist) I really cannot h

Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-07 Thread Mark H. Mabry
Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP access to using this cable-modem. I get a complete lock-up of Linux when I try to run both X11 and dhcpcd. I can run either one alone and things are fine. But when I start X, after dhcpcd, I

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