Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread servis
*-Sudhakar Chandrasekharan (29 Jul) | | I just solved this problem (or rather, it solved itself). I had the | following in my .tcshrc - | | switch ($TERM) | case xterm: | case xterm-debian | xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources | breaksw | default: | breaksw | endsw | |

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-29 Thread Russell Senior
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > *-Russell Senior (29 Jul) > | > | I am having some trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0. I have sucked down > | hamm, ran autoup.sh and then dselect repeatedly (dselect seems to be > | happy now), but gcc is not working. Trying to compile a simple hello.c > | test I get t

Can only run X as root

1998-07-29 Thread George R
Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages and howto's until my eyes have crossed. When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm. If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol. I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x.

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Mike wrote: > > You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). > That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I > notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent > xterms. I have screen captures of the fi

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-29 Thread servis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (29 Jul) | up. I filed a bug report agains libc6 but apparently it did not get | taken care of by release time. | Um, I thought I did but I can't find any trace of it. H. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University

Trouble With Simple Thing.

1998-07-29 Thread Chris Wong
Hello, I'm sorta new to Debian.. and I was wondering if anyone could help me with limiting users to their own directory. I've read docs about it, but still can't get it working. Anyone help? Thanks. Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/ -- Uns

Re: Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-29 Thread servis
*-Russell Senior (29 Jul) | | I am having some trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0. I have sucked down | hamm, ran autoup.sh and then dselect repeatedly (dselect seems to be | happy now), but gcc is not working. Trying to compile a simple hello.c | test I get the following during the link stage: |

Re: w18

1998-07-29 Thread Art Lemasters
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 04:59:48PM -0400, Keith wrote: > What's with the junk mail. What's really bad is that it appears to have come from or through an Air Force server (af.mil seen in headers). Someone could get fired _if it originated from that server (hard to tell, though--could've been a

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-29 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:43:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Alexander wrote: > > A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not > > shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear > > accident...) > > I ten

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-29 Thread count zero
The guy on the couch. wrote: > Hi, I use win95 and I tried Linux once and couldn't even load a > program. I'm not very experienced with other OSes. Since then I've > never tried it. I'm thinking of upgrading to win98 and got to thinking > about Linux again. Is there a way for both of these O

Trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0

1998-07-29 Thread Russell Senior
I am having some trouble upgrading to Debian 2.0. I have sucked down hamm, ran autoup.sh and then dselect repeatedly (dselect seems to be happy now), but gcc is not working. Trying to compile a simple hello.c test I get the following during the link stage: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefin

Re: OFF-TOPIC: fwd: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Tip of the Day [Downloading multiple files - 07/27/98]

1998-07-29 Thread count zero
Frock wrote: > > > > And now for today's tip ... > > > > THAT'S A BIG DOWNLOAD > > > > R. K. asks this question: > > > > "I often like to start downloads for more than one file at a time. > > Lately I've noticed that Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 frequently > > doesn't display the Save This Prog

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Mike wrote: > You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first xterm and later xterms at - http://w

Re: I give UP

1998-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"John" == John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> The learning curve is so steep for a novice that even Sir Edmund Hillary John> would have had problems :-) But once you've climbed out of the Microsoft John> generated smog you will be amazed at how far you can see. Well, I t

Re: LILO Problem

1998-07-29 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Look over the documentation for mbr in /usr/doc. mbr is a configurable master boot record that replaces the original on the hard disk drive. In order to change the boot parameters and display, you must change the defaults in the source file and re-assemble the code to be inserted as a new mbr

Re: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-29 Thread Robert Rati
I'd be careful with 98 and Linux. I read about 98 moving data around and could possibly break Linux. I just installed Debian 2.0, and it's pretty easy now. Basically follow the prompts. YOu may not have everything working, but your system will boot. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, The guy on the couch.

Re: diald screw my machine

1998-07-29 Thread Keith
Here is my /etc/pp/options file in its entirety. My comments start with

dosemu and win95 startup (logo) screen.

1998-07-29 Thread shaul
I am trying to set up dosemu. I don't understand much about what I am doing. I am simply reading the docs and do what I see fit. What I wanted to report is that when I am starting dos (that is dosemu) from the console, I am getting win95 startup screen (its logo) and after that I see the hdimag

Re: w18

1998-07-29 Thread Keith
What's with the junk mail. > > > > > > > BENCHMARK PRINT SUPPLY > 1091 REDSTONE LANE > ATLANTA GA 30338 > > CALL> 770-399-0953 FOR TONER SUPPLIES ORDERS/PRICING ONLY > > CALL> 770-399-5505 CUSTOMER SERVICE/SUPPORT ISSUES > > CALL> 770-3

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows >

Re: Filter for printer Canon bjc-4100..............

1998-07-29 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi > > I have a question about (my) printer. To print postscript i installed > the magicfilter package and select the filter for canon bjc-600. It > works fine. The only problem is that i have a canon 4100, and comparing > with win95, that have the

RE: Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-29 Thread keatingjp17
I use win98 and Linux on same machine and it works fine. Only problem i have gotten is that I lost 2 GB somewhere in between fdisk for linux and fdisk for win98(having 16GB hd is nice). But I don't really care to do a reinstall to fix it. I have found that the install for Debian is maybe (at mos

Linux vs. Windows

1998-07-29 Thread The guy on the couch.
Hi, I use win95 and I tried Linux once and couldn't even load a program. I'm not very experienced with other OSes. Since then I've never tried it. I'm thinking of upgrading to win98 and got to thinking about Linux again. Is there a way for both of these OSes to work on my machine, so I could ti

Re: pgp question

1998-07-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> [1:14am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pgp -ks ahpee [...] HM> Key is already signed by user ''. HM> This happens even if I try to sign my own key. pgp signs your own key by default, so they are already signed. I believ you also already signed a

Re: How do I set up PNP devices

1998-07-29 Thread Robert Rati
Forgot to ask. is it PNP or a winmodem? If it's a winmodem, I don't think you can get it to work with Linux. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, john mcpeek wrote: > I have a PNP USR 33.6 sportster. I ran pnpdump and it showed the modem > but I don't know how to make pon use it. How do I deturmine what devic

Ultra/DMA IDE controllers

1998-07-29 Thread Nick Gilliam
Are Ultra/DMA IDE controllers and drives supported under Debian 2.0. Tnx, Nick Gilliam -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After I installed hamm on a new machine I have noticed that the first >xterm I start (xterm -ls -sb) has proper colors. All xterms started >after the first xterm do not display colors properly. Even when I quit

Re: 2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-29 Thread d1temp
On 29 Jul, Tyson Dowd wrote: >> > Try mounting them with -onojoliet >> >> Yes! That did it. Thank you! >> >> My man-page for mount (nor fstab) says nothing about -onojoliet (or >> joliet at all), maybe I need a newer version of mount? (2.7l) >> Or is this information stashed somewhere else? >

Problem with ethercard

1998-07-29 Thread Kennedy Mutio
Hi guys, I am using 2 ethercards, one is a NE2000 and the other is an SMC card, however, I use the NE2000 driver for both of them. Most of the time they work well but every once in a while my smc card misbehaves. I am using debian linux by the way. I get error messages like: eth0: bogus packet siz

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-29 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi - Anders Hammarquist wrote: > > >I'm in the middle of getting a new PII (300MHz +) system. I'd like > >to know what SCSI controller should I get for the best performance and > >supporter driver on Linux: > > [snip] > > The Adaptec controllers have been flakey on Linux (though it may change a

Re: Bo-Packages - ftp?

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: : : On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : : > > I have still a bo-box somewhere at home, and I do not have time : > > to upgrade it now, but I would need auctex. : > > : > > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? : > : > ftp://

No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
After I installed hamm on a new machine I have noticed that the first xterm I start (xterm -ls -sb) has proper colors. All xterms started after the first xterm do not display colors properly. Even when I quit all xterms and start a new xterm, the new xterm does not have color. Here is my setup

Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

1998-07-29 Thread Chris Ulrich
I'm new to debian but I'm not new to either unix or linux. I recently installed debian on my laptop. On my prior linux setup, I had pdksh as /bin/sh. While I sometimes had problems with scripts, I never ran into showstoppers. When I made ash or pdksh /bin/sh on my debian setup, things stoppe

Re: Filter for printer Canon bjc-4100..............

1998-07-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: > Hi > > I have a question about (my) printer. To print postscript i installed > the magicfilter package and select the filter for canon bjc-600. It > works fine. The only problem is that i have a canon 4100, and comparing > with win95, that have the

How do I set up PNP devices

1998-07-29 Thread john mcpeek
I have a PNP USR 33.6 sportster. I ran pnpdump and it showed the modem but I don't know how to make pon use it. How do I deturmine what device it is for input into pppconfig. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Bo-Packages - ftp?

1998-07-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I have still a bo-box somewhere at home, and I do not have time > > to upgrade it now, but I would need auctex. > > > > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? > > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ is recovering the la

Re: Strange Debian-Install problem... and workaround

1998-07-29 Thread Geoff Brimhall
I had some problems like this, but basically they had to do with getting an "unstable" installation during the hamm beta. I haven't tried out the hamm release though. Unfortunately I do not know the direct solution to your problem. Hoping that it helps, I will go through some of the problems I

Re: Bo-Packages - ftp?

1998-07-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Clemens Heuberger wrote: > > I have still a bo-box somewhere at home, and I do not have time > to upgrade it now, but I would need auctex. > > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ is recovering the latest bo release. Regards,

Re: DHCP and hostname

1998-07-29 Thread Mark H. Mabry
Venkat> My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are Venkat> assigned using DHCP. I use "dhcpcd" to get the IP address Venkat> but it also mangles my machine's hostname (probably because Venkat> the DHCP server is not properly configured). Is there a way Venkat> to quer

Re: SHELL: duping stdout and stderr to another file

1998-07-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I would like to know _how to copy_ (not start a new shell, eg: script) > stdout and stderr _from a shell script_ to a file. Also It is interesting > for me if there is a way to stop copying stdout and stderr... > > Thanks in advance, > >

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
I found what my problem was, when installing the module, I choose options=3 (for 10bt-NBC), while I had to choose 0 for 10bt. I need some sleep :). Thanks for your (and all the others') help, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > > > > > You ne

RE: OFF-TOPIC: fwd: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Tip of the Day [Downloading multiple files - 07/27/98]

1998-07-29 Thread Breathnach, Proinnsias \(Dublin\)
It's a marketing thing, Billy boy thinks that if you want to network, that you've got a bit of spare cash !!, so buy NT - W/S for up to 10 connections (at once) or Server for more (on a 'licence per seat' basis) Anyone see another good reason to use Linux ?? Proinnsias If replying to this email

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Marsh Ray
My experience was that: 3Com is now selling the 3c905B card. Notice the "B". Drivers for this appeared in the 2.0.34 kernel. The boot-floppies I used had 2.0.33. - Marsh -Original Message- From: Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org ; Debian Mailing L

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Greg Johns
Another thing to watch out for is the AutoSelect of the interface. You might be better off selecting 10mbit for the installation then tweaking it later on. The 3Com's especially have troubles negotiating with Bay Networks switches. Liran Zvibel sez: >On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > > > > You need to mount whatever directory (read: file system) you were mounting > > on the RedHat system. If you are mounting it as root (which - I think - is > > the only way you /can/ mount a fs), then it doesn't matter where you mount > > it on your local system. The preferred place is /

User interface (was Re: Linus Torvalds interview)

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... Hello! > Do you think MS took only 5 minutes to design and implement the UI? Or > FAT32? I don't think so. Speaking of UI check this out. http://www.insanely-great.com/Interface maybe this will convince you that MS took 5 minutes or less to imple

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > BTW: When I get it to work (And it will work today, whether the machine > > wants to or not), what is the directory to mount? (/dists, > > /dists/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 , any other > > locatoin?) - just to save my time... > >

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > > > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > > > Can you help? > > Liran. > > --- > > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > > > > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server.

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > BTW: When I get it to work (And it will work today, whether the machine > wants to or not), what is the directory to mount? (/dists, > /dists/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm, /dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386 , any other > locatoin?) - just to save my time... > You need to mount whatever directory (read: f

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows > took many years to d

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > : mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > Aha - so the NIC works, but trying to mount an NFS share on that machine > does not. > > Is the NFS server running Debian? Some BSD NF

Re: more linus!

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: > > > Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! Do you slashdot? I do and I had the slashdot effect when I tried to connect to Forbes.com HTTP/1.0 Server too busy hhrrmpp. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server. > I've had that error when the file system I have been trying to

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : : > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : > : > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: : > > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for : > > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. : > > I tr

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > I forgot to mension it before, but the reply I get is: > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed Out > > Can you help? > Liran. > --- > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > It sounds as if the problem is not with your modem, but with the nfs server. I've had that error when the file s

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. > > I tried doing that, and it didn't work. > > I'll try again, a

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. > I tried doing that, and it didn't work. > I'll try again, and maybe I'll have more luck (and check that there is no

Re: LILO Problem

1998-07-29 Thread Robert Rati
wait the the Lilo prompt, then press shift. It gives you a few seconds before it automatically boots your default setting. On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Matthew D. Myers wrote: > I recently decided to install LILO on my laptop. According to the HOW-TO > and liloconfig I should be able to hold shift whil

Re: Setting up Soundblaster PCI64 pnp

1998-07-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 07:20:37PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:03:04PM -0400, Kronos wrote: > > IIRC, OSS/Free, the sound driver distributed with the Linux kernel, does > not support the SoundBlaster PCI64. You need to buy OSS/Linux. Take a > look at www.opensound.com.

Re: SHELL: duping stdout and stderr to another file

1998-07-29 Thread Jim Crumley
> Hi all > > I would like to know _how to copy_ (not start a new shell, eg: script) > stdout and stderr _from a shell script_ to a file. Also It is interesting > for me if there is a way to stop copying stdout and stderr... > > Thanks in advance, > Take a look at the tee command. Its in the pa

Filter for printer Canon bjc-4100..............

1998-07-29 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi I have a question about (my) printer. To print postscript i installed the magicfilter package and select the filter for canon bjc-600. It works fine. The only problem is that i have a canon 4100, and comparing with win95, that have the right filter, in linux, its much more slowly and cannot

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. I tried doing that, and it didn't work. I'll try again, and maybe I'll have more luck (and check that there is no problem with the NFS server...) > > I've been using

RE: LILO Problem

1998-07-29 Thread Richardson,Anthony
The prompts you are referring to aren't LILO prompts. When you run liloconfig LILO isn't installed as the master boot loader on your system another program is (I can't recall the name of the program that is used, but look thru the liloconfig script for details and then look into the appro

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... It's really up to you. I really recommend building a machine from scratch, but if you insist on having someone else do it for you, a specialized Linux machine is probably a safe bet. (proprietary technology is a pain in the *** with Linux) Alex On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Curt E. Spann wrote: >

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Taren
> > The problem is that the installation floppies (the drv1440, I mean) > doesn't have 3com 90x PCI drivers, and I can't work. (I'm writing this > from my other computer that has RedHat (that will hopefully become > Debian as soon as I can get it to work with the network card)). > What you need t

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Ok, I'm going to respond to that one thing at a time... :P DVD: Should be supported, including MPEG, but don't expect proprietary stuff on DVDs to run. Video card: As long as X and svgalib support it, it should probably be fine. S3 Trio* based cards will definitely work. Odd things like Re

Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. After using Debian 2.0 at home (and enjoying it very much) I decided to bring it to work, install it on some computers and show the world that Debian is better then both Win.NT and RedHat5.1. Well, I didn't bring the CD with me since I knew that I can have it here through NFS. The problem is th

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Linux has no Y2K issues aside from the BIOS. It's that simple. However, sometime in the 2030s, it will have some time_t problems if not fixed by then. They should be, although you will probably need to upgrade your embedded system if you want it to keep running after then. Alex On Thu, 23

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... I used that patch for a while. It messes with extended ASCII characters pretty badly. And I think it's Intel specific. Alex On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:33:25 -0500 (EST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.

Re: .bz2???

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Adam Greene wrote: : What exactly is a bz2 file?? Is it bzip (the block sorting file : compressor)?? pavlov:~ $ file linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2 linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k ^ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet -

Re: emacs/xemacs conflict?

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... XEmacs also has a console mode with which you can replace GNU Emacs. I'm not sure that it's exactly the same, but it does work and is good. Alex On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, the lone gunman wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:04:47 -0500 > From: the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Matt

Re: "sys c:" doesn't work for me. Why ? What to do ?

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Your C: drive in dosemu is write protected. Check dosemu.conf for anything about write proteection or something. (then again, it could also be the buggy as f***in' h*** FreeDOS kernel acting up again - try using a MS-DOS floppy if you haven't already) Alex On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, shaul wrote:

more linus!

1998-07-29 Thread David Parmet
Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows took many years to develop into its present state of glory and bugs ali

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... I don't think Microsoft is an evil company, either. I just think they're overpressured to put out software. Communist, tolerant societies like the Linux community simply doesn't put QUITE that much pressure on developers. (although I'm sure it puts plenty of it on all of them...) Alex On W

Re: more newbie questions: un(b)locking /dev/lp1

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Maybe you should compile lp support in your kernel as a module. Besides saving memory and such, you can also rmmod and insmod it to possibly reset the lp* ports and solve your problem. Alex On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chris Evans wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:12:34 +0100 > From: Chris Evans

Re: HTML HAMM Man Pages

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Any system with dwww connected to the Web will do it. This includes mine. If you can't find any others, you can use mine at http://vulture667.dyn.ml.org (yeah, that's a modem server, but it's online a lot); click the `dwww' link on the left navigation bar to go straight to the dwww browser w

Re: your mail

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... Note that Debian itself is fully Y2K compliant as shipped. If your system's BIOS stores dates in 4-digit format (most modern BIOSes and some older versions of AMIBIOS, even on some 386 and 486 machines, are also Y2K compliant), your system is fully Y2K compliant. Otherwise, the BIOS may affe

Re: your mail

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Hi... It's probably in the 2.0 upgrade. Download that first, then look for (presumably) a package `hwclock'. Alex On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Chiou, Violet wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:07:08 -0500 > From: "Chiou, Violet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'" > Resent-Date:

Re: dselect missing ftp option

1998-07-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade/update individual packages on 1.3 systems or any > upgrades that have to done must be preceded by the 1.3 -> 2.0 upgrade. I ask Well, you can upgrade the 1.3 packages, but the only thing to update them to is the 2.0 packages ...

Re: dselect missing ftp option

1998-07-29 Thread JonesMB
Thanks for the responses to my request. It turns out that I needed to add the dpkg-ftp package. Is it possible to upgrade/update individual packages on 1.3 systems or any upgrades that have to done must be preceded by the 1.3 -> 2.0 upgrade. I ask because I am trying to get tcpdump but the onl

Re: New to debian -- question about shells & unused accounts

1998-07-29 Thread Harald Schueler
Am Wed, 29 Jul 1998 schrieb Stephen J. Carpenter: > I have seen. It seems nmore common to make the shell > /bin/false > This is an executable (/dev/null is not and gives a permission denied > error) and is an executable which just exits (retuyrning a value > nonetheless but still just exiting)..o

Re: [Debian] keyboard stops working on Compaq EP

1998-07-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 (can't use 2.0 for development reasons) >> on a new Compaq EP 6350. The Compaq has a ps2 style mouse and keyboard. >> Unfortunately about one time out of three when I boot the PC it hangs for a >> very short time after installing the PS/2 driver

LILO Problem OOPS

1998-07-29 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I had something backwards: When I press F it runs the floppy when I press A it shows the F1234: menu, not the other way around. Anyway, I am just mainly concerned with skipping the initial AF1: menu. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: New to debian -- question about shells & unused accounts

1998-07-29 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Adam Keys wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: > > I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux > > and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. > > > > I'm sure I'll h

pgp question

1998-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
How do I sign somebody's key? Here's an example of the problem I'm having; [1:14am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> pgp -ks ahpee Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3ia - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04 International version - not for use

LILO Problem

1998-07-29 Thread Matthew D. Myers
I recently decided to install LILO on my laptop. According to the HOW-TO and liloconfig I should be able to hold shift while booting and get the following prompt: F1234: but mine has an extra step... when I hold shift while booting I get this prompt: AF1: If I press A (not lowercase, lowercase

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-29 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>I'm in the middle of getting a new PII (300MHz +) system. I'd like >to know what SCSI controller should I get for the best performance and >supporter driver on Linux: > >1. BusLogic >2. Adaptec UW > >A. Onboard (which Motherboard) >B. PCI Card The Adaptec controllers have been flakey on Linux (

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header--CORRECTION

1998-07-29 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
On 29 Jul 98 14:23:47 GMT, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As others have said you can fix it in ~/.muttrc or /etc/Muttrc. >Actually, I think this is a bug in either Mutt, exim, or their interaction, >because it works just fine with smail. I have no problem here, using mutt & exim. I

American Cancer Society Email... HOAX! (fwd)

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 07:36:13 +0800 (PHT) From: Cito Maramba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philippine Linux User's Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: American Cancer Society Email... HOAX! Sorry to use up the bandwidth b

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > > > > Can you decode any mp3 files using mpg123? I'm having some troubles with > > X11Amp myself. So I'm using eMusic or mpg123 for an mp3 decoder. > > What pr

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header--CORRECTION

1998-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 05:48:01AM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: > In looking at the From: line on my copy of my post sent by the > list I see that my mailer has done yet another thing. > > To clarify, the usual corruption of my address is from > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to 'cld@@'. > > Sorry for this s

Installation lockup on boot?

1998-07-29 Thread Muench, David
I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on my laptop to see what's changed, and I can't get the rescue disk to boot. I've tried both off of floppy and the loadlin off of the harddrive method. In both cases, it freezes right after the md line. I assume it's probably probing for scsi cards there, of which

FW: Compressed image found at block 0

1998-07-29 Thread Kelly Stuard
First of all, I'd like to thank all of you for your suggestions on fixing the problem. I tried them all. The problem ended up being with memory. I guess Linux is more picky about memory than Win95 is. Thanx, Kelly Stuard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Kent West Sent: Monday, July 27,

tools for downloading complex pages

1998-07-29 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, I would like to khow is it possible to download files from www-pages which contain menu driven dialogs. Is there are any tools available for such propose (like wget)? Would be obliged for any tips, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.

Shared memory problem (SMC ethercard)

1998-07-29 Thread Kennedy Mutio
I am using 2 ethercards, one is a NE2000 and the other is an SMC card, however, I use the NE2000 driver for both of them. Most of the time they work well but every once in a while my smc card misbehaves. I am using debian linux by the way. I get error messages like: eth0: bogus packet size: 66788

Re: I give UP

1998-07-29 Thread John
> >Well, I can't solve anyone's life scheduling problems (let alone my >own!) but learning Linux (or any flavor of Unix) does involve climbing >a rather steep learning curve. It may not be for you, but speaking >for myself (and probably many others) climbing that hill is well worth >my time and

Re: AGP video card

1998-07-29 Thread Michael B. Taylor
If Permedia cards are not yet supported by XFree86, check the SuSE website. If you cant find it, let me know and I will dig it up for you. Mike On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 09:32:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[snip] > Part 2. > > I have a Fire GL 1000 , or also called Diamond Permidia 2 8MB

BIOS setting via software

1998-07-29 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, Is there any linux stuff by which means it would be possible to change bios settings (particularly boot sequences etc) ? TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe? ma

Re: AGP video card (fwd)

1998-07-29 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > page. One thing they don't tell you though that you have to do under > Debian is delete the 'X' bin that should be in /usr/X11R6/bin and then > just link the Elsa_GLoria bin (XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria I believe) to 'X'. I really don't think that is a good idea. Debian created that "X" as an suid w

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