Re: a basic kernel //or rather simply an old one

1998-09-18 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello again! Thanks for the support. let me more specific: I want to play with the kernel, and really understand how it works. I think that the best way to do that is to read the sunsite docs, and play with an older kernel that wasn't as complex as the new ones. I need the oldest posible kernel,

re-rebooting during installation

1998-09-18 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, Question first, details follow for those that want them. Question: How can I get Deb to present me with the profile selection screen that one gets during installation of Deb 2.0, after one has partitioned, initialized, configured the net and the base system and rebooted ? You know,

sound mixer program

1998-09-18 Thread Xiaonan Ma
Is there a program that allows multiple applications to play audio at the same time? Like a mixer daemon ... If so, could someone point it to me? Thanks. xiaonan

telnet access/telnetd

1998-09-18 Thread Shane S.
Hi there, After a successful installation, I want to configure the telnet access to my debian linux. I noticed I don't have telnetd in /etc directory. I searched for it and couldn't find it at all. Do I have get this from somewhere to set it up. Also is there a documentation HOW-TO to confi

Re: REMOVE!!! (there must be a better way)

1998-09-18 Thread dsb3
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >Even better, we could bring our list technology into the '80s and do a >multipart/alternative message format with an HTML alternative which provided a >sophisticated mailto: tag and include the subject, body, and the whole thing >in the >link. Pleas

JAZ, vold, and jaztool

1998-09-18 Thread Max
Has anyone been able to get jaztool to work with the new 2GB JAZ drives? Mine keeps on saying that the device is not an Iomega JAZ drive even though it is. On a different note, can vold be made to work with JAZ drives? I got it to work for the CD, but it doesn't automount the JAZ even though I p

RE: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-18 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 4:14 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: REMOVE!!! > > > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline

slink jdk bad package.

1998-09-18 Thread Mrpeabody
hey, did debian they fix that problem with the version denpendicies for the jdk pagages yet? -jeff

Re: REMOVE!!! (there must be a better way)

1998-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't have > >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all, but > >isn't the whole point of the information being ther

Re: SCSI (fwd)

1998-09-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
>From the FM (SCSI-HOWTO): SCSI hosts that will NEVER work : Non Adaptec compatible, non NCR53c8xx DTC boards (including the 3270 and 3280). Also from the SCSI-HOWTO: 5.3. Adaptec 152x, 151x, 1505, 282x, Sound Blaster 16 SCSI, SCSI Pro, Gigabyte, and other AIC 6260/6360 based product

Re: mixed text and postscript

1998-09-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one | printcap entry. HP recommends setting up two separate printcap | entries, but it seems to me that it should be possible to do this | using some sort of an input filter that converts text to PostScript |

SCSI (fwd)

1998-09-18 Thread treacy
The following was sent to webmaster. Could someone on debian-user help this person out? Please remove me from any replies. Jay Treacy P.S. requests of this nature belong on debian-user. - Forwarded message from Adam Ray - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 18 16:38:28 1998 Delivered-To:

Re: Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Jack Kern
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:37:36PM +, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone > could help me resolve the problem. > > I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has > the connection to the internet. It is running all

R/W cdrom

1998-09-18 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Anyone know of any good scsi R/W cdrom,s that work well with linux. Thanks Alot Rick

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread surak
>Also when I tried leap. I got error that it could not create > directory or file. For leap I tried > gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xO > gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xf > gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xF install > help a newbie please. The leap-1.2.deb file

RE: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't have >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all, but >isn't the whole point of the information being there to help inexperienced >use

apache server-parsed error.

1998-09-18 Thread Kent Andersen
ok got a new install and have the AddHandler for server-parsed enabled. why am I getting? [warn] handler "server-parsed" not found, using default handler for: /var/www/index.htm where is the handler located to be installed? is it a module or what? thanks kent

Re: Port Fw in the kernal

1998-09-18 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:09:12PM -0400, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: > Greetings. > > I've reinstalled debian 2.0, including the ipchains, ipfwadm, and ipportfw. > > The ipfwadm seems to work, as the commands are accepted, but nothing seems > to work. Also, anything I type in ipportfw bombs, sa

Re: X Windows Startup

1998-09-18 Thread John Larkin
Andy Bierlair wrote > i wanted to install a few things including X WIndows. i can enter > the XWIN setup in the beginning and set up screen, graphic card, > etc... now debian wanted to launch X WINdows once again, and then i > got my problem ! The whole stuff is hanging. i can still see the > Prom

Re: Second try--can someone interpret these install boot messages?

1998-09-18 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:09:06PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: > > [ snip ] > > :hd: controller still busy > :hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault > :SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error

unsuscribe

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mixed text and postscript

1998-09-18 Thread Max
I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one printcap entry. HP recommends setting up two separate printcap entries, but it seems to me that it should be possible to do this using some sort of an input filter that converts text to PostScript and leaves PostScript files alone. H

Re: Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone | could help me resolve the problem. | | I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has | the connection to the internet. It is running all of my servers, and |

Re: mkdosfs simply exits

1998-09-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Glenn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have built a linux rescue floppy that I am using to do restores of a | win95 system for a school lab environment. The floppy is intended to | be able to reformat the hard drive and re-load a valid setup over the | network or from a CD. Here's my problem

Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone could help me resolve the problem. I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has the connection to the internet. It is running all of my servers, and pulling mail down from my isp with fetchmail. I'm w

mkdosfs simply exits

1998-09-18 Thread Glenn Engel
I have built a linux rescue floppy that I am using to do restores of a win95 system for a school lab environment. The floppy is intended to be able to reformat the hard drive and re-load a valid setup over the network or from a CD. Here's my problem: I got the latest mkdosfs that supports fat32

Gnome/GIMP/GTK problem?

1998-09-18 Thread Joshua Wilson
Whenever I attempt to start Gnome or GIMP from within Windowmaker 0.19 I get the following error message. ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): assertion "font != NULL" failed. ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 156 (gdk_font_id): assertion "font != NULL" failed. ** WARNING *

Re: smail and domains SOLVED

1998-09-18 Thread Max
> For some reason, I can't convince smail to expand hostnames to contain > the complete host and domain name. For example, I want to send mail > to a user on leland.stanford.edu from my Debian box which is also in > the stanford.edu domain. I should be able to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it > shou

[off-topic] out of mailing lists .....

1998-09-18 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Sorry, about this mail, but is the second or third time that I stop from getting mail from debian-user, debian-devel and debian-changes mailing lists! To resolve it I need to subscribe again! :( Had this happened to someone else !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 18 Sep, Randy Edwards wrote: >Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates > subdirectory is for? > >Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist? > Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming" > type of subdir so that the

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Alvaro Reguly
Date forwarded: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:11:52 -0300 Date sent: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Forwarded by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Re: Dselect Freeking ... Forwarded to: [EMAIL

Big troubles with DSELECT

1998-09-18 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, While trying to upgrade to HAMM, something really bad happened. Ran the autoup.sh and things just didn't work out. It seems that not all the Libs were properly replaced. While trying to upgrade the system with DSELECT I got the below errors. Any ideas on where I should take it

gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
just try tar -xzvf filename.gz this will take care of everything at once. Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs bu

Re: How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote: > > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [128.3.5.53] > > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt, > > arg1=<[EMAIL P

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread mjv
That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted fine. Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with squeezing extra

Rescue Disk

1998-09-18 Thread johnk
Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for creating a rescue disk after installation. I had a problem with my floppy during the install and it could not create one, now the floppy is fixed and I would like to make one. Thanks in advance. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X Windows Startup

1998-09-18 Thread Andy Bierlair
Hello   I am a new Linux user in Debian 2.0   i wanted to install a few things including X WIndows. i can enter the XWIN setup in the beginning and set up screen, graphic card, etc... now debian wanted to launch X WINdows once again, and then i got my problem ! The whole stuff is hanging. i

Re: cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Stuart: I also have a cable modem with @HOME. They are relativley easy to get working. Set the ip of the nic they gave you to 24.1.106.xxx. Then set the netmask to 255.255.255.0. The gateway is 24.1.106.1. Then use the DNS servers they gave you. They should have given you a name for you

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) > and everything worked just fine.

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?) - At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: >Hi there .. > >I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, >I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 10-Sep-1998, Adam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model > being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? Probably the usual: Wait for a concrete proposal. Wait until someone actually uses it.

Samba: Passwords to print??

1998-09-18 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello, Can I let everyone in my office print to a Samba printer share, and not have them authentic as a user. I would rather allow every IP in my Domain/Subnet to print without asking for passwords. And then I can deny the rest of the world. Again, I only want to do this for printers, not all

Re: installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having > Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but > there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing > Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD > drive. Someone maile

Re: installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD drive. Someone mailed me, I co

printcap entry for ip adress printer, and filter for 5MP

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
nuts. I've tried to print again, and my printcap is part of what was lost in the partition table fiasco. Unfortuneately, i don't remember how I figured it out, and can't figure out the options again from printcap. That and what i did figure out before was a little flaky, and i never got non-

Re: Emacs 20

1998-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
This does not belong to debian-admin but to debian-user, I've forwarded it. Flint wrote: > Emaccs 20 has posed a prblem to install. Assumed it is related to video > problem. > > Have Diamond Stealth II S220 with Rendition Verite Chipset, hoping some > one knows of released driver or one under t

DPT Scsi Host Controller

1998-09-18 Thread Shane S.
Hi there, On the server that I am installing the debian linux, it has a DTP Scsi Host Controller PM 2012A. After reviewing the harware compatibility list on the debian site, I noticed that this type of controller is support. However during installation, in the configuring the driver modules,

Re: Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Gergely Madarasz
> Quite simply: DO NOT DO THIS!!! There should be no problem with CAD, if it is set up properly it should do a clean reboot, and it is set up properly by default. > > Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told > > upon subsequent reboot of linux that the partition wa

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> When i do this it asks for the file system type? > mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip /mnt is a directory with no files. You must mount to an existing directory, which really should be empty. try: mkdir /zip mount /dev/sda4 /zip -t msdos (i'm assuming you're using a dos formatted zip) rick --

Re: Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Shaleh
Quite simply: DO NOT DO THIS!!! To reboot type: reboot. D othis while logged in as root. to shutdown the machine type: shutdown -h now. again as root. Sean Johnson wrote: > > Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told > upon subsequent reboot of linux that the par

Ctr-Alt-Delete not cleanly unmounting

1998-09-18 Thread Sean Johnson
Whenever I shutdown/reboot via the keypress Ctrl-Alt-Del, I get told upon subsequent reboot of linux that the partition was not cleanly unmounted, and then have to sit through esfchk. If I type shutdown -r now, this does not happen. It seems to me that there must be something wrong with the way t

make-kpkg and modules

1998-09-18 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Manoj, As I wrote in the previous message, I have recompiled the kernel successfully but I included the pcmcia support in it, as well as IDE_CD and NLS_XXX, while now I realize these should all be modules. Indeed, there are entries for all of them in the default Debian 2.0 /lib/modules/2.

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Default Debian Reader
When i do this it asks for the file system type? mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip hmm, it also gives me same message when i do mount /dev/hdc /cdrom i can't mount devices anymore...ouch..i konw there is easy answer to this i just forget. On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, mjv wrote: > That's too easy :) Are there any

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> 1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs. > 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need > the hyphen before its arguments. or, more simply, tar -zxvf my_targz.tar.gz the z option (not in some other unix version) causes gzip compression/ d

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Shaleh
1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs. 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need the hyphen before its arguments. -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, got a new disk for my slackware linux system, and wanted to give debian a try on my production system is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having trouble with my floppy-device and since i already have a running linux system, i want to install the new debia

Re: gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Hey All, > > I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and > maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these > programs but "here's the rub".. mc is definatly a .deb, and I thinkthe others may well be. If they are, then you're m

gzip problems...Newbie!

1998-09-18 Thread Person, Rod
Hey All, I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these programs but "here's the rub".. mc say to use this. gzip -d

Re: Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: :Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates : subdirectory is for? : :Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist? : Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming" : type of su

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
At 08:53 AM 9/18/1998 -0400, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >[stuff deleted] >> Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. I assume you have the 5 or 6 images (resc1440.bin, etc) in a directory on a DOS (or Win9x/NT) machine. You also need rawrite2.exe (or the ol

Can't reconnect after ISP disconnected me

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
Never mind: I'm an idiot. I forgot I was using a connection other than the standard "provider". I tried "pon acu" and the connection came right up. Thanks anyway. >I was connected via ppp to my ISP and doing large download (dselect's ftp of a bunch of >packages). The ISP has a three-hour-at-a-tim

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] > Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. Try a fresh format on all 7 floppies (full format, not the quick format). All it takes is one flakey sector on the floppy to torpedo you. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas K

Can't reconnect after ISP disconnected me

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
I was connected via ppp to my ISP and doing large download (dselect's ftp of a bunch of packages). The ISP has a three-hour-at-a-time limit, so it disconnected me mid-download. dselect is willing to pick up where it left off, but when I try to pon to reconnect, I'm not getting reconnected. The rele

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. >> >> Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 >> >> 1. Installation with disk >> >>I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. >> >> Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 >> >> 1. Installation with disk >> >>I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-18 Thread Kent West
At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: >Hi there .. > >I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, >I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to step 3 >(Install) dselect freeks (nice ANSI there :)) complaing about hard >disk space, but the thing is I have 2g

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 02:52:15PM -0300, Adam Greene wrote: > What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model > being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc?? hmm well... I have no idea :) What is this standard? Is there a pointer to it? If the standard is wo

Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Adam Greene
What will Linux (therefore Debian) do with the new Unix Driver Model being pushed by Intel, Compaq, SCO, Hewlett-Packard, etc??

RE: cable-modem woes (TCI/@HOME)

1998-09-18 Thread Hank Fay
Stuart, in Win98, you need to set the gateway and DSN addresses of the client. The gateway is the local network address of the inside NIC on your cable modem box. The DNS addresses are those of the ISP (24.129.x.xx)or whatever. That much I know; I'm still stuck on one-way cable

Re: New install problems

1998-09-18 Thread dsb3
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, EGRET Lures wrote: >Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the >Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb) > >With the bios set to boot from D all that appears is "LI" and the >systems hangs. > from the lilo documentation (actually taken fro

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the > five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for > scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be > for insmod? If you start your installation from the rescue disk, you will g

Re: tob problems

1998-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 17 Sep 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have used tob before, but today I get a segmentation fault every time I > > want to do a -fullcount of -full backup. > > > > It ends like this: > > -

Proposed-updates subdir?

1998-09-18 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates subdirectory is for? Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist? Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming" type of subdir so that the files are checked and then moved into Hamm o

Re: joystick

1998-09-18 Thread servis
*- Phillip Neumann wrote about "joystick" | | | I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can | i found information? | See http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/ I use it with the 2.0.35 kernel but it also works with the 2.1.x series. You can compile as

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread James Dietrich
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:21:07AM +0100, Mario Filipe wrote: > > On 18-Sep-98 James Dietrich wrote: > > > > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh ins

Hardware reference

1998-09-18 Thread Tom Malloy
A friends company just gave me three old 486s in exchange for my helping them with their mail server and firewall. Anyway they each have network cards, so I want to set up a small network in my apartment. They are HP Ethertwist PC link 16 #27247-60001 I can not find any reference to them at HP'

Re: a basic kernel

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
I seem to remember that you can rebuild a kernal, and rename it. Then you can set lilo to boot off that, and if it screws up, you can reset lilo to boot off your stable kernal. That way you can cut your teeth on the latest kernal technology. Anyone have any more details on that? Mike Alexander G

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
Your problem must be perplexing. I just installed a machine last night with floppies with nary a problem. There may be something in the way your box is reading the floppy drive during boot. I used rawrite to create the rescue disk, driver disk, and the five bin disks, then stuck the rescue in the b

Re: About realplayer - SOLVED

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
> Actually I didn't! But then when things went wrong i looked for it > but > couldn't find it... (I think I need new glasses or something!) Just solved the problem: I installed the package and now everything is ok! Thanks for the help! Mario Filipe [EMAIL

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-18 Thread Michael Vanecek
Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be for insmod? Trust that I'm familiar with Linux, but still very new. (This is my first

problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread bianxu
I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation guide. Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586 1. Installation with disk I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and loadin.exe into DOS directory. when I started install.bat ..

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 18-Sep-98 John Larkin wrote: > Joey Hess wrote >> Mario Filipe wrote: >> > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) >> > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer >> > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot >> > locate the

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
> I had similar problems when I installed it, and I spent quite a while > figuring the problem out. I finally concluded the the major problem > is their insistance on calling them "shared library" files. That > implies that they are the same as the system shared library files, but > it appears th

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
> This seems to be the error message that rvplayer gives in response to > just about every difficulty---very unhelpful. Yes! > When I had this problem (or at least a problem that resulted in the > same error-message), it turned out to be because rvplayer couldn't > find the relevant libra

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 18-Sep-98 James Dietrich wrote: > > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) > and everything worked just fine. Howe

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
On 17-Sep-98 John Larkin wrote: > I've noticed that realplayer is really stupid when it comes to shared > libraries. Try adding /usr/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment > variable ("export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" if you > use bash. Chances are you don't have a LD_LIBRARY_P

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread Mario Filipe
> one possibility- > from: http://service.real.com/help/player/unix3.0/upgrade.html > > When you upgrade your Web browser, you may lose the configuration information > for RealAudio Player. > Refer to > Quick Start for detailed instructions for configuring Netscape Navigator 2.0 > and 3.0. > >

Re: Installation of ipx

1998-09-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Horst Fleischer wrote: > Hallo! > > > 1) > I have some problems trying to install the IPX -package for the > NCPFS-Support for Novell - Netware Servers. > > I tried to install and afterwards to configure these 2 packages several > times with > "DSELECT" but I always get th

Re: How to send mail with POP/sendmail?

1998-09-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Stefan Kluth wrote: > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [128.3.5.53] > Sep 17 17:01:39 persil sendmail[2062]: RAA02062: ruleset=check_rcpt, > arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=bbrmac1.lbl.gov [128.3.5.53], reject

Re: Debian install

1998-09-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > LILO supports booting from either of the hard disks connected to the > Primary IDE controller To be precise, booting is a two stage process with respect to LILO. The first stage loads the boot loader and that can be from anywhere,

Re: tob problems

1998-09-18 Thread Jim Pick
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have used tob before, but today I get a segmentation fault every time I > want to do a -fullcount of -full backup. > > It ends like this: > - > current->tss.cr3 = 00641000, %cr3 = 00641000 >

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-18 Thread Joel Rowbottom
>> I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it >> will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). >> >> 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped regularly from mysql > >Radiator can authenticate from password files and/or MYSQL databases and >others. It

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-18 Thread John Larkin
Joey Hess wrote > Mario Filipe wrote: > > I installed rvplayer on my machine (slink updated this morning) > > but everytime i try to run welcome.rm (provided with realplayer > > package) it tell's me this: File compression not supported. Cannot > > locate the requested RealAudio decoder. > > You d

Re: ppp problems

1998-09-18 Thread Matt Porter
On 17 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Matt Porter writes: > > My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up > > or ip-down script itself (tested by throwing an echo command in there). > > Not a valid test. These scripts are run with stdin and stdout connected to >

joystick

1998-09-18 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, I want to use my joystick here in linux. How can i do that? or where can i found information? Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann

a basic kernel

1998-09-18 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Dear fellow users! I am a newbie, but a week ago enthusiacstically compiled my first kernel. that's amazing. the thing is, it's a process so complex that I fear to touch the makefiles or play with them. I wanted to ask, whether somebody can recommend me an old kernel that have some basic capabilit

Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-18 Thread Ivan Kohler
Hello, On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Alexander List wrote: > Hi! > > I am thinking about using mysql for administering my user database, as it > will probably be quite large (expected round 1 users). > > I thought about the following ways to do this: > > 1) using normal passwd/shadow files, dumped

installation: hard disk partion segmentation fault

1998-09-18 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
I'm trying to install for the first time on a 486DX33, AMIBIOS 2.3, 8M RAM, 170M HD. As I step through setup, I get to the 'Partition a Hard Disk' step. I select next and am offered the single choice of /dev/hda. I select it, the screen quickly shows a segmentation fault, says its determining th

New install problems

1998-09-18 Thread EGRET Lures
Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb) Drive C is a 3.2gb IDE (master) and the new drive(D) 5.1GB (slave). Drive C is dual boot DOS and NT. The bios allows booting from D. Earlier this week before I received the new d

Re: Basic question from a Debian new boy

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian > > distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of > > other applications. Is there a document available that tells which > > apps are contained in which *.de

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