Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Art, > > > > > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? > > > > It shows > > > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Re: Re-Partition Ext2?

1999-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Partition Magic 4.0 will do this. I found that after doing so it was necessary to boot from a floppy and run lilo. Bob On 23 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > > Hi all, > > sorry for the probably dumb question: is there any tool to re-partition a > HD formatted with ext2 and without loosin

Changing "reply to" field?

1999-01-23 Thread Ed Young
I would like to be able to compose email off-line and have it sent automagicaly when I go online. I've got that part figured out, however the return-path (see below) is the user and host of my computer at home. That user and host isn't visible to any dns systems so if a personwants to repl

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Art, > > > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? > > It shows > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash Well, that would mean that root has no password and has /bin/bash as its shell.

Re: special boot disk

1999-01-23 Thread ktb
You can search for it at the Debian mailing list archives at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Hope that helped, Kent David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > Early December there was a thread "Debian installation hangs," and > about a week later on a different thread a developer posted a url to a >

Re-Partition Ext2?

1999-01-23 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, sorry for the probably dumb question: is there any tool to re-partition a HD formatted with ext2 and without loosing data? Kind of a fips (DOS-util) or the commercial tool Partition Magic? I just wanted to create another small linux partition for testing. Thanks and kind regards Fr

xdm- 'this is an unsecure session'??

1999-01-23 Thread jim r
I just installed the slink XDM package. It works fine, but the login screen shows something to the effect of 'this is an unsecure session'. the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file shows: xlogin*greeting: Debian GNU/Linux (CLIENTHOST) and further down Chooser*label.label: XDMCP Host Menu from CLIENTHOST

Print Quality Problem: HP 895C

1999-01-23 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was previously using an hp deskjet 855c, and while it output medicore (in my opinion at least) quality, I'm having big troubles with my new printer. I just bought an hp deskjet 895Cse, and the output is aweful! I'm using magic filters and using the d

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Also, the critical /etc/default/rcS lines show SULOGIN=no FSCKFIX=yes and the fstab entry for the boot drive shows /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 02:28:27PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -

Re: umask: file & dirs

1999-01-23 Thread Pere Camps
Remco, > > Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by > > default and directories in 750 ? > umask 027 Thanks. I think I got the umask thing the wrong way around. I think I've got something the other way around with permissions and umask. Lets see:

Re: [e9127170@stud2.tuwien.ac.at: Delete and Backspace-Keys]

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
Sorry, Marcus, but I don't have a specific answer for this one since I abandoned fvwm95 years ago in favor of Afterstep. I suspect that the keybinding problem might have resided in that particular X Windows manager all this time, although I could be wrong. A keyboard and console How-To

Re: umask: file & dirs

1999-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Pere Camps wrote: > Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by > default and directories in 750 ? umask 027 HTH, -Remco

Re: SCSI Reset.

1999-01-23 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > Daniel J. Brosemer writes ("SCSI Reset."): > >I've just aquired a new external scsi hard drive, and I was wondering if > >there is any way I can add it to my chain w/o losing my uptime? Is there > >some utility to reset the bus or to re-poll the ID's?

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-23 Thread Alec Smith
Thanks to all your tips I've been able to atleast make the printer (and Linux) realize there are jobs to be printed. It even does color under Linux. Only problem left is the thing spits out blank pages if I'm printing from a Winblows station through Samba. In the past, I've had a DeskJet 520 workin

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Art, > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? It shows root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash Art > > Bob > > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:49:37PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On

umask: file & dirs

1999-01-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by default and directories in 750 ? TIA! -- p.

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Art, What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? Bob On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:49:37PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:11:24PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > > > The present situation is that the system is running slink >

[e9127170@stud2.tuwien.ac.at: Delete and Backspace-Keys]

1999-01-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Someone please help this guy. Marcus To Markus: debian-user is a mailing list for user related questions. - Forwarded message from Markus Reuscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Markus Reuscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAI

1 vs 2 swaps: more specific

1999-01-23 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, to be more specific about partitions and controllers: Right now swap is on /dev/hdb5 and drive is a slave on IDE1 That drive also contains / mounted on /dev/hdb2 The new drive that I put in is /dev/hdc and right now contains a /usr partition, on /hdc1 Drive itself is a master on IDE2 If I mak

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:49:37PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:11:24PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > The present situation is that the system is running slink > > (frozen), and logins to root can be made without a password while all > > other users require passwo

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:11:24PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: > The present situation is that the system is running slink > (frozen), and logins to root can be made without a password while all > other users require passwords. I'm stalling remote users (volunteer > projects) until this situ

No Password for Root

1999-01-23 Thread Art Lemasters
After the potato surprise in unstable (oops--I should have watched more closely), I tried to downgrade to slink again. The slink base images would not fit on 1.44MB disks, so the hamm base floppy images were used. The base images were installed over the existing file system. Then the sy

special boot disk

1999-01-23 Thread David Stern
Hi, Early December there was a thread "Debian installation hangs," and about a week later on a different thread a developer posted a url to a special disk image made just for this problem in his debian.org home directory. Now I can't find that post, or more importantly the URL. Can anyone he

Installation hangs (and other problems)

1999-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I just tried my first install of Debian. It didn't go very well. Fortunately, I did it in the spirit of a trial run. I thought I'd list a few of the problems I ran into, in hopes that someone might be able to save me some time getting it right. The main item is that dselect hung repeatedly when

Re: gnome dependencies problem

1999-01-23 Thread Allens
--- Begin Message --- Try installing through dpkg and see if it gives the same error. If it does then you could try one of the --force options (I forget which one). Peter Allen Brian Morgan wrote: > > I'm trying to install gnome from one of it's mirrors, and having some

SCSI Reset.

1999-01-23 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
I've just aquired a new external scsi hard drive, and I was wondering if there is any way I can add it to my chain w/o losing my uptime? Is there some utility to reset the bus or to re-poll the ID's? thanks in advance. -Dan

Re: STTY and CRT

1999-01-23 Thread Nidge Jones
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:34:44AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Sounds like something is AFU ... I've used CRT for a few years now, with > bo, hamm, slink, and potato, and I've never seen that problem. Humm ! Well I have it, and I need to cure it :( > What's your terminal setting in CRT? I

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Remco van de Meent wrote: > And gpm doesn't need root-privileges. Sorry, that's an error, it actually does. Apologies for disturbing you. -Remco

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Branden Robinson wrote: > But how about getting screenshots of VC's? Apparently no such tool > already exists. > > What would it take to write one? Root privileges, or can it be > implemented in userspace? If you're referring to textmode virtual consoles, I'd say you should be able to do it in

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > But how about getting screenshots of VC's? Apparently no such tool > already exists. > With a framebuffer console it's already feasible: cp /dev/fb0 /tmp/consoleshot.data I just wonder how the resulting stuff could be converted into something

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Branden Robinson
Obviously there are plenty of ways to get a screenshot in X. But how about getting screenshots of VC's? Apparently no such tool already exists. What would it take to write one? Root privileges, or can it be implemented in userspace? -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decid

Re: netscape4.5 problem under slink

1999-01-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Xiaonan Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just found on the debian list that you two had the same problem with > netscape45 as what I am having now, i.e., > > ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: > undefined > symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget > Cant load plugin > /usr/lib

Re: seek help with cheap network card

1999-01-23 Thread Will Lowe
[This really belongs on -user, so I've moved it there.] > The network card in my machine is a Winbond 89c940. I admit it's a $20 > special. I have been unable to locate any Linux drivers for the card, With ethernet cards it's generally a matter of chipset. If you can figure out what chipset i

Re: VBScripts within Apache :(

1999-01-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:50:34PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > Hunt around on freshmeat.net a few ASP solutions exist there. VBScript itself > though I do not believe has a non-Windows analogue, sorry. Awhile back I came across a visual basic emulator that ran VB pcode under unix. Can't rememeber the

Help!: How to force SIAG to use ISO-8859-2 fonts?

1999-01-23 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I have to force SIAG to use other encoding (preferrably ISO-8859-2) in the spreadsheet. How to do it? I tried to change all font definitons in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Siag into -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-2. All fonts changed, except of fonts used in the spreadsheet :-(. How to force siag

RE: VBScripts within Apache :(

1999-01-23 Thread Shaleh
Hunt around on freshmeat.net a few ASP solutions exist there. VBScript itself though I do not believe has a non-Windows analogue, sorry. People really should learn to use portable languages. On 23-Jan-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > a friend of mine al

Re: STTY and CRT

1999-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Nidge Jones wrote: : : I use CRT from windows from time to time to access my Debian 2.0 install. [ snip ] : However, if I then Maximise the CRT window (or resize by dragging the edge : of the box), to get a bigger display, Linux still shows the out put as : 80x25? :

Re: ess1688 sound card

1999-01-23 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira, Stardate 230199.0551: > Hi Debian users, > a friend of mine has a ess1688 sound card and cant configure it in > Linux. Anyone has a light? > Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique > I have such a card running (well with some pro

ISPI Clips 8.38: Intel's Pentium III Processor, Embedded Security & Privacy Issue (fwd)

1999-01-23 Thread D'jinnie
Apparently not many ppl find this idea disturbing...I wonder if they're going to provide info on how to disable this to the Linux community? --- We have only two things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and se

RE: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-23 Thread Shaleh
On 23-Jan-99 Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Hi. > I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an > additional swap on it. > The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if > instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate > disks? > T

1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-23 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Hi. I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an additional swap on it. The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate disks? TIA, Andrew ___

Re: Telnet and Xprograms

1999-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Gregory Green wrote: > > > I have tried usining vt100, vt102, vt220 and I cannot figure out how > > > to export X programs, such as xterm, to my telnet session. I export > > > my and I still cannot connect. I get the following error: > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 >

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread SEGV
Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > Hi, > > We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We > plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day > occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something like: > Plextor PX-412C, or Sony 9

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, George Bonser wrote: >On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Paul Seelig wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: >> >> > Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots >> > packaged for Debian? >> > >> Install the imagemagick package and then do "man import".

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Paul Seelig
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: > Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots > packaged for Debian? > Install the imagemagick package and then do "man import". Here's what i use most effectively: -- snip --- #!/bin/sh # save as /usr/

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread servis
*- Randy Edwards wrote about "Screenshot utility for Debian?" > Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots packaged for > Debian? I've searched various combinations in dselect and couldn't find one > but it'd amaze me if one was already packaged. TIA. > The xv package has

Re: Telnet and Xprograms

1999-01-23 Thread Gregory Green
I have been doing just what you suggested but I get the errors anyway. I get the same error when I run xhost. I am telneting in to my Debian box running X, from a PC running Windblows using the procomm 32 telnet program. Is this a server problem or do not have the telnet session set up properly

Re: Telnet and Xprograms

1999-01-23 Thread Remco van de Meent
Gregory Green wrote: > I have tried usining vt100, vt102, vt220 and I cannot figure out how to > export X programs, such as xterm, to my telnet session. I export my and > I still cannot connect. I get the following error: > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > _X11TransSocketI

Telnet and Xprograms

1999-01-23 Thread Gregory Green
I have tried usining vt100, vt102, vt220 and I cannot figure out how to export X programs, such as xterm, to my telnet session. I export my and I still cannot connect. I get the following error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errn

Re: Problems installing Linux.

1999-01-23 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Try installing xbase, appropriate xserver for you card, xfonts and other packages needed to run X. Then run the xf86config. Andrew > I need some help installing Linux. > After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start > de Dselect program to install the packages. During the > instal

STTY and CRT

1999-01-23 Thread Nidge Jones
I use CRT from windows from time to time to access my Debian 2.0 install. Now under 1.3.1 this worked great, everything was OK now problems? But since upgrading to 2.0 I have run into a little problem I cannot quite sort out. The problem.. If I start a CRT window (80x25) all is well, all my Li

Problems installing Linux.

1999-01-23 Thread Nuno Donato
I need some help installing Linux. After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start de Dselect program to install the packages. During the installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X configuration file. I answer 'yes

Re: DeskJet 870

1999-01-23 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am writing this off the top of my head, without digging up any more specific information. If you want more information, please contact me and I will dig around in the next day or two, and perhaps even go to the trouble of getting the set up right. In the ftp archive, in project/experimental i

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 06:50:32PM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Hmmm ... I just checked and indeed my second partition is FAT16. > Still, I'm not sure if NT 4.0 doesn't support FAT32. Its a nonissue > for me since all I use partition 2 for is the pagefile.sys. Unless they introduced it in S

Re: ess1688 sound card

1999-01-23 Thread Christian Simonutti
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > a friend of mine has a ess1688 sound card and cant configure it in > Linux. Anyone has a light? > Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique > hi. i have a ess1688 sound-"card" in a notebook (Olivetti Echos P133S), runnin

Alternatives to run-parts ?

1999-01-23 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, someone can explain the difference between run-parts and: ---8<--- #!/bin/sh # alternative to run-parts . (?) USAGE="\ Usage: $0 dirname\n run all the executable inside the directory " if [ "$2" = "test" ] ; then TEST=1 else TEST=0 fi if [ $# = 0 ] ;

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > of course you're right that Bourne shell has been around for decades, i > guess i wasn't thinking about that one since i really don't know anyone > who uses that as their primary login shell. For quite some time, I used tcsh as login shell and Bourne for scripts... > perhaps it's becaus

Re: Leafnode

1999-01-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > How do I setup leafnode for reading news? I've read the documents, but > can't find anything listed about telling leafnode which groups I want to > read. As someone already answered, it'll figure it out automagically. One thing - with the hamm version, tin will hang the first time you

VBScripts within Apache :(

1999-01-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, a friend of mine already installed Apache and is wondering if it has VBScript support. He has a SQL database and some ASP VBScript that access it. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

ess1688 sound card

1999-01-23 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, a friend of mine has a ess1688 sound card and cant configure it in Linux. Anyone has a light? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: SQL packages

1999-01-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Greg Frye wrote: >I checked and it was postgres95 that I had trouble with on Debian. I >have Debian 1.3.1 running on my server. Can I run the latest PostgreSQL >on it? I would like to try it on my Debian box more than my RH box. The latest few postgresqls are libc6. You would need to upg

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: > Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots packaged for > Debian? I've searched various combinations in dselect and couldn't find one > but it'd amaze me if one was already packaged. TIA. Screenshots of anything running under X: yes; xv, xwd, etc, tc

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, > > > Make sure your rescue disk contains ext2, msdos, ramdisk, initrd, and ELF > > > support. > > Oh, I forgot, you need minix fs support too. See if that helps. Indeed it did. :) I had to use the rescue disk on master in Incoming but with my custom kernel instead. It boots but it

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:53:55PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working! > I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem > but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:48:47PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > (BTW: TANSTAAFL was Larry Niven, not Heinlein IIRC) Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", I thought. Actually I never read it but it was a favourite of some people in the local FidoNet region a few years back (as Craig might reme

Spellcaster BRI card and friends...isdnutils etc

1999-01-23 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I have got an old spellcaster datacommute/bri, and cant seem to get it going with kernel 2.0.34 and the isdnutils package. I believe the firmware is 1.51. I get ioctl failed whenever i try to set the switch type(-w) or spid's(-s) or phone number (-d) Any ideas? Thanks

Re: inword() charset in X

1999-01-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:20:05PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > /etc/gpm.conf has an option, -l, that defines the characters that > may be included in a word for selection. > > Where is the equivalent option or variable for selection in X? > > Is the selection function built into x

Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:54:14PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots packaged for > Debian? I've searched various combinations in dselect and couldn't find one > but it'd amaze me if one was already packaged. TIA. I don't know about t

Re: xdm

1999-01-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 12:39:48PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with "start-xdm" > in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there a way to change > that? All I've done to make this happen was install the xdm package. Also, > is

Screenshot utility for Debian?

1999-01-23 Thread Randy Edwards
Could someone tell me if there is a utility to create screenshots packaged for Debian? I've searched various combinations in dselect and couldn't find one but it'd amaze me if one was already packaged. TIA. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders wrote: > (BTW: TANSTAAFL was Larry Niven, not Heinlein IIRC) No it wasn't. Read _The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress_ again. -- see shy jo

Re: X manager installation changes /dev/mouse from psaux to ttyS0

1999-01-23 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Oliver Elphick wrote: > BOHICA wrote: > >I tried re-symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux > >BOHICA:/dev$ rm mouse > >BOHICA:/dev$ ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/psaux > >but for some reason this causes /dev/psaux to link to /dev/ttyS0. > > You got the command back-to-front. > > >So now I have: /dev/

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working! I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being unable to find the root filesystem? Thanks, -Ossama > # dd if=resc1440

RE: aic7xxx kernel: Did you solve your problem?

1999-01-23 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hi I've got an 2940UW to and I've got a similar problem with it. I've tried almost everything since the past December and the problem still goes on. My system hangs at the detection phase of the HD attached to the card (it's the only device attached to the card). I get a timed out error. If you g

RE: what cd-writer ?

1999-01-23 Thread Bill Parker
Hi: I have a VERY hard time trying to find a retail source for Symbios SCSI cards in the US. Who sells them in typical user quantities? Bill Parker, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Windows crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. > I hate to disagree but... the symbios cards are

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, > 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM. > > Thus, you'll wanna use "mem=960M". > > You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel > memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB). Can the 2.1/2.2 kernel

Re: xdm

1999-01-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:02:42AM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > Thanks to all who have helped me get X up and running. I'm using xdm to > start my X sessions (not sure if I'll keep it). A few more questions: > > 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file > to I

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We > plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day > occasionally. After reading ne

Re: xdm

1999-01-23 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 22 Jan 99 20:15:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) wrote: >At 03:09 PM 1/22/1999 -0500, Michael Stenner wrote: >>New xdm question: >> >>My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without >>xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the >>screen. >> >

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:38:54AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 20:26:12 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > i mostly agree but wouldn't put it anywhere near that strongly. > > I would. Ben's phrasing strongly reminds me of Robert A. Heinlein; > especially of the concept of TA

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread Mike Garfias
Alexander Kushnirenko spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > Hi, > > We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We > plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day > occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something l

Re: SQL packages

1999-01-23 Thread Greg Frye
I checked and it was postgres95 that I had trouble with on Debian. I have Debian 1.3.1 running on my server. Can I run the latest PostgreSQL on it? I would like to try it on my Debian box more than my RH box. Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Greg Frye wrote: > >I have PostgreSQL loaded on a Redhat

*.au.debian.org

1999-01-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi all, We have just moved the ftp.au.debian.org site to a new host located on AARNET, if you liked using the old one then you can use the ftp.wa.au.debian.org address. Thanks, Jason

Re: Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 06:24:33PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We > plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day > occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with som

Formating & Partitioning new HDD (was Re: rawrite for linux)

1999-01-23 Thread homega
Please, do bear with me for a moment and help me go through it, thanks: ok, so making images of Slack's boot (bareapm.i), root (color.gz), and rescue (rescue.gz) disks seems to have worked (documentation says to make images of all three files). Now, in principle my initial idea was to strip windo

Plextor PX-412C ? (was: what cd-writer ?)

1999-01-23 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, We are also looking for a good SCSI CDR to buy for our university group. We plan to redistribute experimental data on CDs, so we may burn few CDs a day occasionally. After reading net we decided to go with something like: Plextor PX-412C, or Sony 948S, or Yamaha CRW 4260 Are they good? W

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:09:32AM +, Pere Camps wrote: > Hamish, > > > > (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) > > > Me too. > > Yes, "quiet" in the options line does this IIRC. > > Great! Problem (almost solved)! > Do you think it's proper to email any of these two gu

Shell problems

1999-01-23 Thread Nuno Donato
1 - Does anybody knows how can I edit my Apps menus in my shell. I want to edit it because AfterStep is installed and it doesn't appear there. 2 - What is the shell where I can have icons(shortcuts) in the desktop? Thanks Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _

Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

1999-01-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hamish, > > > (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) > > Me too. > Yes, "quiet" in the options line does this IIRC. Great! Problem (almost solved)! > "zip" for example encounters the same problem when creating a zip on > FAT/VFAT, and removes the created zip file! Most annoyi