Exceed 6 setup help

1999-02-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I just purchased a new computer so I wouldn't have to dual boot anymore. I must use Windows for MS Office (Excel) and games. Problem is that I have only one monitor. I have Exceed 6 but I can't seem to get it working. Does someone who has done this have time to walk me through this? What do I

where is the ipfwadm stuff by default?

1999-02-19 Thread Pollywog
I have a couple of ipfwadm rules in effect that I did not add. That means that the default installation has rules someplace. Does anyone know where I can find them? Perhaps I should put all my rules in the same place. thanks -- Andrew

Re: Master Boot Record

1999-02-19 Thread Kent West
At 09:30 PM 2/19/1999 +, Nils Lorvick wrote: >As I referred to in my previous email, is that I have tried fdisk /mbr >in DOS and that hasen't worked. I believe there is something corrupt >in the boot sector/FAT tables. And I can't get it back. I have tried >the DD if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1

Netscape is ignoring cookies!

1999-02-19 Thread servis
Help, All of a sudden Nestcape is ignoring cookies. The cookies file is intact but Netscape is failing to use them or accept. I am using the Netscape 4.5 packages from slink. The permissions on the cookies file is 600. I have also tried moving the cookies files to a backup location to see if Net

Re: Debian features documentation ?

1999-02-19 Thread Erik Forsberg
[I wrote]: >Are there any good document where I can find a listing and description of >_all_ debian specific packages and programs ? Perhaps I should read the >developers guide or something ? Found http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian - it's a start but it could be better. And, it's hard to

Debian features documentation ?

1999-02-19 Thread Erik Forsberg
Once in a while I find new Debian specific features in my installation. Such things as update-menus (well, actually the whole menu package), update-rc.d and other nifty little creatures that makes life easier to live. Are there any good document where I can find a listing and description of _all

Re: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Shaleh writes: > There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once and you > get double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, I am not > aware of software support in Linux I've heard of people using it under Linux, though I don't recall any details. It does require supp

[Off Topic] SW Radio software for Linux?

1999-02-19 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any sort of short radio software for Linux. Since Debian has roots connected to HAM radio, I though someone here might have an answer. Thaths PS: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me in your reply. -- "Oh my God, Space Aliens!! Don't eat me, I have a wife and

Re: Master Boot Record

1999-02-19 Thread Odin
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Nils Lorvick wrote: > As I referred to in my previous email, is that I have tried fdisk /mbr > in DOS and that hasen't worked. I believe there is something corrupt > in the boot sector/FAT tables. And I can't get it back. I have tried > the DD if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-19 Thread George Richard Russell
Excellent stuff. Now all we need is a deb with --enable-kde, --enable-gnome and --disable-redundantstuff (root menus etc). Is making such a deb as simple as downloading source.deb, compiling with the options and repacking? (Oh yeah, would it compile from source on 2.0?) It won't on Suse 5.3 withou

Master Boot Record

1999-02-19 Thread Nils Lorvick
As I referred to in my previous email, is that I have tried fdisk /mbr in DOS and that hasen't worked. I believe there is something corrupt in the boot sector/FAT tables. And I can't get it back. I have tried the DD if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024 count=1 and it doesn't do ANYTHING. It gives me

ATAPI zip drive

1999-02-19 Thread Matt Campbell
Do I need a special kernel device driver for an Iomega ATAPI Zip 100 drive? Or will the regular ATAPI driver detect and handle the drive? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Shaleh wrote: > > > There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once > > and you get double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, > > I am not aware of software support in Linux (or UNIX, or other OS's) > > > > I could be wrong, but isn't

RE: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Feb-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > >> There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once and you >> get >> double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, I am not aware of >> software support

RE: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > There is a thing called multi link ppp -- two modems dial at once and you get > double the speed (in theory). It does work in Windows, I am not aware of > software support in Linux (or UNIX, or other OS's) > I could be wro

Re: Crashing Install with Debian 2.0

1999-02-19 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Feb 19, 1999, Tallon wrote: > Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 > on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a > Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX. > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

RE: 2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Feb-99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Ok, I've recently got my hands on one more modem, and I have this > question: > On the box of my original modem, SupraExpress 33.6, there was somehting > about if I had 2 modems, I could set them up so that they work > simultaneously, thus increasing the speed.

2 modems in one computer?

1999-02-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Ok, I've recently got my hands on one more modem, and I have this question: On the box of my original modem, SupraExpress 33.6, there was somehting about if I had 2 modems, I could set them up so that they work simultaneously, thus increasing the speed. Anyone done that in Windows, and did it work,

USER and LOGNAME environment settings

1999-02-19 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I was wondering what is the difference between the USER and LOGNAME environment variables, and under what situations would they be different? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features

1999-02-19 Thread Christian Kurz
> Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2. Threads in progress (like the heated Gimp Debian Logo contest debate > > on debian-devel): I'd like to keep the whole thread intact until > > discussion ceases. A rm will orphan any future messages from > > that thread. > Use GNUs to read your m

Crashing Install with Debian 2.0

1999-02-19 Thread Tallon
Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c65f752c current---> tss.cr3 = 03eb2000, %cr3

FIN_WAIT2 state problem

1999-02-19 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, I have some regular problem with my internet connection that cause my network to stall for a while. Any suggestions? Here is the netstat log: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 HSE-MTL-

problem sending mail

1999-02-19 Thread Michael Meskes
I've set up my sendmail daemon to just forward my mail to my provider's smart relay host mail.online-club.de. It worked pretty well until earlier this week. All of a sudden though I get messages like Deferred: 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred by rule. Obviously no mail goes out. I checked the

Re: problems with 2 xservers

1999-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 10:55:27PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > I am running two xservers on my debian box. In my Xservers, I have > the following line: > > :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 > > But when xdm starts on vt7, everything is fine, then I ca

RE: Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
There is a file to edit /etc/proftpd.conf. There are many many options take, a look at www.proftp.org for the docs. My main issue was chroot (Not letting real users get above a specific directory.) I created a specifc group for these users, and specifed then in the .conf . The only odd hiccup w

Re: Confused with the X packages in slink

1999-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 06:42:45PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have upgraded my hamm to slink, but I am a bit confused. > > First, I thought the packages have been renamed to the following: > xfntbase->xfonts-base > xfnt75 ->xfonts-75dpi > xfnt100

RE: Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Brian Morgan
I've got the latest proftpd now. I looked at the manpages and the --help, but am still unsure what I need to do next. Is there a file I need to edit to set default ftp directory or anything like that? Can I just start posting to a specific directory? What else do I need to do? I'm still fairly

Re: Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Lawrence Walton
I rather like proftpd; be sure to get the newist off of ftp.debian.org though. fairly easy to configure,and security (cough cough... now.) is good. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/

Mitsumi FX001D CD-ROM drv. Need help...

1999-02-19 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
I am hopeing that someone that also has a CD-ROM drive the FX001D can help me out here, in configuring the cd-rom drive, so that when at bootup it will be mounted... If I boot right from the linux floppy disk, when it gets to the point of mounting my CD-ROM drive I get this: MCD=0X360,11: init Fa

Setting up FTP

1999-02-19 Thread Brian Morgan
I'd like to setup my slink box as an FTP server. What do I need to know to get this started? I've never set up an ftp services before, just http. Which package(s) do I need? Is it fairly easy to setup user restrictions for anonymous and regular user logins? Thanks for any help you can give. Br

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Peter Berlau wrote: > > Yes, if You use the apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade method > apt-get will continue where it is "broken", no prloblems here (afaik) :-) That seems to be the case here. I decided to try it out. I shut down ppp and ctrl-c'd apt. I then restarted ppp and restarted apt-ge

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can upgrade small chunks at a time by using deselect to put sections > on hold. First start by putting everything on hold by putting the > cursor over the > > --- Updated packages (newer version is available) --- > > line and hit the equal key(=). Then select th

Re: Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Feb 1999q, Person, Roderick wrote: > Ok, > > I've settled the problem of HD size and I can live with the answer now my > problem is this, hdb hold all my linux stuff it works. hda is a small 250M > that is dedicated to windows (for the wife and kids). Problem, I have now > documentation on t

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread servis
*- On 18 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "hamm to slink upgrade via atp question" > Hi all, > > I've decided to try to upgrade to slink. My question is that according > to apt. it's going to take 8+ hours to ftp all the files. I can't have > my phone tied up that long. How can I download the files du

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found. (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-02-19 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Curt Daugaard wrote: > > This problem is common. I had it. I'm afraid I can't give you a short, > straightforward answer about how to fix it. Along with help from > debian-user, the best resource I found (besides parport.txt in the kernel > sources docs) is this website: > > http://www.cyberel

RE: Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Kent West
At 10:45 AM 2/19/1999 -0500, Campbell, Matthew A wrote: >An example of the benefit: > Our finances are currently being tracked with Quicken on my Windows >partition, until I can get my version of GNUcash to work. My fiancee is a >Mac user. Which is easier, telling her to press tab, and then typ

RE: XFree86 problems

1999-02-19 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
> Tom Anzalone wrote: > > > > After I setup Xfree using the configurator I saved the config file and > > the machine rebooted. When the machine gets to the login prompt > > after the reboot, the Monitor starts to blink and I can't log in. It > > looks like X windows is trying to start as I see a

RE: Imlib in potato broken?

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Feb-99 James Dietrich wrote: > > I just upgraded to the newest imlib packages from potato--version 1.9.3-1 > gdk-imlib1, imlib-base, imlib-progs, and imlib1. Neither of the two problems > detailed below occur with version 1.9.2-1 of these imlib packages. > > Can anyone help me figure this

dia debian package

1999-02-19 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hello! I have tried dia (0.30). Its very good, however, when I try to open files that I have saved, it allways says: "Error loading diagram . Not a Dia file". Does this happen to anyone else? - Would this be bug/unimplemented feature in dia, or a bug in the debian package or something broken on my

Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features

1999-02-19 Thread Dale E. Martin
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Threads in progress (like the heated Gimp Debian Logo contest debate > on debian-devel): I'd like to keep the whole thread intact until > discussion ceases. A rm will orphan any future messages from > that thread. Use GNUs to read your mailing list

Imlib in potato broken?

1999-02-19 Thread James Dietrich
I just upgraded to the newest imlib packages from potato--version 1.9.3-1 gdk-imlib1, imlib-base, imlib-progs, and imlib1. Neither of the two problems detailed below occur with version 1.9.2-1 of these imlib packages. Can anyone help me figure this out? I am running all the latest from potato.

How to make Netscape use Debian mailcap ?

1999-02-19 Thread Lars Steinke
Hi there, does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and /etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type definition for every package. Regards, -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student

Re: Bootable CD, boot_image early?

1999-02-19 Thread Leon Breedt
> Note that the boot_image has to be rather early in the iso9660 image, > because some motherboards are only able to boot from the beginning of > the cd (This caused some serious toasting when preparing hamm). Uhm, how do you get the boot_image to be "early" in the iso9660 image? Directory/File na

Re: latex

1999-02-19 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would imagine \paragraph{} is (like \mbox{} for maths) to put you > in paragraph mode when, for some reason, you weren't already. Unfortunatelly, You're wrong. \paragraph is a command just like \section or \subsection, and it is useable for "naming" a

Re: A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-19 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Well, I am at the university now and I don't have access to my linux box. As far as I remember I have not tried to play wav files. I have played cds, mid, played Quake and used real player. I will have to check out if wav files work well. But something called my attention on your /dev/proc:

RE: Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Campbell, Matthew A
Just my two cents on this subject: Being as impressed by eye-candy and dancing-baloney as I am, I recommend the CHOS package. It's fairly easy to install and configure (it has an X-interface for configuration), and has a MUCH more intuitive interface (curses-based? menu) and can even display an A

/dev/hdc: unexpected_intr status:0x00 -- HELP!!!!!

1999-02-19 Thread Campbell, Matthew A
I just installed a Mitsumi CR-2801TE CD-writer last night. It's an IDE device, Master on the secondary bus (/dev/hdc). My old CD-rom is now Slave on the same bus (/dev/hdd). I have one hard disk, Primary Master(/dev/hda). There is no Primary Slave. I'm starting to think this might be my problem

Re: A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-19 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 19 February, rich wrote: > > From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure > > everything is working. I think I'll join in with this thread rather than starting a new one, as my hardware and proble

Re: Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> So, > How do I setup lilo or loadlin to boot hdb? Which is better?? AFAIK, loadlin is used to boot to linux from Dos/Windows. I use LILO myself. Kinda gives me flexibility of being exposed to windows only whenever I have to be. But to setup LILO: chances are you already have it. If you don't , d

Quite wierd network problem

1999-02-19 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Sometimes my network hangs up (I can not ping outside, I can ping on localhost). Usually it happends once every 3 or 4 days. I'm currently running 2.2.1 kernel, but it always happened (kernels 2.0.36 to 2.2.1). For a long time, I though it was due to my network card (3com 3C905BTX2). I used

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Phillips
I think we have enough animals already. We've already got a penguin --- the linux mascot. We already have a gnu as well. Having yet another animal for Debian is IMHO really not the answer. As far as marketing goes, I reckon RedHat have got it perfect. They have a simple, bright, easily ident

ipfwadm / ipchains: can't enable ssh !

1999-02-19 Thread Michael Agbaglo
192.168.100.108 is the local machine - 192.168.100.* is outside. I can telnet and ping outside - no problem. But I can't ssh to 192.168.100.102, telnet on 192.168.100.108 doesn't work either and somehow printer jobs aren't send until I disable the firewall :-/ FW=/sbin/ipchains case "$1" in

RE: Confused with the X packages in slink

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Feb-99 Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have upgraded my hamm to slink, but I am a bit confused. > > First, I thought the packages have been renamed to the following: > xfntbase->xfonts-base > xfnt75 ->xfonts-75dpi > xfnt100 ->xfonts-100dpi >

RE: Which mail system?

1999-02-19 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:45:06 - (GMT), (Ted Harding) wrote: >Be careful not to get confused here. I think, when you are using Netscape >to connect to your ISP's mailserver then you are in effect using it as a >browser which happens to be reading yo

RE: A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-19 Thread rich
> From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rich, > > Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure > everything is working. > > I have just compiled 2.2.1 to give my awe64 sound. Maybe I can remembe

RE: Which mail system?

1999-02-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Feb-99 Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: > I have installed Linux and now I would like to start sending and > receiving mail. I would like to send and receive mail to the smtp > server and from the pop server from my ISP. My computer is a > stand-alone machine, so there is no local mail. > > Wh

Re: XFree86 problems

1999-02-19 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Tom Anzalone wrote: > > After I setup Xfree using the configurator I saved the config file and > the machine rebooted. When the machine gets to the login prompt > after the reboot, the Monitor starts to blink and I can't log in. It > looks like X windows is trying to start as I see a line before

XFree86 problems

1999-02-19 Thread Tom Anzalone
After I setup Xfree using the configurator I saved the config file and the machine rebooted. When the machine gets to the login prompt after the reboot, the Monitor starts to blink and I can't log in. It looks like X windows is trying to start as I see a line before the login saying that xdm

Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok, I've settled the problem of HD size and I can live with the answer now my problem is this, hdb hold all my linux stuff it works. hda is a small 250M that is dedicated to windows (for the wife and kids). Problem, I have now documentation on the drive since it came with the PC and dont know the

Problems with smail

1999-02-19 Thread homega
Hi, every time I connect and run `runq -v' to have the queued messages sent, I receive a *long* log from every message, plus a long time waiting. Prior to this, the logs used to keep short and mail sent quite fast. It looks "as if" smail tried to reach every address as if there was no ISP in the

Re: Russian environment

1999-02-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I was able to get the font and keyboard support (didnt go into locales, since I still live in US) for koi8 by installing the fonts from cronyx and a keyboard switcher called xrus. Works very good for me, Netscape/xterm/emacs are now russified. You can get the exact procedure from A. Chernov's page

Which mail system?

1999-02-19 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have installed Linux and now I would like to start sending and receiving mail. I would like to send and receive mail to the smtp server and from the pop server from my ISP. My computer is a stand-alone machine, so there is no local mail. What is, in my case, the best package for mailing? The bo

Re: X Window Problem: Some X Applications don't display correctly

1999-02-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello! > > I just installed and configured XFree86 3.3.2. It works very fine,both= > under 800X600 and under 1024X768. > But soon I found a annoying problem: many X applications couldn't display= > correctly under 800X600. > For example,When netscape navigator 4.06 was lauched,its window wa

X Window Problem: Some X Applications don't display correctly

1999-02-19 Thread Jim Power
Hello! I just installed and configured XFree86 3.3.2. It works very fine,both under 800X600 and under 1024X768. But soon I found a annoying problem: many X applications couldn't display correctly under 800X600. For example,When netscape navigator 4.06 was lauched,its window was so tall that I c

HELP: Kernel patching failed - 2.0.34 to 2.0.36

1999-02-19 Thread Jim Power
Hello! When I tried to patch my kernel I encounter a lot of error messages, I'm not sure if I can continue, hoping somebody with more experience can give me some suggestion. I've collected the error messages and attatched it to this mail. All what I did is (as root): cp /download/patch-2.0.36.

rxvt-ml package problems in slink.

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, After intalling rxvt-ml package, when I launch crxvt, I got the following error: rxvt: can't load font "taipei16" rxvt: aborting I fixed this problem by installing the font taipei16 in /usr/local. But since this font is not packaged in debian, then why do we se

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found. (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-02-19 Thread Curt Daugaard
This problem is common. I had it. I'm afraid I can't give you a short, straightforward answer about how to fix it. Along with help from debian-user, the best resource I found (besides parport.txt in the kernel sources docs) is this website: http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html (courtesy

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi Shao, I've used pine for about 1 year never expirience too much, after switching the linux distribution from SuSE to Debian (2.0) i could'nt find pine, however. Therefore I have a look to mutt and installed this package after a couple o

pine & mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have been a happy pine user. But recently, I have heard that many people are using mutt, and it is really good & configurable. So, do you think it is worth switching to mutt? Is it better in terms of supporting mutiple folders?? Thanks. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2

problems with 2 xservers

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am running two xservers on my debian box. In my Xservers, I have the following line: :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 But when xdm starts on vt7, everything is fine, then I can login as normal, but then after a while, it swiches to vt8. Then

Staroffice and tilde.

1999-02-19 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I give up asking help in the staroffice support list. I hope some one here at Debian users can give a light! I have installed SO5.0 but my tilde accent (as dead key) is not working. All other accents are working well. Tilde is works under other X applications that understand XKBExtension

RE: A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-19 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Rich, Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure everything is working. I have just compiled 2.2.1 to give my awe64 sound. Maybe I can remember something... Paulo rich writes: > First let me thank everybody that helped me to get my kernel recompiled > and suppor

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found. (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-02-19 Thread navindra
Steven J. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I need to do to get my printer working with the 2.2.1 kernel? I > have an NEC SuperScript 860 connected to my parallel port, and with the > 2.0.33 kernel all I did was answer enable the [*] Parallel printer > support option under `make menuconfi

Russian environment

1999-02-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! How can I setup Russian koi8-r environment (font, keyboard layout, locale)? Installation procedure asked me about my keyboard's layout, and I answered Russian. What it is supposed to do? Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] United Commercial Ban

Re: hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:00:48PM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, [..] > my phone tied up that long. How can I download the files during shorter > times? If I close the connection, will apt just start where it left off? Yes, if You use the apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade method apt-get w

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Andreas commented: > So the remaining question for me is, why we can't bring it to an end. > The Debian leader ship election was comming to an end. Set up new > voting pages with the most discussed animals, lets choose the mascot and > give the artists a chance to work to this topic. Why are you

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > > There DOES exist, however, an animal called a Gnu--I always thought > GNU/Hurd was actually a pun on that idea: so why not do the simple task > and use a gnu head for the icon? Because the head of the gnu already is the logo the FSF uses most of the time (http://www.gnu.org/). The gnu

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > Question: does anybody else think that the "debian" with the line back > to the dot in the 'i' that Rob Malda did for Slashdot is best logo yet > done? Not me and so I wouldn't answer this posting, but please check your mail agent. I've got your mail

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > No, no! Think of Mars. Everybody immediately recognises that word, in > that colour and typestyle: they think of chocolate -- not of a planet, a > Roman god or a piece of music. Written in ordinary type, it could be > any of the four, or maybe someth

Re: How to give users certain privileges?

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have set up Debian on four lab computers and would like the students using > them to be able to access our Novell system via ncpmount, etc., as well as > floppies. Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my > intervention. You can use a pack

Re: DAT TAPE ?

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > > I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 > > it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. > > > > Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the

Re: creating 10 disks of Debian

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
Robert Vollmert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 11:26:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have downloaded the files recommended to their own directories (e.g. > > base14-1.exe) - but have only successfully extracted the first two image > > disks. I infer f

Re: Bootable CD?

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (LEJEUNE STEPHANE) writes: > Hi, > > How can I make a bootable cd. > I've found lots of info about how to make bootable floppy's, > but couldn't find any info about bootable cd. I presume there are > some differences as you can't write any info on the cd at boottime, > whereas i

Re: smbfsx

1999-02-19 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, Please upgrade to smbfsx-2.0.2-2 which has this problem fixed as well as some very internal and nasty problems that existed in smbfsx-2.0.1 and before. peloy.- Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to mount a samba server via the follow command > > bash-2.01$ smbmount-2.1

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:30:19PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > Question: does anybody else think that the "debian" with the line back > to the dot in the 'i' that Rob Malda did for Slashdot is best logo yet > done? I like it, but I like the chicken better. Adam

Confused with the X packages in slink

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have upgraded my hamm to slink, but I am a bit confused. First, I thought the packages have been renamed to the following: xfntbase->xfonts-base xfnt75 ->xfonts-75dpi xfnt100 ->xfonts-100dpi xfntscl ->xfonts-scalable xfntbi

Re: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Just use pdflatex instead of latex when compiling the *.tex files! On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: > hi, > > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? > and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the > acrobat > writer converts m$ wo

Re: C2-HP CD-Writer Plus 7200i ReWritable CD-Rom compatibility]

1999-02-19 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has been able to uses cdrw disks using other drives than the hp 7200i, and if you can read/write a Windows formated cdrw under linux? It would be great to be use my 'big floppy disks' at other school, etc. Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff Surestore Support wrote: > Hello Wim

RE: Bootable CD?

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Feb-99 LEJEUNE STEPHANE wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a bootable cd. > I've found lots of info about how to make bootable floppy's, > but couldn't find any info about bootable cd. I presume there are > some differences as you can't write any info on the cd at boottime, > whereas if I'm co

minicom was: Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-19 Thread matthschulz
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven schrieb: > > When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: > > Try the command > > man minicom > > to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I > don't > have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I > write > a perl script o

hamm to slink upgrade via atp question

1999-02-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I've decided to try to upgrade to slink. My question is that according to apt. it's going to take 8+ hours to ftp all the files. I can't have my phone tied up that long. How can I download the files during shorter times? If I close the connection, will apt just start where it left off? I

Thanks! Re: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-19 Thread art
Thank you all for the help in regards to the 3-Com network card and the kernels. It was for an off-list friend who is trying to set up a network in a high school here, in Colorado. I am running the 2.1.132 kernel, myself, but there are a couple of 3c905B cards here, waiting to be installed,

lp: driver loaded but no devices found. (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-02-19 Thread Steven J. Martin
Hi: What do I need to do to get my printer working with the 2.2.1 kernel? I have an NEC SuperScript 860 connected to my parallel port, and with the 2.0.33 kernel all I did was answer enable the [*] Parallel printer support option under `make menuconfig`. I see the following in /var/log/messages w

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Feb-99, 17:33 (CST), Oliver Elphick wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the > > following simple rules: > > > > . A logo is NOT a set of letters. Thus the string "Debian" rendered > > very nice is ... a picture but

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote: [ snip ] : > > Probably not. Debian is lame. [ snip ] : > But in potato there is: : > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/wmaker-kde_0.51.0-3.deb : > : > I am not sure what else you'll need from unstable. : : I'm

Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features

1999-02-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 04:59:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > Reply-To: > > Hi! > > I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and mutt to get/sort/read mail. I've > >been subscribed to the debian list (among others) for about 2 months, and > >I just realize

Re: qmail vs. exim

1999-02-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: : I have been using qmail for quite some time now and have been very pleased : with it. Haven't had any problems. I noticed that the debian site plans on : moving to exim. Why? Are there some significant features that exim has? Yes; it's free accordi

Re: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Which is the earliest kernel that will work with 3-Com : 3c905B cards? And is there any documentation on the Net that : tells which kernels support which hardware? ...trying to help : a schoolteacher get his network going here. 2.0.34, I b

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt >wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I >can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a >few of the files. See the

Re: WindowMaker themes -> Debian packages

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Over the weekend, I wrote a script that converts WindowMaker themes to >Debian packages automatically. (the themes have to follow wm.t.o's packaging >policy). I think it would be useful for other Debian users but I

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