ThinkPad is now Debian success

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I just rebooted the ThinkPad and it is running a Debian base system and the network card's indicator is green :) That's a surprise. Now to attempt to install the rest of Debian via ftp or NFS from the other machine. -- Andrew

Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-23 Thread Kent West
At 04:22 PM 2/23/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote: >I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble. > >As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 >Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS >does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Kent West
At 05:23 PM 2/23/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote: >At 11:12 PM 2/23/1999 +, Pollywog wrote: >>I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: >> >>The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written. >> >>huh? I just copied the thing from the net. >> >>-- >>Andre

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Kent West wrote: > Floppy disks are notorious for causing problems during a Linux install. Try > another floppy. And then another if need be. And then another. (Even if > aall of these floppies are new, "ggod" floppies). Then, if it still doesn't > work, try downloading from a differe

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote: > > looks like the md5sum does not match the disk, might be if the disk was > modified recently ... you are not using a slink base disk with a hamm > rescue disk, are you? That will not work. > No, that wasn't it, and I fixed it :) thanks -- Andrew

Re: where is telnetd?

1999-02-23 Thread Paul Hardiman
Telnetd is part of inetd "suite". See /etc/inetd.conf for details. Frankie wrote: > Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > > Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed > > to find it? > > yes it is - its in net. > > > > > Is there a FIND command in dslect, in order to find a

RE: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote: > I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: > > The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was > written. > > huh? I just copied the thing from the net. Nevermind, I made a little boo-boo Fixed it. -- Andrew

Re: problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Kent West
At 11:12 PM 2/23/1999 +, Pollywog wrote: >I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: > >The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written. > >huh? I just copied the thing from the net. > >-- >Andrew Floppy disks are notorious for causing problems duri

problem with Base disk checksum

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I put the first base disk in the floppy drive and I get: The floppy disk checksum does not match the checksum made when it was written. huh? I just copied the thing from the net. -- Andrew

Re: where is telnetd?

1999-02-23 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Eliezer Figueroa wrote, I replied: at a command prompt, enter: dpkg --help | less to see the dpkg options for handling packages. One of those options is: dpkg -S|--search ... find package(s) owning file(s) if you enter: # dpkg -S telnetd you'll see: telnetd: /usr/doc/teln

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Can't I install PCMCIA support from the floppy disk set I downloaded? > > As long as the modules in it were compiled with the Tecra kernel. PCMCIA > modules have to match the kernel they're running with. Some day ma

Re: IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread wax_man
On 23 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 23 Feb, Ian Keith Setford wrote about "IP-Chains help!?" >> >> Since I just picked up a new computer last week I no longer have to >> dual-boot. I now have a need to share a 56k dial-up. I'll admit that I >> haven't used/needed ip-masquerading since mi

Re: rawrite question

1999-02-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Feb, Pollywog wrote about "rawrite question" > Can I avoid using rawrite (I do not have a DOS system) if I already have one > machine running Linux? Can I use that machine to make a set of Debian install > floppies? > >From ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/curren

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can't I install PCMCIA support from the floppy disk set I downloaded? As long as the modules in it were compiled with the Tecra kernel. PCMCIA modules have to match the kernel they're running with. Some day maybe they'll push PCMCIA into the main kernel -

Re: IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Feb, Ian Keith Setford wrote about "IP-Chains help!?" > > Since I just picked up a new computer last week I no longer have to > dual-boot. I now have a need to share a 56k dial-up. I'll admit that I > haven't used/needed ip-masquerading since mid 1996 so I'm very rusty with > ipfwadm.

Re: where is telnetd?

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed > to find it? yes it is - its in net. > > Is there a FIND command in dslect, in order to find a package by typing > it's name? yes there is - `/' to search, `\' to search again - this only searc

Re: IRC

1999-02-23 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try. What software > package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel? > > There is an ircii package on there. Some people like BitchX, for which I also believe there

changing irq of eth0

1999-02-23 Thread tracheotomy bob
How do you change the irq of a network card? I want to change the irq from 15 to 10. The card is already set to 10 but GNU/Linux seems to want it at 15. So where do I say it's 10? thanks

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: > > : As root, I typed the following: > : > : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". > : > : I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is it possible to install the base system to the ThinkPad with the base >> floppies and then finish the installation via FTP or NFS off the other >> machine? > > Yep - that's how I usually have done it in the same sit

dbootstrap hanging with the "current" rescue floppy

1999-02-23 Thread Dale E. Martin
I'm installing Slink onto a Thinkpad 600E. I got it booting by using a 2.2.2 kernel as I had problems with stock kernel. It boots now but dbootstrap hangs before I can even start installing. The second console works. If I kill dbootstrap, then BOTH the first and second console get frozen with

CD recorder problem

1999-02-23 Thread hubert . fauque
I have a CD recorder (Philips 2x2x6) and when I try to write a CD with cdwrite -v -D /dev/sr0 cdimage.raw I get cdwrite 2.0 Track 01: data7 Mb opening scsi device: Read-only file system At boot the CD recorder is detected: Vendor: SCSI-CD Model: ReWritable-2x2x6 Rev: 2.0

AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot

1999-02-23 Thread Kent West
I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble. As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does fine. When I try to install Hamm, Slink, or Potato

where is telnetd?

1999-02-23 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
Is telnetd part of the of the official debian 2.0 CD'S because I failed to find it? Is there a FIND command in dslect, in order to find a package by typing it's name? Is telnetd part of any of the preselected packeged that debian recommend just as you finished the instal process and before sta

Re: tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to install the base system to the ThinkPad with the base > floppies and then finish the installation via FTP or NFS off the other > machine? Yep - that's how I usually have done it in the same situation. The only trick is that you'll need PCM

IRC

1999-02-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I would like to give the on line irc at debian a try. What software package would I use, and how to set it up to access the debian channel? == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .

Re: IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread Jian Gong
check out http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/ Jian > >I'd appreciate any help. Also, I was wondering if anyone has a more >in-depth place to get info about ipchains (other than the man page.) > >Thanks.

Re: Windows making me crazy

1999-02-23 Thread Jian Gong
I have heard the driver shipped with the card won't work with win98. You probably need to download a updated driver from 3com's web site. Jian > I'm trying to network my windows box with my linux pc-server. > >I'm running an old Gateway P5-200, with 32 megs of RAM, and Win98 > >For the life of m

Re: [Debian]: slink auf CDROM

1999-02-23 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:44:22PM +0100, Meier Marc MT wrote: Hi can anyone help this guy ? He is looking for a cdrom-version of slink, because his slink installation is blown away or broken. I remembered there was a slink pre version offered on this List, Hi Marc, > > Wer hat soetwas oder weis

Re: Transfering mail from netscape

1999-02-23 Thread Mark M
This may not be the ultimate in mail tranferral ideas, but here is an idea...if you don't mind the messages having a forward header on them. 1. Set up smail to accept smtp mail (if not already done so) 2. In netscape, set up the smtp server as 127.0.0.1 3. Forward all your messages to [EMAIL PR

tecra disk seems to work on my ThinkPad

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
I just copied the tecra rescue image to a floppy and tried it out on my ThinPad 560 and it did not go into a loop of reboots and is presenting me with the Debian System Installation menu :) This is what I want to do now and this is not really covered in the documentation, I don't think. I have no

Where is pine?

1999-02-23 Thread Debian Mail
I did a zgrep pine Contents-i386.gz | grep bin which shows no result (the Contents-i386.gz is from potato). Where is pine? Stef

IP-Chains help!?

1999-02-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Since I just picked up a new computer last week I no longer have to dual-boot. I now have a need to share a 56k dial-up. I'll admit that I haven't used/needed ip-masquerading since mid 1996 so I'm very rusty with ipfwadm. Now, if I'm correct, we have ipchains instead of ipfwadm and such? I am

Re: rawrite question

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
Pollywog asked: >Can I avoid using rawrite (I do not have a DOS system) if I already have one >machine running Linux? Can I use that machine to make a set of Debian install >floppies? Nevermind, I found what I needed to do this. thanks -- Andrew

rawrite question

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
Can I avoid using rawrite (I do not have a DOS system) if I already have one machine running Linux? Can I use that machine to make a set of Debian install floppies? thanks -- Andrew

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: : Hello Friends, : : As root, I typed the following: : : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". : : I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not : exist, the system does not allow me to log in as

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-23 Thread matthschulz
on 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote: > I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw. > I had to compile a zImage kernel to. Until i did this, it worked when i turned OFF the CACHE in the BIOS-Setup. Very slow, but better than nothing. Matth

Re: DNS

1999-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > Anybody not having a nameserver on a LAN will benefit from > > having their own. > > What about on a standalone dial-up machine? I mainly > visit the same sites everyday. Will I see any benefit > by installing bind on my machine? Yes. Dialup

debian <- NFS -> Solaris

1999-02-23 Thread File Server Admin
Hi everybody, does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. Problems are: - mailx and elm hang, - tar and make demonstrate indeterministic behaviour... Simple progra

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Matt Campbell wrote: : My best guess is, boot off the debian rescue floppy, but don't do a : "rescue", pretend like you're going to install the system again. [ snip ] Yes, this is the hard way. You can specify the shell when you use the `su' command. -- Nathan Norman Mi

Re: Thinkpad 600E, next problem (was "the usual reboot problems"

1999-02-23 Thread Dale E. Martin
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IBM is going to offer Linux with ThinkPads, so maybe they will have > information about this soon. I want to install Debian on my ThinkPad 560 but > only Caldera OpenLinux will install. Debian just goes into endless reboots. I think I've "licked" the reboo

Re: ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Matt Campbell
My best guess is, boot off the debian rescue floppy, but don't do a "rescue", pretend like you're going to install the system again. When you get to the Debian install menu system, press to get a new virtual console. Once in this (very limited) shell, mount your root partition. For example (

dpkg errors/stuck in loop!

1999-02-23 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Have a catch22 type problem with dpkg. Trying to update G++, GOBJC, egcc, binutils I get the following errors, am not able to remove, install, purge configure, or reinstall the packages. --audit shows packages, --force-depends and --force-bad-path are no help. **

Aladdin V serial problems

1999-02-23 Thread Lars Steinke
Hi there, I wonder if anybody else has problems setting the Aladdin 5 Super I/O part of the M1543 southbridge to speeds above 38400 using setserial ? Whenever I set spd_vhi the modem will not respond to AT commands at all, it works fine with spd_normal though, yielding the usual 2.8 KByte/sec

URGENT: Bug in INIT ?

1999-02-23 Thread richard
Sorry for the cross-posting but I need a 'user' answer to this but I thought that it might be of interest to the development group as well. If it's not apologies. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell machine at work today, I'm afraid I don't know what type it was; all I can say is that

Re: DNS

1999-02-23 Thread Jeremy
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Helge Hafting wrote: > Anybody not having a nameserver on a LAN will benefit from > having their own. What about on a standalone dial-up machine? I mainly visit the same sites everyday. Will I see any benefit by installing bind on my machine? Jeremy ---

ROOT created chaos !

1999-02-23 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hello Friends, As root, I typed the following: "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh". I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as su but it does not work! There must be some

RE: Thinkpad 600E, next problem (was "the usual reboot problems"

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > > So, by using kernel 2.2.2 with a slink rescue disk, I can now boot and run > the installer on a Thinkpad 600E! Yeah! But, the installer doesn't > respond to keypresses and sits there looing locked up. > > Ideas? > > When I get this all worked out, I'll b

RE: Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't

1999-02-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Feb-99 Paul Hardiman wrote: > I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indicates, the Caldera dist > finds it fine, but the Hamm distribution doesn't. lsmod (Caldera) shows > 3c59x and that object module exists in the /lib/modules dir of each > installation. > > My attempts to rtfm have be

Re: [debian] 3Com Megahertz 10 Mbps LAN PC Card (PCMCIA) supported?

1999-02-23 Thread Jian Gong
The difference could be found in Ethernet-HOWTO section 2.6. Jian On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > I need to buy a new PCMCIA network but unfortunately > the type I normaly buy (3COM 3C589D-TP) is not available > anymore. I never had problems with cheap NE-2000

Re: Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't

1999-02-23 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:52:28AM +, Paul Hardiman wrote: > I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indicates, the Caldera dist > finds it fine, but the Hamm distribution doesn't. lsmod (Caldera) shows > 3c59x and that object module exists in the /lib/modules dir of each > installation. Hamm

Re: Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't

1999-02-23 Thread Jian Gong
The following commands should enable the card: depmod -a modprobe 3c59x lsmod and then use ifconfig. If the card still cannot be found, please shutdown and power off then on, and try above. If still fails, please send me the system message. Jian >I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indic

Thinkpad 600E, next problem (was "the usual reboot problems")

1999-02-23 Thread Dale E. Martin
So, by using kernel 2.2.2 with a slink rescue disk, I can now boot and run the installer on a Thinkpad 600E! Yeah! But, the installer doesn't respond to keypresses and sits there looing locked up. Ideas? When I get this all worked out, I'll be friendly enough to make a rescue disk image for th

Caldera dist finds net card, Debian doesn't

1999-02-23 Thread Paul Hardiman
I have a 3c905B net card. As the subject indicates, the Caldera dist finds it fine, but the Hamm distribution doesn't. lsmod (Caldera) shows 3c59x and that object module exists in the /lib/modules dir of each installation. My attempts to rtfm have been fruitless. Appreciate any assist. -- Regar

Re: Question

1999-02-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I have XF86 up and running to a point, I might add, as in root I startx , > and it brings up the screen with the ICON's at the bottom...Clock, Load, > Xterm, Files, Editor,Xcalc, Xview, Qview, Netscape, Kill, and Desktop... > > Now the only ones that work are Xcalc, Xterm and Clock, if I remembe

File descriptor patches to use Informix on Debian

1999-02-23 Thread F. Fernandez
Hi all! I'm trying to setup Informix Dynamic Server on Debian 2.0 and it seems to work all right but Informix, on their web site, say "File descriptor patches are required for kernal 2.0.36, glibc 2.0.7.". Following that they provide some links to RedHat and Suse patches. Does somebody know if

Re: Question

1999-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
Larry, What you see is a function of the window manager you are using. If you have more than one installed, the startup one will be the first one listed in /etc/X11/window-managers. I suspect that whatever manager you have is configured to show icons for certain apps whether or not they have bee

Correction to my first msg...

1999-02-23 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
I ment to say that I've installed X11R6 and not XF86Free, plus I am not sure which is better or can one have both of these installed... Thanks... Larry Shields WD9ESU AX25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [IPGWWI] AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr: 44.92.0.60 ICQ# 6221703 JNOS 1.11C -- TCPIP/TELNET/FTP ===

Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread Eric Leblanc
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:30:30PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > The program is called `time'; it is not a standalone program but part of > bash: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] type time > time is a shell keyword > [EMAIL PROTECTED] help time Just a side note: There is also a standalone time program called

Question

1999-02-23 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
I have XF86 up and running to a point, I might add, as in root I startx , and it brings up the screen with the ICON's at the bottom...Clock, Load, Xterm, Files, Editor,Xcalc, Xview, Qview, Netscape, Kill, and Desktop... Now the only ones that work are Xcalc, Xterm and Clock, if I remember right...

Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread Eric Leblanc
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 05:19:32PM +, Frankie wrote: > I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program > (I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram > anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly > how much time was allocated t

Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Frankie wrote: >I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program >(I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram >anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly >how much time was allocated to the running of that program. >I do

Re: cdu31a

1999-02-23 Thread Andrea Novara
Thanks for the hints! The problem is that my controller is a SC400 ( card shown in commented text in cdu31a.c ) but the ports suggested are not working I get a resource busy message from kernel even if I specify explicitly cdy31a_port=0x634 which should be my port! ( as reported in card manual

Re: how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 23 Feb, Frankie wrote: > I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program > (I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram > anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly > how much time was allocated to the running of that program.

Oracle in dba group

1999-02-23 Thread Eric Wayte
I was scanning the archives at www.debian.org and may have a solution for you! When installing Oracle on Solaris/SPARC, you have to edit /etc/group by hand and make sure that the oracle account is listed in the dba group: dba::101:oracle Good Luck! Eric Wayte Database Administrator University o

how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
I am sure that when I first started using debian/linux I had a program (I think part of another packages), and if you ran "thisprogram anotherprogram" then it would rum anotherprogram and tell you exactly how much time was allocated to the running of that program. I don't know where to look in dsel

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I cheated to install the Jet Admin package. I created a symbolic link inside /etc called rc.d which linked to the above directory, which was etc. The install was then able to carry on with no problem. I think I was even able to remove the rc.d link when the install had finished. I have not actu

Re: Best partitioning scheme?

1999-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
> Drive 1: > / = 200MB > /usr = 1 GB All debian packages goes to /usr > /usr/local = 500 MB (is this where stuff like StarOffice, Netscape, WP8 > would go?) Programs not packaged in .deb-packages goes to /usr/local. Helge Hafting

Re: DNS

1999-02-23 Thread Helge Hafting
> eferen1 hat gesagt: // eferen1 wrote: > > > I got the dial-up to finally work. Now my question is: Where do I find some > > DNS numbers? (Like Netscape.home, Internic, etc). > > You should ask your internet provider for the IP-numbers of his name servers > and put them into /etc/resolv.conf

[Debian] booting from CD

1999-02-23 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I want to create a bootable CD with a minimal runnable linux distribution on it. Any ideas on how to make a CD bootable? Thanks in advance, Nico -- --- system failure ... hit any user to continue ... -

where get libaudiofile-cvs0 and libesd-cvs0 debs???

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
the title says it all... ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To contact

rm /var -> dpkg ???

1999-02-23 Thread Bernhard Dobbels
Hello, Recently, i have done something really stupid: rm -r /var and, yes, everything was away, including my /var/backup directory! Yes, i know, it's no place for a backup. Everyting is restored now. Just all the info that dpkg put there is away and i cannot run dpkg anymore. Is there some kind

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-23 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Managing /usr/local Date: Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:10:23PM -0800 In reply to:Joey Hess Quoting Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > David Zanetti wrote: > > David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group > > Wellington City Council, New Zealand.

how to use: postgresql-dump??

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just, as it seems, manage to upgrade to potato first things that do not work anymore: the postgres DB... with a message to use postgresql-dump to make the upgrade... now when i launch this proggie, i get the following: postgresql-dump -t log The PostgreSQL database format has c

Re: chown to change group ownership

1999-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Paul Nathan Puri writes: > I want to change pon and poff to be owned by users. How do > I change them with chown? Why do you want to do this? It won't make it possible for the users to start ppp. To do that you must put the users in the 'dip' group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasle

partitions for sun sparc 10

1999-02-23 Thread Armin Wegner
I would like to install debian on a sun sparc 10 with 64 megs and 4 gigs of disk space. How many partitions can I create? Are there primary and extended partitions? There are following partitions on the system now. /root 128.25 MB /swap 128.25 MB /var128.25 MB /opt128.25 MB /usr128

Re: How to get mod_perl into Apache?

1999-02-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I'm running a 2.0 system, and I need mod_perl. However, there does not > seem to be a source or binary package under hamm for this. > > I have tried getting the hamm Apache source package and the mod_perl > tarball (from perl.apache.org), then building mod_perl (tellin

Re: my clock is always wrong

1999-02-23 Thread Mark R. Boyns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I keep reseting my system clock and it always loses a couple of days. > Any reason why? do you have anything in /etc/adjtime?

Re: Disk Partioning (FDISK)

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
Stephen Lavelle wrote: > > Using Fdisk on a Disk that has a working copy of Win 98 which i wanted to > put Debian on i get this error: > Checking Boot sector > Error: Number of Sectors > (long) does not match partition info > 2411873 instead of 3322305 > Please help! I had this (or a very similar

Re: gnuplot/libvga and permissions

1999-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: >I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs > on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the > console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and > everything worked

Re: Problem with make--kpkg... no .deb package created!

1999-02-23 Thread Joe Porter
I usually unpack the source archive wherever I have free space, and link /usr/src/linux to the top level. This creates a problem, because the .deb gets put one directory above the _actual_ directory, not in /usr/src. I usually forget and spend some time looking for it. I assume that's a bug. -J

pdflatex problem

1999-02-23 Thread Hans Ehrbar
I can give a partial answer to the pdflatex problem: pdflatex uses type 1 outline fonts by default, instead of bitmapped fonts, which is good because it makes the pdf image crystal clear. Whereas the bitmap font info exists for every point size, the outline font info apparently exists only for 5

Re: TV Cards

1999-02-23 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have checked this site. It contains a RPM-spec file and the source. > I am not familiar with compiling sourcecode You could try alien package to convert your rpm package on debian. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho

Re: 2 modems ?

1999-02-23 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Surjit Bains wrote: > > Is it possible to set up two modems under Linux and use the bandwidth > as one entity... 2 x 56k modems to give 112k speed? > You probably won't get the full 112, but you can use two modems at the same time. You will, of course, need two phone lines... The kernel optio

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

1999-02-23 Thread Lawrence Walton
I tried; I got it to run to a degree but the services/rc was more than a small pain to fix. I gave up. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -

2 modems ?

1999-02-23 Thread Surjit Bains
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Re: FAT32

1999-02-23 Thread Bon Lam
At 1935 2/22/99 -0700, you wrote: >I realize that this question has probably been asked extensively in >the past but where might I find the proper module to read a FAT32 >hard drive. mount your drive with the option '-t vfat', but your kernel has to support this filesystem.

Re: strange messages at boot.

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
I have just had a similar problem with my laptop. It seems to have been caused by one of the following reasons: * Conficting Modules installed * Conflicting IRQ when trying to configure my sound card. I seem to have fixed these problems at the same time and now no longer get the messages as belo

Re: TV Cards

1999-02-23 Thread faoho
Ringkjøbing Amt - e-post I have checked this site. It contains a RPM-spec file and the source. I am not familiar with compiling sourcecode - what to do now? Has anybody drivers and tv-applications for debian use? Henning Olsen Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Paul Lilley wro

Re: newbie seeks help on sound and mail.

1999-02-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I recently installed debian 3.0 My questions are: I think thats 2.0 Anyway, to answer one question: > 1. How do i configure my sound card in debian. I have opti. Get the exact data on your card from Windows's Device Manager. Then recompile the kernel (you need the kernel source package for th

pdflatex problem

1999-02-23 Thread Johann Spies
When I run pdflatex on a document that compiles without a problem in normal Latex, I get the following error (and it has happened on all the latex documents I have tried so far - however not always referring to the same font). ! Error: pdflatex: Font ptmro8r not found in map files Then I did a

upgrading slink -> potato

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am trying to upgrade to potato... first question, to stay on the safe side, in sources.list the line concerning potato should come before or after the slink line? then selecting some gnome stuff i get: gnome-gnometris depends on libaudiofile-cvs0 libaudiofile-cvs0 does not appear to be

Re: FAT32

1999-02-23 Thread Patrik Hagglund
Also I was wondering if anyone knew where a UDF reader/writer might be found. I think you have to patch your kernel: http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/ (I will try as soon as I get my CD-RW unit.) -- Patrik Hägglund

Re: X11 headers

1999-02-23 Thread Randy Edwards
> where do i can get this *.h files ? The various files needed for software development are libraries with a "dev" subject. Fire up Debian's dselect and search (using the '/' key) for "dev". -- Regards, | ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | "The most important design issue... . | http://www.g

Re: chown to change group ownership

1999-02-23 Thread Jim Foltz
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:40:30AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I want to change pon and poff to be owned by users. How do > I change them with chown? Paul, If all you want is for non-root users to be able to start and stop a ppp connection, the recommended way is to add each privileged us

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #327

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Text Newsreader with attachments?

1999-02-23 Thread Debian Mail
Is there a Text newsreader that can handle attachments (like mutt can do with e-mails)? Stef

strange messages at boot.

1999-02-23 Thread Jim Lynch
Any idea what is causing this? I put a new hard drive in and installed hamm from scratch. I am booting a 2.0.34 kernel that used to work fine on the old drive. I had to rdev the kernel to point to the new root device. The system seems to be running fine, except that /var/log/messages doesn't ha

Re: Screen Size in X

1999-02-23 Thread John Stevenson
Before you start editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, try using the following key press combination: control Alt - control Alt + Pressing these three keys (Holding control and Alt then tapping either plus or minus) will change the resolution that your screen runs at. Using this method will all

fetchmail error messages

1999-02-23 Thread Johann Spies
Since I have upgraded to hamm fetchmail is giving met the following type of error messages with all the mail I download from my ISP. Apart from the error message, I have no problem. Everything is working fine. I just want to know what is causing it. popclient: about to deliver with: formail -s

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