Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> Tommy wrote:
> >
> > When I upgraded the package lists of
> > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ...
>
> This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell
> dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always
> been a
hi,
from the direct links in the debian.org, install file, i've downloaded
all of the install files except the linux image kernel file. when i
click on the link, the browser tries to open the file (instead of
allowing me to save it to a disk).
should i just try to get the image kernel from a mi
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 08:37:04PM +0200, Pezo wrote:
> Another problem with alpha-Linux, when I create a file from other Linux
> macihe through NFS, the files on alpha are owned by nobody.nogroup. This
> is a 'feature' of alpha-macine I think, but is there a way to get round
> this?
>
> Juha
I m
Well, I've been reading through all the messages here for the last 2-3
weeks, and I've decided that perhaps we would be better off adding into
the basic Debian documentation a listing of normal errors and their fixes.
I'm willing to get in and compile all of these if people want to help me
out wit
Hi Debian users,
At home and school I have matlab installed in Linux 2.1 or 2.2 very
synced with potato. Sometime ago was working in both. Now it's only
working in school. Maybe I did an upgrade in school different from home.
At home I have:
[20:17:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/matlab/matlab/bin
Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote:
> > I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing
> > releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system
> > back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd
It does that because that's the way windows works. The file creation
times are kept on copy. Samba probably doesn't do anything. The copy
program (xcopy, copy, explorer, etc.) probably sets the timestamp at
the end of the copy.
jim
>--
>From: Pezo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday,
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 02:33:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Libraries that have packaged for the first time after the release of hamm
> typically do not have a libc5 compatibility version, and omit the "g".
This is the reason why I'm asking. The mentioned package is being built
for the fir
Guess we have proof of good crack at Purdue University. ;-)
-Ian
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Let's do the time warp again!
>
> --
> G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The
> Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to ha
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
> mouse under X?
> I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X
> manuals.
See /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ in the current slink X packages.
--
G
Let's do the time warp again!
--
G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The
Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled.
cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
pgp1m4AQHdUG
*- On 5 Mar, Craig T. Hancock wrote about "apt"
> I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it
>
>
Apt is the next generation front end for dpkg. It will eventually
replace dselect. Right now it just provides a command line tool,
apt-get, and a method for dselect. From th
>>>
And some guy at MIT wrote a text editor in TECO...
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
-
Opps, yeah that's right. The ORIGINAL Emacs was written in Teco. RMS
must be more talented that I thought. Tec
"Craig T. Hancock" wrote:
> I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it
>
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a very nice and easy method of upgrading and installing packages.
--
dyer
*- On 5 Mar, Ole J. Tetlie wrote about "ppp"
> I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
> the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the
> configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a
> machine with working ppp. Could it be some other
since upgrading from hamm to slink one of my progams (XPMA) can no
longer display colors and gives the following error message.
ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b):
GR 31 .500 .500 .500
ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b):
PT 32 .800 .800 .800
ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b):
S 33 .800 .750 .000
ATOMTY
I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it
I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the
configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a
machine with working ppp. Could it be some other netconfig
that is making trouble. I'd appreciate a cl
I thought he meant the Joint Academic NETwork (JANET), but that one is not
beautiful.
Kent, sorry if I add further embarrassment to you. ;-)
> I can't let that pass. Sorry.
>
> I once knew a guy that broadcast something very similar to every user on
> an entire (large) VAXCluster at a major hos
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I saw a directory called etex under the tetex directory, so i
> wondered wheather the debian distribution uses e-Tex (i am using
> hamm). If not, can anyone tell me how am i supposed to install
> e-Tex, because I didn't understand how the distribution is
I recently switched to a 2.2.2 kernel. I also tried to install IP
masquerading on 2.2.2, and later tried to remove it. Since then,
StarOffice won't connect to my pop server, although Mutt will. Any
ideas why?
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:45:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there is a xlib6g-dbg package. I have a problem with
> >
> > Not yet. I have plans to make one for potato (xlib6g-dbg and xlib6-altdbg,
> > bot
:-> "Matthew" == Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning
> about the possible addictive nature of Linux.
> cheers matt
No it's not addictive. Is infective: once you install it on a
computer, you will quickly fi
I've updated page that collects almost all the links that appear when
you ask for help in the make config process. At least those for an
intel architecture
The pager is at http://gusp.infogroup.it/linux/kernel.shtml
While you are at it have a look at the rest of the pages. Comments are
welcome.
On 05-Mar-99 Matthew Cocker wrote:
> Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning
> about the possible addictive nature of Linux.
>
Actually I am addicted to the code -> compile -> segfault -> debug -> repeat
cycle. Just so happens the cycle is faster and more interesting
Problem occurs when somebody copies files from a Windooze-machine to a
filesystem which resides on a Linux box (debian-alpha), SAMBA writes the
file creation date to be the date the file was originally created, not
when it was copied. I hope somebody would know why this is, I don't...
Another probl
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Matthew Cocker wrote:
>Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning
>about the possible addictive nature of Linux.
What do you mean? I can quit any time I want... I just don't want to :)
Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now,
>> from a different century and he is on top?
>>
>> Matth
>
>Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor
>p
Kenneth Scharf writes:
> I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was more than an
> editor, it was a language. Infact someone had written a StarTrek game in
> teco.
And some guy at MIT wrote a text editor in TECO...
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
El
Shawn Nguyen writes:
> I am using pppsetup to set up my connection.
Try pppconfig. But first, dial in with minicom and work through the login
taking notes until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has started
at their end. This will give you the information that pppconfig needs.
--
John
Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning
about the possible addictive nature of Linux.
cheers matt
First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem. I was actually
trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command. Duh!
Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been
telling him how great the support is from you guys and how
Thanks for all the emails I received about GNOME. In the end I got the
debian slink 0.3 version going and liked it so much I promptly deleted
it and went and got the gnome1.0 tar balls and compiled a new version.
It only took me a couple of days (not bad considering I have never
compiled my own pro
OK, it's my turn. Yes I RTFM's.
First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is
wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I decided that if exim was the prefered Debian MTA I would switch to
it. Well after 3 days I have finally got it te accept ma
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:
> Am i right if i say that the uni can just rsync the cd-images, write
> them and sell them to the students for the price of writing the disks?
Yes. Actually, they could burn CDs and sell them for as much as they
wanted to.
Jeremy
On 2 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> I had problems with PPP uploads under 2.2.1. They were extremely slow
> so I went back to booting 2.0.36 by default. I had assumed that 2.2.x
> needed a newer version of PPP than was available in slink, but I don't
> see any mention of it in the documentat
Oh, goodie! A religious discussion!
Kent West wrote:
>
> At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Kevin Traas schrieb:
> >>
> >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
> >>
> >> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
> >> >Person o
I just uploaded emusic_0.8-5 to incoming.
emusic (0.8-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Recompiled against GTK+ 1.2
* Consolidated into one package
* This WILL not install cleanly through dselect. Remove all your
emusic packages first (this is because dpkg cannot do versioned
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this
> very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot
> loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type
> anything as L
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Hi,
> is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
> mouse under X?
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
> I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X
> manuals.
man xmodmap
-Michele
At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Kevin Traas schrieb:
>>
>> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>>
>> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
>> >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
>> > To vot
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:13 (-0800), Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever. If
> only
> it had run on a *NIX OS :-(
>
> -
> I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was mo
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Anyone had problem with this version of libc6?
>
> After I install it, all my dns stop working, I had to down grade
> to the version in the stable hamm.
Please, remember to report this as a bug.
> A couple of weeks ago, I upgrade my sys
Kevin Traas schrieb:
>
> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>
> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
> >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
> > To vote go to:
> >http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/topperson
Hi all,
Does anyone know what is the status of the logo-contest? I tried to
send in submissions to ftp.gimp.org last month, but my logos did not
appear on the web site. I heard from others that they had the same
problem. Is anyone taking care of this? It seems to me it would have
been nice to
zombie processes are the remains of a process that exited. The reason
they hang around is that the parent process didn't do a "wait" on them.
As soon as the parent process exits, the zombie should be inherited by
init and init will clean them up. Zombie's don't use any cpu and they
don't use any
Ok, concerning 'make menuconfig'
It's a command to start configuration for your own kernel. For that you
have to have the kernel source package installed, it should be in
/usr/src/kernel-*/
Go there, and do either
'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig' I like the first one, because it's
a GUI so
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 10:10:42 -0500, eric Farris wrote:
> /dev/hda1 /cdrive vfat rw,user,errors=remount-ro
> 0 1
> As root, the mounts are rw; but as an ordinary user they are ro. any
> suggestions?
Put the users that should have write access in a group, and use the uid
George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
> > except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection
> > of stable and unstable would just be the same as unstable anyway. Right
Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> Frankie wrote:
> >
> >
> > > You are perhaps referring the "Linux Standard Base" that RH and
> > > Deb have, for the moment, agreed to? The problem is that the
> > > greater RH's dominance becomes, the greater the chance that they
> > > will no longer see this kind
That should be:
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/Inbox
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> in .procmailrc
>
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> MAILDIR =$HOME/Mail
> LOGFILE =$HOME/_logfile
> VERBOSE = yes
> LOGABSTRACT = no
> PATH =
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr
I have been slowly moving from Windows95 to Debian Linux. For the past
several months, i've been using root as my everyday login. i know that's
a bad idea, but to get me started it seemed the simplest way. now i feel
comfortable enough using Linux and WindowMaker to switch from root to an
ordinary
Andrei Ivanov wrote:
>
> Just get the new drive ready for Linux (partition and make fs)
> Make a new directory on the drive,
> and then just copy the /usr files into it.
cp -av should do it.
(assuming you didnt know how to copy or you wouldnt have asked how to do
it)
frankie
> Then edit /etc/f
Recently I upgraded most of my machines from the version of
kernel-package that came with hamm to 6.05.
Now when I build kernel source packages, instead of the kernel-source
package unrolling to /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x it just creates
/usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.gz.
The make-kpkg man
Bill,
Yes, the thread was cut a bit. I didn't see the part about 2.2.1, sorry.
I am not running ppp on my machine with 2.2.2, but Documentation/Changes
says:
As of 2.1.102, the IP firewalling code has been replaced; ipfwadm
will no longer work. You need to obtain "ipchains," available from
Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-)
>Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines
>Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue.
> To vote go to:
>http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/toppersonmain.html
Later,
Kevin
Kevin Tra
[Removed Ian from cc:]
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Nick wrote:
>On Fri 05 Mar, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Nick wrote:
>>
>> >> Hmmm. Actually, thinking again, I had a similar problem myself a while
>> >> back when I first installed Debian, and I ended up having to build a
>> >> custom
On 05-Mar-99 Jim Foltz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use apt to keep up with slink. I used dselect/apt-method and selcted 2
> files
> to purge. I then selected INSTALL from dselect and it proceeded to remove the
> packages. I did not select any new packages to install, so I assumed that
> INSTALL would simp
This maybe true, but I have noticed that once I mount a DOS floppy in Debian
after two or three times It is unreadable by Windows. It seems to me that
Linux is Hell on floppies. Even my Debian only floppies seem to have a
extremely short life. I thought my Floppy was dying then i changed it and
sti
I can't let that pass. Sorry.
I once knew a guy that broadcast something very similar to every user on
an entire (large) VAXCluster at a major hospital. :-)
ktb wrote:
>
> oops, sorry.
>
> ktb wrote:
>
> > You are beautiful.
> > Kent
> >
> > --
> > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PR
This is what I did, except I believe I used the Linux fdisk to create the
partitions. Is this going to make such a difference. Windows does not detect
my Linux partitions - so maybe the overlapping partitions my be the answer I
will check that out as soon as I get home. Thanks All!!
> -Origi
Hi,
I use apt to keep up with slink. I used dselect/apt-method and selcted 2 files
to purge. I then selected INSTALL from dselect and it proceeded to remove the
packages. I did not select any new packages to install, so I assumed that
INSTALL would simply report that there were 0 packages to insta
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried the joliet extention, but aparently, when i mount the cdimage,
> the filenames are cutoff at 32 characters.
> Any ideas?
If you're not going to be using these discs in any M$ products, Rockridge
is the unix way to do it. Although
Just get the new drive ready for Linux (partition and make fs)
Make a new directory on the drive,
and then just copy the /usr files into it.
Then edit /etc/fstab to indicate the new mount point.
Reboot to make sure it's all fine, and you are set.
Andrew
---
I have a procedure to make Deb bootable described on my homepage, under
LILO section.
URL is below,
Andrew
---
Andrei S. Ivanov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
UIN 12402354
http://members
|If it's a standard pc keyboard (or a windows 95 one) that
should
|be pc102
It is an original IBM keyboard manufactered in the UK in 1985, and still
working very fine ;-) and it has 102 keys. But changing this line, didn't
change anything in X?
Maybe i've lost some file that x needs, but it does
I would like to separate /usr onto its own partition on a different disk.
First, I am under the assumption that this might speed my I/O times
because both disks are Ultra2's. Secondly given my set-up below, what is
the *safest* method to separate /usr. I thought of two ways but would
feel safer
Quoting "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:52:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already.
> >There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhere.
> >
> >I have run 'find / -name ipmasqadm' with no hi
ivan writes:
> Is this normal?
Your ppp.log looks quite normal.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Subject: potato -"heyho!" message?
Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:43:28PM +0900
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after
> the upgrade was completed, I noticed a str
Subject: Using Procmail - mail won't deliver to Default
Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 06:14:13AM -0600
In reply to:Lance Hoffmeyer
Quoting Lance Hoffmeyer([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> in .procmailrc
>
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> MAILDIR =$HOME/Mail
> LOGFILE =$HOME/_logfile
> VERBOSE = yes
> L
Subject: Please HELP ME AGAIN!!!
Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:13:31AM -0800
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Please Help me again!
> Thanks for helping me with mounting, but now I would like to
> ask you another thing.
>
> How ca
>>.
I bought some cheap PNP ide ne2000 compatible crds to setup a small net
work. My bios does not seeem to recognise the cards, but it does see my
pnp sound card. Is there anything I can do via debian to use these
cards?
The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it
Windows and Linux can co-exist on the same disk drive without
problems. I have windows 95 and debian on different partitions of the
same disk. Windows / dos will ignore partition types 81, 82 ,83 etc.
What you need to do is to first partition the virgin disk under
windows (leaving room for linux
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:52:22PM +0100, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:
> I have an S3 Trio3D video card so i had to use the framebuffer device if i
> wanted a 1024x768 display.
> Now i have some anoying keyboard problems. I can't use the AltGr key
> anymore (it has become left-key). So any key like |@#
But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever. If
only
it had run on a *NIX OS :-(
-
I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was more than an
editor, it was a language. Infact someone had written a StarTre
Subject: Print command
Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 12:54:20AM -0500
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>Could anyone tell a newbie the command to print a text file or a man
>page item, like a file named "vi.1.gz" on a dot matrix
Subject: ipmasqadm question
Date: Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:25:07PM -0600
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello all,
>
> I seem to be lost on this issue, but here goes. I am running a mostly slink
> system with a 2.2.1 kernel. Ho
Hi,
I've tried the joliet extention, but aparently, when i mount the cdimage,
the filenames are cutoff at 32 characters.
Any ideas?
--
Bernhard DobbelsStudent Electronic Engineer
option Automation and Computersystems.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROT
hi,
I have an S3 Trio3D video card so i had to use the framebuffer device if i
wanted a 1024x768 display.
Now i have some anoying keyboard problems. I can't use the AltGr key
anymore (it has become left-key). So any key like |@#{}[]`\ i cannot use
anymore in X.
The PgUp/PgDn and some other keys a
I don't think -k on its own is what you're looking for. This keeps
messages on the remote server, but marks them as read. However, it may
be of some use in conjunction with the -a (fetchall) option. This makes
fetchmail fetch all messages, including those marked as read.
HTH
Rich
[EMAIL PROTEC
What do I need to add to exim.conf to be able to send mail. I have a
PPP connection to a provider and use fetchmail to get mail but I cannot
send mail except through netscape.
In /var/log/exim/mainlog.01
SMTP error from remote mailer after Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2522:
host smtp-gw0
> I have never had this problem at home, but now it happens to me at
> work. My backspace does not work in Netscape, only the delete key. My
> backspace does not work in rxvt and nor the delete key.
Hi,
did you install kde 1.1?
uncomment
! i386 and alpha
keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 107 = Del
Hi,
When I installed Debian I put it on my second hard drive and didn't
make it bootable but instead just made a boot floppy as I wasn't
familiar with Lilo or Loadlin but now I want to make the hard drive
bootable. How do I do this at this point? Do I need to re-install or
what?
Thanks.
Doug Di
in .procmailrc
SHELL = /bin/sh
MAILDIR =$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE =$HOME/_logfile
VERBOSE = yes
LOGABSTRACT = no
PATH =
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh
DEFAULT=Inbox
#ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
but mail does not go to Inbox. I have also trie
I have hscroll-mode in emacs but don't appear to have it in Xemacs
20.4. What happened to this mode and how do I get it back into Xemacs
20.4?
also, when I start emacs the first time I type a character I get an
error
'while opening UMTP file: no such file or directory'
but if I scroll down a
Hi,
Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my
hamm
system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my
sources.list
and did 'apt-get update' + 'apt-get upgrade' (and answered 'no' ;).
This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back':
The following package
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Nuno Donato wrote:
> How can I setup my sound card(Sound Blaster 16)?
> I have heard something about "make menuconfig" "make config"
> but this doesn't work in my computer. A error message
> appears saying "no target to make rule config".
> How can I solve this problem.
> I
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:29:26PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote:
> I am having an extremely difficult time trying to connect to the Prodiy
> ISP.
> Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: ATD7913790^M
> Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: CONNECT
> Mar 4 19:58:32 shawn chat[477]: -- got it
ok so far
hello,
when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM
eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the
source and I tell it CDROM, after
it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I
try some things like this:
/dev/hdb
but it say
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:52:34 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I checked with dselect and found I have ipmasq 3.3.1 installed already.
>There is NO sign of ipmasqadm on my system anywhere.
>
>I have run 'find / -name ipmasqadm' with no hits.
>
>I do appreciate your help. Please don't stop now, but
Marshall Savage wrote:
>
> I have been following your thread & you have my
> sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
> suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
> bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg &
> dselect are so great but in my experience they are
Item Subject: Please HELP ME AGAIN!!!
try changing your directory :-)
Stefan
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Subject: Please HELP ME AGAIN!!!
Author: Non-HP-nunodonato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at HP-Germany,shargw6
Date:3/5/99 10:13 AM
Plea
Please Help me again!
Thanks for helping me with mounting, but now I would like to
ask you another thing.
How can I setup my sound card(Sound Blaster 16)?
I have heard something about "make menuconfig" "make config"
but this doesn't work in my computer. A error message
appears saying "no target
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:24:38 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I believe ipfwadm only works with kernels < 2.1.90 or so. The reading
>I get from the kernel source with 2.2.1 is that ipmasqadm is required.
You're right. ipfwadm is obsolete for 2.2.x kernels.
Ralf
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Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenra
I have problems installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 or 2.1on my IBM Thinkpad
600
its a PII300mhz , 64mbram, Neomagic 128XD 5.1GB IDE.
I booted up with hamm resc1440.bin and it starts booting.
After the Loading Linux... the machine hangs.. it justs stands
there.. with the loading linux. on the s
Dear all,
I've been trying to connect to my provider
using PPP on my debian machine.
Frequent disconnect happened and
I have these messages in my /var/log/ppp.log
==
Mar 5 13:27:11 mariah pppd[314]: Serial connection established.
Mar 5 13:27:12 mariah pppd[314]: Using interface ppp0
Mar
I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after
the upgrade was completed, I noticed a strange problem.
I had several Eterms open when the message "heyho!" (followed by a newline
character) started to be repeatedly printed on one of them. The keyboard did
not seem to ha
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:11:12AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> somehow my backspace key does not work in rxvt and Netscape, but
> it works in xterm. How do I fix this??
>
xmodmap is your friend. Read the manual page
Joop
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Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Hamradio Ap
George Bonser wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> > Does it merge stable and unstable and just show the newest version of
> > each package,
>
> Yes.
>
> or keep them separate so I can choose?
>
> No
Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
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