Video Board Support?

Hi, my new computer came with an ATI Rage Fury 128 AGPx2 (32MB). I'm not sure which X-server to use for htis, does anyone know, or know whether it is supported by xfree/accelx/metrox etc at all? Thanks, Tim

Trouble with dselect: Hangs

Hi, I am running potato and have upgraded my system using dselect/apt without problems for a long time. Now I have problems though: dselect downloads the selected packages, the message "Fetched kB in XXmXXs (B/s)" shows up and then it hangs. Nothing happens, no error message even. It seem

simple question

does anybody know where can i find enlightenment 0.16 deb´s ? or cvs deb´s as it used to be in e.themes.org ? thank you ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fax format TIFF files (www.efax.com)

I'm using the free (advertising-supported) Internet fax service at www.efax.com. They assign you an arbitrary phone number, and faxes to that address are received by faxmodem and mailed to you. The file comes as a TIFF. I have several viewers that can read TIFFs (xv, xloadimage) and a fine bitma

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "Stephen" == Stephen R Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen> On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are > Stephen> running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same > Stephen> port. YMMV. > > You are right. I am using WDM

Re: Linux/NT dual booting

For a dual boot - why not go to a computer store and buy one of those things where you can swap hard drives like disks? They are around 30$, then for linux get a cheap 3 gig. you could run the same, but I would reccomend more space for nt. martin Original Message Follows From: Peter

Booting problem

I recently installed Debian from an official set, slowly the things get better. The last changes that I managed to do ( a whole adventure for a windows newcomer!) left me with even a connection to the internet through wvdial. My main problem is that I have very little memory (about 1.3 gig). Any wa

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

> "Stephen" == Stephen R Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are Stephen> running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same Stephen> port. YMMV. You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 s

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

Salman Ahmed wrote: > (3) What service is running on port 1024 ? I grepped /etc/services and > there was no such port 1024 listed in there ? ---end quoted text--- On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same port. Y

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

*- On 3 Oct, peter karlsson wrote about "RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates" >> kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like >> .-, and you'll not have problems >> (I haven't, anyway :) > > One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version > installed? Righ

xemacs: c-set-offset

Hi all - I found c-set-offset, in answer to my own previous question. Now, my question is this: I can M-x c-set-offset key value, but how can I put these into my .emacs? TIA -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-

Re: apt-move

> SECTIONS="main" "contrib" "non-free" "non-US/main" The above line is the problem... what it should really look like is: SECTIONS="main contrib non-free non-US/main" Also, make sure that the directory /debian exists (or edit the LOCALDIR= line to point elsewhere), as it's not created when

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system, Jan> just using What I meant by that was that I didn't have all the dev libraries installed so, after installing a couple and trying make it would later bomb on so

Re: upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that > came with Slink, but I uninstalled it. > > Why do I see the following in my logs: > > Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Rege

Re: fatal error in SO 5.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office > problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the > wrong track. I am currently getting a "Fatal Error" about 10 seconds > after I load

unix:0

What controls what appears when you 'w'? I just noticed that when I am in X and I 'w' all my X terms are from unix:0 instead of plain old :0 like they used to be. extace doesn't work with unix:0, it just likes :0. Is there a non destructive way I can change it back to :0? Thanks.

Re: Linux/NT dual booting

Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is > this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat > match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT > always f*%@(^ up my boo

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:01:15PM +0200, Jan Vroonhof wrote: > localhost still have access). I think you are more or less safe as > long as you don't do stupid things with xhosts. xhost + anyone? > > (6) I'd like to be able to respond to a port scan attempt in real-time, > > and possibly st

upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)

Hi all: I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that came with Slink, but I uninstalled it. Why do I see the following in my logs: Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP: version

Re: Urgent help

Cleto Pescia wrote: > > > Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? > > cfdisk? cfdisk don't format any partition - i'd explained on the wrong way, sorry. I need to format two FAT16 partitions. The "format" DOS application just can't format them. > Or XFDisk u

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > them. The reason I hadn't noticed them when they were happening because > I was in another workspace and was struggling to get XEmacs to compile > from source. What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system, just using ./configure mak

Re: Urgent help

> Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? To create FAT file systems, use mkdosfs from the dosfstools package. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

> kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like > .-, and you'll not have problems > (I haven't, anyway :) One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version installed? Right now, I have two 2.2.12 compilations installed, for instance. How do I do that with m

Re: LILO on second drive?

Mainly because my /dev/hda is a large drive (17 gigs) and I do not want to risk replacing my win98 MBR, etc, even though I have backups of everything, having to reload it all would be a royal pain, abd quite time consuming. Since BIOS supports booting from any drive, why should lilo not be abl

Re: wheel mice

*- On 3 Oct, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "wheel mice" > Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse > to work with netscape (4.6 or >) under linux? I just > got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't > gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to > 2.2 to do that, and

Re: wheel mice

> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenneth> Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work Kenneth> with netscape (4.6 or >) under linux? I just got a new wheel Kenneth> mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work Kenneth> un

wheel mice

Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work with netscape (4.6 or >) under linux? I just got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to 2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with my mb's usb hw!), but as a ps

Re: equivs problem FIXED

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -, Pollywog wrote: > BTW the error seems to be "Standards-Version:" should be just "Version:" Standards-Version specifies which version of the policy document the package complies with. Version specifies the version of the package. -- Mark Brown mailto:[

Could you help me ?

Hello, I a french studient and I have also a TI 4000M notebook. But I have pb, I have broken the links between the central and the screen. I have several links with several colors and I must reconnect them to the screen. And I don't have the order to make it. Could you just open the protection tw

compiling wine - xpm missing

After re-installing slink on a revamped upgraded computer (new cpu/mb, bigger hd, new graphics card, etc) I downloaded the latest wine sources (990923) and tried to build. Wine built ok, but won't run. I get the following message: OBM_CreateBitmaps Xpm support not in the binary, please install xp

Urgent help

Hi, Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ¨¨

Re: apt-move

On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote: > SECTIONS="main" "contrib" "non-free" "non-US/main" I believe this is your problem, it should be SECTIONS="main contrib non-free non-US/main" At least, that works for me... -- Ashley Clark

apt-move

Hi, I've been trying to use apt-move to create a potato mirror and I can't seem to get it to work. When running apt-move update/get I get: /usr/bin/apt-move: contrib: command not found Updating Packages and override files... Getting: distribution names Creating Lists... Error: makelist: No

Re: equivs problem FIXED

On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: >>> This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that >>> of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package >>> everything should work as planned. >> >> Thank

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> RTFM /etc/services to find out what auth is, and RTFM Nathan> `host http.us.debian.org'. I'm tired of people complaining Nathan> about "hack attempts" from pavlov on the auth port. Please, Nathan> buy, steal, o

Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: [ snip ] : Oct 2 20:59:12 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from : pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13] RTFM /etc/services to find out what auth is, and RTFM `host http.us.debian.org'. I'm tired of people complaining about "hack attem

fatal error in SO 5.1

I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the wrong track. I am currently getting a "Fatal Error" about 10 seconds after I load Star Office. Many of the posts that solve Star Office 5.1 problems (which is what I

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote: : On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: : : > > you can use dselect and use "H" on the package. This will hold the package : > > and prevent "accidental" upgrading. : > : > Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to : > rem

Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)

First off, my apologies if this email is considered off-topic. The reason I am posting to this list about this subject is because I have received excellent help and support in the past from other debian users. Just yesterday I noticed in one of my log files a number of connection attempts to my b

Re: equivs problem

On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: >> This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that >> of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package >> everything should work as planned. > > Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the e

Re: Query:Adding to Debian DOCS w/Alien

I think you want to look at the doc-base/install-docs packages. You'll have to write control files for each set of documentation. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:51:22AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have several excellent references that are in .html format, rather > large ones. I want to add them to

Re: Slink to Potato

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:55:22AM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > > > though, it leaves room for replies. > > Ooops, sorry, I don't know h

Re: equivs problem

On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: > This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that > of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package > everything should work as planned. Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now. I tried to add one but it did

Re: equivs problem

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:56:16PM -, Pollywog wrote: > I am trying to install some new deb packages and I am using a *fake* qt1g > package which I made with the equivs utility. Geheimnis will not upgrade > because the version of qt I have (the fake) is too new. I have never seen > this probl

Re: apt: how to avoid double downloads ?

If you've got some disk-space which can be shared between the two machines (NFS mount, Jaz/Zip drive, etc.) you could try using apt-move, which was recently installed into potato. It can migrate the downloaded debfiles into the proper hierarchy, and generate the required control files, to allow ap

How do I make a bootable debian rescue CD?

Hi! I'd like to have a bootable CD that contains a not-so-small Debian installation with most console utilities to repair a broken file system. It'd need to have raidtools, tar, cp, dd in full features versions. To make that disk, I'd probably generate a Debian installation on a spare disk that h

Re: LILO on second drive?

No idea about installing an MBR on a slave drive, but why not put the additional configuration in your lilo.conf and boot from your master drive? That way you can control the boot process from the lilo prompt with out having to go into the BIOS. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller The

apt: how to avoid double downloads ?

Being a Debian-newbie I am fascinated of apt and want to use it on both Debian-boxes in my home-net.  I access a german ftp-site and it works quite well. (Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to Todd Suess´ recently published one: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Hard Drive testing.. (Was: Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError)

The best thing really to do is go to the drive manufacturer's website, and find and download their diagnostic software for your hard drive. Unfortunately, you'll need some kind of DOS-bootable floppy or hard drive partition to RUN the software. I just had two hard drives go to a series of brownout

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

Hi, After many mistakes, defective cables, and a lot of help from these people, I have login to my Slink box from a Win95 box. I have: A null modem 9-pin mini cable about 10 meters long. HyperTerminal on Win95 (windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Hyper Terminal\hypertrm.exe) Direct to C

equivs problem

I am trying to install some new deb packages and I am using a *fake* qt1g package which I made with the equivs utility. Geheimnis will not upgrade because the version of qt I have (the fake) is too new. I have never seen this problem before. Anyone know how I can fix it? dpkg: dependency proble

Re: missing LDD in Linux

I'd probably just snarf the package off the Debian website. Go to , and you should be given the option of downloading the debfile. Once completed, do ``dpkg -i ldso*.deb'' (as root). Note: I'm assuming that you're running the stable branch (2

Re: PCI Soundcard

> Hi All, > I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably > non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to > work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? > Thanks > The best bargain in the business has got to be the Cre

Re: PCI Soundcard

I would suggest one based on the Trident 4DWave chipset. These things can be found for as low as $15, and they are excellent sound cards. Not to mention the Linux support is great due to Trident releasing all the necessary specs to the ALSA people. Sean Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi All, > I'm loo

Re: missing LDD in Linux

Gregory T. Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/bin/ldd is one of the dynamic-linker utilities, and is provided by > the ldso package. It definately ought to be present... I'd suggesr > reinstalling ldso. hmm... ok i am a newbie, how do i do that? or can i ju

Re: on selective multi file delete

*- On 3 Oct, Chadi wrote about "on selective multi file delete" > hello everyone ... > >i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of > subdirectories using wget ... >is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget > scatered all throughout ??? > >

Query:Adding to Debian DOCS w/Alien

I have several excellent references that are in .html format, rather large ones. I want to add them to my regular Debian installation using apt via alien. This is so that I can use DWWW and other existing search systems and online docs. Any suggestions about how to do this? Thanks! -- John Foster

install problems

Hi. I have been trying to install my linux distribution and am having problems with my cdrom drive. The cd is connected to an interface card with 2 rca jacks sticking out the back. The install will not mount the cdrom. My computer is a 486 /sx33. The hard drive is connected to an input card with on

Re: help! netstd screwed up... Other Problems!

Thought I'd mention the primary big problems I had with the update. These are ones for which I found no answer (I'm hardly a guru, though. I expect the workaround is out there somewhere.) I thought it might be nice for whoever's writing the install scripts... Both gnome and kde were problems.

PCI Soundcard

Hi All, I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? Thanks -- -bob You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes f

Re: cpu option of gcc & g++

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:49:28AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > ... > The general approach is to build it twice, normally reconfiguring in > between. You could also simply run the 486 code on both 486 and Pentium > II - unless you're noticing enough a speed increase from optimization to > care about

Re: runq messages

I do not think your problem is permissions. See note below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes: > I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old > hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For > weeks now I have been living with dozens of messa

Re: Boot/Installation problem i386 slink

Hello! Don't know exactly, but I think the kernel fails to detect the fat32 partition correctly and then stops. Sorry for not investigating into it further, but I'm very busy at the moment. Maybe someone can confirm this suggestion and/or give furher/other ones?? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger

Re: runq messages

Perhaps wrong permissions on smail (runq is a link on it). Under slink, smail had the following permissions (is suid root): -rwsr-xr-x root/root301144 1998-10-13 19:01 usr/sbin/smail Just a guess, Martin On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I am sure that my system is in a bad st

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

Hello! Here I am again after a long, long time in a galaxy far, far away... Sorry for not replying so long, but I was terribly busy all the time. And thanks for all your work on this issue!! > After reading the .inf (it's in plain text, and commented :)), you don't > use a PPP connection - you us

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

Hello! Sorry for not replying for a so long time. I'll to get a network adapter soon, so that the problem will be solved. Thanks very much for your suggestion, I'll try it as it sounds quite easy and I'm no linux (network) expert. I'm also talking about the net emulation with Phil, but I think, i

Re: on selective multi file delete

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote: > hello everyone ... > >i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of > subdirectories using wget ... >is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget > scatered all throughout ??? I'm not sure b

Re: netscape killing my machine

shaul wrote: > > Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is > consuming too much memory. Netscape (Navigator and Communicator) are statically linked to the Motif library, which explains a good deal of its bloat. If you're comparing Communicator to Moz

trying to install

Hi. I have a few problems. I am trying to install debian on a 408mb hard drive. I also have a 345mb drive. I have tried every combination of jumper settings to get one to act as a master and one a slave. For some reason the computer (still in dos) does not recognize both drives. Does anyone have an

apt-move retrieving Packages file

Hi, I'm using apt-move to feed my local potato mirror with the deb-Files from /var/cache/apt/archives downloaded by apt-get. After an 'apt-get update' apt-move refuses to copy the newest files, because the Packages files are out of sync. I could of course use 'apt-move get' to retrieve the latest

Re: help! netstd screwed up on updating potato

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following > > error > > wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attemptin

on selective multi file delete

hello everyone ... i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of subdirectories using wget ... is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget scatered all throughout ??? TIA, Chad

Re: Slink to Potato

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > > though, it leaves room for replies. > > Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimr

RE: recommended partitioning

>Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and >wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will >be running solo debian. > >Thanks so much > >Jeff Jeff, I know you've received at least one reply, but let me put in my 1.575128 Euro's worth. Wi

initial console

Whenever I run install.bat to load linux, I eventually run into a message unable to open an initial console this message occurs immediately after the messages unable to load NLS charset . . . VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly I am installing from a dos partit

Re: Apt keeps giving me "400 Bad Request"

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Pete Harlan wrote: > I'm upgrading slink->potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > (after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to > grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this: 99.9% chance that you are behind a satanic 't

Re:daylight savings in Brazil?

Unbelievable... Why r u guys discussing about brazilian daylight savings? I do think that here is a place for debian related material discussion... You're supposed to discuss this in private... Also, they have this in US too... so, why cant we get this roun' here??:) Regards Eber Diniz

KDE 1.1.2 : kdesupport - debian packages missing giflib?

I've been trying to get KDevelop installed for a few days now. The kdevelop.org homepage seems to be offline, and previously when I was able to connect the .deb file I found did not download correctly. Installing from tarball, ./configure complains about not finding giflib30 which should be part

Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?

cu is in the uucp package. On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: > Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish > to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to > my ttyS0 port. Thanks, > > - Clint > > > -- > Unsubscrib

What's the best way to mirror a partition table?

I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential model of drive on /dev/hdb. The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a "pretty good" mirror of /dev/hda. (By "pretty good", I mean... it's okay if I lose some log entries, etc I just want to b

Re: help! netstd screwed up on updating potato

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error > wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the > package after the original at-get dist-update errors). Hmmm... never

help! netstd screwed up on updating potato

I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the package after the original at-get dist-update errors). Can anyone tell me what to do? I had re-DL'ed the file just in case it was corrupted.

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: > > you can use dselect and use "H" on the package. This will hold the package > > and prevent "accidental" upgrading. > > Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to > remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kerne

RE: recommended partitioning

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi Jeff, > > I would try a simple approach. You only "need" two partitions, root and > swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory. > 32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assig

RE: recommended partitioning

Hi Jeff, I would try a simple approach. You only "need" two partitions, root and swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory. 32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned root first, then swap as the last partition. You could partition

Re: cpu option of gcc & g++

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:29:50PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > I have to compile and cross-compile several sources on a > PII machine, for both its own and a 486. > I'd like to know how to specify that to 'make'. > I had a look at both 'man gcc' & 'man g++', but these are > huge, and I'm no

Re: pgcc compiler for slink?

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:26:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I was wanting to compile the gcc source package from potato under > slink. My suggestion is that unless you really *need* the packaged version you shouldn't bother - it's not even the standard version of any Debian package

recommended partitioning

Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff

Re: runq messages

I'm not using smail so I can't check this myself, but you might take a look at /etc/suid.conf. If there's an entry for the file, or the directory containing it, then suidmanager will reset the ownership and permissions during the cron.daily run. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:10:06PM +1000, Alan Euge

runq messages

I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: > runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted > r

Re: Slink to Potato

Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better > though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? > I'm not sure what

Basic and not so basic web membership and voting

I and some others are working on a site which which can assist the Pacifica Supporters Association in its launch. The immediate need is to record basic contact info + some other information. Shortly thereafter, we will want to manage electronic discussions and votes--ideally, teh whle process of

Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: > Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish > to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to > my ttyS0 port. Thanks, Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find minicom a v

Re: anacron read out

I re-installed fileutils and shellutils since I was getting error messages about not finding "du" and "id" as well. Seems to be working just fine. Thanks for the suggestions. Eric > > On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote: > > Ray: > > > > You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both a

latest version of gnome-apt

The latest version of gnome-apt is not compatible with the rest of the potato libraries. Is there a newer ? > 0.3.4 thanks Oz Dror -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra

> I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under > Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person > myself). > > They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of > problem :- > > 1) Window appears to be four times it's correct siz

Apt keeps giving me "400 Bad Request"

I'm upgrading slink->potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this: - Need to get 109MB/