you didnt mention that you rebooted, that message is very common when you
do not reboot. some system configurations REQUIRE it. make sure you
reboot BEFORE you try to format the drive, otherwise you will probably
screw the whole drive up.
nate
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
c-3 >I already
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Alex McCool wrote:
> Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab?
Certainly: /etc/fstab is the file that tells the system what to
mount at boot whereas /etc/mtab is the current list of files mounted
at any given time.
This is incomplete: The kernel has to know wh
Since upgrading my potato box on 2/22, the first time I issue the
pon command after a reboot it gives the following message:
> Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory
pppd ignores this and makes a ppp connection. Subsequent
invocations of pon don't display this me
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote:
> I think I can do this with help from you. I hope Debian does have
> a minimum X less distribution and have split it to pieces of 1.44 MB sizes
> so people can attempt a floppy installation. If one of you can email me
> a piece daily, wthin a month I a
When I installed svgalib some time ago I didn't manage to get the
mouse to work (i.e. nothing happens when I move the mouse). This
didn't bother me much until I found out about the svga-mode of xaos
(which is really cool!).
I have a Logitech MouseMan (PS/2) and the relevant entries of
libvga.conf
On 02/27/00 12:55PM, Chirag wrote:
> I think I can do this with help from you. I hope Debian does have
> a minimum X less distribution and have split it to pieces of 1.44 MB sizes
> so people can attempt a floppy installation. If one of you can email me
> a piece daily, wthin a month I an
> When I bring up the Print dialog I see
> Printer: File
> Clicking on the drop down menu reveals no other options.
> How do I set this up? The manual was no help.
I'm no GIMP expert, but wouldn't putting "| lp" in the file name
field end up printing?
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I'm not sure how this works with kdm, but if you use bash, you can
have a file called .bash_logout in your home directory with the
command '/usr/bin/clear'. This will clear the screen everytime you
logout. Actually, you can put practically anything here. Bash just
sources it on logout. Don't kn
In Reply to Following Message:
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:55:13 +0530
From: "Chirag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wanted: 'Piecewise' Debian Compact
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Previ
If you like i could mail you my Debian Slink CDs *when* i've installed
Potato. This will not be for about a mont
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> What causes this error from mirror?
>
> > Cannot get remote directory details (debian/dists/potato/main/binary-all)
>
> I have gotten this consistently on */binary-all, and occasionally
> on */binary-i386, since mid-January, using the same m
What causes this error from mirror?
> Cannot get remote directory details (debian/dists/potato/main/binary-all)
I have gotten this consistently on */binary-all, and occasionally
on */binary-i386, since mid-January, using the same mirror scripts
that I have used successfully for a long
On 02/27/00 08:47PM, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave
> kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this
> to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'.
How about creating a little script like s
How do I issue a 'clear' command to the terminal so that when I leave
kdm to shutdown or reboot I have a clean text screen? I need to do this
to clear up some screen corruption which responds to 'clear'.
Cheers.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux
Tony:
Suggestions:
Try posting this to an X-Windows discussion group, eg: news:comp.os.linux.x,
as well. It's rather specific to that issue.
Simplify the problem. Try running X, xrdb, etc., without the
intervention of xdm. 'startx' from the console command line. I
personally don't use an X
When I bring up the Print dialog I see
Printer: File
Clicking on the drop down menu reveals no other options.
How do I set this up? The manual was no help.
TIA,
John
On 27-Feb-2000 S. Salman Ahmed wrote:
> Thanks. I will give that a try. On a related note, what exactly is the
> difference between these two communicator tarballs that are available
> from Netscape:
>
> (1) communicator-v472-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
> (2) communicator-v472-us.x86-unkno
I set up procmail to pipe mail into a perl script, and it seems to work.
But I want the mail to get processed by the script and then go back into
procmail with some changes.
:0 wc
^ *To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| perl.filter
and that seems to work fine. At the end of the perl script I have a series
of
that's what my boot process says:
...
Linux Version 2.0.34 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3 #2 Thu
Jul 9 10:57:58 EST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Real Time Clock Driver v 1.09
tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29
02:46:13 $
tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, a
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:13:50AM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quick question: How can I print all packages and their
> version number a given package depends on ? I've seen it in the
> submitted bugs.
If you have the grep-dctrl package installed, the command
grep-available can
I already tried what you told me. But it didn't work.
A made a swap partition with 24MB (of course I changed the type
to Linux Swap), formatted the partition with mkswap, but when I
tried swapon I always got "swapon: device or ressource busy"
> On 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
>
> c-3 >Hi,
> c-3
Tell me your postal address, may be I can burn a copy of slink, and send it to
you.
Now that I have my xcdroast working... By the way,
QUESTION: A copy made through xcdroast of the official distribution, is it
fully a
real image copy, fully functional?
Chirag wrote:
> Dear debian user,
>
>
In Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:00:35 +0530, de profundis "Chirag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cum veritas scribat
mannan1> Dear debian users
Erm... that probably includes me.
mannan1> Quoting from
mannan1> http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html
mannan1>
mannan1> Improved best-of-cla
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote:
>
> > Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does
> > apply for redhat).
> >
> >
>
> I am frustrated that you have ignored my main point. The point is
> it is unlinuxy to use such comments and alas, you are using such
> comme
> Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does
> apply for redhat).
>
>
I am frustrated that you have ignored my main point. The point is
it is unlinuxy to use such comments and alas, you are using such
comments as well!. . Distributions doesn't grow
at the expens
Dear debian user,
I am stuck with a Yamaha YMF724F chipset based PCI sound card
for which I can't find a driver in Linux. If you have any information about
getting this card to work in Linux you may please inform me.
OSS/Free and ALSA does not have an official driver for this
chipset. OS
Dear debian user,
I am a Linux newbie in India where the only viable method of
obtaining Linux is throgh cheap CDs that computer magazines
give along with their mag. I don't know why but so far they
haven't gone for any thing beyond RedHat with most of them
concentrating on Windows flavoured o
Hi.
> I can't work out how to do this. All the instructions I can find tell me
to
> use ipfwadm, but Debian doesn't seem to offer it (not listed in debian
> packages, for example).
"ipfwadm" is a part of the "netbase" package.
I believe you can get a basic IP-masquerading setup up and running f
hmm, it seems that my ldso-installation was broken, the package was installed,
apt claimed that it was up-to-date, but ldd wasn´t there. I then grabbed it by
hand and dpkg -i´d it, and well, now it works.
Thanks for the hint!
cheers,
&rw
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:57:37 -0200, Alexandre Pereira da
(Trying again with xdm in the Subject. If this doesn't attract any
ideas, I guess I'll have to trash major parts of the installation and
try again or use something else.)
Hi gang! Can anybody help me with this conundrum?
I have a hamm installation with a 2.0... kernel on a Toshiba 4080 XCDT,
and
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:57:10 -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote:
> netscape: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
Install the "libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1" from the old-libs section. Netscape
seems to make a habit of usin
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 13:40:48 +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> What I want is to be able to use the L key to reply, but not have the name
> of the mailing list (leaving the name of the actually sender) in the
> message list.
You need to change the setting of the 'index_format' variable. It defaults
Hi,
just a quick question: How can I print all packages and their
version number a given package depends on ? I've seen it in the
submitted bugs.
tia,
Markus
--
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EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Public Key: http://josefine
Ack. Group write permission on the serial device had somehow
gotten dropped. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:55:14PM -0200, Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote:
> Is dosemu suid? Has the user rw permission on serial devices? Try the last
> first. If not wor
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> I'd love to understand the general theory of how to redirect particular
> ports for particular protocols to particular machines.
>
> ipchains? ipautofw? ipportfw?
>
> TIA
Forget ipautofw, it is 2.0 dependant, use ipchains instead.
There is a page c
Hi.
I want to get some games and other things working on machines inside my
Linux NAT server.
eg for Close Combat, I need ports 47624 and 2300-2400 on both TCP and UDP
redirected so from the outside they look like they're going to/from my Linux
box, but everything gets redirected in both directio
On 02/27/00 09:25AM, Martin Högman wrote:
> I just plugged in a Lexmark 3200, and have set up the kernel printer support.
> It finds the device, but if I run 'lpr foo' nothing happens.
Have you set up a /etc/printcap file? You can do so by running
magicfilterconfig --force (as root). I'm not su
I just plugged in a Lexmark 3200, and have set up the kernel printer support.
It finds the device, but if I run 'lpr foo' nothing happens.
The following packages are installed:
lprng
gs-aladdin
Any suggestions as to how I can make it tick?
tia,
--
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| Martin H
I tried starting StarOffice today (after not having used it for months)
and it wouldn't load, complaining it couldn't find lib.so. Since
the 'soffice' startup script correctly sets up $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I'm
wondering why that environment variable is not being honored. If I edit
ld.so.conf, adding
During the boot sequence I am receiving the
following message;
eth0:unknown interface:
Operation not supported by device
I cannot figure out why my NIC is not being
seen. I have tried several flavors of NICs (even a NE2000) and have been
through the BIOS with several configurations
sheri cregger wrote:
>
> I've been trying to install Debian on a 486 laptop
> with floppies copied from the Debian site onto my
> desktop computer(I have no cdrom drive on the laptop).
>
> Installing the base system went really well, but when
> I try to use dselect to add more packages, I run int
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 07:42:01PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> My problem is that when I go to shutdown my system from KDM as soon as I
> get to the text screen there is screen corruption wherever the boot-up
> graphic was on boot up. It is a mess of colours. If I do ctrl-alt F2
> then ctrl-
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:08:20PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> that brings back a memory..i had a problem like that(with tons of
> unresolved symbols) with one/both of the vmware modules at one time..i
> fixed it by recompiling the kernel and EXCLUDING the option "Set version
> information on all symbo
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:07:53PM +, many people wrote:
> wget will do thatman wget
Thanks for the replies, wget is certainly impressive.
Previously I tried MS's IE, and you can imagine how annoyed I was when
I found it had saved to an unreadable/uncopyable file;)
Regards,
Mark
Hello
I can not install the apache source using the command:
apt-get -b source apache
I get the following error:
In file included from mod_rewrite.c:92:
mod_rewrite.h:129: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [mod_rewrite.so] Error 1
make[4]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: *** [subdirs] E
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
nielse >make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
nielse >make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
nielse >Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
nielse >/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved
i have set GLX up with TNT and G400. both run very good. Nvidia's cards
currently don't run to their full potential using GLX, G400 does. But, i
have to stick with 3dfx because its the only one that i can get working in
Unreal Tournament :) i have a G400 and 2 16MB TNTs sitting in the closet
sigh
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:22:52PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote
>
>
> > > One important point about cgiwrap - the current debian package puts the
> > > user cgis in ~user/public_html/cgi-bin instead of ~user/cgi-bin. I've
> > > filed a bug about it. It's bad security for cgis and their associated
>
Arghh, I haven't had to wonder experiences with this card.
Can you ping the IP you assigned to that interface? Is there anything in the
syslog? Are the debug options you can provide to insmod via-rhine.o ? Do you
have link lights? Just some random ideas...
On 27-Feb-2000 Russ Cook wrote:
> My
My old pci ethernet card failed, and I replaced it with a D-Link
DFE-530TX. I running Debian with kernel 2.2.14. I loaded the
via-rhine network card driver, version 1.02b. The system detects
the card, but I can't get to my lan. I can't ping or otherwise
detect any of my other machines. I've ch
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