Lilo Source

1998-08-06 Thread Dennis Dixon
sample kernels? Should I just add an entry to lilo.conf to run their sample? Etc.. Thanks for any help someone might have. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Magicfilter Config

1998-07-15 Thread Dennis Dixon
w the correct way to set up magicfilter on the Debian system. Thanks for any help anyone might have. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Printing .tex files

1998-07-15 Thread Dennis Dixon
this? *** A third question just tacked on here. I found a file "/root/screen.xwd" about 1MB in size which I have no idea where it came from. Can I safely delete this? Or does it have a purpose I'm not aware of? *** Thanks for any help someone might have. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

More Can't Copy 161MB

1998-07-04 Thread Dennis Dixon
only options to install ftape and back up the files or to just reinstall from scratch? Thanks for any help. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Can't Copy 161 MB

1998-07-03 Thread Dennis Dixon
The last thing I've done is install the CoffeeShop Java IDE (from SFS Software) in my '/home/dixon' directory. (The instructions appeared to say that this was the proper place for it.) I also noticed a 339KB file '/etc/core'. Are these files necessary? Should they be there

Man + Latex

1998-06-28 Thread Dennis Dixon
package anywhere. Sorry for taking up everyone's time with such basic questions. Wish things were easier. By the way, several times I've seen 'IIRC' printed on e-mails. Forgive my ignorance, but what does that stand for? Thanks for anyone's help. Dennis Dixon

zmore & Latex

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
latex guide.tex (Which has the correct starting text in it) and got the error message: 'Can't find file linuxdoc.sty' Thinking I needed the library 'tetex-extra_0.4pl6-4.deb' I installed this, which didn't solve the problem. Reading simple text files

Running FreeBuilder.jar

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
Possibly, someone knows how to fix this configuration problem. Any help you could pass on would be appreciated. Thanks. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Solved JDK/Display error

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
#x27;/etc/X0.hosts' file. I guess this is ok. Xwindows somehow solves the 'xwindow access permission' configuration without this file. To Paul Reavis: I plan to upgrade to Debian 2.0 eventually. Being new to Linux, however, I thought it best to get the system I have running first before tryi

JDK1.1.5 Installation

1998-06-24 Thread Dennis Dixon
usly not making the right entry in '/root/.bash_profile'. I have already posted my question to Paul Reavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who is listed in Blackdown's Java How To page for Debian users (http://www.mindspring.com~tumu/java/Debian-JDK.html). Possibly, someone on this mailing list m

Linux Commands

1998-06-23 Thread Dennis Dixon
ich added to the dialin group in '/etc/group'. My question is how do I reverse this? I don't want to delete the user, but merely remove it from the dialin group. Possibly the 'groupmod' or 'usermod' commands? I couldn't figure out how to use these commands t

Mounting 2nd Partition

1998-06-23 Thread Dennis Dixon
e computer. Possibly this is why hda6 didn't get mounted. Thanks for any help anyone might have. I have some more miscellaneous questions, but on the advice of a previous e-mail I have separated them into a second e-mail. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

jdk-common_1.0.2-7.deb

1998-06-19 Thread Dennis Dixon
p of these files, not just the permission level? Are these the correct files/directory to change? Also, previously I had erronously changed the dialin group with adduser username dialin Is there a command to reverse this addition. e.g. something like 'deluser'? T

XF86Setup/Mouse Device

1998-06-15 Thread Dennis Dixon
om Martin Bialasinski suggested that I use the following command: adduser theuser dialout Although this command ran fine and added 'theuser' to the dialout group, when logged in as theuser I still couldn't use the 'pon' command. Thanks for any help you can give me. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ISP Connection + Misc.

1998-06-14 Thread Dennis Dixon
The safe answer would be 'no', but then what initialization file do I change later when I want it to start at boot time? 5) Last, and this may seem really silly, but what is the correct way to log off and turn off the machine. I've been just turning off the computer at the 'log

XFree86

1998-06-11 Thread Dennis Dixon
3)"xbase_3.3-4.deb" should be installed first and contains "pre.inst" and "post.inst" (similar to the files from "ftp.xfree86.org"). "pre.inst" should be immediately run? 4)"xbase_3.3-4.deb" also includes the Su

XFree86 + Netscape

1998-06-09 Thread Dennis Dixon
I had previous to installing this file, or whether it matters. 3)motifnls_2.1-1.1.deb When ran "dpkg -i motifnls_2.1-1.1deb" I got the following message: "mv: .X11.tmp: No such file or directory". Also, possibly "libd11" and "libc5&q

Debian Download

1998-04-12 Thread Dennis Dixon
ly need I think is to download the appropriate ftp software so that I don't have to use Windows 95 as a middleman. Which software would accomplish this? Thanks again. - Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -