On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
> Which log is "the log"? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found
> nothing.
OK; do this:
1. Attempt a telnet session.
2. When it fails, cd to /var/log.
3. ls -ltr
The error (if logged) will be in one of the last files listed. (My guess
is da
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> I didn't know that Debian can use RedHat packages. Can dpkg do it or do
> I need something more?
It's the 'alien' package.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
> I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other
> services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
Is there a de
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware?
Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age.
Created as a "bugfixed" version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System).
Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december
> 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages
> can't configure after installation
Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran
> The base install seems to be more targeted to people with: A) a live
> internet connection, B) Debian on CD, or C) The Debian distribution on
> another filesystem or NFS. However, like I mentioned, of the people I
> deal with each day, about 5% of the Debian newbies fall into that group.
I'd sa
On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, dpk wrote:
> My linux box is my school domain (I work there) and currently when I
> send mail from it uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] as from whom it is sent by.
> However I want it to go to my mail server, ie.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re-run smailconfig. You'll have to use the --force f
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a
> .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility?
It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when
fvwm2 is installed.
However, b
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
> You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the
> device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9,
> you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc.
The problem was that the 1.x kernels could not support device names over 5
character
Mark Warburton wrote:
> I have been using a 14400 modem with debian for some time now using
> the diald system. Recently, I purchased a 28800 Microcom Deskporte
> 28.8S to speed things up a bit. Now diald will not work. I find it
> dials the number and then refuses to talk to the computer on th
Rob Hanson wrote:
> I am a bit new to the linux thing, and I seem to be having some
> trouble locating my modem. It is an internal 33.6 cardinal voice
> modem, and it uses com3 on my win95 setup.
You need to use the 'setserial' command to tell the system about your
modem. You should be able to
Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote:
>
> I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of
> Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access
> (using dselect) the local and non-free packages.
> Are they in the CD set?
No, they are not.
The 'local' set is just that; ones tha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or
> whichever the version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when
> booting from the hdimage instead of booting from the floppy.
>
> I must also admit that I got the message
>
> > ERROR: can't get floppy
Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> This is with two flavors of Slacware and with Debian. It seems to be a
> problem that my SCSI adapter has with Linux in general.
>
> On Sep 22, 6:34pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Subject: Re: System hangs on SCSI reset (AHA 1522).
> : > Problem: The system hangs
Scott Danzig wrote:
> it registers as a PS/2 type mouse, using IRQ 12.
> They all didn't work.
Did you recompile the kernel with PS/2 mouse support?
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I'm trying to run dosemu, version 0.60.3-1. However, whenever I go to
run it, I get:
=
moe:~> dosmoe:~> dos
dos: can't load library '/usr/lib/libX11.so.6'
Unknown error
dos: can't load library '/lib/libX11.so.6'
Unknown error
dos: ca
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> However, you will be able to download a package from our FTP site and
> upgrade your system to 2.0.20 .
> Installing a package takes a one-line shell command.
So, when will the kernel-package appear on the CD-ROM distributions? I
had to recompile the kernel before I cou
I need to create a custom installation boot disk to install Debian on a
system at work. This is a custom server, with a SCSI main drive on an
Adaptec 2940UW controller. Once I get the main drive supported and the
base installed, I can finish it from there.
I've heard here that the custom kernels
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Paul Christenson wrote:
> Justin Stodola wrote:
> >
> > Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand
> > side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased
> > intensity that makes anything that fall within it unreadabl
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