Re:You've won $5,000! -off topic

1998-03-30 Thread Richard B. Talley
appened and be able to do something about it. They are very responsive. They nuke accounts for SPAM and they sue spammers for forgery. Just today I got a real reply from a real person at AOL about a porno promo spam I received from one of their customers. If only AT&T would be as clueful the w

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs > currently installed that have been deselected by the user. > > Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs currently installed that have been deselected by the user. Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer. Regards, Richard B. Ta

Re: Cyrix 586/100

1998-02-25 Thread Richard B. Talley
16-bit to 32-bit code. Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another c

Re: dselect: I can't get it going

1998-02-24 Thread Richard B. Talley
etc., and frankly don't > know where to begin from, so as to install the 1100+ programs it > contains. > > Any suggestions, in English or German? > I don't know this CD. Where is the file packages.gz? Are there a bunch of *.deb files in that directory? Richard B. Tall

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

1998-02-24 Thread Richard B. Talley
or add the command to lilo.conf thusly: append="fdomain=0xEFA0,11" The fdomain driver can be compiled into the kernal (recommended) or added as a module. I don't have Linux (yet) on my box with the 2920. Would someone please confirm that my research is correct and that this proce

Re: Offtopic:TXPro-II shared mem chipset/video ???

1998-02-23 Thread Richard B. Talley
orted > by Linux? Does X work ? > According to a tech I know at a major manufacturer the $1M question for most customers is if Windows 95 even supports it. The answer seems to be: "Sorta', sometimes, at least until you install a DOS based game." It's bleeding edge technology. R

Re: New Linux user

1998-02-23 Thread Richard B. Talley
t's often bundled with sound cards. Is that your setup? ISO 9660 is a standard file system for CD-ROMs; NU is just saying it sees a CD. What is the *exact* error message you are getting? Did you read the CDROM-HOWTO? Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Anyone who slaps a &#

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

1998-02-22 Thread Richard B. Talley
is thread. A little digging on DejaNews reveals that the Adaptec AHA2920 is actually a Future Domain TMC3260, and at least on RH wants an fdomain driver. Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page ap

Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

1998-02-22 Thread Richard B. Talley
says the Adaptec 2920 is supported. http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Since I have a win95 machine with a 2920 (win95 identifies it as a Future Domain card and seems happy with that identification) that I intend to add Debian to, this is of interest to me. Richard B. Talley

Re: smbfs

1998-02-20 Thread Richard B. Talley
ont know if it will or not, I cant do anything now till my friend gets > his micro$oft worship alter fixed :) He's installing OSR2 with FAT32 However, it sure helped me. I had the same problem. I learned a new Linux installation needs to be told where to find other machines. DNS or a

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 16 Feb 98 at 16:31, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > The PII says 39 Mflop/s. >I was kinda hoping something near 80 Mflop/s for the PII I'm not surprised. Everything I've read indicates the x86 series is running out room for improvements. Your findings are another confirmat

So what is ksmbfs pkg for?

1998-02-16 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 14 Feb 98 at 23:00, Remco wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Richard B. Talley wrote: > > : I can't find smbclient or smbmount anywhere on the system. I've been > : through all the FAQ's and HOWTO's. > > Try the samba package: > hamm/hamm/binary-

Re: installed ksmbfs pkg, where is smbclient

1998-02-15 Thread Richard B. Talley
On 14 Feb 98 at 23:00, Remco wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Richard B. Talley wrote: > > : I can't find smbclient or smbmount anywhere on the system. I've been > : through all the FAQ's and HOWTO's. > > Try the samba package: > hamm/hamm/binary-i386

installed ksmbfs pkg, where is smbclient

1998-02-14 Thread Richard B. Talley
win95 shares on the Linux machine.) I can't find smbclient or smbmount anywhere on the system. I've been through all the FAQ's and HOWTO's. I'm sure it's something stupid and obvious but I'm stuck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECT