default kernel too much

1997-01-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
How can I load a kernel which doesn't check for all those things I don't have (eg, mcd, APACHE, some BIOS32 extensions...). -- terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephones: home: 818-844-6401 360 S. Euclid Ave #124, Pasadena, CA 91101 /o)\fax: 213-740-5687 http://rana.usc.edu:8376

Re: Newbie question on serial ports in Linux - please help!

1997-01-04 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "Mikael" == Mikael Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mikael> And by which device should I call my modem which is Mikael> connected to the second serial port? /dev/cua1 or Mikael> /dev/ttyS1? Where can I find out more about this? The Linux guru community seems to be

RE: Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-04 Thread winspace
In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said: > > Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? = the latest install set is hmmm how can i put this there was no ftp in a new 1.2 installation, this makes it extremely difficult to install imho based on the ne

how to unmount before turn-off

1997-01-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly, check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have done first? -- terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephones: home: 818-844-6401 360 S. Euclid Ave #124, Pasadena, CA 91101 /o)\fax: 213-740-5

ftp site problems

1997-01-04 Thread Eric Budd
I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error that says: "Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed successfully." And it won't d/l them. I'm using MSIE 3.0.

Re: Missing: resq1200.bin

1997-01-04 Thread Sven Rudolph
Greg Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sven Rudolph wrote: > > > > Gregory Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org. > > > > I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from > > ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-

Re: Install questions

1997-01-04 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrence M. Brannon) wrote: > > - dselect > - can only search for package names, not sections. > - suggestion: allow search for sections Yes! Please! I kept meaning to ask for this. > - kinda slow: any way for it to omit all of the > "Skipping desel

How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-04 Thread Walter Tautz
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper than a *quality* tape system? Just curious too hear opinions on

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
> > The system time on my Debian PC is 1hour ahead of local time. That makes > me think the timezone was not setup properly. > > What is the command for setting the time on a running system? > > Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should > I set CMOS time to

Re: this mailing list

1997-01-04 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Anybody out there? I've not received any discussion/comment > on this mailing for almost 1 month now. Has the list been > up? The list is up and running. Not a heavy list, but definitely has traffic on a daily basis. |This is OFFICIAL WRI

Re: can't load library "libXt.so.6"

1997-01-04 Thread hakan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the > following error message: > > mf: can't load library "libXt.so.6" > > I've done some poking around and from Contents found that this file is > include

Problem using Ghostscript with Mosaic

1997-01-04 Thread Bill Roman
I'm having a frustrating and probably trivial problem. I would like to print some Postscript which I generated with "Save As..." in Mosaic. It looks fine when I preview it with Ghostview, but the top and bottom of the page are clipped off when I use gs to render it for my printer. Printing starts

Re: Missing: resq1200.bin

1997-01-04 Thread Greg Vence
Sven Rudolph wrote: > > Gregory Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org. > > I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from > ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-boot/ > > You have to create an additional root disk; t

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-04 Thread Steve Dunham
"Alexander Gieg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left > > > Control keys under X windows? > > > > It's right in the man page for xmodmap: > In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2 > you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and

Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-04 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello Debianites. I've seen discussions regarding this issue before. I have a Debian machine at work which needs to be a reliable platform for Scientific documment processing in TeX/LaTeX. Given my current frustration in dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX st

Re: back on list (I think)

1997-01-04 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi. I'll answer the questions that I know. > 1. Texbin installation failed because Kpathsea could not convert > some Metafont. There was a bug report on this but I could not > find the resolution. This Texbin installation failure also > caused the latex installation to failed.

Re: kernel recompile

1997-01-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > > > >> I just tried to recompile the 2.0.27 and everything seemed to go ok. > I > > > >> rebooted and got the following errors: > > > >> > > > >> Jan 2 14:47:04 timberwolf insmod: tty_register_ldisc: wrong version > or > > > >> undefined > > > >

Re: Interviews...

1997-01-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model. I've compiled and run the Fresco96 release successfully on my debian system. Once I find some time, I plan on pr

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Roesch) writes: > Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should > I set CMOS time to GMT and use some sort of timezone info (which I don't > know how to setup)? Or?? # as root unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set i

Re: can't load library "libXt.so.6"

1997-01-04 Thread Alex Chamberlain
> I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the > following error message: > > mf: can't load library "libXt.so.6" I had exactly the same problem. The fix is to add "/usr/X11R6/lib" to the list of directories in /etc/ld.so.conf. Then run "/sbin/ldconfig" as root. This t

Re: can't load library "libXt.so.6"

1997-01-04 Thread Knight
At 10:06 AM 1/3/97 -0800, Kevin Traas wrote: >I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the >following error message: > >mf: can't load library "libXt.so.6" > >I've done some poking around and from Contents found that this file is >included in xlib6. I've both tried reinstall

OK to install across 2 HDs?

1997-01-04 Thread TandMark
Howdy! I suppose it's a silly question, but one I haven't seen mentioned in the documentation yet: I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks. hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB. Would it be possible to put /, /var, /swap, /home, and (perhaps /local or /pub, which

Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the version was 0.95r6 or something like that. I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading 1.1 -> 1.2. One reason may be that I just don't hav

Where did ctlinnd go?

1997-01-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
For reasons I won't go into, I had to purge INN and reinstall. I re-installed from unstable to find that the program that controls the config, ctlinnd, is not on the system. Was it taken out of the package? Why? - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Bugs archive

1997-01-04 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Looking at 5% of 179K (stalled) isn't an uplifting experience, when you're looking for the reported bugs of some specific package. Would it be possible to either split up the "Debian bug report logs - index by package" page (by first letter of the package) or provide a system for searching the arc