Re: Problem installing with Adaptec 2940 SCSI (fwd)

1997-01-08 Thread llucius
Hi Michael, > > I'm attempting a Debian installation at work on a brand-new machine. It's a > Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro with, among other things, an Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra > Wide SCSI controller, two 4GB Seagate Ultra Wide harddisks, an 8x SCSI > CD-ROM and a 3com 100mbit Ethernet card. It came wi

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread John Henders
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Kirk Hilliard wrote: >[A nice list of suggested dselect improvements, which I mostly agree >with] >In addition, I think the following improvements are important: > - Create a log file containing *everything* that is output to th

Setting up IP mascarading.

1997-01-08 Thread Shaya Potter
I've finally convinced my school to set up a linux box so that we can have all the computers in the lab be able to access the net. The way I plan to accomplish this is to set up one linux box that will dial into an ISP and run PPP. I will then have all the Win95 machines run tcp/ip and gatewa

What is debian base install 1.2?

1997-01-08 Thread James Boorn
I know it's a linux dist. But I what I want to know is what is in the base install and what versions? For example what kernel version, is XFree86 in the base install if so what version, what shells, etc.. I've looked around www.debian.org, but haven't found this info. Can some one point me to the

Re: Problem installing with Adaptec 2940 SCSI (fwd)

1997-01-08 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Stutz writes: > The Debian install disks don't seem to have the necessary driver to detect > my hard drives. They should. I have the same machine and card, and it worked for me (Debian 1.2). The card should be treated as a 2940. > I did notice a few references to the "special boot dis

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

1997-01-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, > My system (1.2, from Infomagic CDs) doesn't seem to have it. I have > the manual pages, but no such executable (either installed or listed > in the Contents file). Which specific package is it in? I think there is a dependencie missing. Hmm.. no its not missing.. hmm.. some systems mi

Re: how to upgrade from 1.1 ??

1997-01-08 Thread Zenon Fortuna
> I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to > 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet) > and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be > upgrading package by package... A few weeks ago I had also the Debian 1.

Where to get the window-managers from

1997-01-08 Thread Zenon Fortuna
I have tried to install the fvwm95_2.0.42a-6.deb, but it failed with the error in the configuration phase. The message was: grep: /etc/X11/window-managers: No such file or directory cp: /etc/X11/window-managers: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing fvwm95 (--configure) So, where to g

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

1997-01-08 Thread digger vermont
bingo5OK2tvi5.bin Description: application/pgp-message

Re: insmod parms for Intel EE Pro/10?

1997-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Matthew Wade Woodruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 card, which requires > an installable module before it is recognized. > > Does anyone know the format of the parameters that I have > to pass to this card either on the comm

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Michael Stutz
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I agree that dselect has some problems for users who are new to it. I > too have seen people who where experienced with unix and who were > mystified by dselect at first. In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface that's

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Hakan Ardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have a few idea that might work for you. I have not tested it, so I can't guarentee a thing. Exekuting "dpkg --get-selections" will give you all the package selectinons on a machine. Piping that into "dpkg --set-selections" on an other machine will set

Re: Minor help with X

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gith wrote: > > Ok, since I've just recently gotten a computer that can run X > I'm still a newbie on how it works. > I want to start up in 800x600x256 mode. SVGALIB has no problem > doing this. I can't figure out how to get X to do it. X keeps > starting in 640x480. > > This is for a Cirrus Logi

motd

1997-01-08 Thread Fundamental
Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or, failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login: prompt? thanks Im out like bell bottom trousers, michael "Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think." Unknown

smail config is trashed

1997-01-08 Thread Rob MacWilliams
I am running smail as my local mail agent and fetchmail to pull from my ISP. It was working fine, but I think I have a typo in the config file, because fetchmail -v fails with the following error: +OK message 1 (3062 octets): reading message 1 .SMTP< in.smtpd: /etc/smail/config: parse error: expe

Re: Interviews...

1997-01-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > 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. > > Th

Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm trying to get Diald cofigured on my Linux 1.2.1 box and am running into some problems I'm hoping you can help me with. Here's what I'm experiencing: I've got debugging turned on and from "/var/log/messages" I'm finding the following: (I'm happy with the first two lines; however, I think t

Re: Where is fdos?

1997-01-08 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> I have trouble in finding fdos. I want to instal dosemu Johann> and fdos is recommend. In more than one mirror site's Johann> ls-lr-file there is a reference to fdos in the Johann> rex/binary-386/misc directory, b

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Paul Christenson
On 7 Jan 1997, John Henders wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a really radical suggestion, and that is to split off the > installation process from dselect. I agree.. However, how about automatically installing the first round of "stuff" without

Re: how to upgrade from 1.1 ??

1997-01-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to > 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet) > and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be > upgrading package by packa

Re: Setting up IP mascarading.

1997-01-08 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "Shaya" == Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaya> I've finally convinced my school to set up a linux box so Shaya> that we can have all the computers in the lab be able to Shaya> access the net. The way I plan to accomplish this is to Shaya> set up one linux box tha

Re: Problem with 3c509b

1997-01-08 Thread Tim Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Thomas, This is dealt with, to some extent at least, by the Ethernet-HOWTO. By default, the linux kernel only looks for one ethernet card. You need to tell the kernel explicitly to look for each of the additional cards. The append entry you quote is telling th

Re: debian sendmail

1997-01-08 Thread Tim Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Timothy, On Jan 7, 3:37pm, Timothy Phan wrote: > Subject: debian sendmail > Hi, > > Can anyone here tell me why the > sendmail -bd -q90m > take about 1 to 2 minutes to complete? Did I not specify > hostname/NIS/whatnot correctly, or something? Send

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Michael Stutz wrote: > In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface > that's not based on the window/pulldown menu interface that (I believe) is I totally agree with you. What often confuses me about dselect is that it sometimes when running into d

Re: motd

1997-01-08 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or, How about editing /etc/issue? (and issue.net, which I think is a symlink to issue in Debian) > failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login: /etc/motd ? I thin

ttyS0 timeout errors....

1997-01-08 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm in the process of configuring a box here in my home in preparation for a drop-in replacement of another box (running RedHat...) at a remote location. The RedHat box is simply acting as a router between an ethernet LAN and a dedicated (no modems) CSLIP connection to an ISP. Anyway, the pro

Re: Curious thing about 1.1 -> 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-08 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > While I'm at it, XF86Config -- I've notice this odd behavior while configuring > X windows, if I specify the memory of the video card as it should be, the > screen is all screwed up for all resolutions. However, if I specify the memory > at twice what it is, then

Re: motd

1997-01-08 Thread Shaya Potter
modify /etc/issue On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > > Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or, > failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login: > prompt? > > thanks > > > Im out like bell bottom trousers, > > michael > > > "Democ

Radius 2.0

1997-01-08 Thread Fundamental
anyone got this baby working with shadow, i get the following error(s) [snip] /root/radius/src/make.inc:52: warning: overriding commands for target `menu.o' /root/radius/src/make.inc:52: warning: ignoring old commands for target `menu.o' /root/radius/src/make.inc:54: warning: overriding commands

Sever supported trident 96xx ?

1997-01-08 Thread HongYun Kim
I got a devian version linux last week. But it doesn't support trident chipset(96xx). Therefore I can't use X. Where can I get a server that support trident chipset(96xx)? I believ that you will help me. Good luck ! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: cron's insistence on dselect mail stuff

1997-01-08 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 11:51:34 EST JD Thomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Just a question - > > Will cron ever relent without being forced? > > IMHO, cron really doesn't require, recommend or suggest, > > it demands! > > No, it recommends.

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Adam Shand
>I have a really radical suggestion, and that is to split off the >installation process from dselect. Have a dinstall and rename dselect to >dmanager or something. Then make dinstall a much simpler, less >featureful tool, that offers to install groups of packages to fit >various usages. One of my f

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Martin Konold
On 7 Jan 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Why not just pop /usr and /home on one machine and NFS mount them out > to all the other boxes? There a simple performance reason not to use nfs that extensively, I think! A free Anrew File System like setup would be nice to deal with these kind of nfs per

Re: debian sendmail

1997-01-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 15:37:04 CST Timothy Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone here tell me why the > sendmail -bd -q90m > take about 1 to 2 minutes to complete? Did I not specify > hostname/NIS/whatnot correctly, or something? Difficult to guess. It could be. You can see wher

Re: motd

1997-01-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:55:05 +1100 Fundamental ([EMAIL PROTECTED] et) wrote: > Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or, > failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login: > prompt? /etc/issue contains the banner before someone gets logged in. /et

Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:09:27 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've got debugging turned on and from "/var/log/messages" I'm finding the > following: (I'm happy with the first two lines; however, I think the > following two are a problem> > > local IP address a.b.c.y > remote I

Debian Package files ??????

1997-01-08 Thread John Hoffmann
This may sound like a really dumb question and the answer is probably stored somewhere in a maze of 2meg readme files, but why are all the packages files in the msdos-i386 only 1k? Are these the files I need to download to install these packages How can all the X-Windows files be 1k for debia

Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware and two versions of red-hat. All in all I'm very pleased with Debian (and I am especially attracted by debian's general design philosophies), however

Re: motd

1997-01-08 Thread Fundamental
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Thanks everyone, the /etc/issue is what i was after, thanks:) SaHua michael Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail t

Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread Kevin Traas
> From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House? > Date: Tuesday, January 07, 1997 7:39 PM > > > On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:09:27 PST "Kevin Traas" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Developers, > > guess. Since we seem to be picking on dselect's user interface again, > > I wish it had more "emacs-like" key bindings, but it's a marvelous > > tool as it is, IMHO. > > PLEASE, please, please do not confront people with 'emacs-

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Pete Templin
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Martin Konold wrote: > Yes, a very good point. I am offering a host for a mailing list. > We should first figure out how it should work and implement it > afterwards. There is definetelly a need for a improved dselect. > > Actually why is the maintainer so silent? Perhaps yo

kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Fundamental
Okay ive compiled my new kernel, made it bootable from a kickstart disk and tried booting - problem, i get a kernel panic. So i just stuck in my old 2.0.0 kickstart and she booted up fine. Im pretty sure the problem is that the new kernel doesnt know which partition to load at boot time, i *thin

Re: cron's insistence on dselect mail stuff

1997-01-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:24:58 EST "Daniel S. Barclay" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 11:51:34 EST JD Thomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > Just a question - > > > Will cron ever relent without being forced? > > >

Re: motd

1997-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
> Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? By the message before the login prompt, I assume you mean the contents of /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net? Just edit the files.. The second can be done if you have shadow passwords installed, by editing /etc/login.def: > or, > fa

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
> List of problems: You should probably report some of these as bugs using the bug tracking system. > - DOSEMU suggest fdos but cannot find it. > - xemeraldia, angband, dungeon and mikmod expected a libc5 greater than the > one I apparently had (>=5.4.17-1 I think) I've fixed xemeraldia. Versi

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Paul Seelig
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over the last year, I've done many installations and upgrades of > debian using dselect. During that time, I've learned how to use it -- > and I find it quite comfortable use. What you are used to is easy, I > guess. Since we seem to be picking on d

Re: kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: > I know i can fix this by running rdev, but how do i run an rdev on a > kernel that wont boot? before writing the new kernel to disk or running lilo on it go into /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot or some similar path (can't remember exactly what it is at the

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I don't use emacs, but to me dselect seems to be already too > emacs-oriented. For example, searching for a package is done with /, > but how do you repeat the search? I haven't studied the help > in much detail, but for me the answer is "I don't know" p

Re: kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Fundamental
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Ryan Shaw wrote: ryans >before writing the new kernel to disk or running lilo on it go into ryans >/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot or some similar path (can't remember exactly ryans >what it is at the moment) and find the zImage file. then do a `rdev ryans >zImage' to see which

xdm woes

1997-01-08 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-- Forwarded message -- I just finished a fresh install of 1.2, and things seem to be fine for me except that xdm says it starts up, xdm does appear in a ps display, but it never opens up a display. startx and xinit both fire up the xserver. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-08 Thread R
Hi all, I am new to Linux. after studied various different distributions I decided to go with Debian. Having spent two days playing with it, now I have to ask for help :( I just bought a PC and download the 6 disks for base systems (rescue, devie, and base14-1 thru base14-4) and made two copies

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread George Bonser
In my opinion, dselect is the single biggest stumbling block standing in the way of greater acceptance of Debian linux. I have seen new users become so frustrated with it that they have thrown the CD against a wall. -- George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: xterm color

1997-01-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Guy Maor wrote: > > Instructions for turning on recognition of the color change escape > sequences is in the xterm man page. Yes indeed. And that means you need this resource line: XTerm*customization: -color in your /etc/X11/Xresources file or your user Xresource file if you don't wan

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > List of problems: > > You should probably report some of these as bugs using the bug tracking > system. > I figured I would get some feedback first, as due to the non-standard method of grabbing the 1.2.1 tree I figured some of the problems were due to my inco

Once more: Installation failure

1997-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, I posted this message last week. Because I didn't got any answer I try to give more details in the end of my posting. I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem see

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > In my opinion, dselect is the single biggest stumbling block standing in the > way of greater acceptance of Debian linux. > > I have seen new users become so frustrated with it that they have thrown the > CD against a wall. That doesn't mean anything

1.2.0 installation problems

1997-01-08 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello everyone, I just moved to debian from another distribution (DLD). I got it from the December 1996 Developers Ressource of InfoMagic (it's Debian 1.2.0, I think). I really liked the way it installs (though it could work without floppies like RedHat or my older distribution - maybe in a fu

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
Problems I have seen with dselect: causes serial port overruns, don't know if dpkg does too. any options from the main menu that causes the cdrom to be read must be selected twice in order for it to work. it scans each possible package and determines its state when installing new packages, resu

Re: 1.2.0 installation problems

1997-01-08 Thread Christopher George Rhodes
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just moved to debian from another distribution (DLD). I got it from the > December 1996 Developers Ressource of InfoMagic (it's Debian 1.2.0, I think). > I really liked the way it installs (though it could work without

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-08 Thread Paul Serice
> > 1) From my tribulations with JDK, I do believe jdk-common and jdk-static > > depend on each other. Thus, neither can be installed. > > Try installing them both at the same time: > # dpkg -i jdk-common.deb jdk-static.deb Wow, that installed them alright! Now, I'm still have problems. I've

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Regarding the problem of angband depending on a later version of libc than is there in the stable directory: angband is in the non-free area, and was released after the developer (yours truly) moved over to the newer library in the unstable section. The angband release, then, is su

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-08 Thread ugs
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > ugs wrote: > > > > 2) When I forced the issue, I got an error similar to the one Joey Hess > > reported earlier with 1.0.2.2: > > > > Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like appletviewer, javac, > > etc, I get this error: > > > > [EMAIL PRO

Re: A few questions.

1997-01-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, About question 2: >>"Jon" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> 2) I am use to directly building slackware kernals. Will Jon> something like make config; make; make zImage; make zlilo; make Jon> modules; make modules_install break any dependancy info? I Jon> noticed make-kpkg; what o

Re: kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hmm, /dev/sda1. Well, I wonder if the scsi modules have been compiled in the new kernel? You may have a problem otherwise. manoj -- "Oh God ... I'm *shot* ... Hey ... *wait* a second ... I'm *okay* ... Wow! This is *cool! Bullets don't hurt me!" Superboy, #2 of SUPERBOY THE

Re: A few questions.

1997-01-08 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've switched from slackware to debian. I have a few questions > that I'd appreciate any help with. > > 1) What controls what machines have NFS access to linux machines? >My reading of the manual is that it depends on /etc/exports. Is >this

re: LI???

1997-01-08 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi, On the second of Jan Kendrick wrote .. >When I boot my machine, I get LI and a blinking cursor, and it locks up. >The machine boots fine from floppy, though. My system is set up with >/dev/hdb1 as the / slice, booting from there. It gave me a warning when I >did that, but I just ignored it

zmailer cq. qmail

1997-01-08 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Are there any people out there using zmailer or qmail with Debian 1.2 ? Will there be a Debian package for one of them? // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // -- Never make any mistaeks -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Cirrus Logic GP5446 display card

1997-01-08 Thread C . J . Lawson
Hi again, I have a Cirrus Logic GP5446 (2MB) which I recently bought. (I seem to have little luck with display cards. The last one I had was an Avance logic one which was unsupported for ages). Well, I tried to install X last night and found that it is unsupported or so I am told by "X -pr

Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread Bob Clark
Is the nameserver daemon "named" running? Is /etc/resolv.conf setup with your ISP domain name and DNS addresses? Kevin Traas wrote: > > I'm trying to get Diald cofigured on my Linux 1.2.1 box and am running into > some problems I'm hoping you can help me with. > > Here's what I'm experienc

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-08 Thread Lawrence Chim
Paul Serice wrote: > > > > 1) From my tribulations with JDK, I do believe jdk-common and jdk-static > > > depend on each other. Thus, neither can be installed. > > > > Try installing them both at the same time: > > # dpkg -i jdk-common.deb jdk-static.deb > > Wow, that installed them alright! >

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Ben Gertzfield scripsit: |Ick. :) Yes, that would be slow on a slow net. I've heard wonderful |things about a Linux distribution out there that will cache NFS files |on a local hard drive, but I forget which it is. There must be some |way to to it and save bandwidth... Well, think about it from a

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Dale Scheetz scripsit: |Wow! Bet that keeps you busy ;-) Less than you would think, honest, I am doing a PhD at the same time ;-) |You might want to check out DoList in the upgrades directory. This script |runs dpkg from a list of packages that have been properly ordered to |resolve the dependenc

Modprobe. Two of a kind ?

1997-01-08 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
Is it possible to load two ne.o modules with different io= options ? This computer is multihomed to two ethernets. I like to be able to configure the interfaces like this: eth0 with ne.o io=0x240 , interupt 15 and eth1 with ne.o io=0x280 , interupt 12 Already know how to do it

How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? -- __ _Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Proudly running Linux 2.0.27 t

xemacs, vm and the "FROM"adress line?

1997-01-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hi, does somebody know, how to convince xemacs to use another "From" line when genrating mail. Writing mails with the command line "mail" ends up with the correct adress line: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Luetjens) Compoing emails with xemacs ends up in > From: Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: stablize a debian release

1997-01-08 Thread tomk
Timothy Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems > with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have > been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to > me that all the problems I've encountered could have been eas

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Philippe Strauss
Pete Templin wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Martin Konold wrote: > > > Actually why is the maintainer so silent? > > Perhaps you would be silent if discussions about your package were turning > into some semi-serious bash N trash sessions. I'd like to offer my two > cents about Debian and dsele

Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes

1997-01-08 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Martin Konold scripsit: |A free Anrew File System like setup would be nice to deal with these kind |of nfs perfomrance problems. I don't know, I have never used it, and it doesn't seem to be very widespread. |We do use a commercial tool called venus for administering our linux |Ppro Cluster toge

X11 and keymaps on debian 1.2

1997-01-08 Thread Christian Lynbech
I've just upgraded from 1.1.something to 1.2 and I have a problem in getting a usable keymap. Before upgrading, there was no problem. The machine booted up with danish keyboard as expected and this was repected also after starting X. However now, even though it still boots up nicely with a danish

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? Without Incoming and WebPages, 1018149 Kbytes for the whole thing. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

Re: Debian Package files ??????

1997-01-08 Thread Hakan Ardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, John Hoffmann wrote: > This may sound like a really dumb question and the answer is probably > stored somewhere in a maze of 2meg readme files, but why are all the > packages files in the msdos-i386 only 1k? Are these the files I need to We

Re: modules and module dependency information

1997-01-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> David B. Teague wrote: >> Hi ... >> >> I have asked individuals this question and I have posted it, >> with RTFM as the answer. Polite answers, but ... I have done >> the RTFM on all module issues: insmod,

Where to get a Debian CD in Germany

1997-01-08 Thread Roland Haag
Hi, I want to buy a Debian CD - in Germany. If a (complete) Debian distributions happens to be on any other Linux distribution, that's fine too. For several reasons I do not want to order it abroad. Ciao Roland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Re: Dot-matrix printers

1997-01-08 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
"Alexander Gieg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, again, how can I make my printer work? It's connected. It's > online. It's working in Windows. It's working in DOS. I've the > packages installed. So? :-) > Short answer: RTFM. (Sorry, I could not control myself) Real answer: the answer depend

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> Pressing / and entering the same search just takes you Hamish> back to the first result again. This is counter-intuitive Hamish> for users of vi, less etc. Lynx uses "n" to repeat a Hamish> search but dselect do

Linuxconf

1997-01-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Will Linuxconf be integrated into Debian Linux? I just got a copy, and am going to see what it is this week. -- __ _Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Portland, OR, USA / /_

Colour inkjet printers

1997-01-08 Thread Kevin Scott
I am currently considering the purchase of a colour inkjet printer, for text and graphics printing (including images from Photo-CD). I would be interested in experiences people have had in using them with Debian - the models I am currently interested in are the Epson Stylus 500 and Stylus Pro

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Gertjan Klein
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Martin Konold wrote: >> Actually why is the maintainer so silent? > Perhaps you would be silent if discussions about your package were turning > into some semi-serious bash N trash sessions. If s/he (or you) interprets at least

Re: Help: problem with booting from HD

1997-01-08 Thread Gertjan Klein
R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i made > four primary partition (500mb for linux native, 500mb for linux native, > 64mb for linux swap, and 900somethinb mb for DOS-32 bit) and marked all > but the linux swap as bootable. Install went thru without problem. This is a serious error: only _one_

Re: xterm color

1997-01-08 Thread Brian C. White
> > Instructions for turning on recognition of the color change escape > > sequences is in the xterm man page. > > Yes indeed. And that means you need this resource line: > > XTerm*customization: -color > > in your /etc/X11/Xresources file or your user Xresource file > if you don't want

Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread edwalter
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > Funny I didn't read anything about removing options And believe > me, I've been RTFM'ing for too many hours over this I've read every > man page, FAQ, HOWTO, and mini-HOWTO I could find > > But thanks for the info. I'll give your sugg

Re: What is debian base install 1.2?

1997-01-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, James Boorn wrote: > I know it's a linux dist. > But I what I want to know is what is in the base install and what versions? > For example what kernel version, is XFree86 in the base install if so > what version, what shells, etc.. The base install is a minimal set of packages

Re: Colour inkjet printers

1997-01-08 Thread Brian C. White
> I am currently considering the purchase of a colour inkjet printer, > for text and graphics printing (including images from Photo-CD). I > would be interested in experiences people have had in using them with > Debian - the models I am currently interested in are the Epson Stylus > 500 and Stylus

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-08 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know how do I go about getting a high speed connection, the cost of all this and process of s

Re: Sever supported trident 96xx ?

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
HongYun Kim wrote: > > I got a devian version linux last week. But it doesn't support trident > chipset(96xx). > Therefore I can't use X. > Where can I get a server that support trident chipset(96xx)? > I believ that you will help me. > Good luck ! > Well, you can also use the SVGA server! Make

Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: > > I'm trying to get Diald cofigured on my Linux 1.2.1 box and am running into > some problems I'm hoping you can help me with. > > Here's what I'm experiencing: > > I've got debugging turned on and from "/var/log/messages" I'm finding the > following: (I'm happy with the

Re: ttyS0 timeout errors....

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin Traas wrote: > > I'm in the process of configuring a box here in my home in preparation for > a drop-in replacement of another box (running RedHat...) at a > remote location. > > The RedHat box is simply acting as a router between an ethernet LAN and a > dedicated (no modems) CSLIP conn

Re: kernel 2.0.27

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Fundamental wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Ryan Shaw wrote: > > ryans >before writing the new kernel to disk or running lilo on it go into > ryans >/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot or some similar path (can't remember > exactly > ryans >what it is at the moment) and find the zImage file. then do a

Re: Debian Package files ??????

1997-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
John Hoffmann wrote: > > This may sound like a really dumb question and the answer is probably > stored somewhere in a maze of 2meg readme files, but why are all the > packages files in the msdos-i386 only 1k? Are these the files I need > to download to install these packages How can all the X

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