Hi,
we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys
(F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN
keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known
what i must write in it.
Thanks a lot,
Dany Dionne
Physics Department
Univer
At 09:56 PM 1/12/97 -0500, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
>Hello. Me again. I'm the pine/pico maintainer. Its in the non-free
>section. goto ftp.debian.org and look in
>/pub/debian/bo/non-free/binary-i386
###
Umm... I have been looking for pine & pico for a while and can't
fin
Hi folks :) 2 quick questions...
1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet,
and redial if disconnected. Is this possibl
> > To mount your DOS partition, do:
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/hda /mnt
>
> I believe this is an error. /dev/hda refers to the entire drive 0 on an
> IDE system. The partition is probably /dev/hda1. Otherwise, a much
> better explanation than I could have given!
Really. A little mista
> "Gieg" == Alexander Gieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In Debian linux, I have certian files that I down-loaded via. a
>> terminal emulator in dos, and it is on my dos partition, which
>> is hda. How do I access this drive and my flopply drive fd0 in
>> linux?
Gieg> Yo
> "Rick" == Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> If I remember correctly, I just went into
Rick> /var/lib/dpkg/status and set the status line for them to
Rick> "purge". I think I did the same with the old "base" package,
Rick> so it looks like this:
Rick>Pa
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> I think you're overlooking the Cyrix unfairly. A Cyrix
Hamish> 6x86-P166 costs about 1/3rd of the price of a Pentium 166
Hamish> here in Australia, and according to the benchmarks,
Hamish> integer performance exce
> Hi,
>
> it seems that netscape has problems when the environment variable LANG
> is set to de_DE. The postscript file produced by netscape isn't
> correct in this case
>
> e.g. With LANG variable set:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] translate
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] scale
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:15:22 EST Jean Pierre LeJacq
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'd appreciate if you could forward any information you
> receive.
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote:
>
> > Is there a document describing the default users and groups,
> > like "disk", "cdrom"? I found
> NMI is intel nomenclature for non maskable interrupt, and
> it might mean the same under linux. If so, then the kernel
> is receiving an interrupt that it doesn't know how to process.
>
> I haven't hacked kernel code for linux, so I don't know the
> terms in use. Am I right?
>
If its on a P
Hi,
I just upgraded from an old slackware distribution to Debian 1.2.
Everything seems to have gone smoothly, but I'm afraid I missed some
errors during package installtion with dselect. Does dselect log
installations, and if it does, where is the log file stored?
thank you
sincerely,
H
No, its an 8MB Thinkpad. I will happily test out any new boot floppies
that are forthcoming.
Paul
On 14-Jan-97 "Bruce Perens" wrote:
>>I think this was a low-memory problem - it's a 4MB thinkpad, right?
>Dale Scheetz and Sven Rudolph are currently working on reducing memory
>usage in the boot fl
I've mostly recovered from the flood. I think I've caught up with all of
the developer requests. I transferred my boot-disk duties over to
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .
If you have anything that requires my authorization or other action on my
part, please w
On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote:
>>As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out
>Linux for the past few months and I am impressed
>escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian
>LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine.
>
What sor
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I have avoided doing this on my CDs for technical reasons. I have been
> concerned that a label might interfere with the proper spinning of the CD.
> My blank CD supplier has a device he claims will properly center the label
> to avoid these problems, so,
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school
> > recently. It says somehting like "dazed and confused, but trying to
> > continue" and it does, but I'd like to fix this. I kno
The error message says that I either have a hardware problem, which I
doubt or a memoery problem, which I think is the case.
Shaya
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Vatiainen Heikki wrote:
> There seem to be at least two Debian packages that have some kind of memory
> test programs. There's memtest86 in
other than pine. I would like a simple curses based
reader that easily allows one to configure the mail to read
automatically into separate folders depending on
the address it came from, allows filename completion
when reading files in or when going to different folders,etc.
Preferably any configu
[cc'ing this to debian-user b/c I can't e-mail Michael directly ]
I meant the server, but again, I can't verify this as I am not running NT
or exchange server at the moment, only Linux, HP-UX, win95, win3.1, CPM,
and TI 99/4A. Pretty diverse for a 17 year old wouldn't you say. :-).
sh
>The ftp option of dselect doesn't work for the machine I'm configuring at
>work because I am behind a firewall. With the Windows program WS-FTP I
>
When setting up the FTP option in dselect, make sure you use passive
mode. That will get you around the firewall. I installed Debian 1.2.2 on
my mach
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an
> article somewhere that comparitively rates them?
This was the original message to which I responded. I apparently
offended a few of us out there. I apologize. However, please
stop s
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:12:43 CST Kendrick Myatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
> debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
> Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need I
Having updated to Debian 1.2.1, I get a new warning upon invoking gdb:
'warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function'
This doesn't cause problems for me, but maybe for someone else. Any
ideas on rectifying this?
Regards, Richard
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: thing, run a single CGI script. I've installed Apache on my system, and
: started to configure it when I though that Apache might be overkill. This
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have felt for some time that a lot of people are
> > getting the wrong idea about Linux. I don't think linux is intended
> > to be a suitable replacement OS for "computer illiterates" and other
> > people who want to put no work into their system, and I hope linux
I will be at Nassau County, Long Island, January 25 and 26, and in
Rochester N.Y. January 27-31. I'd be happy to speak with any local
Linux clubs that could put something together, or simply to hoist
a beer with the local Linux enthusiasts.
I'll be at the Linux Expo in North Carolina in April, and
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
> 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
> debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
> Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet,
> and redial if disconnected
> 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
> debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
> Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet,
> and redial if disconnected. Is this possible?
Yes, just install the
> Hi,
> we use olvwm and we search a file manager. I can't found a debian with a
> file manager like xfm. Anyone can help me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dany Dionne
> Physics Department
> Universite Laval
>
There is a package in X11 that is called 'offix', which contains a 'xfm'
like filemanag
Hi all,
I've been trying to chase this one down, but no luck so far. I've got
daild/ppp set up to connect to my ISP using dynamic addressing. Everything
works fine, except the following weird message about "Nonzero exit status"
for route when the link goes down (plus a few lines for context)"
Ja
"Bruce Perens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think all existing "silver" Debian CDs are parts of sets.
>
> Infomagic - 6 CDs.
> Pacific Hightech - January edition of their Monthly CD, also contains
> redhat updates and contrib, Java, and Linux Gazette.
> Linux Sy
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:46:46 PST Richard Sevenich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
i.org) wrote:
> Having updated to Debian 1.2.1, I get a new warning upon invoking gdb:
>
> 'warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function'
>
> This doesn't cause problems for me, but maybe for someone else. Any
>
I believe I asked this question several months back, but don't recall
if I received an answer..
Upon bootup I receive the message while it's setting up the serial
ports..
/dev/cua0 no such device
/dev/cua1 no such device
/dev/cua2 no such device
/dev/cua3 no such device
Now, I modified /etc/rc
> From: Michael Stutz
> ...
> 1. Installation. dselect has sure come a long way. But installation and
> package maintenance is still not so easy, especially for the novice or Linux
> newbie. The keystrokes are sometimes confusing, as are some of the messages
> (especially when a package is list
> From: Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
>
> > However, how are users supposed to find out about those things?
> > (Not to say your suggestion is bad, but to address how to make that
> > information easier to find.)
>
> What about a "Tip of the
> From: John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> a related question -- has there been any thought of moving the debian
> changelog entries into the Packages files themselves? when i run
> dselect and it tells me there are updates, i would like to see what
> the changelogs are before necessarily
Several people have suggested mounting the dos partition with:
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
If any text files are involved, the different newline characters in dos
and linux can cause problems. Adding the conversion option to the file
system specification in the mount command can reduc
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, James Martino wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to chase this one down, but no luck so far. I've got
> daild/ppp set up to connect to my ISP using dynamic addressing. Everything
> works fine, except the following weird message about "Nonzero exit status"
> for route wh
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:04:57 -0800 Thanh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I downloaded Perl.deb package from internet in order to
>install on my machine at home. The size of this package is more than
>2M.
>In the FAQ of Debian said , there is a program called dpkg-split in
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/
Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question?
I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for
ghostscript, but no ghostscript:(
PaChi,
michl
electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
No such thing as an atheaist on the battlefi
In reply to
On 15 Jan 1997 21:59:23 -0500 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>"Bruce Perens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I think all existing "silver" Debian CDs are parts of sets.
>>
>> Infomagic - 6 CDs.
>> Pacific Hightech - January edition of their Monthly CD, also
>cont
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:40:34 -0500 "Daniel S. Barclay"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> From: Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
>>
>> > However, how are users supposed to find out about those things?
>> > (Not to say your suggestion is bad, but
There have been a few flame wars and other "discussions" going back and
forth. Although many of the topics can certainly offer good criticisms
when taken with a shake of salt, perhaps we need something besides the
norm here. Let's not turn our wonderful list into a jokes-only list, but
I just wa
Hi,
I have been updating packages by manually ftping them from ftp.debian.org
and putting them in a directory which I have nfs exported to the other
three machines. I have then been running dpkg -i manually to install the
packages I want updated.
I was just about to write a script to do a compar
On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote:
> What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with
> what is available on my local mirror.
>
I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused
with dpkg-ftp).
Steve Greenland
--
The Mole - I think,
EXMH is a powerful X-based reader that meats all of your criterion (except
perhaps filename completion as I am not quite sure exactly what you are
talking about here).
> other than pine. I would like a simple curses based
> reader that easily allows one to configure the mail to read
> automatica
> EXMH is a powerful X-based reader that meats all of your criterion (except
> perhaps filename completion as I am not quite sure exactly what you are
> talking about here).
While I use Exmh, and I would highly recommend it myself, as far as I
can tell, it meets none of the asked for criteria.
Fundamental wrote:
>
> Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question?
>
> I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for
> ghostscript, but no ghostscript:(
>
> PaChi,
>
> michl
>
> electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
>
> N
Hello my favorite mailing list
I do this in succession within seconds of each other:
endo% date
Wed Jan 15 23:33:46 PST 1997
endo% touch hello
endo% ls -al hello
-rw-r--r-- 1 endo staff 0 Jan 16 00:26 hello
endo%
If you notice, the timestamp is almost an hour off. Any one have
On Jan 15, Walter Tautz wrote
> other than pine. I would like a simple curses based
> reader
> that easily allows one to configure the mail to read
> automatically into separate folders depending on
> the address it came from,
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you here: if you want incoming mail
On Jan 16, Bob Clark wrote
> I think you want the gs package,
Yes. The non-free one if possible, because it is better.
> actually gv is probably "better".
No. ghoscript is a PostScript interpreter, with very limited viewing
capabilities; gv and ghostview are PostScript viewers that use ghostscri
Do I have to do anything to make mc talk to the mouse? At the moment,
the mouse is just doing cut-and-paste as usual when mc is running.
Tony.
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Hi,
Has anyone else seen this before?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar cvf test.tar file
file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp # tar tvfM test.tar
-rw-r--r-- cmchow/cmchow 51200 Jan 16 17
>> What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with
>> what is available on my local mirror.
>
>I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused
>with dpkg-ftp).
Hmm, I think you're correct. It seems pretty bare bones but it will
hopefully do the tr
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you say, I am a newbie in Linux. I have installed the Debian
distribution from the floppy disks. Now, I would like to install some packages
from msdos floppy disks but dselect ask me for 'packages disk'. How do I
create it ?
Moreover, some packages ar
>
>
> I have used Debian for some time, yet seem to be a permanent newbie -
> a 'pernewbie'.
>
> I updated from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 and have one remaining glitch; lpr has a
> problem. I am hoping someone can give me the simple solution:
>
> 1. As root, an attempt to 'lpr filename' leads to this err
Hello,
we have set up a router using a whole bunch of 3c509b-ethernet-cards (finally
getting all recognized with a little kernel-patch). Now I have 2 ICN 4B-cards
in this mashine. We are running debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27.
I am unable to get the cards to load their firmware. I got a test-pro
> > "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hamish> I think you're overlooking the Cyrix unfairly. A Cyrix
> Sorry, I did indeed overlook the Cyrix. Nothing against it!
Good to hear. Thanks for the clarification.
hamish
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Orn E. Hansen wrote:
>
> What Im driving at is... for a writer, make an environment
> suitable for writers... and for an office worker set up an
> environment for an office worker... each can be based on a
> common os... but to try and create a one setup to serve
> all... will only fail
Somebody already suggested mounting the DOS partition so that Linux can see
it, but if you still want dpkg-split it's in package dpkg. The full path is
/usr/bin/dpkg-split
// Heikki
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Larry Clayton writes:
> 1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the
> keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at
> vc 1 again. But after I succeed with the password, it still won't
> give me a prompt until I do a Ctrl C. What's happening?
>
>
Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes:
[snip]
> read it. Please don't feel concerned that this list is too technical for
> the simpler questions. All of us were new to Linux and Debian at one
> time. IMHO, the best thing that a "newbie" can do is RTFM when they can
The problem with RTFM is sometime the
I use the Trident 9440AGi card with X windows. You will need the SVGA server
for X windows to drive this card. Be aware that you may have to lie to the
configuration program and state the video ram as twice the size reported by
SuperProbe. I ran into this situation when I configured Xwindows. I don
Kendrick Myatt wrote:
>
> Hi folks :) 2 quick questions...
>
> 1)What is the best (easiest) way to get a PPP connection from my
> debian box to my isp via a modem? Ideally I'd like for it to be like my
> Win95 box (stop throwing things!) and dial on demand when I need Internet,
> and red
> While I use Exmh, and I would highly recommend it myself, as far as I
> can tell, it meets none of the asked for criteria.
>
> It is Tcl/tk based, not curses, so it requires X. While it can handle
Oops, missed that one. Sorry.
Although it should be noted that MH can be used without X.
> m
Dany Dionne wrote:
>
> we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys
> (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN
> keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known
> what i must write in it.
>
Since I need F1 to 10 for
Moin Hanno!
Try shame.blackdown.org: if mean.netppl.fi is too far for
you.
Joey
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Thomas Kocourek wrote:
>Larry Clayton writes:
[snip]
> 3. When I call man, for example man 9wm, I get the response, "What
> manual page do you want from section 9wm?" So I try man 9wm.1 and get
> the same response. What is the appropriate answer to such a question?
It looks like it's interpre
Ben Gertzfield writes:
> Hi, all. Has anyone had luck putting their X-Face in the .xface file
> for cfinger? Mine has two $s in it, which seems to make cfingerd try
> to interpolate them into variables. How can I fix this?
Normally I would say use $$ or \$ instead, but I'll try...
man cfingerd -
The traffic on this list has become very heavy.
Is it possible to get this list as a digest, e.g. once a day?
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The 'stcolor' driver in Alladdin Ghostscript 4.01 works well for me on
my Epson Stylus. No 'scratching' required...
Michael
Linh Dang wrote:
>
> I've just bought a Epson Stylus 200 for $240 CAN (~ $180 US). It didn't try
> the
> color mode with Linux YET but color-printing is fine (in W95 :
Hi girls,
I really enjoyed Pete Templin's message about OS brews and, since it
didn't mention Linux in particular, I thought you folks would relate
better to this one... Sincere apologies for loading this otherwise
serious list with another joke but I think the Linux bit really gets
to the point
Yes, I've experienced this too.
: It won't dump core if file is smaller (say a few KB) or the option M
: is not used.
I've put together a set of 3 QIC-150 tapes with debian 1.2.
Reading/testing every single tape back is ok, where of course the
overlapping files are lost. Reading it back with
Hi!
I'm trying to use dwww to read the Debian documentation but
the following error message appears when I access some of
the links:
The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server.
The links done automatically by dwww seem to be fine. I suspect
that perhaps the apache server is
> Several people have suggested mounting the dos partition with:
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
>
> If any text files are involved, the different newline characters in
dos
> and linux can cause problems. Adding the conversion option to the file
> system specification in the mount comma
Hi!
I'm trying to use dwww to read the Debian documentation but
the following error message appears when I access some of
the links:
The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server.
The links done automatically by dwww seem to be fine. I suspect
that perhaps the apache server is
On 16 Jan 1997, Mathieu GUILLAUME wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : Hi there, I have need for a web server to do one and only one
> : thing, run a single CGI script. I've installed Apache on my system, and
> : started to configure it when I though that Apache might be overkill. This
> :
Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have
dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available.
Is this a bug?
Brian
Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue U
Can anybody tell me what I need to successfully upgrade from 2.0.0
to 2.0.27. When I run dpkg on the kerneld package it says every is fine
but unfortunately my sound, cd-rom and floppies stops working. Anyone?
//
D.J. Masha
J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
> between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
> have the decency to betray his country.
> - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
>
Excep
Hello everyone,
I am thinking of getting one of those multifuncion (Modem, Fax,
Answerphone, Sound ...) cards. I know of only two such cards
(1) The microConnect 34 office and
(2) The Aztech Telephony 3000
I wonder if anyone could let me know of any other and what is the pecking order
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have
> dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available.
It's in unstable.
> Is this a bug?
Yes, but has been fixed in Debian 1.2.3.
Guy
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Thomas Tomiczek wrote:
>we have set up a router using a whole bunch of 3c509b-ethernet-cards
>(finally getting all recognized with a little kernel-patch). Now I have 2
>ICN 4B-cards in this mashine. We are running debian 1.2 with kernel
>2.0.27.
>
>I am unable to get the cards
Debian 1.2.3 is released and contains eight updated packages.
Here is the entire ChangeLog (debian/stable/ChangeLog on ftp sites),
since I never posted a similiar announce for 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
--- Debian 1.2.3 Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:12:39 -0600
cron (3.0pl1-37) stable unstable; urgency=medium
*
Thanks for your mail. Lets go on...
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To: Thomas Tomiczek
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Thomas Tomiczek wrote:
>we hav
This is a test to see if I can post to the list yet.
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Guys, has this been fixed in debian?
If not, can anyone explain how to install an rpm package so I can try out
rpm within debian? ;-)
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
First my apologizes about being a little "spicy" in my respond. I don't
know which kind of meat I was eating this day... :)
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
>
> > From: Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barc
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Stuart Charlton wrote:
> I believe I asked this question several months back, but don't recall
> if I received an answer..
>
> Upon bootup I receive the message while it's setting up the serial
> ports..
>
> /dev/cua0 no such device
> /dev/cua1 no such device
> /dev/cua2 n
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anybody who wants more information on ftpmail can send me a private
> e-mail, or if you feel its appropriate I will post it on the debain-user
> list.
As long as it's not commercial software, I think it would be appropriate
to post it to the list. I
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
> Is ghostscript a package? or is this a dumb question?
>
> I searched the debian archives, found a lot of fonts and addons for
> ghostscript, but no ghostscript:(
When searching for packages, I believe that better than browsing the ftp
archive is to get t
I've heard of others having problems with getting a working version of the
installation disks and I've tried doing what was suggested in each case -
"download the image and write to a fresh floppy and try again" - however,
that hasn't been helping in my case.
The boot/rescue disk works perfectly
Victor Torrico wrote:
>
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> >
> > > Dale,
> > >
> > > My eMail From: line reads "Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". What
> > > file/files do I change to make it read the correct info which is:
> > > "Victor Torrico <[EMAIL P
I am doing a new install with debian 1.2.1 and the 1997-04-01 base diskettes.
The boot recognizes my cdrom at sr0, but I cannot mount it - finding no
appropriate block device in /dev. My guess is that I should be using the
1996-12-8 set. What is the verdict?
Regards, Richard
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> While watching the discussion concerning dselect that went on
> a while back it occured to me the deselect may not be the best
> place to implement "role based system configuration" (a setup
> based on what the intended user will be doing). It seems to
> me that dpkg should (already) support rec
I was wondering if anyone had any problems with PPPD just stopping (not
letting any traffic through). I'm online quite a bit, and it has only
been happening this last week or so... and usually after a hour or so of
"heavy" traffic, it slows WAY down, and eventually won't let anything
through. I'
I'm probably fanning the flames in regard to dselect and new user
installation problems, but being a recent convert to Debian and *nix, I
think I might have something productive to add.
When I set up my system for the first time, I didn't use dselect
at all because it seemed too com
Has anyone been able to get the pre-beta of WordPerfect for Java running.
The URL is http://officeforjava.corel.com/
Paul Serice
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:42:20 +0100 (MET) "Nathan L. Cutler"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Anybody who wants more information on ftpmail can send me a private
>> e-mail, or if you feel its appropriate I will post it on the
>debain-user
>> list.
>
>A
This was just today on java-linux list:
// Heikki
++ Start of excerpt ++
Hello Java-Linux people,
I assume that yall know this, but in case you dont, Corel's Office for
Java is available for download from ftp2.corel.com. The file is in the /
directory and is called coj.zip. I ran it both fro
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