Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 05:11:10 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile

Re: problem with xmkf

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:34:44 EST Dany Dionne ([EMAIL PROTECTED] val.ca) wrote: > I unable to use xmkmf with my debian box. However, on my slackware box xmkmf > run fine > If i try to use xmkmf with my debian box, i receive the error message: > > mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak > imake -DUseInstalle

Re: Problem with syslogd

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:58:29 EST Dany Dionne ([EMAIL PROTECTED] val.ca) wrote: > syslogd overloads our debian box ( pentium 100 with 32 megs ram) > The cpu load goes up to 90% because of syslogd > Anyone have idea to solve the problem? You probably have a file referenced in /etc/syslogd.conf whi

Installing identical Debian setups on multiple machines

1997-01-18 Thread Jeff Lessem
The first week in March I will be running the computers at a workshop with 25+ PC's all running Linux. All machines will be configured absolutely identical (except, of course, for a few files in /etc, /var, etc.). I will install Debian on one machine and get it setup exactly the way I want. I th

Re: was digest question answered?

1997-01-18 Thread Alexander LIST
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > A little while back somebody asked if there was a digest mode for this > list. I don't recall seeing an answer but I'd like to know this too. Yes! It was. Subscribe by sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards Alex --

XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error) on X server ":0.0"????

1997-01-18 Thread Kinglear88
Hi, everybody Thank those people for answering my previous question about jdk-common and jdk-static. With these helps, i get jdk worked well. Cheer!! This time, my question is does somebody see following error messages on X windows. What do they mean and How to get rid of them?? The situation un

Re: Debian1.2 on InfoMagic doesn't install properly

1997-01-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: > That what gets me with Debian. There seems to be happy users but for > some of us the system seems not to work well. I may be among those who > feel Debian has a long way to go and it may better to use other > distributions. I tried upgrading to 2.0.

Re: Modules (was Re: Making kernel using "make install")

1997-01-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Wright wrote: > Am I right in thinking that a module is a module is a module? > In other words, is the sound.o module always the same even though > different base addresses/IRQs etc. were configured? Nope. Each time you compile it, differences do occur. You can USE s

Re: setting up authentification for reading news

1997-01-18 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Joseph Skinner wrote: > my news server requires that I use authentification to identify myself. > > I've been told that a number of windows news readers will do this. > > Any suggestions on how to set this up under linux. Your system should already be running identd; usuall

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-18 Thread Stephen Zander
Ami Ganguli wrote: > Stephen Zander wrote: > > Linux on an 8086??? > > > > That goes to the top of my list of truely perverse activities :) > > I thought so too at first, but think of it: Linux on your palmtop, > Linux in your watch, Linux in your microwave, ... cool. > I agree. However enco

Merging Package Formats with Red Hat

1997-01-18 Thread Paul Serice
There was some talk a while back about merging package formats with Red Hat to avoid doing duplicate work. How did that turn out? Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Hamish Moffatt wrote: > [snip] > > than need. I still have two 386-40 boards in the cupboard. My XT > > is setting on the floor next to me. It gets fired up to test new > > versions of ELKS, the linux for 8086 project. It has a 3C501 card in it, > [snip] > > Linux on an 8086??? > That goes to th

Re: Fw: Novell and Linux

1997-01-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I wrote: > > Last I heard, the linux netware (ncpfs) support only works for > > bindery servers, and does not support NDS (directory services). > > Hence you can't connect to a 4.x server. Caldera have a client > > in their CND 1.0 which supports NDS, but it is commercial. Stephen wrote: > Even th

Re: Merging Package Formats with Red Hat

1997-01-18 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Paul Serice wrote: > There was some talk a while back about merging package formats with Red > Hat to avoid doing duplicate work. How did that turn out? Most developers seem to agree that .deb is a better format than .rpm for technical reasons. In addition, the debmake pac

Anyone know about AMD K5Pxxx processors?

1997-01-18 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello. I'm considering a desktop upgrade for my home, and I'm wondering if any of you know how the AMD chips perform under Linux. Specifically, I'm interested in the AMD K5P133 verses a Pentium 100 or 120. I've read that the FPU speed does not measure up, but that the card just rips with int

Anyone using a cable tuner card with Debian?

1997-01-18 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hi again. Is anyone using a cable TV tuner card with Debian? I was thinking of checking one of these out, but only if it works under Linux. Thanks. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
> > [snip] > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile > > failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On reb

Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:36:37 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13

diald question

1997-01-18 Thread Lu Jimmy Chenji
Hi all, First of all, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to this user group to guide me to solve my questions. BTW, I installed Debian-1.2 base system and want to use FTP method to download more files. So I need to use diald. Diald doc tells me that in order to use diald, I must

Re: diald question

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:30:33 +0800 Lu Jimmy Chenji ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > BTW, I installed Debian-1.2 base system and want to use FTP method > to download more files. So I need to use diald. Diald doc > tells me that in order to use diald, I must have SLIP devices in my > kernel. How ca

Debian 1.2 mini-FAQ and other info

1997-01-18 Thread John M. Rulnick
Just checking in to make new folks aware of the help available at http://ece.wpi.edu/~rulnick/GlinuX/debian-1.2-faq.html which includes stuff posted by stars like Dale Scheetz, Guy Maor, and many others! Thanks, all. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Are there any bash gurus out there? I have a couple of Q's. I have some scripts that run fine under bourne-shell on solaris, but break under bash on debian. The signal trapping doesn't seem to work. Nor does executing multiple commands on a single line separated by ";" characters. Even on the

Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?

1997-01-18 Thread woodja
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:53:54 -0800 Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Ami Ganguli wrote: >> Stephen Zander wrote: >> > Linux on an 8086??? >> > >> > That goes to the top of my list of truly perverse activities :) >> >> I thought so too at first, but think of it: Linux on your palm top,

Re: bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:54:37 +0900 "Richard G. Roberto" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have some scripts that run fine under bourne-shell on solaris, > but break under bash on debian. The signal trapping doesn't seem > to work. Nor does executing multiple commands on a single line > separated

dselect FTP error [recent 1.2 installation]

1997-01-18 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
I can use dftp just fine, but when I try to use the FTP access method in dselect, I get this error: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Checking stable/binary-i386... Net::FTP: U

Re: Two last problems...

1997-01-18 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
> From: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 1234

Re: bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
> bash$ xplaycd & ; xmixer & > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' Indeed, sh(1) will breaks in svr4, but not in bsdi. Did not spend the time to track down the verisions thought. In debian, bash(1) version 1.14.7-2, this problem is easily solved, do: $ xplaycd & xmixer & Do not know a

Re: bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Well, unfortunately, I'm not really executing xplaycd in the script. The "&" and ";" work fine on SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX and Ahmdahl bourne-shells. It also works under ash. I'm tempted to just install ash as the default shell, but I would like to run bash as my login shell. Is there any way to

Re: Inexpensive color printer experience

1997-01-18 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find Alladdin Ghostscript? Is it a commercial package or > can I download it from some place? Thanks It's in non-free, the package's name is gs-aladdin. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: 3c509 card trouble?

1997-01-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > Sometimes two or three times a day, this appears on the console (I > > extracted this from /var/log/messages and wrapped a few lines): > > > > kernel: invalid operand: > > kernel: CPU:0 > > kernel: EIP:0010:[<0017>] > > kernel:

Latex (Debian and Tetex). Was: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)

1997-01-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > > 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 pac

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-18 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "kooij" == J P D Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kooij> Regarding compiling and installing new kernels, kooij> I would like to know more about details of installing new kooij> (and older) kernels and have an overview of the process as kooij> well. IMHO this is something th

Re: Cron scripts error

1997-01-18 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Hi, after reinstalling the system recently, I have been Luis> receving this message from cron everytime it runs: [snip] Luis> Looking at the offending script, it seems that it has Luis> problems while issui

Re: Anyone know about AMD K5Pxxx processors?

1997-01-18 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
> "Syrus" == Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Syrus> Hello. I'm considering a desktop upgrade for my home, and Syrus> I'm wondering if any of you know how the AMD chips perform Syrus> under Linux. Specifically, I'm interested in the AMD Syrus> K5P133 verses a Pe

hylafax?

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
What happened to the gentleman who was going to provide Hylafax packages? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tecras and Debian 1.2

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Regarding the new disks that include the Tecra patch ... Which tree are the new disks made available under? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

where/what is libdl1 ?

1997-01-18 Thread Tom Fawcett
I tried upgrading to 1.2 this morning, and I ran into this problem. perl-base pre-depends on libdl1, which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere (none of the lib* packages look like they provide it). Dselect doesn't complain about this, but dpkg says it can't satisfy libdl1 and aborts the upgrade. I

Re: How do I get back my LINUX

1997-01-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:36:37 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core > > > > dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to > > > > reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.

can debian be installed without rescue disk

1997-01-18 Thread butch
Hi, I have made the disks and they i read them install, they mention the rescue disk, there is not one for 1.2mb allan - Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/18/97 Time: 12:16:00 PM This message was sent by Chameleon --

Linux on Tecra 720CDT

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Is anybody running pcmcia_cs on a 720CDT? Did you exclude irq 3 for the internal modem in the config.opts for pcmcia? Anybody know how to configure a particular devices irq? I've configured my 3c589-tp's in the etherdisk to use irq 11 but linux wants to use irq 3 (before I decided to exclude it)

Re: where/what is libdl1 ?

1997-01-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On 18 Jan 1997, Tom Fawcett wrote: > I tried upgrading to 1.2 this morning, and I ran into this problem. > perl-base pre-depends on libdl1, which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere > (none of the lib* packages look like they provide it). > Dselect doesn't complain about this, but dpkg says it can

Re: Another network forwarding question.

1997-01-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On 17 Jan 1997, Rob Browning wrote: >I was trying to set up a debian box as a gateway from a small 4-bit >subnet to a larger 8-bit (class C?) subnet. I have the kernel >configured properly (I think), and I have the two network interfaces >on the gateway and the routes set up. Let's assume, the 8-b

Re: Problems with 1.2 Install Disks

1997-01-18 Thread Kevin Traas
> > 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/rescu

Cogent 960C NIC problems.

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Debian 1.2 won't detect my NIC. I've got a customized kernel with networking support but it doesn't detect the card. The kernel has the PCI Tulip driver configured as a module. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAI

Re: Debian 1.2 mini-FAQ and other info

1997-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, John M. Rulnick wrote: > Just checking in to make new folks aware of the help available at > http://ece.wpi.edu/~rulnick/GlinuX/debian-1.2-faq.html On behalf of all new Debian users I would like to thank you for making the mini-FAQ. I have not looked at it yet but since get

Re: I cannot upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.0.27

1997-01-18 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Paul Christenson wrote: > > I just ftped the file kernel-image-2.0.27_1.00.deb and ran dpkg on it. > > I have never used the kernel_image packages, as I always compile my own. What do you do? Do you ftp the ssources and compile from there like on other distributions? I thought

Re: Two last problems...

1997-01-18 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > > > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > > > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > > > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing > > > in /var/lo

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-18 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Victor Torrico wrote: > > When making a kernel 2.0.27 I do the following: [clumsy procedure deleted] Actually, on Debian it´s so much nicer to install the kernel-package package. Then you cd to the linux source, "make mrproper" and "make config" just once, and then you can always rebuild your ker

Re: Running programmes under Linux

1997-01-18 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > I want to know if it's possible to run binary from other PC Unix system > under Linux, for instance, some SCO UNIX X win applications under > Linux. Do we need to build a library for that? Or even an > interpretator? You might want to try the ibcs package. I haven't tri

Re: Anyone know about AMD K5Pxxx processors?

1997-01-18 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Nathan L. Cutler wrote: > > "Syrus" == Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Syrus> Hello. I'm considering a desktop upgrade for my home, and > Syrus> I'm wondering if any of you know how the AMD chips perform > Syrus> under Linux. Specifically,

What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on this feature. Cheers. -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-18 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Pete Templin wrote: > Ah-hah! Finally, what seems to be a simple sequence of commands for > building a new kernel. But what must I do to ensure that my old kernel > will continue to work (with its modules), especially if lilo wants to > complain that the new kernel is too large? I assume that c