> According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site,
> dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it).
> I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or
> man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it did
Thanks for the tips.
Cheers,
Jim
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote:
> IP masquerading compiled into the kernel
> pppd
> diald
>
> If you'll look under the HOWTO index at the Linux Documentation Project
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/
>
> you'll find howto's for all of these progra
Hi,
I got these error messages today when I was gunzipping a 115 MBytes file
(pretty processor and disk intensive):
scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 30 0a fe 00
00 90 00
Current error sd08:16: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read er
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote:
> I'll try this again, i have as yet been unable to post to this list.
>
> I have smail delivering local mail, i have fetchmail getting mail
> from my pop account. How do i get outgoing mail to be delivered when i
> dial up? what is the best
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> Seriously, though: Is there a way (with procmail or other) that
> I can automatically forward all email with non-existant
> Reply-To: addresses to /dev/null? That would probably halve the
> amount of spam I get.
Most of the spam seems to come from a h
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote:
> OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of
> my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk,
> now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this?
Uh! I do not seem to remember what
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
> >
> > Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
> > I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
> > That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit sup
I finally got all my tcp/ip software up and running but can't figure
out what to do with mail. What software do I need for mail over POP3
and a normal e-mail account from an ISP? Is there any kind of
documentation for this?
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
>
> The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter.
>
> Where'd it go?
>
> --Zachary
The elm package I have has it, but why use it. It really does not
work well enough to be usefull. Procmail is better and really quite
easy to set u
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I recently upgraded to 1.3 and replaced popclient with fetchmail. When I
> try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when attempting to retrieve
> mail, I get the error message:
>
> reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) fa
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Try using the loopback 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. Pppd will run ip-up and
> ip-down scripts for you, so that you can figure out the IP number and
> broadcast it to some outside site that you would like to be able to call
> you back.
Several suggestions hav
> I recently upgraded to 1.3 and replaced popclient with fetchmail. When I
> try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when attempting to retrieve
> mail, I get the error message:
>
> reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error
Hi,
You just need to have
127.0.0.1 MyBox localhost
And you don't need 0.0.0, or at least I havn't had a problem without one.:)
David
On 19-Jun-97 Dale Scheetz wrote:
My ppp connection is to an ISP that is willing to provide me with a
"static" IP address, allowing me to be the s
On 19 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>
> Bob> here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file:
>
> Bob> poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD
>
> Try adding an `mda' line to it. Here's what I use:
poll mail.provider.com
protocol pop3
username myusername
password MYPASSWD
mda
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Several suggestions have indicated that 0.0.0.0 be used for a "dummy" full
> name.
>
> I guess my question at this point is, "What purpose is served by the line:
>
> 199.44.34.24dwarf.polaris.net dwarf
>
> in /etc/hosts?"
>
> If I don'
Slightly off topic .. but is still just as important.
I saw this post in the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup and it was
something that I personally feel that others should look at. Mail the
Developers since this post was directed somewhat towards them.
Chad D. Zimmerman
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"Kharaghani, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I am trying to install Debian OS on my PC. I have two other OSes on my
>computer with a boot manager (OS/2).
>How can I install Debian safely?
Well, on my similar system I installed LOADLIN on my DOS partition,
and just boot DOS, then run LINUX.BAT. Boot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Does anybody know how I can configure my network in order to let the
> users know their disk quotas? The problem is that the quota command
> doesn't show the quota values, it only shows them when the user is logged
> on the server.
You need to run the rquotad on the se
I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The
next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of
3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other
netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the
*tgz fil
Im new to Linux and i was wondering how to access the floppy drive... I
also have windows95 running on another hard drive and i need to know how to
access files off of that hard drive. Help?
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Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see
files that the user running Netscape has access to, and *only* if it
already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine,
which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be
of use for people would be
FYI, I am running an ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV 8meg card (3D Rage
II-based) and it works very nicely (although the TV output doesn't yet
work under Linux.)
Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Tempsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > Re: R. Chris
My concern was for someone running Netscape as root.
Also, systems earlier than 1.3 are not likely to have shadow installed but
I know that some might.
And thirdly, since the linux versions that have been "released" are
unsupported, it is possible that there will not be patched "releases" of
the
> Im new to Linux and i was wondering how to access the floppy drive... I
> also have windows95 running on another hard drive and i need to know how to
> access files off of that hard drive. Help?
>
There is a very usefull command "mount" (check out man mount")
To access device (floppy drive,
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> My concern was for someone running Netscape as root.
>
Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be
using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the
top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *ne
> Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be
> using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the
> top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe
> I overlooked some use?
>
> Root should really only be used to do specific admini
On Jun 19, Samuel J. MacDowell wrote
> Ave !
>
> When installing the kernel-source-2.0.27.deb
> dpkg complain about something was break.
>
> Now when I try 'dselect' to remove it I get
> the following message:
> dpkg: error processing kernel-source-2.0.27 (--remove)
> Package is in a ver
> Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be
> using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the
> top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe
> I overlooked some use?
I use a browser as root to check whats happening with my r
Hi,
After upgrading the Linux server in our Macintosh network to Debian 1.3,
the atalkd daemon in netatalk won't load, but returns the error:
socket: Invalid argument
AppleTalk worked fine before. Anyone else seen/fixed this?
Scott
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On Jun 19, John M. Rulnick wrote
> Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at
> /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38.
Hi,
did you install perl ? Or did you stick with the perl which comes with
the installation disks and didn't install the rest of perl ?
I have
dpkg -s
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After that you just execute as *root* :
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
You can also use the programs in the mtools package if you just want
to access dos disks. You will also need to add yourself to the floppy
group (see "man adduser") first.
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I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having
to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid
all the 'Permission denied' messages.
BG
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The problem is that the script needs Long.pm, which (I think), is a Perl
script. Install Perl from interpreters and it should be fine.
I think this is a bug, because perl is big and not many people esp newbies
want it or need it, just to install man, which shoudl be the first thing
any newbie inst
>
> Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > After that you just execute as *root* :
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> You can also use the programs in the mtools package if you just want
> to access dos disks. You will also need to add yourself to the floppy
> group (see "man add
On Jun 20, BG Lim wrote
> I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having
> to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid
> all the 'Permission denied' messages.
For some months after I got Linux installed until I knew better, I had
my own acco
My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The
Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is
the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system)
but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How can i fix it
>
> My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The
> Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is
> the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system)
> but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How c
"Carl Flippin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I finally got all my tcp/ip software up and running but can't figure
> out what to do with mail. What software do I need for mail over POP3
> and a normal e-mail account from an ISP? Is there any kind of
> documentation for this?
Some of it's covere
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote:
>>Have you tried to run texconfig?
>
>Yup. It seems to quit normally, but when I use "script" I get some
>error-messages:
>
> kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found.
> texhash: global Kpathsea configurarion file texmf.cnf not found.
>
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two it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than
a week since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have
been updated. Is something wrong or is this normal?
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On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see
> files that the user running Netscape has access to, and *only* if it
> already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine,
> which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only
Hi!
> Hmmm. I'm not exactly new to Linux, though I feel like it sometimes, and I
> had
> trouble with almost this exact problem. I was trying to do Debian 1.2 and
> Debian 1.3 rather than Red Hat and Debian 1.3, and I was using separate
> physical drives, but I think the problem is the same. T
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Lukas Nellen wrote:
> You need to run the rquotad on the server to be able to query quotas for
> NFS-mounted filesystems. I patched /etc/init.d/quota to run rpc.rquotad
> if you export filesystems and at the same time some filesystems have
> quotas. I don't check, though, that
Hello,
To access a drive in Linux (or any other Un*x for that matter) you have to
mount the device at a mount point in the existing file system. To mount my
DOS partition i use this:
mount /dev/hda2 /dos -t msdos
^ ^^
| |Refers to the file system
The problem of "relaying" can be solved by restricting access to the local
subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am
traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't
want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I can hook up via
ethernet or m
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Jim Michael wrote:
> Before I start loading a lot of packages on my new system I would like to
> describe my setup and see what my options are WRT internetworking my
> local network:
>
> 1 486-66 Linux box (Debian 1.2)
> 1 P133 Win95 box
In addition to the other suggestion
Hello!
I'm looking for two programs: First, I need a program to
make foils (I tried LaTeX/foiltex but writing foils with
LaTeX is very difficult and takes a lot of time). Second,
I need a program to make scientific plots. Gnuplot doesn't
produce very nice graphs and formatting of minor ticks is
>From our local linux mailing list:
I have most of them fixed, but one annoying thing
still is there. When netscape calls a "helper",
it uses the syntax
((somecommand somefile); rm somefile )&
but the new bash gets confused on the parentheses
with the semicolon.
I think redirecting /bin/s
> Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone
> have a solution?
Use the netscape installer package in contrib.
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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote:
> > Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be
> > using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the
> > top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe
> > I overlooked some use?
>
> I use
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, AUBORD Alain wrote:
> This is not surprising. The encrypted PDF use non public algorithm with a
> secret key from Adobe. Unlicensed PDF writer cannot decode it.
The problem is that even if I save the file as postscript, using the
acroread package (I suppose it is licensed sin
In your email to me, Clint Adams, you wrote:
>
> > Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone
> > have a solution?
>
> Use the netscape installer package in contrib.
It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have
to be purged and re-installed?
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, David R Baker wrote:
> I am a relatively new subscriber to this list. For the 1st week or
> two it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than
> a week since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have
> been updated. Is something wrong or is this
On 19 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding
> >
> > What does the 'cat >' part do?
>
> That's what I meant. The cat > was the result of a failure to cut and
> paste properly...
Also, Randy's question was about an IP Masquerading setup. He almost
cert
> Has anybody got this emulator working? All i get when i try and
> boot something is a bunch of '@' signs filling up the screen and nothing
> after that. I'm running 1.3, kernel 2.0.29, and have a matrox if it's
> pertinent.
I use it without any problems. What apple disk are you using?
> I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The
> next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of
> 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other
> netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the
>
> They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's
> server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and
> use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS
> exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on
> sep
Sounds like you need to recreate the filesystem on the SCSI disk, and do
a badblock check.. I had a Quantum Empire drive that was giving me
problems like this ... I created a filesystem and ran a bad block check,
and I haven't seen a media error since. Doing the bad blocks check on a
2 gig drive a
> It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have
> to be purged and re-installed?
Yes. There seems to be no mechanism for upgraded versions to compensate
for the absence of the patch in previous ones.
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>
> According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site,
> dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it).
> I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or
> man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) b
Hi,
recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are
running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27).
Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120
sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the
connection between Tower and laptop seems to be
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 07:50:01AM +1000, John Foster wrote:
> This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give
> me a pointer in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for
> bulk mailouts.
>
> I get a lot of mail in postmaste
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
> and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher
> density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are
> left) annnouce
>
> (--) there is no mo
Last summer I wrote a deb file browser for emacs. I'm sure it will be
made obsolete by the deity project but it may be of use to some people
until then. Apparently MC has similar functionality.
Somewhere along the way deb-view stopped differentiating between new and
old style deb files on Debia
I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors
doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24%
non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run
it I get this error:
bash# defrag /dev/sda1
defrag 0.61
defrag: bad magic number in
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote:
> I suppose you have already run the 'xf86config'. Have you set
> everything that it asks for? In a machine I installed a friend of
> mine forgot to set the mouse under X and it didn't worked without the
> mouse installed... Things like this can hap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Ok. I know that. I'm starting rpc.rquotad in my netstd_misc script (on
> the server), so it is not the problem... When I mount the filesystems on
> the clients, via NFS too, directly in the fstab (not in AMD) the quotas
> are shown normaly (if I didn't have started the
> Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config.
>
> A few days ago i got rid of my old 15" monitor and got a 17", so I made a
> backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config.
>
> It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card,
> monitor (filled
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:
> I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors
> doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24%
> non-contiguous
I've seen a few people state their fragmentation percent. How do you get
this number?
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Paul Wade wrote:
>
> The problem of "relaying" can be solved by restricting access to the local
> subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am
> traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't
> want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I ca
At 04:29 PM 6/20/97 +0200, Gerd Bavendiek wrote:
>recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are
>running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27).
>Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120
>sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the
>
I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message:
eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01
What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes
out becaude my ethernet "wd" driver is set as module ???
Any ideas ??
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I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but
nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available.
Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running.
So where is it.
Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing "startx" works !
Any help please.
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, schaffer wrote:
>
> I have tried unsuccessfully tried several versions of Debian on machines
> with Adaptec 2x4x SCSI adapters. I haven't gotten around yet to see how
> the kernel is actually configured, but on bootup it recognizes the adapter
> and tries to initialise it en
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote:
> OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of
> my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk,
> now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this?
This sounds very much like the bi
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote:
> I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message:
>
> eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01
>
> What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes
> out becaude my ethernet "wd" driver is set as module ???
>
>
> > next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of
> > 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other
> > netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the
> > *tgz file from netscape
> Do you have any cron jobs that make mod
Tried to install debian 1.3 from the TRI-Linux CD.
At some point during Linux loading, the system reboots and enters
an infinite cycle.
I have an Adaptec 2940U and tried to pass "aic7xxx=no_reset"
to the kernel, but I don't know what the kernel name is!
I tried:
boot: default aic7xxx=no_reset
boo
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, Randy's question was about an IP Masquerading setup. He almost
> certainly doesn't want ip_forwarding turned on.
Hmm. I'm not sure but I think as far as the kernel is concerned
masquerading may count as a form of forwarding. All I do know is th
> Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config.
> A few days ago i got rid of my old 15" monitor and got a 17", so I made a
> backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config.
> It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card,
> monitor (filled in
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote:
> I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but
> nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available.
> Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running.
> So where is it.
>
> Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and exe
> already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine,
> which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be
> of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since
> there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be
> difficult to construc
> None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle?
Try 'linux'--you can probably find out for sure by hitting TAB.
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I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'. It's actaully the label name
in LILO, if you had a label ... otherwise it's the name of he image, I
believe. No matter, as you can hit the key at the boot prompt to
see a list of valid boot images.
However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The n
> > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's
> > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and
> > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS
> > exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives
Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> > already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine,
> > which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be
> > of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since
> > there are no predictable patterns for these files, it wo
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
:
:> > They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a
poor-man's
:> > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and
:> > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS
:> > exported. Or
Hi,
I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem
to have some problems.
Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it
any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below;
# xhost
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My concern was for someone running Netscape as root.
This should never occur. People should not run Netscape as root.
(In a nutshell: Java The thought of running unknown programs as
root should send a shiver down your spine...)
> And thirdly, si
I'm getting " FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to
exit fdisk" during installation.
The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized
by fdisk or cfdisk within the
installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option "B:
Partition a hard disk", for a Sw
Is there a home page for md's driver/utils?
Lawrence
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Eddie Katz wrote:
>
> I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but
> nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available.
> Doing "ps -x" shows that xdm is running.
> So where is it.
>
> Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing "startx" works
I have checked the manpage of fsck to find what produces it. I had an
unclean reboot the other day so when the system came up it fsck'ed the
disks and printed output of the % contiguous. I don't suggest clicking
the reset button on your linux box to find out however. hehe. I'm sure
someone else
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file
> > that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean
> > room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or
>
> I think the older
I'm getting " FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to
exit fdisk" during installation.
The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized
by fdisk or cfdisk within the
installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option "B:
Partition a hard disk", for a Sw
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> X is now running, but it seems to be ignoring options. It's a Diamond
> stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
> and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher
> density modes don't exist. It's start
> >
> > (--) there is no mode definition mamed "1024x768"
> ^---
> > (--) removing mode "1024X768": from list of valid modes"
> ^---
>
> It looks like you use a capital 'X' when you define the mode, and
> lowercase 'x' when
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'.
> No matter, as you can hit the key at the boot prompt to
> see a list of valid boot images.
I tried that, but it didn't work. Perhaps this hints to a bad image?
I'll try booting with the same diskette on another PC...
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 6000:
> PPro 200, 64 MB
> Adaptec 2940U SCSI (IRQ 11) w/ one 4.3 GB disk attached.
> ATAPI PD-CD (The CD shows up as /dev/hdc on Slackware)
> Matrox Millenium graphics card, IRQ11
> SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip-ba
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