Re: Driver for SCSI-card "Iwill SIDE2935UW"

1998-06-28 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I have an Iwill-SCSI-Card "SIDE2935UW" (see http://www.iwill.com.tw/). >Under DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 it works very good. Now I wont >to install the a Debian-Linux-Distribution (1.3.1), but it dosen't >works. If I'm not mistaken, that card is (

Man + Latex

1998-06-28 Thread Dennis Dixon
I am still working on reading text files. Acting on Alexey Vyskubov's advice I downloaded the man-db package. Now, instead of: 'zmore Xserver.1x.gz', when I use 'man Xserver' I no longer have control characters interspersed in the text. When I was i

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:07:14PM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote: > hi! > > one of my friends are trying to use his awe64 with linux... > does anyone know what to use? can he use the standart sb16 driver in the > kernel? what about alsa .. please send config files :) http://homepage.ruhr-uni-boch

Re: Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 06:04:20PM -0700, Gasper Fele - Zorz wrote: > Why don't U just get someone to bake it 4 U ? Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia -- $230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get a CD from the USA. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt,

Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:47:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there a simple way to save copies of messages I've sent with the > >mutt email client, other than Cc:'ing myself? > > In your .muttrc do > >

Newton connectivity?

1998-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone have any suggestions (or FAQ pointers) for someone using a Newton MessagePad 2100 with Debian Linux? I have been offered a really good deal on one (next thing to free). I currently have a Bo system because I'm waiting for official CDs to upgrade to Hamm. I've found a bunch of good Ne

Re: Man + Latex

1998-06-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | The other problem is with .tex files which I assume I use the Latex command. | My error message when I run: |'latex guide.tex' is: | |'Can't find file linuxdoc.sty' | | On Jens Ritter suggestion, I downloaded the 'sgml-tools'

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Matt Pittaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help | and learned from there. You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not complete, but the beginning is there. | 2) What files do I need to install the "x" gui? A

[off-topic] SCSI cables

1998-06-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[Story part, you can skip this if you want] I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives (ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage doesn't affect the card'

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread michael/badpixel
> http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/soundblaster.html thanks! > The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere. i claims to have read the howto, but :) > Alsa is definitely not for you. It is a development project and has only > limited support for SB cards (as for an

fvwm95 install problem

1998-06-28 Thread Ivan
Hello again ! I have recently installed Debian GNU Linux ( Bo release ) which shares a 4.5Gb H/D with Windoze (all seperately partitioned). I tried to install fvwm using dselect but I don't think it worked - but then how do I tell - much X help needed !!! Anyway, I have now downloaded the "lates

List of default installed files

1998-06-28 Thread Zoong
Hi everyone, I want to download only files that are needed for the first default installation by Dselect of Official Beta hamm CD. But where can I find the list, which site has it ? Please help. TIA, Zoong == Zoong Pha

ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread sjc
Ok now I pulled a "Good One". My hard dirve "died" 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just slightly larger one) My thought was to restore form my month old backups and be done with it... to my surprize the old drive worked ag

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Salvatore Sasegui
>Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) >from your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have downloaded the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.Z But it seems that this

How to block mail relaying in smail (bo distribution)?

1998-06-28 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hi! I would like to limit the possibility of mail relaying in one of my bo boxes. I would like to be able to use this box as a smart host for my home machine (connected to Internet via dialup with dynamically assigned IP :-(). The same possibility should be available for other legal users

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-28 Thread Networking Wizard
On Jun 27 1998 , Oliver Elphick wrote: > To find out what is going wrong with initdb: > Edit /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb and add the line `set +x' after the > first line. Then become root and run the initialisation command (this > is all one line): > su - postgres -c "PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/post

Re: which C compiler?

1998-06-28 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:45:45PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were > recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there > sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm > distribut

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Salvatore Sasegui wrote: > >Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) >from > your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp > > I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have > downloaded > the file gzip

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #536

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > > I just did an upgrade bo --> hamm using autoup.sh. > > Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping > a coinn for the right action. > > 1) during the autoup it had seeral "conflicts", adn it was not clear to me > if I needed to do anything

Re: postgres intallation failed

1998-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Networking Wizard wrote: ... >It seemed a write-permission denial in /var/postgres sub-tree. Therefore >i switched back to root and changed the owner of /var/postgres: > >%% chown -R postgres.postgres /var/postgres I think I'll add this to the postinst script > >This time post

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-28 Thread Mark Panzer
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Mark Panzer wrote: > > > www.netbuyer.com > > > > I noticed the memory usage jump by about 5Meg when navigator was started > > and after just staring at the page for 5 min I noticed the memory usage > > was once again starting to increase. Thanks for helping me out here

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Salvatore Sasegui wrote: > > >Just get the netscape-package which is no debian-package!! (tar.gz) >from > your favorite NETSPAPE-mirror and put the netscape-package in >/tmp > > I have been in ftp.netscape.com/pub/unsupported/gnu and I have > downloaded > the file gzip-1.2.4.x86-unknown

Re: Kernel version

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hank Fay wrote: > > I notice that doing the "7 floppy + FTP" installation this week left me with > version 2.0.29-7, and the .30-7 and .33.3 source code is available in > dselect, as updated via FTP with ftp.debian.org. > > 1) is there reason to upgrade my Kernel? (I mean, there are reasons for

Re: X-Window for 2.0beta

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alex Kwan wrote: > > I have succeed to download and install the Debian 2.0 beta, > and now I want to install X-Window too, can I use the > X window packages on the debian 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM > (distributed by Cheapbytes), also do the other packages > on the 1.3.1R6 CD-ROM will working well under 2.0 b

Re: getting pgp

1998-06-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Brandon Mitchell wrote, I replied: Thanks for the clue, Brandon. It didn't work for me; probably because I don't have the version of apt that you do (I noticed that you're on the unstable, rather than frozen, branch). Now that I've discovered how to edit /etc/apt/source.list, preparing a tem

Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> Ok now I pulled a "Good One". >> My hard dirve "died" 2 days ago...it was at 3 am...so I went to bed=20 >> The next day I boguht a new drive on my way home from work (just s

Re: synchronizing console, xterm and rxvt using bash.

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > A recent blow up with new xtide version not working as I expected led > to the revelation (should I have known?) that rxvt is not sourcing > /etc/profile. This led to one of the environment variables being set > not as usually, and the program acted like it was broken

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Ed Cogburn
Matt Pittaway wrote: > > Hi Ig, > I downloaded and, after some trials, installed Linux to a 2nd hard > drive. > 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help > and learned from there. > 2) What files do I need to install the "x" gui? Are there instructions > to do this

[Fwd: List of default installed files]

1998-06-28 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
A good point. Being pretty new, I've been looking for a list of Important, Standard, Optional and Extra packages. When I've been installing the new beta dselect suggested on my first attempt to ftp the packs to download only limited ranges of packages. My connection failed, but it's still a good id

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hi! I remember reading a comparison between backuping technics in PCmag or Byte, in the previous 4 months. Check their older issues. The article did a good job. sasha. the lone gunman wrote: I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system. I have a 4 gig harddrive. I'm think

Re: awe64, how?

1998-06-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 08:52:00AM +0200, michael/badpixel wrote: > > > The howto is also on sunsite and mirrored everywhere. > > i claims to have read the howto, but :) If you have read my howto, you may have specific questions. Feel free to ask! Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."

Re: ACK! file ownership screwup!

1998-06-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"sjc" == sjc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sjc> That is it SO FAR. I am wondering if anyone has any advise? sjc> Would it be possible for a few people to give me an ls -lR of /usr /var sjc> /etc /boot /dev /bin /sbin ? sjc> (ahd whetever else could be helpfull...but I think I got em all..

Re: suggest a backup media

1998-06-28 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz > with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the > box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and > no_r

Re: stumped

1998-06-28 Thread Bjorn Isaksson
On 28 Jun 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > * Matt Pittaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | 1)How do I learn the commands? When I first got DOS I just typed help > | and learned from there. > > You can try the debian tutorial (at www.debian.org/~hp/ IIRC). It's not > complete, but the beginning is there.

Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?

1998-06-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running > Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif > clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java, > Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No h

Inoperative ls in wu-ftpd-academ

1998-06-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
In wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.16-9 (hamm), I'm not getting any response to an ls command with an anonymous connection. I know there was a bug report on an earlier version had included libc5 files in /home/ftp/lib with binaries linked with libc6. With that version, I copied the correct lib files into /h

Re: older debian release?

1998-06-28 Thread peter
>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote: > >> hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older >> release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that >> one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. > >Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smalle

bo --> hamm upgrade..

1998-06-28 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to /var/logs, pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc.. It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working. E.g. pppd now needs a "noauth" argument, files have moved, etc.. Is there a list of these changes, structu

autofs HOWTO

1998-06-28 Thread Paul Serice
This message tells how I got autofs to mount floppies so that any member of the "floppy" group would have read/write permission. I'm wondering if what I did is the right approach. If so, and if this isn't common knowledge (as I couldn't find it), it should be helpful to others. The difficul

Turtle Beach Montego A3D

1998-06-28 Thread Yamamoto Hirotaka
Can someone successfully use Turtle Beach Montego A3D PCI sound card with Debian2.0beta (hamm)? Any help is appreciated! Thanks. -- Hirotaka Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-28 Thread scott hussey
I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently, pppd recogn

Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-06-28 Thread Katharine Osborne
I'm trying to install the xlib6g package and am getting the following error: dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.2.2-1.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3', which is also in package xlib6 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountere

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-28 Thread John Kloss
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: > I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am > curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man > page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or > /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to