EXT2 under Win95 - FSDEXT2

1998-08-31 Thread timothy
Hi! can someone email this program to me please? I can't seem to get thru to either of the mirrors - http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk or http://www.globalxs.nl/home/p/pvs/index.htm Many thanks!! Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Aug-98 Time: 20:15:22 T

Mucking with filesystem

1998-08-31 Thread timothy
Hi! I want to make my current /home/ filesystem bigger to store my ever growing user owned source files. So how can/should I can automount (on boot) another, (previously vfat,) partition under my user's home directory and have my user own it just like the rest of the stuff there? Thanks, Timothy

Linux SMP

1998-08-31 Thread Philip Thiem
I'm wonder, and perhap some you linux buffs could help. HOw great is the performance gain from SMP? I have been debating this with a friend. I know linux has muli-threaded capability, but like the kernal isn't explicitly multithreaded(or is it), yeah you can compile it for multiple processors, an

*H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-08-31 Thread Igor Grobman
You really should post to Debian-user with questions like this. I am sorry I don't have time to answer questions such as this most of the time. I took the liberty of forwarding your message to the list. Igor. --- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Sun Aug 3

cant't get ppp working.

1998-08-31 Thread James Minor
hi all,, I have been trying,w/o success, to connect to my isp. here is my plog pppd started by root, uid 0 abort on (BUSY) abort on (NO CARRIER) abort on (VOICE) abort on (NO DAILTONE) abort on (NO ANSWER) send (ATZ^M) expect (OK) ATZ^M^M OK -- got it Send (ATDT8630585) expect(CONNECT) ^M ATDT8630

PCMCIA-CS: configure?

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debian users, I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully, including X. I'd like to install pgplot, tgif, Netscape 4, for which I need an ethernet connection: the former 2 packages are not on the CDs, and the latter requres some archive files to be put on /tmp to work. I have an IBM THinkpad 760

Re: 3 com(USR) modem

1998-08-31 Thread LUK ShunTim
Michael B. Taylor wrote: [snipped] > > You will need ppp, net_std, and net_base packages. I think ppp is now > ppp_pam or something. You will need to set up your ppp options and > your chat script. I think there is now a package that automates this task, > but I cant remember what it is called

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro problems

1998-08-31 Thread David Khoury
>You may want to try turning off the PNP bios setting for that PCI slot. I did that >with the the Intel PR440FX and was able to load the module. > >Also look at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html > >Gary Thanks for that, Gary. The above link eventually led me to the right

APM support?

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
I cannot remember having seen any suggestion to include APM support in the kernel during the (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 from the CDs using dselect. Do I really have to load the source file(s) from an FTP site and compile the kernel myself? How do I find out what else has been included

exim problem (relay)

1998-08-31 Thread Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, I have hamm debian and I installed exim on it. I use this machine as a server. I send you the mainlog and rejectlog files. Could someone help me to understand what's happend with those reject host messages. Another problem is why I cannot read the e-mail messages from ppp user? (loggin w

Re: Debian 2.0 and KDE

1998-08-31 Thread debian
Hi, Many thanks to those who replied. Now downloaded and first impressions favourable. Roland -- Roland Hinkley A Debian Linux Site Gloucestershire UK

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-31 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Thanks, This looks more like what I have wanted. Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is quite easy in fact: > > # STEP 1: > # first mount your cdrom; > # I have an entry for it in /etc/fstab, but you may > # have to specify the physical device here too > # (oh and _first

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-31 Thread Ionut Borcoman
OK, I'll read teh manpage before trying it. :) I didn't try it yet. Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BT!! klonk! SCRIETCH! > > I made a small brainfart^H^H^H^H^Herror, this in fact doesn't work if you > want to reinstall as it skips everything that is already insta

Re: PCMCIA-CS: configure?

1998-08-31 Thread Ian Stuart
Remo Badii wrote: > I have an IBM THinkpad 760CD on which I have been using an Accton > Ethernet Card with success in a previous Linux installation (SuSE 4.2, > made for me by a person who has left in the meantime). > I have installed the pcmcia-cs package: what should be done next? As I type, Lap

Re: PCMCIA-CS: configure?

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Ian, If the PCMCIA doesn't work, I can't get the source since I have a 2-CD binary distribution. Now I read your next mail which just beeped on the screen (typing at a Vax). Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute

Re: Where is stig-paren and pc-mode ?

1998-08-31 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Thanks. I've already discovered pc-mode.el and configured it. The stig-paren.el is similar to paren.el. Someone said it's better than paren so I installed it. It isn't from any Debian package (I've remembered after I've posted the message *blush*). Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-08-31 Thread Adam Heczko
Hello, today I tried to reconfigure mySendmail 8.8.8 (hamm distribution) to set up some virtualdomains. I followed instructions I've seen at www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html and added line FEATURE(virtusertable, `dbm /etc/virtusertable')dnl to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file (at the end of file

Re: APM support?

1998-08-31 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 08:32:58AM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > I cannot remember having seen any suggestion to include APM support in > the kernel during the (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 from the > CDs using dselect. Do I really have to load the source file(s) from an > FTP site and compi

Re: Cheapbytes mess-up debian [FW: Debian 2.0 CD's]

1998-08-31 Thread shaul
> I noticed that same problem. The CD has a readme on it (somewhere, > don't have it with me right now) that says something to the effect of > "it appears that any CD with all the pacakges on it can be called > 'official', as there is not standard directory layout" or something to > that effect. >

Re: Cheapbytes mess-up debian [FW: Debian 2.0 CD's]

1998-08-31 Thread Gerhard Poul
Hi, > > I guess I just took their word for it, but it certainly doesn't cast the > > Debian project in a good light that the cd_autoup.sh script won't work > > without manually (and without instruction) making lots of silly symlinks > > in a temporary directory and running it from there. We're cu

Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

1998-08-31 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, I've some problems with some programs under X : when i try to run xosview, for exemple, i get the following message : =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= titine:~# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Can't open display named =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Since i'm new to the

Re: Compose-key and X11-geometry issues.

1998-08-31 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 09:15:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > 1. Since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my compose key (Control-. on a normal > screen and Control-Scroll-lock in X11) does not work anymore. In X11 I had > to run xkeycaps to restore it, but I do not know how to restore it in for > normal us

majordomo

1998-08-31 Thread crontab
Hello folks :-) Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a list), but I does not understand the step 7: -- 7) Now issue a 'config .admin' command to

smartlist gateway

1998-08-31 Thread crontab
Hello,,, Is there and .deb package to susbcribe/unsubscribe with SmartList? I'm looking for something like one that is in Debian Support pages. REgards.

Network connection

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
After problems with no network connection from the PCMCIA card (which worked since the beginning), I found out a solution: I issued the command route add -net 129.129.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth0 Questions: (1) Is this correct (/elegant)? (2) Is this permanent or do I have to reiss

Re: Network connection

1998-08-31 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Remo: Within the /etc/init.d/network file your network route command should be specified ( for your network ). Check this file to make certain that the route arguments are correct. Every time you boot your system, the ifconfig and route directives will be issued based on the contents of the

Re: Network connection

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Peter, the file /etc/inet.d/netwerk contains ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 I'll append route add -net my_IP netmask my_mask dev eth0 Do I have to specify dev eth0? (My only way of connecting will be through this ethernet port, by the way). Thank you for your prompt and cl

Re: Cheapbytes mess-up debian [FW: Debian 2.0 CD's]

1998-08-31 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 31-Aug-1998, Gerhard Poul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I guess I just took their word for it, but it certainly doesn't cast the > > > Debian project in a good light that the cd_autoup.sh script won't work > > > without manually (and without instruction) making lots of silly symlinks

Re: Linux SMP

1998-08-31 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>HOw great is the performance gain from SMP? I have been debating this >with a friend. I know linux has muli-threaded capability, but like the I'm not a linux guru, in fact, I'd label myself as a linux struggler. That aside, I can tell you that the performance gain of multiple processors entire

Re: Linux SMP

1998-08-31 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>HOw great is the performance gain from SMP? I have been debating this >with a friend. I know linux has muli-threaded capability, but like the I'm not a linux guru, in fact, I'd label myself as a linux struggler. That aside, I can tell you that the performance gain of multiple processors entire

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-08-31 Thread joost
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, James Minor wrote: > CONNECT > --got it > SEND (\d) > Serial connection established > Using interface ppp0 > Connect:ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2 > Sent[LCP ConfReq id=0x1] > last message repeated 10 times > last message repeated 12 times > Hangup (SIGHUP) > Modem hangup > Conne

Re: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

1998-08-31 Thread joost
On 31 Aug 1998, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > I've some problems with some programs under X : when i try to run > xosview, for exemple, i get the following message : > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > titine:~# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > Can't open displ

Re: *H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-08-31 Thread joost
Hi, > I bought 4 CD's of Debian from CheapBytes. I installed the CD's > everything was very confusing but I somehow managed to install Debian > and get it working with Windows 95 on the same computer. I have a > Pentium 150 with 32 Mb ram and a 1 Gb hard drive. I have a PnP Modem > (33.6Kpb

help w pppd+isdnutils+diald?

1998-08-31 Thread Tony Crawford
Any German (or maybe even Dutch) users out there care to walk me through what must be a very typical setup here in Germany--async PPP over an ISDN dial-up? I just can't find my case in any of the many German and Dutch examples on the Web--and the files are moved in Debian (or hamm?) anyway

Re: Exim fail to receive mails !?!

1998-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) wrote: > >Since I do UUCP, all of my installations are non-standard. I run Exim but >Debian does not know that, it thinks I am running smail. I simply >hand-copied the Exim binary into place on the target machines, created the >needed directories, set all permissi

New files from ftp?

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
After installing Debian 2.0 last week from CDs, I am now trying to install Netscape 4, pgplot, and tgif using dselect and ftp from the ftp.denian.org site. I also got the message "getting ... xfntpex_3.3.2.3 ... xserver-svga ...". Is this because there are new versions of these files? I only wan

Re: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

1998-08-31 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I've some problems with some programs under X : when i try to run | xosview, for exemple, i get the following message : | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | titine:~# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server | Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key | Can't open display

Files from FTP.DEBIAN.ORG

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
I see that I have version 3.3.2.2-4 while now 3.3.2.3-1 is available. Loading those files and installing will destroy my system or not? Simple, direct, and silly question. Please answer before I press RETURN. Thank you. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii

Netscape 4.xx

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
I selected Netscape 4 using dselect and ftp. The version number shown is 4.0-12 and one is informed that an archive must be put in /tmp. I could not find any such file in ftp.netscape.com /pub/communicator as indicated in the dselect documentation about this package. Any help? Thank you for the n-

Re: Vim leaves ~ files

1998-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danny ter Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hint for the maintainer: please set a default of NO backups ! > >Has already been done in the version in slink IIRC That would be great (haven't checked yet). Note that ot

Very much OFFTOPIC: But help needed :)

1998-08-31 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I am trying to build a system fro my friend with AMD K6 - 300. The motherboard has a AGP slot and four PCI slots. When I plugged in my old PCI video card, there is no signal to the monitor. Does he need a AGP video card ? If so, which AGP card works fine with Debian and also with GG

Netscape 4.06 and installer

1998-08-31 Thread Remo Badii
I am sorry for the previous message about Netscape 4.0-12: this is an installer. I am now copying the communicator v4.06 into /tmp. I presume dselect will check its existence when I'll reselect Netscape4.0-12 once I'm ready. Remo

Re (off topic ?) AGP video card with debian

1998-08-31 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi All, > > I am trying to build a system fro my friend with AMD K6 - 300. The > motherboard has a AGP slot and four PCI slots. When I plugged in my old PCI > video card, there is no signal to the monitor. Does he need a AGP video card > ? > > If so, which AGP card works fine with Deb

Re: APM support?

1998-08-31 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 08:32:58AM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > I cannot remember having seen any suggestion to include APM support in > the kernel during the (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 from the > CDs using dselect. Do I really have to load the source file(s) from an > FTP site and comp

Re: /etc/ppp/options

1998-08-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I would say that pppd looks at /etc/ppp/options and at | /etc/ppp/peers/ISP_name. | Since you can connect to the ISP as root, I guess that your problem is pppd | permitions. does ls show the existance of /etc/ppp/options when you are | looking as root ? Does pppd is s

X and PPP Problems w/ Debian 1.3

1998-08-31 Thread Marcus Johnson
-- Forwarded message -- Date: 30 Aug 98 20:15:20 EDT From: Scorpion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Debian Hello, I just switched from Slackware to Debian. Before that I switched from Redhat to Slackware. Redhat is still my favorite, but my RH CD i

Re: *H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-08-31 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: *H*E*L*P* > I am not writting because I want to write a FAQ. I am writting to > you because I can't find anyone else to write to! Please, you have > to help me!!! Ouch, you sound a little despirate my friend. > I bought 4 CD's of

Re: "standard" HAMM connecting on its own to internet?

1998-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Thistlethwaite) wrote: > >I am having a strange problem with my recently upgraded BO --> HAMM system. I >have a router (pipeline 50) connected to a very small network (2 machines). I >have noticed that my ISDN line has been active when no one is using the >computers at all

Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?

1998-08-31 Thread C. R. Oldham
Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: > [...] > : I would recommend IMAP. [...] > There have been 2 or 3 CERT advisories on IMAP in the past 60 days. Not on IMAP proper. IMAP is a protocol. The CERT advisories have been for buffer overflows in some of the dae

Re: *H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-08-31 Thread David B. Teague
Rider I congratulate you on having successfully installed the Debian GNU/Linux system. You need to read an introductory Unix book, such as O'reilly's "Learning the UNIX Operating System" or one of Sobel's books such as Hands On Linux series books from AWL. YOu need to learn a basic text command

Re: Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Frederic Breitwieser writes: | > I do this in NT currently with no issues - but I have a program to do so. | > At the rate I'm going, give me a month to have something that works for | > you guys to lobotomize. | | The problem is not so much one of code as it is one of p

Re: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?

1998-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anyone have, or know the whereabouts of, the latest SANE package >for Debian? Even 0.73 would be OK. I need support for my Agfa Snapscan >scanner which isn't in the 'current' 0.72 package. Tell dselect to use the 'unstable' distribution, it is in the 2.1-to-be versi

bug in "make-kpkg modules_image"

1998-08-31 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It took me a whiel to figure out what was going on here. I was trying compile a kernel & pcmcia stuff for another computer (using a P2 for a 486). It seems that "make-kpkg modules_image" runs the pcmcia config script, with a string of \n's to take the defaults--forcing the package defaults

Re: More CDROM troubles

1998-08-31 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > It never detects the master device on the secondary channel, thus my cdrom > is connected as a slave on the secondary( without any master devices on it > which contradicts to IDE specifications..) CDROM is accessible from linux > and dos. That's really

Re: 3 com(USR) modem

1998-08-31 Thread john
Michael B. Taylor wrote: > You will need to set up your ppp options and > your chat script. I think there is now a package that automates this task, > but I cant remember what it is called. LUK ShunTim writes: > I think you are talking about wvdial. He means pppconfig. It is in base, and also a

RE: PLIP and win95

1998-08-31 Thread David Karlin
John, There is a program called "PLIP.EXE" freely available from Crynwr (http://www.crynwr.com). It is a packet driver designed to run under DOS and sends packets from the parallel port to WINSOCK.DLL. I am in the process of setting it up on my Win95 box, but have not completed it yet. I would b

Re: Netscape 4.xx

1998-08-31 Thread Andrius Sabanas
Remo Badii wrote: > > I selected Netscape 4 using dselect and ftp. > The version number shown is 4.0-12 and one is informed that an archive > must be put in /tmp. I could not find any such file in ftp.netscape.com > /pub/communicator as indicated in the dselect documentation about this > package.

Xaw

1998-08-31 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, I was looking around and find the ``Xaw-Xpm'' page ( http://www.zip.com.au/~bb/XawXpm/ ). Its a hack of Xaw, and i think its provides a much more nice interface for the Xaw-application.(so shows the screenshots...) Im wondering, is that Xaw-hack as a debian package ?? (if yes, where?

Re: Reading CD image from CD: slow!

1998-08-31 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Zini Enrico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I try to read the ISO image from a CD, either with cat or dd, the reading > speed (I read with a SCSI 4x/2x Philips CDD2600 cd-writer) seems to be around > 70Kb per second (half 1x !). If I mount the CD I can read at full 4x, no > problem: what could it

Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-08-31 Thread Tony Schonfeld
i need to keep a messages from a pop3 account and send it to my machine via smtp in multi-drop mode. well i use this form : poll protocol pop3 user password smtp all messages are stored in the root account not each recipients. i can't found the problem , my local DNS is ok and exim work ve

Re: Exim and Smarthost

1998-08-31 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Are both server1 and server2 running bind? Any mail server should also be > a nameserver. yes but i've fix the probleme at server2 in exim.conf in line : sender_host_reject_relay = thanks , Tony > > > > On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Tony Schonfeld wr

AGP Video Cards?

1998-08-31 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
I'm trying to get a good AGP video card to work with Debian 2.0. Looking at the list of supported cards in the xf86config utility I see the "matrox Milenium II (AGP)." However this card seems hard to find now since it's been replaced by the new one G200. Does anybody know if this new card is sup

Maelstrom crashes under X

1998-08-31 Thread Andrius Sabanas
Hi, I try to run Maelstrom under X (XF86_Mach64), and I get the following message: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_ShmPutImage) Serial number of failed request:

RE: PLIP and win95

1998-08-31 Thread servis
I have never used it but Win95 has this built in. Select the following to install the driver. Start Menu-Setup-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-Windows Setup- Communications-Direct Cable Connection. Is that not what you want? As a discouraging side note, this is a quote from section 9 of the

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-08-31 Thread servis
*- Tony Schonfeld wrote about "Fetchmail don't work for me !" | i need to keep a messages from a pop3 account and send it to my | machine via smtp in multi-drop mode. | | well i use this form : | | poll protocol pop3 | user password smtp | | all messages are stored in the root account not

RE: PLIP and win95

1998-08-31 Thread David Karlin
> I have never used it but Win95 has this built in. > Select the following to install the driver. > > Start Menu-Setup-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs-Windows Setup- > Communications-Direct Cable Connection. > > Is that not what you want? That is (probably) *not* what one wants for a win95 plip

kernel package

1998-08-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted configured into the kernel. These modules are called out in /etc/modules. I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package utility. This created a debian kernel-image package which I installed, thus upgrading my kernel. (ne

Re: Maelstrom crashes under X

1998-08-31 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I try to run Maelstrom under X (XF86_Mach64), and I get the following > message: > > X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private > resource denied) > Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) > Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_ShmPutImage) > Serial number of failed

network unreachable

1998-08-31 Thread Richard Robinson
Hi, I am using 3com 3c905tx with RedHat and although the network card seems to be "recognized" during installation, the network is unreachable...even the local network with winNT server. For example, the response to ping 204.60.134.10 is "network unreachable" and the response to lynx http://2

Re: Linux SMP

1998-08-31 Thread Dale E. Martin
Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wonder, and perhap some you linux buffs could help. HOw great is the > performance gain from SMP? I run on a two processor pentium pro machine all of the time - for doing development, "make -j [ something >1 ]" gives about double compilation speed,

Modules

1998-08-31 Thread Dennis Janssen
Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules. I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually give: insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 I get the message that the ne modules has been succe

Ext2: Superblocks

1998-08-31 Thread dpk
It appears the power outages we experienced last week may have done some disk damage to our ftp mirror of Debian! It appears I cannot read the superblock on the ftp drive/partition. I believe ext2 stores this information elsewhere on the disk and can fix this by using something other than the def

Re: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?

1998-08-31 Thread timothy
I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP locks up on startup with an xsession? error of plugin crash. So i've had to downgrade to 0.72-1.1 Any ideas on how to fix 0.74? > Tell dselect to use the 'unstable' distribution, it is in the 2.1-to-be > version. Alternatively, if y

Re: Netscape 4.xx

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Andrius Sabanas wrote: > Remo Badii wrote: > > > > I selected Netscape 4 using dselect and ftp. > > The version number shown is 4.0-12 and one is informed that an archive > > must be put in /tmp. I could not find any such file in ftp.netscape.com > > /pub/communicator as indi

Re: Modules

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Dennis Janssen wrote: > Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules. > > I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually > give: >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq

Compatibility Libs

1998-08-31 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
I have a question relating to the compatibility libs, and ld configuration. I have been VERY pleased with the libc5 compatibility in Hamm! Unfortunately, I have custody of two RedHat 5.x boxes, which cannot be migrated in the forseable future. I would like to copy the directories /lib/libc5-com

Re: Network connection

1998-08-31 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:38:34PM +0200, Remo Badii wrote: > Dear Peter, > > the file /etc/inet.d/netwerk contains > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > I'll append > > route add -net my_IP netmask my_mask dev eth0 > > Do I have to specify dev eth0? (My only way of connecti

how to compile against libc5?

1998-08-31 Thread Shaleh
On a Hamm and later system how do I compile against libc5 and its headers? -- = Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today

Re: (off topic ?) AGP video card with debian

1998-08-31 Thread Azog
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: [snip] > Don't know about GGI, but I just installed debian 2.0 on a system with a > Diamond Viper 330 AGP. It works fine with the svga xserver, on 8, 16, > and 32 bit color depths, except that in the 32 bit depth the screen > shows some flicjkering pix

Re: how to compile against libc5?

1998-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On a Hamm and later system how do I compile against libc5 and its >headers? Install the altdev packages, and then set your path to include /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin first: export PATH=/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin:$PATH et voila Mike.

Is there a way to get rid of Pine's "Sender"-field?

1998-08-31 Thread Johann Spies
Pine puts a "Sender: mylocalhostname" in my mail and some spam filters find it annoying. How can I change or disable that? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROT

Re: Compose-key and X11-geometry issues.

1998-08-31 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 09:15:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > 1. Since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my compose key (Control-. on a normal > > screen and Control-Scroll-lock in X11) does not work anymore. In X11 I had > > to run xkeycaps to restore it,

Printing to a windows shared printer

1998-08-31 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all! I am having some problems with printing to a windows shared printer over the network. It is a NEC SuperScript 860. If I do "lpr -Pnec myfile.txt" then the green light goes blink-blink...blink-blink...blink-blink... which means "PCL data left in printer". Pressing the button on the front

Re: As user: swap capslock/cntrl?

1998-08-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alan Su wrote: > > Anders Hammarquist wrote (Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:45:20 +0200 ): > |> > |>I think you can swap them in the console as well by using loadkeys. I'm > |>afraid I can't offer you any help as to how to go about doing it though. > |> > > so i'll shamelessly use this as a segue to a quest

Re: Installing communicator 4.06

1998-08-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dale E. Martin wrote: > > Alexey Vyskubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is glibc2 version of Communicator 4.06. I use it. > > If you have only libc5 version, install netscape4 package. > > This one tells you about old libraries you have to install (from /oldlibs > > dir) > > and puts a

Re: Eterm/rxvt/xterm/xvt..

1998-08-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > I have a problem with xterm/rxvt/Eterm. All of them when hitting the > backspace key just beep at me. On xvt the backspace works properly. What > needs to be set to make the backspace work properly for xterm,rxvt and > Eterm? > > Thanks, > > Jeremy > FWIW

Re: Help with hamm needed! Where did GetOpt.h, Regex.h, generic.h etc. , go?

1998-08-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Igor Bubel wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Debian to develop and add software modules to a larger program > for a software company. Recently, I successfully updated my Debian 1.3 to 2.0, > using autoup.sh and then dselect to get the latest packages. So far, all > works fairly well, until I start

Re: Modules

1998-08-31 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Dennis Janssen wrote: > Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules. > > I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually > give: >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 >insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34

Re: kernel package

1998-08-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted > configured into the kernel. These modules are called out in > /etc/modules. I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package > utility. This created a debian kernel-image package which I > instal

Re[2]: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?

1998-08-31 Thread Phillip Deackes
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tell dselect to use the 'unstable' distribution, it is in the > 2.1-to-be > version. Alternatively, if you don't want lots of other updates as > well, > get > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/graphics/sane_0.74-1.deb Cheers,

Re[2]: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?

1998-08-31 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP > locks up on > startup with an xsession? error of plugin crash. So i've had to > downgrade to > 0.72-1.1 Any ideas on how to fix 0.74? When I found the 0.74 version and installed it, I had the same proble

Re: Eterm/rxvt/xterm/xvt..

1998-08-31 Thread Jeremy Hinegardner
> Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > > > > I have a problem with xterm/rxvt/Eterm. All of them when hitting the > > backspace key just beep at me. On xvt the backspace works properly. What > > needs to be set to make the backspace work properly for xterm,rxvt and > > Eterm? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Je

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-08-31 Thread Randy Edwards
> all messages are stored in the root account not each recipients. I've tried umpteen variations in my configurations and I run into the same thing. No matter what I do, fetchmail won't store mail in the user's account, only in root's. The kludge that I've worked out is to put an individ

help with x

1998-08-31 Thread Brian D Kellogg
I set my default color depth to 32 bit and now nothing displays on my screen. Is there a way to exit it back to the prompt so I can change the default back to 24 bit. thanx, Brian

Error backing up with tob

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I try to back up using tob, I get the following error: afio: "/dev/ftape": Invalid argument This is using afio version 2.4.4-2 from slink. Is this version not compatible? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: help with x

1998-08-31 Thread Kent West
I'd try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At 06:48 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote: >I set my default color depth to 32 bit and now nothing displays on my >screen. Is there a way to exit it back to the prompt so I can change the >default back to 24 bit. > >thanx, > >Brian > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mai

Re: why does dselect read entire CD?

1998-08-31 Thread Jens Ritter
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I finally got a Debian 2.0 CD, and upgrading has been really easy. However, > why does dselect feel the need to read every package file and say "skipping > deselected file" ?? This really slows down the upgrade on my slower CD-ROM, > since it aparent

Re: APT

1998-08-31 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Im with hamm, and want some packages from slink like gnome. What is the > recomended way to obtain this packages? If i select the unstable dir of > a debian ftp in the apt configuration, apt said it will dowload the > selected packages (gnome)

RE: cant't get ppp working.

1998-08-31 Thread Mohammad Haque
I also am having problems...heck..i can't even get debian installed cause I wantr to do a ftp install. I get teh same message about the asyncmap butm ine goes an extra step further and reports something about link not 8 bit clean or 7 bit set 0 or something like that. I saw someone had the same pro

Re: GPIB-ENET

1998-08-31 Thread Jens Ritter
Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi EVeryone, > > I was just wondering if someone ever wrote a c-library for a General > Purpouse Interface Bus(GPIB) controller with ethernet interface? Have a look at the Linux Lab Project. http://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/ You will find drivers there.

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