Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Vanecek
As far as Mac and PC flavors, I believe it's possible to reformat a Mac Zip to a PC Zip, and vice versa - They come preformatted for much the same reason floppies do - for our convenience. Mike Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip > drive

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Adalberto da Silva
You're absolutely right, Mike! I personally have a half dozen pre-formatted Mac Zips I'm using with my Pentium. Adalberto Michael Vanecek wrote: > As far as Mac and PC flavors, I believe it's possible to reformat a Mac > Zip to a PC Zip, and vice versa - They come preformatted for much the > sam

Re: control characters with bit 8 high & ppp

1998-09-20 Thread john
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > I've set asyncmap at both ends to 0x to block all control > characters from being used. The right way to do this is to omit the asynchmap option entirely. This may not be what you want to do, though. > So is there any way to add the "high" control charac

Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm

1998-09-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to > 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of > this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my > /usr/local and /etc and t

Re: configuring my kernel

1998-09-20 Thread Tom Malloy
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > If you can't find any information about your NIC, and you can't get any > of the modules to work with it, I think you're screwed. Is it > impossible to replace the NIC? > > -- I am doing a fresh install on the new machines. The ethernet howto does tell me wh

differential SCSI adapter supported?

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Laing
I am thinking of getting several 18GB IBM drives. The ones I see being auctioned right now have differential interfaces. I see that Adaptec has a model 2940U2W that seems to support this interface. Is it supported by linux? Are there any other decent supported differential adapters I should look at

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip >drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, >which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. No. I've bought Mac-format (HFS) floppies and reformatted them for use on DOS/Wi

Re: configuring my kernel

1998-09-20 Thread john
Tom Malloy writes: > The ethernet howto does tell me which module to use, and it instructs me > to set the io and irq values. How can you know what module, io, and irq to use if you have no information on the cards? > I do this, but when the module is being added to the kernel a little blip > com

Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip

1998-09-20 Thread john mcpeek
Hi all, I want to plip a hamm box to win95 box. I asked for help on this some time ago and got lots of good stuff, but none of it worked out. Then I saw a msg from someone with the same desire. People told him some good stuff, what I cough of it. <- I only saw a few of the replies. It sounded

Netscape locks up all the time

1998-09-20 Thread Keith
Netscape locks everytime I use it now. I have Netscape Communicator 4.05 and I am running Debian 2.0. It never used to due that and I haven't changed or added anything to this machine. If anyone has had this trouble before I would appreciate some suggestions. -- Thanks, Keith ***

Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple > of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about > apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the > Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figur

Mailing list digest size.

1998-09-20 Thread K. Arun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I subscribe to debian-user-digest, and am quite happy receiving the 30kb. packets. Some time ago, though, there was this monster 1079 kb. digest, that I had to discard, (I have a shell account in a place with flaky phone connections).

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:56:57 -0300 Ok let me correct myself. What you did was to highlevel format the zip drive to work with a dos or mac file system (like doing a mkfs). But you CANNOT lowlevel format a zip drive to increase it's capacity as you can for a floppy. You have no control

Re: unsuscribe

1998-09-20 Thread David B. Teague
Alan, The bit of geek-speak at the bottom of the messagess in this list tell how to unsubscribe. > Unsubscribe? > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null In plain language, this means send mail (any mailer will do, UNIX mail Eudora, Elm, Pine, Netscape's mailer..) to: [

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

1998-09-20 Thread matt
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 11:41:24PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 > > Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 > > Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your hardd

Re: After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails

1998-09-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too > > closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules > > (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually* > > load these modules (in dependency order) and everyth

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-20 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I've also tried running eximconfig and > > selecting local system (mail is sent and recieved only locally). This > > doesn't work either. This is making me quite suspicious: maybe something > > else is broken. Is it possi

RE: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > > >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't have > >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all, but > >isn't the whole point of th

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Edward J Young wrote: > > Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on > W/95 before I use it on Linux. > > I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal > program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and

Hard disk spinning down

1998-09-20 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi folks, I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. Is there a program to slow down the spinning when my system is not in use? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu e-mail address: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Hard disk spinning down

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. > The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. > Is there a program to slow down the spinning > when my system is not in use? Please let me > know. Thanks in advance. (E)IDE?? package: hdparm

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-20 Thread Edward J Young
Kent, I guess I didn't make myself clear. I need a com program to *use* the ports, not to verify that they work. I already know that they work, and that the card is working. I know this by some other diagnostics which the board came with. The new ports are mapped to com5 and above. I need to

Re: Install problems

1998-09-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 12:55:58PM -0500, EGRET Lures wrote: Just a note... I use Mutt...and when it recives no messgae and an HTML attachment it runs lynx to read the message... this makes replies VERY hard and is a PITA. Please refrain from posting HTML to the group...text replies are apreciat

Re: Hard disk spinning down

1998-09-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote: : Hi folks, : : I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. : The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. : Is there a program to slow down the spinning : when my system is not in use? Please let me : know. Thanks in advance. You could enable APM su

Re: Dselect Freeking ...

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote: > It is one single partition with 2gb free ... really weird ... > > > How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?) > > > > > > > At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: > > >Hi there .. > > > > > >I got a dselect freek (don't know where that

Re: re-rebooting during installation

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
If you get a private reply that answers this, please post it; I've seen the question here before without having seen the answer, and I'd like to know too. Thanks. On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > Question first, details follow for those that want them. > > Question: How c

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread mjv
Thanks for that clarification. I think someone went looking for some tar and feathers. :) BTW - Someone posted that it would be unwise to reformat for Linux because of the lack of Iomega disk tools causing data loss. Please elaborate. We've been working and reformatting disks on our Macs sans t

^X in pine; from w95

1998-09-20 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi All, It seems that this is not a debian prolem, but I hope someone would be able to help me. There is a win95 box connected to my debian via ppp by mean of an old 1200 modem. During telnet session it is impossible to send mails in pine pressing ^X. Instead it sends only one 'x' symbol. The s

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: > There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more > email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should > really be a file saying "here's what you do if you're a single machine > user with a dial-up account". Maybe there is al

does smail know batched email?

1998-09-20 Thread Thomas Adams
Does smail as shipped with Debian 2.0 handle batched and compressed email (incoming) delivered via UUCP properly? When I had 1.3.1 installed it did not and I never found a solution to the problem. Many email batches were lost until I switched to non batched delivery to my machine. But I really

Re: Arla

1998-09-20 Thread Selim Issever
I installed arla about one month ago,.. I tried version 0.8 and 0.9,.. compiling all that worked fine,.. demo modus worked too very well! But I couldnt not really install the deamon. After playing around for 2 hors or so I decided to wait for at least the next version. May be you fetch the sources

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500 On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > > > > > Er, que? (spot the ne

Which package contains "xpm.h"?

1998-09-20 Thread Thomas Apel
The subject says it all. I try to compile "wmppp-1.3.0" which needs "xpm.h" and I don't know where to find it. Can anyone tell me the right package. BTW, is there a method to find a currently not installed package containing a certain file? TIA, Thomas

complex syslog facility daemon

1998-09-20 Thread Juergen Nagler
Hi, we've got a lot services runnig and every is logging to daemon.log. It's a PC with Debian 2.0. Before we had a SUN Sparcstation running Redhat. Many of the services had to be newly compiled for the sparc architecture so we had the posibility to change the facilities to some LOCALs in the sourc

Re: Which package contains "xpm.h"?

1998-09-20 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Thomas Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The subject says it all. I try to compile "wmppp-1.3.0" which needs > "xpm.h" and I don't know where to find it. FYI : wmifs supersedes wmppp... IMHO, the best solution to your pb is to download the "Packages" file from a Debian ftp site. Then, if you

Re: Which package contains "xpm.h"?

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Thomas Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | The subject says it all. I try to compile "wmppp-1.3.0" which needs | "xpm.h" and I don't know where to find it. xpm4g-dev | Can anyone tell me the right package. BTW, is there a method to find a | currently not installed package containing a certain file? G

Configuring history list in bash ?

1998-09-20 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, can anyone tell me if it is possible to configure the history list in the bash-shell so that duplicates are removed? /Tomas Petersson

emacsclient in XEmacs

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Does XEmacs (20.4) have any functionality similar to (server-start)/emacsclient in GNU Emacs? (With this feature you can let external programs open a file in an already running Emacs instead of starting their own. If this doesn't exist I'll throw away any plans of switching.) -- [EMAIL PROTECT

Real Player

1998-09-20 Thread David Densmore
I have installed both Netscape 4.06 and rvplayer 5.0 with the .deb installers. Rvplayer works fine when I invoke it from the command line like this: rvplayer pnm://live.wksu.org/wksu.ra Started this way, rvplayer will play any file locally or from the internet correctly. I configured rvplayer f

Re: Configuring history list in bash ?

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello, can anyone tell me if it is possible to | configure the history list in the bash-shell so | that duplicates are removed? HISTCONTROL=ignoredups will make sure that no consecutive duplicates are entered. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EM

Re: Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip

1998-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
The PILP mini-HOWTO is stil on Sunsite in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini It is also in the Debian hamm doc-linux-text package (but not the latest slink version for some reason ??) Bob On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, john mcpeek wrote: > Hi all, > I want to plip a hamm box to win95 box. I asked

RE: differential SCSI adapter supported?

1998-09-20 Thread Mike Barton
There are at least 2 differential driver standards. The current, popular one is LPD or Low Power Differential. The 2940U2W supports LPD _only_. Be sure to get the details on those IBM drivers before you do any bidding :)I think Linux support is beta but check for the latest at: ftp.dialnet.net. FYI

ppp won't work under new kernel

1998-09-20 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everybody, just compiled the new kernel that is 2.1.122 with ppp, slip and cslip support. I am having some trouble. It works fine the first time I boot up but anytime after that it does not. I searched high and low in the mailing list archives to find the answer. I remember seeing a simila

Re: emacsclient in XEmacs

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) | | Does XEmacs (20.4) have any functionality similar to | (server-start)/emacsclient in GNU Emacs? Sorry, I found it. If anyone else wants to know, it's (gnuserv-start) and gnuclient. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm

1998-09-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages > with dpkg > > dpkg --remove wget > > If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. > They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > > Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time

Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Stutz
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages > with dpkg > > dpkg --remove wget > > If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. > They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Thanks, it's working now -

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Tom Malloy
I have not followed every detail of this tread, but I think there may be some confusion here about low level and High level formating. Putting a file system on a disk is the same thing as high level formating. I have created ext2 file systems on a zip drive. The command (if memory serves) was "m

sound module died in hamm upgrade

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Stutz
I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, which has been working fine for a long time on this system. Anyone see thi

[CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?

1998-09-20 Thread Horacio M.G.
Hi there, how can I make a key combo work? In etc/inittab I get the following line: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now which is ok for shutting the system down and rebooting. But, how about shutting down and halting? I tried adding the l

Re: Which package contains "xpm.h"?

1998-09-20 Thread Thomas Apel
Eric Jacoboni wrote: > Thomas Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The subject says it all. I try to compile "wmppp-1.3.0" which needs > > "xpm.h" and I don't know where to find it. > > FYI : wmifs supersedes wmppp... Hmm!? I thought they are different apps. wmppp does the ppp monitoring and s

Re: Real Player

1998-09-20 Thread aqy6633
> I configured rvplayer for Netcape under applications, and when I click > a link in Netscape rvplayer will start, but not play. It behaves as > if I simply invoked it from the command line with without a URL. It > comes up on the screen and just sits there. I bet you put application name as "rv

Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

1998-09-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
dsb3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | >I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple | >of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about | >apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the | >Deb

Segmentation fault during install partition

1998-09-20 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
I'm trying to install for the first time on a 486DX33, AMIBIOS 2.3, 8M RAM, 170M HD. As I step through setup, I get to the 'Partition a Hard Disk' step. I select next and am offered the single choice of /dev/hda. I select it, the screen quickly shows a segmentation fault, says its determining th

Re: libraries have no symbols

1998-09-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 05:31:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:14:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Why do the system libraries not have symbols? > > They do have some symbols in them. Try e.g. > nm --dynamic --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6 Hmmm, okay. So why d

Network latency?

1998-09-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've got two Linux boxes in my room here connected via the campus network, going additionally through a hub in the room. Both of the boxen are running kernel 2.1.122, although I've also tried 2.0.36 and the results are the same. Anyway, the problem is that one of the boxen, a 486/25 with an NE200

Re: Network latency?

1998-09-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: [ snip ] : Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior. : I'm considering trying a different network card. I have an irrational fear of NE2000 clones - I've never seen one work right :) I'd replace it and see what happens. -- Natha

mouse not detected in debian 2.0

1998-09-20 Thread Michael O'Cleirigh
Hello, I've recently installed debian 2.0 from cheapbytes CD's. everything went fine except i can't get gpm or X to detect my mouse The mouse is a logitech "First Mouse" and works fine in DOS. it is connected to /dev/ttyS0. gpm-mouse-config cannot find it, and neither can X. I know the port i

How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread Sean Johnson
This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah, blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Sean

security hole in named?

1998-09-20 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
A Friend sent me an e-mail telling me about a security hole in named: It should be possible to gain root privileges by sending named a too long paket. Does the named in Debian 1.3.1 have this bug? Stef

Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread Selim Issever
Why dont you just edit /etc/motd? Selim Sean Johnson wrote: > > This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed > at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU > software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah, > blah that appea

Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread dsb3
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote: >Why dont you just edit /etc/motd? > >Selim > >Sean Johnson wrote: >> >> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed >> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU >> software not being responsible for yo

Some Help

1998-09-20 Thread Wilson Tuma
I have jusd installed debian linux version 2.0 on a computer. I want to install packages on it from the Internet. The process will be thus. I will download the files to a diskettes and install them. The things I want to know is 1. what linux command do I use to know the free disk space remainin

I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd it and mke2fs'd it. Since it's a 2gb partition, I figured that'd be a good place to put /home. So I moved /home to /tmp (mv home /tmp), then mounted the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r /

Re: Some Help

1998-09-20 Thread Adam P. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilson Tuma) writes: > I have jusd installed debian linux version 2.0 on a computer. I want to > install packages on it from the Internet. The process will be thus. > > I will download the files to a diskettes and install them. > > The things I want to know is > > 1. what lin

adding SCSI disks

1998-09-20 Thread Marco Frattola
Hi all, this is not a debian problem, but probably many debianers know the answer to this question. I have an IBM netfinity 3000 with 2 SCSI adapters, one aha 2940UW and one 2940AU. the second one is supposed to drive an external box with 4x9.1GB disks, the first one drives the internal disk only.

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd That's the spirit. :-) | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very | likely, si

Re: About realplayer

1998-09-20 Thread James Dietrich
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: > According to the zip > howto you can put a small linux system on a zip drive therby having > linux available on any machine you attach your zipdrive to. That is the > next thing I will try FWIW, I've done it and the procedure I used i

Debian 2.0/m68K on a Mac SE/30

1998-09-20 Thread Th. Henning
I have problems installing Debian 2.0 on my Mac SE/30 under system 7.1.2. and DOS Mounter 95. After downloading all the necessary files mentioned in the installation instructions for Macintosh (v1.0) from the ftp.de.debian.org ftp-server, I've the started the installation procedure with the debian

Another FAT32 question...

1998-09-20 Thread Kenneth Holmlund
Hi, This is of course a FAQ but either I'm extremely bad at finding the answer or the debian FAQ file isn't maintained well.. I would like to install Debian from my FAT32 partition, but the installation image does not understand FAT32! Surely someone must have made an image available that can read

Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Default Debian Reader
I have an Iomega zip drive that i used in win98, but when i do mount /dev/sda /zip -t msdos it won't let me saying it doesn't recognize a block device tehre, anyone know the problem? Perhaps i'm useing the wrong dev or there is something else? thanks

Re: Compiling kernel?

1998-09-20 Thread Remo Badii
George, could you also say how you compile additional modules with the kernel (e.g., pcmcia-cs)? Thank you. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochast

kernel + pcmcia compiling

1998-09-20 Thread D'jinnie
Hi - I've just recompiled a custom 2.0.34 kernel and was trying to compile the pcmcia support. However, I get an error: dpkg-deb: maintainer script `preinst` has bad permissions 700 (must be >= 0555 and <= 0775) after which it exits out with an error...I've tried changing permissions (they seemed

Re: sound module died in hamm upgrade

1998-09-20 Thread Michael Stutz
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: > I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; > I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I > didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, > which has been working f

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On 20 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd > > That's the spirit. :-) > > | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run > | another window manager, but ap

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Juergen Nagler
>the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r >/tmp/home/* /home) You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group and permissons, too. Just an idea. Juergen

Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as guest. My username on the Debian box is westk. My username on the NT box is West Kent. I'm using the command: smbclient luke\\pc_apps -n West Kent

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Juergen Nagler wrote: > >the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r > >/tmp/home/* /home) > > You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group > and permissons, too. > > Just an idea. > > Juergen > Nope; didn't forget i

How to find my IP address

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
Okay, this oughtta be an easy one. How do I determine what IP address I've been given by my dhcp server? Okay, I just figured out one way: ping HOSTNAME. Duh. But is there another way? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SVGALIB

1998-09-20 Thread Ruud de Bruin
When running "gs" as user, I receive the following error message: SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions. How can I solve this? Regards, Ruud.

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Juergen Nagler
On 20 Sep 1998 22:57:18 +0200, in list.linux.debian.user you wrote: >I have an Iomega zip drive that i used in win98, but when i do >mount /dev/sda /zip -t msdos it won't let me saying it doesn't recognize a >block device tehre, anyone know the problem? Perhaps i'm useing the wrong >dev or there

WIN NT and Linux

1998-09-20 Thread Tom Consmith
I am currently running WIN NT 4.0 (SP3) on my Pentium2. I have a 8 gig HD, of which 3 GB have been left unformatted so that I may install a version of Linux. However, at this point, I have not been able to find an FAQ detailing how to install with NT running. If anyone could please send me a file,

apmd

1998-09-20 Thread D'jinnie
I can't seem to locate any conf files for apmd. What I'd like it to do is not to suspend when my laptop is not running off of the battery. Any ideas? --- A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVGALIB

1998-09-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:12:55PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > When running "gs" as user, I receive the following error message: > > SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions. > > How can I solve this? You have to set the suid bit (It's a security hole, your user could get root rights if there's a

Re: Another FAT32 question...

1998-09-20 Thread Richard Heller
> Hi, > This is of course a FAQ but either I'm extremely bad > at finding the answer or the debian FAQ file isn't > maintained well.. > I know the feeling. There's a lot of info out there and sometimes it's hard to dig through it all. > I would like to install Debian from my FAT32 partition, > b

Re: WIN NT and Linux

1998-09-20 Thread Sean Johnson
You can't install LInux with NT (or any other OS for that matter) running . Since you already have saved a good amount of space, you're well ahead of the game. All you have to do is insert the linux boot floppy, reboot, and follow the directions. When you install LILO, be sure to NOT install

Re: WIN NT and Linux

1998-09-20 Thread Allan K. Neal
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Tom Consmith wrote: -> I am currently running WIN NT 4.0 (SP3) on my Pentium2. I have a 8 gig -> HD, of which 3 GB have been left unformatted so that I may install a -> version of Linux. However, at this point, I have not been able to find -> an FAQ detailing how to install wi

Re: Building Dev. Kernels

1998-09-20 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:32:29 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Wilderspin wrote: >> >> Is there any Debian-specific things that need to be done to compile >> development kernels correctly? I'm considering downloading and trying >> out 2.1.122, and would like to know whether I should be l

Re: How to find my IP address

1998-09-20 Thread Phil Humpherys
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, this oughtta be an easy one. How do I determine what IP address > I've been given by my dhcp server? > > Okay, I just figured out one way: ping HOSTNAME. Duh. But is there > another way? /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip

1998-09-20 Thread servis
*- Bob Nielsen wrote about "Re: Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip" | The PILP mini-HOWTO is stil on Sunsite in | /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini | | It is also in the Debian hamm doc-linux-text package (but not the | latest slink version for some reason ??) | | Bob >From the PLIP mini-HOW

Re: adding SCSI disks

1998-09-20 Thread David B. Teague
Hi Marco On my system, I have a 2840 which I understand to be close to the same firmware as 2940. The lowest scsi id is the boot drive. You don't mention scsi ids. Look at them and mail the list, I'll answer if someone doesn't get to you before me. David

Re: WIN NT and Linux

1998-09-20 Thread D'jinnie
There seems to be a general consensus that if you have a dual NT/Linux machine you have to use the NT loader. However, I have a 95/NT/Linux machine and haven't had any problems booting any of them from lilo. Was I just lucky or what? In case this matters, the hds on the machine are hda 4.3G WD -> 9