Re: PGP

Okay, My apologies people, but here's my death notice: Unfortunately I lost my pgp passphrase. I had never put my key up on a key server, being in .nz, I cant access the "add a key" section on the mit server. If you got a key from me, delete it, and use this one.. :) ( I put in some '*'s to

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? > > regards, Ruud. trap clear EXIT in .bash_profile Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

using a proxy server

Hello, I have done a hamm diskette installation and now a have a base (but incomplete) system. My hamm box is built from recycled parts (collected for free), and the modem is slow. I'd like to complete the installation via ftp using a proxy-server so I can access the 56k winmodem. I've downloade

Re: error!

From: "-= FreeRide =- Yupy ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -= FreeRide =- Yupy ja wrote: > In the installation menu i press access, update and install, > after about 10 or 20min unpacking software i get this error: > > - > > Setting up dejagnu >

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: >Then I got a little "clever", and installed a second 1 gig hard drive (now >the machine has two 1 gigs). I soldered some wires and DPDT switch to the >SCSI ID lines on both drives, and in the up position, the original drive >becomes SCSI 0, and th

Re: using a proxy server

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote: >Hello, >I have done a hamm diskette installation and now a have a base (but >incomplete) system. My hamm box is built from recycled parts (collected for >free), and the modem is slow. I'd like to complete the installation via ftp >using a proxy-server so

RE: using a proxy server

Kent, I doubt if that is the problem...I can ping winbox by name. Thanks anyhow, David > -Original Message- > From: Kent Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 5:29 PM > To: David Karlin > Subject: Re: using a proxy server > > > > use the IP address of the g

Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > > > I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp > > using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click > > on Print, WP says the

Re: Real3D StarFighter video card

Rich, I haven't checked my mail since Saturday, so I apologise for this coming late, but just recently today a free binary i740 server was announced on slashdot.org. Hope you haven't ordered any Xi Graphics CDs yet :) Christopher Richard Heller wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Real3D StarFight

Re: Q:xfsft binary on debian system

Hi Stephen J. Carpenter; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > anyway... have you downloaded it? is it glibc or libc5? Yup, I did download it and it is compiled on a RH5.1 machine against glibc. > If it is compiled for linux it SHOULD work (of course there are always those > situations where t

slink PPP Problem?

After upgrading my slink system last night and trying to access my provider this afternoon (dynamic IP account), I received the following message while trying to run pon (/usr/sbin/pppd): /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module

HELP!

Hi I've got a few things I'm trying to work out at the moment These are the major ones =] Firstly, how can I have a dual boot option where it asks me what I would like to boot? Secondly, is there a way I can use my ISP's existing pop/stmp accounts to send receive mail for the moment (the box isn'

Re: slink PPP Problem?

The modutils package was messed up for 2.0.x kernel. Version 121-4 is now at most mirrors and fixes the problem. Your ppp modules were not getting loaded. Typing insmod -k slhc, insmod -k ppp, insmod -k bsd_comp would have let you use ppp. -- Can't buy what I want because it's free.

Re: chown for the floppy group

Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to > set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may > mount a floppy. > - Well, I suppose I better RTFM some more. However, I did a ch

Re: Real3D StarFighter video card

Thanks a lot! I was about || that close to calling XiG and ordering their stuff. If I had more free time during the day I would've called already. I've never heard of that web site before, but they just saved me $100 so into the bookmarks file they go! Thanks, Rich On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Christo

Network debian with win 98

I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this? I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98 system.

Re: slink PPP Problem? - SOLVED. Thanks again, Shaleh!

I tried the insmod command as shaleh suggested, and it worked. Then I checked the FTP site, and sure enough, the new modutils package (v. 121-4) is there. Thanks, Shaleh, and thanks to all others who responded. Art

Re: Network debian with win 98

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Collin Rose wrote: >I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine >to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this? >I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98 >system. can you give a brief descriptio

ip acct and devel. kernel

Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about it. What's going on? Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the kernel? If so, that option is gre

Re: using a proxy server

David Karlin wrote: > > Kent, > I doubt if that is the problem...I can ping winbox by name. > Thanks anyhow, > David > Normally icmp packet (ping) won't go through a proxy server. If you really need this feature, you may look into winroute (http://www.winroute.com), that is something like ipmasq

Communications with Psion handheld computers/diaries?

Does anyone know whether backup-software exists in linux enabling a linux box to communicate with a Psion Siena? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP!

*-Nick Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Firstly, how can I have a dual boot option where it asks me what I would | like to boot? I have no idea if this can be done from the menu, but you can easily do it by hand. If your other OS is on /dev/hda1, add other=/dev/hda1 label=some_name to /etc

IDE/ATAPI CDROM module

According to the documentation (CDROM-HOWTO, Kernel-HOWTO,etc.), it is sufficient to select (with Yes) the kernel compilation options BLK_DEV_IDE, BLK_DEV_IDECD, and ISO9660_FS to have support for an IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. I did, and the boot message says "can't find cdrom module": indeed, since no

exim:rejectlog

hello, could someone tell me about the refused relay messages from the rejectlog file? What does this mean? In what condition these messages occurs? In the attachment you have my exim.conf and rejectlog files. TIA. Bubulac A. Tatiana

qpopper and cucipop

Hello! Is it possible to install qpopper AND cucipop? cucipop should be the default pop3 server and qpopper should listen to another port for receiving emails (xtnd xmit).

Re: installing debian from more than 1 CD?

[Courtesy copy of Usenet posting] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install some non-free and contrib Debian 2.0 packages. I >have main, non-free and contrib on three different CDs. > >I select a package from contrib that depends on another package on >non-free, dselect

Re: Modem recommendation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, G. Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be >grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under >Debian >2.0. I bought the 3com USR Message Faxmodem some weeks ago and c

No menu in wmaker

I asked about not having any menu items in wmaker a couple of days ago and might have a little more information. I have verified that menu is installed and when I check the .xsession-errors file it mentions a problem with menu-hook. I have not tried a different window manager since I am unsure ho

Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

[Robert, this could be the basis for a FAQ entry: "How do I resize a Linux partition?"] On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 04:42:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hans wrote: > > Guesss it's time for me to install debian, anyone know an easy way to > > resize an ext2 partition so I can add another one?? >

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

Hi, >>"Ruud" == Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ruud> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so Ruud> that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish Ruud> this? # tput clear > /tmp/issue # cat /etc/issue >> /tmp/issue # mv /tmp/issue

Keyboard Policy

After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore <-- in an xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc. Since I have seen this better on other systems, I though I should read the keyboard policy, to find out what is wrong. I found a section in the debian-policy package. Grea

Re: Keyboard Policy

[Note: mailing list change] On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore <-- in an > xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc. Do you have Xkb enabled? The implementation of the keyboard policy for X only

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

me hat gesagt: // me wrote: > I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until > I rebooted > and began deselect. I received the message "fs type iso9660 not > supported by kernal. > I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660 > file system. > Wh

pppd on leased line

Hello, I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier configured to do a leased line). I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little problems. does anyone some experience with it? Thanks. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BI

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: > > 1) By hand: > As root give the command: > $ modprobe iso9660 > > 2) Automatically at boot time: > put a line in /etc/modules with: > iso9660 Oops, make that: iso9660 --> isofs. --

Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

Hi all, The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ? If not what can be done ? Any suggestions are very welcome TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: > The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ? > If not what can be done ? > Any suggestions are very welcome George, I asked this very recently, and was told it is - using the Mach64 server. I've yet to try it though. HTH, Matth

Re: Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/22/98 at 12:51 PM, Guido Bozzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: >> >> Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you >> can setup raid on the second spindle. As an example: >> /usr under Debian is

Re: Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

I use the ATI 8meg ALL-IN-WONDER AGP video card with Debian Linux and it works fine. Has the Rage Pro chip. Hope This answeres your question.

newbie help....

hello, just switched to debian anmd run into some problems... - first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want to sue as before 4.03... now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: 05:34:36 yo

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

> Ruud> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so > Ruud> that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish > Ruud> this? > > # tput clear > /tmp/issue > # cat /etc/issue >> /tmp/issue > # mv /tmp/issue/etc/issue > > So now you don't have t

Re: newbie help....

>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> - first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. BB> the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want BB> to sue as before 4.03... BB> now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: B

Re: Network debian with win 98

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:41:25PM -0400, Collin Rose wrote: > I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine > to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this? > I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98 > system. Ok... i

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about > it. What's going on? Do I need to en

xemacs

Hi there! Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue. Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font) but when push tab so indent the line I get this message: External entity html not fount Public identifier -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN and then the model

re: Logoff & clear screen

On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? > Terry Carney wrote: >> >>If you are using bash then create a file named '.bash_logout', if one >>dowsn't exist, and add th

Re: xemacs

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote: > Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue. > Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font) > but when push tab so indent the line I get this message: > > External entity html not fount > Public identifie

Once again: bo->hamm and wtmp

Having just updated two computers from bo to hamm, I've run into the same problem Eric Fain described on this list a while back. It seems I'm not the only one with this problem, so finding the solution may prove useful for future updaters.. I used the apt upgrade and followed the upgrade instruc

Java and Linux

I'm doing some java development in linux and I was wondering if anyone had some good tools to suggest. I have tried xemacs with jde, but I wasn't impressed (xemacs is blotted and slow). I've been using plain old fte ever since. I've heard that kaffe is suppose to be good, but they don't have the

nfsd bug in debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have not recieved any notification from the debian security mailing list... but I would like someone confirm this Thanks in advance, Ulisses Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infowor

Re: Install probs; base1 panic

At 02:27 AM 9/23/1998 +, you wrote: >May be I should desribe the problem of linux-installation exactly. > > I already had the floppys needed for installation such as resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base14-1.bin ... and base14-5.bin. > > First ,I put the resc1440.bin into driver A and boot the syst

Redirect printer output to email?

This isn't specifically Debian-related, but if I can get this done it'll be a major score on campus for Linux in general and Debian specifically. Can I print from a Win95 box to a Debian queue and route that output to an email message as well as to a printer? For those who are interested, here's

Re: Java and Linux

> I'm doing some java development in linux and I was wondering if anyone > had some good tools to suggest. I have tried xemacs with jde, but I > wasn't impressed (xemacs is blotted and slow). I've been using plain depends on the machine... ;) > old fte ever since. I've heard that kaffe is suppo

Re: qpopper and cucipop

I'm not sure you can tell qpopper to run on a port other than 110 and even if you did this would probably cause you problems since most clients don't allow you to specify a port for your pop server. One possibility would be to use ip aliasing to add another IP and have qpopper bind to the other

Reading BIOS values under Linux

I am trying to write a check script so that I may assure that the proper amount of RAM has been initialized in lilo.conf. Is there a way that one can read installed memory values from the motherboard BIOS so that I can compare them to the initialized values? Timm Gleason -

Re: pppd on leased line

Could you be more specific about your problems? What are you using to start pppd, just pppd or pon, etc. How far do you get? Could you post debug output from pppd? (Add 'debug' to pppd options and collect messages from /var/log/ppp.log.) Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to s

Re: pppd on leased line

There is a mini Leased Line Howto @ http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/ on how to make a modem in leased line mode and configure pppd goodluck At 10:27 1998.09.23 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >Could you be more specific about your problems? What are you using to start >pppd, just >pppd or pon, etc.

newbie help(2): ghost changes my hostname??!!

i have written: - when the bandwith on our ethernet sinks due mainly to a very slick M$-proggy, my brand new debian system looses its system name (at least i noticed this every time the network was out for several minutes...) the name beeing replaced by a '-f' that's quite annoying since it al

newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

hello, me again is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package? ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett

Ramdisk won't go away?

I've just installed Debian 2.0 on a Compaq Proliant. Everything seems to be in order, except for the fact that every time the system is booted, I get the screen displaying "This is the Debian Rescue disk..." followed by the "boot:" prompt. This screen comes up despite the fact that I am booting d

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about > it. What's going on? Do I need to en

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

*- Kent West wrote about "Redirect printer output to email?" [cool use of technology, snipped] | | I figure Linux is powerful enough to do what I asked above. I've just about | gotten samba figured out enough to allow the Win95 box to print to it; what | I need to know is how to route that printed

Re: Reading BIOS values under Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Timm Gleason wrote: > I am trying to write a check script so that I may assure that the proper > amount of RAM has been initialized in lilo.conf. Is there a way that one can > read installed memory values from the motherboard BIOS so tha

Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:40:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc > > cd foo_version > > debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc > > > > Marcus > > Thanks - I appreciate it. :) The o

Re: newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

*-Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | hello, | | me again | | is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin | texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package? It is. Just > export LESSCHARSET=latin1 and all is well. You would probably put it

security problem

i run on my debian 2 the telnet daemon: i want the a particoular user named tonon couldn't login to my pc by net but only by console .. he isn't root what files i need to edit? i try to edit login.access and here it is as i configure it but it doesn't work any suggestion? thanks # $Id: logi

Re: Communications with Psion handheld computers/diaries?

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know whether backup-software exists in linux enabling a > linux > box to communicate with a Psion Siena? Yes - you need an app called p3nfs - I have it as an rpm back from when I had a RedHat system, but I know it is available as a Debian packa

Re: chown for the floppy group

Mark Panzer wrote: > > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to > > set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may > > mount a floppy. > > - > Well, I suppose I better R

PS/2 Pointing Device Setup

Hi, I just got Debian with X running on my Notebook PC, and now I'm trying to get my pointing device working. It is supposed to run on the PS/2 port, as my bios determines if the built in pointing device is used as PS/2 or the external port. How do I set up the PS/2 mouse to be on /dev/mouse, as

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

Michael Beattie wrote: > > On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > > > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the > > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? > > > > regards, Ruud. > > trap clear EXIT > > in .bash_profile > FYI, the mi

INN pgpverify?

I _had_ pgpverify working with INN 1.7.2. Now, suddenly, it doesn't work anymore :) I'm not at all sure this is Debian's fault (I don't recall a new INN package being installed), but I wondered if anyone else was having luck (good or bad) with Debian INN and pgpverify ... Back to my attempts to

Getting Netscape Running

Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to get Netscape up and running. I'm assuming that some form of Xwindowing is required. If so, startx blows off with numerous errors (sorry, I'm not at home, so don't have the errors at hadn: Basically, xinitrc can't be found, and a series of

Process Killer

I'm looking for a script (shell or perl, pref.) that can be run out of cron periodically to kill processes (spf. netscape) that are running under a UID of a user who is not logged in. Netscape does not die if folks log out without killing it in one of our labs. Just wondering if anyone has such a t

kernel 2.1.xx

hy there, can i get a debian package with the new kernel 2.1.xx for my debian 2.0 system. marco -- *** Marco Machmer email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu koennen, muss man vor allem ein Schaf sei

Speed improvements in the new ipmasq package

Package: ipmasq Version: 3.1.3 Hi, As the /etc/ipmasq/rules/*.def show, I used to have rules like # local interface, local machines, going anywhere is valid $IPFWADM -I -a accept -V `ipofif $int` -S `ipofif $int`/`nmofif $int` -D 0.0.0.0/0 The problem comes when you have a largi

Re: pppd on leased line

> I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier > configured to do a leased line). > I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little > problems. does anyone some experience with it? Once you have the modems configured it should be just like making a pppd con

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain abou

X PHYSICAL WINDOW 2 BIG!

I Installed X with a Trio S3 card. I answer the 'xf86config' query "NO" I DO NOT WANT the physical window larger than the screen, BUT IT ALWAYS IS. The mouse brings it over, but it makes things difficult. I did SuperProbe and entered the return for chip set in 'xv86config' . I cannot find the bo

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote: > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)? /proc/net/ip_acct > > > doesn

Re: mp3 player

On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Oz Dror writes: > > What is the MIME type for mp3 > what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types My apaches mime.types tells: audio/mpeg mpga mp2 mp3 The line in .mailcap should be similiar to this one (installed by the xanim packa

Re: Syncing local SW depot to remote one

On: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:13:36 +0900 (JST) Joe Marchak writes: > > Hi, > I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like > to automatically update from an ftp site. Is there a good way to do > this? I use the mirror program (main/net section) for keeping my home page in sync

Problems mounting CD.

I have problems mounting my CD. Here is a snip of the boot process: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 9 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f hda: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, C

Re: Keyboard Policy

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts > and the system is not working as it should. > > Could anybody guess what is wrong on my system or translate the policy > from this expert slang? Thank you. There

Ramdisk issue fixed - now it's a LILO problem

After installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, configuring and rebooting the system, I get a stream of scrolling LI's LI LI LI LI LI and so on... According to the LILO documentation this means that the second stage boot loader is loaded but has failed to execute. At first I thought it might be an issue

ISDN question

Hi, I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called isdn4linux. Are

Re: ISDN question

G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I > was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with > debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, > what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a

Re: Getting Netscape Running

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:27:59PM -0400, MJ Watson shared with us the following words of wisdom: > Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to > get Netscape up and running. I'm assuming that some form > of Xwindowing is required. If so, startx blows off with > numerous errors (sor

Re: kernel 2.1.xx

You can make your own Debian package by getting the kernel source and using make-kpkg, which is in the kernel-package package. Bob On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Marco Machmer wrote: > hy there, > > can i get a debian package with the new kernel 2.1.xx for my > debian 2.0 system. > > marco > > -- > *

Re: touchpad driver?

"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, it hurts me to say this - but it seems like Win95 actually has one > advantage over Linux: it has nifty touchpad driver where you can configure > a scroll zone, how light your touch is, etc. Has anyone worked on anything > similar in Linux? I heard th

Re: chown for the floppy group

> You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to > set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may > mount a floppy. > - Can you be more specific ? That is, what line can be added to /etc/fstab to achieve

Yikes: gimprc turned into a setuid fifo

I recently upgraded to hamm and added the gimp package, version 1.0.0-1. Today, the third time I ran it, GIMP reported that there was an error in reading the .gimprc file, so I took a look at it. It's gone: pr-S-wx--x 6425 6425 64250 May 6 1983 .gimp What's going on here? Is th

Re: chown for the floppy group

*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: chown for the floppy group " | > You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to | > set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may | > mount a floppy. | > - | | Can yo

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote: > > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote: > > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP > > > > accounting with the development kern

PCMCIA card manager reports a problem with high memory

Hello all! I've just upgraded my Linux Debian 2.0 box to kernel 2.0.35 and PCMCIA-cs 3.0.5. And now I have the following message at boot time: Sep 23 22:20:58 klep kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x260-0x267 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f Sep 2

RE: Problems mounting CD.

> I have problems mounting my CD. I had the same problems with a ASUS 440LX motherboard. I also tried to connect the CD-ROM to the secondary IDE channel, as a master device. After moving the CD-ROM drive to hdb, everything is just fine. Of course, I don't have 2 disk drives, just 2 processors ;)

Installation

Hello there, I have a major problem with the installation of Debian. I already have Windows as OS but I wanted to have Linux as well. So I downloaded the basic files for installation. My harddisk has already 2 partitions, so I tried to install it on D:\. Next I executed the installation pro

Unidentified subject!

Today when i did apt-get -f upgrade i got this error: (Reading database ... 42214 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.0.7t-1 (using libc6-dev_2.0.7u-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... dpkg: error processing libc6-dev_2.0.7u-1.deb (--unpack): try

SAMBA

HI, MY win95 clients access a samba server, that connects them to the internet via dialup, too. The linux-box is dialing unnecessarily when win95 is trying to get information about servers around. Which port do i have to forbid??? More important (because I can find out the TCP/IP port): How can

Re: ISDN question

>> "GK" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GK> I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I GK> was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with GK> debian ? Quite easy. GK> there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, GK> w

Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

To Whom It May Concern I am a newcomer to Linux and looking forward to using it, but my Western Digital 2.1 GB Hard Drive requires the Ontrack Disk Manager to run properly (my CMOS only handles hard drives up to 528 MB). Is there a disk manager that will run under Linux? Any assistance

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