German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-13 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I cannot get German umlauts to display on the console. The curious thin

Kernel 2.1.125 question

1998-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
I installed 2.1.125 and ppp did not seem to work (I had problems with earlier 2.1.x kernels, as well). The docs say ppp 2.3.5 is required, but I already have this and it works fine with 2.0.35. I get the message about ppp support not being in the kernel or the module isn't loaded. I have compi

Re: Bug#27697: auto-include-dependency failure case

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, To cut a long story short, you have some .c files that depend on a .h file. Initially, that .h file does not depend on anything. You have set it up so that the dependency files are created for the .c files, and, sure enough, the dependency files are created for the .c files when th

Why can't I use 'man' in debain 2.0 that downloaded from your FTP Site?

1998-10-13 Thread ayin
Dear Sir   After installed Debian 2.0 downloaded from your ftp site, I can't run 'man' command. I can not see the X windows system. Need I some other packages to install ?   Tell me how to do about using 'man' and X window system.   Thanks a lot   ayin from Shanghai   The basecont.txt is sh

Re: Why can't I use 'man' in debain 2.0 that downloaded from your FTP Site?

1998-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, ayin wrote: > After installed Debian 2.0 downloaded from your ftp site, I can't > run 'man' command. I can not see the X windows system. Need I some > other packages to install ? > > Tell me how to do about using 'man' and X window system. Install the man-db and xbase pac

Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread rathon
Hello: Sometimes we may get so caught up with the thrill of finding a solution from this list that we may forget to say 'Thank you! TO all those who responded to my problem of not able to execute any files, I thank you!! Makes me feel great about Debian and Linux. Every answer was the same.. I d

Re: How to post with slrnpull and GNUS?

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > I get my news with slrnpull and read it with xemacs/GNUS, but don't > know how to post articles _offline_ with such a combination. When I > write an article and send it, xemacs says that all's okay, but the > article disappears without leaving a trace in the file > system

Motherbnoard Sound Device

1998-10-13 Thread Bert Conliffe
Hi Fellow Motherboard Sound Device Users, I too am having the same difficulty, getting my motherboard sound device to be recognized by the current linux sound drivers. I've done all sorts of gyrations with the kernel and configuring sound ( I've configured fixed and loadable modules ), and to dat

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 >at 01:16 PM, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [...] > > No, a boot-sector virus essentially runs under the BIOS. This *can* > >infect a Linux machine but I find it difficult to believe that Lin

ditroff? man pages

1998-10-13 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I'd like to use man on some debian machines to view the man pages for some HP-UX software. Unfortunately the debian man doesn't seem to support this man page format by default. Even if man won't support these files directly, I'd be happy to just have the commands to read them. I tried "cat fmt2/com

A Question about install X-Server-S3

1998-10-13 Thread ayin
Dear Sir: I want to install X Server for S3 display card version for my PC.   After I download the file named 'xserver-s3_3_3_2_3a-1.deb', I use 'dselect' utility to install this software. But the script result tell me that ' can not find newserver.xserver-s3 in /etc/X11/ '. I didn't instal

RE: A Question about install X-Server-S3

1998-10-13 Thread Shaleh
You need the following for a functional X Window installation: xbase xserver-vga16 xserver-<> -- in your case S3 xfonts -- which ever fonts suit you xlib6g On 13-Oct-98 ayin wrote: > Dear Sir: > > I want to install X Server for S3 display card version for my PC. > > After I download the file na

Re: Kernel 2.1.125 question

1998-10-13 Thread Adam J. Klein
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:07:00PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I installed 2.1.125 and ppp did not seem to work (I had problems with > earlier 2.1.x kernels, as well). The docs say ppp 2.3.5 is required, but > I already have this and it works fine with 2.0.35. > > I get the message about ppp su

Install with Sony CDU-33A

1998-10-13 Thread Chris Stalker-Herron
Hi, I am trying to install 2.0.2 from CD using a Sony CDU-33A drive w/ proprietary controller. I start by running boot.bat from the \install directory of the CD. When I get to the step to 'Install Operating System Kernel and Modules' and select cdrom and proprietary controller it forces me to fl

Re: Install with Sony CDU-33A

1998-10-13 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, You need to make the device drivers floppy, at least. Use rawrite to make the disks-i386/current/drv1440.bin file. This file has the device drivers for the cdrom. After you install and configure the device driver modules frm floppy, you should be able to finish the installation frm cdrom. On

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-13 Thread Mark Panzer
Sean Johnson wrote: > > I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and > Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel > 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions > before on newsgroups and such as to what could

How do I get FTP to work through ipfwadm

1998-10-13 Thread Bruce Jackson
I need to be able to get both Netscape and regular command line ftp to work. Here is my script. I get the following error under Windows command line FTP: PORT argument must be 1025 or greater. The following is my script: #!/bin/sh ISP_IP=`ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}'|

Problems sending mail

1998-10-13 Thread mccorkle
I am having trouble with my mail and am looking for some help. I am running a hamm system, using smail for mail delivery. I have attached copies of the smail config, transports, and routers file, as well as a snippet from the smail logfile. My machine is stout.mccorkle.home. The intent is to use

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Package: psgml Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 814 Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.1.3-2 Depends: emacs19 | emacs20, sgml-base, sgml-data Recommends: sp (>= 1.3) Suggests: debiandoc-sgml, linuxdoc-sgml, make Description: An Emacs major mode for edit

lilo - booting from a device

1998-10-13 Thread G. Crimp
Does anyone know how to determine what sectors on a partition a given file is occupying ? The lilo docs state that when specifying a device name, one also has to say what sectors to map (either by giving a beginning and an end, or a beginning and an offset). Here is what I am tryi

smail: 552 Message exceeds administrative size limit

1998-10-13 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
smail sent me the following message: Xfail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> parent: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reason: (ERR152) transport smtp: 552 Message exceeds administrative size limit (2868234 > 200 bytes) On both hosts I use smail, and have the following line in /etc/smail/config: max_message_size=10

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Rob Collins
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote: > > > ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my > > machine. [snip] > No, a boot-sector virus essentially runs under the BIOS. This *can* > infect a Linux machine but I find it diff

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/12/98 at 01:12 PM, " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: [included deleted] >> A boot virus could spread during boot (i.e. infect other partitions and >> floppies) while LILO load the kernel. The virus would end

Re: Please help! Debian can't find SCSI HD during install

1998-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, David Sherow wrote: > I have a IBM PS/2 486dx with a 200 mg SCSI hd. The SCSI adapter is on > the sys. board. > I have the IRQ, ID,and LUN, is there boot method so that Debian will > recognize that > the hd is there. Do you have any idea what kind of SCSI chipset it is? It ma

Re: Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Collins wrote: > What's with the "\_ -:0" command? That's a child of xdm. Ie, on my system, I have: 4199 ? S0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xdm 4201 ? S 95:49 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/auth 4323 ? S0:00 \_ -box.kitenet.net ^^

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > other=/dev/hda1 > label=Win > loader=/boot/chain.b > table=/dev/hda > [end] This means a malicious person will be able to download the ext2 driver in Win95 (if it is running) and the person will be able to read shadow. -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread Jens Ritter
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to avoid this? Shielded equipment, or simply a machine > without a video card. Displaying only non-sensitive data > is safe too of course. There is also a software solution for preventing radiating data by this way (See comp.risks, I think, look f

Re: debianized Scanner support somewhere?

1998-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > Is it possible to get a deb File which provides support for a scanner? I'd > be most interested in support for the Logitech ScanMan32 Mac which is a > handscanner which operates via a little box with a SCSI connector at one > end and the handscanner jack

Why my ined.conf file is empty? I can't telnet to my Linux Server

1998-10-13 Thread ayin
Dear Sir: I installed the Debian 2.0 downloaded from Debian FTP Site with its basic packages. After I installed the system , I use dselect utility to check compounds I installed. I find 'tcp/ip netbase ' compound. But my /etc/inetd.conf file is empty. I think there should be some lines such as 't

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:50:09AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > You are going to probably need physical access to the machine to run fsck > from the console. It is possible that it might repair itself on a reboot > but if it has problems, it will come up in single-user mode wanting input > from th

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:47:54PM -0400, rathon wrote: > I did not have a "." in my PATH.. Hmmm. You shouldn't have "." in your path, either; it's a security risk. Especially as root, if you're investigating someone's home directory and they've included a shell script called "ls" which does "rm -

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It's a matter of threat assessment and the value of what you are > protecting. We can get paranoid and put gun towers on every corner of our > homes because someone might want to interrupt power and communications to > our personal linux server. Recently, I was reading

Re: Problems sending mail

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having trouble with my mail and am looking for some help. > > I am running a hamm system, using smail for mail delivery. I have > attached copies of the smail config, transports, and routers file, > as well as a snippet from the smail logfile. > > My machine is st

proxy ARP debian install

1998-10-13 Thread Vincent Murphy
hi. I have got a PC at college with a ethernet connection to the internet, thru a firewall. I use apt-get and dselect with apt for all my debian package needs. what i would like to do is to set up this machine so i could bring in my own machine from at home, sit it on top of the current machine, c

Help with /etc/adjtime?

1998-10-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to find information about /etc/adjtime. This is apparently what regulates the CMOS clock. The README for adjtimex says "clock(8) uses the file /etc/adjtime to record the drift rate and the time since the RTC was last set." But I don't have any man entry for clock(8). Can anyone shed a

Ncpmount and ncpumount automatics in XWindow login

1998-10-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I setup some computers with Debian Hamm and installed ncpfs and ipx packages. I already mount user directories with .nwclient file and ncpmount at .bash_profile and umount at .bash_logout at console. But in XWindow I didn't figure how I can mount user direct

I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend discovered that it is a winmodem. What I have to do to this piece of hardware work in my Linux Debian Hamm b

Re: Fonts in X and other X problems

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Console programs I run in X, have two major problems: They > often appear monochrome (like Midnight Commander) > instead of colour and have weird characters appear when I > use shortcut keys like ALT-H. > Help.! What colour depth are you using? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Stewar

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> >vi? > >(x)emacs > >Netscape Composer? > > joe is another. > > Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of Macromedia's > Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the Linux world. Never seen this. What does it do? I would have thought that something could be

help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all , After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is sh: Error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol : history_get_string

X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm setting up an X-server called 'vncserver' and it barfs everytime I run it. Here is the log: rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6

roasting cdr's for Apple Macs

1998-10-13 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
Hi, is there a way to produce Apple Macintosh conformat CDR's under linux? I guess it is necessary to write hfs formated data onto disk therefore, but I'm not absolutely sure. Regards, Ferdinand.

Re: I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 > Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend > discovered that it is a winmodem. > What I have to do to

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On 12 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: : I am trying to install some packages from the slink arcive with apt-get. : I receive an error message that python-examples is dependent on : python-base. But after installing python-base from slink, the message : remains. Installing python-base from sta

Re: using apt with kde pkgs?

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
tOn Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: : does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to : download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors? I just looked in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.0/distribution/deb/hamm/binary-i386/ but found no

pppconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Oldfield
Just a note of thanks to the author of pppconfig. I recently used it to connect to a free UK ISP service (Freeserve) and it was much nicer than previous hassles both on Linux, and Windows. Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield.

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Paul Crowley
rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every answer was the same.. > > I did not have a "." in my PATH.. There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a security risk. Use ./foo instead. Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves your security. It used to be

Re: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote: : Hello, : I'm setting up an X-server called 'vncserver' and it barfs everytime I run : it. : Here is the log: : : rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 : httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 : failed to set default font path : '/usr/X

Re: Help with /etc/adjtime?

1998-10-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:02:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to find information about /etc/adjtime. This is apparently what > regulates the CMOS clock. The README for adjtimex says "clock(8) uses the > file /etc/adjtime to record the drift rate and the time since the RTC was > l

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-13 Thread Brent McMillan
oops. I was just pointing to the /debian directory. While poining at hamm all the packages that were missing reappeared. However, specifying the directories "main, non-free, contrib" won't find .deb files even though it updated. hrmph. I'll look around tonight and see if I can find

RE: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread David Karlin
Remco, Thanks for the speedy reply :-) You are 100% correct. My font files are all .pcf.gz. What is the procedure to change them all to .z? TIA, --David > -Original Message- > From: Remco van de Meent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 4:21 AM > To: David Karli

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no problems. -- I get the same exact results wit

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies > on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /d

Motherboard Sound Device Gyrations

1998-10-13 Thread Bert Conliffe
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13 Oct 98 >> Is it possible that this on-board sound is PnP, in which you would need to >> setup isapnp tools? On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: > I too am having the same difficulty, getting my motherboard > sound device to be recognized by the current li

Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Jeff Miller
Has anyone been able to get Icewm working? When I run it, X exits and I get a segment fault. I also get the message "cannot open maudio" or something like that. TIA

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
> On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to > > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: > > "No space left on device". According to Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) You usually don't have

Re: Motherboard Sound Device Gyrations

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Did you actually edit the isapnp.conf. The pnpdump command just gives you some default options from the scan. You also need to uncomment the "(ACT Y)" line which enables the isapnp configuration. There are (depending on your soundcard) i think 3 actual pnp device

Re: Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Jeff Miller
Yes, I'm running hamm, kernel build 2.0.35 and I have used KDE and FVWM95 successfully. >>> "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/13/98 9:41:00 AM >>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/13/98 at 08:22 AM, "Jeff Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Has anyone been able to get Icewm working? When I

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > dmesg | more > > might help Nope, it doesn't. :-( It only reports some of the startup messages. The important ones like the output of fsck (even whether it was run at all) is not shown. BTW, I don't understand the man page of dmesg. It desc

One question about configure X windows, without found X font paths .

1998-10-13 Thread ayin
Dear Sir: One question! When I configure the X windows system , the script test the settings I entered. But the program tell me that it can not find the font path. But I have already installed the 9fonts packages. Which packages need I to make the X windows runing well ? Another fonts package ? W

chinese-input-method in xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn

1998-10-13 Thread zhaoway
Please help! Where's the chinese input methods for xemacs20-mule? I only got those japanese input methods. I've installed all of the xemacs20* packages in Debian 2.0 binery CD. But where's the Chinese input methods? Haven't it been included in Debian 2.0? Or, could I find it in slink? Thanks! zhao

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

1998-10-13 Thread Alex Shnitman
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > Transparant proxying is an optimization in that you can redirect > all connections to port 80 of any outside-server to pass through > a caching proxy, so that you get the benefits of a proxy cache without > configuring the client to use the caching proxy. I men

[OFF TOPIC]Where has linuxware.com gone?

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I have restricted news access here at work (only a few groups, and no write access). I used to be able to telnet to linuxware.com (_used_ to be 205.230.171.50) and log on there to use news and stuff (I'm pretty sure they used debian...), but now I can't even get there. If I do telnet linu

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-13 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. > In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the > system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method

Re: A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Redirected to -user; I don't see what this has to do with the development of Debian. Also, you get better answers if you ask more specific questions.] On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:43:48PM +, Matthias D wrote: > I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba > technology

Gnome installation

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I just finished compiling Gnome 0.20 (with GTK 1.0) which included the following packages: mico, mc, gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-objc, gnome-utils, gnome-admin, gnome-graphics, gnome-games and now I have my /etc/X11/window-managers file look like this /usr/local/bin/gnome-se

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
Yes I have looked at the site, there is a lot of info there. I tryed a 1.2 rescue and driver disk, but it still won't find the hard disk. There are some patchs for the 2.0.34 kernal but I'm not quit sure what to with them though. Got any ideas? I'm really a newbie at programming in C, and f

Re: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread Greg Norris
Do you have xfstt referenced in /etc/X11/XF86Config? I was getting similar errors under vncserver when trying to use unix-domain sockets with xfstt. If you have an entry that looks like FontPath "unix/:7101" try replacing it with FontPath "tcp/localhost:7101" The "normal" font-serve

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-13 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Quoting Mike Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev > package from slink. You're right, I compiled it with libncurses4 and my program starts, but unfortunately all the colors have gone. :-( Instead of colors, everything is bold now. I update

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-13 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks for the help everyone. After looking at things some more, I dropped ipfwadm and patched the kernel to support ipchains. I haven't totally configured my second pc, but I can bring it up manually as a backup to my isdn router. (My isp seems to have performance problems on isdn, and I can somet

Re: Juno cable modem

1998-10-13 Thread Russ Cook
Linux is a Unix like pc operating system, much more powerful and versatile than Windows. It has quite a user base among the scientific and academic communities, and is becoming quite popular among general users, also. See http://www.debian.org and http://www.linuxhq.com Please consider supporting t

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: > Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But > I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only > that, but I'm really green on Linux. You might want to read the Kernel-HOWTO then (e.g

Installing on ThinkPad 600

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Hi, I'm trying to convert a colleague of mine from Slackware to Debian 2.0r2, but we're not getting beyond the 'Loading Linux: ...' line with the Tecra floppy. Likewise with 'linux floppy=thinkpad' or 'linux floppy=nodma'. Tried booting into DOS and running d:\install\install.bat, the ke

PRINTS 1 PAGE SHORT

1998-10-13 Thread Bob Barth
From applix words I cannot print a single page and if a job is more than a page, the last one is in the printer's buffer, but it won't print until I go off life and press the Form Feed key.  >From DOS 'lp filename'  works fine.   If I insert a Page Break in words, it will print the first pa

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
Thanks a bunch J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: > > Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But > > I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only > > that, but I'm really green on Linux

Re: CD ROM BURNER

1998-10-13 Thread Carl Vilbrandt
If a lot of people on the linux groups send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting information on the driver for linux that they are working on it would help and more that likely it would help linux out. acer 2x4 6206a cdrom rw 1 800 452-2237 acer number www.acerperipherals.com goto products st

Re: I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread servis
*- Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about "I have a winmodem:( And now?" | Hi Debian users, | last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 | Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend | discovered that it is a w

Re: help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi all , | | After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. | I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for | cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is | | sh: Error in loading share

Linux Drivers

1998-10-13 Thread Carl Vilbrandt
I would like to confirm you are working on a Linux driver for: ACER 2x4 cdrom rw and w Model # 6206a and when the Linux driver will be ready.

Re: help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> | Hi all , > | > | After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. > | I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for > | cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is > | > | sh: Error in loading shared libraries > | : undefi

Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which has a CD drive). The work PC has no CD drive, but it *does* have a network connection. I have got the install through to the point of running dselect as r

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Ruud de Bruin
The error is that apt-get refuses to install python-examples from slink because python-base is not present. However, I have installed python-base from slink... Installing python-base from stable does not solve the problem because than a olot of other dependencies are broken (I can understand this

RE: lilo - booting from a device

1998-10-13 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative approach. Mount the boot partition of the new distribution: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below) to lilo.conf: image=/mnt/vmlinuz label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 Then lil

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: : The error is that apt-get refuses to install python-examples from slink : because python-base is not present. However, I have installed python-base : from slink... Okay, have a look in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Does this entry appear? Package: python-b

RE: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Bo came with the MCA patches included. I'm not sure about Hamm. It worked right out of the box for me, but this will be very hardware dependent. There is an Linux for MCA web site. Check there for info. (Look in the related links area at debian.org) Tony On Monday, October 12, 1998 2:50 PM,

Re: Gnome & Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>Hello, > >I have a similar problem, only I can't seem to get Icewm to work. Keep in mind that GNOME panel (etc.) will only work with certain window managers and Icewm is one of them. I am trying to get GNOME working with Icewm and when I run X it exits and I get the same message as you. How di

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
I have found this site with has several patches and a lot of info for putting Linux on a MCA box http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ and for the box http://members.aol.com/mcapage0/mcaindex.htm P.S. I will never buy another IBM Richardson,Anthony wrote: > Bo came with the MCA patches included.

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, kdm actually does offer a nice piece of functionality that xdm > doesn't. It allows you to choose an X session at login (kde, window > maker, afterstep, etc), by providing a combo box that lets you choose the > parameter that gets passed to

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Sherow wrote: [ snip ] : P.S. I will never buy another IBM That's too bad - the PC Server 325 and Netfinity platforms make some kick-ass Linux servers ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: Motherbnoard Sound Device

1998-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
That is not exactly true. I have an onboard Sound Pro which I have gotten to work with my Linux box. It has taken a lot of work and I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it to work, but it does now work. Have you tried using isapnp? On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: > Hi Fellow Mother

Re: Gnome & Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I've just seen on the Gnome web site (www.gnome.org) that GNOME will work with IceWM, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Enlightment, so I will try with WindowMaker while we get a solution to IceWM problems. Regards

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Waller
Hi Paul, Could you not 'pinch' (i.e. borrow) a CD from one of the other PCs? Shouldn't be difficult to install it on your PC temporarily, especially if it's IDE. As for DHCP, install the dhcpcd package (the client) and it should work out of the box (it did for me in a similar case (firewall,

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Moore, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 | Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which | has a CD drive). [snip] | I have a network connection, so I could get the stuff from the debian | ftp site direc

KDE lost ability to open HOWTO.gz's

1998-10-13 Thread Kent West
Up until yesterday I could use the "home" button to open a window that browsed my home directory. Then I could navigate to /usr/docs/HOWTO and click on one of the HOWTO files and it would open up in a text editor so I could read it (it tried opening three editor windows and giving a message that I

Majordomo on Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Shane S.
Hi, after installing Majordomo package on my debain liunx box and reading the documentations for configurations, I am still having trouble getting it to work right. Has anyone installed Majordomo and configured it successfully? thanks shane

".../movemail registered but not installed"

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Apel
What does the following message mean and what can I do against it? --- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:51:27 +0200 From: root (Anacron) To: root File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed --- I replaced emacs19 with ema

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Apel
Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian > 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > cannot get German umlauts to displ

Re: Realplayer V5.0 and Netscape

1998-10-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:46:01 -0400 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:05:27AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > The player should already be listed there, as a plug-in, but may > > not be activated. If not, you

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) includes "."? I haven't changed my /etc/profile IIRC. > instead. Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves > your security. It used to be the case that people put "."

PCMCIA support

1998-10-13 Thread Declan Moriarty
[This was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond to it here.] I have a laptop which fails to install an inferior Linux package bacause it cannot get access to the Qlogic_cs driver during installation. Is this driver available for use with any f your packages? Regards, Declan M

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