Re: dselect wierd problem

1998-10-29 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Richard Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Somehow, I've managed to make the ftp option disappear from the access | menu of dselect. I've no idea how this happened. Could anyone please | suggest a fix? | | Luckly, I'd just about finished installing, and did the rest with dpkg, | but that's too

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
From: Mark Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm guessing Win95 can go out to 4GB 2^32 so maybe if you tried to > extract this archive in Win it still wouldn't work (BTW: how did this > file get created? The whole thing would have to be over 4GB uncompressed > (right?)) Well here's what you can assum

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 28 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried | > this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole | > file and even though, in your case, the file is truncated it'll do |

Re: icons with fvwm2

1998-10-29 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I don't think so because I have this settings in my fvwm2 configuration. The problem appears *only* if I run emacs from the menu. IMHO if I run emacs from the xterm (that is ran from fvwm' menu) then I get the correct icons. Bye, Giuseppe >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You'll have to set the icon

Re: matrox marvel g200

1998-10-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You'll need to tell me exactly where you're having a problem because I > thought the installation was very simple. You'll need to get the > xmatrox.tgz and xfsetup.tgz archives. Assuming that you saved the Somehow I managed to hose the installation completely.

Re: Problems with xbase/xserver upgrade

1998-10-29 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Don't you folks read the READMEs? There's stated that the XFree packages are split up in several minor ones now, so for example xterm and xdm has got their own packages each, xf86setup too, some client packages (like xset) has gone in xbase-clients, there is a new package xserver-common and so on.

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-29 Thread Michele Bini
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Lance Arsenault wrote: > It's a pain to have to pick through 1000 + packages to install. I prefer to > just > install all of them without picking through them. Hard disk space is now > cheep, > and time is not. You don't have to pick through 4000+ packa

Kernel question

1998-10-29 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the maintainer of the bootdisks. If anyone could help me out I would really appreci

Re: No Next

1998-10-29 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Imran Geriskovan wrote: > I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux > Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc..). > When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of > "base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it

Re: Kernel question

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: : Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me : into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that : is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the : maintainer of the bootdi

xbase 3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hi! Acabo de actualizar a xbase 3.3.2.3a-6 from 3.3.2.2-4 y ya no me funcionan las X. Es decir, aparece el twm en vez de el wmaker. He attachado el fichero con lo que he intentado hacer. He mirado el el bug tracking y no encuentro nada que se parezca. He instalado: xbase, xbase-clients, xserver-v

Re: Problems with xbase/xserver upgrade

1998-10-29 Thread Mark H. Mabry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Don't you folks read the READMEs? There's stated that the XFree > packages are split up in several minor ones now, so for example xterm > and xdm has got their own packages each, xf86setup too, some client > packages (like xset) has gone in xbase-clients, there is a new p

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:58:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What if there wasn't a deb source package. Is there a way to force an > install and ignore the dependices? Yes. In fact, I've used qmail before there was a .deb - the solution then was to use the equivs package. It's ugly but

Perl 5 screw up ?

1998-10-29 Thread Fred Yankowski
Andrew Martin Adrian Cater writes: > I have the situation where I have Perl 5.005 on the system - apt won't > update packages properly and other things including netbase are flaky. A symlink kluge is to do this: cd /usr/local/lib mv site_perl site_perl.SAVE ln -s /usr/li

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and it doesn't work, because qmail-inject > is in /usr/sbin and there are no link from the qmail/bin dir. Very > confusing. Do you know what was confusing to me when I first tried qmail?

Any help?

1998-10-29 Thread Paul \"Baloo\" Johnson
Can't seem to get that Intel EtherExpress to work. It says that device or resource is busy. Please help! Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb safe on hamm?

1998-10-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> there was a request to install libcurses4, which depends on all of the > above, on master and the request was denied due possible problems > the u-4 pkg may present. > > please advise. I'm getting errors with MH mail. Mail is sent, but bounces back with DNS errors likes: Oct 29 11:14:43 mi

Re: Any help?

1998-10-29 Thread Egon Schmid
In my machine is also a Intel EtherExpress. With RH 4.2 (2.0.30) it works with eepro.o. With Debian 2.0 (2.1.125) it works NOT! -Egon On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul "Baloo" Johnson wrote: > Can't seem to get that Intel EtherExpress to work. It says that device or > resource is busy. Please help! >

Re: No Next

1998-10-29 Thread Imran Geriskovan
>> I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux >> Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc..). >> When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of >> "base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it works a while (seems like installation >>

NT Printing...

1998-10-29 Thread Llista mail debian
Hi All!! I want to print to a Linux Machine using Windows NT (SP3). The linux Machine has the samba program, but the path \\machine\printer is not valid for NT printers (Always give an error). The solution was to add in the /etc/hosts.lpd the name who have permision to print usin

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

1998-10-29 Thread Juergen Fornoff
> > > jim r said > > > > How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on > > > > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that > > > > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? > > > > > > > Personally, I don't like the shell-specifi

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On 29 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > A fellow user, via personal email, suggested you might try the Unix > "head" utility. Something like: > > head --bytes 1900m |gzip -d -c|tar tf - Unfortunately that has the same result -- nothing. _

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread john
Darxus writes: > I would not be able to use dd to do a raw copy to that hard drive, > because of the 2gb limit. Why do you think you can't use dd? It just deals in blocks, and as long as you are using raw devices the VFS never gets involved. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: No Next

1998-10-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Imran Geriskovan wrote: > >> When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of > >> "base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it works a while > >> But after then it drops back to dinstall menu with > >> "Next: Install Base system" highlighted. No other "Next" s available. Happened to

Re: Trying to remove smail

1998-10-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:05:35 -0600 Azog writes: > > Hello, I've recently moved to using qmail on my system, and so > decided to remove smail. But, apt/dpkg refuses to allow me to do > so. How can I override the dependency errors and uninstall smail and > not have it affect any other packages tha

Re: xterm broken

1998-10-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:46:11 -0500 (EST) Richard Hall writes: > > I just upgraded my system to glibc6, and it went smoothly for the most > part. I used autoup and followed the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I > am pretty much running as usual, but xterm doesn't work anymore, so I have > to use

wmaker 0.20.2-1 - nomore dockit

1998-10-29 Thread John Leget
hey whats happened to "dockit" just tried to use it to add an app to the dock and it tells me no more dockit :( just did a search for it and it's gone >;0) ?? Cheers

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On 29 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Darxus writes: > > I would not be able to use dd to do a raw copy to that hard drive, > > because of the 2gb limit. > > Why do you think you can't use dd? It just deals in blocks, and as long as > you are using raw devices the VFS never gets involved. [

Re: libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb safe on hamm?

1998-10-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm getting errors with MH mail. Mail is sent, but bounces back with >DNS errors likes: > >Oct 29 11:14:43 mixing sendmail[1752]: LAA01744: >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >(1000/1000), delay=00:00:

I can't use talk.

1998-10-29 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez \(anti - spam\[spanm=if\]\)
Dear Sir : I have installed the hamm distribution without problems, apparently. The system is working well. My problems is with the talk daemon. All other services (telnetd, ftpd, ) are working but when I do a talk from other unix box I can connect. Any clue? the port

Re: lprng and disabling network printer

1998-10-29 Thread Pere Camps
Rene, > Edit /etc/lpd.perms so it has a couple of lines saying sth. like this > > # reject all connections from remote machines > ACCEPT SERVICE=X HOST=localhost > REJECT SERVICE=X > > and make sure that you have no other `SERVICE=X' lines in that file. > Also, these lines should appear before t

Re: lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread W. Paul Mills
Kevin Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't > seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far > as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: > > I have one dos/windows only h

Re: lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 29 Oct, Kevin Grant wrote: > Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't > seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far > as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: > > I have one dos/windows only hd. I have

Re: web mail

1998-10-29 Thread Pere Camps
m*, > you hit the nail on the head when you said Webmail! > see http://www.woanders.de/~wastl/webmail/ Tried it, but too I found it too much complicated to install. Finally I decided to opt for mailman. Highly customizable! http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman Thanks

Re: web mail

1998-10-29 Thread Pere Camps
Martin, > www.atdot.org > I wanted to try it myself, but didn't find the time to do it. Tried it. Found mailman to be much better. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman Thanks for the pointer though! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2

Re: lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:19:24AM +, Kevin Grant wrote: > Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't > seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far > as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: > > I have on

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:13:59PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > On 28 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried > > this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole > > file and even though, in your case, the file is t

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > I think that dd will have no problem to truncate you file : > dd if=tarfile of=just_a_try bs=1k count=200 would give you a file > named just_a_try containing the beginning of your tarfile but limited > to a size of slightly less than 2GB. Just a

the linux-kernel list

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Post Office wrote: > A copy of your message is being returned to you due to difficulties > encountered while attempting to deliver your mail. > > The following errors occurred during message delivery processing: > > : user "linux-kernel-request" > doesn't exist Okay, t

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 29 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > A fellow user, via personal email, suggested you might try the Unix | > "head" utility. Something like: | > | > head --bytes 1900m |gzip -d -c|tar tf - | | Unfortunately that has the same result -- nothing. |

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: | | > I think that dd will have no problem to truncate you file : | > dd if=tarfile of=just_a_try bs=1k count=200 would give you a file | > named just_a_try containing the beginning of your tarfile but limited

Re: the linux-kernel list

1998-10-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Post Office wrote: | | > A copy of your message is being returned to you due to difficulties | > encountered while attempting to deliver your mail. | > | > The following errors occurred during message delivery processing: | > | > [EM

X errors

1998-10-29 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm running 3 slink systems and I've run into a problem with X on two of them. Given the state of X and slink this normally wouldn't bother me but what caused me concern was that only 2 of the 3 systems broke -- darn it, I want all or nothing. ;-) I get the following error message when trying to

Re: the linux-kernel list

1998-10-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Darxus wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Post Office wrote: > > > A copy of your message is being returned to you due to difficulties > > encountered while attempting to deliver your mail. > > > > The following errors occurred during message delivery processing: > > > > : user "linux-kernel-req

Upgrading with APT: which packages is it going to download?

1998-10-29 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! As my modem internet connection is slow and (being in Italy) expensive, I would like to use apt to upgrade my system, but being myself the connection using a Zip disk to carry .deb files from our debian mirror at the university to home. Is there some way to know what is apt going to downlo

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
Date: 29 Oct 1998 14:50:17 -0700 > Okay, I wrote this code based on a suggestion from the Kernel mailing > list. Give it a shot and see what happens. You run it just like you > would using cat, e.g., > > readbytes file.tgz|gunzip -c|tar tf - > > The suggestion was that perhaps "open()" wasn't su

Re: timezones

1998-10-29 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
David S. Zelinsky wrote: > Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. > I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure > I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard > time correctly (I hope). > > How do I

OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-29 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, It's a little bit off-topic. We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all the files. Reflection of this problem is s

Re: [Debian]: Gnome

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MB" == Marco Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> GNOME wird in slink enthalten sein, wobei ich dann wohl auch einen MB> Umstieg vom fvwm2 vollziehen werde. Ich habe bis jetzt das GNOME MB> Panel und Balsa Das wird schwer gehen. GNOME hat keinen Windowmanager (und wird es auch zukünftig nich

Solved!

1998-10-29 Thread Imran Geriskovan
>> >> "Next: Install Base system" highlighted. No other "Next" s available. >Happened to me once, but I couldn't track it down. >I finally booted the rescue disk, mount a partition where base2_0.tgz was, >and untarred it. >As I recall, the rescue disk didn't have tar, but star instead, which >acce

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:26:19PM -0500, Darxus wrote: > > Well, I remembered seeing something somewhere that let me find the inode > number of a file, and found it in ls's man page. Any chance I can use an > inode number to tell dd where to find it ? You can use debugfs to get the inode and b

Re: general packaging problem

1998-10-29 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > Hi, > > dpkg seems to be indicating I have packages installed properly, but I don't > have all the files from the packages. How should I force this package to be > reinstalled? Does anyone have a script to veryify the installed software > against the Con

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Questions Date: Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:04:37PM +0200 In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and it doesn't w

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread john
I wrote: > Why do you think you can't use dd? It just deals in blocks, and as long as > you are using raw devices the VFS never gets involved. ^^^ Darxus writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/c/linux> dd if=home.tgz of=/dev/null > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > That was my

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread john
Darxus writes: > Well, I remembered seeing something somewhere that let me find the inode > number of a file, and found it in ls's man page. Any chance I can use an > inode number to tell dd where to find it ? Isn't the file on a fat32 filesystem? Seems like this is the place for DOS filesystem

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