Fwd: [toshiba laptop kernel]

1998-11-30 Thread James Ryan
Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 --- Begin Message --- I have a toshiba satellite pro 440CDT laptop. In order to install debian, I had to use the boot image designed for toshiba laptops,

Fwd: [postgres and php problem]

1998-11-30 Thread James Ryan
Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 --- Begin Message --- I have been trying to get PHP to work with Postgres for a little while now. I am able to access the database using psql (not pgacce

Re: Fwd: [postgres and php problem]

1998-11-30 Thread Egon Schmid
Sorry, I don't get your original posting into pine. But which version of PHP are you using. The pg_fetch_*() family was introduced on Fri Jun 1998 in Version php3 RC5. I think you must have a older Version. Today you can get 3.0.5 -Egon On 30 Nov 1998, James Ryan wrote: > > >

Re: slink upgrade

1998-11-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "TH" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TH> On: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 16:16:10 +0200 Yosef B writes: >> >> Still trying to install slink. >> Somebody on the list suggested that I install hamm and then upgrade to >> slink as the 1743 resue disk won't work on my system. >> >> I cannot

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite. Never > did > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. > Why not? Because I was a Slackware person before I was a Debian person. I don't like how the h

Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
This question may have been asked before - if so please excuse me. I want to install KDE on my system but am finding that there are no debian packages of KDE available anywhere - ftp.kde.org appears to have some libc5 binaries available in contrib, but nothing for glibc6 - the directory appears to

headers

1998-11-30 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've compiled my own kernel package and now I have istalled the kernel-source, the kernel-image and the kernel-docs. I haven't installed the headers. Now, the question. Are my headers all right? Should /usr/include/linux point to anywhere? TIA

Monitor vs X servers

1998-11-30 Thread maor
After installing Debian 2.0 on my 100MHz Pentium system and then installing Netscape 4.52, I'm getting nowhere trying to figure out if I can get a colour depth of 8 out of my current card/monitor combination. Montior is a 1990 Mitsubishi XC-1429C, with specs of: Active display 240x180 dot pitch

[Fwd: libstdc++2.9 2.91.58-5 broken??]

1998-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mitch Blevins has solved the problem you are seeing about '__register_frame_info'. -- Ed C.--- Begin Message --- Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all! > > I just tried to upgrade my system to the packages in slink, and now my > libstdc++2.9 (2.91.58-5) seems to be broken. Whenever I try to do

Re: IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread maximill
I had the same problem. I think it is caused by the netware server using different protocols simultaneously. You only want your computer to pay attention to one of them. So, you have to manually configure the ipx package. Here's how I did it: type in "cat /proc/net/ipx_interface". That shows you

help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Cristian Carnutu
Dear Sirs, I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than RedHat. Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. Would it be so difficult to install Debian? Looking from outside, as I

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > can't boot from the HD). > I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP > (i'm using ppp) but when I try

[Jonathan Hankins ] Re: webmin

1998-11-30 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
--- Begin Message --- Joachim, Sorry for the direct reply -- I only get the digested debian-user list, so I couldn't reply to your question. You might pass this info to the list if anyone else asks about webmin. I installed it under a Debian 2.0 system and it seems to work fine -- haven't really

Re: Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Phillip Deackes wrote: > This question may have been asked before - if so please excuse me. > > I want to install KDE on my system but am finding that there are no > debian packages of KDE available anywhere - ftp.kde.org appears to have > some libc5 binaries available in con

Re: Compress

1998-11-30 Thread shaul
> Anyone know where I can get 'compress' program? Can't answer your question, but: 1) Take a look at the ncompress package (from non-free). 2) Try an Internet search engine. Hope this help.

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-30 Thread shaul
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > > > It seems to me that you are wrong, since when new packages are installed, > > update-menus considers the users who run update-menus as well. > > I am saying that on the basis of the following lines (from > > /usr/doc/menu/html/ch5.html): > > [snip] > >

Re: Newbie needs help

1998-11-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > > can't boot from the HD). > > I'm having problems with the

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? > I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than > RedHat. I would recommend debian. Firstly, all the support is done by these mailing lists: debian is a community project, not a for-profit org

Re: IPX Networking

1998-11-30 Thread maximill
I forgot to add, be sure to restart the IPX driver when you've done the reconfiguration: /etc/init.d/ipx stop /etc/init.d/ipx start -brad On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had the same problem. I think it is caused by the netware server using > different protocols simultaneously

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 07:28:50AM +0100, Andreas Kremer wrote: > Hi, > > > I have just upgraded my debian, unstable version. Here is the message > > I get when I do virtually anything: > > groumph:/usr/lib# dselect > > dselect: error in loading shared libraries > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: un

Re: expect script with ppp and stty forces reboot

1998-11-30 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: > I recently began using an expect script to connect to my office via ppp > and have a problem with how I initialize the modem. I talk with the modem > in the expect script as follows: Uh, why that? > system "stty 38400 -echoe -echo r

Re: Big problem, help !

1998-11-30 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > I guess installing libc6 2.0.7u-5 will do it. But you should update some time > after that "fix"... Where do we get libc6 2.0.7u-5? All of the mirrors I've checked had some really old version or the latest libc6 2.0.7u-6. Thanks, -Ossama ___

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Leandro Dutra wrote: > > > > > The developers of dpkg could do something like add a 'package > > > grouping' > > > > feature that lets newcomers (especially newbies to X11) understand the > > > > relationship between packages. > > > > Is this a documentation issue? Maybe there is a requirement f

About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two interfaces. What has to be done to make them work

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from | > sunsite. Never did | > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel. | | > Why not? | | Because I was a Slackware person b

Fwd: Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

1998-11-30 Thread Jay Barbee
Just sharing with the list... --jay >At 11/30/98 02:42 PM -0500, you wrote: >> >>Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading? Someone said >>something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't >>know what to do with them or how. Can anyone help? > >You need to

128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Dana G Haugli
Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks Dana Haugli

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
Cristian Carnutu wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I can not decide myself what distribution to install: Debian or RedHat ? > I subscribed to both lists. The debian list has a traffic 3 times more than > RedHat. The number one rule for a first-time user in picking a distribution is... Use the one that y

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. > > Would it be so difficult to install Debian? > > My opinion is the RedHat is easier to install than Debian. Also, it > may be easier to get help with RedHat because it is a more popular > di

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > The number one rule for a first-time user in picking a distribution is... > Use the one that your friends and co-workers use. Best way to get > good help and feedback. I wonder about this ... The assumptions are that (1) one has co-workers/friends/peer

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Dana G Haugli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. | I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the | HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? You added a line like: append="

Re: XF86Config help needed

1998-11-30 Thread Mark Phillips
Have you looked at the "Linux Hitachi Laptop Page"? Perhaps it might help? Anyway, it can be found at: http://www.ert.rwth-aachen.de/~schlaege/Laptop/Laptop.html I hope this helps, cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/

Re: Kernel 2.0.34 problems

1998-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 03:40:49PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > The "make zlilo" approach is problematic if you have something else > that depends on a specific kernel version (Read the file > /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz for 11 or so reasons you want to > use make-kpkg). All of wh

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Yes, this is what I was thinking of. Right now the only way to > 'associate' packages with one another, besides the section name, is to > use a common prefix in the name so they show up together in the same > place in dselect's screen. Imagine a user looking at the huge

pointers to emacs package development...

1998-11-30 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm starting a small project to learn how to build a debian package. I just need a few pointers to the packaging documentation I'd need. It's an emacs package, and I've seen the stuff about the emacs policy on the policy list.. Also, I'd like to find someone I

Icq-java and jdk1.1-runtime

1998-11-30 Thread Mario Bertrand
Hi, The icq-java package refuse to install with the jdk1.1-runtime in slink. Any idea? Message envoyé le 30-Nov-98 à 17:58:11 Par Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: unmapping alt-Q on netscape 3

1998-11-30 Thread Damon Buckwalter
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape, > bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a > couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key > sequence? check out /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator

Newbie Install problems

1998-11-30 Thread Tom Anzalone
To anyone who can help me, I have tried to install Debian 2.0.2 several times but I get the following error when I get to the installation of the kernal: Floppy Error! The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy failed. The intial parts of the installation work fine ( i.e. setting up swap and boot

Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation

1998-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each > interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like > telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and > completely ignore the othe

Re: Which package for pkzipped files?

1998-11-30 Thread David McDonald
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Richard Lyon wrote: > I have an archive file created on a windows machine with pkzip. Which debian > package is most suitable for extracting files from this archive? There is no > password protection on the file. Get zip-crypt_*.deb and unzip-crypt_*.deb. You should find t

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-11-30 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dana G Haugli wrote: > I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only recognizes up to 64 MB. > I have tried adding "mem=128M" to my lilo config file as recommended in the > HARDWARE HOWTO, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Try: append="mem=128M"

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > Allmost debian list is about problems of installation. > > > Would it be so difficult to install Debian? > > > > My opinion is the RedHat is easier to install than Debian. Also, it > > may be easier to get help with RedHat

Re: Where can I find KDE debs?

1998-11-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Try ftp://ftp.timsnet.com/kde/pre1.1/19981026/ As well as being more up to date, this will cure the libstdc++ problem slink users are having. Now that the license problems are almost sorted out, hopefully KDE will be back in Debian soon. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 30 Nov 19

Re: unmapping alt-Q on netscape 3

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
damon wrote, > "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote: > > About twice a week, I hitt alt-Q rather than alt-W in netscape, > > bringing down the whole netscape. This is version 3 (4 is missing a > > couple of things that I use). Is there any way to disable that key > > sequence? > check out /usr/lib/n

pgplot & absoft fortran

1998-11-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
has anyone remade the pgplot package using absoft fortran? At the moment, I'm stuck using g77. Unfortunately, it's missing many of the matrix features that I need (which is part of why this project is in Fortran in the first place: it's straightforward bashing of numbers into submission, w

Re: help for a future user

1998-11-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
C.J.LAWSON wrote: > I wonder about this ... The assumptions are that (1) one has > co-workers/friends/peers that actually use Linux and (2) that these > folk are informed and accessible. > Beyond that, one is left with the question as to whether or not the > common distribution in use is the right

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