To install Lilo in the MBR of the primary/master drive (/dev/hda), you
need this line in your /etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
A minimum lilo.conf in your case (with no menu or boot prompt) might be:
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdb1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
read-only
image=/path/to/your/kerne
*- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about "Re: Outlook and HTML"
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500,
> Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1. Standard signature separator is "--" with a blank following it.
^^
>
Hi,
Sorry to butt in here, but I'm a little unclear on this, and I'm having
similar problems myself.
>To install Lilo in the MBR of the primary/master drive (/dev/hda), you
>need this line in your /etc/lilo.conf:
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>
>A minimum lilo.conf in your case (with no menu or boot prompt) m
Friday, December 03, 1999, 4:34:01 PM, Brian wrote:
> *- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about "Re: Outlook and HTML"
>> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500,
>> Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 1. Standard signature separator is "--" with a blank following it.
>> Actually, it
Hi all,
I just bought a wheel mouse for my system. I wasn't sure what I needed
to do to change over from a serial mouse, so I reconfigured X. After
that's all said and done (it works great in XF86Setup) and I start X
and Window Maker comes up it goes crazy. I shut down X the hard way
and I get thi
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> >
> >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 *1 1080293+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/hda2 11 2080325 8
*- On 3 Dec, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: Outlook and HTML"
> Friday, December 03, 1999, 4:34:01 PM, Brian wrote:
>> *- On 3 Dec, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote about "Re: Outlook and HTML"
>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500,
>>> Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Standard signa
[The lists redhat-devel-list@redhat.com and gnome-list@gnome.org would
not let me post to them. If you can, would you please forward this
reply to those lists?]
If people in the LSB are now interested in working with the GNU
Project, that's a good thing. Starting with this basic willingness to
c
Hi,
I am a newie to DEBIAN. I have just installed
a 'Dial Up' package but don't know the Boot via Floppy procedure. Could someone
please fill me in on the details, thankyou:
1/ place floppy in
drive;
2/ start computer;
3/ login to root;
4/ password;
5/ DEBIAN# (UNSURE
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > >
> > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 *1 108
On 12/03/99 04:57PM, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I just bought a wheel mouse for my system. I wasn't sure what I needed
> to do to change over from a serial mouse, so I reconfigured X. After
>
Uh, scratch that. I'm a big dummy. Aparently my XF86Config file was
getting saved under /root, so any changes I
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:15:35PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote:
>
> According to the Changes file, (usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes),
> kernels after 2.2.11 needs a newer version of pppd:
>
Yoink! Missed that! (I also noticed that it isn't in the known 2.2
problems on the web page). Oh well.
I'm dealing with much the same thing with 3com right now. I'm attempting
to flash upgrade one of their 56k Sportster modems without having to go
out and purchase a license for Windows 98. Unfortunately, I've gotten
three different support people in their support department for four
different email
I get the following two messages sometimes in the daemon log:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108
Potato/2.2.13 current updates system.
Think I saw a reference to char-major-108 in an earlier post but could
not find in archives. PPP
I just blew away my box and re-installed. All went rather well, but when
I try to start X, I get this:
...
...
(--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
(--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage128 RF rev 0, Memory @ 0xe000, 0xde80, I/O @
0xd80
if you go bp6 make sure to run a good amount of stress tests, my bp6
crashes constantly even with both cpus under 30C.
a good stress test i find for a system is run between 8 and 10 copies of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for at least 24 hours.
my box crashes after a few minutes.
(even with ultra wide scsi
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:05:21PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis was heard to state:
> Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood
> by commonly available PDF readers? I run TeXLive, up to date, so My
> Milage May VaryTM). I cannot get anywhere. I have waited for a
> library
On 3/12/99 Evan Moore wrote:
if your ever look at buying a new computer to put linux on you may look at
buying an apple. the LinuxPPC group has declared their distribution to be the
easiest to install version of linux. I installed it on my PowerMac 8600
with no problems.
I would have to disagr
Could anybody help me on getting mule to work for emacs20. I want to
be able to read and write chinese characters, but everytime I get a
BIG5 encoded e-mail, all the chinese characters come out as square
boxes (under X). It works under Xemacs, but I would like to stay
GNU. Any suggestions? I ha
> LinuxPPC uses the same installer Redhat uses, recently they made a X
> based installer but it was quite broken to begin with and fails far
> to often. (X based installers will always be unreliable IMO just
> because of the wildly differing video hardware)
Now what makes Windows so incapable
I am using the Corel distro (which is very nice, by the way), which was
built on top of debian (not the best way to phrase it, but you get what I
mean). But for some reason, I can't get sound to work. I run sndconfig and
it detects my card and gives me the following:
DKG-LINUX:/home/greedavk2# sn
Greetings all,
My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not acknowledging
/sbin/init q or similar things.
Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing.
Also, this has happened before but I dismissed it because of something else I
was screwing around with
On 3/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote:
Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems?
I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer
on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware.
perhaps because win95 has a bazillion drivers? the generic
X serv
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not
> acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things.
>
> Many processes are defunct and zombied but not actually closing.
>
> Also, this has happened befo
Hi,
Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the
Debian distribution?
Thanks.
Felix.
President and CEO of MAD...
&&
ITS Visiting Scientist (Experimental Support for IT)
_
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:34:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:33:14AM +, Tom Goulet wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> My /sbin/init is not respawning processes (like gettys), and not
>> acknowledging /sbin/init q or similar things.
>>
>> Many processes are defunct and
Matthew Denson said:
>Do I just change /etc/lilo.conf? Or, do I change it and then run lilo? Is
>lilo automatically run because the /etc/lilo.conf file is modified?
Nope, there's no process watching lilo.conf and running lilo whenever it gets
changed. Any time you edit lilo.conf, you _always_ hav
Patrick Kirk said:
> Is what I am trying to do possible and if so how have I
> messed up permissions, assuming that is what I've messed up?
Oh, it's definitely possible... From my fstab:
genma:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs hard,intr,nosuid,noexec 0 0
Granted, that exact line won't w
Bart Szyszka writes:
> Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? I've
> never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer on a
> system that just had DOS because of video hardware.
Have you ever heard of a video hardware manufacturer that stayed in
business
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi,
>
> Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the
> Debian distribution?
Packages: I doubt it. The drivers simply don't exist in the currently
available Debian (it uses a 2.0.x kernel), and will never be ava
> Your best option for a USB mouse under Linux is to use a current
> development kernel (2.3.x) - they have the best support for USB. Just be
> aware that at the moment 2.3.x seems to be compile-error and crash
> prone.
>
> The current stable series (2.2.x) has experimental support for USB; mice
minicom followed by at the prompt.
But you were probably tried that. What reports do you get?
--- Begin Message ---
How do you start minicom?
--- End Message ---
Hi,
After I installed a Debian package, I
rebooted. Now every time I reboot it ask to login, but when I do it goes
to a command line (DEBIAN#). What do I type in here to get the X server
working, or whatever to see the Desktop page of Debian
Thankyou
Simon
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Miskinis wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> >I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a
> >serial
> >cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal.
> >
> >Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation
> >as
> >to how to d
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote:
> Is there a quick way (on a debian 2.0 system) to block specific
> adresses from making inetd style connections (ie. ftp, telnet
> etc?) my instincts tell me that is has to do with the
> /etc/hosts.deny file. unfortunately I can't fin
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Out of curiosity I went looking for USB configuration under the
> menuconfig of 2.2.14-pre and couldn't find it. What section is it
> under? I have a new HP printer that is USB capable so I was curious
> about playing with it.
You n
You probably didn't configure your X. run XF86Setup and configure it.
you have to execute the following command before you do it: killall xdm
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:56:00PM +1000, simon_robertson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I installed a Debian package, I rebooted. Now every time I reboot it
I need to downgrade libpng2 from the current 1.0.5 in potato to the
older 1.0.3 (which I believe will fix a problem with pdflatex in
tetex-bin - Debian bug #49834).
Where do I find old version of deb packages?
Cheers,
Graham
Bart Szyszka wrote:
> IMO, [Outlook 2000 is] significantly better (as is the Office
> 2k suite entirely, IMO) in performance and features.
>
Except that Office 2000's setup installs IE and Outlook [Express] even
if you don't want them. You can do a minimal install of them, and you
can even uninst
Hi, List,
I know I saw a discussion of this somewhere; maybe even here.
Why does 2.2.13 allocate so darn much swap? I'd been gone for a
week, came home, unlocked xlock, and the silly thing swapped for
at least 30 seconds (it felt like a lt longer, but I didn't
time it, so I'll try not to ex
On 04-Dec-1999 simon_robertson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I installed a Debian package, I rebooted. Now every time I reboot it
> ask to login, but when I do it goes to a command line (DEBIAN#). What do I
> type in here to get the X server working, or whatever to see the Desktop
> page of Debian???
> "Keith" == Keith G Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Keith> I just checked out Outlook98, by sending and replying to
Keith> messages to myself, and apparently it does not provide
Keith> "References" headers. It does do threading of a sort,
Keith> apparently by the subject l
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:39:50PM -0600, Daniel Yang wrote:
> Eventually, I made my web server and my own domain
> (www.mydomain.com) running, but my ISP, mindspring told me
> that I am not allowed to run a web server through a dialup
> account and they can't do anything for me if I want to run m
Hi, I would like to ftp debian for mac but can't seem to get in with
out a password and login, if i have to pay I will ...
I have been having problems with my hard drive with Slink on it putting
out the following errors and hanging:
Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success
Dec 3 22:14:24 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
De
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First I should point out that I am not absolutely sure that my NIC has the VIA
VT86C916 Nile chip.
I am attaching fet916.c, which is on the diskette that I got with my NIC.
Although I couldn't get the attached fet916.c to work (not even to compile),
I managed to get the NIC to work with the ne mo
hello
in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ?
thanks a lot
> Brigette Heffner wrote:
>
> Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux?
Using Linux is like any new venture, there is a learning curve, that is
essential. If you are unwilling to spend some time developing skills,
you will not be successful
> In plain English...how do I get help with the ins
On 4/12/99 luis wrote:
in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ?
thanks a lot
apt-get install dosfstools
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To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
I just upgraded a very stable pure Slink system to Potato and I have a
few legacy problems ( I think)!
Emacs is stuck--won't install or be purged-no dependencies unaccounted
for.
Sound (OSS commercial) is installed but none of the Gnome sound effects
work. Players, mixers, etc all OK.
For some
hello
how can i install a sort of mbr that runs before lilo ?
because after having instaled debian i need to install a dos
partition, but as hda1 is the swap, hda2 linux and hda3 is dos, lilo
can not load the last partition (far beyong the 1024 kbytes limit)
so, is possible to boot the dos parti
Sorry for the legth of this one.
I`m using potato and a 2.2.13 kernel. I`ve had a working modem for ages under
slink, but a floppy and an ethernet card that refused to work because of irq
and io errors so last night I tried to sort it out finally. It seems that
pnpdump --config had grabbed the f
>
> We use Asus motherboards on virtually all of the multiprocessor systems
> we build. The reasons are simple. Excellent quality, reliability,
> flexibility, and customer service.
Please go to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. I am not saying they are
unacceptable. I have an Asus board. I a
On 4/12/99 luis wrote:
how can i install a sort of mbr that runs before lilo ?
because after having instaled debian i need to install a dos
partition, but as hda1 is the swap, hda2 linux and hda3 is dos, lilo
can not load the last partition (far beyong the 1024 kbytes limit)
if LILO won't boo
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> in which debian package can i found the mkfs.msdos file system builder ?
dosfstools
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On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote
>
> Looking at the cfsdisk table, I've just seen this (just look at the last
> line of the table):
>
> hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 78.45
> hda2 Primary Linux ext2 78.45
> hda5
On 3 Dec, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:15:35PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote:
>>=20
>> According to the Changes file, (usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes),=20
>> kerne
Felix Guerrero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any drivers or packages to make an USB mouse work with the
> Debian distribution?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Felix.
> President and CEO of MAD...
> &&
> ITS Visiting Scientist (Experimental Support for IT)
>
>
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 23:05:21 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF?
Yes.
> Can the PDF be understood by commonly available PDF readers?
Yes. See http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen/talks/ortec/ for an example
(PDF slides (including graphics and PDF thumb
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, but I already knew all that. In fact, /dev/hda2 is empty and is
> > not being used at all, so I could use that one.
>
> Note that that will still leave cyle
>
>> I get the following two messages sometimes in the daemon log:
>> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
>> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108
>>
>after creating char-major-108 in /dev.
>
>alias ppp ppp_generic
>alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
>alias char-major-108 ppp
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Hi,
I am going to install Debian from a CD using my
ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. I am switching from Red Hat.
In the ``Configure Device Driver Modules''
section of the installation instruction
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I'm very new to Linux, and I have been trying to
do a slink install via ftp. Currently I have
installed the slink kernel.
When I go to connect useing pon, it connects
alright and ev
"Brigette Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just tell me what to do...or should I buy windows 98 and forget it?
> The laptop has no operating system...now.
Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including
braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of whic
Ok, this is me...the one who posted
"Why"...
I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really
want to use Linux and It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love
it.
I have an ARM laptop with an AMD K6-3 450 Mhz
processor, 196 MB RAM, 10 GB Hard Disk, 14.1" TFT XGA , ATI vide
John Hasler wrote:
> Have you ever heard of a video hardware manufacturer that stayed in
> business more than 15 minutes selling hardware that didn't work perfectly
> with Windows?
Yes I know. ATI. My friend has Rage 128 graphics card. In Linux it
works perfectly (using Suse X server), but in Wind
You may want to remove the (CHECK) from the end of the lines which
configure the IO addresses. If you could send me the error messages,
I could tell you for sure. Actually, you're whole isapnp.conf file
would be helpful too.
Marshal
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isapnp problems?
Date: Sat,
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/04/99
at 10:13 AM, "Brigette Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Ok, this is me...the one who posted "Why"...
>I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use Linux and
>It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it.
Hi, Brigette,
I
To test DNS, instead of ping the domain name, try to ping its ip address. If
you fail in pinging ip address also, There must be something worng with pon.
Daniel
-Original Message-
From: Gavin Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 8:44
Hi,
I am currently using the sgmltools2 package from Debian, and the
corresponding latest and greatest docbook packages from Debian Potato.
However, I cant seem to get a few basic things to work the way I want it
to.
My reading of the docbook documentation suggests that the way to
hi all...
I'm moving a friend's Red Hat Linux box over to Debian. He was
running the NetWare server emulator package 'mars-nwe' on RH. Now I
need to reinstall it on Debian. I can't find mars-nwe as a .deb. Is
it available? If so, where and what is the package name?
Thanks for the help.
Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in
kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my
mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that
I can have two pine sessions running at the same time, one for my 'regular'
mai
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Got a strange question... is there a way to add a program to the menu in
> kde but run as another user? I'm considering setting up a portion of my
> mailing lists to go to a separate user account on my home computer so that
> I can have two pine sessi
Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most
recent increment.
Next:
1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's
comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But
I dont seem to have any such directory. Here
Bob Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm moving a friend's Red Hat Linux box over to Debian. He was
> running the NetWare server emulator package 'mars-nwe' on RH. Now I
> need to reinstall it on Debian. I can't find mars-nwe as a .deb. Is
> it available? If so, where and what is the pac
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:38:35AM -0500, Eric Benoit wrote:
> Hi, I would like to ftp debian for mac but can't seem to get in with
> out a password and login, if i have to pay I will ...
>
Huh?
Username: anonymous
Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easier to purchase a CD for first inst
> Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including
> braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you
Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad
distro ? I haven't used it enough.
paul
>
> --
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"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including
> > braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you
>
> Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad
> distro ? I haven't used i
On 04-Dec-1999 Paul McHale wrote:
>
>> Well, you posted this Friday afternoon and got thirteen replies (including
>> braindead recommendations such as "get Corel"), none of which you
>
> Braindead ? It is based on debian ... Do you really think Corel is a bad
> distro ? I haven't used it enou
I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux
(slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and
Password prompt. Typing a login and password doesn't help because
I get a blank blue screen and the mouse doesn't wor
*- On 4 Dec, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote about "trapped in an
xdm loop?"
> I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux
> (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and
> Password prompt. Typ
I got this off http://www.polyester.net and thought it was funny, sorry for
the spam :-)
ATT VIRUS: Every three minutes it tells you what great
service you are
getting.
MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're
I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in sources.list
for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect
handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or unstable?
Thanks in advance.
Bryan
Ray Woodcock wrote:
>
> Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most
> recent increment.
>
> Next:
>
> 1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's
> comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But
> I don?t
Thanks to everyone who helped me get out of the X loop I was in.
Now I'm back to trying to get my mouse to work. It's a serial
mouse on Com1 (it worked with that setting in Win95) and I've
tried setting the mouse device to ttyS0 in both
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config and /etc/gpm.conf but that hasn'
On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in
> sources.list
> for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect
> handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or
> unstable?
>
> Thanks in ad
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:43:44PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo:
> > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > > But my question was different: when I first partitioned my disk, I
> > > left NO space without partiti
Hi,
When I use the sgml to postscript converter, the number of lines
that appear in one postscript page is quite low and not appropriate for an
A4 size page. Where is the pagesize specified in sgmltools? Is it in a
place which can be controlled by the user?
Thanks in advance,
Jor-el
"Ain
Opps,
When in doubt, I should read the man pages.
Looks like apt will go through sources.list, and will install the package from
the first source it finds. if I am reading "man sources.list" correctly :)
Bryan
On 04-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>> I
Bob,
>
> The new Evil Empire is not RedHat. That's a mistake many of us have made.
> Debian will rue the day it got in bed with Corel. I predict
> Obergruppenfuhrer
> Cowpland will mount a full court legal press - and soon - to
> break the GPL.
>
You may be right, but I hope you are wrong. I thi
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Robert L. Harris wrote:
nomad >menuconfig of 2.2.14-pre and couldn't find it. What section is it
nomad >under? I have a new HP printer that is USB capable so I was curious
about
nomad >playing with it.
dont get yer hopes up just yet, from what ive seen the USB support in 2
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in
> sources.list
> for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect
> handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or un
No, it will install the newest version of whatever it finds. The order
of the listings in sources.list only is important if it finds two
sources for the *exact* same file. The file then will get installed
from the first URI. This is useful if you have a local mirror that may
not be up to date wi
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
pmchal >Please go to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus. I am not saying they are
pmchal >unacceptable. I have an Asus board. I am just saying there are many
pmchal >frustrated people. Given Asus popularity, the posters may be an
extremely
pmchal >small seg
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Brigette Heffner wrote:
briget >Ok, this is me...the one who posted "Why"...
briget >I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use
Linux and It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it.
there you go, there is boudn to be people at school that
On 4 Dec 1999, Ray Woodcock wrote:
ray-wo >debian:/usr/src# dir
ray-wo >debian:/usr/src#
dont panic thats not a problem :) you just dont have the kernel source
package(s) installed.
ray-wo >In other words, there seems to be nothing in there. Is this normal?
Also,
ray-wo >when I type ?man? at
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:55:27PM -0500, Joe Block wrote:
> > Now we have shadow passwords, MD5 hashes, NIS, LDAP, PAM... wow! It's
> > fantastic, but I need something that knows how to change passwords on my
> > system, because I don't.
> Check out chpasswd - you can pass it a list of username:
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:57:51PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> How do you prevent people from cracking passwords via your web page?
> I'm still looking for a secure way to accept passwords via HTML - even
> with SSL, from what I understand the available authentication stuff
> isn't suitable for
Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped me get out of the X loop I was in.
> Now I'm back to trying to get my mouse to work. It's a serial
> mouse on Com1 (it worked with that setting in Win95) and I've
> tried setting the mouse device to ttyS0 in both
> /usr/X
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