Re: Kernel error?

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
i think your best off submitting that to the linux-kernel mailing list, best chances of success there.. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: nisse >Unable to handle kernel pageing request at virtual address e2092040 nisse >Printing eip: nisse >c0127339 nisse >*pde = 0

Help: smail not sending outgoing mail

2000-01-14 Thread Marie Stutz
I'm having trouble sending mail with smail (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2) from my Debian (potato) system. I can receive mail, and can send to local users, but mail to anywhere else just goes to a temporary file in /var/spool/smail/input/. Empty files with the same name as the above temp files t

Re: rsh access

2000-01-14 Thread Brian May
> "Paul" == Paul McAvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be Paul> better off with SSH as it is (more) secure and offers the Paul> same functionality. ... or the Kerberos version of rsh (eg in heimdal-clients in potato) ... (

X->Console Scrambles 'box' characters

2000-01-14 Thread markm
Hi, I am stumped... I have two machines: 1) SVGA: chipset: cyberblade, and 2) S3Virge. On machine 1, when I switch from X to console, all of the 'box' characters are corrupted. (I am refering to the pretty outline characters that you get after typing: make menuconfig or the arrows that occur a

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Bishop
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: > > > They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via > apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. > Check there first. There's a command "apt-get autoclean" that deletes

Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

2000-01-14 Thread Darxus
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: > Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote: > > > > > > They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via > > apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. > > Check there f

uucp/rmail -- urgently need help!

2000-01-14 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ok lists, I desperatly need your help. I have been tasked with moving the company's email from a modem-based uucp to a tcp/ip based uucp. We will make the firewall our mx, and I have sendmail installed on it. uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running sco's honeydanb

installation bug ?

2000-01-14 Thread Casper Doppen
Hi, I tried to install Slink 2.1_r4, but got a problem. I'm installing from CD (which I made from the iso-images). The file /install/install.en.txt tells me I have to run /boot/boot.bat, but there is no boot.bat in /boot, so I used /install/boot.bat. I am starting with a msdos-disk with an atapi-d

Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Wiard
> > Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console > > Kernel Panic: cannot open initial console /dev/console > > > > And then she sinks. > > > > The boot command I have been using is as follows: > > MILO> boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 panic=30 > > This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need:

Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:02:36PM -0800, aphro wrote: > sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing > list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the > kernel or upgrade your JDK. > > this bug only affects older JDK with newer kernels, JDK tri

IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Wiard
is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that compiled in correctly). i've got an AMD (nt, right now) and an sx164. the sx uses t

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Joey Hess writes: > > produces one directory under test: test/{usr,bin} > > > > Note that /bin/sash also has the same problem, while /bin/bash, > > /bin/tcsh, and /usr/bin/ksh do not. > > > > Any comment? > > Yes. {foo,bar} is a bashism. Do not expect any shell except bash to > expand it. But how

nfsd times out

2000-01-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
I just did an "apt-get install nfs-server" on my slink box. The only thing in my /etc/exports is "/mnt/mirror". When I do an "/etc/init.d/nfs-server start" I get: {0}:wally:/root>/etc/init.d/nfs-server start Starting NFS servers:Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out nfs is compiled into

Window Maker 0.61.0

2000-01-14 Thread Smirks
Hi guys, I installed slink yesterday from a CD, and seem to be having a little problem with window maker. I downloaded and compiled the latest version, and when I run the WPrefs application it craps out when you click on the misc. options buttion with the error: ./WPrefs: error in loading shared

Problem with xdoom

2000-01-14 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I downloaded doom from cnet and I get the foll error message when I run it, DOOM System Startup v1.8 V_Init: allocate screens. M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults. Z_Init: Init zone memory allocation daemon. W_Init: Init WADfiles.

Re: ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:51:29PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: > Good day all > > I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I > updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window > used to bring up stopped appearing. This seems to have something to do > w

Re: Problem with xdoom

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
make sure your X server is in 8 bit color, 16 24 and 32 is not supported apparently by xdoom. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: rradha >Hi, rradha > rradha >I downloaded doom from cnet and I get the foll error rradha >message when I run it, rradha >

Re: IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Dave Wiard wrote: > is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for > a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to > let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that > compiled in correctly). i've got an

printing from Windows to Linux printer

2000-01-14 Thread fairfax
I am trying to print from Windows to a printer connected to a Linux machine. What I have discovered, is that unless the spool directory has permissions 777, Windows cannot print to the Linux machine. However, if I set the directory permissions to 777, it reverts back to 700 after I reboot. (Ca

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
I can't reproduce your results here. With both '#!/bin/ash' and '#! /bin/ash' I get 'test/{foo,bar}' as a directory. I'll guess that on your system, the space causes the #! to be ignored and the script run by your current shell (presumably bash). Try changing your shell to ash and rerunning

Jaz Drive on Parallel Port

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Anybody have experience using a Jaz drive on a parallel port. I don't have a SCSI card so it has to be ||-port. The Jaz HOWTO only talks about SCSI. I'm guessing I need SCSI support compiled, but not sure what else. Thanks in advance. -- ++ |

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I did "dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base". All seems to be well! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows > up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as > "essent

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I can't reproduce that behaviour here (potato with ash 0.3.5-9). On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0800, H Huang wrote: > > I've been experimenting using /bin/ash as /bin/sh recently. No big > problem so far. However, a couple of debian/rules failed to > build. Further examination shows that: >

Re: IP without host

2000-01-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > is there any way i can set up my machine to use IP but NOT go looking for > a host, anywhere? i have 2 machines completely isolated and i'd like to > let them talk (ipx would be fine also, but i can't seem to get that > compiled in corr

Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can choose which OS to start from a menu. Is their a way to do this? T

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread ktb
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on > the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a > boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can > choose which OS to start from

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Howard Mann
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on > the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a > boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can > choose which OS to start from

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Jan-2000, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on > the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a > boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can

Possible to run RH program from Deb. on same HD?

2000-01-14 Thread ktb
I have both Debian and Redhat on the same HD. I was wondering if it is possible to run programs that are on the Redhat side from Debian (while running Debian)? I've mounted the Redhat side and tried, but I get, /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin# /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c bash: /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c: Perm

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 13/1/2000 John Pearson wrote: When your .xsession terminates, so does your session. The last program you start in your .xsession should *not* be put in the background like that, or you will exit before your WM has time to start. oops your right, I usually start xscreensaver and use the &

IO-redirection seems to be not working

2000-01-14 Thread matthschulz
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0 w

FW: chat rooms for vampire

2000-01-14 Thread Adam Bronnenkant
  -Original Message-From: Adam Bronnenkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FW: chat rooms for vampire   -Original Message-From: Adam Bronnenkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:54 PMTo

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, Thanks for the help with booting Win98 and Linux everyone. When my dad brings the computer home tommorrow, this should be pretty easy. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Joey Hess writes: > > But how can you explain > > -- > > #! /bin/ash > > mkdir -p test/{foo,bar} > > -- > > does expand the {foo,bar}, while > > It doesn't here. Sorry. It doesn't here either. But try: -

Re: wireless suggestions

2000-01-14 Thread Nate Duehr
Alberto, What do you use on the "head" end of the system? Is there an inexpensive "base" station for the WaveLAN products? Thanks for your time! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:50:17AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > A frien

ethernet config

2000-01-14 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Hi Once the debian base system is installed how to config the ethernet card?. I used to call something like netcfg in redhat. I am new to debian and dont know the equivalent in debain Thank you Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R

Is My copy bad?

2000-01-14 Thread Charles Gretton
Hi I just purchased a CD release of Debian GNU/Linux release 2.1. I have attempted to install it but failed. I got the impression that the CD I got was broken when the default directory for the kernel( /debian?) wasn't there( Although "resc1440tecra.bin" was in the /boot dir). And the file "drv144

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Kent West
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > Thanks for the help with booting Win98 and Linux everyone. When my dad > brings the computer home tommorrow, this should be pretty easy. > > Thanks, > > Cameron Matheson > Alternatively (to the suggestions to multi-boot using LILO), you can also tweak CON

Re: ethernet config

2000-01-14 Thread Jim B
You will need to use ifconfig to set up your network adapter. For example: ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 You also will also need to add routes depending on what kind of network environment you are in (is this machine a gateway, or does it use another machine as its gateway, etc.). Respond to the list

Re: Weird ash/sash behavior -- Solved

2000-01-14 Thread H Huang
Forget it! I put the space in the wrong place: "# !/bin/sh", as opposed to "#! /bin/sh". I'm really sorry :( Thanks. -- H Huang

Re: Help! - DEC Alpha install

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Lucina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need: > > > > boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 > > > > You need to make the root.bin floppy also. > > I believe you are correct on this. You will need both floppies, and the > MILO command here looks

sb 16

2000-01-14 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I have a soundblaster 16 card, when I choose soundblaster compatible module for it, the module is for soundblaster pro (8 bit only 3.01), not for soundblaster 16. My card chip is CT8920. In my message log, it said SB DSP version is just 3.01 which mean that your card is several years old. My

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-14 Thread Dänzer
--- Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called > > Contents-i386.gz in the dists/ directory. It lists every > > single file with the package that contains it. > > > > So a 'zgrep "file I need" Contents-i386.gz' gives you

Re: uucp/rmail -- urgently need help!

2000-01-14 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Seth On 13 Jan 00, at 15:36, Seth R Arnold wrote: > uucp can copy files (over tcp/ip) between speedy (an SCO 5.0.5, running > sco's honeydanber uucp) and scorch (a linux firewall, taylor uucp, sendmail > 8.9.3, mostly a hand-rolled machine from before I met debian). I have a similar setu

Re: pppd trouble..

2000-01-14 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hello > /AutoPPP/ -a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem > ms-dns 208.222.179.31 lock proxyarp (my local ip):(remote ip assigned to > modem) > also, the system is not detecting when the line hangs up, i logged off 8 > minutes ago and it still shows the connection, i susp

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-14 Thread Bruce Sass
It is also searchable online: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages at the bottom of the page (Thanks, Jay). -- On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called > > > Contents-i386.gz in the dists/ directory. I

KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)

2000-01-14 Thread Guyren G Howe
I want to get right into customising this thing (currently ranked as newbie). So I installed the Afterstep desktop instead of KDE. Kinda nice, in many ways. But I miss some of the nice little apps from my Corel KDE stuff. I've found that I can fire up the file browser by executing CorelExplorer.

Re: Possible to run RH program from Deb. on same HD?

2000-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ktb) wrote: >I have both Debian and Redhat on the same HD. I was wondering if it is >possible to run programs that are on the Redhat side from Debian (while >running Debian)? I've mounted the Redhat side and tried, but I get, > >/mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin# /mnt/rh/usr/local/sbin/c

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory T. Norris) wrote: >On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows >> up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as >> "essential" which prevents dpkg from remov

first time install

2000-01-14 Thread David Pilz
I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need them? Also, the file sizes specified for the packages are relatively small - 3 Kb, 4 K

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread John Gould
You need to set up Windoze in it's own partition first, leaving space for Linux. Then install Linux and use LILO to boot into Windoze. Do it the other way around and Windoze will write over the Linux boot mgr. Typical Microsoft crap! Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Out of curiosity, what are the basic specs (processor, RAM etc.) of the machine where you are using VMware as you describe below? Tom Kent West wrote: > > And yet one more alternative: if you have the horsepower, get VMWARE and > install Win98 on top of Linux. That way you never have to reboot

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Brian May
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> I've got my home computer set up this way, and my mom's Kent> computer set up to multi-boot using LILO. They both have a Kent> 2-choice menu; with the Windows method you can use the Kent> up/down arrows to make the choice;

cfdisk

2000-01-14 Thread Nikos Voutsinas
Hello, I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a message saying something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table" After that I can not mount the partition (even

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79

2000-01-14 Thread Guyren G Howe
Title: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79 This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I just get the command prompt back. Besides, shouldn't this tie into startx somehow? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 13 Jan 2000 22:02:49 -0

Defaults in /etcD/apt/sources.list, potato

2000-01-14 Thread Johan Ur Riise
I installed a fresh potato-system from 2 diskettes, files base2_2.tgz and drivers.tgz dated 2000-01-04. The rest pulled from the net. I noted: The documentation give you a choice to use only the rescue-diskette, but I think there is no root system on that diskette now. I had to use the root-diske

potato install-disks and package selection

2000-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
do the potato boot-disks contain the base package selecion menue? i used the disks from before a week and did run in troubel with this. gerhard

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Jim B
The correct way to install a new window manager is to use register-window-manager. register-window-manager --add /usr/local/bin/blah or register-window-manager --default /usr/local/bin/blah to make "blah" your default WM. Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in th

Re: starting prefered window manager (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #79)

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I just get the command prompt back. chmod 700 changes the permissions on the .xsession file, it must be executable to work. Besides, shouldn't this tie into startx somehow? yes but ad

update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kroder
i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that update-menus doesn't run throug correctly, but i can't find the problem. running on the new system shows: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk >more update-menus.log > In file

Re: How to install new Window manager

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 14/1/2000 Jim B wrote: Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in the list is the default. assuming you 1) have root and 2) want the change to be global rather then per user. Ethan

quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I do this in Latex: Foo bar that is, I want flushright the "bar" word. I tried \begin{flushright} and it starts a new pagraph. I also tried \raggedright and it gives error, coz I am using this within a

Re: first time install

2000-01-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Symbolic links are, you would never guess it: links, for example you can make a a symbolic link by: `ln -s /var/www/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin` (if you now cd to /var/www/cgi-bin you find yourself in /usr/lib/cgi-bin). That about devel being 150MB is that devel is not just one package, but a profil

small lab

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run potato. What's the better way to do this? Any suggestion is we

Re: Is My Copy Bad?

2000-01-14 Thread Charles
Answering Jim's questions( thanks for helping): Yes I am trying to install Debian from a CDROM and booting from this. I am trying to install on a p-133, 32-meg 16xCDROM, IDE hard drive and CDROM boot enabled. The installer runs fine, I mount the root partition and so on. Then I get to the problem

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

2000-01-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Glenn Remstedt wrote: > hi there, > > my verry first time to boot up an Debian, with floppies ... > > Package: boot-floppies > Version: > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.12-1999-12-09/ > Architecture: i386 > memory: 32Mb > scsi: Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W > >

Re: quick latex question

2000-01-14 Thread Armin Wegner
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Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-14 Thread Jens Guenther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson > Vision (www.s-vision.com) I asked Sorenson some time ago (after this subject was raised last time...) and they told me, that they have not the right to license it

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Sean Johnson
A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file ... as its format is evidently fscked. Sean Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as > potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that > update-menus doesn't

mgetty's autoPPP not doing what I want...

2000-01-14 Thread Patrick
Hi, I have a little problem with mgetty's autoPPP on slink. I don't seem to be able to deny autoPPP to specific users. In /etc/mgetty/login.config I have /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login and in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets : * fritz "" * fritz being my dialin co

Re: small lab

2000-01-14 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Mario Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and > 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I > would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run > potato. > What's the better

imp/horde minor problems

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just updated my potato system today and noticed some minor problems in IMP/HORDE. The horde.lib released with the today horde version has wrong WebClient class - it's lacking a var (rather_not_popup): you need to re-build it. I used build.pl --with-config=config/buildopts.in

Re: cfdisk

2000-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:47:59AM +0200, Nikos Voutsinas wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using > cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a > message saying something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read > table failed.

Re: Jaz Drive on Parallel Port

2000-01-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net): > Anybody have experience using a Jaz drive on a parallel port. I don't > have a SCSI card so it has to be ||-port. The Jaz HOWTO only talks > about SCSI. I'm guessing I need SCSI support compiled, but not sure > what else. I would imagine one treats it e

Re: IO-redirection seems to be not working

2000-01-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting matthschulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady > stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) > > When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, > can be saved and so on. I ca

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Evan Moore
one other alternative, if it is a GUI menu that you want try boot magic, it is a part of Mandrake GNU/Linux. On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on > the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer,

Re: first time install

2000-01-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Pilz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few > problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not > being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need > them? Also, the file sizes specified f

Re: Booting Linux and Win98

2000-01-14 Thread Richard
Coincidentally, I'm doing the same thing, but using boot floppies since LILO doesn't like how big my my new HDD is (/dev/hdd, coincidentally), or where I have the linux partition. Is there any way to work around that? (I would like to use a kernel above 2.0.36, but the boot floppy makers for the

RE: Inspiron 7500 network setup

2000-01-14 Thread Harley Pebley
Terry, Calum, > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking > station (not a PCMCIA card). ... > Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station > recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and really use it? > Snipped replies for Terry and Calum. Thanks. Aft

greater problem with IMP

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, After I sent the previous message about minor problems with IMP/Horde, I found a new problem and I couldn't solve it. I can login, browse the message subjects, delete, move message, but when I try to read the message (by clicking in its subject line) I get the following messag

Re: Is My Copy Bad?

2000-01-14 Thread Taupter
Hello there... I had some trouble installing not only Debian, but Windows 98 and other Linux Distros booting from CD-ROM in /dev/hdb (in others machines). The error seems to be caused by some buggy boards that doesn't handle HD and CD-ROM in the same IDE when processor goes to protected mode, pro

Re: ethernet config

2000-01-14 Thread 2
what kinda ethernet card do you have? if it's an isa you'll need to give the IO base argument using io=0xnnn where nnn is the IO base. if it's pci it should work automatically. i'm assuming that you're trying to do this during the debian installation process, am i right? if not you'll hef to do so

Leafnode - basic question

2000-01-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying out leafnode. It produces a huge database in /var/spool/news containing all the news groups on the server I connect to (about 25,500). I succeeded in getting it to connect to selected groups and threads; so far, so good. But how do you get a news reader (slrn, tin) to read just those yo

Re: KDE stuff under other desktops (and desktop recommendations)

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: guyren >I've found that I can fire up the file browser by executing CorelExplorer. guyren >But it lets me look at files but not, for example, open them. I believe corel hacked up KDE 1.1.2 and included some KDE 2 stuff in it so file associations worked..

Text conversion utils (dos2unix)

2000-01-14 Thread Arcady Genkin
Which package do text conversion utilities come with? I'm looking for dos2unix primarily. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: first time install

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
first of all, specify what you are doing to install it, exactly. it sounds like you are trying to ftp the distribution package-by-package from a distro site to install this is NOT the way to do it, there is a 99.9% chance it will get screwed up somewhere. i did it on my first install and spent 3 da

Re: cfdisk

2000-01-14 Thread aphro
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nikos Voutsinas wrote: nvouts >Hello, nvouts > nvouts >I would like to create a new partition (logical, type 83) using cfdisk. I have done what ever I usually do but the last time I get a message saying something like "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot

curious Ethernet errors

2000-01-14 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I have been experiencing curious NIC error messages, none of which mean anything to me. Any assistance in comprehending their content is welcome. System is Debian 2.1 (up to date) on Pentium, 64 MB, with NIC (from dmesg), eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ 12,

Does the following proves that there is a problem with my ntp server?

2000-01-14 Thread Shaul Karl
[18:40:18 /tmp]$ ntptrace 192.115.3.254 core.israsrv.net.il: stratum 3, offset -3599.179944, synch distance 0.03766 iix.net.il: *Timeout* [18:40:36 /tmp]$ date -u Fri Jan 14 16:40:44 UTC 2000 [18:40:44 /tmp]$ date Fri Jan 14 18:40:45 IST 2000 [18:40:45 /tmp]$ Assuming that the current UTC ti

X windows...

2000-01-14 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, I recently installed debian, and I'd now like to get the all the packages I need for X Windows (XFree86). My only problem is, I'm not sure what packages those are. My question is, what all packages do I need to apt-get so that I can have a working X Windows system with enlightenment and gnome.

amd config

2000-01-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
Can someone send me a config file that shows mounting 2 nfs filesystems to /mnt/d1 and /mnt/d2 and the change needed to the amd.conf file or master file to make it use the 2 filesystems? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread 2
this is something that's been bugging me for a long time so i hope someone can help me out. today i did a $ tail /var/yp/bobturf/passwd.byname and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it had changed to some other kinda term type or something. this happens a fair bit

XFree86 3.3.6 available for slink.

2000-01-14 Thread Vincent Renardias
Hello, I've just recompiled XFree 3.3.6 for slink and uploaded it on my webpage. For apt users the appropriate sources.list line is: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main It can also be downloaded directly from http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/

Re: weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 15/1/2000 Robert Marlow (2) wrote: this is something that's been bugging me for a long time so i hope someone can help me out. today i did a $ tail /var/yp/bobturf/passwd.byname and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it had changed to some other kinda term typ

Re: Leafnode - basic question

2000-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
Anthony Campbell said: > But how do you get a news reader (slrn, tin) to read just those you have > chosen to get news from? With "slrn -h localhost" I am confronted with > the whole 25,500, and I don't know how to get tin to read the list at > all. In slrn, you can use L (slrn commands _are_ case

"Illegal isntruction"

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi While upgrading from slink to potato i started getting this message. I think it comes from perl because when i do perl i get that same error. when i do dpkg -l | grep perl i get this: ii data-dumper2.10-2 Store and retrieve perl data structures ii dpkg-perl 0.1-3.0

Re: curious Ethernet errors

2000-01-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote: : System is Debian 2.1 (up to date) on Pentium, 64 MB, with NIC (from : dmesg), : : eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ 12, DMA 7. : lance.c:v1.14ac 1998/11/20 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : The error mess

Re: weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread 2
Wooh!!! thanks heaps => from da Bobstopper Snip are you sure that file is ascii text and not a binary file? if i for example run: cat /bin/ls my terminal gets totally screwed and unreadable but still works (hey encrypted terminal

Re: curious Ethernet errors

2000-01-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ 12, DMA 7. > lance.c:v1.14ac 1998/11/20 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The error message that appears in 'dmesg' at various times after > booting is: > > eth0: tr

"Illegal Instruction" - take II

2000-01-14 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi It's me again. I'm starting to believe that the problem is not perl but something else. I tried to start apache-ssl by hand and it gave the same result: Illegal instruction. Any suggestions ? Should i just reinstall slink on that s...y machine? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAI

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