Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

2000-06-12 Thread Joseph de los Santos
I wanted to test the 4.0-test ones but I did'nt see them over at kernel.org or kernelnotes.orgwhere did you see them? - Original Message - From: Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 6:12 PM Subject: Re: ker

Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

2000-06-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:39:13 -0700, "Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wanted to test the 4.0-test ones but I did'nt see them over at kernel.org > or kernelnotes.orgwhere did you see them? In the ftp directory with the kernels, there's a "4.0" directory. You need the 4.0

Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

2000-06-12 Thread Joseph de los Santos
thanks. - Original Message - From: Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9 > :: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:39:13 -0700, "Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

Wheel mouse not working...oy.

2000-06-12 Thread Tim Jump
Yep, another cheesebag who can't get his stupid M$ Wheel Mouse to work with Debian. I'm stumped...after consulting all the messages and info about getting it to work, it just refuses to. Maybe after the breakup it will? Sarcasm... Anyway, I've got a basic M$ Wheel Mouse(tm) connected to my PS/2

Need help w/proper syntax for Netscape in .Xdefaults

2000-06-12 Thread John Foster
netscape*Navagation ToolBar.Shop.isEnabled:false below is my pieced together file to control netscape. I have found the all of the colors seem OK but the real reason that I want to get this correct is to get rid of the Shop button and add a search button. I have had no luck and none of the example

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works - > > but during the load process, immediately after "Calculating module > > dependencies" I get a lot of "insmod *** unresolved symbols in > > lib/modules/x.x.x/misc/abcde messa

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-12 Thread John Gould
Hmm, Hello John, sounds like you've had lots of problems? Well here's my two pennyworth... What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one of the specified package sets or a custom install. Then select 'cust

Latex and Foiltex

2000-06-12 Thread Mithrandir
Hi All ;) I got a simlpe question, does anybody known wheter there is a Foiltex-Package for Latex as debian package?? I don't find it, and it would be very important for me. The standard Latex don't seems to include this package but it exists. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot, greetings

Re: sound problems

2000-06-12 Thread M. Tavasti
Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After installing helix-gnome onto potato I realized that everything > freezes whenever I play mp3s. After deactivating soundeffects for > sawfish(probably using libesd) that did not happen any more. Until now, > I didn't try gnome-audio.deb. > > Anybody had t

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Nathan, and what about a mirror config file to mirror this. Can you (or other) send it for me? Thanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:05:04AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Hi

RE: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict revisited

2000-06-12 Thread Mark
Hello. Sorry but I mist the thread of this one!. I also have a gpm / xwindows conflict. I have tried various protocols and types of mouse (I tried a serial bus mouse and a ps2 trackman), but the mouse never works in X if I had gpm previously working. Can this be fixed? or do you have to make a

Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.

2000-06-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Tim Jump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Section "Pointer" [...] >Buttons 3 [...] > EndSection This should read "Buttons 5".

Compaq b520 and trident blade 3d

2000-06-12 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed slink and then upgraded for potato a Compaq 520 with a Trident Blade 3D video card. My X is very small in horizontal mode. Anyone knows a good modeline or a place to find one for this machine? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict revisited

2000-06-12 Thread Preben Randhol
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/06/2000 (12:28) : > Hello. > > Sorry but I mist the thread of this one!. > > I also have a gpm / xwindows conflict. I have tried various protocols and > types of mouse (I tried a serial bus mouse and a ps2 trackman), but the > mouse never works in X if I had

SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Mark
On boot up, when my system executes the network init script, it gives the error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters the network script contains: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.1 lo It's crashing on the "route add" bit. Shouldn't it be "route add -host" instead of "-net"? -- M

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-12 Thread Jason Quigley
> > I partitioned the HD into a 925 MB linux partition (type 83) and an 80 MB > Linux swap partition (type 82). I tried this setup because the install > manual suggested as much swap space as you have memory. > IIRC, and this is for all you people who used to run NT Server on the box and there

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Corey Popelier
Umm, two aspects I can think of: (1) in kernel 2.2.x -net isn't required at all iirc, so route add 127.0.0.1 lo should be enough. (2) I would have thought the route should be 127.0.0.0 not 127.0.0.1 ... my /etc/init.d/network says 127.0.0.0 but don't take that for gospel. Cheers, Corey Popelier

new Debian user

2000-06-12 Thread Anthony Durity
Hi all, I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may not be so Debian related so sorry in advance. I am in the process of setting up a potato test-cycle 1 system that I bought from some very nice pe

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Mark
On 12/06/00 at 19:37 Corey Popelier spake the following magic words: >Umm, two aspects I can think of: > >(1) in kernel 2.2.x -net isn't required at all iirc, so route add >127.0.0.1 lo should be enough. >(2) I would have thought the route should be 127.0.0.0 not 127.0.0.1 >... my /etc/init.d/netwo

Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

2000-06-12 Thread Wilson Yau
Could anyone give me a brief on the general procedure of troubleshooting the following problem? When my machine boots up, Linux is auto-probing the hardware, then it stops and pops up an error message "Kernel Panic..VFS" I tried to use a 'rescue' disk and did the e2fsck, but it said t

Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Suter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wilson, > When my machine boots up, Linux is auto-probing the hardware, then it > stops and pops up an error message "Kernel Panic..VFS" > > I tried to use a 'rescue' disk and did the e2fsck, but it said the '/' > partition was clean. > I

HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin Cobb
My debian Linux box is recently throwing numerous hda errors.  I apologize for my obvious "newby question".   Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the Linux 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then come up on drive 2?   I've looked for tools such as Ghos

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Mark wrote: > Hmm, ok, but the networks file is stock, set up by the debian install. I > have upgraded the kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.15 - would this be the "route" > of the problem? :) Yup. If I am not entirely mistaken, the 2.2.x kernel doesn't need the route entry as it sets routes automatical

Re: Need help w/proper syntax for Netscape in .Xdefaults

2000-06-12 Thread ktb
John Foster wrote: > > netscape*Navagation ToolBar.Shop.isEnabled:false > below is my pieced together file to control netscape. I have found the > all of the colors seem OK but the real reason that I want to get this > correct is to get rid of the Shop button and add a search button. I have > had

setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread David Dodson
Hello I've never run any kind of other operating system besides windows and I was considering setting up debian on one of my workstations at the office since its the only place I have computer and internet access. I still need to keep windows and absolutely under no circumstances can I have on

Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

2000-06-12 Thread Wilson Yau
Mark, Yes, thank you for reminding me the missing bits (The machine with broken O/S is not with me at the moment, I'm sorry that I have not jotted them down properly). Now, presuming what you said is right and once I've checked out the number,x in the error message "VFS: Unable to mount root fs

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-12 Thread John Hasler
John Gould writes: > What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all > the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one of the > specified package sets or a custom install. Then select 'custom', but > don't select any packages with deselect. Re-boot and run de

Re: Setting hwclock time

2000-06-12 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios > clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install > numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future > time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

2000-06-12 Thread John Gould
Yes, agreed my miskake sorry. Regards JohnG 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian' On 12 Jun 2000, John Hasler wrote: > John Gould writes: > > What I like to do when installing Debian on a new system is to follow all > > the prompts until it asks whether I would like to install one

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread ktb
David Dodson wrote: > > Hello > I've never run any kind of other operating system besides windows and I was > considering setting up debian on one of my workstations at the office since > its the only place I have computer and internet access. I still need to > keep windows and absolutely under n

Re: Daemons that use the serial ports

2000-06-12 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > How do you know what daemons that currently using the serial ports? > My system behaves strangely; when it was init'ed to single user, the > serial ports (/dev/ttyS0 and S1) can be probed using setserial -a. But > when it was other than single user, setserial -a said that the devices > w

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
> Kevin Cobb wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the Linux > 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then come up on > drive 2? How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I have set up several dual-boot systems (linux-windows3.1, linux-NT, and linux-w98). If you have partition magic, I have had success shrinking the vfat partition and creating linux partitions. However, if the linux partition is far from the master boot-block, then you will, I think, need to use a b

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread servicom
You could also instead of using tar, which will create a large backup file, just use cp -Rdp /old /new Cheers, Jason. > From: Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:10:09 +0200 > To: Kevin Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HDA is

Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread mheyes
What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? I am trying to do transfer my current install from a smaller drive to a larger one. I installed, partitioned and formatted the new drive with the same partitions as the smaller one. Then, I copied each partition in tur

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread David Dodson
I have one hard drive that ive already partitioned. I was going to setup debian on the un used half. So you see I can't unpulg my hard disk. Will this be a problem? It sounds like you will have Debian on one drive and Windows on another. You can use 'lilo' to boot one or the other. There s

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Sven Burgener
>How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting Where to get / how to create such a floppy? (Like a mini-debug-admin-system on floppy; that'd be neat) >the old drive under /old, the new one under /new and then issuing as >root: > % cd /old > % tar cvf /new/backup.tar * > %

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Sven Burgener wrote: > >How about booting from a rescue disk with its own filesystem, mounting > > Where to get / how to create such a floppy? (Like a > mini-debug-admin-system on floppy; that'd be neat) My first try would be booting from the slink CDs. If that is too limited you can check the

xisp and kppp and gnome-ppp and ...

2000-06-12 Thread Alberto Meroni
I am trying to make these packages working for a non root user. I added the user to the group dialout and dip and the user can log to the provider with pon and logout with poff but... He cannot read the log file fo a problem of permissions. Is there a clean way to solve the situation? And if the sa

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Jason Quigley
BTW, somebody mentioned problems with disk performance under 2.2.15 and that I should stay with 2.2.14. I am interested in getting LVM working on my system and the only 2.2.x system that will be patched will be 2.2.15+. Does anybody know if this person was using the wrong orifice to communicate?

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Sven Burgener
> My first try would be booting from the slink CDs. If that is too > limited you can check the rescue disks from Debian > (//debian/dists/slink/main/{root,resc1440}.bin, see the textfiles > in that directory), the the Bootdisk-HOWTO > (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html), or

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin Cobb
One of the newgroups I read contained the following, does anyone know if this works with 2.1. I believe it was for potato but being a very new linux person, I couldn't tell you the differences. "install new hd in the system 1.. 2. partition it and mke2fs 2.. 3. mount it to /mnt 3.. 4. execu

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Suter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, > What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? I suggest dump(8) and restore(8), as in the following example. As dump(8) and restore(8) are filesystem oriented, you will need to repeat this for each filesystem.

Re: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict revisited

2000-06-12 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi all, I had the similar problem and I found out if I remove the symbolic link /dev/mouse -> /dev/gmdata resolved the problem. Preben Randhol wrote: > > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/06/2000 (12:28) : > > Hello. > > > > Sorry but I mist the thread of this one!. > > > > I also have a

Re: Kernel Panic!..VFS.....

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Suter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wilson, > Yes, thank you for reminding me the missing bits (The machine with broken O/S > is > not with me at the moment, I'm sorry that I have not jotted them down > properly). > Now, presuming what you said is right and once I've checked out the

use second hard drive to boot from?

2000-06-12 Thread Joe Smith
Hello, I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into my box to boot from. Is it possible to install a second hard drive into something like the floppy drive bay? Thanks ___

error in make menuconfig

2000-06-12 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all, ive never seen this before, ive been compiling kernels on this since 2.0.34. archangel:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-

telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I've constantly login to my debian/linux box from windows/nt using telnet. Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would I do this from windows/NT? I did not seen windows/NT provide the ssh. Would someo

Re: error in make menuconfig

2000-06-12 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hi again, i meant, "ive been compiling kernels on this same machine since 2.0.34" how could those files have dissapeared ? TIA, chad On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:27:38PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > hello all, > >ive never seen this before, ive been compiling kernels on this since

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Jim Ray
> > Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and > have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would > I do this from windows/NT? I did not seen windows/NT provide > the ssh. > There are two ssh clients for NT that are freely available. Putty - http://www.chiark

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Sven Burgener
> Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and > have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would > I do this from windows/NT? I did not seen windows/NT provide > the ssh. You need to use TeraTerm with the SSH extension or something of that kind. I use TeraTerm with

Anyone have kernel-source-2.2.14.deb

2000-06-12 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
For reasons not yet explained, kernel-source-2.2.14.deb is not at the DEB respositories though its Package WWW page is still up at www.debian.org. I need to do a compile with 2.2.14 source, to support both OSS sound and the ltmodem.o winmodem binary, which doesn't (yet work) with 2.2.15. Does a

Re: Anyone have kernel-source-2.2.14.deb

2000-06-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why do you want a .deb for kernel sources?? (Is there such a thing as a debian package for kernel sources anyway??) Why don't you just download the tar.gz (or tar.bz2) from one of many... many mirrors in this world. For example: ftp..kernel.org Ron Rademaker On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky

Re: use second hard drive to boot from?

2000-06-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can boot from it, perhaps you bios doesn't support it, but don't worry the are more ways to get where you want to be: - Install MBR with LILO onto your hda, with a lilo.conf that has something that looks like this: other=/dev/hdb1 label=Second_Harddisk alias=sd - Install a M

Re: Anyone have kernel-source-2.2.14.deb

2000-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: >> For reasons not yet explained, kernel-source-2.2.14.deb is >> not at the DEB respositories though its Package WWW page is >> still up at www.debian.org. I need to do a compile with >> 2.2.14 source, to suppor

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi all, >I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, >woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if >someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config file for >this. I only mirror th

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:34:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > > > > > I partitioned the HD into a 925 MB linux partition (type 83) and an 80 MB > > Linux swap partition (type 82). I tried this setup because the install > > manual suggested as much swap space as you have memory. > > > > IIRC

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. > I'm > using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I > use gnome > or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I play > mp3s.

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can get multiboot using lilo, that'll give you what you want, here's a little example (my own lilo.conf) (I removed uninteresting things): image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.0-test1c1 label=2.4.0-test1c1 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.15c1 label=2.2.15c1 read-only image

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Nathan, > and what about a mirror config file to mirror this. Can you (or other) > send it for me? I use rsync. However, I don't have a 386 only rsync config handy ... sorry. Perhaps someone c

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Allan Andersen
Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hi all, > >I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, > >woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if > >someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Allan Andersen
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:20:19AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > Hi Nathan, > > and what about a mirror config file to mirror this. Can you (or other) > > send it for me? > > I use rsync. However, I don't have a 386 only rsync con

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Hood
> Oh, well... I can play mp3s here. What are you using to play them? In > xmms, try chosing the OSS driver instead of esound. > > The only thing that's not working here is esound. > BTW, I'm running woody. GNOME plays sounds through esd. If esd is not running, and sound is enabled in GNOME, and

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid Parameters

2000-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jun 2000, Jason Quigley wrote: > BTW, somebody mentioned problems with disk performance under 2.2.15 and that > I should stay with 2.2.14. > > I am interested in getting LVM working on my system and the only 2.2.x > system that will be patched will be 2.2.15+. > > Does anybody know if this

Unidentified subject!

2000-06-12 Thread mcclosk
|> Hmm, ok, but the networks file is stock, set up by the debian |> install. I have upgraded the kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.15 - would |> this be the "route" of the problem? Yes, this is why you're getting the SIOCADDRT error messages. Actually, one of the changes between slink and potato that's

Re: error in make menuconfig

2000-06-12 Thread Mark
On 12/06/00 at 22:27 Chad A. Adlawan spake the following magic words: >hello all, > > ive never seen this before, ive been compiling kernels on this since 2.0.34. > >archangel:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig >rm -f include/asm >( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) >make -C scripts/lxdialog all >ma

Signals SIGSTOP

2000-06-12 Thread Nuno Almeida
I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if it's a bug of mine.   When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 and 17, for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. On Debian I can catch the SIGSTOP

Re: error in make menuconfig

2000-06-12 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:51:41AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > loki:/rexxscripts$ dlocate -S string.h > libc6-dev: /usr/include/bits/string.h > > Looks like at least libc6-dev is missing. Lemme know how it goes. it worked ! libc6-dev was the missing package (along with libncurses5-dev).

Fw: Signals SIGSTOP

2000-06-12 Thread Nuno Almeida
    I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if it's a bug of mine.   When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 and 17, for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. On Debian I can catch the SIG

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
Please do not use HTML since many mailclients cannot display it properly. Thank you. * Kevin Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the > Linux 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then > come up on drive 2? If there are no p

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and > have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would I > do this from windows/NT? I did not seen windows/NT provide > the ssh. You could use PuTTY or TeraTerm Pro (haven't

Re: masqmail - really a good & safe solution for DIP connected box?

2000-06-12 Thread Davide Marchignoli
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > Therefore I need to forge the mail headers, to make them "reasonable" > for different DIPs. I've heard that masqmail is suitable for such purpose, > but its version number (0.0.12) makes me a little afraid of it ;-). > Does anybody has

Non-OpenGL online games for Linux?

2000-06-12 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, I'm having trouble finding some action/adventure games for Linux that don't require an OpenGL-able graphics card where I could play against at least one other person online. Can anyone recommend any? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.c

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:51:58PM +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: > * Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and > > have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would I > > do this from windows/NT? I did not see

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Thanks for all the replies I got. One more question, does Debian offer the sshd and ssh client in debianized package? I could not seem to find them anywhere. Thanks! Christopher Splinter wrote: > > * Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently, I have learned th

How to copy a HDD with all Partitons and Datas?

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Wild
Hello, I have to install 6 machines with Debian. All the machines have the same hardware. So I´m looking for a chance to install it the easiest way. Is it possible, that I install it on one machine and copy the HDD to all other HDDs and then to built in the HDDs in the new machines ? Thanks !

RE: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Chris Mason
I sue SecureCRT to ssh to my Linux boxes. I tried others but they looked horrible. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetCo

Getting X to work with a Diamond Viper v770 and slink

2000-06-12 Thread jpb
Ivan Vukosav wrote: > > How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card? Add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main to /etc/apt/sources.list #apt-get update;apt-get upgrade;XF86Setup Thats how I got my 770 working. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Brian Stults
"Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > One more question, does Debian offer the sshd and ssh client > in debianized package? I could not seem to find them anywhere. > You have to get it from the non-US section. For example, you could add this line to your sources.list in /etc/apt: deb ftp://non-us.

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"t.bedlam" wrote: > Is this a KDE problem? Does KDE use termcap and not terminfo? Termcap very > likely does not support color; a termcap.gz is in /usr/share/doc, but Debian > doesn't use it; it's just there for reference. My xterm/rxvt work great, > 2.1 and 2.2. I'm composing this mail in vim 5.

Re: How to copy a HDD with all Partitons and Datas?

2000-06-12 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Thomas Wild wrote: > > Hello, > > I have to install 6 machines with Debian. All the machines have the > same hardware. > So I´m looking for a chance to install it the easiest way. > > Is it possible, that I install it on one machine and copy the HDD to > all other HDDs and then to built in the H

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I think that I need some document on the ssh. I thought ssh and sshd are the client and server that would replace telnet and telnetd respective. Why is ssh only available for non-us distribution? Secondly, I log on to the site below and found: non-free/ ssh-askpass-nonf

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

2000-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC) Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:34:08PM +0200 In reply to:Jason Quigley Quoting Jason Quigley([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > IIRC, and this is for all you people who used to run NT Server on the box > and therefore probably had l

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > I think that I need some document on the ssh. www.openssh.com > I thought ssh and sshd are the client and server that would > replace telnet and telnetd respective. Why is ssh only available > for non-us distribution? Th

Wrong charset in KDE

2000-06-12 Thread Vicente Torres
I friend of mine has problems using KDE in catalán language. Especial symbols are not recognized in menus and $HOME/.xsession-errors shows following message: "KCharset: Wrong charset!" The FAQ of KDE tells about a pair of solutions but none of them seem to work for him. Has anyone solutioned thi

Re: esound (woody) broken?

2000-06-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:46:08 -0400, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > GNOME plays sounds through esd. If esd is not running, > and sound is enabled in GNOME, and an app issues a sound, then > GNOME pauses or hangs up. So one wants esd to be running. Well, I have a different problem. W

Re: Setting hwclock time

2000-06-12 Thread David Teague
Jack, Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc. Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old machines. It is worth a tr

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kevin Cobb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 3.. 4. execute "find / -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt" ^ a to reset access time, not u which would be redundant for an empty partition. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 65

dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Chris Mason
I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even "apt-get -f remove exim" fails. Is there a way to forcilble remove exim?

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to do transfer my current install from a smaller drive to a larger > one. I installed, partitioned and formatted the new drive with the same > partitions as the smaller one. Then, I copied each partition in turn (/, > /root, > /home, /o

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim"

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Sven Burgener
>I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months ago. What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as I wasn't able to configure it to my (simple) needs, I switched to exim. TIA Sven

/var/log/syslog entries

2000-06-12 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, I'm getting TONS of this: Jun 12 06:30:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56637 F=0x T=64 (#5) Jun 12 06:33:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=5

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread mheyes
I changed the new drive's /etc/fstab to point to all the new partitions on the new drive, and they appeared to mount correctly at boot. It really does look like a problem with /var though. I'll check again. I created a boot floppy to try and boot the new disk by booting with the original disk, t

RE: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Chris Mason
When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have installed myself, so that won't do. I know postfix, but not exim, I have it on another machine, so I would like to use it instead of exim. All my nerd friends recommend postfix. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British

disk partitions

2000-06-12 Thread David Dodson
When creating a multi-boot system I've read that the root directory must be within the first 1024 cylinders on the hard disk. I'm not exactly sure what a cylinder is in relation to a hard disk, and how do you find out if it will fit or not? Thanks, David __

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? Secure design, using chroot jails (even in Debian's default installation), only the postfix 'master' daemon runs a

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

2000-06-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:57:32AM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting TONS of this: > > Jun 12 06:36:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56673 F=0x T=64 > (#5) > Jun 12 06:39:03 doma kernel: Packet lo

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have > installed myself, so that won't do. You should try to fix that problem. But do run dselect update first, to make sure apt and dselect agree in the package available file... (also, mak

imp with php4

2000-06-12 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Has anybody been able to run imp with php4 on potato ? I'm getting error about imap_utf7_encode() being undefined and indeed there is no such function in php4-imap module. I'm running on sparc. Sergey.

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