2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
Thank you to all who let me know some more information about kernel 2.4.1. It installed flawlessly, runs smoothly so far, and if anything seems lightning quick. I'm looking forward to reformatting some of the partitions as reiser and play around with it for a while. However, I'm really confused by

Re: 2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Thank you to all who let me know some more information about kernel # 2.4.1. It installed flawlessly, runs smoothly so far, and if anything # seems lightning quick. I'm looking forward to reformatting some of the # partitions as reiser and play around

Install on a HPT366

2001-02-20 Thread Stuart Larson
I'm having a few problems installing Debian 2.2r2 on a machine with a HighPoint 366 controller. Here's my setup. I have two identical IBM drives in this computer (on bus 0 and 1 of the highpoint controller). The first (hde) is a fat32 win98 drive. The second (hdg) -- yes, I have both drives pri

Correction: [2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?]

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
Just one tiny correction. After figuring out what modconf actually does, I've easily managed to manually install all kernel modules I need with insmod. I guess that the gui hasn't been updated to understand 2.4.1 directories, but the other utilities work fine. No big deal really...

ssh.postinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found?

2001-02-20 Thread Ross Smith
I've been using ssh 2.3.0 with a stock potato install for a month now, with no problems. Now, after running: apt-get update apt-get upgrade I get: Setting up ssh (2.3.0p1-1.13) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure): s

security.debian.org mirrors? (was Re: Debian or Redhat 7??? )

2001-02-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:13:40 PST, Rick Rezinas writes: <...> >deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > >but you may want to use a mirror, so they don't get nailed. Umm, there´s a mirror for security.debian.org? There´s no mention of mirrors on http://www.debian.org/s

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Stults wrote: > I actually have two questions here. First... What is the next logical > step? Attaching strace to the process (strace -p pid) and getting a log. -- see shy jo

Re: yo, where's .Xresources

2001-02-20 Thread T. Tilton
> Nick wrote: > > I am trying to set up my wheel mouse , > which requires a script for IMPS/2 > > Where is .Xresources, I have looked in > ~/.Xresources > /home//.Xresoures > > Thanks for the help > > -Nick It's called ~/.Xdefaults if you are wanting the see/modify a user's xresources. Or if

[Q] How to remove a broken package

2001-02-20 Thread wen
hi, I am in deep trouble with managing packages. I could not remove a package which is in the status of half-installed. When I try to remove it by dpkg -r or dselect I get a error message as follows, --- dpkg: error processing tfm-arphic-bkai00mp (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent

Re: How to clone packages setup

2001-02-20 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:31:00PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. How do I clone my packages setup? Search the archives for debian-user. I've seen the question come up from time to time. -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get stuck SOLVED

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
David Bellows wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Heh, I solved my own problem with: > > apt-get --force-remove-reinstreq -r powermanga > > And it worked! Did you file a bug on powermanga? It needs to pre-depend on a recent version of dpkg. -- see shy jo

Re: Wine

2001-02-20 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with using wine? I am currently doing alot of > web development at work and _really_ hate using windows. Unfortunately, I > don't find Gimp or any other Linux graphics alternative to match up to Adobe > Photoshop or Imag

HTML2RTF

2001-02-20 Thread Jonathan Markevich
Has someone come across a command-line HTML to RTF converter? As far as GUI tools, nothing seems to be able to touch pathetic writer (WP, StarOffice, AbiWord all choke) I'm thinking of unifying all of my Palm docs into one format, and I registered WordSmith -- a RTF based editor. Or do I have to

Re: ssh.postinst: dpkg-statoverride: command not found?

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:30:25PM -0800, Ross Smith wrote: > I've been using ssh 2.3.0 with a stock potato install for a month now, with > no problems. potato is no longer compatible with woody. > Now, after running: > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > > I get: > > Setting up ssh (2.3.0p

Re: security.debian.org mirrors? (was Re: Debian or Redhat 7??? )

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:41:40AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:13:40 PST, Rick Rezinas writes: > <...> > >deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > > > >but you may want to use a mirror, so they don't get nailed. > > Umm, there´s a mirror for s

Fw: Debian crashes.

2001-02-20 Thread Alexey P. Ivanov
> > Hi ppl > > During my usage of Debian I rarely had any problems with it at home, > but after getting it into production server at work crashes became > quite often (once per month - for sure). And it crashes randomly, at no > particular task, not at high load, just when it wants. > Without any

XFree86 4.02

2001-02-20 Thread John Beining
Currently I can't get XFree86 4.02 up and running, I am using sid. Here is the error message Iget: X: cannoy stat /etc/X11/X What is going wrong here?

Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: > > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly > > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this > > little lot... [Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing] OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :) Alter

Re: XFree86 broken.

2001-02-20 Thread Eivind Arnesen
I'm using 3.3.6, when everything was messed up, I did try version 4.0.2, which I managed to start at a very low resolution (I had trouble configuring XF86Config-4, and I was missing a tool called dexter, I thnk). Anyway, I've solved the problem. After trying: dpkg --force-depends -P xbase-client

Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: > > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly > > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this > > little lot... Just out of curiousity, I did an apt-get update this morning, then apt-get install perl and tha

Woody mouse and net are dead

2001-02-20 Thread Steve R. Hastings
My computer has Woody installed and I update it every few weeks to the latest in unstable. Right now its mouse and networking are dead and I need help. I had it set up and working great. The mouse worked, and the Internet worked. It booted to gdm and I had great fun in GNOME, surfing with Mozil

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am in deep trouble with managing packages. I could not remove >a package which is in the status of half-installed. When I try to >remove it by dpkg -r or dselect I get a error message as follows, >--- >dpkg: error processing tfm-arphic-bkai00mp (--remove): > Package is

QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? Thanks, Jonathan -- Jonathan // Gift /~~(0) (_|

Re: XFree86 broken.

2001-02-20 Thread Eivind Arnesen
Thank you! I've managed to fixed the problem (I'm happy again).. --force-depends did the trick (I read something on the debianplanet), that pointed med in the right direction) , and I was able to reinstall XFree. But thanks for your reply, I did learn something new! Eivind. On 2001.02.2

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package(SOLVED)

2001-02-20 Thread wen
cjw44> Either download it and 'dpkg -i tfm...deb', or else 'apt-get --reinstall cjw44> install tfm-arphic-bkai00mp'. After I edited the script of postinst it was removed. Thanks anyway. Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Push mirror?

2001-02-20 Thread Andre Berger
On 2001-02-20 10:08 +0100, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On that topic, what IMAP server do you recommend? I'd like to set one up, but > I'd prefer if it could (1) be fast and (2) work with my regular unix mail > spool file setup (mbox). I would be willing (and eager) to forgo #2 if

Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread dickson chow
Hello there, i'm a linux newbie :) I have an old box with a IBM/Cyrix 133mhz cpu, 16mb ram, 340mb hd, 28.8 isa modem, soundblaster 16 isa, a diamond stealth 24 video card (also isa), and a NE2K compatible 10mbit pci nic. Here's what i want to do with it. 1. Turn it into a fax/ansering machine.

Re: How to clone packages setup

2001-02-20 Thread Robin Rowe
John, I did look, but didn't find anything relevant. Frankly, searching the archive is hopeless unless what you are looking for contains a distinctive word and you know what quarter to search in. Since you recall the post and I don't, maybe you would have better luck searching the archive? Cheers

equivs errors

2001-02-20 Thread Neil Grant
hi I am trying to create a dumby package for qmail, I have created a ctl file from the template (the attached file), then when I do 'equivs qmail.ctl' I get the output shown below thanks Neil dh_testdir touch build-stamp dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k # Add here commands to install the pac

Help please on binfmt error msg...

2001-02-20 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm posting about a recent error in my daemon log that occurs every other day stating: modprobe can't locate module binfmt-002 (these numbers change) The kernel source docs say that binfmt is used by the shell to start other, I assume, non-native executables like DOS or Java, etc. Now I've

Mouse under X is a black rectangle??

2001-02-20 Thread Hanno Böttcher
hi all, I just installes XFree 3.3.6 and all is working fine except one thing: I used XF86Setup to configure my X and probed the configuration. All is working but my mouse is no pointer but a black rectangle. I tried to use several mouse configs but it won't work. I have a Celeron 333 Mhz, 128 MB

Re: equivs errors

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
"Neil Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to create a dumby package for qmail, I have created a ctl file >from the template (the attached file), [...] >parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at changelog >line 1 You need a "Source:" line in the first block of the co

Re: newbie: apt->x11 only?

2001-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
Remy Indebetouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but >don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? > >i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, >without success > >i also tried loading

Re: equivs errors

2001-02-20 Thread Neil Grant
adding the source and change the package line has fixed it, thanks for the fast response Neil - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:58 AM Subject: Re: equivs errors > "Neil Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying

Re: xmps-win32-plugin

2001-02-20 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> In file included from win32_codec.c:29: > win32_codec.h:36: libxmps/libxmps.h: No such file or directory Install xmps-dev. -- Alexey Vyskubov (at home) Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! pgpUtZWjqJW37.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote dickson chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1. How can i install debian at its bare minimum? (HD space is only # 340mb. sorry if this is a dumb question. i'm new to linux and the linux # structure is totally alien to me. i'm trying very hard to learn it # though :) What I would do is extract base

Re: newbie: apt->x11 only?

2001-02-20 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> I would like to get only xfree86 4.0 (out of woody, presumably), but > don't want to deal with all of woody updates - what's the easiest way? > i tried getting sources.list to point only to pool/../xfree, and such, > without success > i also tried loading all 'testing' into dselect but couldn'

Potato and ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just need to know if ADSL is supported with potato. Regards __ Voila vous propose une boite aux lettres gratuite sur Voila Mail: http://mail.voila.fr

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > That'd be more complex; you'd probably have to write a web front-end ... > and you'd also have to install some sort of webserver :( At 340M, you're > already going to be limited to how many voice messages you can store > with only the base Debian confi

Re: XFree86 4.02

2001-02-20 Thread David Purton
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, John Beining wrote: > Currently I can't get XFree86 4.02 up and running, I am using sid. > Here is the error message Iget: > > X: cannoy stat /etc/X11/X > > What is going wrong here? > This could be because /etc/X11/X doesn't exist. It seems that by default X4 lokks for

Re: Potato and ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread Remco Rijnders
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just need to know if ADSL is supported with potato. I used potato with ADSL before with no problems. Just so you know, ADSL is a wide term and there are different protocols that all are ADSL but can be very different from one another. I

after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian user's, My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over again on this list (I have searced but not been able to find an answer), or if I am on the wrong list. When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root (with su - ) for administrat

Re: How to clone packages setup

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:31:00PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. How do I clone my packages setup? > dpkg --get-selections [pattern...] Get list of package selections, and write it to stdout. filter the result, e.g. | grep install and check it. d

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root" ] ; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority fi This

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi, > > By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security > reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the > following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: > >if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root

Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Walther, Christoph
Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? Thanks, Christoph Walther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know > if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the > archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but > I'm not sure what the problem is. >...

Re: Potato and ADSL

2001-02-20 Thread John Foster
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > I just need to know if ADSL is supported with potato. REPLY- You will find that it is MUCH easier to set up your system using ADSL connections than managing a dialup connection. You will need to have all of the

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread James Sinnamon
Martin, Thank you for your suggestion ... > Hi, > > By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security > reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the > following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: > >if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root" ] ; then >

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package

2001-02-20 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I had these exact problems with four of the "arphic" font packages. Finally filed a bug report against them and got a nice response from the maintainer. In order for these things to get installed properly you will need to install the package xutils. Then I'd guess you could remove them, t

Re: AMD k7

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On booting with the install CD, I get the regular > messages until ncr53c406a: no available ports > found. Then the system freezes, ctrl-alt-del > doens't work. The default Debian kernel appears to include support for this device and a couple others and is compiled *in* vs being compiled as a mo

Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walther, Christoph wrote: > Dear Debian-Community, > > how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely > using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? This one is easy enough... let's say your Win95 box has an IP of 10.0.0.95, just type expor

iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread spent187
(i hope this posts properly) I am relatively new to linux, and have recently upgraded to woody, and the 2.4.1 kernel. But now my ip masq'ing doesn't work. This is what I had in 2.2.18pre with potato: echo -n "Starting IP masquerading... " echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -

#!/usr/bin/tclsh not working

2001-02-20 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I tried the following simple script with tclsh: #!/usr/bin/tclsh puts stdout {Hello, World!} ( from Brent B. Welch, Practical Programmin in Tcl and Tk) made the file (Hello) executable and typed . hello and I get the error bash: puts: command not found. I also tried

RE: AMD k7

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Now we're on the subject, is there a way to succesfully compile a kernel using M$ operating systems ? It would be some handy last resort if all else fails. -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debia

clock with wrong time

2001-02-20 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hi all, Please cc a copy of your replies as I am not a subscriber of this list. I have something strange happening in my computer, take a look: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date ter fev 20 10:37:24 BRT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date --rfc-822 Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:37:25 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telne

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Banners and Logos

2001-02-20 Thread Brian Russo
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:14:15AM +0530, Murali Kumar K wrote: > > Dear sir, > > We have launched a Brand New Site www.softlandindia.com > > SoftLandIndia is a virtual freewares and Sharewares directory. The entries > are selected with the average Indian user in mind. The aim is for a better, >

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread John Foster
William Leese wrote: > > On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any > > > suggestions anyone? > > > > > > it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated > > > code) that handles nested table

Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
If you want to start processes (e.g., an xterm) from the win box, you'll have to install rexecd (in package rsh-server) which has security implications; if you elect to do so then you can use hummingbird's xstart tool to get an xterm and set the display for you. ---

Re: HTML2RTF

2001-02-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
LogicTran (http://www.logictran.com/net2rtf.html) hs one but it's not free. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMA

RE: jre problem

2001-02-20 Thread Jae Klaassen
On Thursday, February 20, wujf wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:58:12PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > > Since you're using Oracle, presumably you're not opposed to using > > non-free software. That being the case, I would suggest > using the jdk > > or jre available as debs through www.black

Re: Fw: Debian crashes.

2001-02-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Alexey P. Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During my usage of Debian I rarely had any problems with it at home, > > but after getting it into production server at work crashes became > > quite often (once per month - for sure). And it crashes randomly, at no > > particular task, not at hig

LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread The Doctor
Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that croaks with LI is there a way to be able to boot windows again? This will be complicated by the fact that the folks at HP only provided a h

Re: iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
spent187 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But with 2.4.1 I understand I must use iptables, but I don't know > what I have to change in my script... http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/ is the homepage of the netfilter project; there you'll find good documentation. NAT is explained here: http://netfilte

Re: Running Deb on old PCs

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Just my two cents' worth here... I did a semi-manual potato install # recently (i/e/ selecting individual packages from the menu rather that # just the groups) and have ended up with a full mail and # web/SSL/PHP/mod_perl system with quite a few extra od

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread David B . Harris
To quote James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over # again on this No problem at all :) But check the archives next time. Since you have a specific string to seach for("Can't open display"), a search would provide good results.

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: > > On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Actually, I don't understand the part about "if i had a server". > > If > > you've got a Linux box, you can run Apache and any one of several DB's > > on it, and test out your pages locally. > > replace that

Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread techlists
I just bought Railroad Tycoon II for Linux. It only runs at 1024x768. My Laptop will only do 800x600, I'm running woody, XF864.0.2, KDE 2.0. How do I make my Virtual Desktop 1024x768, so I can play this on my Laptop. It runs fine on my Desktop, I guess it serves me right for going with a clon

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve wrote: > > > It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as > good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most > pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is > WYSIWYG and almost no one writes their own postscript

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Hanno Böttcher
you can boot from win bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr with a windows boot sector. Or you boot your linux with a boot disk and repair lilo ;) hanno - Original Message - From: The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: LILO on my wi

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread hanasaki
You need to set your DISPLAY=host:0.0 env var. You may also have to use xhost to allow permisions to open the display. On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian user's, > > My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over > again on this > list (I have sea

(no subject)

2001-02-20 Thread JoshNarins
NThis system (Compaq Presario (tower) 7478, see below) has recently been upgraded to Debian-2.2r2 and everything was working so well. I edited /etc/lilo.conf ran lilo -v and got no errors. Now, reboots yield Compaq Presario 7478: 500 AMD K6 II CD-RW DVD-ROM on board AGP grpah

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:11, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > you can boot from win bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr with > a windows boot sector. Or you boot your linux with a boot disk and repair > lilo ;) hmm, i'd suggest both.. fdisk /mbr might kill both lilo's (actually, i'm abo

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Steve
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT of > designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dreamweaver (not > UDev version) has it's flaws and shortcomings it is still a very productive > program to work with

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i'm not convinced the open-source 'community' will ever be tempted to do so since a lot of them feel 'commercial' software is 'not done', the fact that current open-source software is more like beta-software with horrible look and feel is not of importance, free is, too bad -Original Message-

dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Christian Terboven
Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the following error messages: (Reading database ... 77304 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace g++ 1:2.95.3-5 (using g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement g++ ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configu

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread ktb
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Steve wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT of > > designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dreamweaver (not > > UDev version) has it's flaws and

RE: Virtual Desktop

2001-02-20 Thread techlists
I know, but the new config file makes no mention of virtual settings, so I'm not sure where to set it to 1024x768. Wayne Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > you're addicted aren't ya ? you'll have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file > and adjust the virtual entry to 1024 768 > > goo

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Steve
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Steve wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > > > if dreamweaver would be available on Linux i'm sure there would be a LOT > > > of > > > designer's making the transition, though i must add that Dream

Re: iptables and 2.4.1

2001-02-20 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi try http://www.hgfelger.de/mss/mss.html and http://www.hgfelger.de/mss/mss-clamp don't know if that would help. Edwin Lau On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:47:20 spent187 wrote: > (i hope this posts properly) > > I am relatively new to linux, and have recently upgraded to woody, and > the 2.4.1 kernel.

ssh-client, which terminal emulation?

2001-02-20 Thread Florian Kessler
Hi, i want to connect to a remote linux server via ssh using nifty-telnet (mac) or putty (win32). Which terminal emulation is the right? Vt102 doesn´t work for me, because all funktion keys, insert, delete and some others aren´t mapped correctly. Any hints? Florian

Re: dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Deselaers
> "Christian" == Christian Terboven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello Christian, Christian> Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the Christian> following error messages: you should try apt-get install g++ this finds out all dependencies and solves your Problem. thomasd

[OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
I understand that UUCP is a form of a network system or protocol. Is it still in use or it is totally replaced by TCP/IP? Is there any good documenation about networking in general which is uptodate?? TIA Stephan

Mozilla .8

2001-02-20 Thread Ray Percival
Does anybody know of a deb for Mozilla .8 or failing that how easy is it to create one that "just works" using alien? What I am looking for here is something that works as well as the Progeny .7 debs. I installed it a entry showed up under Debian and net in my menus it launche ran and does what

Re: dependency problems

2001-02-20 Thread Christian Terboven
Thomas Deselaers wrote: "Christian" == Christian Terboven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello Christian, Christian> Hi all! dpkg -i g++_2.95.3-5_i386.deb produces the Christian> following error messages: you should try apt-get install g++ this finds out all dependencies and solves

RE: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all devices. From what i remember (did not use it since then) it's easy (what's in a word) to set up but only support serial/

can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John May
I am using Apache 1.3.17 (compiled from source) on Debian Woody. When I try to exec some CGI scripts, by typeing in the URL, ex. http://www.cybergeek.org/cgi-bin/newspro/newspro.cgi, I get an an Internal Server Error with the following error in Apache's error log: [Tue Feb 20 08:55:23 2001] [erro

Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package(SOLVED)

2001-02-20 Thread wen
glenn> I had these exact problems with four of the "arphic" font glenn> packages. Finally filed a bug report against them and got a nice response glenn> from the maintainer. glenn> glenn> In order for these things to get installed properly you will need to glenn> install the package xutils. The

RE: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> > Dear Debian-Community, > > > how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to > it remotely > using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? > I use exceed on nt all the time (required to use nt @work...). You can use any number of connection methods. Since I am on

Re: [OT]: UUCP

2001-02-20 Thread Joe Block
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix-CoPy > > I've used it nearly 8 yrs ago in a specific situation, even then it was > considered out-dated. I figure it's mostly replaced by TCP/IP on all > devices. From what i remember (did not use it since then) it's easy (what's > in a wor

Re: annoying modules.dep message

2001-02-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Brian May wrote: > > > "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik> apparently no. this question keeps popping up, never > Erik> answered. I had the same problem and I wasn't even able to > Erik> figure out what changes the date on /etc/modules.conf > > Erik>

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? LaTeX is nice, but it is *not* a desktop publishing programming like Quark. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread c-3
Date sent: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:42:31 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:LILO on my windows partition From: The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Like an idiot, I accidenta

module problem

2001-02-20 Thread c-3
Hi! Can anybody tell me how (or where) the location of modules are referenced? Because I compiled and installed some modules, but if I try insmod I get a message that the module couldn't be found. But perhaps it's just a very dumb reason. Christian

RE: module problem

2001-02-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
you seem to be getting into a whole lot of trouble, in a very short timeframe. I'd advise you to take the time to read some How-to's. Read what you're in need of and read it two or three times to let it sink in. You'll see that afterwards a lot more things are lot more apparent. You might also noti

RE: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Greetings, all. > > Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my > right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with > standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead. > > So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my > windows partition, so nw booting from my LILO to > windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that > croaks with LI > > is there a way to be able to boot windows again? Is linux installed on a *second* hard disk ?? It sounds like it...

Re: module problem

2001-02-20 Thread T. Tilton
c-3 wrote: > > Hi! > > Can anybody tell me how (or where) the location of modules are > referenced? > Because I compiled and installed some modules, but if I try insmod > I get a message that the module couldn't be found. > But perhaps it's just a very dumb reason. First do a depmod -a after i

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:46:35AM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: > > > > Martin, > > Thank you for your suggestion ... > > > > Hi, > > > > By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security > > reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the > > follo

Samba &| VFS

2001-02-20 Thread Rob Hudson
We recently set up a Samba server on Debian potato. After a little uptime (about 30 minutes to an hour) we saw an error message that said: VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached I did some searching on the net, and found what might be a solution. I added a simple .sh script to the startup that in

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