Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-27 Thread John Foster
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:13:18PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I fear this question will have an embarassing answer, but I just > > found a large file tree in /var/tmp/filexQ70qA on my Debian Woody > > system. The contents seem to be some f

Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread Kent West
1) You'll probably get more responses if you'll use a descriptive subject line and separate your various questions into separate posts. Usually. In this case, it probably makes more sense to do it the way you have done it. d wrote: same box> USR 56k INT MDM plus a PCTEL WinModem (that is

Re: Open Source Statistical Packages?

2001-07-27 Thread Henry Lebowzki
Jens Scheidtmann wrote: John Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My normal occupation as a process engineer requires much DOE and SPC work. SAS and others cost tens of thousands of dollars and are not particularly user friendly. Any suggestions for open source? If not, how would I go about

RE: A good c++ mailing list

2001-07-27 Thread Rick Commo
I have never programmed in C++ as part of my job or at home, but want to learn it in order to create a basis for comparison and since I feel very comfortable with C. As time permits I am reading through "Thinking in C++" and doing the "homework". It is a good practical book with some very good ex

Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-27 Thread Henry Lebowzki
Hello- I'm sorry if I sound hysterical, but I have reasons for concern. In fact, I'm truly desperate: it has been over a three months that I try to tackle this problem whenever I have some time. I was never able to use TeX on my potato, because the package somehow got "broken". And I mean *badl

Re: dselect: Package list totally Wrong

2001-07-27 Thread Henry Lebowzki
Gerd Wilhelm wrote: Hi Debianiens, the third time i have got the following Problem: I tried to install a Package vie dselect, but found out that the Dependencies where not met. One or to wrong keystrokes and dselect wants to _deinstall_ 142 Packages. Does anyone know a way I can tell dselect

Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm trying to install Debian on an i386 machine, and I've gotten it working, but now when I try to reinstall after I had some problems, it keeps telling me there was a problem installing the base system, that, or the installer refuses to let me configure the base system-

Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-07-27 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:52:16PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote: > I have never programmed in C++ as part of my job or at home, but want to > learn it in order to create a basis for comparison and since I feel very > comfortable with C. > > As time permits I am reading through "Thinking in C++" and doi

Re: MB suggestions?

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Matti Airas wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded my desktop motherboard and processor to ASUS A7A266 > (ALi MaGiK 1) and Athlon 1200 MHz. However, it seems I didn't do my > background research well enough - ALi MaGiK won't play together with > my BT878-based Hauppauge TV tuner card. The computer ha

Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
I don't know of any good C++ mailing lists, but I would suggest you take a look at Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 6 from Wrox Press. Half the book is tailored to Windows programming, but the other half is a very well-taught lesson on C++ Console Programming, useful in DOS, Unix, or anywhere

Re: MB suggestions?

2001-07-27 Thread JakeCatfox
I personally like the AOpen MK-33. It's only an Athlon 1ghz max board, but AOpen has some boards that will sport an Athlon past 1200mhz easily. It ran FreeBSD and NetBSD just fine, but I have not yet been able to get it working with my Hauppauge WinTV USB device in Windows 98 first edition. I'm

Re: Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?

2001-07-27 Thread hzi hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 26/07/01, 18:50:06, Yves Dessertine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?: > Hi. > I want to know it there is any link between the linux.

Re: Installing Galeon on Potato

2001-07-27 Thread hzi hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 26/07/01, 13:00:13, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Re: Installing Galeon on Potato: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Wayne Brown wrote: > | Hi, > | Can anyone help me with trying to get Galeon

Re: balsa: orphaned?

2001-07-27 Thread hzi
>> Mensagem anterior << No dia 26/07/01, 06:00:10, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema balsa: orphaned?: > what's up with balsa? there's a huge number of old bugs (year or two > old) including the ne that makes it uninstallable (+

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Henry Lebowzki wrote: > > Hello- > I'm sorry if I sound hysterical... A broken package can be the result of a download problem. Just try downloading the package causing problems and install it with dpkg. If this works, congratulations, you're done and run apt-get upgrade to process the rest of y

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:26:35AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I screwed up my partition table today and, like an idiot, I don't have > a record of it. Are there any tools I can use to determine where my > partitions were? No specific tools I'm aware of. I keep a hardcopy print

sid - locales and glibc

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I just ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, just to see that locales are going to be removed. Why? because it depends on glibc, and glibc is not available. Hmm, I always thought that glibc is a rather important lib, on ehich most c-programs are based. So, what is wrong? Is glibc not need

Re: sid - locales and glibc

2001-07-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Joerg Johannes wrote: > I just ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, just to see that locales > are going to be removed. Why? because it depends on glibc, and glibc is > not available. Hmm, I always thought that glibc is a rather important > lib, on ehich most c-programs are based. So, what is wr

how do i find out kernel-image parameters

2001-07-27 Thread R. Prabhakar
i have installed a debian progeny distribution. i want to know if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY defined. how do i do this? in general is there a way to find out what options have been set in the kernel? thanks prabhakar

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] >I'm aware that wdm can be used to log off the system, but this requires >a two-step process: > > - Exit the existing WMaker session. > > - Log off via wdm (providing yet another password). Even if the user >is permitted to log off the syste

Fwd: Re: how do i find out kernel-image parameters

2001-07-27 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Friday 27 July 2001 10:12, R. Prabhakar spoke wisely: > i have installed a debian progeny distribution. > > i want to know if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY > defined. how do i do this? in general is there a way to find out what > options have been set in the kernel? > >

Re: sid - locales and glibc

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Craig Dickson wrote: > > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > I just ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, just to see that locales > > are going to be removed. Why? because it depends on glibc, and glibc is > > not available. Hmm, I always thought that glibc is a rather important > > lib, on ehich most

Re: how do i find out kernel-image parameters

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
"R. Prabhakar" wrote: > > i have installed a debian progeny distribution. > > i want to know if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY > defined. how do i do this? in general is there a way to find out what > options have been set in the kernel? > > thanks > > prabhakar > The

Re: balsa: orphaned?

2001-07-27 Thread christophe barbé
Yes balsa is a great program and should not be orphaned and if nobody is interesting in packaging it, I would certainly ITP it soon. By the way, I build on a nearly daily bases debian package from cvs. You can find my packages at the following url : http://ufies.org/~christophe Christoph

Re: [OT] BibTeX style

2001-07-27 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I don't know of a specific style, but I generally do: > > NOTE="Avail: \url{http://foo.bar.baz/foobar.pdf}"; Thanks, this works great. I thought it required something more complicated. Jesper

Re: how do i find out kernel-image parameters

2001-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
"R. Prabhakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have installed a debian progeny distribution. > > i want to know if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY > defined. how do i do this? in general is there a way to find out what > options have been set in the kernel? Maybe you will

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-27 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? > > /etc/mailcap: > application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; > description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc > > and (if you wan

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-27 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Philipp Lehman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: >> >> Can't help with a pointer to a dedicated app, but you could at least >> built a poor man's confirmation in WMRooutMenu: >> >> ( "Shutdown", EXEC, sure.sh "%a(

Re: Open Source Statistical Packages?

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:30:10PM -0300, Henry Lebowzki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jens Scheidtmann wrote: > > > John Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >> My normal occupation as a process engineer requires much DOE and > >> SPC work. SAS and others cost tens of thousands of dolla

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Is this a dselect bug? > >Broken by design. Obviously untrue. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Sean Quinlan
* jason pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-27 01:50): > I have been tyring to get Quake3 working recently. > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI > > I am running testing, so I have X 4.x > > I added > Load "glx" > Load "dri" > to my X config > > however, glxin

OT: getservbyname and getservbyport

2001-07-27 Thread Danie Roux
If I was to change sp = getservbyname ("ftp", "tcp"); to sp = getservbyport (21, "tcp"); It should work right? Because it isn't. And I need this to work for a boot stiffy I'm building. -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Yves Dessertine
Le Vendredi 27 Juillet 2001 02:43, jason pepas a écrit : > Hey guys, > > I have been tyring to get Quake3 working recently. > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7, and included support for AGP and DRI > > I am running testing, so I have X 4.x Me too > I added > Load "glx" > Load "dri" > to my X confi

Re: Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?

2001-07-27 Thread Yves Dessertine
Le Vendredi 27 Juillet 2001 19:25, hzi hzi a écrit : > It's not a stupid question. Here's the deal: everything you post via the > mailing-list gets posted to the news server. > The other way around is not so. That is, you might post via news, but it > won't show on the list. At least, t

Re: Problem with interface eth0

2001-07-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:05:15 +0200 heissu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a ethernet card (3Com). I have compiled the kernel to that > ethernet card. I want configure the interface whith the ifconfig > command.But when I do: # ifconfig eth0 numIP netmask numNETMASK up , the > shell request: >

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Yves Dessertine wrote: > You X server must be running in 16 or 32 bpp for hardware accel. to work (at > least on my Matrox G200 graph. card. Must be 16 for voodoo cards joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If

Re: OT: getservbyname and getservbyport

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I was to change > >sp = getservbyname ("ftp", "tcp"); > >to > >sp = getservbyport (21, "tcp"); > >It should work right? Because it isn't. And I need this to work for a boot >stiffy I'm building. The port number is given in network byte order. My guess is

Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:29:55 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to share files between Mandrake and Debian, pick a partition > to share (such as /dev/hda5), and make sure each distro mounts that > partition. For example, if /dev/hda3 is your /home directory in > Mandrake, a

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: >> ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use >> SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client >> (there's an alternative, whose name I forget, which is use

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How about trying the 'x86info' program. You should be able to get it >> apt-get. Then run the command 'x86info -mhz'. Here's what I get from >> running the command

Re: CGI isn't working too well

2001-07-27 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > #ScriptAlias /~news/ /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/ ok, maybe it's too easy, but did you try to uncomment the ScriptAlias /~news/ ... line? whith this setting, the url http://your.host/~news/script.cgi will execute /home/news/public_html/cgi-bin/script

Re: A good c++ mailing list

2001-07-27 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach dude (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:24:27PM -0400): > Does anyone know of a good c++ mailing list (for beginners,) whatever, if you insist, www.accu.org has a mailing list "accu-general", which has very competent people. just be sure not to get on their nerves. if you are a beginner, then don

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-27 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): > Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA sends every > single message as an attachment to an empty message? as others have said, it's micro$oft's inability to stick to standards --- PGP/GPG nowadays uses MIME

Re: dselect forcing recommends?

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:41:42PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref. > Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the > conflict without it selected for install. You can tell dselect not to bot

Re: Link between newsgroup linux.debian.user and the debian user mailing list ?

2001-07-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Yves Dessertine wrote: > Le Vendredi 27 Juillet 2001 19:25, hzi hzi a écrit : > > It's not a stupid question. Here's the deal: everything you post via the > > mailing-list gets posted to the news server. > > The other way around is not so. That is, you might post via ne

Re: balsa: orphaned?

2001-07-27 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:58:08AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > (I am looking for a MUA that supports IMAP (and SSL)) > mutt is a very good choice, unless you absolutely must have a graphical mailer. It supports most mail protocols and mailbox formats, including IMAP and SSL. -- Kalle Hasse

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:35:10PM -0700 In reply to:Vineet Kumar Quoting Vineet Kumar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010724 23:11]: > > > > > > uninstall, or Problem is my test version "Woody"? > >

Re: dselect question

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected > a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original > package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try > and

Re: balsa: orphaned?

2001-07-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Yes balsa is a great program and should not be > orphaned and if nobody is interesting in packaging > it, I would certainly ITP it soon. Certainly doesn't look like it's been abandoned. This page, http://www.balsa.net/main.html, shows an update on the 13th of this month. It reads: 2001-07-13 -

Re: default ispell dictionary

2001-07-27 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ivan Mour?o, > Could someone tell me how to change the default ispell dictionary. I don't know if this will help you, as you haven't specified in what context you use ispell, however I have the following in my .emacs (setq ispell-dictionary "british") (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "bri

Re: default ispell dictionary

2001-07-27 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:46:22PM +, Ivan Mourão wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Could someone tell me how to change the default ispell dictionary. See "man update-ispell-dictionary" hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M.

Re: [OT] BibTeX style

2001-07-27 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Jesper Holmberg, > In short, I'm looking for a BibTeX style file which includes the URL of > a document, and some simple instructions how to install the file on my > system. Although you have another reply in this thread which seems to work for you, another alternative might be to use the A

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-27 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > > What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? > > > > /etc/mailcap: > > application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; > > description="Microsoft Word Text"; nam

i810 AGP Video Card LockUps w/XFree86!

2001-07-27 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
I am attempting to get potato to run on a machine with an onboard i810 (Intel) video card. I installed potato onto a blank system, installed the SVGA X server, and installed the necessary agpgart.o module. Before testing the X server, I compiled a new 2.2.19 kernel and then compiled the ag

Re: balsa: orphaned?

2001-07-27 Thread christophe barbé
I believe that Erik said Orphaned from a packaging point of view. Balsa is in fact in a high development rate. It's a great mail client. Christophe Le ven, 27 jui 2001 14:26:06, Hall Stevenson a écrit : > > Yes balsa is a great program and should not be > > orphaned and if nobody is interesting

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-27 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
John, I hope you don't mind if I jump on this thread. I made the same mistakes and now I need help! I followed RunningLinux... I also used wvdial (and that works, dialing up to AT&T here in Tucson, AZ). However, I need to dial other ISPs (this is a portable). And they did not work with wvdial. S

Re: modem diagnostic?

2001-07-27 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Newbie error... Sorry I should have entered pon tucson-att ... using the name of the provider! On 07 Jul 2001 11:31:32 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Glenn Becker writes: > > I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,... > > Actually, you already had them installed. > > > ...and was

Re: wine with potato

2001-07-27 Thread Frans Schreuder
Hai; I think; it might be what I forgotmounting the windowspartition... Below a copy from another wine question.. Hope this is helpfull Regards, Frans Schreuder > >debs, >on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:59:45PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > as i understand it, wine

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread jason pepas
Thanks for the quick responses guys, Andrew - I am running a G200, so I may have to do the same... Sean - I am first trying to get it working with a G200, and I will get it working with another machine using an Nvidia GeForce2MX after this. Yves - I will definitely try out the additional config

URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-07-27 Thread dele williams
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTN: Dear Sir, INVESTMENT PROPOSAL OF FIFTY MILLION US DOLLARS US$50,000,000 IN YOUR COMPANY I am pleased to write you in order to inform you of my good intention to invest or form a joint partnership Business with you. I am one of the Directors in Security and Exch

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:24:16PM -0300, Henry Lebowzki wrote: > I'm sorry if I sound hysterical, but I have reasons for concern. In > fact, I'm truly desperate: it has been over a three months that I try to > tackle this problem whenever I have some time. > I was never able to use TeX on my pot

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-27 Thread John Patton
Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, but if you really want to the ar command (which is built into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get your hands on dpkg...deb, unpack it, and manually move files into their proper loc

mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'd like to use galeon to login to sourceforge. Is there a SSL-enabled mozilla package anywahere that is compatible with unstable's galeon? Perhaps I'm doing something wrong since mozilla is in non-us, but nothing happens when I click on SF's "Login with SSL" button after entering my name and pa

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread christophe barbé
Mozilla in unstable is ssl enhanced (It's also outdated). You need the mozilla-psm package. Christophe Le ven, 27 jui 2001 16:50:54, Peter S Galbraith a écrit : > > I'd like to use galeon to login to sourceforge. > > Is there a SSL-enabled mozilla package anywahere that is > compatible with uns

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:50:36 +0200 "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): > > Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA > sends every > > single message as an attachment to an empty message? > > as oth

Re: i810 AGP Video Card LockUps w/XFree86!

2001-07-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > I am attempting to get potato to run on a machine with an onboard > i810 (Intel) video card. ... > At this point, my only options appears to be to try a 2.4 kernel > and XFree86 4.0, but I am not too hopeful. Is there any one else out there > who have gotten t

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A thousand thank-yous. Works now. :-) christophe barb wrote: > Mozilla in unstable is ssl enhanced (It's also outdated). You need the > mozilla-psm package. > > Christophe > > Le ven, 27 jui 2001 16:50:54, Peter S Galbraith a écrit : > > > > I'd like to use galeon to login to sourceforge.

Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Mackinney
Cormac McGuinness muttered: > All my files/data were gone (I had two synchronised copies though, so I > wasnt really worried :) ) I'm a recent convert to Linux as my defaul boot-OS and the OS I do email on (a definition of where we really live?) One thing I haven't done yet is get a good autom

Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:40, d wrote: > Hey folks, this is the LURKER again with an inquiry on installs on the same > drive. I purchased a copy of "Mandrakesoft™'s Linux® Mandrake©" v7.0/w 3 > CD's (installation disc #1, source disc #2 and extra #3) about a year > ago. To make a long story lon

[icewm-themes] Call For Votes

2001-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello dear Debian users, I am going to revise the current icewm-themes package, since in my opinion there should be some new cool themes (that user get from icewm.themes.org anyways), and on the other hand we could drop seldom used themes to make place for the new ones. To make the best decision,

Re: Chronically broken package - bugs? In tetex-bin AND apt-get?

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:24:16PM -0300, Henry Lebowzki wrote: | Hello- | I'm sorry if I sound hysterical, but I have reasons for concern. In | fact, I'm truly desperate: it has been over a three months that I try to | tackle this problem whenever I have some time. | I was never able to use TeX

How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Jeremy Whetzel
I'm just wondering how long it generally takes something like the next version of X to make it's way into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking forward to 4.1.0 because I need it for the support it has for my video card, but it has yet to make it to the unstable branch, and I know it's been s

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:46:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:26:35AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > I screwed up my partition table today and, like an idiot, I don't have | > a record of it. Are there any tools I can use to determine where my | > p

Re: Debian Install Problem

2001-07-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm trying to install Debian on an i386 machine, and I've gotten it working, but now when I try to reinstall after I had some problems, it keeps telling me there was a problem installing the base system, that, or the installer refuses to let me

VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread SANI IBRAHIM
SANI IBRAHIM. TO: THE PRESIDENT / C.E.O Sir, RE: MONEY TRANSFER / INVESTMENT PROPOSAL INTRODUCTIO: l am Dr SANI IBRAHIM a Civil Servant in the Ministry of Health. l know this proposal will come to you as a surprise because we have not met before either physically or through correspondence. I

debian install problem with scsi

2001-07-27 Thread RB Bruce
I have been trying to install debain 2.2.3 on to a machine with a 29160 scsi card an IBM 18gig ultra160 harddrive and a quantum 18gig SCA ultra160 with a 80-pin to 68-pin converter. If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is going to

Re: How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: > I'm just wondering how long it generally takes > something like the next version of X to make it's way > into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking It very much depends on the package. X is enormous, and there are many indivi

Re: debian install problem with scsi

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:35:23AM -0700, RB Bruce wrote: > If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads > fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is > going to try harder over and over again before it gets > to the first blue install screen. Check for SCSI ID conflicts. Try

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread David Grant
Okay, everyone keeps telling me to use the idepci disks, which sounds like it would probably work. But on the website it says that the idepci ONLY supports IDE and PCI devices, not SCSI. I don't have any SCSI devices, but actually I do want SCSI emulation for my CD writer. But are there other li

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:09:17AM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Re: Newbie Question > Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:35:10PM -0700 > > In reply to:Vineet Kumar > > Quoting Vineet Kum

Re: How to get an Iomega 100MB USB Zip Drive to work with Debian?

2001-07-27 Thread Joern Larsen
Hi, Guy! And thanks for your help! Hoewer, I cannot get my system to recognize the zip drive using mount /dev/sda4 /mnt I get the message back that "the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device". I also tried to install hotplug, usbutils etc. but these need libc6 >= 2.2.2-2, and I a

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, I agree. > but if you really want to the ar command (which is built > into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember > correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get yo

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-27 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 10:23 a.m. 27/07/01 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:43:11AM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, I agree. > but if you really want to the ar command (which is built > into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I rememb

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:57:32AM -0700, David Grant wrote: > Okay, everyone keeps telling me to use the idepci disks, which sounds like > it would probably work. But on the website it says that the idepci ONLY > supports IDE and PCI devices, not SCSI. I don't have any SCSI devices, but > actual

cd pseudo image...

2001-07-27 Thread Israel Evans
Hello there good people! I've just finished making my pseodo image and had one particular error come up that has me worried. after I transform the pseudo-image into the official cd image I get "ERROR: file corruption in binary-i386-1.iso . File changed during transfer?" I didn't think I

Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* d ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010726 20:46]: > ONE more for the ROAD, please.where is a GOOD place for a NEWBIE that > is NOT a programmer nor very familiar with UNIX or Linux to learn how to > get started. I Know READ, READ, READ, etcetera, at 61 I do NOT have that > much time left to do all o

Re: VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Didn't the FBI and Secret Service make a big arrest recently concerning this scam? I'm surprised it's still going on. "SANI IBRAHIM" wrote: > THE PROPOSAL: Just before my father died he called my attention to the > money and charged me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the > trans

Re: VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Whoa, thats the second rich guy to die today. Sani, quit this while you are not in jail yet. -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Wayne Topa wrote: >Update. After 4 hours of checking mirror sites I still do not have >any reference to the x86info package. I do, noe, have the debfoster >package tho. :-) > >But I learned a lot in the process. Don't relay on the mirror lists. >The listed paths for the packages for

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | i/we operate a number of remote servers, and sometimes, configuration | is impossible because of slow links; then, vi takes 10 seconds to | start, and a keystroke is echoed in 5... unacceptable. | | so i would like to change confi

Re: Response...A NEWBIE inquiry......

2001-07-27 Thread d
Jaye Inabnit, Mart van de Wege, Kent West, Mark Wagnon, This is NOT in any special order just wanted to send a BIG Thank You for the info and will be testing this out over the weakend (BAG!). Again, to make a short story longer, from what I have seen and read in most of these messages the one

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 17)

2001-07-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.7 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: kernel-image-2.4.7-i386 Binary packages: o kernel-headers-2.4.7 o k

ACPI vs. APM

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I was hoping someone could help me out. I'm running kernel 2.4.7 on a an Ali MB w/ a P III chip. The BIOS boot messages tell me that this board uses ACPI as it's protocol, so I enabled that in the kernel, but it doesn't power down the monitor properly. I also have APM enabled, as that

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:14:07PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > | CVS is pretty much exactly what i am looking for. i would love to > | create a CVS repository each for every one of the remote machines. > | then everyone could checkout and

esound

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Gran
Hello all, I'm having an interesting problem - esound has up and quit on me for some reason. I'm running Debian testing, and it worked just fine (although occasionally it wouldn't disconnect from a user after logout) up until a few weeks ago. I ran an apt-get upgrade, and esound was one of the pa

Re: cvs permissions

2001-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martin F. Krafft wrote: > okay, with the preserve option i have succeeded at preserving the file > permissions If you get /etc-in-cvs to fully work, I'd really like to see a mini-howto detailing what you did. I use cvs for my home directory (and it's quite cool to walk up to a box you last used 1

mutt and doc files

2001-07-27 Thread Duncan Watson
Hi all, I saw the recent thread about doc files and wanted to solve my problem. I use applixware's doc reader called 'words'. I would like to get mutt to use 'words' for my viewer. I am not interested in auto-view for doc files. My .mailcap line reads as follows for msword: application/msword;

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread Andrew Agno
jason pepas writes: > Andrew - I am running a G200, so I may have to do the same... Also check out www.debianplanet.org in the HowTo section. Andrew.

Re: ACPI vs. APM

2001-07-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:27:43PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I was hoping someone could help me out. I'm running kernel 2.4.7 on a an > Ali MB w/ a P III chip. The BIOS boot messages tell me that this board > uses ACPI as it's protocol, so I enabled that in the kernel, but it doesn'

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-27 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: >also sprach Adam Bell (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:04:35PM -0400): >> Okay, so can anyone tell me what popular (to Debian Users) MUA sends >> every >> single message as an attachment to an empty message? > >as others have said, it's micro$oft's inabili

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