Re: Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread John Lynch
LMAO!!! on everyone's advice don't worry. I'LL BE BACK! I'm just gone for a while to learn the Linux OS on an easy to use OS. Trust me, I had enough problems installing it as it was. (I now know more about my computer though) From: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Awww, why go

RE: S815EBM1 Motherboard

2002-03-23 Thread Arafat Mohamed
> -Original Message- > From: Arafat Mohamed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:34 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: S815EBM1 Motherboard > > > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to get debian install on a 1U server I have. It uses intel's > S815EBM1 mothe

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated system doesn't work. To

Re: xterm defaults - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Corey Halpin
> Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might also consider trying the web based interface on debian.org. regardless, welcome to my small but growing killfile.

Re: Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, John Lynch wrote: > Thankyou everyone for all your help, I'm going to install Mandrake later. Awww, why go to the Dark Side of the Penguin? -- Baloo

Re: Repost: S815EBM1 Motherboard

2002-03-23 Thread Gustavo Sales
Em 22 Mar 2002, Arafat Mohamed escreveu: >No luck the first time :) Figured I'd give it another shot. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Arafat Mohamed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:34 AM >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: S815EBM1 Motherbo

Re: libm.so.5

2002-03-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:47:41PM -0800, Joe Wise wrote: > I just did an apache installation and that libm.so.5 library is missing > from our Debian/linux 2.2r2 > > > > What is the workaround or solution. Hmm. Is this the Debian package of Apache distributed with 2.2r2? libm.so.5 is the math

autoinstall advice needed

2002-03-23 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I'd like to install woody with an autoinstall floppy. I've read all the docs provided in the autoinstall package, built my woody minimal tarball, written my configs, built a kernel that claims to fit on my 1722 kB floppy and attempted an install. It's not working ... I'm hoping people here h

Re: dosemu: com ports; /var/lock problem

2002-03-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, a zero-length file gets created in /var/loc called foo. Thanks. I think it has been established, from an email I got from bart Oldeman on the dosemu list, that this is a bug in the stable version of dosemu. I am currently trying to install version 1.1.3 because i understand the problem may be

RE: boot problem - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated system doesn't work. To

Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-23 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Daniel Toffetti exclaim: > But now I'm not sure what "old" means for apt-get. Does it means "the > older when there are more than two versions of the same package" or > "every package older N days"? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that it means 'every package that ca

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:35:01 -0600, you wrote: >From personal experience, installing things in /opt/foo and using >stow to link them to /usr/local sucks in many interesting ways (at >least on Solaris). > >So don't think FHS mandates that because FHS is stupid. > I can manually install packages

RE: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Hi, my name is Jonathan Tabaco and I am a pompous ass. Just incase you haven't noticed, the list has been running a bit slow lately. If you have replied with the confirmation, I bet you will be removed as soon as possible. Calm down and give it some time. At 03:51 PM 3/22/2002, you wrote:

Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread John Lynch
Thankyou everyone for all your help, I'm going to install Mandrake later. thanks for the tip about upgrading to Debian, I figured I'd have to uninstall then reinstall the Linux Oses. I'm going to hop off this list because all of the e-mails is killing me. Thanks again for all your help. I WIL

Re: mistake: apt-get and debian 2.2 - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Heh... This should lead to an even-tempered discussion. --Rich Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PL

Network Install & Network Drivers

2002-03-23 Thread Nicholas Avenell
I'm attempting an install of Woody over the internet. I've got the bf2.4 floppy set, booted into the installer, and got to the stage where it needed to configure the network settings to get onto the internet. This done, it went and fetched it's files, and we went on to the Install Modules screen...

TuxOS (was Installation notes - Debian 2.2)

2002-03-23 Thread Memetic
Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2002-03-22: Symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux wouldn't hurt THAT much, would it? One wonders if hardware detection ought to be a separate matter, whereupon the hardware detection routines (on a dedicated floppy diskette) write system hardware confi

Re: New kernel

2002-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:56:07AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: > I'm upgrading a stock Progeny install on a PentiumII. > > I just ran apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.16-686 > Duriing the install I was told to include a reference to initrd in > lilo.conf. > Since I'm running GRUB, this is what

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Trey Gruel
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Silvester van der Bijl wrote: > Please help, > > I just installed debian, compiled a custom kernel and tried to reboot > the system. > > Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X > yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing > ALT+CTRL+

Re: What is the difference between Gnome and Ximian?

2002-03-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Yes, thank you. Very good answer(s) to the question. Thank you to everyone who replied. Regards, Randy On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 12:45, Scott Henson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 09:45, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > If I install Woody, it appears that I get an installation of Gnome. > > > > I am

"ip tunnel add" woes -- potato

2002-03-23 Thread will trillich
some of my ssh settings must be off, here. i can't "su" to root when logged in remotely using ssh via our private tunnel...? == i've got two debian/potato firewalls running remote intranets -- one at home, say 1.2.3.4, and one at the office, say 2.4.6.8: at home i use 192.168.1.* for my intranet

Re: PDF

2002-03-23 Thread Davor Balder
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I have found pdflatex very useful to convert latex files to pdf. > However if the latex file contains \includegraphics{file.eps} > the pdflatex does not seem to recognize it. For these cases > I have used dvipdf or dvipdfm to

Re: solution for GMT and ps2epsi

2002-03-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:34:51AM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > I have found a solution for the problem. > > the debian 'gs' package contains > >gs -v > >GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13) > >Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. > > which is NOT compatible to the post

Re: RE: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:13:49 -, you wrote: >hi, > >couldn't you copy over /usr to a new drive and then mount the new drive to >/usr ??? > >Chris I think that is the best suggestion that I have received. In fact, I probably will do that. But, my gut feeling is that computers should serve us

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2002-03-23 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings: I am unable to connect to my cable firewall/router from my desktop box suddenly. I have gone so far as to wipe out my known_hosts file from my .ssh directory, but this still gives me the same error. What is unusual is that I can ssh to any of the other computers on my lan, *th

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread Glyn Millington
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gnome-core got good and stuck: > Unpacking replacement gnome-core ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/omf/gnome-core/fdl-C.omf', which is also > in package

Re: Tripwire won't install

2002-03-23 Thread Juhan Kundla
Ühel ilusal päeval [23.03.2002] kirjutas Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Juhan Kundla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Heips! > > > > I had the following error while installing tripwire on my debian woody > > box. I have never had any problems with apt-get or debian packages, so i > > am kind o

Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I would like to thank all of you again for your help. My system is up and running (had to reinstall the system about 3 times and I had a hard time configuring the sound card). Anyway, I still have some questions: When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, but und

plex86-kernel-src not creating deb file

2002-03-23 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me with this one. I was trying out plex86 and it tries to install the kernel-source package and everything seems to go well except that the deb isn't actually created. I've tried looking through the output but it doesn't seem to show any error messages. Ive copied

Re: 3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-23 Thread Arthur Buijs
Jason, check that pnp is disabled. I'm using Potato. I used the dos-utility 3C5X9CFG.EXE to disable pnp and to find out the irq. I think the utility I mentioned has an option to configure a working irq. HTH, Arthur - Original Message - From: "Jason M. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Se

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello Jonathan, I am sorry to hear that Debian lists are giving you trouble. There have been at least 2 other people experiencing this problem in the last couple of days, so it seems Debian's automated mailinglist unsubscription is indeed having problems. I have forwarded yo

Re: 3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-23 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 06:06, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:01:33AM +0100, Arthur Buijs wrote: > | Jason, > | > | check that pnp is disabled. > | > | I'm using Potato. I used the dos-utility 3C5X9CFG.EXE to disable pnp and > | to find out the irq. > | I think the utility I me

Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Seneca Cunningham
> When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, but under a > normal account it tells me that it can't access /dev/cdrom. I believe I have > the /etc/fstab file configured correctly so I'm pretty clueless on how to > fix this. I have pasted my fstab file on the end of this email.

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:32:00 -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >>I don't understand your problem. Are you out of disc space, or did you >>just mis-apportion your partitions? Either way the problem is not that >>packagers set up their apps to reside in /usr. The problem is that you >>need to re-par

Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:19:58PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:00:30PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > [[snip]] > > > > > > When I try to use a CD Player program, it works fine under root, bu

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Trey Gruel
> U, no. Debian doesn't work that way. Are you sure you are on the > right list? Anyways, the easiest way to disable graphical login > (regardless of which dispaly manager you have installed) without > actually uninstalling it is to edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager, > and just comment

Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Noah Sombrero
> >I don't understand your problem. Are you out of disc space, or did you >just mis-apportion your partitions? Either way the problem is not that >packagers set up their apps to reside in /usr. The problem is that you >need to re-partition or get another disc. Inflexibility in the face of limit

Help reconfiguring php4!

2002-03-23 Thread jen
Hi there! I'm having trouble reconfiguring php4. I used phpinfo() to get the original configure command. Then I did apt-get source php4 to get the source, then did cd php4-4.1.2 and typed the configure command (at the bottom for your reference). First, I got an error saying zlib could not be f

Re: Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:41:12PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:21 -0600, you wrote: > > >> > >> Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or > >> just mount them to appropriate dirs under /usr. Did not think of that. > >> But still, apt has thi

RE: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Satelle, StevenX
does this not seem a little childish to you? You could read the bottom of any debian list email. the info is there To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jonathan Tabaco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

libm.so.5

2002-03-23 Thread Joe Wise
I just did an apache installation and that libm.so.5 library is missing from our Debian/linux 2.2r2   What is the workaround or solution.   Thanks,     NTMail K12 - the Mail Server for Education

Re: Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card

2002-03-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya leonard you'd need to get the ata/133 ide patch ( depending on which kernel you use ) the ide kernel patches should be at.. http://www.LinuxDiskCert.org/ -- my local copy http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Patches/ *ata133* have fun alvin On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Leonard Monk wrote: > Userh

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Siward de Groot
Hello list readers and Debian fans ! I write this to ask you to not take actions agains Jonathan Tabaco, who has inconvenienced a number of you by sending unwanted emails. The reason i request this is because i think it is in the best interest of Debian. Jonathan is sending mail that w

Re: libm.so.5

2002-03-23 Thread ktb
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:47:41PM -0800, Joe Wise wrote: > I just did an apache installation and that libm.so.5 library is missing > from our Debian/linux 2.2r2 > > > > What is the workaround or solution. > You can do a search at - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents to fi

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-23 Thread csj
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:11:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) wrote: > > > So the thought occurred to me that I could get a PDA with a > > > stow-away keyoard and basically use that in laptop capacity, as a > > > few of my friends are doing. > > Aehm it's a big differents between 17Mh

Unidentified subject!

2002-03-23 Thread michael norman
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Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:16:41PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:19:58PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:00:30PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > > [[snip]] > > >

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:32:37 -0600, you wrote: >[ Note: I read the list. I don't need nor do I want copies of mail >sent to the list. In this case you sent a copy to me with a different >message id than what went to the list; something is broken at your >end. Please respect my Mail-Followup-To:

still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
gnome-core got good and stuck: apt-get install gnome-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1440kB of archives. After unpacking 2396kB will be freed. (Reading database ... 56800

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
On 23 Mar 2002, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Just download the gnome-core deb > > then load it in with dpkg > > dpkg --force-overwrite -i gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb ilbo:~>> dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (Reading database ... 56806 files and

Re: Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:27:21 -0600, you wrote: >> >> Hmm, yes I can move those directories and replace them with links or >> just mount them to appropriate dirs under /usr. Did not think of that. >> But still, apt has this little flaw it seems to me. > >apt is flawed because your /usr/partitio

Re: kernel panic

2002-03-23 Thread Hans Gubitz
Tell the kernel the ramsize you have installed. append = "mem=224M" On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:32:01AM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:42:59PM +0100, Pier wrote: > > My kenel (2.4.18) panic. > > > > the boot message is : > > > > Request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs

Re: kernel panic

2002-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:42:59PM +0100, Pier wrote: > My kenel (2.4.18) panic. > > the boot message is : > > Request_module[block-major-3]:Root fs not mounted > VFS:Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on

Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello.. > > I would like to thank all of you again for your help. My system is up and > running (had to reinstall the system about 3 times and I had a hard time > configuring the sound card). Anyway, I still have some questions:

Re: Problems with CD-ROM and mail server

2002-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:00:30PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:28:35PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > Hello.. > > > > I would like to thank all of you again for your help. My system is up and > > running (had to reinstall the system about 3 times and I had a ha

remote X problems

2002-03-23 Thread David Wright
Argh! I hate^H^H^H^H^H am having some trouble with X. $ ssh -l root foo.example.com foo# xosview & Can't open display named Yes, sshd_config on foo contains X11Forwarding yes and ssh_config on my machine contains ForwardX11 yes In fact, everyting works fine on many other machines I have

find then download webshots !!!

2002-03-23 Thread PAULWINETR
find then downloadwebshots !!! Its a program that lets YOU choose any of YOUR OWN *.BMP or*.JPG files as background and/or screen saver. or any of their thousands

Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-23 Thread Andras BALI
On 22 Mar 2002, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > I would like to purge /var/cache/apt/archive so that only the last > version of each package is preserved. You might want to check out aptsamever [1]. Or, if you don't like Python :-), I have a Perl script [2] that deletes every file from the cache that h

dpkg-create-index not found

2002-03-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I keep getting an error in my cron logs sent to me. dpkg-create-index command not found? What is this and what should I do so that I don't keep getting these messages sent? -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Install & Network Drivers

2002-03-23 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Nicholas Avenell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --snip-- < ...where my network card isn't there. Or, rather, the driver of my network card isn't there. The driver it uses is 8139cp (or 8139too, it doesn't matter). The question is how did it contact my DHCP server, firewall, the FTP server and ever

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-23 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:22, stan wrote: > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > for instance. > > However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions. > > A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root. > > This cured the problem on one, b

3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-23 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have an isa 3com etherlink III. i had another one before, on the same PC... as long as i specifed irq7 in modconf it worked fine. this one will not work. i ran the 3c5x9utils package, and it told me it was on irq5. so, i changed everything i told it to use irq7 to irq5, and it still fails

kernel 2.5.7; virt_to_bus_not_defined_use_pci_map

2002-03-23 Thread Fabian Dortu
Hi, I compiled a 2.5.7 kernel and modules without any problem but I got an error upon doing 'make modules_install' : make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.7/arch/i386/lib' cd /lib/modules/2.5.7; \ mkdir -p pcmcia; \ find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} p

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:07:45PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as your automated s

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:11:15 -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:13:49 -, you wrote: > >>hi, >> >>couldn't you copy over /usr to a new drive and then mount the new drive to >>/usr ??? >> >>Chris > >I think that is the best suggestion that I have received. In fact, I probably

Re: Thankyou for all your help

2002-03-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:01 AM 3/23/02, John Lynch wrote: LMAO!!! on everyone's advice don't worry. I'LL BE BACK! I'm just gone for a while to learn the Linux OS on an easy to use OS. Trust me, I had enough problems installing it as it was. (I now know more about my computer though) From: Paul 'Baloo' J

Re: 3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-23 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:01:33AM +0100, Arthur Buijs wrote: | Jason, | | check that pnp is disabled. | | I'm using Potato. I used the dos-utility 3C5X9CFG.EXE to disable pnp and | to find out the irq. | I think the utility I mentioned has an option to configure a working | irq. | | HTH, | Arth

dosemu: com port problem finally resolved

2002-03-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi all! For the information of anybody else who might be interested, I obtained and compiled the development version of dosemu (1.1.3) from www.dosemu.org. Com ports work. I also understand that our debian maintainer for this package has fixed this bug in our 1.0.2 version and this should be availa

RE: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Wren, Christopher
hi, couldn't you copy over /usr to a new drive and then mount the new drive to /usr ??? Chris -Original Message- From: Noah Sombrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2002 22:08 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy? On Fri, 22 Mar 20

Re: attachment problem with mutt

2002-03-23 Thread ktb
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:09:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running woody and mutt. I have a problem with the attached files in > mutt: > mutt insists in put the attached file in the body of the message, either in > the messages I send as well as the messages I receiv

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Trey Gruel
> > Please help, > > > > I just installed debian, compiled a custom kernel and tried to reboot > > the system. > > > > Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X > > yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing > > ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE, but it seems it restarts

Re: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html#MAKE-KERNEL

2002-03-23 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Friday 22 March 2002 19:19, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi Jesse, I just used your walkthrough to compile a custom > 2.4.18 kernel and it worked great except you forgot to mention > using fakeroot with the make files. Thankfully some helpful > folks from the debian list stepped up to help out.

Re: boot problem - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit http://lists.debian.org/ Telling him once, nicely, was kind of you. Telling him repeatedly, you risk becoming as much of a problem

exim smtp authenticate to yahoo fail...

2002-03-23 Thread Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, It has be a while I sent a similar message... Hope some could help me this time. I was trying to authenticate to yahoo for my smtp service... However, even though I have yahoo smtp server in my authenticate_hosts, and the login and password, exim don't seem to recognize the smarth

ISDN Crypto Router problem

2002-03-23 Thread David Gardi
Hi to all, I am in posession of this small router device that has 1 ethernet and 1 ISDN plug. By sticking this device onto my network it can perform various services such as NAT, dialout(ISDN) and some routing. It is configurable by telnetting to it by IP. The problem is that it is an old piec

Re: audio sample rate conversion

2002-03-23 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020323 15:25]: > Hi list > > I have just extracted the audio stream from my "Sting live" DVD using > transcode. The sample rate of the pcm stream is 48kHz. If I edit the header > of this file using the "snd" program, and load the resulting .wav into > gcdm

Re: 3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-23 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:14, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hello, > > i have an isa 3com etherlink III. i had another one before, on the same > PC... as long as i specifed irq7 in modconf it worked fine. this one > will not work. i ran the 3c5x9utils package, and it told me it was on > irq5. so, i chan

Re: Linux & DSL

2002-03-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:50:21AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > I finally got my DSL line at home and want to configure potato as a router > for my home network. Reading the "DSL Howto for Linux" document it appears > that I need to a PPPoE client as my DSL provider "Verizon" uses pppoe. I > hav

agpgart: memory for AGP (i810 chipset).

2002-03-23 Thread Gustavo Sales
Hi, I have a i810 card and use Debian GNU?linux Potato with kernel 2.4.x(agpgart module compiled) and XFree86 4.2. When I try to start the X I receive a message like this: Less than 6MB AGP memory. In var/log/message I see that agpgart reserves 3MB for AGP memory, and cause this, I think that

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:18AM -0500, Trey Gruel wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Silvester van der Bijl wrote: > > > Please help, > > > > I just installed debian, compiled a custom kernel and tried to reboot > > the system. > > > > Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't confi

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Caleb Shay
U, no. Debian doesn't work that way. Are you sure you are on the right list? Anyways, the easiest way to disable graphical login (regardless of which dispaly manager you have installed) without actually uninstalling it is to edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager, and just comment out the one

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-23 Thread Memetic
Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22 Mar 2002 14:39:21 +: Over the com[m]ing months I am starting a "teach-your-self" program. I am learning more of linux than just a desktop. I have a small lan at home for my wife, daughters and myself. The three of them use WinXP, and I have a

Re: attachment problem with mutt

2002-03-23 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:09:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running woody and mutt. I have a problem with the attached files in > mutt: > mutt insists in put the attached file in the body of the message, either in > the messages I send as well as the messages I receiv

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:07:45PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > > > PLEASE

stuck

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
hi here's the situation: bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-gturing The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-gnotski libltdl3 The f

Re: Re: Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:23:39PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:34:45 +, you wrote: > > >A couple of points to note here: > >1) It's not apt that decides where things get put. It's up to the > > individual packages - try "dpkg --contents your-favourite.deb" > >2) Most

X display wmmaker terminal

2002-03-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am having problems getting "wmsetbg" to work from a terminal. I tried typing export DISPLAY=localhost:0 export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 and then wmsetbg -display localhost:0.0 -e pic.gif -w 2 from a terminal (tty1) but I get "could not open display. I also tried xhost +localh

Re: xterm defaults - UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:44:39PM -0500, Jonathan Tabaco wrote: > UNSUBSCRIBE > > Sorry to all those who are inconvenienced by this but I have tried > multiple times to get removed from the mailing list. > > I even sent in the confirm "CONFIRM u03180819391769" > > PLEASE REMOVE ME MANUALLY, as

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:29:59 -0600, you wrote: > > >Apt installs there because that's where the FHS > >(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go. > > Was not disputing that there might be authority behind how > it is done. > > >Rath

Re: Help with firing up modules on demand

2002-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:56:13AM -0700, Yobb wrote: > > I think I have read all the relevant docs regarding setting up my system > to auto load modules but I am still somewhat unsure. > > I put the name of the module in /etc/modules if I want it fired up on > boot. This is not really what I wa

RE: make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

2002-03-23 Thread justin cunningham
Thanks guys, I installed/used fakeroot, finished make and it booted up no problem. justin -Original Message- From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: make: *** [kernel-image-deb]

re: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html#MAKE-KERNEL

2002-03-23 Thread justin cunningham
Hi Jesse, I just used your walkthrough to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel and it worked great except you forgot to mention using fakeroot with the make files. Thankfully some helpful folks from the debian list stepped up to help out. Perhaps you could include a howto on fakeroot in the documentati

Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-23 Thread stan
I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster for instance. However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions. A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root. This cured the problem on one, but not the other. I can run esd as a user, and I get the

Re: Disabling X from starting up

2002-03-23 Thread Chris Jenks
At 07:38 AM 3/23/02, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:52:03 +0100, Silvester van der Bijl wrote: > Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X > yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing > ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE, but it seems it restarts every

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
peter spake: > Does "apt-get install -f", then "apt-get install gnome-core" help? bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get install -f Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 193 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or re

Re: Kerberos

2002-03-23 Thread dinni bartholomew
Thanks a lot for your help...what i decided to do is set up another machine with woody and move the data over Thanks Again I tried to use the Heimdal --- David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dinni bartholomew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am trying to install MIT kerberos5 on potato...

Re: remote X problems

2002-03-23 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sáb, 2002-03-23 às 22:10, David Wright escreveu: > Argh! I hate^H^H^H^H^H am having some trouble with X. > >$ ssh -l root foo.example.com >foo# xosview & > Can't open display named > this should be ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel. > Yes, sshd_config on foo contains >X11Forwardi

SUN12x22 font

2002-03-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:28:18AM -0600, ktb wrote: > I'm messing with console fonts right now. I've heard mention of > SUN12x22 fonts as being a nice one. I don't seem to have that font > listed in /usr/share/consolefonts.=20 I have it compiled in the kernel. > First off is that font able to

executables in /xyz

2002-03-23 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello everyone, i have a funny thing in my current sid (2 months old, but last update yesterday [dist-upgrade]) but also in the previous installation (also sid): whenever i am developing in C/C++ or bash, i cannot execute the files. they reside in a custom folder /data/devel/[xyz]. Having control

Re: Linux & DSL

2002-03-23 Thread Stephen Nosal
Bruce - The roaring penguin client is by far the easiest to use - I successfully ran it for over two years with Verizon in NYC. As to DNS servers, I had the addresses so used them in my resolv.conf file. The documentation is excellent as well. good luck. - Steve On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:50:

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