Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-04 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, christophe barbé wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:33:33PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > The problem with using gnome2 out of experimental is that unlike a staging > > aera you get all the experimental stuff not related to gnome (unless you > > tweak apt). > > To be

Xwindow problems ASUS A7N266-VM board (nForce)

2002-10-04 Thread Cam Ellison
I just installed this board, and downloaded the driver and the GLX package from the nvidia website. They match -- I used the rpm packages, and converted them with alien. I have also downloaded the tar'd packages and tried those, not to mention a couple of re-compilings of my 2.4.18 kernel. The

Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my setup. Basically, my partitions looked like this: Primary: C: / hda1

SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread Forrest L Norvell
Hi all. I'm trying to get SquirrelMail installed on two of my systems, both running woody, one ARM, one PowerPC. The ARM is my primary server, a Netwinder, and when I install SquirrelMail on it directly, everything's great, except for the fact that it only has 64MiB of RAM and is already swapping

RE: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread deFreese, Barry
>You had a choice. You could have simply not bought that house. I >wouldn't have. Not that easy down here in Orange County area. Our development is the one of the oldest developments in Rancho Santa Margarita and it has an association. There is only one development here that doesn't and it is v

moved main boot hardrive to knew machine from old, lilo gives Int 0x13...blah head/sector diff. message

2002-10-04 Thread Walter Tautz
specifically I get: # lilo Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81 Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return dif

Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread Tony Wasson
> So I want to install SquirrelMail on the PowerPC, which has 1.5GiB RAM > and isn't very stressed out about much of anything. I've installed > SquirrelMail and pointed it at the UW-IMAP and Postfix servers on the > Netwinder, but when I try to log in, I start getting the SquirrelMail > "You must

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh
Jerry, One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. That should clear up the problem with Explorer trying to read the G: drive. Then you can go ahead and use cfd

Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-04 Thread christophe =?unknown-8bit?q?barb=E9?=
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:29:41PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > I read the man page for apt-get, but the action of -t is NOT made clear > there. In that man page I see the options > > -t > -target release > -default-release > > Then there is explanation that seems to apply to

[Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check the workstation and server directories. Rules for fetchmail are in both of those. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread Forrest L Norvell
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:21:36AM -0700, Tony Wasson wrote: > > So I want to install SquirrelMail on the PowerPC, which has 1.5GiB RAM > > and isn't very stressed out about much of anything. I've installed > > SquirrelMail and pointed it at the UW-IMAP and Postfix servers on the > > Netwinder, bu

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:47:39PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a > system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject > but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong wit

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
Kourosh wrote: > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot > so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. > That should clear up the problem with Explorer trying to > read the G: drive. This won't affec

Re: Ultra 1

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Hauck
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Bob Hauck said: > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > > > >> one of my ultra 1s is essentially a monitor stand for the moment, > >> waiting for the weather to cool off before i turn it on again, > > > > Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. > > Any idea ho

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 05:27, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:13:33PM +0300, Chavo wrote: > > Does this mean that in future if I desire to buy intel hardware and use it > > with open-source software such as Debian, the hardware would prevent me from > > doing this or open-sourc

Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread nate
Forrest L Norvell said: > "You must be logged in to view this page" error. Thinking that I might be I read in the PHP docs that something to do with session management was broken on powerPC: "Sessions do NOT work on hppa, m68k, mips, powerpc, sparc, s390 Sorry about that. :( " from README.De

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Matěj Hausenblas
On Friday 04 October 2002 19:47, jerry k wrote: # I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a # system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject # but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my # setup. Basicall

NIC IRQ conflict

2002-10-04 Thread Cam Ellison
I have installed a new MB & CPU (ASUS A7N266-VM & Athlon XP1600), and among the problems is that both my NICs are assigned irq 5 (they used to be at 10 and 12 on the old board). Consequently I have no network. The /etc/interfaces man page makes no mention of irq assignments, though ifconfig ce

lexmark printer with potatoe?

2002-10-04 Thread infotechsys
Hi, I have potatoe on my other cpu and was wondering if anyone is using lexmark Z45 printer with potatoe? The printer has a parrallel and a usb port with it.Does anyone for-see any problems I might have with this printer if i buy it? later- wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
Josh wrote: > I have had a similar problem when dualbooting with XP. The problem is when you > create partitions within Windows Windows thinks that the said partitions are > Windows native so it goes and tries to "mount" the partitions even though they > have an ext2 filesystem. What you need t

Re: NIC IRQ conflict

2002-10-04 Thread nate
Cam Ellison said: > I have installed a new MB & CPU (ASUS A7N266-VM & Athlon XP1600), and > among the problems is that both my NICs are assigned irq 5 (they used to > be at 10 and 12 on the old board). Consequently I have no network. > > The /etc/interfaces man page makes no mention of irq assi

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:30:47PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > Kourosh wrote: > > > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > > tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot > > so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. > > That should clear up the p

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Charles, On Oct 4, Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Pardon my ignorance, but there doesn't seem to be much | documentation on the gworkspace site. What is the | purpose of gworkspace say in conjunction with | WindowMaker...what would I get that I don't have by | using fsviewer,

network configuration

2002-10-04 Thread Erik Price
--- Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > write. I took a few guesses based on the man page: > > > > auto eth0-work > > iface eth0-work inet dhcp > > > > auto eth1-work > > iface eth1-work inet dhcp > > I think that getting rid of "-work" will help you a great deal in > getting it to

Re: NIC IRQ conflict

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Cam Ellison wrote: > I have installed a new MB & CPU (ASUS A7N266-VM & Athlon XP1600), and > among the problems is that both my NICs are assigned irq 5 (they used > to be at 10 and 12 on the old board). Consequently I have no network. > > The /etc/interfaces man page makes

how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread el
hi, how do i create device ppp0 (not on the rescue-cd-ramdisk per default) with commandline commands? thanks for your help! el -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What is dpkg --list supposed to do?

2002-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
According to the dpkg man page: dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ... List packages matching given pattern. If no pack­ age-name-pattern is given, list all packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available. However, on my Woody systems, it looks like if no name is given it lists the ins

isag usage?

2002-10-04 Thread stan
I just installed the systat package, and was pleased to note that it sugested an interactive graphical viewer for the log files created by sascd. However, I can't figure out how to use it :-( I ran it with the -p option pointed to the /var/log/* directory that sascd seems to be creating a log fil

Re: What is dpkg --list supposed to do?

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > According to the dpkg man page: > > dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ... > > List packages matching given pattern. If no pack­ > age-name-pattern is given, list all packages in > /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > However, on my Woody syst

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread nate
el said: > hi, > > how do i create device ppp0 > (not on the rescue-cd-ramdisk per default) > with commandline commands? > you usually do not do this directly, you would generally use pppd as a front end to ppp, what are you trying to do? ppp is not possible without support in the kernel(either

RE: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:03, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:14]: > | > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' > | > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. > | > > | > Where did you learn economics? >

Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
> 2 thoughts: > - I'm pretty sure that you *must* buy some games that come bundled > with the Xbox. So, the price is .gt. $200. > - If "we" buy lots of Xboxen, it will be that much fuel for MSFT > for when they go to GameCos and say, "Look at our sales figures. > You should make games for

Re: Building distributions based upon Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 06:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to create smaller distribution from Debian 3.0r0, e.g. one or > two CD's > instead of 7, with a whole lot of basic applications, but not much > redundancy in > these. > > I have been busy searching the Debian we

Where to ask about tc (iproute)?

2002-10-04 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. I'm fumbling through my first deployment of bandwidth limiting using the "tc" utility, part of the iproute package. I have a simple setup working (I think), but since I put it in place, my network has gone wonky. After some period of time, we cease to be able to see past the network int

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:14:46 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: can i trust you with this project > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:14:37PM -0500, Michael Olson wrote: > > This is probably a hoax. I heard a news ac

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Charles, > > On Oct 4, Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > | Pardon my ignorance, but there doesn't seem to be > much > | documentation on the gworkspace site. What is the > | purpose of gworkspace say in conjunction with >

Re: pine binaries, and pico

2002-10-04 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello All > > > > At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there > > are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does > > anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does > >

image backup utility

2002-10-04 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am looking for an imaging backup utility. Linux really isn't a problem but I have win2000 on hda2. I need something that will create the image on hdb2 and that I can simply copy back to hda2 and boot from if need be. Will partimage do this? I don't use win2000 much (games mostly and now work

RE: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 15:12, Ron Johnson wrote: [***SNIPPLISED!!!***] > Thus, stay away from MSFT!! (They do make good optical mice, though...) > > -- > ++ > | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Jefferson, L

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread John Hasler
el writes: > how do i create device ppp0 (not on the rescue-cd-ramdisk per default) > with commandline commands? You don't, nor is it likely that you really need to. Exactly what is it that you are trying to do and exactly what is going wrong? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

crc error

2002-10-04 Thread eric mc
Hello all, 1.can onyone tell me what a 'crc error' means exactly ?? Have this error time to times and all I have todo is reboot the system. 2.An fsck results in a '..is this a zero lenght partition ' and/or '...Null pointer..' can't ... what ? 'run e2fsck -b 8193 ' but he can't do

Re: crc error

2002-10-04 Thread nate
eric mc said: > Hello all, > 1.can onyone tell me what a 'crc error' means exactly ?? > Have this error time to times and all I have todo is reboot the system. > 2.An fsck results in a '..is this a zero lenght partition ' > and/or '...Null pointer..' can't ... what ? > 'run e2fsck

ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

2002-10-04 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi there, I'm now a proud owner of a ADSL net connection. There is only one problem. I can't make it to work under linux. I've installed the lastest pppoe and pppoeconfig (I'm running unstable) and it all promised to be quite simple. I used pppoeconfig for setting things up and it seemed to work

Re: crc error

2002-10-04 Thread p
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:55:33PM +0200, eric mc wrote: > Hello all, > 1.can onyone tell me what a 'crc error' means exactly ?? > Have this error time to times and all I have todo is reboot the system. > 2.An fsck results in a '..is this a zero lenght partition ' and/or > '...Null po

Re: ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

2002-10-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
Here are my results from pinging you, but i cant hit your DNS at all; maybe you gave the wrong DNS IP? That looks like what happened to me, sorry I don't know why pppoe is using pts0 either... slamson@callerio:~$ ping -c 4 213.13.200.110 PING 213.13.200.110 (213.13.200.110): 56 data bytes 64 byt

The Swiss ain't part of the NATO or EU!

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.2036 +0200]: > When did Switzerland join NATO? I must apologize for not researching the facts properly. They joined the UNO. I hate politics and acronyms. And I am sorry for any confusion. -- martin; (greetings from the heart

Re: NIC IRQ conflict

2002-10-04 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks, Mike. Yes, it does help. It's very strange -- cat /proc/pci shows the SMBus, USB, both NICs, and one sound channel on IRQ 5. Go figure. I have tracked down the nForce driver(s), and will have a go at that. It really looks as though Linux compatibility was an afterthought. Maybe they ha

Dual Boot

2002-10-04 Thread mollie k parkerson
Where can I find  Dual Boot For win98 /debian2.2rev4 The wwwdebian.org/distrib/fiplist won't open for me.   Manual says there is a floppy I can download to prepare for a Dual Boot. Thank You, Terry Parkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

2002-10-04 Thread jeff
i've found great success using rp-pppoe from www.roaringpenguin.com i have an AMD that i use as a firewall/router and rp-pppoe has worked great for me every time. read the documentation on the roaringpenguin site about how to set it up. it's really simple. good luck and i hope this at least hel

Re: [Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:08:45PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check Not wasted at all, atleast not for me:) I've postponed looking into this for month now, yet the shere amount of fetchmail blurbs made it harder

Re: lexmark printer with potatoe?

2002-10-04 Thread Dean Allen Provins
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0400, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > I have potatoe on my other cpu and > was wondering if anyone is using > lexmark Z45 printer with potatoe? > The printer has a parrallel and a usb > port with it.Does anyone for-see any > problems I might have with this > printer

Re: Dual Boot

2002-10-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
I use "grub" but you can also use lilo; these are programs that write to your MBR (master boot record) you can also use "Partition Magic"... you would need to let us know where you are at in your install process. Do you already have Debian installed? Are you just getting ready to install it? Wh

Re: What is equivalent to chkconfig?

2002-10-04 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:12:28AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out what command is used in Debian to > enable/disable init.d services at various runlevels. Not sure I can address the rest of your questions and comments, but the 'rcconf' package provides a very simple w

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread el
thanks a lot for the reply! situation: i came to the point, that i need something like superrescue-cd. there is no default adsl dialup on it, as i know already. what i know for sure, is that RoaringPenguin-pppoe is implemented on that cd and rp-pppoe/adsl is a user space driver. So adsl-dialup

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
Sorry I don't know what superrescue is... Maybe you should just download the newest rp-pppoe - I have rp-pppoe-3.5 from roaringpenguin.com. It will make a pppoe.conf for you. What is the output of #dmesg? Here is mine (the relevant parts), but be aware I have the support compiled into the kernel

Re: ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Ricardo Diz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 22:50]: > Here is the log: > > Oct 4 17:29:02 (none) pppd[1074]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0 > Oct 4 17:29:02 (none) pppd[1074]: not replacing existing default route > to eth0 [193.136.238.1] > Oct 4 17:29:02 (none) pppd[1074]: Cannot determine e

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
Woops - I confused some of your post with the problem Robero Diz is having as well, sorry... I now notice you say "adsl/dialup" in your post - are you using DSL or dialing through a 56k modem? Shawn --- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry I don't know what superrescue is... Maybe you shou

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Hilliard
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Our University's Director of Security sent around a news article about a > bunch of Nigerians being arrested in South Africa for involvement in wire > fraud in connection with the Nigerian e-mail scam. > > I will forward it to anyone who asks by email t

2 x 3com509B

2002-10-04 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
Hi. I'm just working on box with 2 3C509B NICs (ISA PNP, 10BaseT) and encountered a problem. Each NIC alone works fine, but both together are causing problem. I can load driver module and see 2 NICs are recognized and set to (0x220,5) for eth0 and (0x230,11) for eth1 respectively. Setting up e

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Barney Wrightson wrote: >Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The >> installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other >> (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and >> /dev/hde). >> T

Re: ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

2002-10-04 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Ricardo Diz said... > > I've installed the lastest pppoe and pppoeconfig (I'm running unstable) > and it all promised to be quite simple. I used pppoeconfig for setting > things up and it seemed to work fine until it started the connection. > Here is the log: > > Oct 4 17:29:02

Re: moved main boot hardrive to knew machine from old, lilo gives Int 0x13...blah head/sector diff. message

2002-10-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 October 2002 10:55 am, Walter Tautz wrote: > specifically I get: > # lilo > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:19:53PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > By the way, what does bf24 stand for? Presumably the "24" means kernel > 2.4, but what about the "bf"? "big friendly", perhaps? Correct about 2.4, and "bf" stands for "boot-floppies", the name of the installation system up to Deb

Re: Ultra 1

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Hauck
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:59]: > > Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. Haven't decided whether to > > install Solaris 9 or Debian (it has Solaris 2.6 on it now but that seems > > to be in a bad state). > > Unless you reall

Re: how do i create device ppp0 on commandline?

2002-10-04 Thread el
hi shawn! sorry, i should have been clearer: superrescue is a rescue-cd, i.e. like a boot/rescue-floppy, but with 700 megs on it, lots of tools and some luxury: x11/gnome. it's a boot-cd, which is independent of any hd. that means upgrading rp-pppoe on the cd is probably not that easy. dmesg: .

What did I download?

2002-10-04 Thread Fred Little
In late July I used several floppies ( rescue, root, drivers) to get started with Debian and downloaded the rest on-line. I've learned quite a bit in the two months since then but have a long way to go yet, not having a background in unix/linux before this. I see the terms "potato" , "woody", etc

Re: image backup utility

2002-10-04 Thread Jeff
Lance Hoffmeyer, 2002-Oct-04 14:44 -0500: > I am looking for an imaging backup utility. > Linux really isn't a problem but I have win2000 > on hda2. I need something that will create the > image on hdb2 and that I can simply copy back to > hda2 and boot from if need be. Will partimage do > this?

Re: What did I download?

2002-10-04 Thread Torsten Wolny
Hello Fred, Am Samstag, 5. Oktober 2002 00:48 schrieb Fred Little: > In late July I used several floppies ( rescue, root, drivers) to > get started > with Debian and downloaded the rest on-line. I've learned quite a > bit in the two months since then but have a long way to go yet, > not having a

Re: What did I download?

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:48:21PM -0500, Fred Little wrote: > In late July I used several floppies ( rescue, root, drivers) to get > started with Debian and downloaded the rest on-line. I've learned > quite a bit in the two months since then but have a long way to go > yet, not having a backgroun

Re: What did I download?

2002-10-04 Thread Jeff
Fred Little, 2002-Oct-04 17:48 -0500: > Need to experiment with various desktops. Is there a way to install > several > and quickly switch from one to another? The way I do this is install "menu" which lists installed window managers and allows you to switch between them on the fly. Menu creates

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Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread David P James
Brooks R. Robinson was roused into action on 04/10/02 12:03 and wrote: > | * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:14]: > | > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' > | > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. > | > > | > Where did you le

shutdown hangs at "deconfiguring network interfaces"

2002-10-04 Thread solutrean
howdy all. The title sez it all. here are some particulars: athlon t-bird 750, all-scsi, 393M RAM, Debian testing. this is my first post to the list - I apologize for any improper netiquette. I googled for this condition, but found nothing. tia j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:46:12PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:23:19PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. > > 2.4.20 is not out yet -- there are only pre-releases (the latest one is > 2.4.20-pre9). I

Re: shutdown hangs at "deconfiguring network interfaces"

2002-10-04 Thread Elizabeth Barham
solutrean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The title sez it all. here are some particulars: > > athlon t-bird 750, all-scsi, 393M RAM, Debian testing. > > this is my first post to the list - I apologize for any improper netiquette. > I googled for this condition, but found nothing. I had this for

Re: MAN PAGES (FIXED)

2002-10-04 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:13:12AM -0700, D. wrote: > > I using testing and I suspect that sometime > during a > > upgrade I have hosed up my man pages db? Anyway > if I > > open xman and then manual page and look for a man > page > > for example on

Re: What did I download?

2002-10-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Fred" == Fred Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred> I see the terms "potato" , "woody", etc. used on this list Fred> and it makes me wonder. Did I download one of these ? What Fred> release did I download. How do I find out? The kernel, I Fred> believe, is 2.2.20. /etc/i

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Russell
jerry k wrote: > > I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a > system running Win2k... You should just get a cheap/free second pc to play with. No need to worry about crashing and reinstalling windoze then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: galeon crashes on pasting (was: galeon and its problems)

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:38:28PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote.. > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:35:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.0553 +0200]: > > > Galeon doesn't crash for me with this particular trick, but it does seem > > > quite unst

routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread dave mallery
hi now i believe myself to be a fairly experienced deb user. this is humiliating: i have a home network (10.42.42.0) which has a floppyfw gateway to the world at 10.42.42.254. works. i have been building a cluster (actually, resuscitating one, but that's another story). the cluster network i

Re: routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:24:51PM -0600, dave mallery wrote: > hi > > now i believe myself to be a fairly experienced deb user. this is > humiliating: Not really, these things happen to everyone =) > 10.42.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 10

Re: routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya dave quick glance... and some guesswork - a machine should always be able to ping itself ( 10.32.32.x or 10.42.43.x ( evben with the nic cable disconnected ) - c0n1 does not have a 10.42.42.0 routes and it has 10.42.43.* gateway ( wrong ?? ) - i think either eth1(43.*

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo

Re: galeon crashes on pasting (was: galeon and its problems)

2002-10-04 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-10-04 22:06:51, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Galeon has been funky for me too. Mine goes into an instant freeze > where it simply locks up, typically while scrolling down the page. > Scroll bar freezes and all other controls are worthless. Only thing I > can do is kill it. All other apps on m

Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread Forrest L Norvell
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:33:43AM -0700, nate wrote: > Forrest L Norvell said: > > > "You must be logged in to view this page" error. Thinking that I might be > > I read in the PHP docs that something to do with session management > was broken on powerPC: > > "Sessions do NOT work on hppa, m68

Re: routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:40:37PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hiya dave > > quick glance... and some guesswork > > - a machine should always be able to ping itself > ( 10.32.32.x or 10.42.43.x > ( evben with the nic cable disconnected ) > > - c0n1 does not have a 10.42.42.0 route

Re: routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yuppers.. agree on all point you make.. problem is the gw is slight misconfigured .. based on the routes listed... a cluster on its own private lan needs its own ip#.. ( say 10.42.42.* ) and one of them (buster) goes to the fw on say 10.42.43.* in its current config... that is not the

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-04 Thread Kent West
John Joe wrote: >sound finally works! > >i compile sound as module and use sndconfig, it's OK. >Surely Debian is hard to use. > > Excellent! I'm glad you got that working! >but X still does not work. > >though only 1M, it support 800x600 with 16bit color in >Win95. i could afford a new old ca

IMAP/Exim

2002-10-04 Thread debuser
Currently on my system I have the following email setup: I am a RaodRunner cable user at home but have never actually used their email address/servers because I work for a small ISP (dial- up only) and use ours from habit and the convenience of maintaining my email addresses myself with remote

Re: routing problem

2002-10-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
dave mallery wrote: > > next (and last) here's bilbo, a sarge machine on the home front: > > bilbo:/>> route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Iface > 10.42.43.0 10.42.42.112255.255.255.0 UG0 0 0 eth0 > 1

Sybase ASE 12.5 and Debian Woody 3.0

2002-10-04 Thread Kurt Klinner
Hello, i'm trying to set up the ASE Developer Edition (12.5.0.1/Linux) on a Debian 3.0 system. After converting the rpm's to deb's and installing the packages at /opt/... i started srvbuild (the setup programm for the database server) but "unfourtunately" i get the following error Starting ser

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.2330 +0200]: > > Yes, it is, but that doesn't make it any less of a reality. As for who > > these people are, I believe the term is "politician". > > Why the fuck are we accepting thi

Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP!] > Conclusion: you, the marginal consumer, might be able to stick it to MS > for $100 or $200, but any concerted attempt to stick it to MS in this > way is not going to work. MS wins again. M$ is rumored to have ~$50 billion in cash reserve

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Pure crap. Let me give you an example: You haven't paid property tax for > a while. Then your property can be taken away from you. Which means it > was never yours. You just had a licence to say it was yours. As soon as > you

network - notwork! unable to access lan and net

2002-10-04 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all. i have a networking problem and despite some efforts i put in, it remains unresolved. setup: my computer runs debian 3.0. it is connected to a lan. and through the lan to the net. i have a static ip address. the server runs win nt. several other computers running different win flav

Re: ASUS motherboard

2002-10-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I got my P4S533 in July. Great and stable board! The onboard LAN and |> sound is supported in standard marcello kernels, but you'll need a |> newer -ac kernel (I use 2.4.20-pre8-ac2), if you want to be able to |> use NVIDIA's 3D accel. drivers via AGPGART. Finally I can play |> UT2003demo on m

Re: your mail

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:57:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya kourosh.. > > i dont know your config of your lan etc.. :-)> Unless you have psychic powers I wouldn't think so ;-) > - if buster was NOT forwarding, am thinking none of the machines > in the cluster would NOT a "ping www.

Re: What is equivalent to chkconfig?

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach D. Joe Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.2313 +0200]: > Not sure I can address the rest of your questions and comments, but > the 'rcconf' package provides a very simple way of setting services > to start or not at boot time. So does file-rc. -- martin; (greeting

Re: network - notwork! unable to access lan and net

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
Sandip, Do you have ipchains or iptables enabled? What output do you get if you do iptables -L ? What is the exact message when you try to ping? Do you get an error? Does it hang? Does it time out? Do you know if the network card is workign and doesn't have a physical problem? Regards. On

Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties

2002-10-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Forrest L Norvell said: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:33:43AM -0700, nate wrote: > > Forrest L Norvell said: > > > > > "You must be logged in to view this page" error. Thinking that I might be > > > > I read in the PHP docs that something to do with session managemen

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