On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Cox wrote:
> I have debian running on an old computer.
> It has no CD.
> It is on a LAN
> I can manually ftp to debian through my firewall if I use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> but I can not dselect. When I try it does not get to the ftp server.
>
> HELP
How do you ftp through the f
Since so many people complain about Greenbush Technologies delivery
record, here's a success story:
A friend ordered cd's from Paul Wade' company and he got them delivered
pretty fast (in days), considered that the cd's had to be sent to Europe.
So, at times, they do get it right.
The cd's we
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
> Regarding "Updating the kernel via patches" of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I
> >used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files
> >
> > patch
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Andrew wrote:
> Here's a pretty kettle of fish:
> the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
> because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
> username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
>
> ftp> user [EMAIL
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote:
> Are you sure you can't switch virtual consoles? I have the same problem
> in all other respects. I have to use ctrl-alt-f1 instead of alt-f1
> to switch virtual consoles since X is running, did you forget about that?
> My "power save" light comes on an
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> When I close my X session, one or more instances of the following message
> appear:
>
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
>
> Any ideas what causes this?
That you didn't close all xterms, xclocks, windowman
On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have
> another look at this and will probably file a bugreport.
Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall
and without external DNS, so smail won't accept anymor
On 24 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep
> > resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means
> > that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my
>
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Chris Brown wrote:
> I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several
> brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux.
>
> They all have the LSI "Winbond W89C940F" on them. I've seen some
> reference to them as being "Novell NE2000 Compatible" but
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
>
> Hi,
> yes, it now looks exactly the same...
> no libc5 dependance
>
> ADDUSER STILL DUMPS CORE
check to see if there is a /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm on your system and
check the date of the file. If that is an old file then you should remov
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > > ADDUSER STILL DUMPS CORE
> >
> > Anyway, the newest version of perl-* fixes this.
>
> hmm
> yesterday i've installed perl 5.004-4 dated Jan 26. Is
On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> Hi Joost!
>
> I also upgraded to the 5.004.04-4 perl and perl-base packages this
> morning. While adduser still does not segfault for me, perl still
> segfaults and dumps core when I run either my couple hundred line mail
> preprocessing script on one parti
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Huh.. I just tried this on a machie at home, and the script failed because
> debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/ contains no libc5*.deb files. On
> any mirror that I could find.
Try looking in oldlibs/
Tip: in directory binary-i386, type "dir */packag
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
>
> > >> the answer it is
> > >> bad data in /var/run/utmp
> > >Have you upgraded to libc6?
> > Yes.
>
> Point dselect at ftp.debian.org and make SURE you've upgraded all the base
> and standard packag
Hi Craig,
Besides the C:\LOGO.SYS bitmap, there are also C:\WINDOWS\LOGOW.SYS and
C:\WINDOWS\LOGOS.SYS. They are the same format squeezed bmp.
Cheers,
Joost
If anybody's interested, I've once installed the following startup logo
for somebody. I will mail it to you personally on demand:
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed a debian 1.3, and booting with boot disk eth0 3c905 is
> not recognized.
> So installed with dselect 2.0.30 kernel image and i copie it onto the boot
> floppy.
> Nothing changed.
> The strange thing, is that i've already inst
Hi,
The behaviour that you quote below is the same as what I got since
upgrading to fetchmail 4.3.6.
The quick solution, suggested by Arjan de Vet, is to add "proto pop3" to
your .fetchmailrc (or as command line switches.) Apparently, probing
for IMAP capabilities in ms-exchange makes it confus
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Frere Roy wrote:
> I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message
> "whiptail is not installed"
>
> I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed
> whiptail.
>
> Have I missed something?
Yes, newt0.21_0.21-4.deb which no longer contai
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote:
> I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this.
>
> ABORTBUSY
> ABORT"NO CARRIER" <-
> ABORTVOICE
> ABORT"NO DIALTONE"
> "" ATZ
> OK ATL1
> OK ATDT5551212
> ogin:
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its new
> > home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, both
> >
> > cp -ax /* /mnt
> >
> > and
> >
> > ( cd /; tar clvf - *
On 9 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
> Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as
> > apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add
> > "AT&C0" to the mod
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
> try this site, it is a lot more responsive
> ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01
That's where I got it from too. Be quick though if you want to get it from
sunsite.uio.no, AFAIK they're not really allowed to mirror StarOff
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Ole J.Tetlie wrote:
> This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet
> Service. To view the original message content, open the attached
> message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to
> disk, and then open it using a viewer t
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to generate "screen dumps" of bash
> sessions?
>
> For example, let's say I have a test-mode application that asks for some
> input and then outputs something in response. Is there a way to have
> this whole ex
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I've just send a comment to Jesse Berst, the author of the whole mess, so
> I think, that it makes sens to send a Cc to debian-users.
> ===
[snip]
Hi,
It seem
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Mohamed Ishan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded my redhat to debian 1.3.1, but for some odd reason (is
> this cause of a package I've installed?) I seem to get the following
> error when I tried to run dselect again (for ftp installation).
>
> ***
> Can't locate loa
Hi,
For quite a while now I've been looking at this and I don't quite know
where even to look to fix it.
This is what happens:
--begin---
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (unstable) pc47 tty2
pc47 login: kooij
Password:
Login incorrect
Debian GNU/\s 2.0 (unstable) \n \l
pc47 login:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first
> login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your
> login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs /bin/login, passing the
> username you typed in. If you e
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Looking at the mgetty man page (I suspect you use mgetty and this is where
> you
> see this prompt) I see:
Nope; this is what I see:
dpkg -l "*getty*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the
> sort of thing that "rawwrite.exe" does? If that is the case, then you
> can copy the files "in specified sized pieces" and then use either
> rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Elias G. Gounaris wrote:
> I am trying to downlod the resc1440.bin and it seems that is larger than
> a WIN95 formated disk do you have any suggestions
> Thanks in advance
> Elias G. Gounaris
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You have to write it to the raw disk, not to the dos file
Hi,
I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question:
When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing:
-DHOSTTYPE='"i486"' -DOSTYPE='"linux-gnu"' -DMACHTYPE='"i486-debian-linux-gnu"'
I think that the it is the line
ARCH = $(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture)
t
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out.
>
> It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time
> to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links,
> and xf86config couldn't run.
This is a pain
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure when this happened but when I went back to using XDM
> upon boot I lost my xconsole. And my /dev/xconsole has been changed
> to /dev/xconsole|.
>
> Could anyone help me remedy this problem. The xdm man page mentioned
> an examp
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Jim Michael wrote:
> This is my first post to this list. I have looked through some of the
> archives and ran a search against the archives but have not found
> anything to help me with this problem. I have installed 1.2 on a 486-66
> with a Diamond Speedstar Pro.
There
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> A. After a failed intallation pass with dselect, make a
> "configure" pass followed by another installation pass. Repeat
> until all packages successfully install.
My experience is that some parts remain subtly broken if you try
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, compwiz wrote:
> I currently have Debian 1.2. I followed the instruction to upgrade the
> dpkg tool, but I don't know which packages download, to actually install
> Debian 1.3.
You'll have to upgrade:
- dpkg
- ld.so
- libc5
- all packages in section base
in the above order.
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > If a standard package depends on a non-free package it should be reported
> > as a bug. To my knowledge there are no such packages in 1.3.0.
Lawrence, you probably mean "package in stable depends on package in
non-free."
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
>
> 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including
>the Packages file.
>
> 2. Updating dpkg:
>dpkg --clear-avail
>dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
On 16 Jun 1997, Stephen P. Ryan wrote:
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
< Problems getting lilo to boot different linuxen/partitions. >
Hi,
Take a look at my /etc/lilo.conf. It does all that you ask for.
I have the current and an older kernel on /dev/hda1, a rescue installation
on /dev/hdc9 an
On 17 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Rick> 3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't
> Rick> launching. However, xdm from a root window successfully
> Rick> launches.
>
> ? /etc/X11/xdm/*, and /etc/init.d/xdm are the files it uses.
You might also want to check /etc
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, David Wright wrote:
> I've got a new computer with a 2GB SCSI disk which I want to partition for
> linux. I've stuck a second-hand IDE drive in for DOS, so I was going to
> use just primary partitions on the 2GB disk.
>
> Following other people's experience on this list, I w
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
> I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I
> was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can
> stop it from doing that!!
>From /etc/init.d/boot:
---begin /etc/init.d/boot
# Set ED
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> the result of dpkg --get-selections and /var/spool/mail (especially if
> these are frequent backups and you don't place mail in the user's home
> directory).
Dselect keeps some configuration data deep down in then /var/lib/dpkg
tree.
And if you run bind/dns then /var/
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Joost_Kooij wrote:
> cd /
> mkdir cdrom ; create a mountpoint if it does not yet exist
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom ; mount the cdrom
> cd cdrom ; you'll find the contents here
> ls -l
Aack! Braino! You have to:
cd /
before you can unmoun
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded the .31 kernel and tried to do a make menuconfig and got the
> following:
>
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.31/scripts/lx
On 19 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded the .31 kernel and tried to do a make menuconfig and got the
> > &
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A friend of mine has installed debian on his laptop. I tried running pon.
> It runs without complaining, but doesn't do anything much. The modem
> doesn't make any of the usual noises associated with an attempt to
> connect. When I do plog, i
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Juan Carlos Muro wrote:
> - How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'?
export PS1='$PWD'
you can add more stuff to it of course, like '$PWD> \$'
> -Something extrange: with 'PC Actual Magazine' came the Netscape 3.01. I
> made a 'tar xvfz ' and when installed, if I typ
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I can't interpret that SCSI error, but you can write to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> and there are people on that list who can help. Could it be a data
> underrun? I would suggest burning CDs in single-user mode until you are
> sure about that. My Pentium 90 ca
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well I don't know why, but plog has suddenly started to work. At least we
> now have a clue as to why pon isn't working. It comes up with the
> following:
>
> Oct 21 22:36:51 genoa pppd[239]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> Oct 21 22:3
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I've sometimes cleared it by unloading and reloading the SCSI driver.
Hmmm, how do you do that? Do you mean you unload and reload it as a
module?
Joost
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> I do seem to have a reliability issue with some fairly cheap green on
> gold CDRs. (US$4 ea @ qty 100 with a black label thermally printed on
> them by a local company -- supposed to be Sony CDRs, but they were
> totally blank before being printed). T
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Searching the Changelog directories for updated packages (r1 to r6)
> and installing them with dpkg is a bit tedious. I imagine dpkg-ftp works
> well in the case of getting non-free packages from a remote site.
>
> Is there a way to point dselect at l
Dang! I should have RTFM better before sending this.
Contrary to what I wrote below, you don't get to see the epoch in the
_name_ of the produced .deb ( is is in there though. )
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > F
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Forget it. Get the kernel-package*.deb Install it, and use it (read the
> doc!) Here is a hint:
>
> # make menuconfig
> # make-kpkg -r custom_1.0 kernel_image
^
don't
> # cd ..
> # dpkg -i
> # lilo
Some
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Suppose I have X running. I have a shell and in that shell I telnet to
> the same machine but under a different user. When i try to run any X app
> (say xfig) i guet the following messages :
>
> Xlib: connection to "neptuno:0.0" refu
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
> Hi
> I just upgraded to the latest unstable (libc6) stuff.
> Including October 18 version of gcc -- now
> every time I try to compile anything I get sig 11
> and interneal compiler error.
sig11 = almost always hardware related memory problems.
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Dirk Kievith wrote:
> At 00:21 24.10.1997 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >> Did I read the webpage correctly, it stated
> >> something to the effect of ...'you may load and run Debian on the same hard
> >> drive that you have WIN95 on' ?
>
> >Sure. I do it. There's a program that
On 23 Oct 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Okay, besides "stable contrib non-free local" there is also:
> non-US
> project/experimental
> project/misc
> project/orphaned
> project/other_kernels
>
> This is a CD from JFL, a book store in Germany.
> (http://www.lob.de";>Lehmanns Online Bookshop)
>
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> My problem is like this:
> I recently upgraded from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and it worked fine. Yesterday
> there was a power failure and I try to reboot using the Boot Disk
> created during the installation but the system just kept on rebooting
> itself. I then
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
> Yes. I have a new motherboard as well. It has voltage autodetect,
> 83MHz capable bus (I am running 75mhz bus). It is TX chipset.
> The memory is also new (60ns EDO).
You might also want to try reseating the memories. Sometimes you get a
bet
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Otavio Exel wrote:
> I've tried to update from a fresh install of bo to hamm but couldn't;
> as I'd like very mutch to experiment with hamm & 2.0.30 now I decided
> to try a fresh install of hamm; how do I do that? the set of disks I
> can see in ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/../
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, ERIK STEARNS wrote:
> I am new to these discussion lists and was wondering how do I set the
> list mailings that I get to digest mode?
send a message:
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unsubscribe
then send a message:
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subscribe
AFAIK that should do
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote:
> I am trying to install hamm. And I am missing some of the following
> packages: jdk-common, elf-x11r6lib, ...
elf-x11r6lib is an obsolete virtual package. The few packages that still
claim a depends on it are broken. It will still work if you install
anywa
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Ignus Fast wrote:
> I am still having a lot of trouble! I have no trouble running:
>
> 'make xconfig', followed by
> 'make kpkg-clean',
> 'make-kpkg -r custom.1.0 kernel_image'
> 'dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.30_custom.1.0_i386.deb'
Ready?!?
> 'make modules'
> 'make m
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Waller Martin MEJ wrote:
> Here's the score - if I use xwin32 and try to query the linux machine
> directly, after a very long pause (say a minute?) I get a message saying
> something along the lines of 'Display the network name of the linux machine> could not be opene
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David Oswald wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> while trying to install most.deb it occurs that slang0.99.34 needs to
> be installed.
>
> Here are the results of my installation. I could use some help here - I
> hope i'm not missing something obvious...
>
>
> Preparing t
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
> Someone (I think it was Joost. Sorry if I got your name wrong.
> I don't have the message anymore.) was kind enough to tell me that I
> needed xlib6-dev to get the missing files. I've got them from the
> Debian site but as a result have been sent
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card"
> (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor"
> (--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" needs hsync freq of 31.65 kHz. Deleted.
> (--) SVGA: Mode "320x240" needs hsync freq of 63.30 kHz. Deleted.
> (--) SVGA: Maximum allow
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, TING Ching-Hua wrote:
> Problems:
> 1. xplaycd works only in the root account.
> 2. In a user account xplaycd cannot access the CDROM. It always wants
> to access '/dev/cdrom'. The system always complains 'Permission
> denied'.
> 3. No sound.
Try this on your computer:
ls
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > You'll want to add the users that must be able to read the raw cdrom
> > device (as opposed to a mounted filesystem on the cdrom) to the cdrom
> > group. The same with group
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version
> of bash?
>
> When I do a
>
> $ set -o vi
> $ k
>
> to recall the last command, I just get a "beep" instead of the last
> command. Has anyone found a way to use
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul J Thompson wrote:
> I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for
> Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are currently
> doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other OSs)
> would be intere
> > There were some problems reported with the /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> > The networks line says " files dns" which means that when resolving a
> > network address, libc will try first /etc/networks, then ask on DNS.
> > However route tries to resolve the net diald passes to it and blocks in
> > th
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote:
> Hi again:
>
> In my previous communication I described some of the problems I am
> having in taking the "next step" after adding the libc6 libraries etc
> to my Debain box: how to go on to configure the system to do
> development (i.e., gcc, g++,
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, charles jackson wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how to change my monitor variable for x11?
There is a man who surely holds the answer.
Go ask the man,
man x
is your friend
man 5 XF86Config
probably is a nice guy too
Try (as root):
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86
On 18 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why is it being used as a 16 bit card. Or is it running as a 32 bit ?
>
> >From /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz:
>
> Various clone manufacturers have started making PCI ne2000 clones
> based on the RealTek 802
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Personally, I find the "off topic" threads on this list are often very
> interesting. I almost always learn some new twist or trick that I had not
> seen before, so it is my hope that, when I have problems, the solution may
> be valuable to others as well
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of
> Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I
> recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there
> including the master boot record.
>
> This was ok,
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Jeremy Blonde wrote:
> I'm trying to setup pine and so far I can't figure a couple of things out.
> I want it to download email from my isp. Right now I don't care about local
> mail (I'll work with that later). However I keep getting a imap error? I
> have the domain set co
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
> > Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail
> > client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just
> > delete any message I see which looks like a webpage.
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote:
> Have decide recently to move to Debian (fully support its policy) so I went
> on the net and found the necessary stuff to install the base1_3 system.
> Installed very well without a problem on my old 486/33 no CD. The only way
> to install from a CD is
On 18 Jun 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Carlo U. Segre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux?
>
> For free I don't know. May be Adobe sells a version for Linux. I downloaded
> from their Web site Acrobat Reader for Linux. It works great
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
>
> > Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to
> > sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem
> > to belong to one of the following categories -
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote:
> OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of
> my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk,
> now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this?
This sounds very much like the bi
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> Just noticed this
> My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users.
> Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password?
I don't think this is right. Do you have Netscape installed?
Wasn't this a bug with an old versi
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> > However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root
> > -rw--- permissions. This
> > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my
> > normal account would dial and
> > login ok, but all of the net c
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Cheng-Chang Wu wrote:
> I can't not find xmkmf and imake in Debian 1.3. They were
> in xbase, but now they are not there. Which package contents
> these two programs?
dpkg -S xmkmf
xlib6-dev: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xmkmf.1x.gz
xlib6-dev: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have finally decided to try to compile my kernel 'the Debian way.' Until
> now, I have always done it 'manually.' In /usr/dos/kernel-source-###/
> debian.README it says to use make-kpkg. I cannot find this command on my
> system or by a search und
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote:
> I am surprised to see that with Debian installation you require /usr/local
> direc
> tory. I am new to Debian (not to LInux), have a 1.3 installed and my
> /usr/local
> is completly empty. I believe that dpkg installs everything in /usr/lib. Is
> ther
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate
> partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to
> maintain a clean machine. ;-)
The md-layout-mini-howto (or something with a similar name) has some fine
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Debian user mail wrote:
> Ah, the wonders of sendmail.
>
>
> In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
>
> # default delivery mode
> O DeliveryMode=background
>
> becomes
>
> # default delivery mode
> O DeliveryMode=deferred
Hmm, this one might be the answer for me.
The thing
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
>
> > I get the same with smail and I'm not using a smarthost. I think it could
> > be an smail or pine config thing, because you would think that smail would
> > accept the mail right away and pine would contin
Hi you gurus out there,
dpkg-gencontrol suddenly breaks when I try to build a debian-packaged
kernel image.
The last time I tried this it worked, the system was an upgraded 1.3 then.
The only differences between now and then that I can think of are some
installed packages from bo-updates, inclu
Hola,
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Antonio M. Roldan wrote:
> I've upgraded to xfree3.3 using the packages located in "bo-updates"
> and found the following error messages when installing scalable fonts:
>
> ---
> # dpkg -i xfntscl_3.3
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Miles wrote:
> I need to read information in manual.txt
>
> when I went to the /usr/doc/lilo subdirectory, the closest filename that
> resembled this was Manual.txt.gz
>
> This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the
> .gz??
It is GZipped.
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
> I installed my custom kernel and went to run `depmod -a'. I get the
> following error:
>
> modprobe: error reading ELF header: no such file or directory
This may be your problem:
If you install a custom kernel made with an older version of
ker
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
> you should be able to see what the shell returned. When I hit enter on
> binutils_2.8.1-2.deb, for example, I get
>
> ./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `!'
> ./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: `!'
I think I know what this
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes:
>
> > It's Debian policy (afaik) that as little as possible should go into
> > stable after release, and *definitely* as little as possible, if any,
> > new upstream releases.
> >
> This is very wise but i'd expect as w
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