Re: Repost - need help! : Debugging install script?

1998-08-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
ot from a floppy drive then I would try the floppy boot route first. Just my opinion, and I'm no expert fer sure! --- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I.

Re: netscape 4.06 on Debian 2.0

1998-08-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try running 'ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape' and verify that all of the libraries listed are present. 4.06/netscape4_4.0-12 is working fine here. Bob On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Chad Glendenin wrote: > Netscape 4.06 refuses to run on my fresh Debian 2.0 system. I installed the > old

Re: Netscape 4.xx

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
e netscape browser, so any > 4.0* netscape should work. One minor note here: I installed communicator-pro-v406-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz, using 4.0-12, but had to edit the name to communicator-v406-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz to get the script to accept it. Bob ---

Re: Modules

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
Maybe you could do it with /etc/modules, but I haven't tried that. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Error backing up with tob

1998-08-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I try to back up using tob, I get the following error: afio: "/dev/ftape": Invalid argument This is using afio version 2.4.4-2 from slink. Is this version not compatible? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRne

Errors with taper 6.9

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
afio error with slink (see my previous message), so tried using taper again. Has anyone else had backup problems with slink? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com

Re: Error backing up with tob

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
Please ignore. Rebooting fixed the problem. On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > When I try to back up using tob, I get the following error: > > afio: "/dev/ftape": Invalid argument > > This is using afio version 2.4.4-2 from slink. Is this version n

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
as 40-bit encryption, and which > we'd prefer not to be stuck with. > > Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with > libc6? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
or such a thing. > > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify. See > > www.fortify.net. I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape, > > however it works fine on the libc5 version. &g

Re: Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
t. I did install a video card which makes it more convenient if I need to actually work on the machine, however. Bob On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Greg Vence wrote: > Hello, > > In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN > managed system. I'm looking to

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
49 = German 01 = English You want ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/linux/sp3/01/so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz Bob On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Jim Harsh wrote: > > > I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial > users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what a

Re: /dev/audio

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; Thanks Alot > > -- > >Rick Knebel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://rknebel.csrlink.net > - > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscri

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
an from within X. My console goes blank whether or not I'm > logged in. > > I am using Debian 2.0. > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Inter

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
your startup scripts. I created a file /etc/init.d/local for such things. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
T + 1 but is in > fact showing GMT + 2. > > Where / How do I correct this, I have checked all I can see in Man for > time and have not found the correct info. I have been able to confirm > the above using tzselect. Use tzconfig Bob Nielsen Internet

Re: WindowMaker 0.19.1 or close to it.

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
wmaker 0.19 is in dists/unstable (slink). I wouldn't expect any trouble running this with a hamm system. Bob On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > I don't know who packages WindowMaker but is one of the newer versions > going to be packaged soon? I checked several

Re: IRC

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
; little (if at all) congestion. With so many servers, I find that I often connect to one on the other side of the world. Occasionally this causes some latency, so I've been specifying a specific server in /etc/irc/servers, rather than take pot luck. I don't use IRC that much, but it seem

Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
n then install using rpm. Dependencies can be a problem, of course, because of the differences between the distributions. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

1998-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
appreciated. > > Jianbo > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: wmaker

1998-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
; -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: PON As Normal User

1998-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
t; > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: upgrade queries

1998-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
rade? Since the upgrade keeps libc5 on your system, there should be no problems. I don't recall if the upgrade removes libc4 (a.out), but if you have any binaries requiring libc4, you should probably replace them anyway. I've done upgrades using both autoup.sh and 'apt-get dist

Re: HELP: Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
I installed FETCHMAIL, but I cannot find any info on how to configure it. You need to create a ~/.fetchmailrc file. This can be as simple as something like: poll pop.provider.net protocol pop3 username jsmith password secret1 'man fetchmail' for further information. Bob ---

Re: Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
use reboots are for hardware upgrades! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
valuable tool and IMHO should be on every Debian system. Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not > just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully > get Communicator 4.

Re: Runs linux on a partition with fat32 and win98

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
e able to read/write to FAT32 partitions after installing Debian 2.0, you should upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 or later, which recognize FAT32. 2.0.35 is the latest in the 2.0 series, and is available as a Debian kernel-image package in /unstable, while 2.0.34 is in /stable. Bob ---- Bob N

Re: domain name

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yes, but it looks like you are already set up for this. Ping and traceroute both work, although a reverse lookup shows x192.ntx.net. www.knebel.com takes me to your web page (not much there yet!). Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I have a registerd domain name and

Re: apt-get just the packages

1998-09-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
e apt-get instead of installing the packages, stick them in > /zip, my zip drive, so i can take them home. Is this possible? > > thanks, > vincent murphy > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen

Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

1998-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
which gets around some of the funny things which occasionally happen running netscape directly (possibly this is no longer a problem with the current versions). It also installs a "universal" plug-in (plugger) which handles many file types. Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > V

Re: How to setup NE-2000 PCI Ethernet Card

1998-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
er > But do you have a PNP-aware BIOS? I do, and my card is also recognized. With an older BIOS, it is still necessary to specify parameters. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: 'nother netscape question

1998-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
o get any extra libraries...) and from what I've read here, that's > odd. It is available as both. The libc5 version is in the /pub/communicator/4.06/shipping tree and the libc6 version is in the /pub/communicator/4.06/development tree. I've installed both with no problems using t

Re: Wodperfect 8 to pdf format

1998-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
the document to a postscript file, ps2pdf (part of the gs-aladdin package) will convert it. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

RE: find & replace?

1998-09-08 Thread Bob McGowan
itor is the tool to use. To give it the list of files to process requires some shell knowledge and a little additional information from you. Do you want each processed file to be concatenated on stdout or should each file be saved as an individual processed file? And which shell are you using? ---

Re: X-Windows Mice

1998-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
/psaux /dev/mouse' or use /dev/psaux. Also, you will need to specify the PS/2 protocol in the "pointers" section of XF86Config. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: modem and PPP trouble

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Read /usr/doc/ppp/SETUP.gz Actually the Debian package sets things up a bit differently than this, but you should be able to understand the procedure from this document. The files you need to set up are /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider. Bob On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Joshua

Re: apt-get update or dselect update

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
elf is probably preferable. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Null modem connection

1998-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
is in the base installation. You could probably transfer it with an ext2 floppy, however. Bob On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Andreas Nolda wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > how can I connect two Debian machines by a null modem cable so that I > can point Dselect on one of them (with only the base

RE: Serial Console

1998-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
files (so I could recover if needed) and then set up links with the original names to the serial device being used as the console. IHTH and Good Luck, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com

Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)

1998-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
compile the kernel for installation on a slower machine. I've done this by hand and dealing with modules is a big mess. make-kpkg handles it very nicely as the modules are included in the .deb file. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: Why do most (all?) now require libc6: what to do??

1998-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
: > > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? > > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ is recovering the latest > bo release. http://debian.midco.net/Archive also has it, and it is .us.. There were some others listed but I didn't save the list. You can ch

Re: {stupid pet tricks}blown Root passwd

1998-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
At the lilo prompt, type "linux single" and you should be able to boot from the hard drive as root. Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Kent Andersen wrote: > I seem to have a problem changed my root password on one of my systems and > whamo when I later tried to su root my password doesen

Re: Printing under hamm

1998-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
The ljet4ml-filter passes postscript files directly to the printer, not via ghostscript. ljet4m-filter might be a better choice (600 dpi conversion of non-postscript input to postscript), however. Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, XRD Lab wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed hamm on

Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?

1998-09-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
entered into a distribution agreement with Netscape such as the Unlimited Distribution Program Agreement. Possibly RedHat has such an agreement. Debian does not. Slink (unstable) has packages containing the free "mozilla" version beta release. Bob On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Anthony Camp

Re: Hamm

1998-09-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
which have been used (buzz, rexx, bo, slink) came from the names of characters in the movie "Toy Story". The next version slink is currently in the unstable tree. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: PLIP-howto?

1998-09-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try /usr/doc/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/PLIP.gz (for some reason, the unmaintained tree disappeared in slink, however). Bob On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with > information on how to connect two linux ma

Re: ftape

1998-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
x27;s Ditto 2GB then you'll need ftape-3.04d.tar.gz or later. But I recommend that you get the latest version instead. It absolutely won't work with older versions of the driver. Bob On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > I have tried out ftape from the ftape archives

Re: tob problems

1998-09-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
it. Read: > > http://www.tux.org/lkml/ (read the part about oops) > Documentation/oops-tracing.txt in the kernel sources > > It's a kernel thing - so there might be a problem with the driver you > are using... I just upgraded (?) to the ftape-4.02 driver and

Re: telnet access/telnetd

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
et this from > somewhere to set it up. > > Also is there a documentation HOW-TO to configure and setup telnetd? It's controlled by inetd and should be enabled by default. See /etc/inetd.conf for a line containing in.telnetd. Try telnetting to 127.0.0.1, log in and type 'ps -a

Re: Which X Server?

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I used the SVGA driver with one of these. It's been a few years, but I believe it worked with -bpp 16. Bob On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, David Densmore wrote: > My video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with the Cirrus Logic > CL-GD5426 chip. > > Which X server should I use? I wa

Re: glibc

1998-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
the use of multiple forms of nomenclature is confusing.) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip

1998-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
The PILP mini-HOWTO is stil on Sunsite in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini It is also in the Debian hamm doc-linux-text package (but not the latest slink version for some reason ??) Bob On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, john mcpeek wrote: > Hi all, > I want to plip a hamm box to win95 b

Re: Apt with two dists

1998-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
; file://debian/debian stable man contrib non-free non-us You should reverse the order, placing the stable entry before the unstable entry. I assume "man" was a typo and you really have "main". Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: Microchannel architecture support

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Clark
ernel worked as long as I specified the SCSI driver information as boot options. There are of course a wide variety of PS/2 models and I have no idea how other models may respond. --Bob Jor-el wrote: > > Hi, > > What support if any does the debian distribution offer for MCA > hard

Latest sendmail in slink causes "host unknown" errors.

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
t see anything which would affect this. I downgraded to the hamm version (8.8.8-20) which works fine. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Modem Speed

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
) has a test number to check out your line, 1-847-262-6000. For details, see: <http://www.3com.com/56k/need4_56k/linetest.html> Bob On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mike Patterson wrote: > > Hi there. > > A friend of mine and I both recently got Zoom 56k Modems to allow my friend > t

Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
riter IINT) with the destination as "lp". This get routed to the printer through magicfilter and prints as expected using gs. I think that selecting a non-postscript printer in WP requires that you send the raw output directly to the printer, not through magicfilter. hth, Bob --

Re: kernel 2.1.xx

1998-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
You can make your own Debian package by getting the kernel source and using make-kpkg, which is in the kernel-package package. Bob On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Marco Machmer wrote: > hy there, > > can i get a debian package with the new kernel 2.1.xx for my > debian 2.0 system

Re: Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

1998-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
-HOWTO (ftp://ftp./pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk) for further information. Bob On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, The Foxes wrote: > To Whom It May Concern > > I am a newcomer to Linux and looking forward to using it, > but my Western Digital 2.1 GB Hard Drive requires the > Ontra

Re: Sound drivers, kernel modules etc...

1998-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
the card (SB_MPU_BASE) [0] SB MPU401 IRQ (Jazz16, SM Wave and ES1688) Use -1 with SB16 (SB_MPU_IRQ) [-1] Audio DMA buffer size 4096, 16384, 32768 or 65536 (DSP_BUFFSIZE) [65536] Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I had no problems installing the package from downloaded from ftp.sdcorp.com (I even licensed it). You need to have libc5 installed, but Debian 2.0 has that available (in oldlibs) as well as libc6. I notice that the display sometimes acts up when scrolling, but that's probably an X problem.

Re: Win98 <=> Linux via E-net

1998-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
98 machine. I think it is free for a two-computer installation. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: kernel 2.0.35

1998-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's in: /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.35_2.0.35-1.deb Bob On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > The kernel 2.0.35 is it available in .deb packages ? > If yes where ? > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

1998-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
n /debian/tools for many months could handle FAT32. Not true, or "not official"? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: kernel 2.0.35

1998-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > Many thanks at all for the reply but another minor problem for me > i want to install kde and can't found qtg1 ??? Tony, It's qt1g, not qtg1 and it is in non-free/libs Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
ich can be applied to the University of Washington Pine distribution. It can be distributed as a binary only using unpatched sources. Otherwise you have a "derivative work". Debian distributes the original source plus diffs which then must be compiled locally to comply with this

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > > > >> from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have > >> installed) > >> > >> [snip] > > >

Re: Modem connection with a Pulse Dialing.

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
ts/provider, change "ATDT" to "ATDP" Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: misc. printer question

1998-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
driver, which may also work. It should be pretty easy to edit an existing filter to use this driver and also change to the appropriate resolution, if necessary. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42

modem problems

1998-09-27 Thread Tracheotomy Bob
I am damned if I can get my modem to work under linux. Here's the general situation. While I installed from the floppies and selected to do an ftp install, the modem seemed to work. I say seemed because I was having problems with it under Windows 98 that have now been resolved. However on the lates

Re: Time is fouled

1998-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
would I look) I could change it > or how would I fix this? Does it always reboot with the same offset from local time? If so, that would indicate your system is misconfigured, in which case you should run tzconfig. It should work correctly with either local time or UTC. Bob B

Re: on libs for Netscape 4.06

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
etscape/netscape' to see what libraries are needed. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: PCI NE2000 network cards

1998-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
PCI NE2000 cards are supported directly in kernels >= 2.0.34. In earlier kernels, they work fine using the ISA NE2000 driver. Unfortunately some NE2000 clones are more compatible than others. Mine (generic with Realtek 8029 chip) works fine with either driver. Bob On Sun, 4 Oct 1998,

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

1998-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
pendencies for libc5 instead of libc6, so you might have a problem if both are not installed. Put the netscape .tar.gz file in /tmp with root owner and group before installing the netscape4 deb. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ

Re: What to do with a patch for a stable package?

1998-10-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
because > nobody will care? > > Have I forgotten anything? Somebody else to report to? > > > Thanks for any advice, > > Juergen Nagler > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > &g

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
> > FWIW: fetchmail is a pop3 client that can download from the isp > without deleting. It has an option to control that behavior. Also it does not have the capability to transfer just the subject/author, but it can be set to limit the maximum message size transferred, which wo

Re: legality of mailing Debian CDs from US to overseas?

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote: > > Hey folks, > > I've just started a scheme for sending Debian x86 CDs (the > "binary-i386.raw" images) free of charge to educational/non-profit > institutions and affiliates -- > http://adler.lib.muohio.edu/~jbfink/debian-giveaway. As of today I've > s

Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-05-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
for the extra expense, but I'll probably be in a position to decide soon. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
t of superblocks. It works whether the file system is mounted or not. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've found dumpe2fs more useful (in the same package). True, dumpe2fs is generally more useful, but it doesn't explicitly identify superblocks. You have to know that each Group begins with a superblock. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Rober

RE: how to zmodem via telnet?

1998-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
offhand, if you need it let me know and I will search my archives for it). I hope you find this info useful, though perhaps not exactly helpful, in this case;-) --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
ork with Linux if it is a "winmodem" or are there workarounds? I know some of this is probably documented and I just haven't found it yet, so pointers to reading material are also appreciated. TIA, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message-

RE: V.90 modem recomendation

1998-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
ards with 16550A uarts at rates above 9600 baud in a 386sx, as well as a 286. IIRC, only 8086/8 types are limited to the 8250, and that is only because of a bug in the chip design which was corrected in the PC and XT bios, making them incompatible with the 16450 or 16550. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Netscape - can't locate libXt.so.6....

1998-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
imagemagick Conflicts: netscape, netscape-beta Provides: netscape, www-browser, news-reader, mail-reader Replaces: netscape, netscape4, netscape-beta Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web/netscape3_3.04-3.deb If you use this package with dselect, the dependencies shoul

RE: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2

1998-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
m - for the Hyperterm part at least). My Linux box is at home so I cannot check details for you on that end. Good luck. --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 12:4

RE: Linux the hard way

1998-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 4:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Linux the hard way > > > Bob, > I downloaded minicom and lrzrz via

Re: URGENT how to change your domain name

1998-05-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
domain name, and had to edit at least 13 files. I don't know which one made hostname give the right answer. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Plug-ins in Netscape 4.05

1998-05-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Following the help links indicates that there should be an option to edit plug-ins in edit/preferences, but it doesn't appear there. Netscape doesn't seem to use the information in /etc/mime.types or /etc/mailcap. Does anyone know how to get the plug-ins to work? Bob Bob Niels

Re: dictionaries?

1998-05-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
as been delayed due to copyright considerations. I expect to upload it within a week or two. (The upstream editor is making some minor modifications, and will then put it in the public domain.) dict-web1913 - 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Ro

Re: PPP, diald,

1998-05-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
luding the PPP-HOWTO and the Diald mini-HOWTO. You may also want to get pppconfig. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: floppy woes

1998-05-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
o do I, but it doesn't seem to convince the drive that he can start > over again :(. I had this happen to me once. It turned out one of the connectors on the ribbon cable from the floppy drive to the motherboard was loose and the "disk change" signal wasn't making it throu

problem with netscape{3,4} installer

1998-05-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
s in /tmp with 644 permissions, owned by root. I've installed the exact same version(s) before (many times) with no problems. What is possibly wrong here? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: first script executed

1998-05-20 Thread Bob McGowan
d success with is changing to an alternate virtual terminal during the install and running ps. This not only gives me a list of the processess currently runnning but also gives the expanded arguments being used. Of course, this means doing a normal install again so you can track things. I have found tha

Re: Install Questions

1998-05-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Yes, most use the iso9660 file system. Assuming you connected to the master channel of the secondary controller, try (as root): mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt Then 'ls -al /mnt' should give you a directory listing of the CD, etc. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMA

RE: How to upgrade ?

1998-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
The HOWTO tells how to accomplish this and the script will do it for you. IIRC, the plan is to be able to use apt to accomplish all this with even less pain. I haven't tried that method of upgrade myself but don't believe it is quite ready. Apt is quite slick, however. I

Re: netscape4 and long keys

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
call discussion of methods of modifying the 48 bit > version to create a 128 bit version. Can anyone give me details on this? Install the export version and get the patch from ftp.fortify.net which will modify netscape to use 128 bit encryption. Bob Bob Nielsen Inter

Re: ppp

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
ded. Any ideas? > (probably need to write some software on the windows side I guess). > diald will do this for you. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~niels

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
.34 will have a PCI driver for PCI ne2000 clones. I'm using this driver in 2.0.34pre12 and it works fine, but the ISA driver did also. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: ftp install

1998-05-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
oad the 6(?) floppy set just in case. I have been successful installing the base system from the base2_0.tgz file from both 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 (now in Incoming). I had problems with some earlier versions. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_)

Re: IP Masquerade and PPP

1998-05-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
27; to get the masquerading modules installed to permit ftp, realaudio, irc, quake, cuseeme, etc., and install the modules. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~

Re: Upgrade script

1998-05-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
ng all the files by ftp. I believe the script is also on www.debian.org in the "developers corner", but this does not always have the latest version. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB

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