Re: Program like Partition Magic

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
s it work with fat32 partitions yet, or is it still only fat16? > > Martin > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null &

Re: libXt

1998-11-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
contains this. > > Thanks, Mark > > > -- > 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: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
> the > docs about kernel compile by printing it on papers.) > From the install.txt.gz file of gs-aladdin, it says ( in the Unix > section ) we > have to compile the source. Do I really have to do it ? Isn't all the > executables > in the package are ready to go ?

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Of course. The situation discussed was for non-LBA BIOSs, where the BIOS, DOS, LILO cannot deal with cylinders >1024. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: remapping pine keys?

1998-11-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
ke pine but little annoying things like that are getting to me... To make it more interesting, several of the keys change in version 4.0x. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: where should I put things for rc.local?

1998-11-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; Where should I put stuff that normally you'd just bung in rc.local for > Debian? > > Ta, > > Martin > > > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe?

Re: dosemu help

1998-11-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
always fails. Checking deja news, apparently the FreeDOS > does not support this? I keep getting "Error 42 redirecting..." Correct, FreeDOS does not support lredir. It works fine if you follow the procedure to install with MS-DOS. Bob Bob Nielsen I

Re: Getting Linux to recognize Windows files.

1998-11-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
I am extremely new to > Linux, and am more comfortable in XWindows. > > Bret Craw > Maintenance Renewal > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: MSDOS, FAT support in custom kernel

1998-11-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
ustom > kernel? > I'm using the "make menuconfig" > > > > > -- > 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: Howto: Printing Howtos?

1998-12-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
f them more deeply and don't want to read them on > the screen bit would like to have them on paper. But neither the html > nor the text versions seems to be ready for printing out :( > > Greetings, > joachim > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Partition Magic 4.0

1998-12-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
but you can move around any DOS/Windows partitions as you wish and create the new ones with cfdisk/fdisk as part of the installation process. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Adding a DNS entry to the /etc/NETWORKS file

1998-12-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
; Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > 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: ISP username for diald

1998-12-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
let me connect without one. That's correct. Both of these should be in /etc/diald/connect, which should have been installed as part of the diald package. You will need to edit this file to put your ISP's phone number plus your username, password and and possibly some other custom

Re: ftp gone from dselect

1998-12-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Matt Garman wrote: > > Whenever I go into dselect to choose which method to use, the ftp > option is now gone! I really don't know what caused this, nor how to > restore it. Any hints? Install dpkg-ftp Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: apt-file

2002-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:50:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Boas > > I'm new in linux and i wan't knew how to find a package by a file that belong to > it. i knew that is whith the apt-file, but when i do, apt-file search > "file_name", i only see the message: > Can't locate object metho

Error with procmail redirection

2002-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have several addresses on my local machine all forwarded to the same mailbox at my ISP. I set up a ~/.procmailrc file in the directory of the user which retrieves the mail (with fetchmail) with the following type of filter: :0: * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! user1@localhost This works to redirect

Re: s3virge and xfree864.1

2002-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:52:09AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > my xterm scrolled, and the clock started losing time. This finally > > became enough of an aggravation, that I just dropped back to 3.3.6. > > Of course this is an older version card

apt-cache problem

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I noticed a few days ago that 'apt-cache show' will only display information on installed packages. Has anything changed? 'dpkg --print-avail' still displays information on packages which are not installed. I am running sarge with apt 0.5.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: apt-cache problem

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:43:21AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I noticed a few days ago that 'apt-cache show' will only display > information on installed packages. Has anything changed? 'dpkg > --print-avail' still displays information on packages which are not >

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:28:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system > there is no /usr/src/linux > > Is there a package I should install > > Install a kernel-source package for the kernel version you wish, then untar it and create a sy

Re: Boot Disk Issues Newbie need Help

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try installing debian-utils and using mkboot. On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:12:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I made a boot floppy by #cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 > My current vmlinuz is a 2.4.18 kernel that boots fine from the HD. > > While the floppy is being read I begin seeing this e

Re: Debian and perl module locations

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:26:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:12:01AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to port a perl script to a Debian unstable machine. It uses a > > module called Proc-ProcessTable. I looked in dselect to see if there was a > > .deb for this, but d

Re: How to make kernel-modules-.deb?

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:01:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom > kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are > compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets > created. How do

Re: Woody on a 486/50

2002-09-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:23PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > I'm trying to install Woody on a 486/50 with 8MB RAM & SCSI CD/HD. > I boot with a DOS floppy, go to CD:\install and execute boot.bat. > Everything seems to be working until it outputs something like: > RAMDISK: Found compressed imag

Re: i810 video and Debian 3.0

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:09:11AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 07:44, Evan Burkitt wrote: > > I recently installed version 3.0 of Debian on a Dell GX110, which has a > > built-in video adaptor based on the Intel i810 controller. I set up Xfree86 > > during installation fr

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Jeff Whitman wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for Woody? > > > >Please share any success or failure information. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jeff > > > > > > > > > Well, I don't know ab

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:54:10AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Sorry, I meant kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (I think this is the latest!) > > Currently I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. If I install the new kernel image > with the command: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 , > > > 1) will it

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:38:36PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > --Geoff Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:26 AM +1000): > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:32:02PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert

Re: question about editors for lil.conf and other configuration files

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
nano is included in base, I believe. It is a clone of pico, which is the default editor for pine. On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 01:49:37PM -0600, Scott B. Berry wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am wondering if there are any other editors included in the base system > besides > vi? I don't care for it

Re: Network lost after softboot

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:49:26PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > I run sid and recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18. When I > first installed sid (with kernel 2.2.19), my network card, a > > 3Com Etherlink 10/100 (3c905c) > > was immetiately recognized. I did a kernel upgrade from > t

Re: debian on sparc

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I recently received an old Sun SparcStation 20 that I'd like to load up > with Debian. I've been running Debian Woody on my i386 and went looking > for Woody for the Sparc, but am only finding Potato. Am I just looking > in the w

Re: how to unwrap M$ self extracting .exe?

2002-09-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:30:50PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious, here we have a MS executable > http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe > that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with > gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to > d

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a > ton of updated packages including libc, rpm etc. However now > when I try to run aptitude it says loading cache and locks up. > For kpackage it says > kpackage:

Re: apt-get upgrade from testing broke aptitude, kpackage

2002-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:13:06AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Sunday 22 September 2002 21:28, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:37:50AM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > I did a routine apt-get upgrade today from testing. There were a > > &

Re: compiling & Installing different versions of kernel

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:04:31AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using 2.4.19 kernel and now I want to appy the a patch to certain > file, compile it, and install it as diffeeret version, say > "2.4.19-patched" (so that it has differenet modules directory and should > not mess up with my wor

Re: Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Daniel Fabian wrote: > > did you look at this site which covers installing linux on IPC laptops > > > > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ipc.html > > It's probably the SIS 630 graphics adapter. I had problems with it > installing SuSE 7.2 too. Redhat worked wi

Re: Woody Installation Problems II

2002-09-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:15:39PM +0200, Daniel Fabian wrote: > > Look up your laptop on http://linux-laptop.net (although they seem to be > > down at the moment )^8 ) to see if there's any known issues with it. If > > there's not anything outstandingly difficult, try again, but choose a > > ver

Re: XFree86 Problems [continues Woody Installation Problems II]

2002-09-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:45:43PM +0200, Daniel Fabian wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry to bother you all again. As some of you told me, I setup a minimal > system, and installed xfree86 and kde with apt-get. Now that the installed > completed correctly, I'm experiencing my next problem: startx sets

Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
Compaqs tend to be problematic. I've worked with several (starting in 1984 with an 8086 DeskPro) and have run into problems of some sort with every one. If you can get to the BIOS setup, possibly you can configure it to boot to a CD-ROM or hard drive. Try hitting the F10 key during the boot pro

Re: New install and 2.4 kernel?

2002-09-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:50:35AM +0200, Jonas Hallgren wrote: > Hi! > > I have used poptato with a 2.2 kernel for some time and now decided I > wanted to upgrade to 3.0 with a 2.4 kernel. > For som reason I thought that 2.4 was default in 3.0 but I found that it > was 2.2.20. > > Does anybo

Re: Email (Solved)...next...POP3 setup

2002-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Carel, > > OK, I got it. > > It was the permissions on the K-mail client program itself. It was root root > for userme and root is set to receive no mail. > > ...now...on to POP3 configuration...I am using qpopper. I see the > qpop

Re: Ghostscript 7.04...

2002-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in main). I don't know about woody, but sarge has 7.04. Bob On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:14:37PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > The versions of ghostscript in pot

Re: Ghostscript 7.04...

2002-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:17:36PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive > > license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in > >

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; to the ~ftp/lib directory doesn't work. The man page mentions nothing > about this, leading me to believe that it assumes that ls is > statically linked. > > -alan > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
I checked the bug reports and bug #17110 has been filed against wu-ftpd on this, as well as bug #16186 against wu-ftpd-academ. Both bugs are still open. >From the package description, it looks like proftp might be a way around all this, but I haven't tried it. Bob --- Bob

RE: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
Ossama suggested. What package are you currently using to get ftpd? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Setting up Anon FTP?

1998-02-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
libc5 libraries in /home/ftp/lib, rather than the libc6 versions required by ls (see bug #17110). --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSU

Re: Netscape doesn't save ftp messages

1998-02-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
x pop up also. I'm running 4.04 now and don't remember the exact format of this, however. --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO

Pine configuration changed

1998-03-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I checked both ~/.pinerc and /etc/pine.conf and neither has anything specified for pruned-folders. Is there a way to stop this? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
folders). Thanks, that fixed it. Funny though, it only changed ownership for my login account, not for the others on my system. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: quicken??

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
format became uncompatible with the DOS version. --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &q

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
r > with 'su' the definition of '~' is wrong. No, that seems to be o.k.: $ su Password: # cd ~ # pwd /root --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: Pine configuration changed

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Massimo Manghi wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > > No, that seems to be o.k.: > > > > $ su > > Password: > > # cd ~ > > # pwd > > /root > > > > I wish I had your set up for the she

Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...

1998-03-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to be very careful when you do upgrade to hamm if you have that version installed (I found out the hard way). Bob --- Bob Nielsen

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
lib). Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions. HTH, Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: lp devices

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
tty much out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated. Install magicfilter. You won't find the bjc4100 on the list, so install, say, the bj200. Then edit the PostScript section of the filter to change "-sDEVICE=bj240" to "-sDEVICE=bjc600" Ghostscript has no bjc4100

Re: Compiling Kernel 2.0.32

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
and then "make dep ; make > clean" as suggested at the end of the config. > > I assume it is an assembler package. Why do I need it when it gcc exists, > and if so where can I get it ? gcc is a compiler, not an assembler. Get bin86 in the devel directory. Bob --- Bob Ni

Re: LINUX user man

1998-03-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
specific, but if there are any I'd like to know about them. Running Linux, by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, published by O'Reilly and Associates. --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to glibc2

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
hamm which do not exist for bo (although I didn't check bo-unstable, which may have many of them). Your mileage may vary. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: kernel Headers

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
eb page refers to bo, which had the headers in libc5-dev, rather than symlinks to kernel headers. This changed with hamm and libc6. You might be pretty safe with 2.0.29, but if there are problems compiling, you'll at least know where to look. Bob --- Bob Nielsen I

Re: StarOffice seems good but it is only in German?

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
the links (4.0). 3.1 is available (both English and German) from ftp.gdwd.de. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word &qu

Re: Dselect

1998-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
so9660 -- lowercase, no spaces) You can use any empty directory as a mount point. /cdrom is commonly used. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/

Re: Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
ecified. I could not believe when the > whole thing started working. Actually it doesn't need a FQDN, just a name that it can resolve from /etc/hosts. It works just fine for me with a local nickname for another machine on my lan. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
can not use Linux to format these tapes, this > may of course depend on what tape drive you are using, I used a dos based tape > formatting program to do my tapes with, I think you can format them using > dosemu but I'm not sure. > > But checkout the ftape

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
se the tape. ftmt ftformat 3 DON'T keep the existing header information, but erase the tape prior to formatting it. "ftformat" without parameter is synonymous to "ftformat 1" NOTE: Do not try to format Ditto 2GB tapes. Bob --- Bob

netstd won't upgrade

1998-03-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
ebian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/netstd_3.03-1.deb DPKG ERROR I don't want to remove wu-ftpd. Should I use dpkg with --force? Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
filter (apsfilter appears to have been abandoned) will update the printer listing to include all the newer printers which are now supported by ghostscript. I notice there is also a "uniprint" driver which is supposed to work but haven't figured out how to configure for that. Bob

Re: Household proxy

1998-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
ly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Try the squid package. This is IMO the most widely used proxy. > On my System it works fine. This is probably a dumb question, but exactly what is proxy, how does it differ from IP masquerading and why would one use it instead of IP masq? Bob -

Re: IP Masq and ftp on the LAN

1998-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
p_masq_ftp module. See /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.gz. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: your mail

1998-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
7;m seeing the opposite, delete works like backspace, but only in Netscape 4.04. Other X applications behave correctly. Does anyone have an idea what would cause this and how to fix it? 'xmodmap -pk' shows delete as keycode 107 and backspace as keycode 22, which looks correct.

Re: Posting to the mailinglist...

1998-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
ently > than everyone else? Does this bug people? > > Thanks for any assistance, This is typical of many mailers. It assumes you already know who you are. --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPR

sendmail ignores /etc/hosts

1998-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
.conf, because that already has: order hosts,bind multi on Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: win95 and linux network

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
I only use Win95 for such things as Quicken and TurboTax these days). Getting the two computers to talk to each other in Win95 over ethernet is easy, however. I tried it when I was running a slip serial connection and it seems that only a single serial connection was allowed by

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
%!PS - Adobe-2.0 > %%Creator: blah, blah > %%Title: ..blah > and a few more lines > then, > %%BeginProcSet: tex.pro > then a bunch of garbage. > > Anybody got some insight? > thanks, > Phil Dyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIB

problems updating hamm

1998-03-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
he debian-devel list, so am not panicking over this). I thought that unstable had been renamed frozen, but don't see this yet(??) Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hamm: no mouse, no modem, MS again

1998-03-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
o dependencies reported on that one during the > install, and I think more problems exist anyway. It's in modutils. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
he existing gimp > installation *prior* to installing gimp itself. > > HTH > Damir > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Bob Nielsen Inter

fdisk question

1998-03-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
wanted to change some boot parameters. PM won't let me do anything because of the partition error. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -

Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > There were messages around last week saying that Hamm "is broken", certain > packages were missing and could be retrieved only from special places... > (sorry if I did not get the situation right)... So as of today whould it be >

Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I had upgraded before the problems occured and it all worked fine. I > noticed a disk problem and tried a new install. That worked fine, but when > I went to restore from tape, I had some errors which broke my system even > worse t

Re: HAMM: Recomended for update?

1998-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I got through the initial part using the ftp method and had only one file > missed (libc5). I downloaded that and re-ran the script and it went very > smoothly. Dselect didn't report any missing dependencies, which looks > promis

Re: Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: > Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. > I > updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the > program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the > program name at al

Re: Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Michael Acklin wrote: > I tried to get the package list for non-free, but it kept giving me an > error. I don't think I was in the right directory to update the non-free > package list. I tried to FTP to the site, but could only find the bo > -stable package list. Wher

Missing packages in hamm

1998-03-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recently had to re-install hamm because of a disk error (and a botched backup tape). However, some of the packages which formerly were included are not there anymore: xlib6 netscape4 staroffice4 ... Many available packages cannot be installed because of dependency on xlib6. Downgrading to bo

Re: Missing packages in hamm

1998-03-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > Humm, I don't see xlib6_ at all. > Many of the packages that are 'missing' can be found in: > debian/project/orphaned Thanks for pointing this out, Bill. Unfortunately none of the packages I was looking for are there :-) I see that there is a new link

Re: Autoup script is dangerous?

1998-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Janos Bujtar wrote: > > > I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live > > machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this > > way safe? > > yes, it works well. unfortunately, the f

Re: Linix

1998-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, SKILLS123 wrote: > Hi, I am new to this Linix thingy I am interested in Debian, because I > heard its very good. I want to know, can I have Win95 and Debian on my > computer? And how, do I install and download the file(s)? Please advise... > Thanks, Matt It's spelled

Re: where for upgrade?

1998-03-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Yo- > > I want to upgrade my bo to hamm. If I use the autoup script to begin what > should I tell deselect to use as paths to get more packages? dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib Bob -

Re: Partitions

1998-03-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
kup of your system is always recommended before repartitioning. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: netscape -- hamm ---- shared libs?

1998-03-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > bug or feature or to late for today? Upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.2-2 Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~niel

menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
one of the packages I have installed show up even though the files exist in /usr/lib/menu and update-menus has been run. Are others seeing this also? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's /dev/dsp device?

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
> I believe it's a sound device (like /dev/audio). The server must have been > trying to play you a sound file. If you don't have sound enabled in your > kernel, it won't work, obviously ;-] And if you do, you need to add the user to the audio group. Bob ---

Re: ftp.debian.org status?

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
quot; instead of "unstable". This changed a few days ago. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 09:00:44AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > [no menus with afterstep or windowmaker] > > :cp -a /usr/share/GNUstep ~ Thanks, Ray. That fixes afterstep. I'll RTM on windowmaker to see if something similar is n

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 09:00:44AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > [no menus with afterstep or windowmaker] > > > > > > :cp -a /usr/share/GNUstep ~ > > Thanks

Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect

1998-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
list here the last few days. > > > > Unfortunately I don't see a /debian/frozen directory on ftp.debian.org. Typo. /debian/dists/frozen will work. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
an additional method and dselect was going to remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I think I found something which might explain the problem with > > windowmaker. > > > > $ less ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu > > "menu.hook" >

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to > > remain for the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). > > This is Debian we are talking about...

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
ork? Yes! Thanks again, Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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