Re: ATAPI Tape Drives

1998-05-14 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I've been using that exact model with no problems at all. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-17 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
No autoupdating? I don't see what the problem is here: why not use dpkg? I upgrade all the time with only dpkg and I cannot imagine how it could be improved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with X and signal 11

1998-05-17 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I have a feeling that it's your RAM. Have you tried the memtest program? I myself have been running the latest slink xfree86 with no problems whatsoever. If I were you I would try out memtest on different combinations of your SIMMs. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
>Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a >newsgroup more convenient. > >1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Try a threading mail reader: mutt or gnus. I use gnus and I cannot imagine anything better. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Installation

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
It's not for everyone, but if you do not mind using a command line, you can try dpkg -i package-name.deb where package-name.deb is the file of stuff that you want to install. Look for a file called Packages.gz that contains the standard descriptions of all the .deb files you may want to install

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was trying to compile tk3play just now and make exits with: > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -S cc1plus g++: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.28/cc1plus altgcc: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxlib

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi. My "dpkg -S cc1plus" returns that it is owned by g++, (Of which I have > version 2.90.28-0.1. ), and that it lives in > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.28/ I don't have any of the others > though. > ("apt-get install g++272" says it can't find a package

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is why a lot of people are looking at SLP and liking it. > > tar xzf blah.slp > > There ya go, that's it, end of story. No cpio, no ar, nothing but tar > which has been the standard for years and years, esp. in the Linux community > as a wh

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
> new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better > than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs > with gnus. I used to run gnus on a 486 with 8MB, so I can sympathize. And it's understandable for those you just don't like emacs. I hav

Re: gcc broken?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sigh. All these multitudes of compilers and such are quite confusing. :). I > got > g++272 from slink, after which my compile worked. Thanks!. But g++272 says its > for backward compatability only. Why should the newest gcc be trying to use a > version of g++ which clai

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quick question I hope... > > How do I get XDM to autostart. I selected to not have it autostart > during install because I was having problems with X11 in general. Please read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian. It will tell you about what to edit in th

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >The "other data" in Debian's case is stuff like dependency informat

Re: XDM autostart question

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the tip. My /etc/X11/config files ihas the following two > lines in it... > > xdm-start-server > start-xdm > > My guess is that the problem is in a system init file somewhere. Any > idea what file calls the xdm stuff at boot time? >

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-26 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
"James A. Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have a 4.0 GB drive running Windows95 and a 514 MB drive with = > Debian (no packages installed yet, just the base). The 514 MB is a slave = > to the 4 GB. I downloaded several packages onto my Windows drive = > (C:\Debian), but I haven't a clue

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times > without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works > with a lot less problems than exim. > > Johann. Yes, that was my experience also, but I did

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Hester) writes: > displayed by pressing at the boot: prompt, the following special > parameter is recommended for IBM PS/1's with IDE hard drives: > > hd=,, > > Thus, I tried booting by typing the following at the boot: prompt - > > linux hd=934,16,254031

Re: Installing 1.3 on IBM PS/1

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Jonathan Hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy } > hda: drive not ready for command > ide0: reset timeout, status=0xff > (...repeat of these three messages...) > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00, sector 0 > hda: drive not

Re: Again: Mouse problem running 'xbase-configure'

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Tomas Petersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, when I try to configure X I get the errormsg below > as soon as I move the mouse. > I have a standard Microsoft mouse connected to COM1 > Any ideas? I don't know what the error message really means, but I know what I would do here. I would just

Re: Where can i get this

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >You need a newer version of makeinfo; or more to the point a newer > >texinfo.tex (which comes with makeinfo). I had thought that distributing a > >texinfo.tex which matches texi files in the same directory would be enough > >here... but gtk+ does suppl

Re: pon

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
(1) Check your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file for this line: connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" Make sure to put the -v in there if it is not there. (2) After you run pon and it fails, examine the /var/log/syslog file. At the end of it you should see a record of the chat wit

Re: after upgrading to hamm, ppp problems

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Make sure that your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file contains: noauth This option tells pppd not to expect your ISP to authenticate itself to you. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where can i get this

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
> Acording to my system it's in the package textinfo. Wich means i have > to upgrade my tex packages, wich brings another question. Dselect says that > the > tex packages i have are obsolete. should i deinstall them and install the new > ones or is there another way to do it? > >

Re: Cut and paste question

1998-05-28 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
"Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using Debian for quite a while now, and was wondering what sort > of support Linux/X has for cut and paste? Sure, there's the stuff with > GPM where things can be cut and pasted, but it's not very universal. Could you be more specific? It a

Re: "LI" when booting

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Michael Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution > anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and > freeze at "LI". What how-to do I read to find the fix? I once had this problem. Here is my (now working) /etc/l

Re: I need an HTML Editor

1998-05-29 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the name of the .deb file that provides the PSGMLK > package? I can not find it in hamm or slink, and can't find a > reference in the emacs info file. It sounds like a package I want to > have available. psgml is yet another reason why ema

Re: exim & mutt, weird

1998-04-18 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have exim (1.90-3) and mutt (non-i, 0.91.1-1) installed here; > when I send a message, mutt sets the from address to just > "hamish@@". [snip] I think a better way to handle this is to let exim rewrite your headers. The following is at the end of

Re: Qddb or other databases

1998-02-10 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
I struggled with this question for quite a while. What I wanted had to satisfy the following criteria: 1. A decent license such as GPL or BSD-style. 2. Flexible and powerful. 3. Actively developed. Only a handful of databases satisfy these criteria. IMHO, Postgresql seems to be the easiest and

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 10:45:10 CST Ken Lauffenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon > > as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The > > PPP link would

Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-06 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Oops! My so-called solution has a symptom looking for a problem. >From the syslog: kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? kernel: sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? last message repeated 2 times [EMAIL PROTECTED] route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Need reasons to GPL Haskell implementation

1997-11-14 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy as well. Hi, This is a long post, so I've divided it into sections---Preface, Request for Feedback, Consideration, Conclusion, Appendix---to help you figure out whether it's wort