On Tue, 12 May 1998, Crispixbull wrote:
> Just for more fun and confusion I have a little more info. First of all I
> should tell you that I am a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy and
> consequently I was issued (I bought it, but it was deducted from my pay and
> given to me like every
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Masamichi Goudge wrote:
> Hello.
> Now I'm trying to install hamm into IBM Thinkpad 380ED with using
> *1440tecra.bin, but resc1440tecra.bin freezes at "Loading linux.."
> Does anyone know the reason?
Have you tried entering the following parameter at the boot promt:
linu
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Roman Ferreiras wrote:
> i 'm trying to stard up X86Free
> i download linux and X86Free by ftp
> i config the system
> but i don't know how i can config my serial mouse
> i type X, and system say that /dev/mouse not exist
> i check /dev and i find /dev/smouse , but this dev do
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Eddie Seymour wrote:
> When running "dselect" in the "install-upgrade" function, the
> installer scans down the software list and when it gets to:
> "Skipping deselected package hello"
> "Skipping deselected package ical"
> it hangs up and refuses to doanything or let you brea
[Dale, IMHO debian-user is the appropriate list]
Hi,
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
[hassle with peecee hardware]
Maybe it's an interrupt conflict. I've actually seen interrupt problems
with 3c509 cards a couple of times. Interrupt problems are often spurious
and give you a hard ti
Hi,
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bastard Operator From Hell wrote:
> I recently replaced exim with qmail as that is what I have to administer at
> work and I would rather glitch something up at home vs on-the-job.
There is some additional effort required to install qmail, you have to
compile your own deb
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
> Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the
> same? If dpgk were to report "Pentium", and some compiler is going
> to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on i386), then you
> wouldn't be able to build Intel packages on y
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to disable remote xdm logins from terminals and from some
> remote xdm login widgets. I tried to modify the Xaccess file according to
> the docs and then restarting xdm but I still can't seem to get xdm to stop
> broadcasting to th
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> I have a particular list of packages I would like to install saved in
> a file and am using a 3 CD-ROM Debian 1.3.1 set I got with Dale Scheetz's
> book as my media.
>
> I imagine I need to mount the cdrom and use dpkg --get-selections and
> dpkg --s
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
>
> I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
> get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes.
Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that.
> But I'm trying to do a "custom" inst
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
> > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know
> > about your package then?
>
> It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update:
>
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>
>
> Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> >
> > > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts:
>
> "uname -a" will report your machine type, the same as in "cat /proc/cpuinfo".
>
> Then, when you compile, you can specify an architecture. This can be i386,
> i486, i586 for in
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
[A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!]
As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to
make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course
this is great for maintainers who create a bin
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, ANDREW INFANTE wrote:
> How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't
> have .deb extensions?
Ouch! You can't just do that, you need to install Slackware first :-)
But IIRC Slackware is not available as a .deb yet. Maybe someone is
working on it
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Perhaps the log files can give you a hint ?
>
> > One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general
> > protection faults and segfaults almost every day now.
> >
> > I checked the RAM a couple of weeks ago with the memtest utilit
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Paul Bernays wrote:
> Okay, I'm a complete beginner in Linux and I really need help in trying
> to configure the X-windows system. I can't configure the mouse to work
> at all.
What have you tried to do? Did you run XF86Setup (included in the package
xserver-vga16)? The XF86
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Chris Hall wrote:
> anyways, on 3/19/98, i ran dselect in order to update my Debian 2.0 (hamm)
> system...everything has been kosher up until this point. i noticed
> several packages were listed as being obsolete but had never really paid
> any attention to them until now wh
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote:
> Using the XF86Setup I have choosed the MouseSystem mouse with ClearDTR. This
> way my mouse works very well and I can use all the 3 buttons of it.
If you buy a cheap Logitech or Genius mouse, those are only slightly more
expensive than the bottm=om-l
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Please answer this guy.
Hi cal1,
What you want to do is not really very standard. You can do it with lilo,
but it is just quite complicated and requires a reasonably good insight
into the workings of the computer's boot process, master boot records
(t
Read it on:
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/
or find the same link + comments from the other nerds on:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=1021
They say:
"We believe this license satisfies the Debian Free Software Guidelines,
which provide a commonly accepted definition of ``free s
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> > When I try to upgrade my wu-ftpd, it fails because there's a manpage
> > that is also present in another package. What's the case? Wasn't that
> > supposed to be normal? Why does it fail? What
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quite honestly I can't think of any DOS, Windows or OS/2 text file viewer
> program I've used over the last 10 years that didn't have the simple
> features of search and page up/down and backscroll. I couldn't believe my
>
> senses we
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Gabor Kontur wrote:
> What i simply did was copy the file /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist to
> /etc/init.d/xdm.
> Is that all there is to it ? Is this script complete as it is now?
Lets hope so. You can have a look at the script's contents and if inside
it looks like a real s
On 24 Mar 1998, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
> The system is a home-built; PCI IDE motherboard housing a Cyrix
> 6x86-233, 32Mb EDO RAM, Acer 24x CDROM and a modem.
You name the brand of the cdrom, but the motherboard goes unnamed. I'd
rather buy a quality motherboard than a cdrom. Remember, th
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Wolf Logan wrote:
> I've now stripped all the equipment out of the machine, except the Diamond
> 3D 3000, and reset all the CMOS options to their absolute most conservative.
> I've also tried rewriting the boot floppy, and using other floppies.
>
> It still reboots while tryi
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> You are right in that it call for an option in the docs (though the
> option is 'bs=512'). However, I have pretty much always just specified
> the 'if', 'of' and they work.
Here's another one, I have never had any problems with:
cat /vmlinuz > /dev/fd0
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Gabor Kontur wrote:
> I have your setup now. Works fine except that the responsiveness has not
> changed in X.
I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never had
any problems getting my mouse to work correctly in X11. YMMV though. I
think not using the g
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, law rebecca wrote:
> Hello there, i would like to get some help for the solution on design a
> LAN network for a company which have the following situation : (the
> design must suite it present and future need)
[snip]
> 8)Please include the benefits/drawbacks of each. The
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> With a ps2 style mouse, it is either use gpm for both consoles and X or
> kill gpm to run X (for whatever reasons they will not co-exist on a ps2
> style mouse).
>
> > I've never seen the advantages of using /dev/gpmdata as I have never
> > had any problem
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Linux admin at alv wrote:
> Is there a better solution for using my Linux resources from Win 95 computer?
> Notice: no network card. Only null modem.
It's not proven, but I think that there's two ways to do this:
- the hard way: make sure that the modems either have init s
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote:
> does anybody know of a client for win95 that will allow me to map a linux
> drive across the network? perferably something that is a free download.
AFAIK there are only commercial implementations of nfs on windows. Of
course, Microsoft didn't invent (and
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> I don't even know 'how far back' this was (bo, rexx?) but I do know that
> at one time, I had to 'kill' gpm to run X and there was a note somewhere
> in the gpm stuff about the problem.
Umm, yeah, I think you're right about that. IIRC that was around "buzz
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> PS: After learning awk and shell cripting, you get perl nearly for free.
>
> PPS: I removed ls from my system and have an alias "ls" -> "echo *" ;)
>
> PPPS: I also have an alias "emacs" -> "cat >"
Oh, no! What have you started? Now it's time to po
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Debian Users !
Hi Neil,
First: I hope you're subscribed to debian-user, because I'm not going to
edit your antispam stealth email address. I hate spam, but I don't think
that it would be a good solution to the problem if everybody uses an
obfusca
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> then edit whatever you need to disable xdm temporarily. For example, you
> could temporarily move /etc/init.d/xdm to /etc/init.d/xdm.orig.
This is not the right way. You should edit /etc/X11/config so that it
doesn't have a line that matches the regexp
Oops! made a mistake:
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> If you don't know what lilo is, just take out the installation
> bootdiskette (also called "rescue disk" for exactly this kind of purpose)
> and at the first prompt type "linux single."
If you boot
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he
> couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know
> if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine:
This shouldn't be too hard: at the lo
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Nathan C. Burnett wrote:
> I have a non-fatal albeit annoying problem. I'm running debian 1.3 and I
> absolutly cannot get LILO to work properly. When the machine starts to
> boot the 'LI' shows up the the machine locks (have to use the reset button
> ctrl-alt-del doesn't wo
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Well, when it changes you've left an old LILO in your MBR, which is
> why it doesn't work. The new one is in your boot sector instead.
> You should be able to disk "FDISK /MBR" in DOS to reinstall a standard
> MBR, or install the mbr package I think, to
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> I've heard about SAMBA! SAMBA uses NetBeui to do "Network
> Neighborhood"?
>
> If uses my wokgroup will be based on NetBeui and I'll get colised
> again. If what i want is use only TCP/IP in my Network... SAMBA'S
> NetBeui woks encapsuled o
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Damir Naden wrote:
> Can I :
>
> a) install ash INSTEAD of the bash and remove the bash completely then
> reinstall it fresh?
If you can install _and_ properly run ash, then you could either:
exec ash
dpkg --purge bash
dpkg -i bash.deb
bash (see if it works now)
or
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Deskpro XL 566.
> Since I couldn't get the onboard Ethernet board to work (I found
> the HOW-TO but didn't succeed) I decided to plugin a 3Com 3C509B
> 10Base-T board which I have lying around. I reinstalled Deb
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
> Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell
> these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever?
> Thanks.
Have you tried to put them on the same commandline like this:
dpkg -i libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb admin/li
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> i need to reformat my Latex paper from
> legal(US) to A4. What i have to do in order to
> get all stuff A4 aware: dvips, ghostscript,
> magicfilter...?
>
> I already put [a4] modifier in latex
> doc.class preambule
>
> ps i have latest frozen installe
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> Actually, if you have a decent MIME-configured email reader, HTML mail
> shouldn't give you a problem.
No offense to you personally, but this argument is also used by the more
braindead Microcronies:
"If you'd used decent software, you could read the Ex
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> At my lab, after installing MS-Outlook as the `corporate EMail system',
> the Informatics guy send 200 users a document explaining that each user
> had a 20 MB mailbox limit and explained how to automatically delete `old'
> mail.
>
> His 1-page no
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> An amusing story. I'm doubtful though... I've written long essays and
> papers which aren't 1MB even in MS Word..
They do, if you include OLE objects, like bitmaps. OLE needs an enormous
overhead (receipes to make word crash seem to always involve OLE obje
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote:
> A old version of linux is already installed on my computer
> and the disk is partitionned between linux and dos.
> I would like to install a new version of linux (debian linux 131), keeping
> my dos partition untouched. Is this possible and if so, could a
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm
> using root. Like this one:
> -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768
>
> I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command
> not found. I had this too
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote:
> Thank you, It worked, I preserved my dos pqrtition and
> I mounted new linux partitions. the dos partition is visble from
> linux. However, lilo does not allow to boot on dos
> anymore. Instead I have to boot on a floppy !!!
Hi,
Booting from floppy is a
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote:
> The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have
> an incorrect "mount", neither I nor the local Linux guru could install
> the base system by NFS. Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP
> option for installing the base sy
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Valerie CAYOL wrote:
> >I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian
> >on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream,
> >and so far I have performed the basic installation.
> >Severall problems have appeared :
> >1- in the
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote:
> I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get
> it.
http://www.stardivision.de
http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/
> Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
> 1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such
> with Debian Linux?
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP has a link to many HOWTO's (and mirrors nearer
to you.)
> 2) Where do I get the "Enlightenment" X-Windows package that looks so
> cool?
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote:
> Thanks for the links guys, but unfortunately they quickly brought me to a
> very large download. Here in England there's no free local calls, and I'm
> paying for my own, so when I see a 40 meg dnld, I quickly get the hell out
> of there. That's annoying,
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed fvwm95-2 and noticed that there is just on menu item when
> clicking the left mouse button. How can I add other programs to it ?
Install the package menu. Restart the window manager to make it read the
updated configuration file
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian
> kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed?
> dpkg/apt/dselect
> continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one,
> which doesn't suite my h
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Louis W. Erickson wrote:
> I have a desire to get dselect to reinstall every package that I have
> installed, from my known-clean CD-rom.
>
> (I've had a security issue arise, and don't know the extent of the
> possible changes.)
>
> I don't want to have to remove every pack
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
[litany of problems snipped]
> IDE and put in a ISA IDE controler, and it worked just fine I don't
> hoeveer consioder this a solution becaus eit is a NEW motherboard which
> i got Saturday Is it possible that the IDE controller is a buggy one or
> of
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Occassionally running 'who' shows something like:
>
> nielsen ttyp1Apr 15 08:49 (:0.0)
Are you logged in to X11 on the console? (using xdm maybe?)
Cheers,
Joost
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christopher J. McNicholas wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse.
> When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse,
> it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left
> corner of the screen (the entire virtual desktop panned
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard,
> however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux?
hwclock --systohc
or
hwclock --utc --systohc
if your clock is set to GMT aka UTC
Cheers,
Joost
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can I start xdm automatically after booting?
>
> I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I
> denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change
> this...
>
> Does anyone know which files to alter?
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
> > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and
> > Debian of course)?
> >
> > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for
> > of
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Aria Prima Novianto wrote:
> >From freshmeat page:
> --
> freshmeat RPM repository
> As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
> the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for
> them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
> One of my internet service providers (well actually, my university) only
> allows access to the internet via a proxy server. So I can use netscape
> to ftp (and I presume use telnet though I haven't tried this). However I
> cannot use normal ftp progra
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote:
> In your /etc/group add a line (you can use any group-id, 108 is just an
> example):
> -
> fat:x:108:userid1,userid2,userid3
> ---
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i was surfing on the internet and viewed some comments on enabling X at
> boot,i tried the trick down there ( modify /etc/X11/config so the line
> no-start-xdm look like start-xdm,backup /etc/inittab and modify so when
> booting,it load into runlevel 5
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Is it correct that mailers aren't supposed to change the header line
> except to add `Received' line?
>
> I assume that my `corporate' NT servers between my Debian box and the
> debian mailing lists server is at fault. Now, who do I convince them
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> 2) There are instructions for a multiuser install out there. Check out the
> newsgroups on the server starnews.stardiv.com, or maybe someone around here
> knows. I didn't bother, since noone else needs it here.
http://www.waldherr.org/soff
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> on the subject of Star Office,does it can open XLS files (M$ excel),i
> needed to open one and it hasn't worked,does anyone here has been able to
> do so ???
I use StarOffice 4.0 exactly for this purpose. Works like a dream. Open
Excel sheet, save as
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i think there other thing to play as well but dont know what.
Oh. Too bad that it didn't help you then.
What version of grep do you have there? Version 2.1-7 is broken, that
might also be the cause. In any case, you can always look at
/var/log/xdm-er
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> I am in need of some help installing StarOffice 4.0
> SInce I have a great setup at work and not at home.. (network wise)
> I downloaded the staroffice 4 and gunzip'd and untar'd it
> then I burnt it onto a CD
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jario Araujo Silva wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need your help.
> I don't know to config. xfree86.
> Anyboby, can help me ?
short method:
su -
[now type in root's password]
XF86Setup
longer (lasting) method:
cd /usr/doc/X11
less *
(or more * if you didn't instal
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> i think i found the problem,if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm,there's nothing
> who's writen on screen but if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist,then i
> have this output (it will be shown after my message),does it's possible
> that dpkg failed to update
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> I wrote a sample script whose behaviour seems strange to me. At least
> I can't find in the doc why it behaves so, nor what I should write to
> get the expected result.
>
> The sample script
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $TRANSLATION = '\1;$2';
> $str = "a
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Keith wrote:
> I compiled a new kernel and now I can't boot. It stops with a message
> like this:
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01.
>
> I can boot my old kernel from a floppy, so can I fix it or am I screwed?
> Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Di
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:
> I am sorry, I usually can find these things on my own, but i searched
> with www.linuxhq.com, and sunsite.unc.edu is down for me right now, and I
> searched the debian packages via www and I ran through dselect.. i could not
> find the source for ssh
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:03:51AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > Matthew D. Myers wrote:
> > > How do you change a users group assignments without manually editing the
> > > passwd and group and also shadowed files.
> > use vipw for editting your pa
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote:
> Lets suppose I go out to pub one night and come reeling home after 8 or 9
> pints of stout. Now when I get home I decide this would be fine time to
> make some configuration changes on my system. ( in this particular case it
> was changing the ppp set
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote:
> and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system
> that will be a server.
>
> I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the
> stable/non-free directory from an ftp mirror on a ez135 disk, (yes the
> new system also has a
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote:
> and want to install debian 1.3.1 (bo) on a new 6x86 p200+ based system
> that will be a server.
>
> I have the 2 CD distribution from lsl.com and the contents of the
> stable/non-free directory from an ftp mirror on a ez135 disk, (yes the
> new system also has a
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I reinstalled gimp 0.99.14-1 and the gimp-data-extra, gimp-data-min, and
> gimp-non-free packages of this version. I also installed the up-to-date
> libgtk1.
Get the older libgtk (971109-1) back while you can still find it on a
mirror. The newer one
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hi all,
> recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but
> now I cannot start gv anymore. It gives me:
>
> $ gv
> gv: error in loading shared libraries
> libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi, is anybody else having this problem? The Gimp no longer accepts text
> input... I mean, I can't type in text boxes. It may have something to do
> with libgtk1, which is something I upgraded before the problem showed up.
>
> Package: gimp Versi
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > > > I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus
> > > > 5446 Chipset ?
> > > In short: YES.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question...
> > I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x S
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
> Hi,
> i was amazed at the help i got from you people at this list, i got a
> message about 20 minutes after i asked a question. That was amazing,
> thanks to all who helped. Anyways, things will hopefully soon be sorted
> out, and i will soon be a new linux u
Apache? IIRC there was a problem with apache and a "#-1" group.
Look at what is in /etc/apache/httpd.conf, on my system the
/etc/cron.daily/apache script runs awk on the files in /etc/apache to
determine user.
Alternatively, check /etc/dwww/dwww.conf
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
>
On 15 Dec 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> Hi. Simply linking with libg++ and libpthread will cause this, because
> libg++ isn't thread safe. The libstc++ that comes with egcs (a new
> alternative to gcc/g++ based on gcc/g++ 2.8.0) is thread safe, and seems to
> work OK in general.
>
> As far as I kn
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Dominique Jacquel wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I really need to upgrade my GIMP 0.54 to the 0.99 version ..
> unfortunatly it needs libc6 so I though I could go for the complete
> Hamm instead but ... I'm hitting a wall! :-(
>
> I just subscribed this list just to ask this
> q
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is
> supposedly configured to do.
>
> /etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at?
That you can't find /etc/init.d/smail is right, becaus
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
> I just setup this experimental system to run Debian 1.3.1:
>
> 486SX/25
> 4MB RAM
> CL3424 w/512K
>
> A real POWER-HOUSE!!! I just put this machine together to test Debian
> 2.0 aka hamm.
> Anyways... When I try to boot the rescue disk, I get the messa
Using --force-depends is not necessary at all in this case;
Just upgrade xlib6 to version 3.3.1-2 which is in directory oldlibs.
Then you can install xlib6g version 3.3.1-2 without any problems.
Don't use --force-depends unless you know very well what you are doing.
It certainly isn't advisable t
On 16 Dec 1997, Carey Evans wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert C. Russell) writes:
>
> > I've been told by an IBM mainframe guy that Linux is for "hobbyists" and
> > may never
> > run.
>
> Just a few years ago you could say the same about any computer that
> would fit on a desk.
Oh, yeah IBM.
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Jan Francsi wrote:
> I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux.
> When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My
> drive spinns up and the dialog beginns.
Ok, so you know what /dev your cdrom is!
> But now I could not chose the
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
> I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages
> in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into
> individual messages. I use procmail to seperate out the digest
> from the rest of the mail. The format of the digest is
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Also, I am in Panic Mode now.
> * If I am unable to log in as root, how do I fix what I did to
> nsswitch.conf? I was sensible enough to backup the old file before
> making the changes. I am unable to locate my emergency disk (or
> whatev
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Richard Wicks wrote:
> P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I
> encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else
> have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told
> me that the the n
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of
> any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0.
> I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This
> is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being
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