Re: Installing Bo Debian on a 386 2 meg RAM?

1999-06-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Is it possible to put swap on before booting? > I don't know -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-08-01 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
> What about the solution used in debian : $ ls *mail -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 rmail -> exim lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Nov 11 1998 sendmail -> exim I suppose that qmail, postfix and other use a similar trick. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

RE: older debian release?

1998-06-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, > hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older > release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that > one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Bo can run in 2 MB RAM. You'll have to use the lmemboot floppy and to compile a ke

RE: Linux via un terminal

1998-07-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Salut, Olivier Tharan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 08:48:54AM +0400, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > - Y-a-t'il un miraculeux moyen pour avoir plusieurs consoles virtuelles > >à partir d'un terminal ? J'y crois pas trop mais bon... >

RE: Linux via un terminal (OOPS)

1998-07-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, my previous message was supposed to go in debian-french and not debian-user. Sorry for any inconveniences -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: can backgrounded processes outlive a login?

1999-02-09 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
account is > logged on. It seems that there should be some way to accomplish this. Is > there? I haven't seen anything. > > Please cc: to jlothian as this is his question and he's not on the list. > nohup command & -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: boot problem?

1999-02-09 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
rw=o, want=33, limit=0 > isofs_read_super: bread failed, de 03:03 > iso_blknum 16 block 32 > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > You're trying to mount /dev/hda3 as root wich does not exist to partition check. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: XF86 Setup

1999-02-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
y old Just use BandWidth 85 in your monitor Section just as for HorizSync and VertRefresh. Humm, I don't see it in the man pages, is it deprecated ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
ts assume these ideas are good or someone has a better, its > just a suggestion. Same remark applies to my ideas. Last point, opposing to Joey, I do think that the word Debian should be integrated in the logo, for example if the idea of the escape is taken, the bottom of the sheet could b

Re: Archiving Old Messages and Misc Mail Features

1999-02-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t; the web. No need to save debian-user of you have a web browser. Unless you pay the phone on the duration of your communication (even locale ones) ! -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ |

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb, 1999 à 11:02:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > My ideas of debian/linux (without any significance in the order) are : > > freedom, power, cooperation. > > Sounds like elephants to me. Why not ? > > What animals s

Re: The usual reboot problems

1999-02-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
but when I > > find it, I will try it. > > Uhm, the floppy is a standard msdos disk: > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos > > Then copy the kernel: > > cp /vmlinuz /mnt/vmlinuz I think that the kernel on the boot floppy has to be named linux not vmlinuz unless if

Re: Re-partitioning extended partition

1999-03-01 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
sed 87MB > > The thing is, now the EXT partition is larger - it has been resized. Will Why not put either tmp or swap in hda9 this would give you a larger /usr. And if you're not using the space in /tmp you could suppress it as your / fs is rather large (see with df if it makes sens

Re: Minimal requirements for xwindows and slave hard disk installation

1999-03-04 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
gimp, xv). I thought that those problems were due to a messed lib, I'm wondering if they're related to what you say. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux :

Re: which package provides ldd

1999-03-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
libdl.so.1 There's still a man page for ldd but no more ldd :-? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: strange log messages/behavior

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 in /etc/inittab. Doublecheck them. > Mar 14 17:29:49 server init: no more processes left in this runlevel > For this problem I'

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
e slink CD in France. Until this time I'll have a wandering empty xbase just to satisfy dependancies of not up to date packages : not a big deal. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ |

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 15 Mar, 1999 à 08:20:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > > > There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm > > even > > if it was installe

Re: Using Procmail

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t sometimes the address won't be in the "To:" header, but in "From:", or > "Cc:"... so this is what I do: > Hence the interest of the TO macro > * ^(To|From|Cc):.*debian-user-digest* > debian-user > -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Hardware woes/make-kpkg

1999-03-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t; Now I get unresolved symbols when loading the 3c509.o module. All of > the symbols start with 'mca_' which sounds like a micro channel > problem! > I guess that this is due to the lack of make dep > Where can I find make-kpkg? >

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a low-level mem 386.

1999-03-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
be done but you'll probably have to compile your own kernel with make zImage. Kernel compiled with make bzImage test for the presence of 3 MB of extended RAM. The default install kernel is made with bzImage ! Install ash and make it the default kernel before rebooting the machine. -- (

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
are Limitations, not software or > > driver limitations. Physical as opposed to Logical problems and thus > > not correctable by software. > > > > Jeff > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: use the Windowkeys

1999-03-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
's surely a more clever place but I didn't care) and now CTRL-CapsLock is a compose key in the console (not X). I think that on an us keyboard CTRL-. is already configured to be the Compose key, make a try. If you know the scancode of the winblows keys

Re: LILO & non-BIOS scsi card

1999-03-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
a kernel supporting your scsi card (a module won't suffice) Something as boot=/dev/hda (or /dev/hda1 if you want to keep your MBR untouched) in /etc/lilo.conf should suffice... -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Win1895 BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a loong time ago either on sunsite or tsx-11 :-)) > > GO! PENGUIN! GO! Yeah ! Well, in fact I only miss some games but dual boot is made for that, isn'it ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -

Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

1999-03-30 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
oot:" prompt, or you may have to load a driver > that is in a loadable module to solve this problem." Perhaps you have an MCA bus and/or ESDI harddrive -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crc errors with LILO

1999-03-30 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
the kernel that's on the floppy > (which is good), and I still get the error. > > Anyone know how to fix this? I don't like to boot off of a floppy... > How are we supposed to be able to help you without the necessary details ? At least your lilo.conf and having yo

Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-01 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 31 Mar, 1999 à 05:14:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > how can I have lynx to use each home user's configuration file instead of > /etc/lynx.cfg? I mean to default to: > > $ lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc > Why not do it with an alias ? --

Re: The newbie needs more help.

1999-04-01 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
not on an MCA machine. On a PS/2 machine your drive is probably /dev/eda instead of /dev/hda. HTH -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinate

Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
I upgraded completely > to Debian hamm (I now run slink) I began having one minor > problem: after dialing up & turning off the connection > the modem would be 'hung' and I have to run the hylafax > probemodem script. > You should try pppconfig and use pon and poff af

Re: boot failed due to superblock error and FAT BREAD Failure

1999-04-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
it=0 Your kernel try to boot /dev/hda7 (03:07 is major device 3=ide0, minor device 7=seventh partition of hda). Boot from a floppy and use rdev to correct that. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lowmemory Installation Help

1998-12-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
ne in your /etc/lilo.conf -- ( )- Laurent PICOULEAU -( ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?

1998-12-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
e Pink Panther cartoon show. I doubt > that this was a reference to Der Maus. Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany > know Art Spiegelman at all? :) > Actually I only know MAUS (published with this title in France) and I rank it among the ten top cart

Re: News reading

1999-01-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
ation about it ? I didn't found any HOWTO or things > like that about it > There are various documents (in French) on <http://www.linux-france.com> or you can read ISP-Hooking-HOWTO. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
3600 modem in about 3 minutes. > or give a more concrete reason, instead of just telling us 'I like > it better'. > All I'm asking is for the majority to show a little more > understanding of the minority's position. > > > -- > Ed C. > > --

Re: Debian and SuSE with Win98/FAT32 and NTFS

1999-01-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t; no, you can change the partition id (e.g. with fdisk) whithout changing > anything else -- and the kernel recognises it anyway > For the kernel it won't make any difference but M$-DO$ and Win1895 rely on the correct type to boot. So, it Nintend

Re: Lilo corrupted double-spaced Win95 drive

1999-01-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t know a definitive way of restoring wintendo. You could try this : boot from a floppy and try sys c: but please try this as a last resort because it could wrac havoc your win1895 partition > Thanks. HTH -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\

Re: "Could not find kernel image" and other install problems

1999-01-28 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
3) If I don't, but use fdisk, will the rest of the install be OK (as long > as I honor the installation guides warnings to activate paritions via the > installer GUI)? Yes if you keep either / or /boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders in order to uses lilo Bye

Re: Hard disk problem on istallation of Debian

1999-02-02 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
two hard disks, a 9GB scsi > and a 6.4 Gb ide. The scsi has no problems but I want to install Why hdb if you only have one IDE drive. It should be hda. Verify that your disk is configured as single or master (not slave) -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -&

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t want it someday... > It *was* simple with hamm but in slink this file no longer exists in slink. So, the method I'd use is to alter the link in rc.d as proposed before. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Gateway computer.. can I install Debian on it?

1999-08-09 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
[None] to [Auto] but that doesn't help. The only device on there at all > > is Secondary master, which is her DVD-ROM drive (which debian can read > > perfectly fine.) > > SCSI harddrive ?? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Errors

1999-08-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
errors are emitted by applications not finding an Xserver and not by X itself. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_

Re: Easy way to determine where files are installed?

1999-08-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
pache wich use these file to answer I think) If you don't find them here, tey're crated by the the install scripts : apache.preinst and apache.postinst in the same directory. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -<

Re: Small faux pas with LILO

1999-08-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
is incantation of dd should get things back the > way they were: > dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 > lilo -u (or lilo -u /dev/hda1 if you've already modified your /etc/lilo.conf) will restore your previous boot sector. -- ( >- Laurent PICO

Re: CDRW 8100i help

1999-08-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
equest sense failed, performing reset. > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > scsi: detected total. > (...snip...) > I think that you've enable the option to probe all SCSI LUN. It's only useful for multi-cd readers. Your CD reader will appears only one time and you won&

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

1999-08-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
o I activate the swap partition?? > You could have found the answer in two steps : -$ apropos swap would have listed you all the man pages dealing with swap, then -$ man mkswap would have explained to you all that you needed. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: mounting problems

1999-08-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
g fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, >or too many mounted file systems > Are you sure you've included iso9660 fs during your kernel compile ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Revisit Large Hard Drives

1999-09-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
device with the install kernel for i386 type can be : minix, iso9660, vfat, fat, ext2. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
its child processes. And one of > init's less well-known jobs is wait()ing for orphaned zombie > processes. Is there a way to determine the neglecting parent of a zombi ? Such as to be able to kill the parent if it's not a necessary program and letting init inherits the zombi

Re: offtopic: WindowMaker questions

1999-09-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
minals. In afterstep that was possible, and clicking on an icon > > showed more. > > You may want to look at the 9menu package, i've heard good things about > it. Never tried it myself though. > Or you can use the collapse options of the WMClip but you'll have only on

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
> Doesn't 'ps l' displays the Parent Process ID (PPID) ? > I must admit it does, I never realized that long format meant PPID displays amongs other thing. thanks. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
group fr.comp.os.linux some 2 years ago to detect an ext2 partition that can help to solve Jaldhar's problem. This programm can be found on <http://www.linux-france.org> but I don't know the exact URL. If you can't find it, I have a copy of it -- ( >- Laurent PICO

Re: Debian 2.1 boot disk with Tekrm DC390F

1999-09-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
r SCSI chain is well terminated ? P.S. Why not ask your question on debian-french ? It would have been simpler to me to reply in french than in english... -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt questions

1999-09-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
. Is this > process automatic, or do I need to do something to save a message? > >From my understanding of the save-hook info in the mutt manual, > save-hook works on a regular expression in the From: or To: headers > (I guess depending on whether it's incoming or

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
l in the resolution conflict screen, just press R (upper case do matter. If you've already quitted this screen I'm not aware of simple solutions. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] cdrom speed adjustment

1999-09-22 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 21 Sep, 1999 à 02:11:02PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Hi all, > > I know someone who has a windows program that limits the speed of his > cdrom drive. Is there a way to do this in linux? Although it is a > There's a .deb for that : setcd . --

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
l clock will lose > approximately > 4 hours in every 9. > Could you post your /etc/adjtime and the result of adjtimex -p ? And verify if GMT="" in /etc/default/rcS. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: Slow system clock?

1999-09-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
nit.d/hwclock.sh My decision would be to enable APM unless you have specific problems with it. > Thanks for all your help, You're welcome. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-13 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
ure) as the two last bytes of the MBR. You could test for this signature (with dd for example). If not present : definitely it's not a partitionned disk If present : probably a partitionned disk but you should watch for the correctness of the supposed partitions. > Any suggestions? > HTH

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-15 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Wed, 14 Apr, 1999 à 04:34:09PM -0400, David B.Teague wrote: > ii kernel-source-2 2.0.34-4 Linux kernel source. [...] > Native language support (Unicode, codepages) (CONFIG_NLS) [N/y/m/?] (NEW) You must answer Y or M to this question to get the question about iso9660 -- ( >-

Re: Solved: Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-15 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
r > kernels 2.0.27, and was added by kernel 2.0.34. > I think that they're used for Joliet CD Format which rely on unicode but I can be wrong on this topic... -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.2.5 and make-kpkg

1999-05-08 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
o .deb with the Kernel..any ideas? > Unless compilation gives errors, cd .. ; ls *.deb will show you the expected package... -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Midnight commander. What's up with that? > You've probably installed gmc which provides mc. > André Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there an equivalent tool for Linux which resembles Norton Commander's > > dual window interface?

Re: CDROM Installation problems

1999-05-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
. The hard disk had the jumper set in the This is probably due to the fact that your CD-ROM driver is not an IDE device. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
> It shows the number of directories in the directory (. and .. included) and it does correspond to the number of link as each of this directory includes a link to its parent directory (.. is this link). BTW the missing link is the entry of the directory itself in its parent directory and not .. indeed.

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpegs which > does NOT use X11, GNOME or any other stuff like that? > Please send replies to me directly, rather than to the > list. Thanx zgv but it uses svgalib -- (

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-30 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
to be useable by user other than root but you should verify this point as I'm not sure. > Sean > > Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 28 May, 1999 à 09:42:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > > > Hi. Is there a package in Debian to view jpeg

Re: Non-X11 jpeg viewer desired

1999-05-31 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Sun, 30 May, 1999 à 09:29:02AM -0400, David B.Teague wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > > > zgv but it uses svgalib > > someone writes: > ::That's a problem? > > > Two possible problems : > > - second : I think it has

Re: mcedit?

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
> I don't suppose anyone knows how I can get it back? mc -e Doesn't seem to work without providing a filename alas. (It's not in manpages but mc -h does give this trick) -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU

Re: please help if you can ...

1999-10-15 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
area > and/or can gnu/linux have a swapfile in such area/partition. > no, yes, yes, no, none, yes, yes. Please consider asking your questions once in a row, answering would be easier. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< )

Re: udma66 ...

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
nder > udma33? (and I'm sure that udma66 is Ok on this drive, through the > dos utility). > Wich version of hdparm ? Have you activated udma66 ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: Problems with Linux partitions after installing FreeBSD

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
's fdisk's output from FreeBSD > (meanwhile I'll try investigating how to mount those partitions from > FreeBSD): > > door:/# fdisk > disklabel (I think) would be far more useful... It would give the partitions inside the BSD slice. As I don't use BSD, I

Re: need help for my mitsumi cdrom

1999-10-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
s you got. You should know the I/O and IRQ used by your interface (defaults are 0x300, irq 11), if you do not remember hve a look at the interface, these parameters are setted by jumpers and switch on it. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -&l

Re: Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

1999-10-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
unavailable under mc, you can use <#> to get (<0> for ). -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ce

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
on ghostscript (either gs or gs-alladin) to do the conversion. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-21 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
sion. > > > > What does dvips need ghostscript for? > > It doesn't. All one needs ghostscript for is printing on > non-postscript printers and as a backend for gv/ghostview. > Sorry for the misinformation. So, what caused the error message in the fi

Re: How to copy the Debian-CD (with short 8.3 FN's) to my Harddisk with LFN

1999-10-23 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
oo much !!! > > I like to get only the stable bin+src SLINK for i386 and not more. > I have only 2,8 GByte and the last Download had crashed my system. > They had triet to download around 4,x GByte > Why not a few wget : one for dist/slink/contrib/binary-i386, one for dist/slink/contrib

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
tings for my monitor, I have been shooting in the dark while trying to > set up xf86config. I keep missing. > Why not giving a try to one of the standard monitors suggested by xf86config ? Choices 2, 4 and 5 work on most of the low-end 14" SVGA monitors... -- (

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
ck to system with hwclock --hctosys but you should have a coherent /etc/adjtime if you want that the two clock stay on sync. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux :

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
al' speed again. > Is this correct? > If it is, is there some switch that makes adjtimex do this, or some other > tool? > And yes, I have read the man page for adjtimex, it's just that most of it is > undecipherable to me. > I wro

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 09:52:51PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > I was under the impression (I still am) that it's a bad thing to just set > > the system > > clock back. Instead you

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-27 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
a test?: its working by default > in /, with a 100MB file. > No, it defaults to the current directory. -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans vo

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
. I'm using the 2.2.10 kernel > and Debian 2.1 > Yes : hit 1 and you'll get lilo (wich is installed in /dev/hda1). This is the prompt of mbr. BTW does *anybody* still use mbr ? I think it's time to remove the recommends dependency of lilo to mbr or at least to chan

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Linux shut down the VGA-Output

1999-10-30 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
tallation because I must do it with a boot disk now. > Could it be possible to see the screen section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config, it would *greatly* simplify diagnostics... Having the values of HorizSync and VertRefresh lying would be a

Re: updating of CMOS clock

1999-11-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
a slink/potato salad. > for a (pure) slink system you set this (usage of GMT or local time) in /etc/default/rcS -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: updating of CMOS clock

1999-11-07 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sat, 06 Nov, 1999 à 07:46:38PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "LP" == Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LP> For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time : > > I am being a bit daft but do you mean that I s

Re: updating of CMOS clock

1999-11-09 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 08 Nov, 1999 à 08:19:23PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >>>>>> "LP" == Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >LP> For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time : > &

Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
freeze ? some kind of errors maybe .. > > The entries seems normal in all .log, except in message.x, I've got some > -- MARK -- lines; don't know what that is. > There just written by syslogd every 20 minutes in order to show that it is st

Re: console keyboard remaped (newbie)

1999-11-24 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
se kbdconfig to set it to what you wish. (BTW, Z and W are switched too in case you search one of them) -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
or base14-[1-7].bin, why not using tar directly ??? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \)Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur !(/ | \_|_Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
extended memory. I do think that kernel on lowmem.bin should be made as zImage for those of us crazy enough to try to install debian on computers with less than 4MB ;-) > Thanks, > You're welcome >Larry > -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:08:14AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:01:14PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > I've installed Debian 1.3.1r6 on a 386 with 3Megs, EGA display and two 160MB > > ESDI HD with no difficulties. Just had to compile a ker

Re: lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
the BIOS : you'll have to use MAP-DRIVE in /etc/lilo.conf 2) let dos stay on the first drive and install lilo in the MBR of the first drive. All the details needed are in lilo's doc. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
t the count value if you don't have enough space. With the skip parameter you'll be able to get the end of your file too. I've tried that with small file and it works and dd is able to cope with partition of any size I think, so : it should work. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:

1998-11-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
manager. It looks like the Microsoft > people think that rpm is the only Linux package manager. > > But how could they think of dselect or YaST (SuSE management tool) as package manager : none of them are point and click ? ;-) -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
mpact than coming with an already prepared HD... [snip] > 8) Last but not least, during the "select" phase, when searching for > packages, only package names are searchable. I would really like to search > descriptions as well. > Searching on description is appealing to me too. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide

1998-11-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
, with a patch applied indeed > What could I do ? > Be more precise. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:41:11PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after > following this thread!) > dmesg | grep Memory should enligh

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
on typical computers. Next time you'll reboot your computers you'll can tried this or you can try "grep Memory | /var/log/syslog" as root but it probably won't work either. P.S. could you avoid including the whole mail to wich you reply, quoting the relevant passage

Re: How big is my H/D ?

1998-11-18 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
yl and to mount it on /boot and you can organize the remainder of your disk as you wish. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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