On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:37:51PM -, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted
> > because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just
> > editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:43:20PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade a box from hamm to slink and can have access to both
> binary discs concurrently. Can I simply put both filename's (one under main
> and the other contrib) and do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and be done? Or will
> I s
slrn --spool
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried "plain" slrn,
> but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read,
> reply, compose, etc. off line.
>
> So, I set up the slrnpull.conf li
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:11:17AM +1000, Carley, Jason Australia" wrote:
> I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a Q&A
> of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself
> this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may a
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:54:17PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis/netscape-base-4_14_i386.deb.
> Before you install this though you will need to install the libwww-perl
> and liburi-perl packages from unstable(it would be great if they were
> in the above archive
I'm trying to make a "super rescue" floppy on an LS-120 floppy.
At work we have several machines with no "standard" floppy drive
configured thusly:
+--- master --- /dev/hda (hard drive)
+--- IDE0 --|
| +--- slave (no connection)
|
| +--- master --- /dev/hdc (
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:08:32PM -0700, Nate wrote:
> Where can I get Howtos on setting up a majordomo list?
Install majordomo and follow your nose:
$ ls /usr/doc/majordomo/
FAQ.gzREADME.sequencer firewalls-digest.vol
FUTURE.gz changelog.Debian.gz
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 06:47:59PM -0700, Nate wrote:
> I don't want to have to run any services on my firewall. I have on IP
> address and I receive dns from the tzo services (like dhis except you
> get your own domain and it's $$).
>
> I want to be able to run all my servers on an internal priva
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to
> get answered :
First let me compliment you on your detailed and well organized request
for help.
I'll pick off one of your questions that is easy for me and let other
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:34:09PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> In some multi-user environments this type of behaviour (ie the screen not
> getting cleared after a user has logged out) could almost be considered
> a security risk seeing as how another user could see what the last user
> had been d
Here's my take on it:
As root,
dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkg.selections
cp -a /usr/src/linux/kernel-image*.deb /root/
Then backup
/root
/boot
/etc
/var
/home
/usr/local
[/usr/lib/cgi-bin]
To restore:
install the base system
copy dpkg.selections from the backup media to /root/
dpkg --set-
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 09:55:02AM -0600, Young, Ed wrote:
>
> Last night I did a brand new install of 2.0. All went well and I wanted to
> get ppp going.
>
> I saved the distribution ppp files and put in my old options, options.ttyS3,
> net-connect, and net-chat files.
Back up the files you'r
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:50:07AM +, Jay Barbee wrote:
> Can't find ../debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb!
> aborting upgrade.
> ---
>
> It is true my official cd does not have: /debian/hamm/hamm/binary-
> i386/libs/libstdc++2.8_*.deb
It's not you, a couple of packages g
Yesterday I upgraded two machines from bo to hamm. The first went well,
and the second was fine until I rebooted, then the network disappeared.
Since I had done the whole blinking upgrade across the network and had
therefor shoved several dozen megabytes into the NIC in the hours just
preceding th
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I upgraded two machines from bo to hamm. The first went well,
>> and the second was fine until I rebooted, then the network disappeared.
For some reason the `-net' option had been left off the `route add' lines
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 12:49:16PM -0700, Marlon Urias wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting my kernel to see a scsi zip
> drive. I understand that there is a special module (ppa)
> for parallel drives, but what about scsi drives?
Nope, mine comes up just fine as /dev/sda on one machine, and /dev/s
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 01:32:37PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
>
> > So you should change the connect line to:
> >
> > connect "chat -v -f /the_base_path_to_myisp/myisp"
> This works until the ppp server asks for chap/pap, and then the local
> copy
On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 02:39:16PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just downloaded hamm distribution and when I try to install it, the
> system lock after detecting IDE CD-ROM. (If I disconnect the CD it works
> fine, but then again, I can not boot with CD connected.
> Any id
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 02:08:50PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
>
> What is the correct procedure for building a home-grown custom kernel
> with make-kpkg? What are the steps from installing the kernal source
> package to installing the new, roll-your-own kernel?
Actually, this is covered in th
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:03:01AM +0100, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:
>Has anyone got the DE-220 EtherNet Card to work with Linux ? It is a
> popular and very available card which is supposed to be ne2000 compatible
> but is obviously not 100% compatible. It has PnP support and jumperless
> config
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 12:36:28AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> Do you have X running? Are you setting up a server or are just an
> end-user? The simplest thing to do as an end user is get Netscape's
> Communicator/Navigator. This'll save you the trouble of setting up
> smail/fetchmail/mu
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 06:33:06AM +, Rolf Edlund wrote:
>
> But I'm still wondering, is Debian supporting non-ide cd-roms ? And what
> about FPU emulation in kernel 2.0.30 ? Have tryed to look for info on
> that, but have not found any.
>
Yes, and yes.
Luck,
Pann
--
W
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 07:58:17PM -0700, Michael Rudmin wrote:
> I have an IOMEGA SCSI zip drive, with an IOMEGA zoom SCSI card
> (non-bootable) on my 486.
>
> I haven't seen anything in the setup that tells me that the drive is
> mountable. In addition, in the Debian documentation, (Chapter 4),
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 03:41:44AM -0500, David Densmore wrote:
> Is there any way to get mail clients like Pine and Mutt to use a return
> address other than [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have tried both Pine and Mutt, and they only seem to allow me to have
> my Linux userid as the return address. My
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 08:32:58AM +0200, Remo Badii wrote:
> I cannot remember having seen any suggestion to include APM support in
> the kernel during the (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 from the
> CDs using dselect. Do I really have to load the source file(s) from an
> FTP site and comp
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Dennis Janssen wrote:
> Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules.
>
> I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually
> give:
>insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
>insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:53:57AM -0400, Mitchell Surface wrote:
> This should be an easy question but I can't seem to find an answer. I
> want to get my e-mail from my ISP's POP server. I've been messing around
> with sendmail (which is overkill, I now realize) without any luck. Can
> someone po
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 12:51:46PM +, Ken Westerback wrote:
> I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or
> wmppp as evidenced by the console messages:
[logs and config files snipped]
> Can anyone tell me what the problem might be?
Sounds like you need to add the
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> I've got two problems with ppp that have been ongoing for a while. My
> system started at Debian 1.3 and has been upgraded through the whole
> unstable hamm process to a stable 2.0 system and is currently up to date
> as of about a we
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:48AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 08:21:53AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> My scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d do not run, nor does the actual ip-up
> or ip-down script itself (tested
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 02:44:23PM +1200, Andrew wrote:
[snip]
> There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more
> email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should
> really be a file saying "here's what you do if you're a single machine
> user with a dial-up
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote:
> According to the zip
> howto you can put a small linux system on a zip drive therby having
> linux available on any machine you attach your zipdrive to. That is the
> next thing I will try
FWIW, I've done it and the procedure I used i
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 12:07:10AM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote:
> I know this is simple, but how do I get my Okidata OL 410e installed at
> LPT0 (LPT1).
>
> magicfilter sets parameters, but I need something that sets up the printer.
> Like an installation script that creates a printer.conf file (or w
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:00:47PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > *-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > |
> > | > Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop.
> > |
> > | ?
> > |
> > | I've just read it, and it doesn't say anything about xterm-debian.
> >
> > On my slink sys
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Zheng Wang wrote:
> Did someone successfully install Debian on Dell's workstation? I get
> trouble in doing that. I try to install from the hard disk. When I run
> install, it give me the following information:
>
> D:\>loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=r
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 08:55:19PM -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote:
> I use fetchmail to download my mail from a POP3 server, and until
> recently the local smail/in.smtp process that gets that mail from
> fetchmail would immediately deliver the messages to my mailbox. Now
> it queues the mail for de
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:17:34AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> Thanks to Pann and Chris for pointing out that I was still using
> the VGA16 server instead of the S3 server.
>
> But ... did I miss something somewhere? Either XF86Config could have
> modified /etc/X11/Xserver for me or it could h
Are there any other public mirrors of Incoming in the US?
I haven't been able to get into llug.sep.bnl.gov this afternoon,
and none of the other US mirrors listed in README.mirrors has
Incoming.
I need pcmcia-modules for 2.0.34 to complete a test.
Cheers,
Pann
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 08:53:59AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
> I am currently using debian 1.3.1 and I noticed last night that the
> adduser script isn't copying files from the /etc/skel directory
> properly. It just copies the files but without anythin inside them,
> i.e. I hav
Can someone point me to a sample configuration of diald when the
caller's ip address is dynamically assigned by the ISP?
I've read the fine manual but the sample configuration file is for
a fixed ip address and I can't find enough hints to make things
work correctly.
TIA,
Pann
--
To UNSUBSCRI
> I've got hamm installed, and can use 'pon' to start ppp to hook up to
> the net okay as root, but for the regular user account I made during
> install I can not because I get 'permission denied' errors. I know
> this has to do with permissions, so what do I change and how? I've
> looked for a 'pe
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
>
>> I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
>> had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as
>> root, deleted the /var/news/ director
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:15:33PM -0500, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get
> libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each
> other.
>
> Do I need to use dpkg --force ??
No, just install them on the same line
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the
> former "mail a message with the subject "unsubscribe" to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" messag
On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 12:23:59AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
> > I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is
> > too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :)
> > There is a way to view this file?
>
> E
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 10:13:11AM -0600, Young, Ed wrote:
>
> I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte
> harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx. It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to
> run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some
> ema
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 07:06:25AM -0500, Tomt wrote:
> Now that that I got everything working, I was telneting into my linux box
> and just playing around.
> One thing I have noticed is that I cannot login as root across a telnet
> connection.
su is your friend.
Cheers,
Pann
--
Unsubscr
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 16:02 (-0500), MacKenzie, Andrew wrote:
> My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install packages
> using dpkg -i . I find the .deb packages on the ftp site or
> other sites, download them then install. If there are dependencies, I go
> looking for the
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 16:26 (-0800), Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I successfully upgraded to slink from hamm. Yahoo! It only took about 10
> hours over 3 days to do it. apt is your friend!!!
>
> One question though. I rebooted my system and xdm started. I never use
> xdm, but I thought okay I'll try it.
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 13:39 (+), Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
> I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't
> configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the
> qt1g file in the package file.
Here's what I used for a complete kde 1.1 installa
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:13 (-0800), Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever. If
> only
> it had run on a *NIX OS :-(
>
> -
> I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was mo
I'll be looking for some docs to explain this, but in the meantime
perhaps someone knows off the top . . .
Just screwed together a couple of new boxes. AMD K6/2-350 CPUs.
The kernel on the slink rescue disk (2.1.8) as well as the kernel
installed as slink:kernel-image-2.0.36 both report ~350 bogo
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 18:16 (-0600), John Hasler wrote:
> > If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
>
> 12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon (think about 12:01pm).
--
your man pann
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:46 (+0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've searched and searched but I can't find the documentation for glibc
> in HTML format anywhere.
>
> The glibc-doc package claims to install both info & HTML format but I
> can't find anything but info packages.
>
> Any ideas ?
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:25:35PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard
> sections) and keep a nicely readable source? I am now writing the
> thing directly in nroff, but the source is looking pretty awful.
yodl
--
your man pann
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:32:51PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
(Original Subject: RE: Debian very slow to get latest releases?)
> I can't even beigin to understand apt-get.
Then you haven't tried very hard. :-) It's dirt simple and you can
see examples at
http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/
L
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> I tried installing 4.5 using the packages from slink(?), but they depend
> on the slink version of libc6 and who knows what else, which I don't want to
> mess with before slink is deemed stable.
For what it's worth, I've installed
open disc image file
make: *** [binary-i386] Error 1
Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Pann
--
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155
Technical Manager Phone: (206) 782-7733 ext 122
SSC, Inc. www.ssc.comFax: (206) 782-7191
Linux Journal www.linuxjournal.com
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:58:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am trying to install news reader on my computer.
> I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and
> answer while offline.
>
> What do I need ? Cnews ?
> Is there any good documentation about it ?
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:59:34AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> where can I go to ftp the new lowmem.bin that fixes the inability of
> lowmem.bin
> go activate a swap partition. Debian web sight still carries
> lowmwm.bin dated june 1998. I have been trying to install hamm (2.0) for
> t
Let me preface by saying I'm a command line kinda guy so I haven't dealt
with X much.
Having said that, I'm responsible for keeping a bunch of naive X users
happy, so I'm learning as fast as I can.
After upgrading workstations from bo to hamm, funny things happen in
xterms (and cousins) with resp
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Danny R. Gray wrote:
> that FAT32 for Win95B support is in Kernel 2.034, is this true and is it
> read write? Also, since FAT32 supposedly did not change much from
> Win95B to Win98 does it still work? What does the mount statement look
> like?
Works
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 09:16:45PM +0300, Serge Gavrilov wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 11:00:14AM -0500, Danny R. Gray wrote:
> >
> > > that FAT32 for Win95B support is in Kernel 2.034, is this true an
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 03:34:10PM -0700, John Greer wrote:
> I would like to upgrade to the KDEpre1.1 and this requires that the
> libstdc on my machine be the version that is in slink and I have a
> HAMM machine. Will this break anything if i upgrade to this version
> and fulfill the dependen
x27;d like to think we'll turn these new boxes
on and not turn them off again until we're ready to replace them, in
another 4 years. :-)
Thank you.
--
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155
Technical Manager
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not
> currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a
> laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:52:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
> wrote:
> > I have some questions:
> > 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink
> > or Pota
> > to?
> > 2
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:55:56PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> I wanted to recompile the Kernel and leave all the default settings which
> were used to produce the stock hamm 2.0.34 kernel in. There are some options
> which I don't use, some which aren't in there and a recompile for my CPU which
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 07:28:01AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote:
> I am under the impression that there is a way to do version upgrades
> without reinstalling the entire system. True? If I were to get the 2.0 CD,
> how big of a chore would it be to upgrade to Slink or even Potato.
Absolutely true. s
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:22:40AM +, Nidge Jones wrote:
>
> Ok I give up, I have spent the entire evening trying to get my 2.0.36 source
> to compile. But it won't !
>
> Why has upgrading from 1.3.1 to 2.0 broken this !
Get kernel-package and read the docs (it makes kernel building WAY
easy
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:42:33PM +, Nidge Jones wrote:
>
> I posted this once, but am not sure if it went OK As I am still getting
> requests for the info below ??
Best plan when you're this frustrated is to go back to ground zero.
Make sure the following packages from _hamm_ are corre
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 07:59:15PM +, Nidge Jones wrote:
>
> Pann McCuaig Writes..
>
> > Make sure the following packages from _hamm_ are correctly installed:
> >
> > bin86
> > binutils
> > gcc
> > libc6-dev
> > ncurses3.4-dev
> > ma
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 04:53:35PM -0500, Sergey Imennov wrote:
Among other things, I use my Debian system to
develop web pages. For a while I'm looking for a
web server ( preferably as 'light' as possible),
that would work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H was designed to
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:44:17PM +, Nidge Jones wrote:
> Pann McCuaig Writes..
>
> > The packages I've listed above are required to compile (using make-kpkg
> > and make menuconfig) a 2.0.34 kernel on a libc6 system.
>
> Right I have 2.0.34 compiling now. U
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 03:05 (+), Gossamer wrote:
>
> Is there a way to set up the print stuff so that when I go
>
> lpr
>
> it adds margins and stuff? It's ugly as is.
man pr
--
your man pann
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 16:21 (-0500), Richard Hall wrote:
> Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do
> I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more?
I think both mc and lynx handle that task fairly well.
--
your man pann
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:38 (-0600), Brian Morgan wrote:
> Could someone illustrate for me how to install these .deb files easily
> without using dselect?
If the packages are in your working directory:
dpkg -i kdebase_981026-pre1.1-1_i386.deb
etc.
Luck,
--
your man pann
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:53 (-0500), Michael W. Wernicki wrote:
> 1. OS/2 2GB
> 2. WIN 95 1GB
> 3. Debian 1GB (inprocess)
> 4. Boot Manager 10MB
>
> I would like to use the Boot Manager that comes with OS2 to boot Debian.
> Anyone out there done this. Any lessons learned? Ho
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 17:56 (+), Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:04:23AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > *** GET RID OF THE GODDAMN BLANK LINES IN THE MODULE DESCRIPTIONS! ***
>
> $ patch -p1 modconf < nice-rant
> Error: Need descript
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 23:18 (+), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I now have several networked Linux boxes; but they all have different
> hardware and do different things and they have different kernels.
>
> I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which
> kernels and I'm be
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:06 (-0500), Daniel Kahraman wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I've gone to the ftp.debian.org/pub/debian site but I cannot find
> /stable/disks-i386 or any of the other possibilities listed Debian
> GNU/Linux Installation features on page 16 of
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 11:03:40PM -0700, André Bell wrote:
> ) I've finished my admin install and apache install of debian and am trying
> to figure out where all the *.conf files are copied to so I can edit them.
$ locate httpd.conf
/etc/apache/httpd.conf
/etc/apache/httpd.conf.0
/usr/doc/apache
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:32:17PM -0400, Scott McMillan wrote:
[snip!]
> know which CD to start with). Each time during the Install step
> it would say 'Skipping deselected package: *' hundreds of times and
> nothing seemed to get installed. It was as if the whole Profile step
> was totally ig
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:11:29PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote:
> I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem
> from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I
> can neither cut nor paste.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong?
Hold down the SHIFT key when yo
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have recently installed a SONY SCSI tape drive onto my linux box. I
> would like to use the Taper program to back up my hard drive to tape. But
> I seem to be having a problem with getting the tape drive to
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:55:41AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Just a question -
>
> I need an algorithm that can match a number of days with any month. For
> this to be useful, I need a function that can tell me if it's a leap year
> this year.
>
> Is there one available in any of t
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:46:15AM -0500, Bruce Walzer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Debian Mail wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me
> > > either in a text console (gpm) or X.
> >
> > Yep, that works. Thanks!
> > Still
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone know how I can stop getting these messages? Thanks in advance.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 6:26 AM
> Sub
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works
> reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and
> not say anything at all about oleo and siag. Staroffice 5 in 16mb is
> out of the
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 04:34:35PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci,
>
> it's the card my DSL supplier supports
Sounds like 3c59x. Comment from the source:
This driver is for the 3Com "Vortex" and "Boomerang" series ethercards.
Members of
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 14:11, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my
> existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router
> connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate network card
> connecting the interna
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 23:02, tf wrote:
> I'm about to install on or move to a new hd, and I'd like to divide it
> up. I've read faqs and howtos, but I can't help thinking that if I
> partition it by "feel", I'd just end up wasting alot of space.
>
> Ok, the drive's in another machine right now
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:16, Jon Hughes wrote:
> I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer
> (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and
> dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X
> server/KDE stuff to work
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 23:26, erasmo perez wrote:
> which package can i use in order to convert a text file (as created by
> emacs) to a postscript file, but in a way i ould have control over
> factors like: type and size of the font, spacing, identation,
> justification, etc.
Have a look at enc
different internet services.
All the sites we host run linux.
www.ssc.com
ftp.ssc.com
debian.ssc.com
www.linuxjournal.com
interactive.linuxjournal.com
www.linuxresources.com
www.linuxgazette.com
www.thegimp.com
--
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 23:45 (+0400), Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> BTW, how many hits usually occur at these sites? Is such info is
> available?
Typically we get between 300,000 and 500,000 hits per day total. This
can spike (significantly) if one of the sites is mentioned on slashdot.
We also get a
I recently set up a network of machines using the private IP addresses
192.168.1.xxx. All machines are running Debian, a mix of bo, hamm, and
slink. One slink machine which has two ethernet interfaces, 192.168.1.1
and , has the ipmasq package installed and is the
gateway to the internet.
The ipmas
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:09:05PM +0200, Bon Lam wrote:
> how to install a debian distribution to a zipdisk?
>
> is there anything like zipslack from debian?
There are instructions (albeit for hamm) at the URL in my sig.
Luck,
Pann
--
What's All the Buzz About Linux?
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:52:54AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > copies of my latest efforts. The book is called "Linux Volume 1: ac to
> > zcat, the basics"
>
> acat? What happened to ? :-)
>
> --
> see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
This piqued my c
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 12:20:29PM -0400, Dan Nguyen wrote:
> I'm interested in using the Roxen webserver, however, I'm currently
> running Apache, and don't want anything to break. Does anyone know of
> any problems which will occur if I do so?
Well it all depends on what you're doing with your
1 - 100 of 242 matches
Mail list logo
