HD Partition

hi all i have an 8.4GB hard drive and i would like some suggestion as to how to divide it. how much space should i devote to each directory and which ones should be real partitions and which should be logical? /usr = /home = /etc = /tmp = /root = /

Valid Baud Rate Values

hi i tried downloading hamm files to upgrade from bo. i noticed that the ftp connection was very slow and found out that i was connected at 9600. i changed the speed to 115200 in the ppp.options file. is 11520 the fastest transfer rate that ppp can support or are there greater values? i have a

Debian Linux and AMD Computers

hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. pd

Slink Upgrage Via Telnet

hi i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem? does it take a whole lot of time to upgrade online, i mean just downloading th

Linux to VAX

hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody how make these conversion and/or know where i can ge

Linux/VAX clarification

hi there again i guess i was not very clear as to what i want to do. here's the deal. i have a fortran program that spits out a binary file on an HP/UX (i'm trying to rewrite the program in C++ on Linux). now a person in italy would like to use the binary output, but she's currently working on a

dselect ftp upgrade

Hi I would like to upgrade to libc6 and I tried to do so via dselect ftp, but I can not find the unstable or hamm directory at ftp.debian and dselect just quits on me. Can someone tell me how to upgrade packages via ftp. I am also insearch of an efficient web browser, and I am considering the la

Kernel Panic !!!!!

Hi My Linux box had problems shutting down when I Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I can boot up in Windows, and now Linux would not boot up. When I boot up, after the message - Running /etc/init.d/boot - I get the error message hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest

Fixing Bad Blocks

Hi. I recently posted a message about "Kernel Panic" that was due to bad blocks in my hard drive. My plan is to just start all over. What I need now is a way to fix bad blocks or to skip over them if neccessary. I received a message that told me to use e2fsck -c /dev/hda? ( where ? is any one o

dselect infinite loop?

Hi A weird thing happens to deselect when I run it. It keeps replacing existing files in my system even though I did not select it. And it keeps on doing this over and over again. This is the first time this has happened. Normally is simply skips over files that were already selected, but not

Exiting VC from another

Hi I'm just wandering, but is there any way to logout of a Virtual Console from another Console (i.e. logout of tty1 from tty2)? The reason I ask this is I managed to hang tty1 and I had to kill all process on tty1 from tty2 and then rebooted the system. Is there a more elegant way of doing this

Terminal setting: linux

Hi guys I tried using gnuplot and treid to direct my out put to the screen but I got an error message that the svga library is not available. Does any body know what wrong with this. I don't think that the svga library is missing since I found it through find and I get output through the screen.

Terminal setting: linux

Hi I tried using gnuplot and treid to direct my out put to the screen but I got an error message that the svga library is not available. Does any body know what wrong with this. I don't think that the svga library is missing since I found it through find and I get output through the screen. Th

Re: CD Installation

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi. > > I am planning to obtain your official LINUX two CD Set. I have looked at > the installation page at your site and there was no instruction for a CD > installation. Could you please provide me a set of instruction of the CD

Install Instructions

Hi I recently obtained a copy of Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a CD, however there were no instructions accompanying it and I looked in the Debian website for instructions for a CD installation. Could someone please send me some instructions on how to begin the installation. Do I still need the floppy re

Repartition Format

Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from the

Re: Repartition Format

Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from t

block device name

I began using dselect to install program files, but after choosing the Access option on the main menu the following screen asked for the CD and the block device name. I have no idea what this means. The system recognized my CD during the reboot as hdd 655A ATAPI IDE. What do I have to type in as

Loading Software

Hi I have a gzip tar copy of The Dotfile Generator that came on a dos formated floppy. I tried to load this through dselect but as I scrolled down the list of programs I could not find the dotfile program. Could someone send me instuction on how to install it. Thanks Patrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Sound card & PPP configuration

Hi I'm trying to cojfigure my computer's sound card and internet connection via PPP. As far as I can figure I have to recompile the whole kernel to get the proper devices working. Currently the kernel I'm using is 2.29 is worth it to upgrade to 2.30 (is there any big difference in stability and

Sound Config

Hi I have a Sound Blaster 16 card in my computer and as I was doing my configuration, I came across these options with no help Choice Setting [Default] Sound Blaster IRQ 7 I/O base for SB 220 Sound Blaster DMA

PPP ?

Hi I have been trying to figure out how to setup a PPP connection to my school (Univ of MD) for almost a month. I have read quite a bit of stuff about PPP but I am no where closer to connecting, since most of the info deals with setting up a server. All I want to do is dial up to the school syste

DUNC

Hi I recently asked for help concerning PPP dial up and it was suggested that I use DUNC for this. I already have unpacked the source code in my system but when I ran "make" the only thing it did was move the source code to /usr/bin; the code itself was not compiled. Am I forgetting to do some

Modem Test?

Hi I've been trying to connect through my schools dial up system for sometime now with no luck. I'm starting to think that my modem is not configured correctly. I think that my modem is on /dev/tty0. I deleted the device /dev/modem that present initially and made a new symbolic from /dev/tty0 t

Devices?

Thanks for the help I'm able connect now just by using 'pon' after reading the README.debian in usr/doc/ppp. But I'm still puzzled by devices for starter when I boot up Linux I get the message: ... /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A /dev/ttyS1 at ?x (irq=3) is a 1

Monitor?

Hi I was checking out the values of the environmental values of my system and noticed that TERM=linux when I 'echo $TERM' is this the correct value or is this value dependent on my monitor. If it is dependent on the monitor how do I choose the correct value? My monitor is able to shut it self of

Re: color in Emacs

try xcolorsel On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:42:38AM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: > Hello, > > Putting something like this > > emacs*background:white > emacs*foreground:black > > in the .Xdefault file is nice. > > But, does there exist a list of colors to choose from. > For example, as background

Re: very simple lan question

this is the first time i've looked at my /etc/network/interfaces file and everything is commented out. currently i configure my network interfaces from /etc/init.d/network. if i set my network from /etc/network/interfaces does this mean that i can remove /etc/init.d/network? what is the preferre

Re: Where is acroread?

earlier today i installed acroread, which i downloaded from www.adobe.com. i was never aware that there was a .deb for. gv can read some .pdf files, but of course acroread does a much better job. why not just get it from adobe - it just takes 10 min to install? On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:10:16AM

Re: Help needed: how to set DefaultColorDepth to 32]

i am naively using gdm. where do i go to edit the color depth setting. On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:42:42PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > Edit your XF86Config file. Set your "DefaultColorDepth" to 32. In > the section for the driver your using. Restart X. > hth, > kent > > > > Which, if

Re: Debugging /bin/sh scripts?

try using set -x in your script file, ie: #!/bin/bash set -x On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:55:49PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's a good way to debug /bin/sh scripts? I thought there > was an interpreter option which would run the code line by > line, prompting after each line, but I looked t

Debconf Web Mode?

hi all i notice now that when i do an apt-get to do an install or update my system i get the message Note: Debconf is running in web mode. Go to http://localhost:8001/ but when i use netscape to go to `http://localhost:8001/` i get an error. it seems that my system does not have this address.

make-kpkg

hi i'm in the process of making kernel-2.2.15. how do i use make-kpkg? to i have to run make menuconfig first or will make-kpkg walk me through the kernel configuration? do i have to issue a separate make-kpkg command to make the modules? thanks pd

Re: tracing route

on my system the command is called tracepath. is this basically traceroute renamed? On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:55:21PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace > > a rout? What package contains it? > > The c

Sound Problems

i've just finished building kernel-2.2.15 and i think i've done everything to make my sound card work - SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700. below is the output of cat /dev/sndstat **-- yakko:/home/patd# cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver compiled into kernel Kern

Re: please help test debian frozen

i've been using potato since late january and have been doing apt-get dist-upgrade at least once a month. potato has been very very good to me. if not for power outages and the 'init 6' i'm prone to do, i don't need to reboot my system. On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:18:16AM +0200, Dietmar wrote: >

SoundBlaster 128

my sound card is a SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4700 and i'm having problems getting it to work. i.e i get the error message '/dev/dsp: No such device' does anybody know if it's okay to compile in the kernel the es1370 support for a CT4700 card? or am i just screwed with this sound card? thanks pd

Multicast Tunnel

hi all i've just finished reading the Multicast HOWTO. my question deals with the mrouted tunnel i need to create. my ISP does not support multicast so i can't to tunnel to them. am i just out of luck with multicast or is there a place that sets up multicast tunnels for a small fee (preferably

Env Variables

hi i set the environmental variable below to dynamically change my xterm window to title to the current working directory. export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}: ${PWD}\007"' this works really well when i login in X, but when i login from the console my system beeps every time since \0

SCWM/GNOME

hi all i'm switching window managers from enlightenment to scwm (it's about time i learn lisp). i'm using gdm as my display manager, which - correct me if i'm wrong - simply runs gdmchooser, gdmlogin, and gnome-session or Xsession depending on which session i choose. (gnome-session is called by t

gnome-errors & scwm

hi all i've recently changed my default window manager to scwm. however i get the following gnome-error message when i login. (i login using gdm) -- SNIP -- SESSION_MANAGER=local/yakko:/tmp/.ICE-unix/19601,tcp/yakko:2576 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 /usr/bin/x-w

Re: gnome-errors & scwm

OME compliant > window-manager and just create a ~/.xession to use scwm. You might also > want to install xsm so then you can create a bazillion different X > session types. Up to you. There's no foolin' GNOME into using a > non-GNOME compliant window-manager. > > On

Re: Upgrading XFree86 on slink for i810 chipset

go ahead an upgrade to potato. i've been using it for about 6mo and it's been very stable. On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:43:28PM -0500, Br. Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I need your advice. I have an Intel i810 chipset and the driver requires > XFree86 version 3.3.6, but slink has 3.3.2. The driver also

Re: time is off by 1 hour

run tzconfig as root and follow the instructions. also do NOT forget to set the environmental variable TZ in your .bash_profile. On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:04:20AM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: > my timezone file contains Canada/Eastern > > when i type date, it tells me that its EST, not EDT lik

httpd and directories

hi all i've installed apache web server and i am puzzled as to how it can see my /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc directory. i was under the impression that by default all directory lookup begin at /var/www. so to go http://www.dahiroc.net/doc the directory /var/www/doc must exist. however in my /va

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

download the linux binary from the download page at home.netscape.com. http://home.netscape.com/download/0718100/1-en-linux2.2-4.74-complete-128_qual.html On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:01:43PM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: > is there a 128 bit encryption netscape package floating around? I cant

Re: httpd and directories

On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: > Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf > > Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ > ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc > ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. --apacheconfig ah so that's wher

compiling errors

hi all i'm having problems compiling a c++ program with g++. the errors that i get are MapCB.o: In function `cMapDisp::cMapDisp(TACTMAP_OBJECT_CLASS)': MapCB.o(.text+0x172): undefined reference to `callback_define_event(int,...)' MapCB.o(.text+0x18a): undefined reference to `callback_define_ev

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'. then put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login script for your shell. On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) : > > add this to

Re: /etc/environment

which man page do i need to learn more about the LANG and LC_LANG variables? is there a comperhensive list of env variables? On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:20:31AM +0200, Jacques Foury wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:19:13PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > > > > The only place I foun

Network Performance

hi all what tools/method would one use to evaluate the performance of a network? i'm mostly interested in tracking down bottle-necks in the network. -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal syst

Re: man is using gxditview

try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to -P less. read man man On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode > this is not nice. > > I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

this should work: tar -Ixvf your_file.tar.bz2 On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:19:58AM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I downloaded the kernel source through dselect, but I can't seem to unzip > the kernel source because it has a tar.bz2 ending. How does someone > unzip this type of file? > >

Re: man is using gxditview

09:27:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to > > -P less. read man man > > Thanks Patrick > > Can you tell me the verbatim commands to do t

Re: man is using gxditview

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:03:24AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > Uh, oh... > I opened up ~/.bashrc and found: > alias man='man -TX100 i recommend removing the line if you haven't done so already. > So, Patrick, sorry to bother you, but I now know alot more about > environmental variables

How to get ifup/ifdown source code

i'm curious to know how ifup/ifdown does it's magic. how do i get the source code for these using apt-get -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming

Re: file too large to delete

would "cp mybigfile /dev/null" work also? On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:59:36AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > >

Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Library

is anybody aware of a C library to handle 4-bit BCD encoding. thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming

4-bit type

here's my problem: i need to read a binary file 4-bits at time. is it possible to create a new type that is 4-bits wide? if so how do i go about it thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand t

gzip problem

i have a .pdf file that was gzip'd on a 64-bit Sun machine. i tried to gunzip from my linux with no luck it complained with: gunzip: myfile.pdf.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated is there a way to get around this problem. thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble

Re: whiteboard/groupboard

if your LAN is multicast capable you can run sdr which has a whiteboard application. On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:03:43PM -0500, John Plummer wrote: > Is anyone familiar with whiteboard/groupboard type of software > for use in a classroom LAN for Debian? This is to counter a MS > Net Meeting pr

chroot'd named & dpkg-sources

hi all i just found that there was a new exploit for bind. i just also finished reading Chroot-BIND HOWTO. this might be a good time to apply what i've learned. i've already created my 'named' system user acct with a /bin/false shell and /chroot/named home directory. i've copied the contents o

Bag o' Questions

hi i have three question that you may be able to help me out. 1) I'm running gnome-terminal as my xterm. The title on the window simply says 'Terminal'. Is possible to have the window title dynamically change to the current working directory. Kinda like the way emacs changes the window titl

Updating db.root

hi i'm running my own dns server from my home i would like to update my db.root file. where do i have to go get an update version of this file? is this information available from the debian web site? thanks

Re: Updating db.root

what's dig? how do i use it? On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 02:49:37AM +, Pollywog wrote: > Isn't it preferable to get the root hints using dig? > > -- > Andrew > > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:38:32PM -0400, Pat

Files in the future

hi i've got npt to work on my system and the date is now correct. however i may have created a little problem. before ntp, the date on my system was already Feb ??, 2000. most of files have a time-stamp of Feb 2000. Should I touch all the files on my system to correct the time-stamp. Are t

STL ?

all - is the STL built into gcc 2.9.x and/or egcs  or do i have to download it from SGI's website?  if it's in gcc or egcs which is better to use? thanks --  Patrick Dahiroc E-OIR Measurements Inc. TEL: 703-704-2856  

Network Security / SRP

hi all i'm trying to make my system as secure as possible, in light of recent news of networks getting broken. the first thing i did was to turn off services spawned by the inet daemon that i don't use. currently the following are the only ones running - i didn't turn them off since i don't k

Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

hi i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. If is give the commands root> apt-get update root> apt-get dist-upgrade with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this

RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato

under kernel 2.2? Thanks -Original Message- From: Brian Servis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 12/30/99 3:15 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato *- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato" > hi > &

apt-get warning

hi all apt-get occasionally gives me the error below when i do an install or and upgrade Global symbol "$idtoelt" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Web.pm line 199, <> chunk 3. debconf: failed to initialize Web frontend debconf: falling back to Gtk fronten

How to use 2 IPs and 1 machine

hi all i have 2 static IP address (actually i have 3 IP address one is assigned to a Win95 machine). i don't know the best way to utilize the resources i have. i was kinda wanting to make one IP to be used by my http server and the other to be used by my named and my mail server, but i don't

How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

hi all the time on my machine is seriously messed up - currently my machine is already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the net). all i want to do i to keep the time on my machine correct.

Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

hi all i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and commented out security. i then ran apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. the output of dist-upgrade was a little troubling. <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT

Woody Upgrade Question

are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be removed when upgrading from potato to woody? apt-get gave me the warning: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)

Woody Upgrade REMOVED sysvinit and util-linux.

This is the message that apt-get dist-upgrade gave me: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) should i install back sysvinit and util-linux after the upgrade or can i ju

dpkg-preconfig: command not found

hi all is the command dpkg-preconfig equivalent to dpkg-preconfigure? my system has the perl script dpkg-preconfigure but NOT dpkg-preconfig. can i make the symlink: dpkg-preconfig->/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure dpkg-preconfig is causing apt-get to fail because it does NOT exist. apt-get

gnome-xml & glade include files

can anyone clue me in as to which packages contains: gnome-xml/tree.h glade/glade.h thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

ice window manager not working

hi i'm using icewm for my window manager. on one of my accounts the window manager does not work i.e when i bring up gnome-terminal i cannot move it around and i don't have any virtual windows. but when i login on a different account using the same window manger everything works fine. how do i

Re: ice window manager not working

i use gdm for x manager. does gdm i still use .xsession? i thought that only xdm uses .xsession. if so what would be the corresponding file for gdm? --- Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > > hi > > > > i'm using icewm for

Re: ice window manager not working

gotten how make them. can anybody remind me how to make them? thanks --- Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > > i use gdm for x manager. does gdm i still use > > .xsession? i thought that only xdm uses .xsession. > if > >

removing directories in /usr/share/doc/

is it completely safe to simply 'rm -rf' certain directories in /usr/share/doc? i've noticed that /usr/share/doc takes up the largest disk space in my /usr partition and i hardly ever read any doc in it, since i can almost always find the doc somewhere in the net. and some packages even have the

Re: removing directories in /usr/share/doc/

> Many times, there will be specific doc packages, > i.e. this > output from "dpkg -l | grep doc" : > gnome-db-doc > gnome-dev-doc > gnome-doc-tools > gnumeric-doc > kernel-doc-2.2.20 > kernel-doc-2.4.17 > multi-gnome-terminal-doc > phpdoc > wine-doc > > Have you removed all of

initrd and kernel 2.4.17

hi all i'm in the process of upgrading my woody box to kernel 2.4.17. does 2.4.17 require initrd to boot-up? if so aside from adding kernel support for ramdisk and initrd what else should be done to create a new kernel and how memory should i allocate, by default it is 4096? is it really benefi

Adding new kernel modules

hi i've been running kernel 2.4.17 for a week now and things are great even sound is working as a module. what i want to do now is to have reiserfs as a module. is it possible to just build the desired module and not reinstall a new kernel? thanks pd ___

PPP dial-up problem

hi all, i'm having trouble connection using ppp dial-up. when i look at /var/log/ppp.log i see the following message just before the connection i taken down: Serial connection established Coulndn't attach tty to ppp unit 0: Invalid argument so it looks like the chat script succeeded, but someth

RE: PPP dial-up problem

ded you kernel 2.4? I did and > afterwards I tried to dial > up and got the same error, a search tells me the > problem is that when you > upgrade your kernel you also need to upgrade pppd. I > haven't tested it yet > but I think it will work > > > -Origina