See this post for more detail on this subject:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/msg03076.html
-Brad
bob parker wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:47, bob parker wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote:
bob parker wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote
you
quoted was correct
sg
note: 'scsi_mod' and 'ide-cd' should be loaded too.
Good luck!.
brad..
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> Lazarus Long wrote:
>
> > I don't know awk, but:
> >
> > 1) you want
> > #!/bin/awk
Actually, you probalby want /usr/bin/awk on a Debian system. "which awk"
to find out. The space shouldn't matter, although it might.
Also, i don't think that you can specify the fil
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, James Frey wrote:
> You are right, its /usr/bin/awk. Now, with ./respchk I get:
>
> awk: 1: unexpected character '.'
When i was testing a similar script, i got the same error whenever i would
try to specify an actual filename inside the script. That's why i
menti
It's in the kernel docs, Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt tells all
about the Amiga Fast File System.
Note that you may have to recompile the kernel, i don't know if that
filesystem is included in the Debian default.
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Martyn Bampton wrote:
> Hey all,
> I've just got Debian w
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote:
> Try to look on the unstable section.
Here's the obligatory warning: unstable is called unstable for a reason.
If you can deal with things possibly breaking, go ahead and use it (and
file bug reports!). If you can't handle things possibly brea
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Martin Waller wrote:
> I'm trying to learn automake/autoconf and was wondering if there's a
> standard way to link in various X11 libraries (X11, Xt, lesstif, etc.).
>
> I can't find any info on that in the docs I've got.
i'm trying to learn those too. i sort of have it work
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is in potato, in the libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1
package. Slink has libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 (in the libstdc++2.9 package),
which may not be compatible.
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, John Foster wrote:
> I recently installed a Code-Crusader.rpm package via alien conversion to
> .deb. It
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally get an X server to run, but still seem to have a lot to work
> out. It seems that I am assigned a windows manager (or none at all) that
> is not so desirable. The xterminal in X has no title bar, so the window
> cannot be dragged a
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Where and how can I modify which file so that every time I use the force
> reboot key-combo, it actually send out the command "shutdown -r now"?
> Thanks!
It's in /etc/inittab, a line something like this:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> Hi. I didn't select doc-linux-text. How come it is downloaded?
>
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installe
Did you file a bug report? At the least, it would let the maintainer know
that someone doesn't like the default setup.
Also, you could easily install a different vi. nvi, for example, comes
with a rather basic default configuration. i believe elvis is intended to
be more featured than a 'standard'
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> There is a /usr/lib/elvis directory that contains documentation and
> trash (MS-DOS stuff). There is also a /usr/doc/elvis directory.
That comes from the elvis package. The MS-DOS stuff is probably because
Debian tends to distribute all the docu
IIRC, if you have your timezone set up correctly (use tzconfig) it will
automatically take care of daylight savings time.
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'd like to have a box setup so that it's hardware clock is set to gmt,
> while in software the box presents the time in the local tim
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:25:55AM -0700, Ecotech Technologies, L.L.C. wrote:
> [spam]
>
> isn't there some way of stopping this spam? can't posting ability
> be restricted to those who subscribe to the list?
It's not _all_ bad, because of this (fr
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> Is there any way of intercepting the horrible PC case beep and
> sending a nice sample to /dev/dsp instead? I really hate the
> grunt my case generates on tab completion in bash and so on.
>From the Sound-HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO on your s
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian May wrote:
> >2. In the future, if I decide to use my 128 MB partition on hdc for
> >something else, how should I go about that? Will everything break if
> >I unmount /lib?
>
> Yes, everything will break (for all practical purposes - see below for
> true technical ex
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> Is there any simple way to toggle hold on all installed packages?
Put the cursor on the line "--- Up to date installed packages ---" and
press '='. You can do the same with the line "--- Updated packages (newer
version is available) ---"
To turn
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Since I installed slink, I cannot print. lpr.log shows an error
> message "lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=13)" but when I try to
> print, as root, using lpr > /dev/lp1, nothing comes out of
> the printer.
Given that error message, it sounds a
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian May wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:34:23AM -0500, Brad wrote:
>
> It was my assumption that the original poster hadn't made any changes
> to the old /lib directory - hence the only change required
> is to remove the fstab entry and reboot...
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Well, I don't know how and why, but I am now able to mount the floppy
> module on the system. Strange thing is, I can only mount the Debian boot
> disk as a msdos disk, although I have to mount a Redhat boot disk as ext2
> disk.
This is normal, it a
On 6 Jun 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> * Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > # Mailing list advertising policy
> > #
> > # This policy is intended to fight mailing-list "spamming".
> > #
> > # The Debian Linux mailing lists accept comm
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> I just spent the day compiling various versions of the 2.0.36 kernel and
> really don't want to mess with 2.2. (I did once before -- and, long story,
> but they don't call the unstable distribution "unstable" for nothing...)
Kernel versions 2.2.x are su
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> Good people--
>
> I built a 2.0.36 kernel today so I could have SCSI support, among other
> things. In fact, I did it a few times. Each time, I found that I had lost
> support for my NE2000 Ethernet card, which I had previously installed with
> modconf.
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
>
> > i certainly hope it is! You'd have to ask the mailing list maintainer to
> > find out for sure...
>
> What's the maintainer's address?
After about 10 seconds of looking
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> Since I upgraded ssh from 1.26 to 1.27-1 on potato, ssh won't forward
> X11 connection anymore!! I have to downgraded back to 1.26
>
> I think this is a problem with the package.
I'm using ssh version 1.2.27-1.1 (haven't seen version 1.27-1 around
a
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Monte Copeland wrote:
> I have a couple of unrelated questions to ask about X11.
>
> 1. What is the name of the program that allows one to take a snapshot of
> your desk top. I have used it before but I can not remember the name. I am
> trying to
> convince a potential con
Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
i hope to get a lot of opinions!
Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and
things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One
partition for swap, one for everything else.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Orion the Hunter wrote:
> OK, you asked for it...
>
> I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for
> exaple, debian potato).
Actually, i'm running potato right now. Haven't had too many troubles with
it yet, submitted bug reports (usually with solu
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:
> There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail.
Not that great. Several docs and HOWTOs mention splitting off /usr and/or
/var and/or /home and/or /tmp, but none recommends sizes that are at all
useful. Most of the size reco
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Is ssh a more secure replacement for telnet, or what?
Basically, yes. ssh uses strong encryption to secure your connection. Just
about any connection between your computer and the remote one can be
forwarded over the ssh encrypted channel (X is a common one)
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:03:39 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition bel
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> >1024th cyl f
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, now I got a little further: I typed /dev/hda and dselect asks:
> Enter filesystem type for dev/hda:
> What's linuxian for a dos filesystem?
> Vitux
msdos if it's a plain DOS partition, vfat if has Win32 long filenames.
IIRC, vfat will work even
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:53:30 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> >Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes
> >a long time to download a whole Debian install on that.
>
> When I first installed Debian I had a 28.8k connecti
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all,
> I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have kernel 2.2.9.
> The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit key and was generating the
> entire morning?
> What is wrong?
> Thanks, Paulo Henr
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about wasting a bit of space on the / partition... it's
> probably the most difficult to fix when you run out of space, so go ahead
> and give it 300-400M. Mine is 500M and runs about 24% used (/home
> included).
But i'm not going to p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> /var is awful large unless you're spooling huge print jobs or running
> your own news server. You could probably reduce it.
I've been hearing that alot. I think i will reduce it, probably 500-700M?
My concern was that i would have enough for /tmp a
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get -f dist-upgrade
>
> as per the README. All went well with the download, but part way through
> the config KDE locked up on me. I couldn't do anything. Ctrl-alt-F#, etc
> wouldn't get me out of X, and I was really bummed, cu
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I have a AWE 64 that's PNP. From Windows, the resources it's using are:
Great first start! Numbers are important (:
> I've tried to follow the instructions for setting up sound, but without
> success. I've been able to compile kernels (pre-2.2.0) under ot
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote:
> I'm currently using slink with the default kernel, and am currently
> downloading packages to update to potato, and I was wondering if
> there is a default kernel for potato like there's a default 2.0.36 kernel
> for slink. I tried the "linux" kerne
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> Hi!
> I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure
> script does not find esd.
> I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local.
You can get esd from your preferred Debian mirror, just install the
packages esound
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect.
> nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from
> nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to
> overwrite a file in package gnome-pim. Is there a way
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> /dev/modem is a "generic" term for where your modem actually is. You
> can solve this in one of two ways: 1) make a symlink named /dev/modem
> that points to your actual modem (not recommended, because the system
> then can't place a lock on the modem to prev
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Mark Wright wrote:
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always
> results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot
On 9 Jun 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> Brad writes:
> > According to Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source, an
> > application is supposed to follow the symlink and lock the actual device
> > (as well as the symlink). In this way, it doesn't cause the problem you
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, matthew lamb wrote:
> where can i get debian source code for the kernal so i can port it to
> another platform??
The source code for everything in Debian (as well as the diffs to
debianize) are on just about every mirror, in a directory something like
/debian/dists/slink/main
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> 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?
I've just been asking this question in the p
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> Ok, I see. I don't know whether windows is able to start at all if it's not
> sitting on the boot drive. As far as I know that's not possible. Correct me
> someone if I am wrong.
i have two IDE drives, Linux with LILO on the first and Windows 98 on th
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Raj Manandhar wrote:
> Is there any way of trying out the libc2.1 package from potato without
> upgrading everything to potato? I tried a simple dpkg -i on the .deb,
> but one needs apt>0.3, and that apt requires libc2.1.
Well, you could always grab the sources from potato an
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> I have the slink version of libesd0 and esound installed, but their
> version is not sufficient.
> The debs from the unstable branch seem to be linked to libc2.1...
Ah! i didn't stop to think of that...
Since you already have esound compiled from
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation,
Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the
entire partition is using, sort of useless unless you're simply resizing
partitions without changing the file
On 11 Jun 1999, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> http://ftp.debian.org/
Also http://http.us.debian.org (and probably matching hosts for other
countries)
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Well, since I already have my filesystem "scattered" into different
> partitions, `df' is useful. But yes, I should have said `du /dir' (for
> every directory we want to keep in a separate partition) for someone whose
> system is all in one partition.
d
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > As root use the command,
> > shutdown -h now
> >
> > See "man shutdown" for more details. When I use this command I still
> > have to press the "off/on" button so this might not be exactly the
> > answer to your ques
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> You have to run xf86config to configure the X once you installed all the
> needed files. That will produce the XF86Config
> Andrew
XF86Setup is a GUI version that will also produce the XF86Config file, but
some people have been having problems with the
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Ingo Hohmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there something about soundblaster support that I should
> have known by now? Seems that my irq, ... settings get lost
> when I compile soundblaster support as a module. (Sound works
> when compiled in, but I get "device is busy" error, when I
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, David Karlin wrote:
> Hi,
> I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable
> connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the
> same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems.
Just thought i'd throw in a word. My card (a "3Com 3c9
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > On my system, i put a script in /etc/init.d to automatically insert the
> > proper sound modules on boot (after isapnp runs and configures the card)
>
> Brad,
>
> would you mind sharing
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 1999 10:42 PM, Mark Wagnon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Brad wrote:
> > > On my system, i put a script in /etc/init.d to automatically insert the
> > > proper sound modules on boot (after
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Gareth wrote:
> I have 2 LINUX systems (one redhat one DEBIAN )that I recently
> upgraded to kernel 2.2.10 the DEBIAN one will not compile unless I have
> SMP enabled. if I don't have it enabled I get an error and make exits with
> an error 1.
What's the specific error
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> The correct way to setup what programs
> run when you start X is to make an .xsession file, like this:
>
> echo "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker" > ~/.xsession
> chmod +x ~/.xsession
If you only want to change the default window manager (and you have r
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Frankie wrote:
> Brad wrote:
>
> > On my system, i put a script in /etc/init.d to automatically insert the
> > proper sound modules on boot (after isapnp runs and configures the card)
>
> Brad, man modconf - does that for you.
How about "man
i
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, jason and jill wrote:
> I tried replacing smail with exim, and got same error message.
One thing to try is to incluse localhost as one of your local domains. In
eximconfig, answer 'localhost' in addition to any other addresses you may
have in answer to the "Does this system h
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sander Balkenende wrote:
> hi
> I have problems starting win98 on hdb1 with Lilo. When trying to start
> win (shift, dos), nothing happens. Linux (hda1) starts fine.
I have the exact same setup (unless you have the new release of '98), even
the same partition numbers. First,
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> After compiling kernel 2.2.10 and trying to install new software, I got:
>
> make all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/ksnuffle-0.2'
> Making all in libpcap-0.4
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pollywog/ksnuffle-0.2/libpcap-0.4'
>
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jean-Philippe Gu?rard wrote:
> * Use the Netscape installer (from contrib) to install netscape. To do
> this, you need to copy you Netscape binary to /tmp/, and probably
> to rename it a bit for the installer to recognise it).
s/binary/tarfile from ftp.netsca
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Now I can't even find smbclient, and I can't find what package contains
> it.
Looks like it's in the smbclient package... You may have to look in
unstable, i don't remember if slink has the proper versions or not.
> My basic questions are these:
> 1) Do I
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 10:57:33AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
> > You shouldn't be running 2.2.3, there are some filesystem corruption
> > problems in the early 2.2.x releases. Upgrade to 2.2.10, that should
> > be better.
>
> I upgraded to 2.2.
Are you using StarOffice 5.01 or 5.1? There is quite a difference, namely
that 5.1 works and 5.01 doesn't.
There was quite the discussion on the list a few months ago about
StarOffice 5, you may want to check the archives at
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
On 20 Jun 1999, Pierfrancesco Cac
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> >
> > > 4) Will the smbmount (or smbmount-2.2.x) command work over a dial-up
> > > connection? The dial-up connection is provided by my university, and
&
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> I had posted previously:
>
> > As of kernel 2.3.6, I have a total boot freeze and the message echoed on
> > screen is:
> >
> > 'init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment
> > from shared object: cannot alloacte memory'
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On 20 Jun 1999 23:43:06 +0200, Rui Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >other=/dev/hdb1
> >label=win
> >map-drive=0x80
> > to=0x81
> >map-drive=0x81
> > to=0x80
>
> Interesting to see that this works for W9x.
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Barry Kauler wrote:
> I've only been on this list a few weeks.
> One thing I've noticed when someone asks a question about installing
> a driver -- network, sound, etc. -- back comes the answer "you have to
> recompile the kernel".
> But, you don't, in most cases, as they are
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Joerg Ott wrote:
> Hi,
> how can I check if new mail has arrived on a pop server WITHOUT logging
> in? Netscape does smth like this, checks for new mail every n minutes and
> does not require a password before you actually download the mail. I want
> to do this directly from
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> A couple months ago somebody from this list got permission to distribute
> the modified Pine binary in .deb format. He made this file available for
> ftp. Does anybody know where I can get this file? I checked the list
> archives and found lots of
Subjects are a good thing ;)
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Corey Carroll wrote:
> Greetings..I purchased Debian 2.1 from the UTArlington bookstore. I
> thought that it was 2.0 originally, because that's what the manual said,
> but then the people who work there opened it up, and it has 4 2.1 disks:
> 2 b
I forgot to mention, you need the dpkg-dev package installed, as well as
the -dev packages for the needed libraries. Sorry!
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> i don't know about a binary deb, but the source packages are available
> from your favorite Debian mirror, in the deb
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, scratch wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
>
> > > /sbin/ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d" " -f1
> >
> > nice, now can you do that with a perl one-liner? :)
>
> Something like this?
> perl -e 'print (`/sbin/ifconfig` =~ /inet addr:(.*?)\s/);'
Be
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Rahsheen Porter wrote:
> Portsentry will block any host that tries to scan you
Does it detect spoofed packets? For example, if someone detected you're
using portsentry (because their scan didn't work?), could they spoof
packets to make it look like your gateway machine was sc
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Tomas Meyaos wrote:
> Greetings everyone.
hi!
> is there any movie editing software available for linux?? I dont need
> anything complicated just need to
> sequence a bunch of pictures into an mpeg movie or something like
> that.no effects just sequencing a bunch
On 21 Jun 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for
> Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available
> downloads (neither free, nor "Plus").
>
> Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion?
Technically
Oooo, dangerous ground... Hopefully this doesn't spark a holy war ;)
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several
> handy dock apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop
> environment. Also, Windowmaker looks good! So
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
> I'm running slink but got wmaker 0.60 and compiled it. After installing
> it i tryed to run it but it would crash continually. After looking at
> the console i found that it was looking for a menu.hook that was
> referenced in WMRootMenu. The
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote:
> I'm wanting to rebuild the kernel, but when I try to "make menuconfig"
> I get an error like "no rule for menuconfig". "make config" likewise
> doesn't work.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
Sanity check: You are in the base directory of a kernel source tre
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> Would you mind checking? The information on that tab doesn't actually
> apply to the filesystem itself, but to the disk I/O driver. W9x says
> the filesystem is 32 bit if it has completely replaced the BIOS disk
> drivers with its own, protected mode
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, eric a. Farris wrote:
> i downloaded the source for mpg123-0.59r and am attempting to compile it
> with esd support (make linux-esd). the compile begins smoothly, then
> stops with the following error:
>
> audio_esd.o: In function `audio_open':
> audio_esd.o(.text+0x17e): und
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> Yes, I know how to build packages.
Great! i posted the directions in case you didn't, and for anyone else
watching the thread who didn't.
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 01:50:55PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote:
> >
> > does anyone else using them have root menu weirdness like this:
> >
> > Debian
> > Debian -> Debian
> > Apps
> > ...(etc)...
> > Workspace -> Worksp
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, richard wrote:
> A problem has recently started compliling custom kerenels. I had to
> rebuild my machine (long story)
> and now the custom kernels are't build properly. The line I use to build
> them is
>
> make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.Y kernel_image
>
> where X is usually
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink
> distribution:
Well, i'll answer the ones i can figure out...
> 1) There isn't a group 'shutdown' to whom add people allowed to shutdown,
> while I often find a ne
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > What if /etc/environment comprised of a series of variable=value statements
> > that each shell would read and use to set the environment? Doing it that
> > way would require each shell
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Qux Foobar wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a problem getting Netscape off the ftp.debian.org site. I'm using
> dselect and have both stable and unstable distributions as sources.
> Basically, all Netscape stuff depends on netscape-base-4, but there is no
> such thing (as ds
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > I seem to be having some difficulty setting up my modem under Debian;
> > wvdial gives an input/output error and dies, and ppp, which I've set up
> > with all the appropriate parameters, doesn't do much at all. Any ideas,
> > please?
>
> wvdial does
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Note: I am sending this email from home. Please Cc me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> in your replies.
>
> * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is
> bouncing.
>
> www:~ $ echo "testing. Please ignore" | sendmail -v
> [E
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:57:09PM -0500, did Brad write:
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > > * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is
> > > bouncing.
> &g
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Starkes wrote:
> Will Lowe wrote:
> >
> > > I'll assume you are talking about the app icons. Except modifying the
> > > attributes for every app to not show an app icon, you cannot get rid off
> > > them. Here's what I do to at least make it `look' like the aren't there:
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian Greenfield wrote:
> I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I
> can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and
> Select work OK, and Install will fetch the required files
> but won't configure them. The error message given is:
>
> >/usr/lib/dpkg
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, David Densmore wrote:
> When I try to login to my normal user account I get this message:
>
> Unable to cd to "/home/dden"
>
> I can still log in as root, but I don't know how to fix the problem.
> I used the adduser command to create a new account and couldn't
> get into th
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