make menuconfig, xconfig

1998-10-08 Thread Jose Antonio Jaria Pano
Hola a todos, he instalado la nueva Debia 2.0 con la instalacion Basic (25 Mb) y en el dselect añado los kernel-source de la 2.0.34, el paquete bin86 por lo del enlazador y el gpm pal raton (ando un poco justo de duro para pruebas). El caso es que cuando tras reconfigurar el kernel con make

Tamaño maximo del nucleo

1998-10-08 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola! Ayer hablando con un amigo, este me comento que intentando recompilar el nucleo le salia un mensaje que decia algo asi como: Imposible crear el nucleo Tamaño max. sobrepasado Demasiados modulos (No estoy seguro de que esto sea asi exactamente) Y es que esta cargando muchos modulos. Las

Re: Tamaño maximo del nucleo

1998-10-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:26:04AM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Hola! Ayer hablando con un amigo, este me comento que intentando recompilar el nucleo le salia un mensaje que decia algo asi como: Imposible crear el nucleo Tamaño max. sobrepasado Demasiados modulos (No estoy

smail

1998-10-08 Thread Fernando
Hola de nuevo: Sigo sin poder enviar mensajes desde dentro de la red local con smail. Con Netscape no tengo ningun problema.( servidor smtp.intranet.ts.es ) He intentado configurar smail poniendo este servidor como smarthost y tampoco funciona. smail se ejecuta a traves de inetd como sugiere

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-08 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
El mié, 07 oct 1998, A. de Miguel escribió: Resulta que como resultado de la actualización a debian2 borré mi /etc/ppp y ahora al intentar rehacerlo segun la spanish infobia How-to me al procesar mi /etc/ppp/options me da un error raro: unrecognized option +ua con lo que no puedo conectarme la

Re: Debianizar software

1998-10-08 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Quizás te sirva saber que el último Linux Actual incluye un artículo sobre esto (número 5), aunque es posible que no te sirva mucho (porque tarda en llegar a Sudamérica) según tengo entendido. Otras posibilidades son la traducción que tengo de un documento que hay en el servidor

po mi mala cabesa me cargue /dev/lp1

1998-10-08 Thread A. de Miguel
Un accidental rm /dev/lp1 hizo el trabajo sucio. Y ahora, natural, no puedo imprimir. ¿Como puedo recuperarlo, escribirlo, configurarlo?? GRacias. -A

Re: smail

1998-10-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 10:44:35AM +, Fernando wrote: Sigo sin poder enviar mensajes desde dentro de la red local con smail. Con Netscape no tengo ningun problema.( servidor smtp.intranet.ts.es ) Hace rato no configuro smail, y a la primera oportunidad que tenga lo quito de casa, asi que

Re: po mi mala cabesa me cargue /dev/lp1

1998-10-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:45:21PM +0100, A. de Miguel wrote: Un accidental rm /dev/lp1 hizo el trabajo sucio. Y ahora, natural, no puedo imprimir. ¿Como puedo recuperarlo, escribirlo, configurarlo?? $ /dev/MAKEDEV lp Marcelo

El make zImage en Debian 2.0 falla...

1998-10-08 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Saludos. Recientemente he instalado la Debian 2.0. Para configurarlo todo como a mi me gusta desinstalé primero todas las fuentes de todos las versiones de los kernels para que no hubiese conflictos. Luego instale los fuentes del kernel ver 34. Pues nada, hago un make dep; make clean; make

Perfiles de instalación

1998-10-08 Thread Petrus
Una vez que se ha instalado la Debian 2.0 con la elección de un perfil determinado, ¿cómo se puede volver a instalar mediante el mismo sistema para el caso de que se desee cambiar de perfil o simplemente repetir la misma instalación? Gracias por anticipado, Petrus.

Re: Debianizar software

1998-10-08 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Otras posibilidades son la traducción que tengo de un documento que hay en el servidor de www de Debian (en el Rincón del Desarrollador), aunque habla sobre debmake y éste ya no se usa mucho (de hecho no se recomienda su uso). ¿Y qué

Re: El make zImage en Debian 2.0 falla...

1998-10-08 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found Instala el paquete bin86. -- Jesús Rodrigo e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re(2): Help!

1998-10-08 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can get to a text virtual console from X with Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F6. Alt+F7 will usually get you back to X, since X runs on the first free virtual console, and Debian (like most distributions) runs 'getty's on consoles 1-6 by default. Thanks... but I went

Re: aic7xxx parity error

1998-10-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | After upgrading to Debian 2.0, I see the foll kernel message every now | and then: | | kernel scsi0:0:0:0 Parity error during phase Data-In | | Is there a patch for this? I never saw this with Debian 1.3.1 | SCSI controller is Adaptec 2940UW Hmm. Seems

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Blazej Sawionek wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: [snip] I drag the 'location' icon to the bookmarks menu to the left. It looks like it shrinks, then it opens the menu, and there is a placement bar that follows the mouse. one click, and the bookmark is dropped at the

Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-08 Thread mwb
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful information)? You'll need to get ghostscript from the slink distribution. This has support for the 'generic' hpdj

Re: Help cant config kernel

1998-10-08 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 17:22:37 +1000, Antony Burrows wrote: HI, I have just installed debian and am trying to set up my sound. I was following the instructions on how to config the kernel and logged on as root, went to /usr/src and typed make xconfig ( i was running x windows), i also tried with

Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if there are any known problems wrt the cd_upgrade.sh script in /dists/hamm/main/upgrade-i386. Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks.

Re: vi problems?

1998-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Person, Rod wrote: Hey all, I was attempting to install siag, and the installition call for me to do the following... vi mktop.dr now this is the second thing I tried to install that called for me to use vi and everytime I do it print the file to the screen...I look at it

Installing shared Windoze executables on a Samba share

1998-10-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, I've got a Samba server here that runs great! I've got an NT machine on my laptop and I can interface with the Samba server directly in any way I want, except for one thing: When I try to install a program (Visio) as a network shared app, the installation always tells me I've determined

apt-get broke netstd

1998-10-08 Thread Pat O'Brien
While doing an upgrade with apt-get, it put netstd in such an inconsistant state that I can neither uninstall the old one, nor reinstall it. I can't install the new either. It seems to be looking for Debiannet.pm in @INC and can't find it. How do I rectify this conundrum? Pat

Re: Adaptec aic7XXX driver

1998-10-08 Thread Greg Norris
Look at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/. Also, there's a mailing-list available... /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx has instructions for subscribing. On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Timm Gleason wrote: Does anyone know if there is a specific site for distribution of

Only root can print?

1998-10-08 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
I am using Linux/m68k (hamm) and am having trouble printing. Only root seems able to print. When i try as my normal account lpr responds with 'lpr: can't create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq'. lpq claims that no daemon is running. When I am root everything works perfectly. I am using lpr5.9-29 in

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Greetings. I saw that a few people have already answered your question, but I thought I would give you a little more to go on to help you get started. I've compiled a list of linux sites and organized them in a way that hopefully caters more to the beginners.

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have a floppy with several text files on it, first you need to mount the floppy: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt [...] Note that you can install the mtools package, and read and write DOS floppies without having to mount and unmount them. Sincerely, Ray

Re: Will Apple Studio Display work w/ x86 Hamm?

1998-10-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Eric House wrote: Anybody know if there are any problems using a flat panel/LCD display, and Apple's in particular, with Debian? I don't even know if I'll need a different driver... Well, if it plugs into a standard video card, it probably mimics a regular monitor as far

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all!!! I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to graphics mode. All the

Re: network

1998-10-08 Thread djthomp
Hi Zheng, That is the same card that I have. I does indeed work under Linux. The advice I can offer from personal experience is that when you are either doing a fresh install and you are told to install modules into the kernel, or when you configuring the kernel to compile it, you need

Re: Hardware?

1998-10-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but wonder which one can be used under X. In addition to looking at commercial solutions like Xi and

Re: HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no matter what I try. If it's the scanner I'm thinking of (8bit grayscale scanner) it needs a proprietary

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your machine again without

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
De Jay wrote FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor found that, contrary to

Re: locked keyboard messed screen

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
In a pinch, here's a few rescue commands: if you're remote, to kill the X server without rebooting: killall -9 startx If you're at the console: ctrl+alt+backspace To put your console's virtual terminals back into a sane state: stty sane /dev/tty1 (etc.) Sometimes, I have

SupraMax 56i Voice PCI modem

1998-10-08 Thread James Dietrich
This morning I tried to install Debian on a system with one of these modems and was unsuccessful in creating a PPP connection. The BIOS initializes the modem to IRQ 9, and Win95 says it's on COM2. So I used /dev/ttyS1 as the device name and used setserial to change the IRQ to 9, but still no

enlightenment

1998-10-08 Thread Default Debian Reader
I know this is supposed to be a demo and such but i was wondering if anyone else had my same problem. When i start enlightenment it starts up good and fine and shows me the screen but then goes into this loop playing audio sounds trying to initiallize then it starts spitting out some error

Re: Help!

1998-10-08 Thread Christopher J. Stevenson
Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to change my config? PS: The mouse is an IntelliMouse. I specified this. Any known

Re: invisible network card

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
i had a lot of trouble with mine at first also... so i ran the dos-based eeprom setup program for it. i used that to change the card's software settings to the irq and base-i/o i wanted.. after that, i finished installing it in my sleep. you can get the program from intel's ftp site, but if you

RE: enlightenment

1998-10-08 Thread Shaleh
Actually Enlightenment does not play sounds, it uses esound to play them. So please contact the maintainer of esound for further help. On 08-Oct-98 Default Debian Reader wrote: I know this is supposed to be a demo and such but i was wondering if anyone else had my same problem. When i start

Xview/Openlook applications ...

1998-10-08 Thread nebu
Hello, I was wondering whether anyone here uses openlook and whether they have ported the many interesting xview/openlook applications that exist (or know of Debian compatible ports). I've found a site at http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/xview_main.html which has libc5 binaries but some of them

Re: Dselect Location of Files

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Brian Armstrong wrote: I am trying to setup Debian Linux 2.0.34. I want to use the deb packages for Netscape and StarOffice. I have the files on a CD from Cheap*Bytes and can download it them from the Debian ftp site. I need to know the following: What directory

Re: locked keyboard messed screen

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I having some troubles to reset keyb and screen of a linux server. I can connect to it via ssh/telnet but can't reset its local login prompt. The keyboard is locked, crtl+alt+func didn't work; the screen is messed with several

Re: HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Ray, Thanks for the input. Some things are making a lot more sense here. I'll make comments below. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I

Re: Help!

1998-10-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: At 05:04 PM 10/7/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to

beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Aldinga Library
I have an NEC powermate 486 sx-25i , 4mb ram, 120mb hd and floppy drive only. I use the internet at the local public library. I have done a bare minimum install of 8 floppies by internet ftp. What commands do you use to view the manual and information pages that come with the system install. At

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-08 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm man cp Thanks Wilson

Re: DOCUMENTATION: Tutorial/FAQ for APT?

1998-10-08 Thread Ian Stuart
Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: I understand that an Apt command-line and gui client are available. Are these in Slink? There is no GUI client as yet (and won't be for a while yet, I predict..) The package is part of slink. If you ftp to ftp.debian.org (or, preferably, your nearest Mirror), look in

Help need on man pages

1998-10-08 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm man cp Thanks Wilson

Hp deskjet

1998-10-08 Thread Mans Joling
Dear Sir, How do I install my HP Deskjet500 under linux Kind Regards Mans Joling

Re: Hp deskjet

1998-10-08 Thread \J.H.M.Dassen\ \J.H.M.Dassen\
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:25:53AM +0200, Mans Joling wrote: How do I install my HP Deskjet500 under linux Using a printer cable :-) Seriously though, install the magicfilter package. It is fairly easy to set up, and allows you to print all kinds of files using via the lpr command. HTH, Ray

HELP!! binaries not executed

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
My question is a result of problems explained in another email. They concer a deleded root partition. My question has to do with binaries which are there can be seen can be read but cannot be executed. for example # /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/less : No such file o directory The same happens to

Re: Help need on man pages

1998-10-08 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm or man cp You need the manpages package (manpages_1.19-1.deb) , the man-dbpackage

Re: Hardware?

1998-10-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but wonder which one can be used under X. Also what's the better buy for the money, Pentium II or K6 II? If you are into stuff like raytracing or

boot floppies (july 21 1998) error ?

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
I am wondering whether the boot floppies in curent are ok. the rescue disk and drivers isk is working fine but when the base system gets installed and after all the floppies have been read (so no floppy eliability issue) the installation exits with an error. The same happens when installation

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-08 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users because foo# createuser Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow createuser: database access failed. foo# The docs are not helping. What is the necessary steps to

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Rodrigo Moya
X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your machine again without

Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I shutdown my computer (slink), turned it off, moved it 6 inches, plugged a printer cable in and turned it back on. It now can't find the network. Dmesg reveals something like initialising eth0 ne: can't find any PCI cards specify io=0xNNN for ISA cards. I had done this, 'cos

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Kent West hat gesagt: // Kent West wrote: If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've got installed? In other

Re: boot floppies (july 21 1998) error ?

1998-10-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: I am wondering whether the boot floppies in curent are ok. the rescue disk and drivers isk is working fine but when the base system gets installed and after all the floppies have been read (so no floppy eliability issue) the installation exits with an

KDM behaving very funny...

1998-10-08 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi guys, I had my system perfectly up and running for yuite a while, but suddenly my KDM doesn't want to start up any more and even crashes my sytem everytime I try to run it. It keeps on switching between graphics- and text-mode every 2 seconds, I can't even switch consoles. [Ctlr][Alt][Del] is

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not a Debian package but is found on Sunsite. It saves the files in a directory in your home directory for a configurable amount of days. I installed it and really like it. There is just

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi Mattew! On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, I shutdown my computer (slink), turned it off, moved it 6 inches, plugged a printer cable in and turned it back on. It now can't find the network. Dmesg reveals something like initialising eth0 ne: can't find any PCI

OOPS, sorry wrong list

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
I intended to send this to the debian.user-de list. Please forgive me. Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _

Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi all! My provider gave me a timeserver adress. What can I do with it under Linux? Jens

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
snippety Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: ne io=0x300 Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted a timebomb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Below
Hi Jens, you could use the time server to set your PC clock. Look in the man pages for xntpd (I don't know how to do it...) Ciao Michael

who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # #No such file or directory# Where do I get the talk daemon from? a grep of contents-i386.gz doesn't seem to help either. Sorry,

SOLVED Re: who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # #No such file or directory# Where do I get the talk daemon from? Hmm - talk and

xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Person, Rod
As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use kdm

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:36:11PM -0700, Aldinga Library wrote: I have an NEC powermate 486 sx-25i , 4mb ram, 120mb hd and floppy drive only. I use the internet at the local public library. I have done a bare minimum install of 8 floppies by internet ftp. What commands do you use to view

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-08 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again Matthew On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: snippety Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: ne io=0x300 Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted a timebomb? This trick may work now, but as it is not documented in

ATI Xpert98 x setup

1998-10-08 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I'm trying to get this setup properly, with only limited success ATM. Here is the devices section: Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D Rage II+DVD VideoRam8192 Is this right for the ATI

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-08 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Jens: Yes -- see xntp3 Peter -Original Message- From: Jens Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 7:48 AM Subject: Timeserver? Hi all! My provider gave me a timeserver adress. What can I do with it under

DebianNet.pm

1998-10-08 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I upgrade some packages yesterday and found a problem with the above module. Some *.postint script tried to include it from /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 but it's installed at /usr/lib/perl5. This broke my upgrade and was solved only with a ln -s to the right location. Is

meskes@usa.net

1998-10-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I don't know how much you want to spend, so I can't give you an exact idea but... I was just doing some looking for my father who wanted to buy a new computer for about $1500. You can get more computer for less money in this ball park from the K6-2 processors. The K6-2-350 benchmarks about the

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the

RS6000 MCA distribution

1998-10-08 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi! Has ANYONE got a faint IDEA where to get A IBM RS6000 Microchannel - RISC linux ?? It is mentioned in the introduction to MCA linux in www.linux.org - I didnt find more .. ;-( Thanks Anton -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ :Anton J.

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Person, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase

HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
This email explains the problems I had with my deleted root partition George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW:

Re: Greenbush

1998-10-08 Thread Linh Dang
That was in April... And I'm still waiting for ...11 PAID editions of Debian :-(( --- Start of forwarded message --- message: inbox_19980501 8 date: Mon Apr 6 14:38:00 1998 to:Linh (L.) Dang :6X21 (BNR) from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately the machine keeps rebooting after Linux... I tried creating a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help. Any other ideas? Nico -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (PSDC-B/DNSE-B) Sint

Re: SOLVED Re: who exorcised my talk daemon?

1998-10-08 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:04:20PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, When I try and ytalk someone on my machine, I get: # No talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk # #No such file or directory

X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Christian Lavoie
I've just started initiating myself to Linux, and I have a few questions installing the XWindows system. My relevant system specs are: Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx accelerator 3D card Azura JEN0B00 monitor Here are my questions: 1) Running

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: De Jay wrote FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap), it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned. Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? yes, I had a coprocessor. I believe you

Re: dhcpcd

1998-10-08 Thread WERNER Péter
Hi! I've also had problems dealing with this package: dpkg: error processing dhcpcd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dhcpcd Anyone have any ideas? Try to run the post-installation script by hand.

Can't reach the list

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] notifying me that my fax hasn't been sent! I didn't even mention faxaway anywhere. What's going on? Really confused,

Re: [Debian] Installing debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT

1998-10-08 Thread Remo Badii
Maybe you have himem.sys installed (and loadhigh) in DOS. If yes, disable them. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group |

Re: Can't reach the list

1998-10-08 Thread Brent McMillan
I have the exact thing happen, but I think my message gets through any way. On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi, everytime I send a mail to the list I get a mail back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: SMTP import error #-5 Yesterday I even got a mail from [EMAIL

Setup problem--can't load network card driver

1998-10-08 Thread Gardner, Jon L
I'm trying to load 2.0 via NFS, so I have to install and configure the network card driver etc., and I can get all the way down the install list; however, when I try to install the NIC driver into the kernel, I get an error message: (yadda yadda) init_module: Device or resource busy I've tried

Re: help getting started with postgreSQL

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Shaleh wrote: Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users because foo# createuser Connection to database 'template1' failed. FATAL 1: SetUserId: user root is not in pg_shadow createuser: database access failed. foo# The docs are not helping. What is

completely strange system time....

1998-10-08 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange system time: my clock reports: 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 and a correctly working host: 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date Thu Oct 8 16:17:29 CEST 1998 that's a bit strange how do i get it

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-08 Thread Immanuel Yap
Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm man cp Install the man-db package. Noel

Re: Hp deskjet

1998-10-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Mans Joling wrote: Dear Sir, How do I install my HP Deskjet500 under linux Kind Regards Mans Joling Install the magicfilter package, run magicfilterconfig (I think this runs automatically when you install the package) and select dj500. I would suggest that you get the

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:01:03 -0700 Aldinga Library writes: [...] The system clock is about two hours incorrect. Logged in as root, I have tried setting the system clock with the date command but the system clock goes back to the old time when I reboot. How do I set the system clock and

Re: Is PPP needed for ISDN?

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:44:45 +0200 Remo Badii writes: Dear Debs, 1) is PPP support needed for ISDN (which uses, as the documentation says, syncPPP instead)? At the moment, I have PPP as a module in the kernel and I am about to try an ISDN connection. You don't need PPP for ISDN. 2)

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:01:16 -0500 Kent West writes: If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've got installed?

Re: X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:47:35AM -0400, Christian Lavoie wrote: I've just started initiating myself to Linux, and I have a few questions installing the XWindows system. My relevant system specs are: Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons Logitech mice rule ;) S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card

Installing Debian 2.0 from hard disk (machine has no CD)

1998-10-08 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm having trouble getting Debian 2.0 to install from a hard disk partition (the PC in question doesn't have a CD drive :-() I downloaded all the stuff I needed (according to install.html) from ftp.debian.org, and put it on my HD (DOS drive D:, subdirectory \debian) Then I started the

Re: X Installation

1998-10-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
DeJay wrote, Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running? yes, I had a coprocessor. I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd nfsd and mountd were running on my 386. Nope, I mean

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