Felicitaciones

1998-12-25 Thread Sergio F. Mendoza Barrera
Felicidades a todos por esta navidad, y año nuevo. La lista esta cool. Gracias por la ayuda.

RE: Traspasar el sistema a lo bestia

1998-12-25 Thread José Dapena Paz
Hola. Me presento en esta lista... Saludos a los de R34.LINUX. Y Feliz Navidad! Disco con Linux: /dev/hda1 Disco nuevo: /dev/hda2 $ cp /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 Esto funciona solo en el caso de que el tamaño de las particiones sea igual. Sino, tendras un precioso hueco

Re: Picture display in netscape

1998-12-25 Thread Frankie
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Rafael Kitover wrote: I'm just guessing here, but maybe kde grabbed all your colors? Try having a maximized netscape session with the -install flag (note that other stuff when netscape is in focus will look very wrong). On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:25:22AM -0700, John Greer

Re: xbase problem (2.0_

1998-12-25 Thread Clyde Wilson
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: Is there a known problem with the xbase package from the 2.0release? It failed to install some required config files, and dpkg even sugested I file a bug report against it. I haven't used dpkg, but dselect seems to do the same thing.

Re: True Type Fonts

1998-12-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, AJ wrote: i installed xfstt copied my true type fonts from windows to /var/ttfonts ran xfstt --sync but when i run gimp i only have access to the fonts i used to have what did i do wrong? You now need to tell X to use those fonts that

apt - wmaker 0.20.3

1998-12-25 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
I've got Debian 2.0 (Hamm) installed and want to jump up to Window Maker 0.20. Earlier this week I tried using dselect to just upgrade wmaker and the packages it depended on, but dselect decided that I should upgrade everything to what was in the unstable ftp directory. From listening in on this

Mystery Dialing

1998-12-25 Thread wax_man
Does anyone know what the following ports are for? My system is dialing out, and I'm not sure why. The following is from my diald control program. did not catch protocol 257-257 udp 4000-1047 tcp 17027-61075

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-25 Thread K B
I have been downloading it from the neetscape ftp site using the lynx browser. I don't know if it is binary or text. I was just following directions I found in a book. It seemed much easier than using an ftp program I have never used before. Is there any way to tell if a file is binary or

RE: Re: Intel EtherExpress config Q. (fwd)

1998-12-25 Thread Kent West
This was supposed to go to Baloo, not Kent, so I've forwarded it. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 08:24:56 -0800 From: David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Intel EtherExpress config Q. Hi Kent, I have an EtherExpress16

Re: Partial Install Problem Solved, now another

1998-12-25 Thread Kent West
On 23 Dec 1998, Nils Lorvick wrote: I did happen to get past the partition problem of my install on my laptop by initiating the virtual console and then doing a manual delete of each partition, and then doing a cfdisk from dinstal. Now my next problem is, that it says I have a bad base14-5

Modem trouble, Please help!!

1998-12-25 Thread BOHICA
Semi-successful slink install to a laptop. On setup reboot, pppconfig ran and I setup my ISP, dialed in and was trying to get the dselect access configured when I suddenly got the following error: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... line

xfstt

1998-12-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed the xfstt package, copied about 500 ttfonts from a collection I had on CD to /var/ttfonts, ran xfstt --sync, edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include the line FontPath = unix/:7101 (did all this as root) Then I went back to my xsession, did ctrlaltBS. Now how can I test for access

Problem on customizing kenel

1998-12-25 Thread Yi-ping Chang
Hi, Everybody: I am trying to customize my kernel. Basically, I followed the instruction on Debian FAQ. After 'make menuconfig', I typed in make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image It didn't finish the job. The last couple lines of message are as follows: make [2]: as86: Command not found

Re: strange windowmaker behavior

1998-12-25 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
Have you tried looking under the GNUstep icon? As in drag the dock (which is the GNUstep logo) and see what's hiding under it. That's where I found the clip. -Original Message- From: Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian list debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, December

RE: Problem on customizing kenel

1998-12-25 Thread Shaleh
make [2]: as86: Command not found --- CUT Did I do anything wrong? What's is 'as86'? Is there any extra package I should install to accomplish the job? as86 is the Intel Assembler. You need this to compile the boot loader which initially loads the kernel. it is found in the bin86

Re: xfstt

1998-12-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Now how can I test for access to these fonts? Which apps can grab them (WP8 for linux seems to only use it's own fonts). Any thing else I forgot to set up? xfontsel will see them. All aspects of your setup

Re: Problem on customizing kenel

1998-12-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Yi-ping Chang wrote: Hi, Everybody: I am trying to customize my kernel. Basically, I followed the instruction on Debian FAQ. After 'make menuconfig', I typed in make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image make-kpkg --revision=Custom.1 kernel_image

Re: X help

1998-12-25 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok I recently installed Debian on my computer and when I set up X I set the resolution and everything right in xf86config and I did the xf86setup also But then I do startx and my resolution is way to big for my screen I tried changing the

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: I followed the instructions from the previous mail and got the following result: gzip: stdin: unexpected en of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I have also tried to

Re: Help. System dies after 4-5 hours with message: Aiee ...

1998-12-25 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jim Foltz wrote: Daniel, I think this is a kernel issue, and more specifically related to multiprocessing (using more than a single cpu.) You might ask in the kernel discussion group or mailing list. Thanks for the suggestion. I have searched on the web for Aiee

How do I kill the scree blank timeout in text mode?

1998-12-25 Thread Stan Brown
I just installed 2.0, and I am anoyed by my screen blanking out. How do I change this configuration to not blank? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n. minor patch

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread KTB .
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:21:40 -0600 (CST) From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: KTB [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org, recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: Communicator Installation On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: I followed the

SOLVED:Re: NFS problems, cannot mount-permission denied

1998-12-25 Thread John Stevenson
Thanks for the replys... It turned out to be a combination between not having the right IP address associate in the /etc/hosts file (I forgot I changed my client IP address and had not updated the server). Also another suggestion was the fact that I had ALL: PARANOID in the /etc/hosts.deny file.

WP 8.0

1998-12-25 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I am trying to install WP 8.0 on my debian and it keeps giving me the message when I try to run Wp that it cannot load library libXpm.so.4. What library do i need to install. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfstt

1998-12-25 Thread k e c h i e
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I installed the xfstt package, copied about 500 ttfonts from a collection I had on CD to /var/ttfonts, ran xfstt --sync, edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include the line is your xfstt is slink put the fonts on /usr/share/fonts/truetype FontPath =

How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?

1998-12-25 Thread Stan Brown
How does the Debian install process run routine taks, if not from cron? I asked to have innd run routinely on install, and indeed it does seem to be runing, but there is no crontab entry for root. Puzzling. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fortify for Netscape version 1.3.2-1 available

1998-12-25 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
Hello and Merry Christmas... non-US incoming is read-only, so I haven't able to upload the new fortify version to it. In the meantime you can find it from my ftp site: ftp.lander.es/debian/local-non-US/ 1.3.2 adds support for Netscape 4.08 only, if you use netscape 4.07, 4.5 or older you can

Re: Mystery Dialing

1998-12-25 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stardate 241298.2052: Does anyone know what the following ports are for? My system is dialing out, and I'm not sure why. The following is from my diald control program. did not catch protocol 257-257 udp 4000-1047 tcp 17027-61075 That could be

Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!

1998-12-25 Thread john
BOHICA writes: On setup reboot, pppconfig ran and I setup my ISP, dialed in and was trying to get the dselect access configured when I suddenly got the following error: Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] line baud_rate,... line [termtype] or [-hiLmw]

RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!

1998-12-25 Thread BOHICA
ps ax | grep getty 158 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 159 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 160 4 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 161 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 162 6 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 inittab # /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration. # $Id: inittab,v 1.8

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs...

1998-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
I just tried to patch the 2.0.35 kernel with Initio SCSI adapter drivers. After make config, make dep, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install and lilo (and copying zImage to / as vmlinuz), I rebooted the machine. It booted partially, then stopped with the error message Kernel

ip-up ip-down

1998-12-25 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
Greetings, I have successfully installed Debian 2.x via FTP! Apache, smail, squid, samba. While I am having security issues, I do have a simple question, which probably is nothing more than a basic shell question. in the /etc/ppp directory there are two files, ip-up and ip-down. From what I

Re: xbase problem (2.0_

1998-12-25 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Clyde Wilson wrote, I replied: On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: Is there a known problem with the xbase package from the 2.0release? It failed to install some required config files, and dpkg even sugested I file a bug report against it. I haven't used

where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-25 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hello fellow Debian users! When I ran bo on my system I used to have a small util named xmem running, which showed memory utilization in X11. I upgraded to Debian 2.0 a few months ago and have not yet been able to relocate xmem. I grepped the contents-file for it but did not find it, I also

Eterm

1998-12-25 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, When typing Eterm in a xterm, that will bring a transparent Eterm. Thats ok becouse i have alias Eterm='Eterm -O'... But When invoking it from the gnome panel or from an E button that will not bring a trans Eterm as i wishIs it normal that thouse dont `see' the aliases? How should

RE: Modem trouble, Please help!!

1998-12-25 Thread BOHICA
Thanks to all who have helped thus far... OK, so how do I get the change to stick? I logged in as root, made the change in vi, saved it, exited and printed it to the screen to check... everything looked good. On reboot though, the same error popped up again so I re-displayed the file, the file

Re: How do I kill the scree blank timeout in text mode?

1998-12-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
setterm -blank 0 On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: I just installed 2.0, and I am anoyed by my screen blanking out. How do I change this configuration to not blank? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-996-6955 Factory Automation

Re: mount -r -t iso9660...-fs not supp by kernal (fwd)

1998-12-25 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! PS should i CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION y/n PENTIUM 200 no mmx two chips on the board GA586 what do you mean with 2 chips? -- multi-processor-board?? then you should trie 2.1.-kernels which provide SMP-support if you could give me a doc that talks about these options in more detail

Re: Installation Partition Problem

1998-12-25 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! I am a newcomer to the Linux arena. I've been a MS [...] information on my HD after I run debian install, the HD is setup into 4 Non-MSDOS partitions, and they are all blown WAY out of proportion, like I have one, 151 MB partition on a 120 MB hard drive, and all the other partitions

Re: Networking on/off-line.

1998-12-25 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! Greetings all, Here's the scenario five machines, 1 - dedicated debian box 2 - dual boot (one laptop w/debianwin95, 1 box w/debianwin98) 1 - win nt 4 workstation box 1 - win 98 box this is the desired mode of operation: i would like to setup an intranet of sorts.

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-25 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US there it is you have to add a / at the end

xfstt - Confusion?

1998-12-25 Thread John
Merry Christmas All! After reading several recent postings, I decided to try installing some true type fonts using xfstt. I did the following: 1. copied some .ttf fonts from my windows95 disk to /var/ttfonts 2. ran xfstt --sync 3. edited XF86Config by adding FontPath unix/:7101 as the next

Re: APM on Linux?

1998-12-25 Thread shaul
The following is taken from debian install instructions 4.7. Advanced Power Management If your motherboard provides Advanced Power Management (APM), configure it so that power management is controlled by APM. Disable the doze, standby, suspend,

Re: inc in exmh misbehaving (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)

1998-12-25 Thread shaul
It seems that there are some messages, which I can't fully characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its action. [etc etc...] There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's some corrupted

Re: xfstt - Confusion?

1998-12-25 Thread Curt Daugaard
Try this: execute (as root) /etc/init.d/xfstt start. This works for me. I've been too lazy to seek a fix for this since I so seldom reboot. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 03:25:17PM -0600, John wrote: Merry Christmas All! After reading several recent postings, I

WP 8.0 can't load libXpm.so.4

1998-12-25 Thread Stan Brown
I think WP is a LIBC5 package. What debian package)s) provides the required libs? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n. minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs...

1998-12-25 Thread Art Lemasters
I went through make config again while reading the Configure help file for the source (along with making the image and the other processes), and, upon boot, the new kernel got as far as VFS: root fs mounted [...] then it simply stopped. ...anyone have any info that would help here? Does

Problems with apache-ssl

1998-12-25 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I've installed the package apache-ssl from hamm/non-US distribution. The installation didn't cause any problems, but when I tried to connect to my server: lynx localhost:443 I received the error: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. And then: Alert!: Unable to access

LaTeX and overhead production

1998-12-25 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can anyone help me? Regards, Simon Read 2 Maryland Avenue, #36 Annapolis MD 2401-1651, USA 1 410 280 0228 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?

1998-12-25 Thread Gossamer
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... How does the Debian install process run routine taks, if not from cron? I asked to have innd run routinely on install, and indeed it does seem to be runing, but there is no crontab entry for root. You mean, on bootup? Take a look at

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
No, the correct syntax is without the /, however I don't believe non-us.debian.org supports http so use: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US This works for me. Bob On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Peter Bartosch wrote: Hi! Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: deb

Re: WP 8.0 can't load libXpm.so.4

1998-12-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Stan Brown wrote: I think WP is a LIBC5 package. What debian package)s) provides the required libs? libc5, libxpm4.7 and xlib6, all in oldlibs. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!

1998-12-25 Thread john
BOHICA writes: Where/How do I change this and make it stay changed? Get rid of whatever is changing it back. Something that is running at boot is changing it back. This is a serious bug. I recall that you said that this is a laptop. Are you using any pcmcia stuff? -- John Hasler

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-25 Thread john
In the ip-up file, I need to execute: /usr/local/bin/dynipclient -p In the ip-down file, I need to execute /usr/local/bin/dynipclient -k When I add the lines, it doesn't work. How do you know? These scripts are run with stdout directed to /dev/null, so you won't see any

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-25 Thread Mark Phillips
I don't have my notes in front of me but the netscape-unpacked.9955 came from using a command 'tar some other letters communicator-v45' According to Sudhakar's instructions something like that was supposed to happen and I needed to use dpkg -i on netscape-unpacked.9955. If I

Re: inc in exmh misbehaving (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)

1998-12-25 Thread Mark Phillips
How exactly are you doing this ? I did /usr/bin/mh/inc +tmp Followed by the script (executed within ~/Mail/tmp): #!/bin/bash # # A little script I wrote which will go through every email in the current # directory and process it using slocal to distribute the email into the #

Re: LaTeX and overhead production

1998-12-25 Thread Mark Phillips
I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can anyone help me? I'm about to go on holidays so I won't be able to help you much, but I'll just say a couple of things quickly: Use: \documentclass{slides}

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-25 Thread David Natkins
May I ask what dynipclient does? I'm setting up a tiny network at home and am going to network a Linux box (running slink) with a Windows 95 machine (my son's) and I get a dynamic IP address from my ISP. I use a PPP connection. David Natkins email: [EMAIL