Re: Ejecutar un programa

1999-03-23 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola Lucky escribió: Tengo algunos ficheros ejecutables (los miro en KDE y dice que lo son), pero cuando los intento ejecutar no funcionan o dicen COMMAND NOT FOUND. Si los intento ejecutar con el SH me dice que no son binarios. Como tengo que ejecutarlos? HAsta les he dado todos los

Arranque doble, LILO

1999-03-23 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola! Particion Primaria DOS: Win95 FAT32 2 GB - hda1 Partición extendida DOS: 2GB: Partición lógica: Win95 FAT32 1,4 GB - hda5 Partición lígica: Linux EXT2 600 MB - hda6 Partición lógica: Linux Swap 32 MB - hda7 Correcto. UGTrata de modificar tu

Re: Ejecutar un programa

1999-03-23 Thread David Abilleira Freijeiro
Lucky wrote: Tengo algunos ficheros ejecutables (los miro en KDE y dice que lo son), pero cuando los intento ejecutar no funcionan o dicen COMMAND NOT FOUND. Si los intento ejecutar con el SH me dice que no son binarios. Como tengo que ejecutarlos? HAsta les he dado todos los permisos com

make-kpkg y m'odulos

1999-03-23 Thread Antonio Gonz'alez Fern'andez
Tengo un problemilla y en la documentación no encuentro solución. He compilado un núcleo 2.2.0 en un pentium. La secuencia ha sido make xconfig make-kpkg clean LC_ALL=C fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=minitrini.1.0. kernel_image Todo perfecto, parece que funciona. Obtengo el paquete .deb El

Re: make-kpkg y m'odulos

1999-03-23 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Antonio Gonz'alez Fern'andez wrote: Tengo un problemilla y en la documentación no encuentro solución. He compilado un núcleo 2.2.0 en un pentium. La secuencia ha sido make xconfig make-kpkg clean LC_ALL=C fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=minitrini.1.0. kernel_image Todo perfecto, parece

Re: Arranque doble, LILO

1999-03-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hola! Particion Primaria DOS: Win95 FAT32 2 GB - hda1 Partición extendida DOS: 2GB: Partición lógica: Win95 FAT32 1,4 GB - hda5 Partición lígica: Linux EXT2 600 MB - hda6 Partición lógica: Linux Swap 32 MB - hda7 Mi

Re: make-kpkg y m'odulos

1999-03-23 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Antonio Gonz'alez Fern'andez escribió: ... Pero al rearrancar el portátil con el nuevo núcleo (por cierto, parece que va más rápido) aparecen una serie de mensajes (disculpadme, no los he apuntado) que me dicen que no encuentra los módulos. El núcleo antiguo de este ordenador era un 2.0.34.

Re: Ejecutar un programa

1999-03-23 Thread MoGuTu
David Abilleira Freijeiro escribió: Lucky wrote: Tengo algunos ficheros ejecutables (los miro en KDE y dice que lo son), pero cuando los intento ejecutar no funcionan o dicen COMMAND NOT FOUND. Si los intento ejecutar con el SH me dice que no son binarios. Como tengo que

Distribucion de fuentes en Debian

1999-03-23 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Hola a todos: Quisiera hacer una consulta sobre la distribución de fuentes de Debian: En el Cd de fuentes de Debian normalmente aparece un fichero con las fuentes originales y otro con modificaciones que realiza Debian sobre las fuentes sobre todo (creo yo ) para compatibilizar temas

Re: Distribucion de fuentes en Debian

1999-03-23 Thread David Cabrero souto
[ ... ] En los ficheros diff se indican las líneas de código que han cambiado. La pregunta es la siguiente ¿Existe alguna herramienta para actualizar el fuente original con el fichero de diferencias? o ¿estas diferencias las tengo que actualizar a mano en caso de que quiera realizar

Re: Distribucion de fuentes en Debian

1999-03-23 Thread Santiago Vila
[ ... ] En los ficheros diff se indican las líneas de código que han cambiado. La pregunta es la siguiente ¿Existe alguna herramienta para actualizar el fuente original con el fichero de diferencias? o ¿estas diferencias las tengo que actualizar a mano en caso de que quiera

DISTRIBUIDORES

1999-03-23 Thread Pablo Cernadas
AMIGOS: NECESITARIA SABER QUIEN DISTRIBUYE LINUX EN ARGENTINA ,BUENOS AIRES. LES AGRADESCO

Segmentation fault

1999-03-23 Thread Lucky
Estoi intentando ejecutar el emulador de NES, pero cuando ejecuto el comando (ines) me dice SEGMENTATION FAULT, sabeis a que se debe?

Re: Arranque doble, LILO

1999-03-23 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola... VIpues este lilo.conf es el que usarias si tuvieras unicamente linux. Como VItienes W98 y me imagino que la partición activa es /dev/hda1, yo le VIcambiaria el boot=... por boot=/dev/hda para instalar lilo en el Master VIBoot Record del disco, y le agregaria una imagen que llamo por

xfree-3.3.3, acentos y teclas muertas

1999-03-23 Thread Han Solo
Buenas noches, caballeros: Esta tarde he actualizado las xfree-3.3.2 a xfree-3.3.3, con el CD de Pc Actual del mes de enero. Todo ha ido bien, y ha reconocido mi tarjeta (una matrox millennium G200) perfectamente. El caso es que ahora, aunque me siguen funcionando los acentos en las xterm, ya no

Velocidad del bus AGP

1999-03-23 Thread Han Solo
Hola a todos. Resulta que ha llegado la hora de jubilar mi 486 y me he comprado un PII400 que me despeina cada vez que lo arranco. Como lo que he hecho es comprar componentes sueltos y montarlo yo mismo, he encontrado una cosa que me ha extrañado. Según el manual de mi placa base, por defecto la

RV: DISTRIBUIDORES

1999-03-23 Thread Pablo Cernadas
-Mensaje original- De: Pablo Cernadas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Emilio de Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lucky [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: Martes 23 de Marzo de 1999 10:31 AM Asunto: DISTRIBUIDORES AMIGOS: NECESITARIA

Rockwell incompativel? Nao!

1999-03-23 Thread Marcus Brito
O pior e se esta utilizando um daqueles modemos que estao marcados assim: Windows, WinModem, WinNT, etc. Estes, e mais outros com o 'Rockwell' chipset estao incompativies com Linux. Opa, nada disso! O chip Rockwell nao tem nada a ver com isso. Tanto que boa parte dos fabricantes de modem

Re: alien

1999-03-23 Thread Marcus Brito
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 12:18:29AM -0300, Itamar wrote: Este programa, alien, para instalar os pacotes .rpm, é realmente seguro? Ou será que eu vou provavelmente encontrar problemas usando ele? Geralmente eh seguro, ja que se houver algum problema, basta voce desinstalar o pacote. O dpkg nao

Print Screen

1999-03-23 Thread Nelson Novaes Neto
Salve, Instalei o enlightenment 0.15 e o gnome 1.0, gostaria de saber se alguem sabe como dar um Print Scrren para salvar tela. agradeco a quem me ajudar []'s Nelsinho

Re: Print Screen

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Nelson Novaes Neto wrote: Salve, Instalei o enlightenment 0.15 e o gnome 1.0, gostaria de saber se alguem sabe como dar um Print Scrren para salvar tela. Existe um comando (xgrab ou algo do g?nero) que captura a tela e cria um arquivo que pode ser editado

kde is no longer in debian??

1999-03-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Has kde been droped out of debian?? I couldn't seem to find those packages anymore? So what is the best way of installing kde now? Thx Shao Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

Re: Network driver problem

1999-03-23 Thread Kent West
At 06:16 PM 3/22/1999 +0200, Ilan Kasan wrote: Hi All: I am a new comer in Linux. I managed to install the Linux. My problem is that I do not know how to configure the Network Card. I have a Pentium 2, 64MB RAM and the Network card is Novell NE 2000. I used modconf and selected the ne or the

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the kernel, they must be built as modules. With sb16, for example I need a config line like: options sb io=0x220

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jeff, I recently had the displeasure of finding out all about limits with disk size. I purchased a 10.1GB IDE disk. Here's the lowdown, gleaned from the in-depth BIOS FAQ at ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs/bios.faq. boot sectors use the BIOS Int 13H service to read blocks from disks. This

Re: Network configuration

1999-03-23 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On 22 Mar 1999, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Yes this is true for stuff that you dont use night and day, like iso9660 support for instance. I would like to see a good reason for not compiling NIC support right in, like how much will that enlarge the kernel by? 100k ? The total sizes of the *.o

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, steven walsh wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the kernel, they must be built as modules. With sb16, for example I need a

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: The configuration of sound AS A MODULE has changed. It is still valid to compile sound support into the kernel (except possibly for PnP sound cards). Indeed. If you specific PNP support I haven't had any problems, though the default

Re: kde is no longer in debian

1999-03-23 Thread Cameron Schaus
Hi, Has kde been droped out of debian?? I couldn't seem to find those packages anymore? So what is the best way of installing kde now? You can get debian packages from www.kde.org (follow the ftp site links). But be warned, you need the unstable version of qtg in order to

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Mashao writes: My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: SMBMOUNT Problems...

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Graham Ashton wrote: [snip] Dont you have to use \\ instead of //??? no. Hmm.. You are right.. I used it yesterday for the first time in 3 months.. My apologies. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with

Re: Newcomer to Linux

1999-03-23 Thread mike shupp
On 21 Mar 1999, Bala Iyer wrote: I have a Pentium 166 with 32MB memory with 2.1 HD. I have with fdisk partitioned an extented.logical drive with 894 mb. with resc1440.bin when I boot it goes on with many information on the screen and finally comes to boot: on enter it goes for installation and

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 11:55:08AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Now isn't there a utility that will create 'man' pages out of 'info' ones? If so then at least some current information may be presented in man format for those of us that are more used to the 'older' This would be hard - the

Re: kde is no longer in debian??

1999-03-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:14:42AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Has kde been droped out of debian?? I couldn't seem to find those packages anymore? So what is the best way of installing kde now? Thx Shao

Re: kde is no longer in debian

1999-03-23 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/22/99 6:58:55 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can get debian packages from www.kde.org (follow the ftp site links). But be warned, you need the unstable version of qtg in order to install them. I just installed the debian kde packages, but I

Re: Newcomer to Linux

1999-03-23 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/22/99 at 05:48 PM, mike shupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To boot, as a general rule, your operating system must be on one of your hard disk's primary partitions. You're allowed four of these and no more, and an extended partition counts as one of them. You cannot

Give diferents permision to several groups?

1999-03-23 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I have a Folder name folder1 an 2 groups, group1 and group2. I want group1 to be able to change all the files inside folder1. But at the same time I want group2 to only read the files in folder1. I do not want to give any permission to any other users. Get Your Private, Free Email at

Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-23 Thread Chris Reay
I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility packages; to this end I've copied the relevant binary-i package directories

urgent help needed--can't start a shell!

1999-03-23 Thread Eric Lee
Hi, In an earlier plea for help, I mentioned that after using dselect, I ran into some dependency problems, which also screwed up bash/sh. It was suggested that I use the rescue floppy and run dpkg manually to fix things up -- unfortunately, right now, the rescue floppy isn't helping at all,

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 22 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Daniel Mashao writes: My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. Thanks for responding. But why don't I see the programs running? I even put in xload script that runs

Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's to go through the entire install? When I select the multi-cd

Re: /usr/include/linux - eh?

1999-03-23 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to compile vmware (virtual machine under linux), having updated my kernel to 2.2.3. What I did a couple of minutes ago is to: mv /usr/include /usr/include.bak ln -s /usr/src/linux/include /usr/include (assuming that your kernel

kernel patch for ppp-demand

1999-03-23 Thread Andreas Rapp
Hi, do someone know how to patch kernel 2.0.34 to make the pppd-2.3.5 demand option work ? Andy

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:56:16 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I can't comment on mutt-i, since it doesn't show up in any of my Packages files. mutt-i no longer exists. mutt-i was essentially identical to the current mutt packages; not containing cryptographic code, but containing hooks for PGP

Re: Sound Board

1999-03-23 Thread Hamori Andras
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: With 2.2, the config of sound drivers occurs outside the kernel config. You can no longer build the sound modules into the kernel, they must be built as modules. With sb16, for example I need a config line like: options sb io=0x220

Debian on a Compaq Presario Laptop

1999-03-23 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at the Linux-Laptop page at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ There is a link to a page for the 1210. You might want to compare notes with its author. On a sidenote, has anyone implemeted a patch or a program

Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hello, Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the web and used it to set up my HP laserjet 1100 printer. I finally got it working. I wished that debian had included this package, or at

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Eric Ravelomanantsoa
In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to enable sound If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a different sound card, SB16. It wasnt pnp, and after a quick kernel

Re: Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread Alec Smith
I believe apsfilter is included with Debian 2.1. At 08:48 AM 3/23/99 +, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hello, Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the web and used it to set up my HP laserjet 1100

Re: Give diferents permision to several groups?

1999-03-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have a Folder name folder1 an 2 groups, group1 and group2. I want group1 to be able to change all the files inside folder1. But at the same time I want group2 to only read the files in folder1. I do not want to give any permission to any other users. You cannot do this directly with the

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-03-23 Thread Holger Schauer
MB == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100: MB everything-HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route MB for those that want a standard interface at present. I am strongly against having a _single_ interface to documentation. Diversity is a good thing, IMHO, especially in

Re: Debian CD Resellers?

1999-03-23 Thread homega
J.H.M. Dassen dixit: On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:56:16 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I can't comment on mutt-i, since it doesn't show up in any of my Packages files. mutt-i no longer exists. That explains why I couldn't find it in the potato directory at ftp://non-us.debian.org ... what's the

Re: dpkg problem with incomplete install

1999-03-23 Thread Harald Weidner
Hello, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph F. Dries III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart, qpage, gives an error 100. An error message like that often comes from the

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Sarel Botha
Q2 My bios manual say that it´s limit is 8,4 gb harddrive. But if i have the root inside the 8,4 gb limit is it possible to have, lets say, a 15 gb hardrive? It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum possible size the bios can accept larger. I haven't

broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-23 Thread debian
I was using dselect and trying to add ftp://ftp.rising.com.au as a location to get non-US packages from have apparently distroyed my /etc/apt/sources.list. Could someone point out the errors in the following? (Or send me a copy of the default file?) deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main

apt-get weirdness

1999-03-23 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! Could someone explain me this? marvin:~# apt-get install libgnome-dev Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: libtiff3g-dev libglib-dev libungif3g imlib-progs libungif3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev libjpeg62-dev

Re: Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 12:24:22AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: Hi, The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's to go through

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Mar, Daniel Mashao wrote about Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed On 22 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Daniel Mashao writes: My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. Thanks for responding.

Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer connected via LPT. The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine running Bill's stuff. It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the doc comming with Samba and tried to configure

Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've just installed gnome on my system but nothing seems to be happening. I am running the WindowMaker Manager. The tool box shows some gnome stuff like the gnome panel but when I click on it nothing happens, it's the same with everything else. Does anyone know where I can get

Re: Network configuration

1999-03-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
True. Not compiling network support in might cause the same problems as not compiling in the device for the root file system, IE: not being able to boot. What I meant was that at some point, it is possible to make the kernel too big and then SOMETHINGS need to be left out. But this is probably

Re: broken /etc/apt/sources.list

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 07:12:38 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/debian-non-US/ non-US main contrib non-free This should be one line: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ non-US main contrib non-free In any case, non-us currently doesn't have separate

Re: what to do when libc6 upgrade goes bad

1999-03-23 Thread Dan Hugo
Sarel Botha wrote: Having updated libc6, I didn't know whether a reboot was in order, since that is a fairly important library for just about everything. Well, this was a bad idea, since my machine hung rebooting, and then nothing would run once the kernel finished starting. Couldn't

Diald kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Hi, using diald with kernel 2.2.2 connections don't start (while with 'up request ' line goes up). Everything works correctly using kernel 2.0.36. Diald .deb version is 0.16.5-3. Netbase package is 3.12-2 With the 2.2.2 kernel giving a 'route -n' I got: Kernel IP routing table Destination

Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Hello. I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer connected via LPT. The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine running Bill's stuff. It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Eric Ravelomanantsoa wrote: In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to enable sound If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a different

RE: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
Thanks for all the answers you all have sent. Now I know it will not work with more memory, thanX Lieberman's Law: Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Mashao writes: Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what is happenning. Sure. Put this in your script: echo Running /etc/ppp/running and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp/running if the script executes. -- John Hasler

package-tool?

1999-03-23 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, Is there a tool to maintain the installed deb-packages like 'kpackage', with wich I can install, deinstall, configure deb-Packages? Thank you very much. Bye Ralf (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de) ** * Thank you for not

Re: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Egon Schmid
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to use SAMBA connect WIN95 and LINUX on the same machine sort of a pseudo network thing? Has anyone tried this. Roderick P. Person Have a look at www.vmware.com. Run Win95/Win98/NT/Linux conncurrently on the

Re: sound

1999-03-23 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Eric Ravelomanantsoa wrote: In tere anyway to compile your kernel without have to use modules to enable sound If you have a non-pnp card, yes. For example, I've played with the same card as Doug for a while, and just gave up after a while. Found a different sound

recovering trashed /var

1999-03-23 Thread Robin Stephenson
I trashed my /var partition (doh!) and now the machine won't boot. Now I really wish that packages would do something sensible when they can't find what they're looking for in /var (be it a checkpoint file, a directory to put logfiles in, or whatever). *sigh* Is there some way I can reconstruct

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
This is cool! this seems to be exaclty what I'm looking for! Finaly I can play my Darksun games in Linux!! I guess I can do my work at home to. -Original Message- From: Shaun Lipscombe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:02 AM To: Egon Schmid Cc: Person,

Re: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
I was wondering if it was possible to use SAMBA connect WIN95 and LINUX on the same machine sort of a pseudo network thing? Has anyone tried this. Not unless you can run both of them at the same time (actually, you can ... see http://www.vmware.com). Linux can mount Windows drives, so what

installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Colin Rowat
Hi all, I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly frightens me from this point of view. If you could

Re: Printer Setup through SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Hello. I've installed Linux 2.2.1 on my machine, but I have no printer connected via LPT. The printer (HPOffice JetPro 1150) is installed on another machine running Bill's stuff. It seems it is possible to access the printer via NetBios. I read the doc comming

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly frightens me from

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
Actually, my wife and kids use Win 95. And sometime I have to go in and fix there messes (Play sysadmin). Sometime I download stuff (in Debian) for them, the logout and install it into Win 95. I would like to do all that without leaving Linux and of course I like to play some of my games link

Re: Printer Setup

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hello, Thanks for the advice on magicfilter. I really tried to use it but I gave up. I went and downloaded the APSFilter package instead from the web and used it to set up my HP laserjet 1100 printer. I finally got it working. I wished

Re: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-23 Thread steven walsh
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: [snip] It might be possible to use a program like EZ-Drive to make the maximum possible size the bios can accept larger. I haven't tested EZ-Drive with Linux yet, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Check www.westerndigital.com for

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
how do I get the app out of a deb a deb is an ar archive containing two tar.gz files. Simply do: ar x filename.deb then tar zxvf the data.tar.gz. A better solution however is to use alien. It understands most packagers.

Re: Diald kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. Messages there should give a better indication of what's going wrong. I use diald 0.16.5-3 also with kernel 2.2.3 and it works fine (although I get some messages about obsolete ioctls being used). Guido Bozzetto wrote:

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux s ystem

1999-03-23 Thread servis
*- On 23 Mar, Colin Rowat wrote about installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system Hi all, I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/23/99 8:18:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what is happenning. the output of pppd is already stored in your /var/log/syslog. -Jay

no kernel source

1999-03-23 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
With the distribution that I used to install Linux (Linux Press 2.1) after the installation was complete I realized that the source code had not been downloaded ! Question 1.. How do I unpack the source code so that everything falls down to the appropriate directories?? Question 2.. I am

out of ptys

1999-03-23 Thread Will Lowe
Can anybody tell me what this means, and how to fix it? rivendell[502] [~] rsh gondolin rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogin: connection closed. Will -- |

Re: no kernel source

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
Question 1.. How do I unpack the source code so that everything falls down to the appropriate directories?? Grab a kernel tarball, untar it in /tmp, then move the created linux dir to /usr/src/kernel-source-version. Then make a symlink in /usr/src called linux and point it to the source you

Re: Diald kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. Messages there should give a better indication of what's going wrong. I use diald 0.16.5-3 also Nothing, on the ppp.log there is nothing :-( When I fire-up line with: echo up

remote X programs

1999-03-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=... Thanks in advance for your help, -- p.

xterm TERM environment

1999-03-23 Thread scratch
Hi, I've been asking myself this question: why is it that whenever i use the Xterm Debian package, the debian-xterm TERM environment is exported, in stead of xterm? I use a lot of accounts with no debian-xterm termcap entry. How can I change this behaviour and/or what is de Debian policy on this

Re: installing a piece of debian software onto a non-debian linux system

1999-03-23 Thread L. Besselink
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Colin Rowat wrote: Hi all, I'm using DsTool 2.0 for linux on a university system (running redhat, I think). As debian is carrying a 2.0.3 DsTool I'm wondering how easy it is to download that and use it on the non-debian system here. The .deb suffix slightly

Re: xterm TERM environment

1999-03-23 Thread Kirk Hogenson
scratch wrote: Hi, I've been asking myself this question: why is it that whenever i use the Xterm Debian package, the debian-xterm TERM environment is exported, in stead of xterm? I use a lot of accounts with no debian-xterm termcap entry. How can I change this behaviour and/or what

Re: Diald kernel 2.2.2

1999-03-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, you don't want to forget to put: # enable forwarding echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward into /etc/init.d/network. Guido Bozzetto wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Make sure you have debugging turned on and take a look at /var/log/ppp.log. Messages there should give a

Problem with a PCI to SCSI Host Adaptater

1999-03-23 Thread Gregory Vandenbrouck
Hi, Did somone manage to make a AVA-2902E card work under debian ? My computer does not see the SCSI peripherics. I'm running potato, with a 2.2.3 kernel. Thanks in advance, Greg -- \\|// VDB gTRY Atlantis BBS. Free BBS under GNU licence (O O)

very stable AGP or PCI video card

1999-03-23 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I need a very stable and cheap AGP video card for my system. I currently have a S3 Virge GX/2 AGP which curruntly crashes the whole system every once in a while. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- p.

lyx and fonts

1999-03-23 Thread shaleh
Allo all, anyone know of a way to get lyx to use ttf fonts?

Colors in X Windows Software

1999-03-23 Thread Fred Perry
Hi folks, Anybody out there displaying Cerius 2 output on a Linux box? This may be a problem with other software as well, I'm not sure. When I use a Debian Linux 2.0 machine to display this software, it gets the colors all mixed up. I was able to fix the same problem on a Mac using X emulator

defrag

1999-03-23 Thread Sami Dalouche
I just want to know how to use defrag on a system. I don't want to make floppy disk or something else. Is it possible to remount / in ro mode without rebooting ? Thanks -- // -oOo- -oOo ---oOo--\\ | Sami Dalouche | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | AIM :

Re: Diald kernel 2.2.2 [SOLVED]

1999-03-23 Thread Guido Bozzetto
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Oh, you don't want to forget to put: # enable forwarding echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward into /etc/init.d/network. Hi. The problem was on the forward chain that deny everything. THANK YOU very much. Ciao

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread John Hasler
Jay writes: the output of pppd is already stored in your /var/log/syslog. That will not help him find if his script is running. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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