PLIP

2000-07-30 Thread Fermín Manzanedo
Hola, tengo dos ordenadores con dos distribuciones Linux (Debian 2.1 e Hispafuentes) y quería saber si es posible conectar ambos como hago con Windows, mediante un cable paralelo (no se puede comparar a una red, pero es lo que tengo). Por lo que he leido hay un controlador llamado PLIP,

Re: Las empresas se dejan debianizar?

2000-07-30 Thread Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 04:40:11AM +0200, I. Tura wrote: Estimados colegas, Aunque soy un poco novato en el tema de Debian, tal como está el asunto de esta sociedad de la digitalización y la falta de personal especializado en informática a muchos niveles, y delante de

Re: PLIP

2000-07-30 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:19:45PM +0200, Fermín Manzanedo wrote: Hola, tengo dos ordenadores con dos distribuciones Linux (Debian 2.1 e Hispafuentes) y quería saber si es posible conectar ambos como hago con Windows, mediante un cable paralelo (no se puede comparar a una red, pero es lo

Re: Configuracion de mutt

2000-07-30 Thread José Esteban
Lluís Vilanova wrote: Vale, pero no hay que usar el directorio del tipo new cur tmp que crea qmail? Ademas al ejecutar mutt, mo me aparece ninguno de mis buzones y al hacer C para cambiar de directorio, voy, pero acabo seleccionando un mensaje (que son todo numeros) y me dice que no es un

Re: Las empresas se dejan debianizar?

2000-07-30 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Carlos_Jos=E9_P=E9rez_Sanju=E1n?= wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 04:40:11AM +0200, I. Tura wrote: [...] Pero antes de hacer un cambio radical de mis planteamientos de cara a mi futuro laboral, me interesaría conocer vuestra experiencia en el

Re: Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Miquel wrote: El jue, jul 27, 2000 at 10:41:56 +0200 TooMany ha dit: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:42:48AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: La última versión oficial, la 2.2 'Slink', es de marzo del 99. La próxima versión saldrá oficialmente, si todo va bien y no hay más

Recuperar partición MS-DOG desde linux [Urgente]

2000-07-30 Thread David Muriel
Buenas... Me ha ocurrido una pequeña desgracia. Se me ha fastidiado un disco duro. En ese disco tengo varias particiones, todas de MS-DOG, pero alguna la utilizo desde debian para almacenar los paquetes que me bajo, que no me caben en el disco de linux. El caso es que me aparece esto el

Re: Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Miquel
El dom, jul 30, 2000 at 09:17:07 +0200 Antonio Castro ha dit: Realmente veo lo que debe de estar sufriendo Citius con esto y compruebo que el software libre como negocio es una aventura muy peligrosa. Conste que el software propietario para mí tiene los días contados. Las prioridades de

Re: Recuperar partición MS-DOG desde linux [Urgente]

2000-07-30 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Prueba el programa gpart. Viene en la potato, pero creo que no en la slink. Un saludo. Virgilio

bajar archivos via email

2000-07-30 Thread Blu
Hola personal, Si es posible me gustaria que me comentaran si existe algo asi como ftp via email, o sea que soliciten archivos via email y que mi servidor los devuelva por email, en lo posible adjuntados, ya que los usuarios potenciales creo que serian incapaces de uudecodificarlos o algo asi.

Re: APT

2000-07-30 Thread Fernando Fraga e Silva
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:23:09PM -0300, cosmo wrote: O que me deixou intrigado eh a parte onde diz que para poder fazer o upgrade no gimp seriam removido os arquivos lynx, newt0.25 e slrn. Nao seria correto o apt tambem fazer o upgrade desses aquivos ??! Eu por acaso as vezes

Re: How is the lifecycle of ``unstable''?

2000-07-30 Thread Brad
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:33:07PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: How is the lifecycle of ``unstable''? I'm thinking about upgrading from Potato to Woody and stick with it, but I'm a little wary that it might pose too many problems along the way. [[SNIP]] And that was in the install step,

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 04:56:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: like he said, Debian's filesystem organiazation is superior. /etc/rc.d/* sucks. i very much prefer the saved typing when starting stopping services that debian has ie: /etc/init.d/foo stop instead of the unnecessarily verbose

.deb packages and X

2000-07-30 Thread Chris Cameron
2 quick questions, Where can I find an XFree86 server newer than 3.3.2.3 in a .deb file, and how can I tell what packages I already have installed? Thanks, Chris

Re: sound.o unresolved modules problem

2000-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try using modprobe instead of insmod or load the modules soundlow and soundcore before sound should work nate On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: pollyw I cannot yet get the commercial OSS-Linux drivers for 2.4.0 test kernel5 so I pollyw decided to try compiling modules for my sound card

Re: VNC Problem

2000-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
did you install the debian package vncserver? if so it should work, now if you tried to download the version off their site you may not have the proper stuff installed, are you using potato(2.2) or slink(2.1) -- of debian ? nate On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: jschep I'm sharing 1

Re: Sound card trouble

2000-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i have installed the aureal drivers with success in the past it would help if you include any errors in the email that the system gives you nate On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Justin Camblin wrote: cam_ra Hello, cam_ra cam_ra I'm having trouble getting my sound card to work at cam_ra all. cam_ra cam_ra

fdisk reports 4.2BSD partitions instead EXT2

2000-07-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm experiencing some problems with fdisk reporting BSD partitions on a disk with ext2 partitions. I think that I did have a BSD slice on there at the very beginning, but I don't remember whether it's still there. It could be hdc2, but I couldn't figure out a way to mount the partitions from it.

StarOffice

2000-07-30 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hello, Are there any StarOffice packages available for Debian? If not, can I manually install StarOffice on a Debian machine (Will there be any problems whatsoever?) Thanks!

Re: .deb packages and X

2000-07-30 Thread Mike Werner
Chris Cameron wrote: 2 quick questions, Where can I find an XFree86 server newer than 3.3.2.3 in a .deb file, and I'm not sure what version potato has, but woody has 3.3.6 If you are wanting to stay with slink, you can add the line: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main to your

Re: StarOffice

2000-07-30 Thread Stephan Hachinger
I did a manual install and it worked just fine. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Umum Wijoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 9:16 AM Subject: StarOffice Hello, Are there any StarOffice packages available for

[Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread Sean Richardson
Well... I have continued to play with this...switching between suse and debian...and have been able to partially fix the problem. By setting my wvdial baud rate down to 57600 from 115200 i get only 1 error in 1000 packets... which is respectable... However, I would still like to know why 115200

Re: Compiling mc-4.5.44 [no:command not found]

2000-07-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:34:29AM -0700, Sherab Puntsok wrote: Hi debs, I have a problem on compiling mc-4.5.44.tar.gz no: command not found Details: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/download/mc-4.5.44/po' file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ rm -f $file

Wine Windows Emulator

2000-07-30 Thread Thomas Loredo
I am a newbie to the Linux OS and I am using Corel Linux. I was trying to install the Wine emulator and can't figure out how to do this, if anyone can help please do so? Thanks, Tom Loredo

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-30 Thread paul
** On Jul 29, Ethan Pierce scribbled: The main reason I am psyched for evolution is my girlfriend cant grasp pine or mail. She needs something graphical. If I can avoid booting windows2000 so she can read her email in outlook I will be happy as a clam...hence evolution is the perfect

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Damon Muller wrote: I think you mean ms-chap, not ms-chat. Debian does seem to have ms-chap already built-in to it's pppd Of course, I've never got it working myself, but that doesn't mean it isn't there :) If we're talking about MS Chap 80, then I can say that in fact

new user

2000-07-30 Thread JurLan
Hi all. Let me start by saying that I am new to debian (and this group). I always used SuSE but I got tired of the slow install and the lack of customisation (if $ Wonderful! Really .. easy and quick install .. custom to what I want and nothing more .. $ But since it is a big change from SuSE

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Peter Palfrader, If we're talking about MS Chap 80, then I can say that in fact it does work. I needed it one or two years ago. SuSE 5.3 did not have that support built in, but Debian had. Truth be told, I didn't really try all that hard to get it working. Rather than find a technical

Re: new user

2000-07-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
You're message got all garbled up here. Maybe try resending it with a different mailer.. On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:23:27PM +0200, JurLan wrote: Hi all. Let me start by saying that I am new to debian (and this group). I always used SuSE but I got tired of the slow install and the lack of

Re: new user

2000-07-30 Thread JurLan
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: You're message got all garbled up here. Maybe try resending it with a different mailer.. On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:23:27PM +0200, JurLan wrote: Hi all. Let me start by saying that I am new to debian (and this group). I always used SuSE

Re: new user

2000-07-30 Thread JurLan
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: You're message got all garbled up here. Maybe try resending it with a different mailer.. On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:23:27PM +0200, JurLan wrote: Hmm .. I am using Pine .. and I have never had this problem before. Strange. --

Re: Compiling mc-4.5.44 [no:command not found]

2000-07-30 Thread Sherab Puntsok
Hi Fracesco, Thanks for your reply. No you are not wrong, according to another source of email message posted on : http://www.gnome.org:65348/mc/maillist/100-07/ 14175.964261019.332231733.html It also mentions about gettext. Then I checked my system, there is no gettext installed. So I

mount

2000-07-30 Thread Nianwei Xing
hi, debians; I forget my root password and check the FAQs, somebody said that after reboot the system and mount filesystem and then edit the file /etc/passwd, it will work. so i reboot my computer with my rescue disk and at the boot prompt, type rescue mount=/dev/hdc1, when the screen shows the

sendmail error 553

2000-07-30 Thread Stefan Ott
hello i got two strange problems with sendmail on my potato (i386, kernel 2.2.16, procmail 3.13.1-3) box. the problems are not exactly the same, but they produce the same error message, and so they might have the same cause. i'm using sendmail 8.9.3-23, added the virtusertable

Re: sound.o unresolved modules problem

2000-07-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Jul-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try using modprobe instead of insmod or load the modules soundlow and soundcore before sound I could not get Alsa to play sounds, so I will try those modules again. I got sound.o to compile, eventually, but the soundcore would not compile. I later

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Sean Richardson wrote: Well... I have continued to play with this...switching between suse and debian...and have been able to partially fix the problem. By setting my wvdial baud rate down to 57600 from 115200 i get only 1 error in 1000 packets... which is respectable... However, I would

Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Suter
Folks, How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? Within Humbug[1], approximately 2/5 of the membership are now Debian users; however, only a few went straight to Debian. For me, Debian is the high point in

RE: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Pollywog
I could not get Debian installed beyond the base system three years ago because it was confusing, so Debian could not be my first Linux. I went to Caldera OpenLinux and used that for a year, then I tried Debian again and got it installed. I liked Caldera, but Debian is much better for me. I

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Adam Scriven
At 00:28 2000/07/31 +1000, you wrote: How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? I started out as a user on a X-friend's Yggrassil (sp?) system. Then we switched to SlackWare, and that was also my first

Re: Starting GNOME (newbie question)

2000-07-30 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Hans wrote: $startx gnome-session works for me. == Hans If you don't want to type it evertime you start X, you could also put 'gnome-session' at the end of your .xsession file. Regards, Daniel

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread I. Tura
At 00.28 31/7/00 +1000, Mark Suter ha escrit: Folks, How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? My experience can't be the most usual, but well, it's my experience :) My first GNU/L

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Most newcomers to Linux will (understandably) start with a commercial distribution that they can find shrink wrapped on the shelves. That pretty much rules Debian out for them, but those who discover it later on tend to stick with it. Completely new to Linux/Unix, I started with Redhat 4.1, and

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: I. Tura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Is Debian the last OS ? On the other hand... I've never seen any stastics telling what are the most used GNU distros. I

Re: Wine Windows Emulator

2000-07-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:23:20AM -0700, Thomas Loredo wrote: I am a newbie to the Linux OS and I am using Corel Linux. I was trying to install the Wine emulator and can't figure out how to do this, if anyone can help please do so? Thanks, Tom Loredo You should use dselect, or a

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Mark Suter wrote: Folks, How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? cut snip While the Debian last practice is probably the most common way that users become Debian users, it's in my opinion the

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
When my friends at school freshmen year all bagered me for using windows, I agreed to let them install linux on my machine. The first go was slackware, but because my computer was all brand new hardware, there wasn't any support in linux for it. So that didn't go very far. We then tried

suppressing ip-up/down scripts with pppd?

2000-07-30 Thread Chris R. Martin
Is there any option you can give to pppd that will suppress the running of the scripts in the ip-up.d and ip-down.d ?? I'm trying to set up a vpn using ppp but it seems like that this will cause a problem when I start the second pppd process (I use a dynamic DNS service, and I definitely don't

mutt/muttrc problem

2000-07-30 Thread Dale Morris
I have posted this or a similar message a couple of times, it hasn't shown up on my mail system and I'm having problems with sending mail so if it appears I'm flooding the list, it's not intentional. My problem is I can't send mail with mutt 1.2i using Thomas Rossler's (or any other, for that

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Carline
Just to complete my part of this thread, I found my ppp problem. I had compiled both ppp and slip into the 2.2.16 kernel, and evidently they didn't play well together. The new kernel (without slip) is working well. John John Carline wrote: Sean Richardson wrote: Well... I have continued

Re: mutt/muttrc problem

2000-07-30 Thread Morten Liebach
On 30, jul, 2000 at 10:26:31 -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I have posted this or a similar message a couple of times, it hasn't shown up on my mail system and I'm having problems with sending mail so if it appears I'm flooding the list, it's not intentional. I haven't seen any, so you system is as

httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i've installed apache web server and i am puzzled as to how it can see my /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc directory. i was under the impression that by default all directory lookup begin at /var/www. so to go http://www.dahiroc.net/doc the directory /var/www/doc must exist. however in my

Re: httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: Patrick Dahiroc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 8:43 PM Subject: httpd and directories hi all i've installed apache web server and i am puzzled as to how it can see my /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc directory. i

Re: httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Sean Richardson
Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. --apacheconfig This is the alias that sets up /usr/share/doc to appear as /doc on your web server. Remove

128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Mathew Johnston
is there a 128 bit encryption netscape package floating around? I cant find it in my packages list. Thanks :) Mat.

A DosEmu problem

2000-07-30 Thread bsamuels
Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink KDE I have installed the DosEmu package and set it up as per included instructions by creating a boot directory in /var/lib/dosemu with soft links to the appropriate Dos files. As Root I can run the emulator and the Dos application, that I want to run, with no

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
download the linux binary from the download page at home.netscape.com. http://home.netscape.com/download/0718100/1-en-linux2.2-4.74-complete-128_qual.html On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:01:43PM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: is there a 128 bit encryption netscape package floating around? I cant

RE: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Jul-2000 Mathew Johnston wrote: is there a 128 bit encryption netscape package floating around? I cant find it in my packages list. Sounds as though you are looking for the 'Fortify' package. -- Andrew

Re: [Updated] PPP Rx errors...

2000-07-30 Thread John Hasler
John Carline writes: I had compiled both ppp and slip into the 2.2.16 kernel, and evidently they didn't play well together. There is no good reason they shouldn't. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: sendmail error 553

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Stefan Ott wrote: i got two strange problems with sendmail on my potato (i386, kernel Is there any particular reason why you're running Sendmail? ... while talking to mail.desire.ch.: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=513 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Re: httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. --apacheconfig ah so that's where

Re: Sound card trouble

2000-07-30 Thread Justin Camblin
Here is the error message I recieve when I attempt to install Aureal sound drivers: /sbin/modprobe au8810 /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/au8810.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Re: mutt/muttrc problem

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:26:31AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: 1.) Is there some type of securinty *switch* or configuration file in Woody that I didn't have in my potato distribution before that is stopping mail from being sent in my user directory? Take a look in the contents of

Re: httpd and directories

2000-07-30 Thread Frodo Baggins
Patrick Dahiroc scripsit: On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc.

Re: Dvorak keyboard layout

2000-07-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
On the console, loadkeys /usr/local/share/keymaps/dvorak.map although the location of this file seems to have changed at some point. It used to be /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/dvorak.map. In X, you'll need put the appropriate file in ~/.Xmodmap. I'll attach one here, hope nobody minds.. ! !

ADSL CICSO 675 Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Art Edwards
(I hope) I'm in the middle of setting up DSL on my potato box. I have been reading the lists and than Pollywog and others for their posts. I have installed the ppoe package and have followed all of the instructions. I am using the Cisco 675 router set in the ppp, unconfigured mode. The WAN light

dhelp problem

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I have used dhelp for a while in a standalone woody box, and all worked fine. Now I've installed apache and glimpse (to use the search feature)... And things seemed to stop working: After installing apache, glimpse, and reinstalling dhelp (probably not necesary, but I did it

Re: mutt/muttrc problem

2000-07-30 Thread Dale Morris
I have solved the problem by changing muttrc files. All is working now.

t-dsl

2000-07-30 Thread Mithrandir
Hi All ;) Ich have a question too all of you, concerning t-dsl. Where can I get a Kernel-patch for the pppoE (it would be nice, if it is for 2.3.99, but if not no problem (I hope)). For any further infos of how installing and so on, I would be very happy;)) Thanks for all

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Robert L. Harris
is there a Package for the 128bit version? Thus spake Patrick Dahiroc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): download the linux binary from the download page at home.netscape.com. http://home.netscape.com/download/0718100/1-en-linux2.2-4.74-complete-128_qual.html On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 03:01:43PM

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
128 bit encryption is not available directly from installing Debian packages. There's a few options as far as getting the 128 bit encryption: 1) Install normally using the Debian package(s). This will install the 56 bit version. Then use the fortify packages (fortify and fortify-linux-x86) to

RE: t-dsl

2000-07-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Jul-2000 Mithrandir wrote: Hi All ;) Ich have a question too all of you, concerning t-dsl. Where can I get a Kernel-patch for the pppoE (it would be nice, if it is for 2.3.99, but if not no problem (I hope)). I use Roaring Penguin for DSL, but you can get patches for PPP 2.4.x if

RE: dhelp problem

2000-07-30 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 30-Jul-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hello, I have used dhelp for a while in a standalone woody box, and all worked fine. Now I've installed apache and glimpse (to use the search feature)... And things seemed to stop working: After installing apache, glimpse, and reinstalling

Re: dhelp problem

2000-07-30 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:04 PM Subject: dhelp problem I suppose there should be a doc directory under /var/www right? There's not: socrates www$ ll /var/www/ total 2

Re: t-dsl

2000-07-30 Thread Jens Müller
afaik ppoe is a standard kernel module. Maybe there are also some packages. Your Denglish is quite good ;-) Jens - Original Message - From: Mithrandir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: t-dsl

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Peter Good
Being relatively new to Linux (only year and 1/2), my first go at Debian was slink. Recommended to me by a friend (an ISP), it seemed the way to go. I'd just started Uni, and had a brand new laptop, that for the life of me, I couldn't configure X on, so Debian got dumped in favour of Redhat, which

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Patrick Barr
when I was last at humbug (about 6 months ago) everyone was using redhat! what happened?? Did people like Ashley, matt and the like convert some people!?!? On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:49:50 Peter Good wrote: Being relatively new to Linux (only year and 1/2), my first go at Debian was slink.

Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:31:36 +0300 (EEST), Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suppose there should be a doc directory under /var/www right? No. The /doc is mapped to /usr/doc as specified in /etc/apache/srm.conf: - Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/

Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]

2000-07-30 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:06 PM Subject: Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!] So, all I had to do was to change Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ to Alias /doc/

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Bruce Stephens
Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 128 bit encryption is not available directly from installing Debian packages. There's a few options as far as getting the 128 bit encryption: Is there some reason for this? It seems at odds with the Debian changelog (see 4.73-17)

Changes in ext2

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I do remember something about changes being made in ext2. (Would that be from the 2.0 to the 2.2 kernel series?) So, I'm running a woody system that was originally slink... I had slink installed, and then, instead of upgrading, I copied /, /usr, /var and /etc files from a friend's

Re: StarOffice

2000-07-30 Thread John Foster
Ed Cogburn wrote: Umum Wijoyo wrote: Hello, Are there any StarOffice packages available for Debian? If not, can I manually install StarOffice on a Debian machine (Will there be any problems whatsoever?) Thanks! I don't think there are any debian packages for it now, but that

RE: Cheetah PCI NIC

2000-07-30 Thread Kenrick, Chris
I replied to this before, but must have got lost in the ether... On the accton website (somewhere) you can download the kernel module. It is listed as a linux driver, and comes as a zip file 1207dlinux.zip. Within that zip archive are three files: en1207d.c Source code for the kernel

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And dselect is a really interesting utility, especially the ability to configure the packages after installation. You can do that even _before_ installation now with potato for many packages. The only thing during installation that was kind of

Re: Old ? Revisited. Was: [woody-potato, woody-slink, potato-slink?]

2000-07-30 Thread montefin
In early July, when Anthony first asked the question below, I sort of kept my eye out for an answer or two on it: John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Out of sheerest curiosity, since I'm not having any problems with woody beyond the X/gpm mouse grabbing and X-fb corruption, is there a way to

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Suter
Patrick, when I was last at humbug (about 6 months ago) everyone was using redhat! what happened?? Did people like Ashley, matt and the like convert some people!?!? My estimate of 2/5 is based on an understanding of all members, a fair few of whom don't bring their boxes to the meetings

Re: StarOffice

2000-07-30 Thread Adam Bell
BTW, as long as we're on the subject... If you managed to get it to install, maybe I should ask you this...how do you manager to run 5.2 as some user other than root? --adam b. Original Message On 7/30/00, 7:18:25 PM, John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: StarOffice: Ed

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Olaf Meeuwissen writes: Don't know about damaging or messing anything up, but certain modules may have to loaded during the boot. Some drivers probe for their hardware by attempting to access various ports. In a few pathological cases, the probing by one driver will put hardware belonging to

Re: 128 bit encryption netscape?

2000-07-30 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Take a look at the News section at the fortify site here: http://www.fortify.net/intro.html Tom Bruce Stephens wrote: Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 128 bit encryption is not available directly from installing Debian packages. There's a few options as far as getting the 128 bit

How to change I/O address

2000-07-30 Thread Nianwei Xing
Hi, Debians: I have a question about network card. When I move my computer to another place, I need reconfigure my network. The situation is when I reboot my system with my rescue disk and go to install, then configure network and then I did all apropriate changes. However It still doesn't work.

RE: mounting floppy

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Have you tried insmod the autofs module before attempting the mount the said RHL 6.2 floppy? Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: Dale Morris [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: Starting GNOME (newbie question)

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Try inserting gnome-session in either .xinitrc or Xsession.can't remember which. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: Marcio Rosa da Silva

RE: debian rocks

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Hear ye..hear ye.you should join this list, then you'll really get a feel of the Linux (and Debian GNU/Linux) community. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message-

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to switch to the most updated release possible if he switches, but even Potato's just

make menuconfig

2000-07-30 Thread Dale Morris
when I try to run make menuconfig I encouter the following error: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 I've tried reinstalling the ncurses library, any other suggestions. I would like to use this to reconfigure my

RE: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
You got that right :-)! Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: Ethan Pierce [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 8:25 AM To: montefin;

RE: Newbie Install Questions

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Q1 It usually defaults to the user directory in /home...unless you changed it...then it will default to the last chaged directory Q2 Suggest you go to http://www.google.com and type in yamaha opl3sa linux and see what comes up Q3 See the LDP at the various mirror sites...

RE: Outlook/Outlook Express

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Hellowake upthis is the debian-user list... Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: dsbiloxi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000

Re: make menuconfig

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when I try to run make menuconfig I encouter the following error: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 I've tried reinstalling the ncurses library, any other

Re: make menuconfig

2000-07-30 Thread Dale Morris
Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when I try to run make menuconfig I encouter the following error: In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 I've tried

Which hardware has linux drivers?

2000-07-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Is there anything besides LHD for finding out if some piece of hardware is supported by linux? I'm looking at new machines and nobody knows anything about linux, which is funny considering their webservers are probably running it. How do you guys deal with this? Do you just buy a machine and

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