Thanks to Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for their prompt answer.
Appending `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line made it. I have wine (version
960824) installed on my box. I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab
4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run
After my post about my wine experience, Brian commented:
Subject: Re: HELP: problems compiling wine
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at RF
Date:18.09.97 10:54
I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab
4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run to my satisfaction.
I have not tested
If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what
your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with
cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present
the same information as far as I remember).
Just a comment to what Bruce said:
I think
Hi,
I would appreciate any hint to work around this error I get when trying
to compile wine (970828). configure and make depend worked ok, but when
trying:
mafalda# make
[snip...]
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wine970824/miscemu'
gcc -o wine controls/controls.o files/files.o
It seems there is no module support for the 3Com 3C900 Etherlink PCI
card in the standard kernel (version 2.0.x). However I found there are
some updated source code and a compiled module in:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Has anybody tried the compiled module?
Will it
Hi,
After upgrading from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 I lost my network connection.
I must confess it was not a clean upgrade in the sense that i had to
dpkg -i and dpkg -r a few times netbase (now 2.0.9-1)and netstd (now
2.12-1).
I thought I just upgraded witohout modifying the configuration files
but I
Hi
It would be nice to see links to the Bug Tracking
System (BTS) from the web pages the individual
packages can be downloaded on www.debian.org.
Those interested in upgrading individual packages
would so be able to check the reported bugs before
starting the process which might
For the prompt, I have the following line in my ~/.bash_profile
and ~/.bashrc
use:
export PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\\n[\#]\\$
which produces, for example
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bin
[3]$ ls -laR
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux
[4]# ls -laR
\$ gives you a different
At 07:55 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an
AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem...
Mike
My 0.0001$ contribution:
I've also been running Linux 1.0.9, 1.2.13 and now 2.0.6 with the
On 25.09.96 04:17 Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Therefore the newest postings archived on the server and
mirrors are those of June 96. Don't hold your breath :-)
Check again; they're being updated now. There's a glitch right now so
that
I you have an Adaptec card, you may want to check the disk using the utilities
provided with the card to test the disk (alt-A at boot time before linux is
booted).
You can also check the grown defects list with the MS-Windows utilities provided
with EZSCSI. Don't know if there is some linux
'm talking about the archives on the *ftp* mirrors in
/debian/debian-lists. Sorry if that was not obvious.
The archives on the web site should be up before too long also.
Guy
Great! thanks a lot Guy. One related question:
How can I add the bunch of messages to my mail box so to read
them off
Hi,
I was planning to write a script to make the bug reporting process
semiautomatic. With a standard form, and leaving place for an Additional
comments field would be IMO a step forward for the project:
Std form+Script - FastEasy to report -
- Easier to read/bounce duplicates/fix === Better
somebody wrote (Sorry, I don't get always the original poster address ):
Resolving the case problem can also be solved VeRy simply by typing
the one magical word... case
- NEXT TIME - when you do your FTP'ing don't forget to use the case
statement.
It may not be that
It is true. only a brief description is given. but you may want to read
the config files with which the special kernels were created. They are in
the same directory as the special-kernel packages.
I also remember reading some (brief) info in the FAQ (not too much)
lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guy Maor writes:
Date:24.09.96 08:31
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Paul T. McNally wrote:
I've been dying to read this list in the archive version for the
month of July. I know it is probably huge and I can wait, I
just wanted to know about when it will be accessible via
change console to linux. As you can check that is the entry in the terminfo
database. I think the change occurred in the 1.3.x development stage of Linux.
lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: need help: error opening
I just want to report that I got dosemu 0.60.3-1 to work (or whichever the
version is in the Debian 1.1 stable tree is) when booting from the hdimage
instead of booting from the floppy.
I must also admit that I got the message
ERROR: can't get floppy parameter of /dev/fd0 (Interrupted
I remember I needed to install the xcompat package. did you?
Maybe you want to check that if no better solution is at hand :-)
lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: dosemu 0.60.3-1 won't run
Author:
Hi,
I didn't succeed yet to share my portable 1GB SCSI-HD with Debian 1.1
(w/updates up to 1.1.8) to run Linux on two different boxes:
Box 1) Non-internet connected (although planning and intranet).
clone PC w/ i486/DX33 + 16MB RAM + 540MB SCSI HD (SCSI ID-1)
+ NE2000 NIC clone
Unless you're inserting the wrong disk, it looks like a kernel bug.
Send it to Linus.
lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Debian Linux Installation problem
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:
Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Q. about dosemu package
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:20.09.96 08:25
[snip]
2. I only have Windows 95 on my machine. Is it possible to boot its DOS
from Dosemu? Or should I make a hard-disk file with a 6.x DOS?
I have no
Hi Chris,
Subject: where's man ??
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:18.09.96 09:11
I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I
notice, there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this
would be a required thing...
another
There is not support for busmice in the standard boot disk kernel.
Try
# dmesg | grep -i mouse
to see if your mouse was detected by the installed kernel.
You will probably get no output, so you can confirm that the kernel
does not know about your mouse. Otherwise you should see the line
You wrote:
Subject: how to exclude a directory from find?
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:11.09.96 21:33
I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a directory
from the search. I tried
cd /scratch find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print
Scheetz (warf) writes:
Subject: Strange problems with mc.
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:12.09.96 04:59
Just recently I have begun having strange problems with midnight
commander. After some time some of the keys stop working. This usually
involves the arrow
Hi folks,
Is the release of Debian 1.2 around the corner as scheduled?
Thanks for such a good job!
lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope its a typo since
ttyN is not the same as ttySN (N=0,1,etc)
e.g., terminals vs. serial lines.
Said that, by default I had more that the really
existing serial lines (ttySN) configured
To fix that edit the file you'll get after
# find /etc | xargs grep tty
I remember editing that
I had no problem in running dosemu (deb package 0.60.1?) that came with
Debian 1.1 with kernel 2.0.6 (I recompiled the kernele for other reasons
so I don't know if the standard in boot.bin could have give any trouble to
dosemu)
Write to me if I can help you.
Lazaro
Hi,
DOSEMU
I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb
yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an
image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist -
renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the latter to
Hi,
DOSEMU
I installed (not without some minor problems) dosemu_0.60.1-3.deb
yesterday. It couldn't boot from the real floppy so I had to create an
image of it in /var/lib/dosemu/bdisk as suggested in the config.dist -
renamed to /etc/dosemu.conf. I also had to modify the
Please, don't threat with the microstuffit :-)
Concerning your not very specific question here is my rule of Thumb:
No matter how large your HD is you will end up filling it.
seriously, you may want look at the Debian FAQ revamped recently (great
job!) under any debian mirror in
Yes Dave,
You can have Debian Linux on your compaq. This is from a previous posting I
sent to this list:
I find this LOADLIN scheme a very flexible one. I find the related DOS
applications rdev, pfdisk and ext2tools good companions to this DOS
booting scheme. A DOS readln or readkey utility
You only need to copy the kernel image to the DOS partition, for example:
cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.6 ./dos/vmlinuz
Then when you've booted DOS type (make a batch :-)
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
Or have alook at the loadlin documentation.
Some tips for advanced use of this boot
Hi Ken,
Yes.. I know that should have made in a different way and yours is one of the
possibilities (provided that there are not files beginning with two dots like
/home/lds/..a_weird_name_for a file. I know that under the ksh I could have
used
# cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds:users .[!.]*
(reposting looking forward to get some answers)
Hi Debian-users,
Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/... are set to
Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet.
-
Hi,
Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of
Hi,
Anybody can help me, please? I really need to be sure how to fix this.
Logged as root I did:
# cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds.users * ; ls -laR | more
and noticing that I forgot to change the ownership of the (hidden) dot files
I typed:
# chown -R lds:users ~/.*
Uc! the `*' expands
When I installed Debian 2 days ago, I was wishing that instead of the 3
base floppies, it could at least use a .tar.gz file containing
the same stuff somewhere on an existing ext2 partition. A small change
(?) like that would make the install a lot easier.
It is possible to do so. you have
What about modifying the options in the file /etc/adduser.conf?
Btw, there is a typo in that file equivilant (AFAIR) instead of
equivalent ... does that qualify for a bug Ian? ;-)
Lazaro
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re:
Alan wrote:
Subject: Installing Linux over a LAN
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at cclink
Date:11.08.96 06:16
The is a nice page about setting a micro-lan in
http://www.panix.com/~hypertyp/tcpip/tcpstart.html
The example is given for a mac connected to a Linux box
have a nice
Hi jj,
You are lucky! we must be the only Debian Linux users with the same mouse
and graphic card on this planet :-). From reading your mail it seems you have
gone all the way through it... Oooops!!! Wait a minute. Try:
# gpm -t 'bm' -m /dev/inportbm
Remember from the busmouse HOWTO: one
Phil, Michael,
Maybe pstree (and friends mentioned in the man page) can help you to trace
the problem
Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: shutdown: non-existing PID
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at
Hi Jay,
There have been some postings (since the 1.1.2 release) to this list
reporting the same problem. Check last week's ones as I sent a kind of
reports-log. I heard of no answers so I am not sure whther we are
exceptions# to the rule.
My solution was to reinstall 1.1 (stable tree)
To exactly know which library a given command (say foo) needs you can try
$ ldd foo
If you don't find the library referenced ( e.g. library_name) in your
system with:
$ find / library_name)
you can locate that library by
$ zgrep library_name Contents.gz
so you can install the
Hi,
where is local/binary ??
I _think_ is a local filesystem or directory where you put your
any extra package which is not present under the stable|contrib|non-free
tree. For example you can put ther
a) Your own packages like a custom kernel created out of the kernel-source
and
The latex related packages were not in 1.1.2
You can find the changes in Changelog under /buzz-updates/..
If you read the messages will notice that stable, Debian-1.1.x and
Debian-1.1-fixed _always_ are just links to the real files, no matter
what the value of x. You can zgrep ls-lR.z at the
- dpkg-ftp is a separate program under projects/experimental (chek withint
the zgrep ls-lR.gz (only 100Kb ;-)
- yes dselect will do itif you have all or just what you know you need.
My experience is that you never now exactly all the dependencies so if you
don't have all Anyway you can
Hi
I would like to have a floating Debian system on my external SCSI HD.
At home I have no (network ...yet :) and at work I have a connection through
ethenet. I think have resolved all the details except a proper network
connection. At install, I said I had network and gave the IP addres of: my
Hi
The DOS+LOADLIN solution is in my opinion a very practical and safe one. I read
much safer than LILO somewhere and some time ago, but I cannot recall why nor
if it has changed with the last versions of LILO for which horror histories
abound. Anybody knows?
There is however at least one
-Lazaro Salem (that's me) wrote last Sunday:
I think that is related to something I noticed today when trying to
install Debian 1.1.1 with the installation disks set 1996_7_14
(whatch out! I did not say 1996-07-14 boot disk set which corresponds to
the new Debian 1.1.2 just released
I changed the subject of this posting because I want to follow this
thread now:
On 29.07.96 17:27 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject: Re: Is buzz-fixed (- stable- Debian-1.1.x - Debian ) FIXE
..
...
Lazaro
P.S. It would be nice to have quickstart guide at hand to help Debian
newcomers
On 29.07.96 17:27 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject: Re: Is buzz-fixed (- stable- Debian-1.1.x - Debian )
...
At 10:44 PM 7/26/96 +0200, you wrote:
In my opinion (hope I am wrong) the buzz-fixed/ tree under
ftp.debian.org:/debian/ and the other directories pointing to it
through
This is what I found from the debian-announce mailing list
Date: 20 Jul 96 18:01 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: stable
Urgency: High
Maintainer: Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: procps
Version: 1.01a-1
LAzaro
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I got also a seg fault but may be because I was using the VC #2 to mount
other partitions floppy HD msdos and Linux ext2 :-)
But that happen before installing the system (I was just trying yo copy
base1_1.tgz to avoid installing from floppies. In a second attemt I
succeeded. That was
Well, a simple test to see whether (whichever) Linux kernel can recognize
the busmouse is by reading the booting screeen. If the busmouse detection
has been compiled in you should see at the very beggining just a few lines
after the Loading ... :
Bus mouse detected and configured
If
Hi again
Sorry for the typos in my previous posting.
Subject: Re: Seg faulting on installation of base...
Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:28.07.96 18:02
Errata:
or... keep trying. just read that Debian 1.1.2 was realesed.
PLease check that the new release is under
Nopp... it was not a mirror. As I said in my post I was pointing to
ftp.debian.org. If you check there, there has been som reorganization
during Friday and Saturday by Maor. Read a previous posting by Guy
announcing the release of 1.1.2.
Follow this thread... I am checking things now and
As Guy says,
Wait a few days before downloading.
Things are not yet (IMHO) completely fixed _everywhere_ or at best
slightly confusing. To make it clear, and as Guy announced, the new boot
set is:
Changes from Debian-1.1.1 are:
base-1.1.0-14
boot-floppies-1.1.1-10
boot
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, David J. Evans wrote:
I've recently switched from RedHat to Debian 1.1 and am
experiencing problems with X. I had previously run X
successfully on Redhat and so assumed that there would be
no problem.
...
Fatal server
I think that is related to something I noticed today when trying to
install Debian 1.1.1 with the installation disks set 1996_7_14
(whatch out! I did not say 1996-07-14 boot disk set which corresponds to
the new Debian 1.1.2 just released yesterday).
When configuring the system during
Maybe you want to check a related article in the August issue of the Linux
Journal (www.ssc.com) or point your browser to www.lasermoon.com for the
Linux FT 1.2 distribution.
cheers,
lazaro
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Subject: impact of
Hi,
This is more for the mirror mantainers... but also for the impatient users:
In my opinion (hope I am wrong) the buzz-fixed/ tree under
ftp.debian.org:/debian/ and the other directories pointing to it through
symlinks (including stable/) do NOT reflect the changes made under
buzz-updates/
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