Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Richard A Nelson writes: Has anyone setup lprng to print to a win95 shared printer? The printer in question is a HP DeskJet 870. I've been printing to the printer locally, but had to move the printer to a box that runs mostly lose 95. If you haven't already installed SAMBA, you should do

SoundBlaster Vibra16 card

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Sorry about getting in the tail end of this thread. I just went round and round with this very same card. I have it working under Debian. This is what I had to do: 1) Go into the BIOS - PNP/ISA menu and turn off the Is there a PNP OS installed? option. Doing this forces the BIOS to assign default

Re: Printing on win95

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Brant Wells writes: Howdy all... I've got samba set up to where I can print to a shared printer... But the files have to be text files, and I have to do it manually from the smb: prompt :( WP8 will go through the motions, but will not print to the printer... I created a script

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-29 Thread tko
Stan Brown writes: I am having a reproducable problem with WP*. It must be a clinet side library problem, since it ccurs even on remote X servers. If you go to Format, and select Labels then select a label, and press OK WP says an X server error has occured. Popushell

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread tko
Charles Collicutt writes: [snip] I'm going to wait a bit longer before I make up my mind, but the temptation to let the Winborg empire assimilate me is getting stronger - which is a shame because you guys are a hell of a lot nicer than your Thanks for the kudos. average Windows luser :) If

Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]

1998-12-13 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid modeline. Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). --

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-11 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [problem with capturing error messages from X server] Christain, invoke 'script' before running 'startx'. When you get back to the command line prompt (from startx), invoke 'exit' and everything which appeared on your screen will be captured in a text file called

Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread tko
Rino Mardo writes: So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-05 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: Hi all, I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, Sorry about that, I was clouding the issue with my previous answer. OK, you will need to setup UUCP on both machines. One of the machine will have

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-03 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: Hi all, I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, however I will try to discribe the problem shortly. At the very initial stage of communication chat script is getting NO CARRIER and exit. At the

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread tko
Rodrigo Moya writes: Hi all! I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the configuration I've got: Windows-hostname: windows.cyllan.com IP address: 192.168.1.2

Re: cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM

1998-11-08 Thread tko
Jason Lunz writes: [snip] I do have the generic SCSI driver installed (as a module, sg.o), and the only other lead I've found from reading stuff in /usr/doc/cdda2wav is that I might need to define something with /dev/MAKEDEV, but I can find devices 21,(0-6) which correspond to sg(0-6), You

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-02 Thread tko
George Bonser writes: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even changed the exports

Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?)

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Eric Webb writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:43:05 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?): Nick Lucent writes: -- Start of PGP signed section. On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Eric Webb wrote: check

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Bruce Jackson writes: George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same time now, maybe in the future. Solaris complains

Re: phantom in diald queue

1998-10-21 Thread tko
David S. Zelinsky writes: Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying phantom in the packet queue. It's usually something like: some.remote.address/80 = stale.local.address/1234 evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is the

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-21 Thread tko
Moore, Paul writes: From:Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello: Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald) which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the link based on idle time. Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main

more diald madness

1998-10-21 Thread tko
I reported earlier that adding the hostname to the /etc/hosts file entry would stop the repeated dialdings. I found out to my chagrin, that the problem was not solved. I reread the diald.faq file and tried this solution: 1) shutdown diald 2) edit /etc/diald/diald.options and make the local IP a

Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-18 Thread tko
Michael Beattie writes: I imagine you have no NIC? If so, then for people that do, probably dont need to do this. e.g.: No Sir, I do have a NIC installed. I'm using an unrouted address (192.168.x.x) And diald was doing the dirty deed 8-) inspite of the additional information in my /etc/hosts

diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-17 Thread tko
I asked on the list if anyone could tell me how to find what process was connecting to a socket. lsof looked promising but did not work as advertised in it's documentation. However, I did some detective work and found that diald was the culprit. Here's how it happens: diald is started by the init

Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)

1998-10-12 Thread tko
Helge Hafting writes: [snip] Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you can run standard executables like ls and such? To run the a.out file, use ./a.out instead of only a.out The same

look up process

1998-10-12 Thread tko
I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the /var/log/ppp.log showed something connecting to local (127.0.0.1) and sending a DNS request (port 53 on destination IP). Is there a way to query a connection to find out which process is doing the connection? I'd sure like to know

diald

1998-10-08 Thread tko
How do I get diald to ignore a non-routable lan address like 192.168.x.x ? I had a situation were I was pinging the nodes in my 192.168.x.x lan and one machine was off-line. Diald started dialing when IMHO, it should have ignored the packet. So, I must have something not correctly configured. The

june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-28 Thread tko
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the debian binary disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL boot doc stable READ_CD.txt

new SCSI driver

1998-09-25 Thread tko
I purchased a new PCI based SCSI card locally and was dismayed to find that the 2.0.3x kernels did not support this card. I went surfing and found the linux ready driver for this card (source code no less!) So my question here is: What do I have to do to fully integrate this new SCSI driver into

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?

1998-09-22 Thread tko
Edward J Young writes: [snip] I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. Try a fresh format on all 7 floppies (full format, not the quick format). All it takes is one flakey sector on the floppy to torpedo you. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas

Re: Copying files over samba

1998-09-13 Thread tko
Jieyao writes: Hi, I am thinking of doing something as follows... I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice

Re: SAMBA: multiple connections, same login

1998-09-11 Thread tko
bmorgan writes: I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've got several users connecting to the samba server for IP printing to jet-direct boxes. Right now, I've got my SMB.CONF file set so that it

Re: cdrom ??

1998-09-09 Thread tko
spOOL writes: I was reading your response to the question about the hdc: no response (status = 0xd0) at boot. I have this same problem. I think it may have occurred after I installed the wrong PIIX4 drivers for my motherboard. Now win95, doesn't like my Should be straight forward to replace

Re: hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)

1998-09-03 Thread tko
Zlatko Rek writes: I've installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 on a new machine from CD. The basic installation went OK, until I made a reboot. After that, the CD drive is not recognized (boot from floppy or disk): ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at

Re: majordomo

1998-09-02 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello folks :-) Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a list), but I does not understand the step 7: -- 7) Now

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread tko
Kennedy Mutio writes: I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc and changed them. I might have done this wrong but does

Re: [ale] SB16 PnP Problems

1998-08-17 Thread tko
Benjamin Dixon writes: I've never been able to get my SB16 ViBra Pnp to work. Using sndconfig I alaways get dsp reset failed. I'm pretty certain my isapnp.conf file is set up correctly as I see information pertaining to it just before I see the sound driver loading. When I try to play a

Re: Starting Over

1998-08-12 Thread tko
Marcus Johnson writes: [snip] On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable Hamm using LSL's version of the official 2.0 release. Everything went swimmingly until I got to right before dselect/dpkg where it asks you to pick which installation type you want. I picked

CPAN modules

1998-08-03 Thread tko
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...--

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread tko
Steve Lamb writes: On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a win95 system? Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. That fabulous, great, decent OS loses it's mind! You see, all

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win', they 'lost') C.J.LAWSON writes: On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an

Re: linux software

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Geoff Brimhall writes: Create a binary file, that contains the bit you want. The on the shell command line, execute the following command: cat binary_file_name /dev/lp1. or whichever device is your printer. If you store the word as a sequence of 10 bytes, you could simulate a serial

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-25 Thread tko
Keith writes: [snip] I need some more help with this problem. Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to. I think you have found the problem. Here is what it says in my /etc/init.d/boot # Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread tko
Keith writes: My time is still not right. My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what I get: debian# clock Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 --- If I type date this is what I get debian# date Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998

Re: hdparm

1998-07-18 Thread tko
Gary L. Hennigan writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin Oldfield writes: | | | I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE | controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: | | IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). | | The

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Martin Oldfield writes: I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). The drives are older: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800,

FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working

1998-07-09 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: Check that you did include support for IDE/ATAPI cd-roms and enchanced IDE/MMF/RLL support. Also check that did you include support for SCSI- emulation. One thing could be that some card goes to irq 15 in boot and messes things up. If those do not help, try

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but

Re: Missing (files)

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Brandon Mitchell writes: On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Syed Huq wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ All the files are there except base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin. Instead of these, I see the files base-1.bin ... base-5.bin. Q1)Should I download the base-1.bin ...

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-06 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-03 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to

IDE stopped working

1998-07-02 Thread tko
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary

memory leak

1998-06-25 Thread tko
Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or two, I'm dipping into the swap space and the

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread tko
Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux guru is

Re: .maildelivery, to: line, exmh, spam

1998-06-22 Thread tko
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a to: or cc: in the header, and that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner. But looking through the exmh documentation about

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-22 Thread tko
David Wright writes: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I

Re: print permissions

1998-06-17 Thread tko
Hamish Moffatt writes: On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: How can I control who can print and who can't? I am guessing, but I guess you could put everyone who may print in the lp group, and remove the setgid bit on /usr/bin/lpr* -- but then those users will be

Re: A must read for all Linux and computer lovers

1998-06-17 Thread tko
Shaleh writes: There is an article from a month or so ago on Salon Magazine's site by Ellen Ullman. She discusses her trip into the world without Microsoft from a techie point of view. It is an absolute must read for anyone who wants to know why, rather than just use something. The URL

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-16 Thread tko
Jens Ritter writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Timothy C. Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'd like to know if there is a tool that

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-08 Thread tko
Timothy C. Phan writes: Hi, I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file to mp3 file! Thanks! Go to www.8hz.com They have a FREE wave to mp3 converter. I've used it and it works pretty slick. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK

Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected

1998-05-26 Thread tko
Stefan Kunkel writes: Hi I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected my Yamaha CDR-102 ! When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the Recorder with the LUN of 1 and tries

Re: samba

1998-05-15 Thread tko
Timothy C. Phan writes: Hi, I've trying to work on the samba for file/directory sharing from my Linux box to NT without any luck. Would someone please tell me which doc in the /usr/doc/samba to look at? Thanks! I just want other PC can read file from /pub/debian in this case.

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but how does one install StarOffice for multiple users? I've downloaded common, english, and statbin tarballs of StarOffice. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
Disregard my previous request for help. I figured it out. 1) un-tar the files in /usr/local (as root), 2) cd to the new directory StarOffice-3.1 and run : ./setup /net as your normal login account. When prompted for a directory to store the files, use the default. Worked slick as a button and

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Paul Miller writes: [snip] hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is

1998-04-21 Thread tko
DAVID B. TEAGUE writes: [snip] HEAR HEAR! This is not inappropriate discussion for the Deb User list. I too play double bass myself (or bass violin as Professor Murray Grodner called it, and the folk who succeeded Professor Grodner and his wife at Lemur Music call it as well.)

Re: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Alistair Phillips writes: Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new ultra-DMA IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to multiple SCSI

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it was bootable. So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as now it is /dev/hdc (that

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] Why have two DOS bootable drives? In my experience, DOS only likes to see one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable DOS drive _must_ be the first one detectable by DOS. This is the setup of my three drives

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: Hi, I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up with: # lilo Added linux * Added

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a

Re: Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-11 Thread tko
Michael Acklin writes: Hello, I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. I was wondering if anyone

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

1998-04-06 Thread tko
Klaus Wacker writes: [snip] Thanks for you reply. Strangely enough, the original problem of all physical ram being allocated was solved by upgrading the kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.33 Just wanted everyone to know 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL

kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-06 Thread tko
Since I've upgraded to this kernel(2.0.33), whenever a vfat partition is mounted, the kernel complains about not being able to find NLS charset cp437 module. I haven't found anywhere in the menuconfig options a listing for that module. Any hints as to where one can find it? -- -= Sent by

swap space

1998-04-02 Thread tko
I asked earlier on this list about why memory is sucked up into buffers. I appreciate the answers and thank everyone who responded. Now I have a new question: why won't the kernel release the swap space that it apparently needed sometime earlier? The kernel is 2.0.30 Here's a snapshot of

Re: sdram and linux

1998-03-30 Thread tko
tony mollica writes: Hi. Just looking for a little more info. Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually).

why does the kernel suck up memory?

1998-03-30 Thread tko
I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into buffers. Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary behavior? I'm trying to keep from using swap space. Once a swap partition is

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-22 Thread tko
Manoj Srivastava writes: Well, some one has indeed moved on to wider Horizons. The ex-project leader of Debian, who is very widely respected, has indeed left the project, and we are poorer for that. No argument about that. 8-) But then, everything changes and adapts (or it

multi-tray IDE CDrom drives

1998-03-18 Thread tko
Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probably with different mounting points) 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-16 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: howdy all.:-) Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot system with LILO as boot manager. cfdisk shows: /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux

Re: netscape install

1998-03-14 Thread tko
tony mollica writes: I have used the netscape install scripts to install 4.03 and then upgrade to 4.04 without any problems at all. Of course, dpkg doesn't know it's there, but netscape communicator works just fine. Instructions are in the readme files in the downloaded .tar.gz.

Re: tiff to rla?

1998-03-14 Thread tko
Bruce Dobrin writes: Thanks for the suggestion, Are there different versions? The version of I= magemake (convert) that I have will read rla's but not write them You may want to check with the Debian maintainer and/or the upstream maintainer/developer to see if a newer version

default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks. -- -=

netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installed? --

Re: AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread tko
iquest writes: Hi, Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? xanim works very well! You will find it in the non-free section on a debian ftp site like ftp.debian.org -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread tko
Britton writes: [snip] Sorry, can't help you with fetchmail, Yet 8-) Some related questions: Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are: I use UUCP and wanted to do the same sort of

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread tko
P. D. Tisdale writes: I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread tko
Ivan Ines Rojas writes: Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the ppp-on and ppp-off files. I have no idea if I did

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

1998-02-24 Thread tko
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: Hi all, Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, No stupid questions, just information requests 8-) Anyhow, to answer your question, hamm is a project name for the _next_ stable release of Debian. The current stable release is bo. Debian provides 2 kinds

Re: xdm?

1998-02-19 Thread tko
Christopher Jason Morrone writes: I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to change no-start-xdm no-xdm-start-server into start-xdm xdm-start-server abd then I rebooted. It said starting xdm but there's no X login screen. Whats up? (I tried

Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread tko
How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked dir, the sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the

majordomo package

1998-02-06 Thread tko
When I upgraded the majordomo package to the current release, it broke the existing majordomo setup. I've straightened it out, but what a hassle! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ...

dual mode?

1998-02-06 Thread tko
I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports dual mode. So, what is dual mode? And does one need dual mode to run Debian under SMP kernel option? Or can one use non-Intel processors? -- -= Sent by Debian

Re: E-mail server setup

1998-02-06 Thread tko
eugene mendoza writes: I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which has sendmail ver 8.6.12. I've a subdomain of my own. What is the simplest way of doing this? The email will be stored on the linux server which will also be a name server and provide other services. Much

Re: ImageMagick Guru

1998-02-05 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is as follows: the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an=20 mogrify -geometry x%=20 i get an image with 8 bit/sample. I've search the man page without success. Please Help. It's very critical. Tryman convert The

Re: permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread tko
Catalin Popescu writes: I have the following permissions for uucico: -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico (directly or via a script), but don't know what I'm doing wrong. [snip] Please

Re: PGP Which?

1998-01-28 Thread tko
Ben Pfaff writes: pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i. Just curious, but why must a US based

Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!

1998-01-28 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and it still comes up with the same message! Could you

Re: Xresources

1998-01-27 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? No, that list would be far too large. Many programs have a file in How large is too large? 8-) /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that contains some

Xresources

1998-01-26 Thread tko
Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: X and the All-In-Wonder (ATI)

1998-01-24 Thread tko
Robert LaGrasse writes: Hi all, Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Server for the Mach64 family of video cards found on www.suse.de will work with the ATI All-in-Wonder 4MB card, and lists this card specifically (along with every other Mach64 card you can think of). Big

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-23 Thread tko
Ivan Rojas writes: Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but I'm stil in trouble with it. I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select Win95 ( default ) it will

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