Two versions
Probably a dumb question. I just installed a new HD on this system and wish to try the testing distribution. I will install it in a partition of the new disk (hdb1) while keaving my old srage distro on the older disk (hda2). My question then is Will Grub see the new disrtribution and add it or will it just overwrite my old boot sector and leave me unable to get back into sarge? Thanks Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: DVD Writers
David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:35:38 +0200 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is off-topic, but I am using a Debian box ;-) but can anyone recommend a decent DVD writer? Not off topic at all. Mine is a dual layer that came from CompUSA made by LiteOn. Gives me 8x on a DVD and 48x on a CD. Hooked up on secondary IDE as master and works fine under Debian and Wingdow$. Jim
efax
Is anyone using Efax? According to Page 15 of the manpage one can add an entry to /etc/printcap and then print to efax as though it was a regular printer. It didn't work for me as expected, I was given an error message fax: No Such printer. Has anyone had success using this method and if so could someone post a correct /etc/printcap entry. Many thanks. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xvmount
Attempting to run xvmount, I get an error msg: can't load library 'libxview.so.3'. Doing an ls in /usr/X11R6/lib shows that in fact libxview.so.3 is there (and is a link to libxview.so.3.2.3). Something missing here? Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP doesn't like anyone but root???
Rob Browning wrote: to launch pppd. Note that you *can* use a wrapper script if you want, but you don't have to. I,ve had good results with the little C program shown in Linux Journal, May 1997, Issue #37, Page 10. Its also available for ftp from ftp.ssc.com. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer Resolution Problem -- Solved!!
Many thanks to all those from 3 lists who responded to this problem. What I wound up doing was to run magicfilterconfig as root and choose the ljet2plo filter provided for printers with low memory. Printing PS files from Netscape Mail, Netscape Browser or ghostview works fine now at 150 dpi. Some smaller fonts are a little ragged around the edges, but the printouts are clear and readable. Many thanks again for the help. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer Resolution Problem.
I have a printing problem using Netscape under Linux. When I print a page, either from Netscape Mail or from the browser, my printer burps with a Page Overflow error. I believe this is caused by several things. First my printer is a Star LS-5 which is running as a clone of an LJ 2P. Problem with this is a LJ 2P came with 1Meg of RAM and mine only has 512K. Secondly, Netscape, either Mail or Browser, prints thru Ghostscript. (I checked this with Top while it was printing) Thus a page printed at the default 300dpi resolution can overrun the memory. I can work around this in Winders95 by reducing the print resolution to 150 dpi, but I don't see any way to do this in Linux. Is there a config file for either Netscape or Ghostscript(-Aladdin) that will allow this? I read the online help for Netscape and the man for GS but must have missed it if it was there. Thanks in advance Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer Resolution Problem.
Forgot to mention that I'm using Magicfilter, maybe the resolution can be reduced to 150 dpi there somewhere. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Another Netscape Question
Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other things. I'm running X11R6 in 1024 x 768 24bpp, Linux 2.0.30, Cirrus clgd5426. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Colors and Packages overview
alfred de Groot wrote: Recently I switched from Slackware to Debian. What I miss are the colors wich indicates directorys and other special files. How can I get those colors back? Try alias ls=ls -color=auto in your .bashrc. Second question is how can I get a overview of installed packages, before instaling new packages? Do a dpkg -l | more (or less) to list them on your screen. dpkg -l installed.txt will create a file which you can then open with any editor or print out for a hard copy. --- Alfred de Groot Nog in het gelukkige bezit van een kabelmodem, nog wel. Cable Modems in Holland? I'm jealous. Luck... Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Paul McDermott wrote: yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at this file and see if it helps you Paul Ps. Good luck. I hope this helps and let me know if i can help out any further. Thanks,I'll take a look. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Richard Morin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've Jim -- dpkg -l you'll prolly want to pipe that through a less so you can actually read it... dpkg -l |less Thanks, I'll try that one next. Maybe also pipe it to a file. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Alexandre Lebrun wrote: about : listing installed unneeded packages Usually I do that with dselect. You go through the list (skipping the base package), and see every package that is installed. I find it convenient for 2 reasons : -You have a short description for the packages (in case you don't remember) -You can safely try to deselect them. deselect tells you if it breaks other packages. Then you hit 'x' and keep the package. But that's slow and will take more than an hour. Thanks for the reply, I may do just that. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: broken installation
David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of other files of the same name were redundant in several packages. What do you do in a case like this? I had that happen to me, I just went thru the stored files one by one and did a dpkg -i ***.deb and wrote down the missing depends. It was usualy one or two that were holding the whole thing up, something like ncurses or libreadline or one of those. Installing them took care of most of the problem. As your system gets more complete, you should not encounter that problem. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect for X?
Angelo Addante wrote: Hi all, Is there any project about an X-based dselect-like program? I have some experience with Tcl/tk and would like to help giving Debian Linux a tool like that. I think the best way would be to create an extension to tcl to handle /var/lib/dpkg/ stuff. Probably, having the sources of dpkg with the necessary documentation, I could embed the hi-level functions (install, remove and such) in tcl commands. The construction of a GUI would become very easy once done that. Let me know if you find it interesting ... Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm not much of a programmer, but if you build it I'll sure try to break it for you. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg Question
I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've got a full-blown Debian system here and its probably time to look at it and see what I don't need and can safely remove. Thanks, Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Downloading Debain
Turbo 'DanB' wrote: Hi, I am interested in downloading Debian, but I am running into problems... I am running Windows NT 4 currently, and have tried to download from ftp.debain.org and ftp.cdrom.com. The ftp client I am using is CuteFTP v1.8 I used CuteFTP until I had PPP working on this side of the box. I believe you can set it to treat links as files. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Java
Richard Morin wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this? Thanks... Jim -- Hi Jim, Just re-install Netscape with the debian package in the contrib section. You'll need to grab the installer for the version of Netscape you wish 3.01 or 4.??. You may need to grab the .tar.gz file from Netscape again if you don't still have it. The script requires it to be in /tmp? I think. Ya, I did that, still no luck. I went to Netscape ftp7 and got a fresh copy of both 3.01 and beta4.something, went to Debian, got the install scripts for both, put the Netscape files in /tmp, ran the scripts, both failed, did dpkg --purge netscape netscape-beta as requested, re ran them and still they failed. i'm doing something wrong if its worked for everyone else. I'll just keep the copy of Netscape I have and leave it alone. Thanks for the reply Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Java
Liem Bahneman wrote: This is what I do: (per the netscape/java howto) #!/bin/sh export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301:. export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/gnumalloc.so exec /usr/local/bin/netscape-3.01 $@ gnumalloc.so is on java.blackdown.org I believe this solves netscape crashing, in most cases - liem I'll look into this. A re-install didn't work. Many thanks... Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where can I find rawrite.exe?
Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: Where can I get rawrite.exe? I want to try it because I am having problem with rawrite2.exe. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu Take a look at http://www.cdrom.com. They carry all distributions, but not necessarily the latest ones. You might have the most luck there. You could also look at ftp://ftp.ssc.com. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I have not been able to figure out yet: 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used green on keywords, and white on err... filnames? (The colors aren't that important, but it _did_ improve readability. Try editing your .bashrc which should be in your home directory. If you do an: ALIAS ls=ls -color=auto That should do the trick. If you want your users including Root to have this you can do the same in their .bashrc files. I'm assuming your shell is bash. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xautolock
I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started. Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having trouble even finding that file. any ideas? Thanks, Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Java
I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this? I've noticed that when I do a Make Xconfig to build a kernel the selection to enable java support (CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA) is grayed out. Do I need to change something in kernel sources? Would a non-production kernel i.e. 2.1.XX help? This is not vital as I have plenty of other things to do, but things that crash programs bother me. Thanks... Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help! I messed up!
Kurt Cockrum wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like, right offhand, if you could recover an old /etc/lilo.conf, maybe from an old backup (hope your rescue disk has the stuff on it necessary to restore from a backup), or by just typing it in, you could run lilo on that and then get going with vmlinuz.old. You might need to copy vmlinuz.old to vmlinuz, if the replaced /etc/lilo.conf doesn't mention vmlinuz.old, or do some appropriate I went ahead and pased the address to vmlinuz.old and got it going that way. Temporary Brain Panic. I've since compiled one with no modules, and now I'm making one with one feature moduleized, testing it and if it works, I'll go ahead and do another one with yet another module and so on. Also something new, I've got a notepad here and am writing down every step I do, my kernel config is stored in 2 or 3 places includimg on a DOS floppy. Ya can't be too paranoid!! Thanks. Jim Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: Help! I messed up!
Glen Journeay wrote: Jim, Your scsi driver module should be located in /lib/modules/2.x.x/scsi. If you can boot up from a recover floppy then try and mount your normal root under /mnt and get at your modules (or recover your old kernel). Hope this helps. I know how this feels (since I've done it more than a few times myself :) Thanks, Glen. Actually I panicked a little too early, as I had forgotten that my append line in /etc/lilo.conf had to be in each stanza. I merely added the address param. to the boot: prompt and got it back. I re-compiled a new kernel with the scsi driver in (and a couple of other things), and now I'm experimenting with modules by making a full-featured kernel then modulizing one feature at a time to find out which ones work best as modules. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: Xwindows manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Xfree and when I start the only thing I get is one xterm and a very small menu where I can chose to quit or to run a color show program. Now is this normal ? Dont deabian create a default look like redhat dose? (fvwm2) Did you install a window manager such as twm or fvwm? What windows manger should I use? I am not loking for a special look more the one that most people is developing stuff for. If I use fvwm95 can I make my own title button to max the screen only horisontal as the default debian fvwm2 dose ? I use fvwm95, haven't tried what you are asking. I'm very satisfied with thw way fvwm95 works, its my default wm. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: Changing bit depth on X
The Gardyan wrote: How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16 bit color. Try using the command line option: startx -bpp 16. That should work with any color depth like 24 or 32. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
At 12:42 3/28/97 -0800, you wrote: Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple I think you need both the line start-xdm and xdm-start-server in your /etc/X11/config file. Well, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. And it didn't work, still that old Password: prompt top still shows xdm running though. Jim ++ Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ Linux! Where I Really went today! ++
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
At 16:57 3/28/97 -0600, you wrote: Hey, 1. Don't worry about PEX/XIE messages; they're not important. Thanks. 2. /var/log/xdm-errors often has useful information in it about problems xdm is having; perhaps you already knew that, but it never hurts to mention it. I'll look there, truthfully I forgot and was trying to work too fast. Thanks. 3. I'm assuming you can start X with startx? I wouldn't try to get xdm working until I could startx. Benn running well with startx for seeral days now since I got X set up. Many thanks... Jim ++ Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ Linux! Where I Really went today! ++
Strange ppp message
Here is the latest entry from my /var/log/ppp.log file, only the last line was copied, but that's the one I'm questioning. Mar 28 22:07:29 jim pppd [414]: Cannot determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP Don't know what it means, but I remember something about ARP from the Kernel compilation. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Another dumb newbie question.
I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple of things that could improve. I added to /etc/X11/config the line start-xfs with the result that the Xfont server now starts up at boot time. I also added the line start-xdm, in order to boot straight into the GUI, but thats not happening. A year or so ago I had Slackware doing that but I don't remember what I did. I looked at Top and verified that xdm is indeed running. The other concern I have is that I'm seeing an error message at shutdown that PIE ext. not loaded and PEX ext. not loaded. I have installed xext as well as PEX fonts. I'm using the SVGA Server. I'm plowing thru the man and doc pages but its taking hours I don't have. Any advice would be appreciated. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: Another dumb newbie question.
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jim Smith wrote: I'm slowly getting this system to do what I want, but there are a couple I think you need both the line start-xdm and xdm-start-server in your /etc/X11/config file. Well, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Re: problems with SounBlaster16
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Carlos Camargo wrote: Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize thanks carlos camargo If it is a CD-ROM which connects to the proprietary port on the soundblaster, configure the kernel to use non-scsi or ide cdroms (Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative) and edit sbpcd.h to specify the cdrom parameters. Try adding the line Append sbpcd=0x340 or whatever your cdrom port address is to your /etc/lilo.conf file. Itworks for me and mine loads as a module just fine. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
Comment
Great Redesign!!! I really like it. So much easier to find the things one wants. Jim -- Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/
