On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
Things will calm down 2 or 3 weeks after release.
Then you can make your changes and nobody will moan.
Yes, I think that's what I'll do.
Guy
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with
the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting
files across floppies.
You have to install dpkg-ftp.
After much hunting, I found this in /debian/project/experimental
which mirror did you find this on? i just tried caldera, and it's not
there. I've accidentally removed it from one of my machines, and am
trying to move the files from the other . . .
rick
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
also, i couldn't find pine/pico anywhere on the debian tree. i was
Because of a new, restrictive copyright, the pine package now lives in the
non-free section :-(
what about including the older, free, version as a package?
As I understand
i'm having rcp problems with nfs. unfortuneately, i have now idea what
rcp is.
ONe of the machines gets a response of
# /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start
Starting remote filesystem services: nfsd mountd ugidd pcnfsd bwnfsd
rpc: RPC: U
nable to receive; errno = Connection refused
while starting (
Hello again,
Firstly thank you to all those that responded to my first question.
Hopefully this one will not be as trivial.
On the Windows NT network, I am trying to connect to another machine.
Using the Windows Fro Workgroups there is a terminal emulation/connection
software called
I'm rather new to Debian, so this may seem trivial. It certainly is
frustrating. I was in an X session and wanted to switch to another console.
I figured out that Ctrl+Alt+Fn will work. However, I can't switch back.
'who' says that I am using the ttyp0 console. How do I switch to it?
Any help
Is it possible to start an X session from the shell?
Also, does X allow multiple sessions at once?
Thanks In Advance,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Noam Rettig wrote:
I'm rather new to Debian, so this may seem trivial. It certainly is
frustrating. I was in an X session and wanted to switch to another console.
I figured out that Ctrl+Alt+Fn will work. However, I can't switch back.
'who' says that I am using the
HELP! I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93. Now whenever I try to
run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
like xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry, or Terminal type
vt100 is unknown. I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and
Kevin -
That'd work; I had this grim problem. If fact (beware: tale of
hardship :-) to install most of my Debian system, I had to sneakernet
the .deb files via msdos floppies from a _Mac_ with net access, and
which could only fit ~850K on the disks. So, I ran 'split' on them on
my unix ISP
Is it possible to start an X session from the shell?
yes. type startx at the command line, as any user, and the machine is
transformed. you can end with alt-ctl-backspace.
Also, does X allow multiple sessions at once?
what do you mean by this. you can have multiple windows open. type
Is it possible to start an X session from the shell?
yes. type startx at the command line, as any user, and the machine is
transformed. you can end with alt-ctl-backspace.
Also, does X allow multiple sessions at once?
what do you mean by this. you can have multiple windows open.
HELP! I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93. Now whenever I try to
run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
like xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry, or Terminal type
vt100 is unknown. I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and
I love the kernel-package thing; but the other day I used it to install a
kernel and the vmlinuz.old kernel was not in boot (I deleted it
accidentally).
The system would not boot -- may I humbly suggest that the install process
for the generated package checks if lilo returns an error and throws
Here's a message I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], before I discovered
and signed on to this list. Has anyone else encountered this? If yes,
what was your solution? Thanks.
// Begin Forwarded Message:
I'm working on an installation of 1.11, specifically the 1996_6_11
version.
Rick Hawkins said:
You have to install dpkg-ftp.
After much hunting, I found this in /debian/project/experimental
which mirror did you find this on? i just tried caldera, and it's not
there. I've accidentally removed it from one of my machines, and am
trying to move the files from
hello,
i havew an old 386dx pc and i was thinking about learning about http
servers, it has 4mb of ram and iwas wondering if it would be possible to
use this a a learning platform?
allan
David Gaudine writes:
psfonts
There's gsfonts, fonts for ghostscript. Is that what you mean?
I got some sort of can't find psfonts error, I forget the details,
when I was using a bad copy of one of the package in the tex directory.
I can't check the name of the package now,
Hi Rick,
ONe of the machines gets a response of
# /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start
Starting remote filesystem services: nfsd mountd ugidd pcnfsd bwnfsd
rpc: RPC: U
nable to receive; errno = Connection refused
Is your rpc.portmap running? It should be started from /etc/init.d/netbase.
while
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
As I understand it, there can not be two versions of the same package in
the same archive.
Ok, how about the same solution Debian uses for gnu gs versa Alladin gs?
Yours,
martin
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Noam Rettig wrote:
I'm rather new to Debian, so this may seem trivial. It certainly is
frustrating. I was in an X session and wanted to switch to another console.
I figured out that Ctrl+Alt+Fn will work. However, I can't switch back.
'who' says that I am using the
I have installed the new 1.1 and everything went fine except for the
majordomo package. I get
Failed to create group majordom:
adduser: the user you specified already exist
when I try to run dpkg --install with the majordomo.deb file.
All in all I am very pleased with the new Debian. Thanks
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:
Or, if you are desparate and foolish enough (and have a lot of memory),
you -can- run multiple X servers on different virtual consoles. I've
done this in the past. I don't recommend it.
I run multiple X servers (at different bit depths) on different
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
Still don't know where this termcap file comes from. It's also on my
Debian system at home and also belongs to no installed package.
It was a conffile of 0.93r6 base. It's not used by any package, and
it's safe to delete it. If you need termcap
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Dear Debianists:
While we're on the subject, does anyone have any suggestions as to
why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X?
I was running a 0.93R6 system, started X with xdm from a (non-root,
I think) command line, but could't get out as advertised. I tried
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Dear Debianites:
Let me clarify my previous post... (I just thought to go back and
try it for accuracy---maybe next time I'll think to do so *before*
posting :-).)
why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X?
Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''?
I tried a fresh install of 1.1 Beta using the 11 June 1996 disks.
The installation disks worked quite well, including modules configuration.
The core dump in configuring the net/ modules is indeed gone. My
/etc/modules file is also now properly populated with the modules I selected.
Good job.
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Max Hyre wrote:
Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs,
X does indeed appear to die---everything goes black, I see the virtual
terminal from which I started xdm momentarily, then I'm back in X
again.
Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended
Dear Debianites:
Let me clarify my previous post... (I just thought to go back and
try it for accuracy---maybe next time I'll think to do so *before*
posting :-).)
why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X?
Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs,
X does
Any ideas why there is still a tin package in the 'contrib' dir, when there is
already one in buzz/binary/news?
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Dear readers:
Thanks for the info!
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome's [EMAIL PROTECTED] answer got to
me first:
Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended for. xdm tries to keep an
xserver running permanently, so that you can always login to the system
The Packages file for 'buzz' still references all packages to the 'unstable'
directory. Is this a bug?
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Buddha Buck wrote:
Is it possible to start an X session from the shell?
yes. type startx at the command line, as any user, and the machine is
transformed. you can end with alt-ctl-backspace.
Also, does X allow multiple sessions at once?
what do you mean by this. you can
Andy Dougherty wrote:
I tried a fresh install of 1.1 Beta using the 11 June 1996 disks.
The installation disks worked quite well, including modules configuration.
The core dump in configuring the net/ modules is indeed gone. My
/etc/modules file is also now properly populated with the
Rick Hawkins writes:
one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
.xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have
one that looks like:
#! /bin/sh
Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have
one that looks like:
#! /bin/sh
sh $HOME/.xinitrc
Or just
ln -s .xinitrc .xsession
which has worked fine for me.
I do the same for .Xdefaults - .Xresources,
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
The Packages file for 'buzz' still references all packages to the 'unstable'
directory. Is this a bug?
Being fixed.
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
Any ideas why there is still a tin package in the 'contrib' dir, when there is
already one in buzz/binary/news?
Fixed. Thanks.
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Chris Walker wrote:
Andy Dougherty wrote:
I tried a fresh install of 1.1 Beta using the 11 June 1996 disks.
1. My PS/2 mouse no longer works. I'll try to track this down today.
Try compiling the kernel with PS/2 mouse support in the kernel, rather than
as a
Chris Walker said:
Andy Dougherty wrote:
1. My PS/2 mouse no longer works. I'll try to track this down today.
Try compiling the kernel with PS/2 mouse support in the kernel, rather than
as a module. I can't use the kernel-image-1.99.7 for this reason, as lack of
mouse support seems to
Andy Dougherty wrote:
1. My PS/2 mouse no longer works. I'll try to track this down today.
If you cannot find psaux.o and misc.o in /lib/modules/misc/ , then
you probably have to build them yourself. If you have them, then
add the line 'psaux.o' to your /etc/modules file.
This is my problem
Yves Arrouye wrote:
:
: Rick Hawkins writes:
: one more, probably minor thing: with it set up for xdm, it ignores the
: .xinitrc file in my home directory. am i missing something obvious?
:
: When one uses xdm, the .xsession file is used instead. You can just have
: one that looks like:
:
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