Re: pdf files

Hi, The heavy duty solution is Adobe's Acrobat Reader. take it from www.adobe.com The free solution is xpdf, comes as a debian package already, or as of recently - Aladdin's gs (ghostscript 4.03) comes also packaged for your debian installation (you are using one, don't you ;-) This isn't

Re: ncftp. Current boot disks

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: I need clarification on two issues: [nsip] * I need to file a bug report for ncftp-2.4.2: the get -R command is not excecuted, I only get the prompt for the next command. Few days ago I was looking at a debian bug list. Now that I

Re: NTFS Filesystems

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote: Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? Work is being done on a NTFS driver for

nfs dselect problem

I have three debian machines here. One of them has a whole lot of packages I downloaded in a directory. I start up NFS on this machine, run dselect on another. Use the NFS method, I point the main directory to be mounted as the directory containing the packages. I then say the various

problem with ldso, after upgrade to 1.2

This problem goes away, after I reboot the system, i.e shutdown now -r But this time I have the follow error message when I run pppd: Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support I can run PPP in 1.1, before I upgrade to 1.2. May be I need to recompile the kernel again to include PPP support

new boot floppies being uploaded

I am uploading a new boot floppy set 1996-12-8. Fixed are: The inittab bug. The sysvinit package changed and I didn't notice. modconf complaints about tset, * in ipv4 menu, bad drawing in fs menu. /dev/MAKEDEV complained about its configuration file. /root/.bashrc

Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?

At 04:56 PM 12/6/96 +0800, you wrote: Brian there a FAQ I could read about how to get 'over the hump' - Brian _from_ a base installation _to_ where the dpkg-ftp is working Brian and I'm able to download by modem? I think after the base install, all you need is the ppp package from /debian/net,

Re: Virtual Hosting

On Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:50:56 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but what is a virtual host? (and what would be the advantages to having one?) A virtual host is a supplemental name attached to a machine. Typically ISP which host web services (www.yourcompany.com) don't have a

X11 3.2

This is gonna be a dumb question... you've been warned.. I've just been running on too little sleep... I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong?

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote: The whole idea for the non-free area is that it belongs to programs with difficult copyright notices such as

Re: X11 3.2

I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong? I'm too tired to think anymore tonight.. It's in xserver-vga16. I'm inclined to consider this a

RE: pdf files

This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files in linux? Thanks -lars -- My sig file is only one line long! Wow I have an answer! Your choices are two: 1) xpdf or 2) Adobe acrobat. If you just want to read single .pdf files, I would go for xpdf. If you have a tree

can't find /dev/hdc, misdetected during bootup

During bootup from the 1.2 rescue disk, Debian sees my two hard drives (identical Western Digital 1.2GB units, as primary master and secondary master, with Sony CDU-311 as secondary slave) differently than the BIOS does, and different from each other. They're identical, but Linux sees them as

Re: A newbie recursion problem...:-))))

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: 30*20MB=600MB swap needed to be safe... I thought Linux had a limit of 128M of swap (on Intel hardware). Is this no longer true? Also, are there any known problems with using multiple swap partitions, each on a different drive? Thanks, --Pete

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

What I would like to see added to non-free (more than stable/unstable) is the copyright files for each package, already unpacked, so the packages don't need to be unpacked to be investigated. This would make it a lot less work determining which packages might be included under various

Re: X11 3.2

Tim Sailer wrote: I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong? I'm too tired to think anymore tonight.. Tim I just installed 'frozen-rex'

modules

Bruce Perens writes: [snip] It's now possible to build a kernel with little more than the ramdisk and console drivers and load everything else including the driver for the root disk from a module (see the initrd documentation). That means that the user can put together an efficient kernel

ppp problems

Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config requests. My ISP account works fine

two things

anyone have some words of wisdom? 1) When I do a reboot or shutdown, my system will hang. This hangup is intermittant. I've installed the buzz release, would upgrading to rex solve this? 2) I'm now seeing messages off of this list showing a M in the left side of the menu. Going into the message

Re: Some notes on Debian experiences

Alan == Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan During the process of upgrading, I inadvertently deleted the Alan entire /usr/info directory. My own fault, as I freely and Alan readily accept. However, I was not ready for what happened Alan next: when I upgraded gcc and cpp (as I

3c905 driver?

Can anyone tell me how to use my 3com 905 network interface card with Debian 1.2? Thanks, --Pete ___ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell

PGP

From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Which one should I be using? -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Infomagic CD

I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll have space. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A

Re: ncftp. Current boot disks

From: Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] The symbolic link ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/rex/disks-i386/current is pointing at 1996-11-28/, instead of 1996-12-7/. I think that is incorrect. Once the mirror is up to date it will point at 1996-12-8. Note that's 8, not 7. The 1996-12-7 disks were

Re: can't find /dev/hdc, misdetected during bootup

I uploaded a 1996-12-8 disk set with hd[a-f][0-20]. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

1996-12-8 boot floppies uploaded

The 1996-12-7 boot floppies have been withdrawn. The 1996-12-8 floppy set will be in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen/disks-i386/1996-12-8 as soon as the mirror runs. These are hopefully the final boot floppies for Debian 1.2.0, please test them. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: problem with ldso, after upgrade to 1.2

It's not ldso. Add the following to /etc/modules and reboot: serial ppp Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO

FSP Archives?

Are there any FSP sites containing Debian mirriors? -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master pgpE0DMBqhaWQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: POPmail and procmail

When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail seems to process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient' from my ISP, it doesn't seem to be running the .forward file. Does anyone have this same situation. Maybe I am beating my head against a brick wall for nothing.

Re: PGP

Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US. Is this right? Yes. Which one should I be using? Which country are you in? I know of several

Re: POPmail and procmail

Daniel Stringfield wrote: When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail seems to process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient' from my ISP, it doesn't seem to be running the .forward file. Does anyone have this same situation. Maybe I am beating my head against

Re: send only sendmail/smail

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: How do I disable smail/sendmail, either during or after installation, so that it can only be used to send mail to the mail server, and will not try to retrieve mail as well? Neither program RETRIEVES mail. They only accept mail that is directly sent to

RE: pdf files

Lars, What you need is a copy of the Adobe Acrobat viewer software. The viewer software allows you the view the PDF files, and is copyrighted but provided free of charge by Adobe (i.e., you are legally allowed to upload and use it without $$ to be exchanged; you will not be able to create of

Re: Virtual Hosting

I should like to mention at this point that there's supposed to be some movement toward a convention of the browser notifying the server of what host *name* it looked up to get there. So, you could have all the names go to one IP and the browsers would say I was trying to connect to

Suggestion for dselect/dpkg...

I recently upgraded a bunch of packages on my Debian box and I had to go though about 10-15 epsiodes of: You already have a copy of /etc/foo.bar N or O To keep your old copy... Y or I To install package maintainer's version Z To fork a shell to investigate In *every* case, I

Re: Virtual Hosting

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: I should like to mention at this point that there's supposed to be some movement toward a convention of the browser notifying the server of what host *name* it looked up to get there. So, you could have all the names go to one IP and the browsers

Re: Pine procmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! Thanks Nic for your hints, I have two errors in my files one in IFS command and the other in the 'backup line' (I put the c flag after the second column)... But now I'm trying to resend a filtered mail and all I get is this: - From crow Mon Dec 9

Help! I'm with mount problems...

Hello! I'm new to the Linux Wonderfull World, and surfing the Web, I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and an energy problem caused the system to display this message when the computer rebooted: