Re: Formatting umsdos partitions

1996-12-18 Thread Allan Anderson
Try using the vfat filesystem type. I think that this should work...I have it running (as a module) and it let me download a lot of stuff onto a FAT partition under NT 4.0 that saved everything with those nice filenames...works swimmingly. In the absence of an effective general mythology, each

Re: damn network cards

1996-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Pete Templin, you wrote: Alright, I'm getting nowhere but poorer and more frustrated everyday. The DEC netcard which came with my P133 wasn't supported. The Intel I bought wasn't supported. The 3c905 which I bought requires compiling a custom kernel, but I

rawrite under nt - bad things happen...

1996-12-18 Thread David_Oswald
hello all ... Has anybody else out there tried to run rawrite/rawrite2 under NT ? I get this message when running rawrite: ... Number of sectors per track for this disk is 18 Writing image to drive A: Press ^C to abort. Attempt to DMA

virtual mail domains...

1996-12-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: Now that exim is making it's debut in Debian, I'd like to try it out... I looked at the docs from it's home site, but the Virtual Domain stuff was not real obvious. Can someone who is using it (anyone?) post a quick example on setting up a

1.2 installation cache problem

1996-12-18 Thread Fred Sammet
I recently installed version 1.1 (successfully) and while going back to re-install for a new ethernet card, I trashed my installation boot disk. Since I could not find a replacement for 1.1 on the Debian ftp site, I decided it was a good time to install 1.2 so I downloaded all the files for

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-18 Thread Richard Morin
I am in need of some advice about how to go about moving some of the directories off of my main partition and onto one I just made. /dev/hda4 is currently mounted / /dev/hda8 is currently mounted /tmpmount I'd like to be able to move /home, /root, /lib, /bin, and a couple others over

Aargh, what´s eating my serial IRQs?

1996-12-18 Thread Thomas Baetzler
I have a strange problem with a newly configured Debian system. The hardware is an Asus P55TP4 with a P166 CPU, a 3com 509b pp, 2940UW, ATI Mach64, no IDE drives. This system works fine under NT3.51. On Linux, however, there´s no Mouse support. The pnp card is configured by the BIOS and can be

Re: 1.2 installation, more notes

1996-12-18 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
I installed the system myself this weekend, and here are my notes. On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: I have been installing Debian little by little so I could see what's going on. Here's the most recent findings. o XFSetup didn't work. The configuration utility seemed to work

Problems with XF86

1996-12-18 Thread Dave Power
I've been working to get XF86 running on a Dell Optiplex 5133 without much luck. Nothing seems to allow me to access the mouse. So far it's not been possible to get either gpm or XF86 to see it. We have tried many combinations and all except /dev/ttyS0 have given an error that the mouse device

Re: Need 1.1 - 1.2 upgrade instructions

1996-12-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Matthew Swift wrote: I have searched the Debian web page and the ftp hierarchy and been unable to find any instructions on upgrading to 1.2 from 1.1, except for a cryptic sentence in the README in the upgrades directory -- the rest of the documentation there is

Re: 1.2 installation cache problem

1996-12-18 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Sammet) Partition check: hda: hda1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Couldn't get a free page.. out of memoryVFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) init: cache '/etc/ld.so.cache' is corrupt Once you get the Couldn't get a free page... you're sunk.

Re: Formatting umsdos partitions

1996-12-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Debian packages on a Win95 formatted disk and need to transfer them to a Linux formatted disk. These packages have the long filenames, they were not downloaded from the msdos directory. However when I try to access the files directly from

Re: 1.2 installation, more notes

1996-12-18 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Prashanth Mundkur [EMAIL PROTECTED] o I have an annoying problem with the login prompt. After booting, the first prompt I get is Password: and not Username:. This happens on the console, and not on the virtual terms. However, when I logout of any terminal, console or virtual, the term

Re: icmpinfo (old thread)

1996-12-18 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
I am responding to a request which was posted about a month ago... I can read the first 3 lines of each output, they represent two ip headers, (icmp errors reflect the ip header which caused the error back, as part of their reply). I do not know what the bytes after the first 3 lines

Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS autodetects it, but locks up on boot. If I disable hard drive in CMOS, boots ok,

Re: Problems with XF86

1996-12-18 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Dave Power wrote: I've been working to get XF86 running on a Dell Optiplex 5133 without much luck. Nothing seems to allow me to access the mouse. So far it's not been possible to get either gpm or XF86 to see it. We have tried many combinations and all except

Debian 1.3 ?

1996-12-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey What's up for 1.3? Anyone already thinking about it? Just getting larger? // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // -- Never make any mistaeks -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

can't load library

1996-12-18 Thread Angel Leyva
Sorry to bother the entire list, but I need to ask someone. I loaded some x games and am trying to run them. The error I am getting states as follows: xinvaders: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' I know that there is a library environment variable that needs to be defined to the /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: packard bell monitor

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Ortal Alpert wrote: I am trying to install a packard bell monitor (model PB8538SVGA) but have no knoledge about it's character (Hfreq Vfreq max-resolution etc...) if there is someone else using this monitor (which is about 3-4 years old, the model # is written on the

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Daniel Stringfield, you wrote: I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS autodetects it, but locks

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... Tim Pointed Lynx to www.wdc.com before I hit the reply button! thanks! --

Re: can't load library

1996-12-18 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Angel Leyva wrote: xinvaders: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' I know that there is a library environment variable that needs to be defined to the /usr/X11R6/lib but don't know what it is, nor do I know how to set it in the bash environment. Any help would be

Re: can't load library

1996-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Sorry to bother the entire list, but I need to ask someone. I loaded some x games and am trying to run them. The error I am getting states as follows: xinvaders: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' I know that there is a library environment variable that needs to be defined to the

network route disappearing: http calls = culprit?

1996-12-18 Thread John M. Rulnick
Could anyone with a working ethernet connection send me a tarball of their debian networking setup files (e.g., by executing the following -- ready to cut and paste!): tar cvf - /etc/init.d /etc/networks /etc/host* /etc/resolv.conf \ /etc/gateways | gzip -9 | uuencode net.tgz net.u

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Christian Meder
// Begin ZetnetPPP.Dip \\ #!/usr/sbin/dip netmask 255.255.255.0 get $mtu 1006 get $remote 194.73.161.1 port modem speed 38400 parity N databits 8 stopbits 1 flush send \r\n\r\n send ATZ\r wait OK 2 send atdt0345573793\r flush wait

Anyone still waiting to be a Debian developer?

1996-12-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Are there any people still waiting to get their developer accounts, or any who have their developer accounts but are not on all of the developer mailing lists? I'm trying to catch up with work I deferred during the release. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date. I then through it in my 486dx4/100 box

Re: Q: dselect and FTP

1996-12-18 Thread Christian Meder
I've been installing, purging, etc several packages with dselect. After quitting I wanted to install some other thing and, to my surprise, ftp is no longer available as an Access method (just cdrom, nfs, harddisk, mounted, floppy). Probably I did something wrong when installing things,

Re: Problems with XF86

1996-12-18 Thread Dave Power
Thanks for the information. That does sound like the solution. Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

missing ethernet drivers

1996-12-18 Thread Chad Zimmerman
I just completed the 1.2 upgrade of a local college's web server, but when I did the system reboot this morning I lost all networking. Couldn't see the machine from anywhere else and couldn't see out from the machine. Did some checking... the network file in /etc/init.d is still set

pppd only works once per reboot

1996-12-18 Thread Nick Busigin
I have run into a strange problem with a Debian machine I am setting up in my workplace. pppd only works once after a re-boot and then subsequent attempts to run pppd result in chat timing out and exiting on an alarm. What's strange, is that I can run chat from the bash shell's command line

Debian Logo proposal

1996-12-18 Thread Ralf Leeb
Hi, I made logo for Debian, and would appreciate some feedback. A few versions are on http://www.cris.com/~ral/debian.htm Have already submitted some pix to www.debian.org. Please let me know what you think. Ralf Unsolicited

Bug#6047: badly initialized union in gcc include file

1996-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2.1-2 -- Please describe the problems with the package here Found a small syntactical blunder in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/include/float.h: /* float.h */ #ifndef _FLOAT_H___ #define _FLOAT_H___ /* Produced by enquire version 4.3, CWI, Amsterdam */ [...]

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Fingers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Meder) Subject: Re: DIP to PPP ? To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:54:48 -0500 (EST) The /etc/ppp/chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ATZ OK

apropos core dumps

1996-12-18 Thread Eduardo Diaz Comellas
Hi! I installed debian 1.14 a few weeks ago, and have found some problems. 1.- apropos finishes with a core dump, and there is no makewhatis command. 2.- mc fails to work saying that there is no libgpm.so 3.- I canot run executor, as I need libgdbm.so.2, and there is no package

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date.

Re: No dependancy information for modules with kernel 2.0.27

1996-12-18 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote: CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y ^^ Its generally a good idea _not_ to enable modversions. There should be more info on it in the readme stuff with the kernel source. That's why this is

Video card

1996-12-18 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH
Hello, I've got a Matrox Mystique video cards which seems not to be supported by Xfree86. Have anyone information about it ? Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Video card

1996-12-18 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
The people who did the Matrox Millennium port for the XFree86 have a set of W3 pages at http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html . Here's an excerpt from the FAQ that tells about XFree86 3.2 and the status of the other Matrox cards: At this stage, there are no immediate plans for

Installing RPMs

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in debian 1.2 via an alien program or something of the sort. Where can I obtain this? Thanx, Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video card

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: Hello, I've got a Matrox Mystique video cards which seems not to be supported by Xfree86. Have anyone information about it ? Thanks Franck In fact, XFree86 supports only the Millenium card. I

Re: Installing RPMs

1996-12-18 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
It seems to be in package 'debmake' section 'devel'. There is version 1.95 in stable and 2.13 in unstable. Haven't used it myself though. I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in debian 1.2 via an alien program or something of the sort. Where can I obtain this? //

Re: spam filter - ENOUGH MAIL PLEASE STOP!

1996-12-18 Thread Nick Busigin
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I had no idea how enthusiastic a following the Spam Filter has. I think I have a large enough sample now. Bruce, Are you planning on publishing your spam filter? I for one would like to implement it on mailing lists I run on one of my machines. Best

pppd only works once per reboot

1996-12-18 Thread Nick Busigin
I sent this message last night around mid-night but it doesn't seem to have made it to the list as of this morning. So, I'm resending it. My appologies if two of these messages suddenly show up on the list. Nick -- Forwarded message --

Re: Installing RPMs

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Vatiainen Heikki wrote: It seems to be in package 'debmake' section 'devel'. There is version 1.95 in stable and 2.13 in unstable. Haven't used it myself though. I remember hearing that it was possible to install RPM packages in debian 1.2 via an alien program or something of the sort.

SMC Etherpower

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hi. Is there anybody that's using Debian and two computers talking to each other through two SMC Etherpower cards, without a hub in between i. e. through a twisted TP cable? Please give me some advice how to make it work! aTdHvAaNnKcSe,

spam filter as a debian package

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Konold
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Nick Busigin wrote: Are you planning on publishing your spam filter? I for one would like to implement it on mailing lists I run on one of my machines. I would like to get it published as a debian package for proclist/smartlist. Is this possible? Bruce? Yours, -- martin

Re: SMC Etherpower

1996-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Martin Stromberg, you wrote: Hi. Is there anybody that's using Debian and two computers talking to each other through two SMC Etherpower cards, without a hub in between i. e. through a twisted TP cable? Please give me some advice how to make it work! You have to

X clients problem

1996-12-18 Thread Olivier BOUSQUET
I've just installed the Debian 1.2 distibution with X11 packages, including xlib6, xbase, xcompat, and a few others. Everything is going ok when I start the X server but when I try to run programs such as ghostview or fvwm, I get the error message : can't load library libXt.so.6 (or another lib

Re: X clients problem

1996-12-18 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
Add '/usr/X11R6/lib' to the '/etc/ld.so.conf' file and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' as root after that. With the latter you should see all the libraries, including libXt.so.6 listed as the cache and appropriate links for the runtime linker (ld.so) are created. This is a known bug,

X clients problem fixed

1996-12-18 Thread Olivier BOUSQUET
Hi again, I've added /usr/X11R6/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf and all is running now, thank you Heikki for you quick answer. Olivier BOUSQUET (x50.68) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] The /etc/ppp/chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ATZ OK ATDT0345573793 CONNECT loginZETppp\r ame Christopher Bond\r umber1234-567-89\r11\rpassword\r The

Re: DIP to PPP ?

1996-12-18 Thread Christian Meder
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Meder) Subject: Re: DIP to PPP ? To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:54:48 -0500 (EST) The /etc/ppp/chatscript: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ATZ OK

badly initialized union in gcc include file (fwd)

1996-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Rejected by the spam filter when I first sent it... I would appreciate any email feedback from the list. Forwarded message: From branden Wed Dec 18 01:34:35 1996 Subject: badly initialized union in gcc include file To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:34:35 -0500 (EST) Cc:

Network

1996-12-18 Thread racquadro
Hi! I have the Debian Linux installed on my PC, but I want to know how can I make a Telnet connection from a Windows 3.1 system to Linux. Where can I get the TCP/IP configuration for Windows and Linux. I want to know what's the E-Mail address for me to send my questions to the mailing

Does the list send the sender a copy?

1996-12-18 Thread Nick Busigin
I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts been rejected

Re: SMC Etherpower

1996-12-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Martin Stromberg wrote: Hi. Is there anybody that's using Debian and two computers talking to each other through two SMC Etherpower cards, without a hub in between i. e. through a twisted TP cable? Please give me some advice how to make it work! aTdHvAaNnKcSe,

stubborn innd problem wont go away... HELP!

1996-12-18 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, I'm getting frustrated with this... :( Every night my news server will basically stop because it gets throttled. I keep getting the error innd: SERVER throttle File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling I've upgraded to inn 1.5 in the hopes of clearing some of this

lprm job; permission denied!?

1996-12-18 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Is there some 'one who understands why lprm in Debian 1.2 doesn't work as normal user? Even if a normal user is put into the lp-group there is following error message: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/zar/tmp$ lpq -Pps04 ps04 is ready and printing Rank

Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to be included. Thanx Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network

1996-12-18 Thread hakan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have the Debian Linux installed on my PC, but I want to know how can I make a Telnet connection from a Windows 3.1 system to Linux. Where can I get the TCP/IP configuration for Windows and Linux. If you

Re: Network

1996-12-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
At 01:03 PM 12/18/96 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have the Debian Linux installed on my PC, but I want to know how can I make a Telnet connection from a Windows 3.1 system to Linux. Where can I get the TCP/IP configuration for Windows and Linux. I want to know what's the E-Mail

Mail and Write

1996-12-18 Thread racquadro
I want to know where can I find the Mail and Write utilities for Linux. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mSQL

1996-12-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Anyone getting mSQL to work? Is it possible to import databases that are created by exporting it from Oracle Server 7 ? thanx for your help // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // -- Never make any mistaeks -- -- TO

Large Harddrive Problems

1996-12-18 Thread Paul Rightley
I just bought a new Maxtor 3.5G drive on which I am going to put Debian 1.2 at home (I already have Debian at work). My motherboard at home is from early-mid 1995 and supports a Pentium 120. The Award BIOS (which definitely supports LBA) detects the new Maxtor and gives the correct settings,

Re: Does the list send the sender a copy?

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts been

Warm Boot Problems

1996-12-18 Thread Michael Bucciarelli
I seem to be having trouble booting with Debian version 1.2. Hardware: 486 sx-40 (AMD) 20 M memory 820 M Seagate HD using DM when in Dos When I cold boot (reset button) The boot floppy will load and run When I WARM boot, (shutdown and restart) the loader hangs at the word 'David' when loading

Re: Mail and Write

1996-12-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know where can I find the Mail and Write utilities for Linux. I'm not really clear on what you are looking for. Mail tools fall into two catagories: Those for delivery, and those for reading. Debian provides several delivery

RE: virtual mail domains... long-winded response

1996-12-18 Thread Al Youngwerth
[ snip ] We do virtual domains with POP3 here by using a custom local mailer and a modified version of qpopper. The first step is to create a virtual_pop transport, then a virtual_pop director, e.g. This seems crazy to me. Originally, this was that approach I was going to take. However,

Re: Large Harddrive Problems

1996-12-18 Thread racquadro
Have you tried to use the Fdisk of Microsoft insted using Linux Fdisk? Trie this program. And good luck. P.S.: Trie to format the Hard Disk on the BIOS program. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Bug#6050: Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-18 Thread John C. Ruttenberg
Package: Resque.bin Version: 1.2 ... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it and then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. Has anyone seen a similar problem?

Re: Realtek RTL8029

1996-12-18 Thread Miro Torrielli
Toens Bueker wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: I need help on installing this ethernet card, as the drivers don't seem to be included. I don't know, but I think I installed one today. Is yours a pci-card? Can you give me a chip-number? Mine was eventually driven by

XF86Setup, it did work

1996-12-18 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
A couple of days ago I complained about XF86Setup not working. The setup program worked all the time but I failed to use it right. In the monitor section XF86Setup asks for the horizontal and vertical sync values. There are default values for the standard VGA which are 31.5 for hsync and 60

Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-18 Thread John C. Ruttenberg
... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it and then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. Has anyone seen a similar problem? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

WANTED: pthreads package

1996-12-18 Thread Zachary DeAquila
anyone feel like taking a shot at a libpthreads package? I'm thinking of the kernel threads library, not the userthreads one that's already there. Or is it already incorported into some base package someplace? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Bizarre hard drive

1996-12-18 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Someone gave me a spare 2.3GB drive to use, but it's got 534byte sectors... which wreaks all sorts of mayhem: neither linux or DOS fdisk will touch it. I'd like to reformat it to 512 bytes/sector, etc... any ideas? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Yet another logo proposal

1996-12-18 Thread Jimmer ENDRES
Um, I couldn't help but try my hand at the logo business. http://www.pitt.edu/~jbest2/debian-logo/ Could someone tell me where and to whom I submit this? Yours, Jimmer. -- Jimmer ENDRES [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~jbest2/ Department of Biological Sciences, University of

WANTED: MMDF Package

1996-12-18 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Someone was telling me that MMDF was a really good MTA, but that it was kind of a pain to configure; I was thinking that a debian package would probably remove most of this pain. any volunteers? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Bizarre hard drive

1996-12-18 Thread racquadro
Trie to format under BIOS. It could help you Rogerio -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ethernet drivers

1996-12-18 Thread Chad Zimmerman
Where can I find the ethernet drivers so that I can install them and get my computer on the network again. When I updated to 1.2... I lost my access to our network. So, I need to find and reinstall them, any ideas? Chad Chad D. Zimmerman Editor: Web-Zine --

help getting 1.2 rescue to boot

1996-12-18 Thread Michael Roberts {x66748 CF/DEV}
I'm trying to boot the Debian 1.2 rescure disk on a Gateway 2000 system and it's hanging in the boot process. (I already have an older version on Linux (non-Debian) running on this box.) It's hanging while probing for CDROM drives. The last few lines I see are: Sony CDU-535: probing base

Re: WANTED: pthreads package

1996-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Zachary DeAquila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone feel like taking a shot at a libpthreads package? I'm thinking of the kernel threads library, not the userthreads one that's already there. Or is it already incorported into some base package someplace? Done, just hasn't worked its way out

Re: help getting 1.2 rescue to boot

1996-12-18 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
You are not the only person with this problem. This was asked about a week ago and here is Bruce Perens's answer dug from the mailing list archive: [cut] For now, please boot your system with the command: linux reserve=0x340 or linux cm206=0x350 Where 0x350

Re: mt I/O error w/ HP T1000 tape drive.

1996-12-18 Thread Martin Stromberg
Hello all, I get I/O errors when I attempt to mt -f /dev/nrft0 fsf # my HP/Colorado T1000 tape drive. I'm gonna guess it's either not a supported action or a bug, but it doesn't really matter. Is there any easy workaround for this problem, preferable one which integrates

Re: Ethernet drivers

1996-12-18 Thread Don Prezioso
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Chad Zimmerman wrote: Where can I find the ethernet drivers so that I can install them and get my computer on the network again. When I updated to 1.2... I lost my access to our network. So, I need to find and reinstall them, any ideas? Chad Chad D. Zimmerman

Re: rawrite under nt - bad things happen...

1996-12-18 Thread Don Prezioso
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAWRITE2.EXE actually locks my NT box up solid! Goes straight to a blue screen with the white letters telling me some message... got to push the red button... David, I ran RAWRITE2 on my NT 4.0 Workstation with no problems.

Re: Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
John C. Ruttenberg wrote: ... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it and then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. Has anyone seen a similar problem? -- I had a similar problem on a Panasonic

Re: Console blanks trying to install 1.2 from floppies...

1996-12-18 Thread John C. Ruttenberg
Jens B. Jorgensen: John C. Ruttenberg wrote: ... on a Micron Mellenia Transport notebook. It gets as far as probing for a Sanyo CDROM and starting to initialize it and then the screen goes blank and seems to relight it. Has anyone seen a similar problem? -- I had a

Re: rawrite under nt - bad things happen...

1996-12-18 Thread James W. Tucker
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:08:50 -0500 (), you wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAWRITE2.EXE actually locks my NT box up solid! Goes straight to a blue screen with the white letters telling me some message... got to push the red button... David, I ran

Re: Bizarre hard drive

1996-12-18 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Uh, it's a SCSI drive and my BIOS dun do SCSI... and my SCSI controller is an Adaptec 1522, kind of old and crufty and with no BIOS of its own. --Zachary On Wednesday, Dec 18, 1996, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trie to format under BIOS. It could help you

Sound module

1996-12-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hej all, I recently put up Debian on my machine, and think that it's a good system. There is one thing, that I would like to mention, on the new stable kernel release 2.0.27. I was using the debian 2.0.6 before, and after upgrading the sound module disappeared. Some other modules,

NE 2000 cards

1996-12-18 Thread racquadro
I have the Debian Linux 1.2 instaled on my PC and I want to know how ca n I configure it for a NE2000 network card. Which program may I use? Rogerio -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems with XF86

1996-12-18 Thread System Account
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Prashanth Mundkur wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Dave Power wrote: I've been working to get XF86 running on a Dell Optiplex 5133 without much luck. Nothing seems to allow me to access the mouse. So far it's not been possible to get either gpm or XF86 to see it. We

java trouble

1996-12-18 Thread Olivier BOUSQUET
Hi I would appreciate any feedback from the list : I've tried to install the JDK package for Debian-1.2 and I can't run the appletviewer. I've installed motifnls, tk42, netscape, and other packages and I have checked the presence of libawt.so in the /usr/lib/jdk/i686/ directory. I've also