PEX and XIE

1996-12-26 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hello, all! A little question: *What is* PEX and XIE? I tried to find this in /usr/doc/..., but don't found anything. Thanks. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222

Re: PPP Chatscript problem

1996-12-26 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Looking at your chat script and log, I don't think the problem is in the chatscript. If you look at the log, you'll see: Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis chat[369]: CONNECT 1400/ This is the suspicious part... 1400 baud? in the MS Windows example you show: CONNECT 9600/RAQ/V32/LAPM So the answer

Re: libXt.so.6

1996-12-26 Thread A. Paul Heely Jr.
On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, James W. Tucker wrote: I've installed Debian 1.2 from scratch but dpkg indicates that it can't find libXt.so.6 when I try to install the texbin package. I did I've had exactly the same problem, so it might be common. I

Where is make-kpkg?

1996-12-26 Thread Martin Soto
Hello all: I tried to generate a custom kernel package using kernel-source-2.0.27. The included documentation asked for invocation of make-kpkg to generate the package, however I wasn't able to find that program in my system and no package in Debian 1.2 seems to contain it. Do I still need

Re: EGA driver for Xfree ?

1996-12-26 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Some hours ago, I sent a reply to this message, but didn't see a copy of it on the debian mailing list, so I'm resending it. I hope someone can make use of the information provided. I have a driver for the EGA monitor/card that works under XFree86 3.2.1, or the latest version. Currently

mirror up-to-dateness report

1996-12-26 Thread Bruce Perens
I am experimenting with a script that audits the up-to-dateness of Debian FTP mirror systems. Here's my report so far: Site NameTimestamp of Debian Archive aij.st.hmc.edu Wed Dec 25 04:20:29 UTC 1996 chaos.xtn.net Wed Dec 25 04:20:29 UTC 1996 debian.med.miami.eduWed Dec 25

Re: Where is make-kpkg?

1996-12-26 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Martin -- You asked: Do I still need make-kpkg for generating a kernel package? Well, not absolutely, but it sure is a handy tool. If so, where can I find it? It's in Debian-1.2/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_3.03.deb You can find out which debian archive file ('.deb' file) contains a

Abuse on Debian 1.2

1996-12-26 Thread Gith
Has anyone gotten Abuse to work on a fresh install of Debian 1.2 ? -- - Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/

Bull's Eye! (Re: Syslogd trouble)

1996-12-26 Thread F. Fernandez
Thank you all that answered my questions about syslog repeated messages. It really was the news lines in syslog.conf. Just commenting them worked out the problem. Thank you again, and happy new year for all! Fernando -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

CTRL/ALT/+|-

1996-12-26 Thread Angel Leyva
Hi all, I am wondering why I can't switch the resolution of my monitor using the CTRL/ALT and + or -. In XF86Setup, I chose to allow this, but am unable to. What would prevent this? I have a Standard IBM 8512-001 monitor. I know that I had this working at one time. Thanx Angel Leyva ([EMAIL

Re: Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop

1996-12-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Greetings! History: Toshiba Tecra laptops (at least the 710, 720, and 730) can't boot the bzImage rescue disk. I mailed a patch (from http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/) to Bruce and this problem might be fixed on the next set of boot disks. I got Debian 1.2 up on my Tecra 730 by

bug in ctime()?

1996-12-26 Thread Benedikt Eric Heinen
Hi there, I suppose I found a bug in libc (V5.2.18 - don't have a newer version around, maybe someone else can check the newer version), but according to the ctime man page the following source yields a wrong result: /* ** ctime.c ** ** Author : Benedikt Eric Heinen (beh) ** Date:

Re: bug in ctime()?

1996-12-26 Thread Rob Leslie
Benedikt Eric Heinen writes: I suppose I found a bug in libc (V5.2.18 - don't have a newer version around, maybe someone else can check the newer version), but according to the ctime man page the following source yields a wrong result: [... ctime(0) ...] The result for this is: Thu

Re: CTRL/ALT/+|-

1996-12-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Angel Leyva wrote: I am wondering why I can't switch the resolution of my monitor using the CTRL/ALT and + or -. In XF86Setup, I chose to allow this, but am unable to. What would prevent this? A long shot, but: Assuming that you're running a depth (8, 16, 24 or 32bit)

files...

1996-12-26 Thread racquadro
Hi! I am new on Linux. I've got some files called x.deb What's the meanning of .DEB? And how can I copy files from a floppy disk to a hard disk (in DOS we use copy a:*.* c:\dir). How can I do it on Linux? Can Linux read an ASCII file that is saved on a floppy that DOS had

Re: files...

1996-12-26 Thread Martin Konold
On Thu, 26 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi! I am new on Linux. I've got some files called x.deb What's the meanning of .DEB? And how can I copy files It is a debian package file. To be used by dpkg or better dselect. from a floppy disk to a hard disk (in

.fvwm2rc

1996-12-26 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi. For a long time past, in the ages of Debian 1.1, there was a default .fvwm2rc, which I like more than the new one. Can anyone send an attached copy of that original to me? Thanks. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL

Help generating a boot disk for install

1996-12-26 Thread James W. Lynch
I'm trying to install a new disk drive and would like to take the 5 disk set I currently have that I used to initially install Debian and replace the boot disk with one with a custom kernel. I tried a make zdisk, followed by a rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0. No dice. It booted OK, but after it

.DEB files

1996-12-26 Thread racquadro
I have some .DEB files, but I'm with some problems when I install it. It skip the mailtool.deb and sendmail.deb. How can I install these two files? (I'm using DSELECT program). Where can I find the MCOPY program? Rogerio -- TO

Re: Help generating a boot disk for install

1996-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
I'm trying to install a new disk drive and would like to take the 5 disk set I currently have that I used to initially install Debian and replace the boot disk with one with a custom kernel. I tried a make zdisk, followed by a rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0. Just read readme.txt on the bootdisk

Installing 1.2 on a headless machine

1996-12-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I am trying to install Debian 1.2 on a computer without a display. This machine has successfully been running Linux for some time, using Miguel van Smoorenburg's excellent serial console patch. I compiled a 2.0.27 kernel as specified in readme.txt on the December 8, 1996 Rescue disk. I

Re: cdrom problem during installation

1996-12-26 Thread Alex Lobkovsky
I did not have a CD at hand so they way I circumvented the problem was to kept opening the CD door until the installation program resumed somehow. On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Gee, these CD drivers are no fun at all. Did you try placing a CD in the drive? (or removing the CD?).

Re: Installing 1.2 on a headless machine

1996-12-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.2 on a computer without a display. This machine has successfully been running Linux for some time, using Miguel van Smoorenburg's excellent serial console patch. I compiled a 2.0.27 kernel as specified in readme.txt on the

Re: Installing 1.2 on a headless machine

1996-12-26 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I wrote: ]I'm confused as to the start-up sequence of the Rescue disk... ] ldlinux loads root.bin and linux, then passes execution to linux, ] with the specified boot-time parameters. The kernel uncompresses itself ] and initializes the drivers etc. It then uncompresses root.bin and ] mounts