default kernel too much

1997-01-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
How can I load a kernel which doesn't check for all those things I don't have (eg, mcd, APACHE, some BIOS32 extensions...). -- terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephones: home: 818-844-6401 360 S. Euclid Ave #124, Pasadena, CA 91101 /o)\fax: 213-740-5687

Re: Newbie question on serial ports in Linux - please help!

1997-01-04 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
Mikael == Mikael Bendtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mikael And by which device should I call my modem which is Mikael connected to the second serial port? /dev/cua1 or Mikael /dev/ttyS1? Where can I find out more about this? The Linux guru community seems to be divided on

RE: Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-04 Thread winspace
In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said: Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? = the latest install set is hmmm how can i put this smile there was no ftp in a new 1.2 installation, this makes it extremely difficult to install imho based on

how to unmount before turn-off

1997-01-04 Thread Terrence M. Brannon
Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly, check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have done first? -- terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephones: home: 818-844-6401 360 S. Euclid Ave #124, Pasadena, CA 91101 /o)\fax:

ftp site problems

1997-01-04 Thread Eric Budd
I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error that says: Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed successfully. And it won't d/l them. I'm using MSIE 3.0.

Re: Missing: resq1200.bin

1997-01-04 Thread Sven Rudolph
Greg Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Rudolph wrote: Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org. I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-boot/ Thanks,

Re: Install questions

1997-01-04 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrence M. Brannon) wrote: - dselect - can only search for package names, not sections. - suggestion: allow search for sections Yes! Please! I kept meaning to ask for this. - kinda slow: any way for it to omit all of the Skipping deselected

How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-04 Thread Walter Tautz
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper than a *quality* tape system? Just curious too hear opinions

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Orn E. Hansen
The system time on my Debian PC is 1hour ahead of local time. That makes me think the timezone was not setup properly. What is the command for setting the time on a running system? Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should I set CMOS time to GMT and

Re: this mailing list

1997-01-04 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Anybody out there? I've not received any discussion/comment on this mailing for almost 1 month now. Has the list been up? The list is up and running. Not a heavy list, but definitely has traffic on a daily basis. |This is OFFICIAL

Re: can't load library libXt.so.6

1997-01-04 Thread hakan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the following error message: mf: can't load library libXt.so.6 I've done some poking around and from Contents found that this file is included in

Problem using Ghostscript with Mosaic

1997-01-04 Thread Bill Roman
I'm having a frustrating and probably trivial problem. I would like to print some Postscript which I generated with Save As... in Mosaic. It looks fine when I preview it with Ghostview, but the top and bottom of the page are clipped off when I use gs to render it for my printer. Printing starts

Re: Missing: resq1200.bin

1997-01-04 Thread Greg Vence
Sven Rudolph wrote: Gregory Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org. I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-boot/ You have to create an additional root disk; the README

Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys

1997-01-04 Thread Steve Dunham
Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under X windows? It's right in the man page for xmodmap: In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2 you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and use the old

Help please: installation of TeTeX on a Debian machine.

1997-01-04 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hello Debianites. I've seen discussions regarding this issue before. I have a Debian machine at work which needs to be a reliable platform for Scientific documment processing in TeX/LaTeX. Given my current frustration in dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX

Re: back on list (I think)

1997-01-04 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi. I'll answer the questions that I know. 1. Texbin installation failed because Kpathsea could not convert some Metafont. There was a bug report on this but I could not find the resolution. This Texbin installation failure also caused the latex installation to failed. Add

Re: kernel recompile

1997-01-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I just tried to recompile the 2.0.27 and everything seemed to go ok. I rebooted and got the following errors: Jan 2 14:47:04 timberwolf insmod: tty_register_ldisc: wrong version or undefined Jan 2 14:47:05 timberwolf

Re: Interviews...

1997-01-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model. I've compiled and run the Fresco96 release successfully on my debian system. Once I find some time, I plan on

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Roesch) writes: Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should I set CMOS time to GMT and use some sort of timezone info (which I don't know how to setup)? Or?? # as root unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set it

Re: can't load library libXt.so.6

1997-01-04 Thread Alex Chamberlain
I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the following error message: mf: can't load library libXt.so.6 I had exactly the same problem. The fix is to add /usr/X11R6/lib to the list of directories in /etc/ld.so.conf. Then run /sbin/ldconfig as root. This tells ld

Re: can't load library libXt.so.6

1997-01-04 Thread Knight
At 10:06 AM 1/3/97 -0800, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the following error message: mf: can't load library libXt.so.6 I've done some poking around and from Contents found that this file is included in xlib6. I've both tried reinstalling that

OK to install across 2 HDs?

1997-01-04 Thread TandMark
Howdy! I suppose it's a silly question, but one I haven't seen mentioned in the documentation yet: I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks. hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB. Would it be possible to put /, /var, /swap, /home, and (perhaps /local or /pub, which

Curious thing about 1.1 - 1.2 upgrade problems

1997-01-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the version was 0.95r6 or something like that. I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading 1.1 - 1.2. One reason may be that I just don't

Where did ctlinnd go?

1997-01-04 Thread Joe Emenaker
For reasons I won't go into, I had to purge INN and reinstall. I re-installed from unstable to find that the program that controls the config, ctlinnd, is not on the system. Was it taken out of the package? Why? - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Bugs archive

1997-01-04 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Looking at 5% of 179K (stalled) isn't an uplifting experience, when you're looking for the reported bugs of some specific package. Would it be possible to either split up the Debian bug report logs - index by package page (by first letter of the package) or provide a system for searching the