Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?

1997-02-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: wd io=0x280 irq=5 This loads the driver module at boot time for my wd8003 card - they're ... Is there a syntax listing for the /etc/modules file somewhere? I'm running a 3c509. command

Re: minor DNS problem

1997-02-18 Thread Rob MacWilliams
hi all, Sorry to come back to the list again. Just a little glitch really, but it has me stumped... I can't get IP name resolution working properly. (All I want to do is resolve IP addresses using an available nameserver.) I can connect to machines on the local ethernet fine, using

Re: minor DNS problem

1997-02-18 Thread Igor Grobman
[sorry if you get this twice, I had problems sending it out the first time] On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andrew Spencer wrote: hi all, Sorry to come back to the list again. Just a little glitch really, but it has me stumped... I can't get IP name resolution working properly. (All I want to do is

Re: super command

1997-02-18 Thread Igor Grobman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Shawn Asmussen wrote: I use super on my Debian box at home, and we used to use it at my former place of employment. I am now a system administrator for another company, and I wish to install super on the system there to use as a wrapper

Re: minor DNS problem

1997-02-18 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Hi Andrew, You wrote: Andrew I can connect to machines on the local ethernet fine, using Andrew numeric IP addresses (can't see outside the local domain, due Andrew to the firewall, but that's another story..). Also, I can Andrew connect using name instead of number for a couple of machines

What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-18 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. I've got the same messages for about 25 times now. /Mikael Hallendal -- --- E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ungraceful shutdown

1997-02-18 Thread David L. Parsley
Just HOW BAD is an ungraceful shutdown? I.e., when somebody just hits the power switch? Besides forcing an fsck, would fsck tell me if some file were corrupted? BTW, I'm having the 'XX interrupt' problem on boot-up as well, coinciding with syslogd. I added the ';;' to the default case, but

lpr - help please!

1997-02-18 Thread Rich Kolbush
Hi, In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2 from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great! I'm having a problem getting lpr to function though. I'm using the same printcap as

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie! Foul play! Unless massive action is taken to avert this ominous development, the official image of Debian to the world, will be... a child-care center. This is a call for the

Re: Installing from stable ie. rex-fixed does not work.

1997-02-18 Thread Michael Babcock
For the tex stuff, try adding /usr/X11R6/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file and run ldconfig. Then reconfigure in dselect. I didn't have those other problems you had. On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: Stable isn't exactly stable. My dselect install session after deselecting inn and

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread srivasta
Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it, but this time it snuck up and changed Feb to February in the changelog, causing

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Colin Watt wrote: Thanks for the previous help. Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card? I can't see it on the list. I have got the DE-250's to work (be carefull, do NOT put them at IO port 0x280) I think the DE-220 would only have porblems with PnP,

Re: Linux - Win NT 4.0 with Samba

1997-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote: I'm having a problem. Not a big one, just annoying. Right now its setup to connect at bootup. (-er- login of console user) When it starts up, it tells me the password is incorrect, and then I enter it in manually. (I've deleted and readded to

Re: wanna trade secondary dns ?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, mark david mcCreary wrote: I am a new ISP in Texas, with a minimal amount of traffic. I would like to trade secondary domain name service with another one man ISP for redundancy with network or computer problems. Please reply via private email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Epson Stylus 500 apsfilter

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: I suceeded in installing apsfilter, to print postcript files to my Epson Stylus 500 inkjet printer. I get a result but it seems that the printing is sloppy. To me, it looks like a really low resolution (300 dpi or less). Is there anyway to

Re: I'd like to comment on the 6 disk system.

1997-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: I'm in favour of this because I think it's the only distribution that lets me install in the following way. Other well know distributions don't let me get a kernel up an running from scratch without needing another installation medium. This

Help Tecra 720CDT and fixed boot disks...

1997-02-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Well it looks like we've got a boot disk problem again. I'm trying to boot from my rescue disk from the rex-fixed distribution from say last Thursday and even though I used this to install Debian on my desktop successfully. Something is very wrong with the Tecra. Basically it gets all the way

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I'll reverse the question: why are you using the links? The links are ignored anyway while compiling the kernel, so that's not it. However, you may totally confuse some other program (during compilation) that does not expect changes that are made in the kernel includes. You see,

Re: Install from CD

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Cheapbytes Debian 1.2 CD. It has base1_2.tgz and the kernel and the root.bin image on it. Could someone go through the process of installing without any floppies? I think i know how to boot with loadlin and get to the point of

DOSEMU

1997-02-18 Thread 00jshanks
I am installing DOSEMU and am running Win 95 on a seperate partition. When I booted the A disk with dos -A, DOSEMU worked just fine, but then when I typed: fdisk /mbr sys c: I got the message: Incorrect DOS version. I assume that this is because I am running Win 95 DOS. Would it change

Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?

1997-02-18 Thread trio
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: wd io=0x280 irq=5 This loads the driver module at boot time for my wd8003 card - they're ... Is there a syntax listing for the /etc/modules file somewhere? I'm running a 3c509.

ifconfig and dropped packets

1997-02-18 Thread Matthew Tebbens
IFCONFIG: (tokenring card/network) I'm getting dropped packets in the RX section. What does it mean, and what should I do about it ? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

scanners

1997-02-18 Thread System Account
Hi All Recently I bought a new scanner from ScanTak. It seems to work great in Windos 3.1. The Manual says it should work with any TWAIN compliant application software. (of course they are talking about windoz here) Are there any debian packages for scanners (TWAIN compliant) avalable? If not will

adduser

1997-02-18 Thread System Account
hi just wondering.. i have tried to use --force-badname with adduser without success. Does it require a recompile of adduser to work? adduser --force-badname macquarrie The user name must be less than 9 characters this doesn't seem to work :/ -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

What package is nfsd in?

1997-02-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
I think my rex-fixed/updates problems are responsible for the lack of any mention of netstd_nfs. Since I've installed Debian before I'm familar with the need to uncomment mountd/nfsd etc... Well that use to be the case. Could it be that this package resides in rex-updates at the moment? This

Adaptec 2482 versus Debian 1.2.5

1997-02-18 Thread danny
Perhaps this is old news, but I thought I'd pass it on just in case. I recently upgraded to linux kernel 2.0.27 (using Debian 1.2.5) from linux 2.0.7. The distribution kernel image panicked at boot: right after the (normal) scsi bus reset it generated a spurious interrupt and never regained its

Here's what dselect silently ignored.

1997-02-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
I think netstd is why I have no nfs. Well, like I said. I found it rather worrying that dselect _silently_ ignored these. Packages libc5_5.4.20-1.deb Packages.gz libg++27-dev_2.7.2.1-6.deb adduser_2.13.deb libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb

Re: Memory leak in 1.2.6?

1997-02-18 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Joe Piche writes: - I have a big problem with the latest debian distribution (2.6?). - I find that it will begin to swap like crazy after awhile. - This problem was not in the debian I was running before. - - My system is a: - 486 SX/25, 4 MB ram, 645 MB maxtor ESDI drive w/ Ultrastor 12F -

Re: X won't start....keeps jumping back to XDM.

1997-02-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Cinege) writes: I just did a fresh install of 1.2.5. The everything thing seemed to instll fine. The XFree setup went smooth. When I boot up I get XDM. After I log in the screen changes for a second, then jumps back to XDM. Add

Re: How do they burn CD's?

1997-02-18 Thread Philipp JW Grau
If you are locking for a nice GUI to burn your own CD's you can use X-CD-Roast, it has a lot of options, I found it very usefull for me! http://www.rz.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_overview.html It's a really long URL, isn't it? su philipp --

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-18 Thread trio
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Hi! I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. I've got the same messages for about 25 times now. Me too!!! The reason i'm replying with a me too is because i thought it was something i did on my end. I'm

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread Rowan Deppeler
These are the commands I use in my /etc/profile .. # set up color-ls environment variables if [ $SHELL = /bin/zsh ]; then eval `dircolors -z` elif [ $SHELL = /bin/ash ]; then eval `dircolors -s` else eval `dircolors -b` fi # set color-ls alias's alias ls='ls --color=auto '; alias ll='ls

Re: LILO and WIN NT

1997-02-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: Hello, I had DOS and LINUX debian 1.2 installed on my system and it used to works perfectly. Recently, I have got WIN NT installed on another partition and LILO doesn't work anymore even if I run

[REVIEW] Linux in a Nutshell [was: Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?]

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi John! I suppose others would be interested in such a reply as well therefore i've sent this to 'debian-user' too. I hope you don't mind breakage of the netiquette regarding email in this special case, ok? ;-) On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, John M. Rulnick wrote: I was thinking about buying Linux

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Guy Maor
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie! Foul play! No, Fowl play!! Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-18 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm not seeing repeated messages here. Sometimes people get them if their site is accepting mail but not finishing the handshake for some reason. If it continues (or if someone else sees it) please get back to me. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL

Re: How long should it take to extract 1GIG off Tape?

1997-02-18 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
My Wangtek QIC 150 tape (an old 5110 ES drive) runs at a rate of 5MB/min, or 300MB/h, which should give 1GB in something near/below 4h (if the 250MB-tapes are changed fast enough). The streaming throughput should be limited from the tape, not the host. : I'm just checking but whenever I

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: On the other hand there is nothing better than a recently burned writable CD when you want it really uptodate and like being on the edge. But for the same price anybody could get a CheapBytes CD and a very good Linux book. Anybody has bought the new

Re: How do they burn CD's?

1997-02-18 Thread Ronald van Loon
|What software does Cheapbytes and these other CD authoring firms use |under Linux to cut a CD? My guess would be 'mkisofs'. With mkisofs it's almost child's play to create a CD-ROM image. A subsequent 'cdwrite' will then make the CD. Also very easy to use. A welcome change from programs like

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the correct answer, WTF are you talking about? I've

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Ronald van Loon
|Personally, I hate the Penguins, except the ones that are the outline. I |it looks more professional but still gives the hint of the |penguin/linux'ness Maybe we should call ourselves DepenGNUian Linux from now on. -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am waiting as fast as I can! I want

Re: lpr - help please!

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Rich Kolbush wrote: Hi, In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2 from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great! I'm having a problem getting lpr to

Re: Ungraceful shutdown

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, David L. Parsley wrote: Just HOW BAD is an ungraceful shutdown? I.e., when somebody just hits the power switch? Besides forcing an fsck, would fsck tell me if some file were corrupted? Yup. I've actually trashed parts of filesystems by accidental shutdowns, but this

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,

Re: 'at' command

1997-02-18 Thread Mike Miller
Thanks to those that replied with a working answer. bash$ at 10:30 enter cdplay enter C-d (I did at least know this much). I was disappointed by the flood of RTFM, however. I couldn't find an example in the man pages, or Running Linux, or Unix in a Nutshell, where the

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread Alex Monaghan
Colin Watt wrote: Thanks for the previous help. Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card? I can't see it on the list. Colin Watt. Lecturer in Computer Applications School of Agriculture Food and Environment Cranfield University Silsoe Bedford MK45 4DT01525 863031

Re: wanna trade secondary dns ?

1997-02-18 Thread Adam Shand
I would like to trade secondary domain name service with another one man ISP for redundancy with network or computer problems. Doesn't this A) almost equal to advertisiment? (Solicitation of something) and B) Have absolutely nothing to do with Debian? And isn't there a clause in the agreement

Marimba - Bongo - Debian ...

1997-02-18 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, recently I tried to install marimbas bongo on my Debian-Box. When I start 'bongo' I get: Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread I have installed jdk-common 1.0.2-4 and jdk-static 1.0.2-4. Are there any libs missing? Thx By Töns -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Sendmail

1997-02-18 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! Is there anyone who has had problem with sendmail changing owner of the files in /var/spool/mail. I had a problem with some mails going in a loop on my local host so I looked around and found that the owner of my mail-file had changed from group mail to users. /Micke -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Installing Debian on an IBM

1997-02-18 Thread Gennaro Zezza - Fac. Sc. Politiche
Hi, I am having serious problem in having Debian recognize my hard disk properly. When launching fdisk I obtain the message The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2484. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems... [as a matter of fact, installation of LILO on the MBR fails] The

lprng problems

1997-02-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm surprised at the big push towards lprng because it seems just as hard to configure, the documentation seems disorganised, etc. I am trying to configure the following; Server machine, debian 1.2, running normal lpr/lpd. (It would be converted to lprng if I thought that would help.) My

Wrong permissions of /etc/rmtab?

1997-02-18 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
The permissions of '/etc/rmtab' read -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 58 Feb 18 12:29 rmtab To my mind, this is wrong. They should be somethig like: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Feb 18 12:29 rmtab Am I right? Any comments? Regards, Andree -- |

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
So, what else are the links good for? Most programs do not (and should not) depend on kernel version specific api's; and the handful that do should ask for and include -I/usr/src/linux anyway. Has anyone had any luck compiling (z)ftape 3.02 on debian, then? I've tried, but it

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-18 Thread Mikael Hallendal
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Hi! I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. I've got the same messages for about 25 times now. Me too!!! The reason i'm replying with a me too is because i thought it was something i did

Umsdos support?

1997-02-18 Thread Giuliano Procida
Hi. I've posted this question here before and didn't receive a single reply. Hopefully I'm more lucky this time.. I want to install Debian to an Umsdos partition. The installation disks don't seem to allow me to do that. That's right. - Does Debian not support installing to umsdos

Re: minor DNS problem

1997-02-18 Thread Bob Clark
Is the daemon named running? --Bob Andrew Spencer wrote: hi all, Sorry to come back to the list again. Just a little glitch really, but it has me stumped... I can't get IP name resolution working properly. (All I want to do is resolve IP addresses using an available nameserver.) I can

Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like WTF?

1997-02-18 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hi, I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as AKA (also known as) WTF (???) ... So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How do they burn CD's?

1997-02-18 Thread Dan Irvin
-- From: Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How do they burn CD's? Date: Monday, February 17, 1997 6:08 AM What software does Cheapbytes and these other CD authoring firms use under Linux to cut a CD? [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: What's wrong with Debian User List

1997-02-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: I'm not seeing repeated messages here. Sometimes people get them if their site is accepting mail but not finishing the handshake for some reason. If it continues (or if someone else sees it) please get back to me. I'm seeing it too. ...RickM... --

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread Richard Jones
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the

Initial Installation

1997-02-18 Thread Randy Dees
I am having some trouble writing the resq1440 disk to upgrade to Debian 1.2.3 from my existing Slackware system. I did read the installation manual, and got the message about disks - but now I have gone through a box or more of brand new Sony disks (not all from the same box) and am having a hard

Re: Linux - Win NT 4.0 with Samba

1997-02-18 Thread csmall
Daniel Stringfield typed: I'm having a problem. Not a big one, just annoying. I'm running the Samba server to export my home directory to my Windows NT 4.0 workstation. I'm having problems when it comes up for my password. It's not accepting the password the first time, when I attach it as

Re: super command

1997-02-18 Thread Shawn Asmussen
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: If it's in the new source format, then you can just get the .orig file, and that will be the original source. If it's in the old format, I think you can apply the diff to the .tar.gz file, and that should give you the source. Well, if it comes

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 18, Hamish Moffatt wrote So, what else are the links good for? Most programs do not (and should not) depend on kernel version specific api's; and the handful that do should ask for and include -I/usr/src/linux anyway. Has anyone had any luck compiling (z)ftape 3.02 on

Re: Epson Stylus 500 apsfilter

1997-02-18 Thread Linh Dang
I don't use apsfilter but magic-filter but I think the mechanism is the same for all printcap filters. In my case the filter script is specified in /etc/printcap. Take a look in the script and you will find out how it call ghostscript. Then you can modify the script to change or add parameters

Debian installation

1997-02-18 Thread Gennaro Zezza - Fac. Sc. Politiche
Sorry for the second post of the day, but I am really desperate. I have just obtained a new hard disk, a Western Digital AC21200 2484cyl, 16heads, 63 spt, and I re-installed Debian passing the hd geometry at boot time. I keep having the same problem, eg fdisk will report warnings about the disk

Re: 'at' command

1997-02-18 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Feb 18 1997, Mike Miller wrote: Thanks to those that replied with a working answer. bash$ at 10:30 enter cdplay enter C-d (I did at least know this much). I was disappointed by the flood of RTFM, however. I couldn't find an example in the man pages, or

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread edwalter
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: So, what else are the links good for? Most programs do not (and should not) depend on kernel version specific api's; and the handful that do should ask for and include -I/usr/src/linux anyway. Has anyone had any luck compiling (z)ftape

Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...

1997-02-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Has anyone had any luck compiling (z)ftape 3.02 on debian, Hamish then? I've tried, but it (reasonably) requires current kernel Hamish headers, and despite adding the above to several Makefiles, it Hamish still does not look in

Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like WTF?

1997-02-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Feb 18, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/acronym http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html Of course,

Re: lprng problems

1997-02-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm surprised at the big push towards lprng because it seems just as hard to configure, the documentation seems disorganised, etc. Well, I'll agree that the documentation isn't a work of art, but I, personally, have found it no harder to configure than

Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian

1997-02-18 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about this... I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make dselect less confusing, then it's a *great* idea! I'll check

ps2 mouse is sluggish with gpm

1997-02-18 Thread David Natkins
I'm running Debian Linux (1.2.6) kernel 2.0.27 with gpm (v10) and I find my mouse to be very sluggish. It moves well within X Windows. Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Alex Monaghan wrote: Colin Watt wrote: Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card? I can't see it on the list. Don't know about Debian, but assume it's similiar to Slackware. I have a few DE-100's and these are recognised by the NE drivers. If your card

RE: What's the state of X in rex-fixed?

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Rightley
I did not have a problem using XF86Setup with my Thinkpad 365XD which uses a PS/2 mouse as its 'trackpoint.' As I remember it, it was pretty easy to choose the mouse using keystrokes. Paul On 16-Feb-97 Robert Nicholson wrote: Is this 3.2 or 3.1.2G or worse? Also why is it I always have to edit

Re: Where to point dselect for Iconnect CD ?

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Rightley
On 15-Feb-97 Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:08:39 EST Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just finally got my shiny new Iconnect CD. Now I'm ready to upgrade. Qell not exactly. dselect doesn't sem to like anything that I tell it. My CD is /dev/hdc, mounted on

Re: How to rebuild available file ?

1997-02-18 Thread Paul Rightley
On 15-Feb-97 Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:48:18 EST Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just got a new CD from Iconnect. I ran Update availble and now I have a problem. An simple atemp to do dpkg -i package_name returns the folowing erro: dpkg: parse error, in file

1.1 dselect stuff

1997-02-18 Thread Brian S. Julin
Greetings, I went over to a friends house last night and fired up his seldom- used Debian Linux 1.1 partition to install gs and ghostview for him. I thought I'd give a list of quirks I noticed even though a lot of them are probably fixed. 1) Deselect detected the new packages and attempted

Sendfax errors

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
I recently installed mgetty 1.0.0-1 and it pretty well worked out of the box with a USR 28.8 V.34 33.6 faxmodem. It even told me to put switchbd 0 in mgetty.config when I sent it the first fax. However, I can't sendfax back to the machine I faxed it from. I can fax to an identical Debian/USR

Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like WTF?

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as AKA (also known as) WTF (???) ... So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. Andreas. Install the jargon package. Then go to an info reader (for example, start up emacs and type C-h i), and go to the

Re: Beginner's Question

1997-02-18 Thread Erik Johansson
On 10-Feb-97, Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:37:10 PST Colin Watt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have download the Debian files and created my disks and loaded Debian Linux on a stand alone PC. All is well - but what next? This is a question I have asked myself many times... I

Re: What package is nfsd in?

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
I think my rex-fixed/updates problems are responsible for the lack of any mention of netstd_nfs. Since I've installed Debian before I'm familar with the need to uncomment mountd/nfsd etc... Well that use to be the case. Do you mean /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs? That's in netstd (at least, that's

Re: Wrong permissions of /etc/rmtab?

1997-02-18 Thread joost witteveen
The permissions of '/etc/rmtab' read -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 58 Feb 18 12:29 rmtab To my mind, this is wrong. They should be somethig like: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Feb 18 12:29 rmtab Am I right? Yes, it should definately be -rw-r--r--. Any

Re: Matrox Millenium Video Card Problem

1997-02-18 Thread Kai Grossjohann
AUBORD Alain writes: Alain I have some problems with my Matrox Millenium Video Card. I Alain want to start X with the XFree 3.2 super vga server but I Alain only get 320x200 display. The chip seems not to be recognized Alain properly. AFAIK the current XFree has a server for the MGA?

Re: Start Delay in Ping...

1997-02-18 Thread Kevin Traas
One my one system (now running Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.5 on a 386SX), I'm experiencing something strange when pinging some other systems. I'll ping a system and there won't be any response for about 5 seconds - then the last 5 or 6 ping responses will come dumping back all at once. i.e. I'll

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Folks, please hold your tone. You are both right. With XFREE 3.2, the colorization of xterm is not active by default. One would not notice this unless one has removed the previously released (and now obsolete) xterm-color package. So, if the problem was I do get color in ls on the console

Re: 'at' command/ Apology

1997-02-18 Thread Mike Miller
First an apology. Some of us, at least myself, don't like to be confronted with our stupidity. Why I choose to advertize it, then, is another question. On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Siggy Brentrup wrote: I apologize if you took my citing of the man page as RTFM. Please attribute it to my poor English.

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Version 3.13 of ls has the default dircolors compiled in, so the eval `dircolors` line in the profile is redundant as far as 'ls' is concerned. However, a few other programs (I can't remember which at the moment) depend on the LS-COLORS variable that dircolors sets and exports, so it is

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On 16 Feb 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: I created a RESQ disk and a DRV disk, booted with the RESQ disk, told it to mount the CD, executed a shell, made a symlink /tmp/base1_2.tgz pointing to the base1_2.tgz file on the CD, then told the installation

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, David Wright wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Alex Monaghan wrote: Colin Watt wrote: Does Debian (or any Linux) support a DE200 network card? I can't see it on the list. Don't know about Debian, but assume it's similiar to Slackware. I have a few DE-100's and these

linux file systems - frag-up

1997-02-18 Thread David_Oswald
Hi - Can anybody out there familiar with linux filesystem formats tell me if I need to be concerned with file system fragmentation. I have a copy of the new AIX (4.1.4) on my rs6k and have noticed that it comes with a file sys. defrag utility.

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-18 Thread Bruce Perens
OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native

Re: Debian installation

1997-02-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for /, and a larger one for /usr. Other than that, the disk size is not a concern, and this is a BIOS

Upgrading by shaky ftp...

1997-02-18 Thread Michael Tempsch
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete)

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-18 Thread Hunter Marshall
At 05:45 AM 2/17/97 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: The best naturally is to order one of those writable CD's from I-Connect Why is that? BTW. Is there a 1.2.5, or is that a typo that's being propagated? I've been following Debian for awhile, but at this point I am unsure how to determine when a 1.2.X

something strange has happened.

1997-02-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Where's netstd been moved to? in rex-fixed it was a link to updates but now it's not in rex-fixed/binary-i386/net or updates/binary-i386 am I missing something? Also the ms-dos path has netstd.deb-../../binary-i386/net The destination of the link isn't there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Initial Installation

1997-02-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Try downloading fresh disk images from ftp.debian.org . There may have been bugs in the ones on your CD. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24