I installed using May 30 diskette set (Debian 1.3.0, Kernel 2.0.29).
From
there, I chose the 3c59x module (I got this information from the above
URL
- like Dave mentioned, this should definitely be identified in modconf).
I tried setting various options for this driver (as per the above web
Well, I've discovered (accidentally) what crashes and burns on my
system. Any .deb file which has been on a vfat filesystem will not
open with mc. If I download a file to a vfat system, I can't open it. If I
copy it from an ext2fs filesystem to a vfat system, I can't open
it. If I copy the same
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 17:28:21 -0400 (EDT), Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
This looks like dpkg problems.
Try downgrading to 1.4.0.8 (the 1.3 release version) and see if that
fixes it.
I really thought this was going to be the key ... nope.
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
steps would one need to take to get
When trying to start IRQTune, I get the following message:
irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 (Note: this was as expected)
irqtune: insmod failed on `/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o`
Trying to load this module manually gave me:
./irqtune_mod.o: couldn't find the kernel version the
You need to get the new release of xemacs. There seems there was some
incompatability that was fixed by recompiling.
HTH,
Shaya
On 4 Jul 1997, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
After installing the new XFree 3.3 packages xemacs 19.15 (from the
unstable dir) dumps immediatly core after starting.
I
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
I see a lot of packages appearing in unstable that depend on
ncurses3.4. But no packages providing it is available (only
ncurses3.0).
Can anyone tell me where I can get ncurses3.4?
It still appears to be in Incoming on master.debian.org, last I
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, ninjaz wrote:
Thanks for the blazing fast response. :) Tried that to no avail (using
accelx 3.1 and the SVGA server from 3.2 - just noticed I had that package
on hold as I was using accelx).. after downloading the SVGA server from
xfree86 3.3, things are working again.
On 05-Jul-97 Paul Seelig wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes:
In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these:
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
A while back, I reported this as bug, but I guess it was
[on followups: please follow up to just one list. To debian-user if it's
about E or to debian-devel if it's about licenses.]
On Jul 5, Lalo Martins wrote
[...]
However, the copyright in E says: (actually it says to read imlib.h)
-
All Imlib source code it Copyright (C) 1997 Carsten
From: Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
one could argue the GPL is not free as it doesn't allow me to create a
derivative work with a different copyright, if we want to go to terms.
Are you being facetious? There's not much point in writing a license at
all if everyone is free to change the terms
Hi!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1]:/usr/debian
# date -d1year; date -d2years; date -d3years; date -d4years
Mon Jul 6 13:30:51 EST 1998
Tue Jul 6 13:30:51 EST 1999
Thu Jan 1 13:59:59 EST 1970
Thu Jan 1 13:59:59 EST 1970
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1]:/usr/debian
# date --version
date - GNU sh-utils 1.12
Thanks for the fast response on the first note. Now when running 'make
config' to configure my kernel (in an attempt to add sound support), my
system finds those 5 *.h files that were missing (libc5-dev fixed
that). But now I get this..
Compiling Sound Driver v3.5.5-beta for Linux
rm -f
I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation
disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I
remember correctly there were 7 diskettes. Now, if there's a 20% chance
of a diskette having a read-error, the chance of having to start the
robert == robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
robert Hi!
robert I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and
robert have
robert ' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util
robert '
robert but found no such package ...
In Debian, the package is
Hello!
i've tried to install hamm over bo, and the install failed (mainly
because i haven't fetched all the right files) ... and i gave up for a
while. but there's a reminescent of the failed install: when i run gcc
(like gcc -o file file.c), it's _statically_ linked to libc. is there any
Carey Evans wrote:
Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Also, installing this packages causes dselect to get really excited
about dependencies, since everything wants the old libreadline, and
the new one doesn't want to coexist. What is the solution to this
sort of thing? For
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation
disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I
remember correctly there were 7 diskettes.
Your memory is partially correct. Debian requires a
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
Well, I've discovered (accidentally) what crashes and burns on my
system. Any .deb file which has been on a vfat filesystem will not
open with mc. If I download a file to a vfat system, I can't open it. If I
copy it from an ext2fs filesystem to a vfat
On Sat, 5 Jul 97 21:28 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
one could argue the GPL is not free as it doesn't allow me to create a
derivative work with a different copyright, if we want to go to terms.
Are you being facetious? There's not much point in writing a
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
steps would one need to take
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, David Puryear wrote:
On 05-Jul-97 Paul Seelig wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes:
In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these:
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
A
Hello everyone,
I am just surfing Samba's Home Page and found this in a FAQ:
4.1 How do I set accounts for Samba users
Samba users need Unix accounts on a Samba server. These accounts can
be provided by the usual /etc/passwd mechanism or may be distributed with
NIS (yellow pages). The
Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars?
:
: The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar...
:
: fvwm2 is there, and xv too...
Yes, I saw it. I wish it was a Debian machine. The screen looks great
with all those windows.
E.-
Hi,
I don't know about other Unices but at least IRIX has it's /bin/true and
/bin/false set to shell scripts as well. It seems that Debian's no worse
off than SGIs and other Linux distributions at least.
J. Goldman
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
When trying to start IRQTune, I get the following message:
irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 (Note: this was as expected)
irqtune: insmod failed on `/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o`
Trying to load this module manually gave me:
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
OK. Remove /dev/printer and start lpd. It'll probably create the socket on
its own. See why it doesn't start from one of the /etc/rc.d files.
Bruce
Hmm... How come I don't have /dev/printer? :) What is it for? I have
been printing to /dev/lp1
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer.
I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text .
I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap
I have triad the if statement and it didn't work.
(
On Sun, Jul 06, 1997 at 02:56:41AM -0500, Jesse Goldman wrote:
I don't know about other Unices but at least IRIX has it's /bin/true and
/bin/false set to shell scripts as well. It seems that Debian's no worse
off than SGIs and other Linux distributions at least.
Shell scripts here on Solaris
Yeah, I checked a Solaris machine and I also checked an old DEC with the
same results. In fact, on the DEC, there aren't even shell scripts, just a
text file with an exit 0 or an exit 1 depending on whether you want
true or false. Maybe it's an executable on an Alpha?
J. Goldman
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Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
$ bc
bc: error in loading shared libraries
libreadline.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ ldd -v `which bc`
ldd: version 1.9.2
libreadline.so.2 = not found
libncurses.so.3.4 =
Aldrin Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when i run gcc
(like gcc -o file file.c), it's _statically_ linked to libc. is there any
way to change this to it's normal behaviour (ie., make it link w/ shared
libc)?
Make sure you have the versions of the libc? and libc?-dev files being
compiled
Hi
1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff:
I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for
/usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below.
Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to
2) Is there a function in Perl to
On 5 Jul 1997, Michael Harnois wrote:
you should be able to see what the shell returned. When I hit enter on
binutils_2.8.1-2.deb, for example, I get
./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `!arch'
./binutils_2.8.1-2.deb: line 1: `!arch'
I think I know what
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:43:59 +0800 (WST), Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How about using md5sum on the suspect files? Compare it with what's
in Packages and let us know what you find.
It's correct on either filesystem.
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As Lindsay pointed out, the patch in my previous post will break
*.deb viewer for those who have tar-1.11. Be very afraid and
do `dpkg -l tar` before applying the patch. :)
(patch works for tar-1.12-1)
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On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 14:24:23 +0200 (CEST), Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think I know what this problem is. It's probably related to
{v,}fat partitions. In that case, the solution would be very easy.
snip
Look at the permissions on the files on your {v,}fat partition; I
bet they're
Joost Kooij wrote:
... snip ...
Why does (amongst other keys) F3 not work in an xterm{-color} ?
It will if you patch your terminfo and X resources. IIRC the procedure
was explained somewhere in the docs for mc-3.xx.
Dimitri
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On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 20:49:23 +0800, Dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It will if you patch your terminfo and X resources. IIRC the
procedure was explained somewhere in the docs for mc-3.xx.
I did that, and it was great for mc. However, it broke everything that
uses ncurses. ncftp was just a
David B. Teague wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts which claimed this couldn't be done. What
steps
Thanx to the one who posted the hint to this list that
permission-settings could be the reason for not-working audio.
I didnt send an I-have-a-problem-message to this list but thanx
anyway. For me, those /dev/audio-/dev/dsp-settings are small bugs in the
1.3(.1)-debian-distribution??? Where can
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Glen Carreras wrote:
David B. Teague wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Well, true, but it was linked against Motif 1.2 which make it useless
for most of us who has Motif 2.0 :(
Works with lesstif too? ;)
I have seen several posts
Hi
1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff:
I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for
/usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below.
Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to
2) Is there a function in
In the debian startup scrips, /etc/init.d/ppp starts
ppp if /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot exist.
I want ppp to start automatically like this, but I
would like to use /usr/bin/poff to bring down
the connection as an ordinary user.
I planned to use su -c to execute the ppp startup
as a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes:
In another interesting note, when I replace mc.ext from mc-4 source to
/etc/mc/mc.ext, *.deb and *.tar.gz browsing is lot faster using
mc_3.5.17-1_i386.deb:) If you are wondering why I didn't keep mc-4, I like
to
keep this system *.deb format
Iam Very new to the UNIX/LINUX OS..
I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like
to setup my PnP Modem..
Is there any software to help me ?
Also I heard good things about Midnight Commander, Where
can I get a Linux version ?
Thanks,
Keith
After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours:
rxvt: can't load color snow
rxvt: can't load color blue
I also have this problem using gnuplot.
I've tried some of the tricks posted the last few weeks. I have a
~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresource pointing to ~/.Xdefaults.
Inside X, rxvt -bg
Keith Knipschild wrote:
Iam Very new to the UNIX/LINUX OS..
I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like
to setup my PnP Modem..
Is there any software to help me ?
Have you tried to set it up at all yet? Some PnP modems will work if
you simply use the ioport and irq settings
Lalo Martins wrote:
I
personally like E's license and don't see a good chance of a Windoze port
anyway... have anyone run X there?
I wouldn't be that pessimistic about a Windows port. Cygnus's GNU Win/32
libraries/distribution already run most of the GNU tools on Win95/NT.
I attempted to
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael B.
Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am unable to get an old scsi disk recognized during installation, and
would appreciate help.
I am trying to install Debian on a rather old system with a Future Domain
TMC830 scsi controller. From information obtained from
Hi all,
I received my Linux Systems Labs Oficial [sic] Debian 1.3 CD-ROM
yesterday. I spent last night doing a new install to a spare hard drive.
Congratulations to the Debian volunteers! You folks did a *really* nice
job with the 1.3 CD!
I did complete floppyless install--and it went with
I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ...
anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian
again ... heres the problem...
I destroyed my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without
floppy?? (I´ve got a redhat cd that allows me to install redhat
On Jul 6, Bob Billson wrote
I am curious what the difference is between the 'Official Debian 1.3' and
LSL's 'Oficial Debian 1.3'. I thought I saw something that if the CD
vendor changes or doesn't use something they can't use the former title.
What did LSL not use or leave out?
Thanks for
Alex Yukhimets wrote:
How about:
$Mon=(Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec)[$mm-1] || bad_thing;
?
I did, patch's below. I'd rather use an existing function if there was one
-- must be a software engineer in me (типа внутренний шпион).
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--- deb.origSun Jul 6
Since I'll be installing 1.3 on my brother's machine this Tuesday, I have
a question about cable modems. Though not strictly limited to Debian, I
thought some folks here might have already gone down this road.
My brother got a net connection from our local cable company. The tech
who came to
On Jul 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and have
' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util '
but found no such package ...
Any ideas how on debian do I upgrade the 'date' program
( and the rest of the sh-utils programs
On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote
I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works.
But whatis always returns Nothing appropriate.
Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0
install, but I have installed quite a bit of extra junk.
Try doing mandb -c
On Jul 6, Niklas Hoglund wrote
I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ...
anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian
again ... heres the problem...
I destroyed my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without
floppy?? (I´ve got a redhat
I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ...
anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian
again ... heres the problem...
I destroyed my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without
floppy??
Of course :). Download the following files from
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me
available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be
installed within the regular Debian package management.
Paul, for someone who is ignorant of the regular MC ftp sites
| I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation
| disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I
Well. Here's what I say to new users here: take seven disks, format them under
DOS using a full format (not quick), copy the disks images using
Sounds a lot like dhcp, try using the dhcpcd (client daemon) package. The
only other thing I think you need is the DNS server's ip address to add to
/etc/resolv.conf. I use it at school, never had a problem. You may want
to ask about the vulnerability of their network to packet sniffing. If
Is there a DHCP server assigned by your cable company? If so, I would use
the DHCP client software. My roomates and I have a cable modem, and use
a linux box ( unfortunately running RedHat because it was set up before I
moved in *gag* ) as a firewall, so we can run ethernet to all of our
Is there a deb package out there, or does any one have a diff for alien to
install this properly? I installed but had problems, i have to admit i
like micrsoft office 97 ten times better. It takes about 5 minutes to
load swriter and about 3 seconds to load word.
johannes martinez
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On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote:
Also I heard good things about Midnight Commander, Where
can I get a Linux version ?
Midnight Commander is a regular debian package. You should be able to
fire up the dselect program and select it and have it installed. The *.deb
archive of mc
On Jul 5, Bruce Perens wrote
From: Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
one could argue the GPL is not free as it doesn't allow me to create a
derivative work with a different copyright, if we want to go to terms.
Are you being facetious? There's not much point in writing a license at
all if
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
I installed using ftp. When deb-ftp gets packets it doesn't indicate where
in the process it is. No estimated time is given - no remaining packets
is given.
It would be a nice feature, but the debian programmers are currently busy
overhauling
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Hi,
I'm using the hamm-branch of this great distribution and everything
has worked generally very well for a development distribution. However,
I'm missing at least packages ncurses3.4, libreadlineg2, libkde0 and
slang0.99.38. Most programs work when installed
Hi, All
i'm forced to use vi sometimes.
Is there any 2-3 pages ref.cards like emacs one ?
Any manuals?
sincerely
OK
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Is there a deb package out there, or does any one have a diff for alien to
install this properly? I installed but had problems, i have to admit i
I don't think that .deb package would help much. You just have to
unpack the thing in /usr/local (or wherever) and run _per-user_
install.
There
Jesse Goldman wrote,
:true or false. Maybe it's an executable on an Alpha?
Yep, it is on a DIGITAL Unix. In fact it is a binary file
that returns false (1).
Just me,
Wire ...
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Hey don't get me wrong - I wasn't talking about debian as a whole, just
that IMO - the installation isn't as good as redhat's and that it should
be possible to do something about it.
I bought a new hard drive, so I just installed Red Hat and FreeBSD here
(no, I'm not switching). I was quite
Hello!
i've tried to install hamm over bo, and the install failed (mainly
because i haven't fetched all the right files) ... and i gave up for a
while. but there's a reminescent of the failed install: when i run gcc
(like gcc -o file file.c), it's _statically_ linked to libc. is there
-- Start of PGP signed section.
Hi,
I'm using the hamm-branch of this great distribution and everything
has worked generally very well for a development distribution. However,
I'm missing at least packages ncurses3.4, libreadlineg2, libkde0 and
slang0.99.38. Most programs work when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Edwards) writes:
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me
available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be
installed within the regular Debian package management.
Paul, for
first of all, thanks to the people how tried
to help me out with this rather odd problem.
i followed the suggestions, but without success -
as far as up/downgrading is concerned:
my system is a rex/bo mix, and the problems
seemed to start when i installed libc5 from
hamm - i guess that my mixing
[ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ]
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No. New upstream versions do not go into stable without *very*
good reason.
Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which
has since long been superseded by some 31
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:23:36 +, Christian Hudon wrote:
On Jul 5, Dave Cinege wrote
I don't know how the hell I did it, but I broke whatis. Whereis works.
But whatis always returns Nothing appropriate.
Whatis works on all my other machines. This machine is a clean 1.3.0
install, but I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes:
[ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ]
Thanks a lot! :-)
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which
has since long been superseded by some 31 following
I've read the HOWTO's and some other info, but it seems that this topic
is sort of glossed over, and I have never really understood exactly what
to do, so I wonder if someone could give me the total newbie answer to
this question:
What to I do with extended and logical partitions when I have
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