Help transfering data....

Hi. I just got a new hard drive and wish to transfer my root fs to this new drive as it is larger now to the hard part ... I Tryed to do a cp -a * /mnt (where the new hd was mounted) but it sat there cp'ing files for an hour and never got past the proc directory did I do something

PPP hanging - USR sportster modem

I do in fact have a USR sportster 56k. I'm sifting through the digest on www.debian.org. Anyone have direct experience with that problem? Please give me an email. Casey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Help transfering data....

Hi, /proc (and things like /dev/audio and /dev/hda1) aren't regular files and so can't be copied using cp. To copy things like this successfully, you could use tar. Here's an example: Suppose you want to copy your / directory from one disk to another. I'm assuming the new disk is empty but has a

emacs doesn't use AUC TeX

I have installed the auctex package, but when I use emacs to edit a file with a .tex ending, AUC TeX is not invoked. Why isn't it working? Thanks. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS/AMD questions

On 09 Jul 1997 23:00:27 +0200 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] e.de) wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like root) should be always

Re: CD-Writing again

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:42:21 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of any software that reads/writes Multisession CDs? The cdrecord package supposedly does that. It's currently in unstable, but last time I checked it installed on a bo system. I haven't tested it

Adaptec 2940 SCSI

I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a Gateway 2000 with 2 2 Gig SCSI Hard drives, a Toshiba SCSI CD hooked up to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adaptor. I occasionally get the setup menus to come up, but then drive 2 (which is the drive I want to install on) is not visibale. Most of the time, I get alot

Re: Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, dpk wrote: I get these same errors, and I am just using the linux box for authentication, however it will let me connect. I am interested likewise why this happens, because this didn't happen until I upgraded to Debian 1.3. Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other)

Hamm directory tree structure

Hi, I was messing around with Hamm in ftp.debian.org and realized that the directory structure is different than in previous Debian releases. I see that under the unstable (hamm) directory there is another hamm directory and is under this directory where binary-i386 (an other binary directories)

upgrading with Debian

how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all screwed everything up)... -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, dpk wrote: I don't have much experience with having two ethernet cards in a machine, I've a little now that I've had to play with a few machines (one has 4 ethernet cards and 1 radio card!) My ifconfig also says 10mb because the tulip driver first probes 10mb. However,

Re: upgrading with Debian

Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? I'm : wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when doing any : upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all screwed everything : up)... Debian is really *good* stuff.

Re: Adaptec 2940 SCSI

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:04:21 PDT Robert DeLine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a Gateway 2000 with 2 2 Gig SCSI Hard drives, a Toshiba SCSI CD hooked up to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adaptor. FYI, I use an Adaptec 2940UW with 3 devices connected to it (Wide disk,

Re: upgrading with Debian

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all screwed everything up)... Hmmm, that's exactly why I switched

Re: upgrading with Debian

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? Well, I only have experience going from 1.2 to 1.3. But as a basic Linux newbie I didn't have any troubles at all. I was pleasantly shocked at how smooth it went. I did my upgrade over

Re: Hamm directory tree structure

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: I was messing around with Hamm in ftp.debian.org and realized that the directory structure is different than in previous Debian releases. I see that under the unstable (hamm) directory there is another hamm directory and is under this directory where

Re: PPP hanging - USR sportster modem

Casey Feskens wrote: I do in fact have a USR sportster 56k. I'm sifting through the digest on www.debian.org. Anyone have direct experience with that problem? Please give me an email. I have no problem using my USR sportster 56K Flash external. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

routed in netstd and gated compilation problems.

Hi. I've been trialing the routed included in netstd and it seems _very_ broken to the point of not establishing routes in the table when one needs to be added. I believe that from reports about 'routed' on the Internet that people don't use it because of this and 'gated' is a very powerful and

Re: emacs doesn't use AUC TeX

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I have installed the auctex package, but when I use emacs to edit a file with a .tex ending, AUC TeX is not invoked. Why isn't it working? Try adding this to your .emacs file: ;; set up auctex (require 'tex-site) Syrus. --

missing /dev entries in 1.3.1 !!!

where are the /dev/cua? entries?? how can I install them? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

compiling the kernel

I know how to compile the kernel the regular way, but doesn't Debian have a special script for this? I install it and I don't know the name of it... what is it? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: missing /dev entries in 1.3.1 !!!

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:01:57 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: where are the /dev/cua? entries?? how can I install them? You should use /dev/ttyS? devices instead because: 1) /dev/cua are obsolete 2) /dev/cua have a weird locking mechanism 3) All software in debian (and 99% of

Re: compiling the kernel

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:03:24 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know how to compile the kernel the regular way, but doesn't Debian have a special script for this? I install it and I don't know the name of it... what is it? There is a kernel-package package to compile the kernel

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected itself. David I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT key as the META key (which

General colorization question

There have been several questions about colorization, but once we get it working, how do we customize it? I'm looking for the equivalent of the /etc/DIR_COLORS in Slackware, from where it is read, and where to specify that users' ~/.dircolors be sourced. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Networking and talk

Does anyone know how to configure networking so that local talk works without breaking the overall configuration? My previous Slackware /etc/hosts always came with a warning: # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the

Re: PPP connection dying out

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Casey Feskens wrote: My PPP connection seems to be working well except that certain things keep hanging it. My dial-in works fine. I can run ping or telnet sessions for any amount of time without a problem. Problems occur

Re: uploads disappearing

On Jul 11, Alexander Koch wrote Well, on debian-changes (one of them) there was an upload of ssh 1.2.20-3, can you guys please tell me where to find it? It is not in incoming on master... And I need it... SSH uses crypto; if it were available from master, you (as a non-US citizen) could run

Re: uploads disappearing

Just a small correction: Omit 'ftp' at the beginning: ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441

Re: uploads disappearing

On Jul 11, Alexander Koch wrote Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Therefore, SSH and some other packages are only available from a set of non-US sites, the master of which is ftp://ftp.os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ Hmh. this is

Re: emacs and xemacs

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and it wouldn't let me install emacs AND xemacs... one or the other. How can I get both on my system? Most probably you don't want both of them. XEmacs has more features than GNU Emacs (if running under X), but hogs system

Re: emacs doesn't use AUC TeX

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I have installed the auctex package, but when I use emacs to edit a file with a .tex ending, AUC TeX is not invoked. Why isn't it working? You have to put it in your .emacsrc-file. I believe its all in the AUC TeX documentation. // Jonas [EMAIL

Re: General colorization question

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, David R. Kohel wrote: I'm looking for the equivalent of the /etc/DIR_COLORS in Slackware, from where it is read, and where to specify that users' ~/.dircolors Have you actually read the 'ls' manpage ? man ls (you can search for 'color') // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

talk to debian and sun

I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a notification. Does anybody knows a remedy for that. Thanks, John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bash won't see existing binaries

Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, it looks to me like wn_1.17.11-1.deb needs libc6 but doesn't list that among its dependencies. You don't have libc6 installed on your system, do you? That's my guess. So, you could install wn_1.17.0-5.deb from stable, or start upgrading to libc6

Re: talk to debian and sun

John Garas wrote: I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a notification. Does anybody knows a remedy for that. You have to install ntalk ntalkd on the Sun side. AFAIK, Sun's talk uses an obsolete

Some troubles with Samba

Hi, I having some minor problems when trying to connect to a NT machine, with a high debug level (e.g. -d10). I'm getting the following lines: ... pm_process() returned Yes lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes lp_servicenumber: couldn't find printers lp_servicenumber: couldn't

Re: Help transfering data....

find / -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: :Hi. : :I

Re: upgrading with Debian

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all screwed everything up)... Heck, it was easier than upgrading

Problems with xauth PAM

Hello, I don't achieve that the file .Xauthority works for me, I have the same .Xauthority file in the two machines: And when I try to launch a window in a remote machine I obtain the following message: ~$ xterm [1] 5939 ~$ Xlib: connection to krilin:0.0 refused by server

Re: Help transfering data....

: find / -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt Oh, that's not the help. find / -xdev | grep proc gives you: ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/procmeter.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/procmeter.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/procmeter.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/xproc.list /proc Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB

Diald modem forget irq #

I have a Hayes Accura 33.6 faxmodem; it's pnp, I have a pnp bios, everything is configured successfully by the bios. The modem, which for some reason is placed by the bios on /dev/cua3 (com 4), is auto-pnp-configured to use irq 10. Since the Linux default for this device file seems

dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\TMP The error number is 3e, if I try to mount my mounted dos-partion under dosemu. Dosemu also says in the be start, that D: is directory /, but dir D: gives rubbish.

Re: PPP connection dying

Casey Feskens writes: Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin downloading files. It works for awhile, then my whole ppp connection begins to

Re: Help transfering data (Correction)....

Sorry, please forget my too fast launched reply about find still finding proc. : : find / -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt : : Oh, that's not the help. : : : find / -xdev | grep proc : : gives you: : : ... : /var/lib/dpkg/info/procmeter.postinst : /var/lib/dpkg/info/procmeter.list :

Re: PPP connection dying

Brian K Servis writes: Casey Feskens writes: Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin downloading files. It works for awhile, then my whole

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

Jouni == Jouni [EMAIL PROTECTED] fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jouni I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ Jouni lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive Jouni D: to LINUX\FS\TMP Jouni The error number is 3e, if I try to mount my mounted

Re: Help transfering data....

No kidding. He doesn't want to copy the files in the proc directory, but he has to copy the prov directory itself ... it's a mount point, no? I believe the original request was to copy the root fs only. This command does that. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL

Re: Diald modem forget irq #

Hi Will, did you perhaps compile the serial driver as a module? If so the behaviour is quite clear. When the serial module is unloaded the hardware configuration, i.e. IRQ and IO is lost. Upon reloading the module the default values are used. Consequently, the solution could be to compile the

clock/time

Hi, I'm having problem with the clock/time on my debian box. Everytime, I bring up the system, the clock is always about 4 hours behind. I have to setup the time using date -s hh:mm. I'd like to know how to: 1. setup the Debian to always read the time/date from the CMOS

Re: PPP connection dying

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: Brian K Servis writes: Casey Feskens writes: Still having problems keeping ppp from dying out. Telnet works without any problems whatsoever. So does ping. FTP and Netscape seem to be the biggest problems. FTP works fine until I begin

Re: clock/time

Hi Timothy, to my knowledge, Debian is reading time and date from CMOS when booting. Make sure you have the right timezone, the correct CMOS time - either local or GMT - and that the system knows what it is - local or GMT. Besides, under Debian you can read and write the CMOS clock with the clock

libc6 at which rev?

where exactly does libc6 start as the standard for gcc? Is it at 1.3, or unstable? And is there a way to force my system back down to stable, without going package by package to compare them? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: clock/time

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm having problem with the clock/time on my debian box. Everytime, I bring up the system, the clock is always about 4 hours behind. I have to setup the time using date -s hh:mm. I'd like to know how to: 1. setup the Debian to

Re: X modprobe gone wild

I find lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ [...] I suppose I should comment this out? Yes. /dev/lp1 is the char-major-6 device which has being giving you all this trouble. Comment it out, restart lpd or reboot or whatever, reclaim

Re: libc6 at which rev?

where exactly does libc6 start as the standard for gcc? What gcc version? None, but gcc 2.7.2.2 and higher support libc6, below they don't? Is it at 1.3, Oh, you mean what Debian release uses libc6 as standard? That's Debian 2.0, also called hamm, currently unstable. 1.3 is still fully

Netconfig isnt available

Hi I cant find 'netconfig' on Debian Linux 1.3. I am going to set up my ethernet TCP/IP but I need 'netconfig' to install so much easier. do you know where is 'netconfig'? cheers Kam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

FTP availability of last set of X 3.2 packages.

Do any of the ftp sites still have the last round of X 3.2 based packages? I looked around on ftp.debian.org, but couldn't find them. The new 3.3 ones are completely unusable on one machine here as the relevant servers (VGA16 and S3) both *immediately* shut down the monitor on launch. I'd be

Re: Help transfering data (Correction)....

Hmm, seems I too replied too fast :) No worries :) -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Dr. Andreas Wehler

Re: talk to debian and sun

I think that Sun and such are using the old talk port. (I have no idea if the protocols differ...) If you check your /etc/services file, you'll probably see: talk517/udp ntalk 518/udp And in the /etc/inetd.conf: talk dgram udp waitroot

Re: Diald modem forget irq #

I believe the isapnptools package is intended to deal with situations like this. See the manpage for pnpdump after installing. Mike Taylor On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: I have a Hayes Accura 33.6 faxmodem; it's pnp, I have a pnp bios, everything is configured successfully by the

Re: Adaptec 2940 SCSI

Robert, I have a similar system installed. I have had absolutely no problems with my Adaptec 2940 PCI-bus adapter. In fact, just today, I remade my entire system. My only suggestion is to place the boot/root drive as scsi-id-0 for minimum problems. Below is my present configuration:

Re: Winmodem

Winmodems are not supported under Linux (ref: Debian Installation Manual, among other places). Sorry :( If you choose to replace it with a non-Windows PnP modem, you may find the isapnptools package usefull in getting it installed. If it is not in your Debian 1.2 CD, you can download it from a

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

Ben Gertzfield wrote: Jouni I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ Jouni lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive Jouni D: to LINUX\FS\TMP I had this happen to me until I submitted to Bill's will and installed msdos on my hard drive image.

Re: talk to debian and sun

Christopher Jason Morrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I think that Sun and such are using the old talk port. (I have no idea if : the protocols differ...) If you check your /etc/services file, you'll : probably see: : : talk517/udp : ntalk 518/udp : : And in the

Re: upgrading with Debian

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: I will caution you, however, to make sure you read the various warnings and Read.Me's before such an upgrade. For example, the 1.2-1.3 upgrade specifically said you had to upgrade 3 or 4 packages by downloading them and using dpkg to install them

Re: GNUS and Mail

Mark Lever ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I use gnus and rmail. I've been using rmail for so long now, and it : is limited. Someone mentioned here that they use gnus for their mail : and different folders contained different types of mail. Could they : elaborate and explain to me how to get gnus

[no subject]

Hi! I'm using Debain 1.2, and i'm having some problems connecting to my ISP. I've a USR Winmodem, wich is PnP, and a PnP BIOS wich configures all devices ok. when i boot linux, 0setserial, configures all my my serial ports ok, but diald doesn't start on boot and when i try it manually all i can

DNS not showing authority

I just recently setup a new domain and DNS servers for it, everything seems to be working fine with one exception. The secondary sever (WinNT) will not pull the zone data from the primary (debian 1.3) and the primary is giving non-authoritive responses to all queries with nslookup. Is there any

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected itself. David Yes, I did receive a reply about this. It turned out to be an problem with my X keymapping

Re: Certification

There are many models that could be used to set up the certification; it could even be an application that could be downloaded. As for studying for it -- one approach would be to select questions from a large database of possible questions. The database of possible questions could be

Re: dpkg on non-debian systems?

Well, I never tried it. But it should work. There are some instructions out there to make a smooth upgrade from some other Linux distribution to Debian. The first step is, of course, install dpkg. If it works with other distributions, it should work with another (nice) flavor of unix. -- Emilio

Re: upgrading with Debian

PM == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? PM I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when PM doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all PM screwed everything up)... Debian upgrades are

Re: talk to debian and sun

JG == John Garas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JG I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun JG machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a JG notification. Sun uses an old protocol for talk. There is a talk-like program somewhere in sunsite that

Dselect timeout during FTP install.

I just set up a new machine with 1.3 and am having a bit of a problem. Once the base was installed I went to do an FTP install of the rest of the sustem. When I go to do anything that requites attaching to an ftp server the thing times out. We have just gotten our new class C and don't

Re: GNUS and Mail

EAP == Eloy A Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EAP rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail EAP package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not... Your guess is right. Rmail is a mail reader for Emacs. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD.

I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts. I've created 3 rescue disks on three different diskettes from two different downloads, and all

PS/2 Mice

I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 on my computer with the kernel 2.0.30 upgrade. However, i have an Acer Aspire which comes with a PS/2 compatible mouse. I installed the PS/2 driver module during install, but the mouse does not work. Can anyone tell me how to get my mouse running? --

Re: talk to debian and sun

Hi! On 11-Jul-97, Eloy A. Paris wrote: I've heard the problem has something to do with byte ordering (little vs. big endian) in Sun's implementation; their implementation of talk is buggy. We tried a lot at our university, but the only solution was to install a ntalk on the suns. Now it works