On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Rob Duncan wrote:
Can anyone report success with using one of these beasts as a backup
system? The comments in the ATAPI tape driver claim that it (the
software) is somewhat flaky; is this true in practise?
I have a CONNER ATAPI tape drive. Works fine with the LoneTar
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a
Firstly, thank you all for the tips on the Libc5/6 problem I was having.
I have a small network at home, and wasted to hook it to a common linux
gateway.
I installed ipmasq2.2 a few days ago and get the error.
ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available
I read the HOWTO and did all but
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really
asking I would
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
I am looking for a means of running a CGI script that would be
able to do a function similar to telnet. The idea would be that I could
access a Linux machine by means of any web browser and do standard shell
operations. Currently I work at a
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
cd /
mount /dev/somedisk /mnt
cp -a * /mnt
See the mess? ( /mnt/mnt/mnt/... )
You could add the -x switch. This skips subdirectories that are not on the
same filesystem as the directories you are copying.
cp -ax / /mnt
Trouble is
grin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for
thousands of packages telling you it's already installed.
Agreed! BZ to its author (Andy Mortimer, I think).
But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed
to use it
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed
to use it through NFS.
I am using it succesfully via NFS against a mirror of Hamm.
Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not
using a full mirror. For
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
cd /
mount /dev/somedisk /mnt
cp -a * /mnt
See the mess? ( /mnt/mnt/mnt/... )
You could add the -x switch. This skips subdirectories that are not on the
same filesystem as the
Hi Peter!
Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not
using a full mirror. For instance I don't have Packages.gz in
'hamm/hamm' but only in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. Seems
that it looks for the files in the wrong directory...
Packages.gz is supposed
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not
using a full mirror. For instance I don't have Packages.gz in
'hamm/hamm' but only in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. Seems
that it looks for the files in the wrong
Hi,
I am having a very frustrating time with my .xsession. I can login just
fine if I don't have a .xsession of my own, but if I copy the
/etc/X11/Xsession to my $HOME/.xsession, my console just hangs. After
this hanging, I have to reboot.
Here is what my Xsession looks like (the one I copy to
Greg Green wrote (Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:12:45 -0700 ):
|Hi,
|I am having a very frustrating time with my .xsession. I can login just
|fine if I don't have a .xsession of my own, but if I copy the
|/etc/X11/Xsession to my $HOME/.xsession, my console just hangs. After
|this hanging, I have to
Hi, all --
I was wondering if anybody else has yet installed the latest (as of Jan 24 98)
package of wmaker (ver. 0.12.3-0.4). I had some problems with the install
scripts; one I'm sure is a bug - somewher along in the install process, I got
an error saying that the 'ldconfing' command is not
Sorry for the possible reposting, I have been having trouble with my
mailer.
Firstly, thank you all for the tips on the Libc5/6 problem I was having.
I have a small network at home, and wasted to hook it to a common linux
gateway.
I installed ipmasq2.2 a few days ago and get the error.
ipfwadm:
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm
file, which was a dummy script.
So that dummy script is part of the base installation?
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Good observation...I had not noticed the $startup. Also, the reason I was
copying my global Xsession, was so that I can modify it for myself and not
mess with the global.
Thanks for the help
Greg Green
Alan Su wrote:
Greg Green wrote (Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:12:45 -0700 ):
|Hi,
|I am having a
Hello all,
I have a couple of questions... What is it exactly a core dump?
And what should I do if I have one? Is there a certain cleanup or repair
process I need to go thru?
TIA
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Trouble?
grin wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat. Maybe there are TOO MANY
alternatives offered for a new install.
Well, dselect should perhaps start with
Hi peter!
I don't understand your response.
For instance I don't have Packages.gz in 'hamm/hamm' but only
in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others.
Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386.
(there's a link from one step down to binary-i386)
Where? I just scoped out
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
Hi, all --
I was wondering if anybody else has yet installed the latest (as of Jan 24 98)
package of wmaker (ver. 0.12.3-0.4). I had some problems with the install
scripts; one I'm sure is a bug - somewher along in the install process, I got
an
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
I disagree.
# cp -ax /dev /tmp
# cd /tmp/dev
# ls -l hda log ttyS0 xconsole
brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 4 20:36 hda
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root0 Jan 24 16:43 log
crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Jan
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Steven Morrill wrote:
Hello all,
I have a couple of questions... What is it exactly a core dump?
And what should I do if I have one? Is there a certain cleanup or repair
process I need to go thru?
A core dump is caused when the program does something 'wrong'. It
Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some
file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo?
Say . is /tmp. When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into
recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into /tmp
including the directory /tmp/tmp which will
I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size
of xterm but I can't find which file to edit.
I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on.
What is it?
I'm using afterstep if that is of interest.
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some
file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo?
Say . is /tmp. When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into
recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Greg Green wrote:
Good observation...I had not noticed the $startup. Also, the reason I was
copying my global Xsession, was so that I can modify it for myself and not
mess with the global.
In that case, remove everything from your .xsession up to and inclusing
the 'else'
On 24 Jan, Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and
not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem,
if possible?
To which Stephen P. Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
I no longer have the space to
Justin,
I hope you get an answer to your question: I've been battling for
several weeks to get a Linux partition up that will boot when the IBM
boot manager is used to select the linux partition, but with Debian, I
get the same result you report.
I've been able to install RedHat
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Serge Delorme wrote:
I'm using debian 1.3.1 and I want to change the default font size
of xterm but I can't find which file to edit.
I have look in /etc/Xresources, Xsession and the light did not came on.
What is it?
The resource is XTerm*VT100*font and you might
I'm trying to mount an msdos partition so that users logged into Linux can
create files on it. I only have luck if I set gid=(group for a given user) as
an option for the mount command.
For instance, users bernie and bobbern belong to group 'users'. If I set
gid=100 (group 'users' gid) then user
On 24-Jan-1998, David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grin wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat. Maybe there are TOO MANY
alternatives offered
Tyson,
I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the
installation process.
Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the install
process, and it's very infrequent that dependency or other warnings are
issued during a Win95 product
Hi,
I've just gotten an SOHOware 10/100 Auto PCI Fast
Ethernet adapter card and I'd like to know if the
Debian/Linux support this card?
Secondly, I've frequently experienced 'bash' core
dump on me and I'd like to know how would I go about
fixing or report this problem. BTW, I tried
Vladislav,
You can use a chatscript of this type:
ABORTBUSY
ABORTNO CARRIER
ABORTVOICE
ABORTNO DIALTONE
ABORTNO DIAL TONE
ATZ
OK ATDT123-4567
CONNECT \c
^M
Then you will get the connect speed logged to /var/log/messages,
although
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:17:11AM -0500, David E. Scott wrote:
For those of us coming to linux, Debian or otherwise, from the business
environment where when we ask the system (Mac or Win 95) to do an
install for a package, we can be pretty confident that, in fact, the
install will
Sorry for the off topic post, but I'm having problems
connecting to work from my home debian system, while veryone
else gets in on their Win95 systems :-(
I have an NEC Aterm IT65Pro TA/DSU combo connected to my
serial port, with three rj-11 ports configred for analogue
on the TA and the TA's
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I just installed a Ricoh MP6200S CDR/RW into a PII-266, 128M ram, yada
yada :)
I had to roll my own cdrecord(1.5), since this box is the only one not yet
libc6.
I have wasted a few blanks, and successfully written 2 copies of some
archived data. My most recent
Thanks for all you folks who replied to me regarding an off-line news
reader.
I d/led slrn and configured it, but as a couple of you suspected it
_doesn't_ support d/l of just headers and the picking of interesting
articles. I can't afford to d/l all the newsgroups I keep up with - some
of
Tyson Dowd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/24/98 11:43 PM
Perhaps you could explain why you think the Mac/Win UI is better?
Is it just prettier, or is there some way in which it is a better
interface for doing the job?
As far as I can see (the Windows installer) just covers your screen,
tells you to
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote:
Tyson,
I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the
installation process.
Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the install
process, and it's very infrequent that dependency or other
Hi to everyone,
Just a small and stupid question. How can I format floppies under Debian?
I've tried fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (which used to work with Slackware) but
it doesn't work with Debian. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Catalin Popescu
How can I setup the Desktop Size under X to be not greater than the
physical size of my monitor?
How can I setup applications to make them start in a window with the
upper-left corner in the upper-left corner of my monitor?
Catalin Popescu
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Dear Users,
In deciding to upgrade my Linux, I decided to change distribution
re-install the whole thing.
It's gone smoothly apart from the fact that the network is not
recognised. This is, unfortunately, on the critical path to full
installation!
The errors reported are:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Justin,
I hope you get an answer to your question: I've been battling for
several weeks to get a Linux partition up that will boot when the IBM
boot manager is used to select the linux partition, but with Debian, I
get the same result you
I've got one more suggestion.
I did briefly try a program called news peruser an X based offline
news fetcher/reader. It looked pretty good at the time but that was prior
to my current install and I haven't installed it again. I grabbed it in
.rpm format and used alien to install it.
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote:
Tyson,
I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the
installation process.
Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the
Thanks! That did the trick. However, I am trying to xsetroot -solid
RoyalBlue in this .xsession file and it works for about a second, then goes
back to the original openwin default blue. Do I need to change another file?
Your help is appreciated,
Greg Green
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Sat,
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
I don't understand your response.
next time I won't answer after 4:30am :-]
For instance I don't have Packages.gz in 'hamm/hamm' but only
in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others.
Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386.
(there's
I installed Amaya, and I understand that it's a hack, and using lesstif so
there can be quirks and stuff. Still I wonder, anyone have a working ENTER
key? Mine's just does nothing, and seems it's not possible to insert LI
elements and some other without ENTER.
If yes, what to do to be able to use
Disregard.. I just put xsetroot in the background and it worked. Thanks for all
the help!
Greg Green
Greg Green wrote:
Thanks! That did the trick. However, I am trying to xsetroot -solid
RoyalBlue in this .xsession file and it works for about a second, then goes
back to the original
I have been looking for Debian Linux on their ftp site for a few days.
What is the exact path I need to follow to download the complete Debian
1.3 w/ all upgrades?
All help is appriciated
Cynyde
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 15:53:50 +0100 grin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I installed Amaya, and I understand that it's a hack, and using lesstif so
there can be quirks and stuff. Still I wonder, anyone have a working ENTER
key? Mine's just does nothing, and seems it's not possible to insert LI
elements
I also found the fvwm changes troublesome since I had to spend a few hours
(or was that days) redoing post.hook. I also feel something like ctrltab
should raise and focus on successive windows. I found the default fvwm
configuration anemic.
I solved this focus and raise problem, but I use
Well, lets see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/zero xxx
cat: write error: File too large
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 kadamski users2147482624 Jan 25 12:02 xxx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.33 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #6 Sun Dec 28
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
Ok, let's summarize the differences between the install programs. The
Win95 installs have a simple design, are brain-dead and can present you
with nice 'Next' buttons. The Debian installer can perform complex tasks
but has a user interface that is hard to learn.
Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Serial connection established
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1
Serial line is looped back
Connection terminated
You should add debug to your pppd options and check /var/log/ppp.log for
detailed log.
In addition, I have ISDN
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to mount an msdos partition so that users logged into Linux
can create files on it. I only have luck if I set gid=(group for a given
user) as an option for the mount command.
This is a reasonable way to do it.
For instance, users bernie
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm
file, which was a dummy script.
So that dummy script is part of the base installation?
Don't know. I just wanted to say, that
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First of all: I may be wrong, but aren't the vortex and the boomerang
cards supported only by kernel = 2.0.32 ?
The errors reported are:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again
SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable
SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable
When do this errors
I am a leafsite, having an uucp connection for e-mail via a smart-host.
Each time I invoke uucico from the command prompt ie
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -S systemname -x 2
I get a good connection an e-mail is transfered.
When uucico is invoked by the uudaemon.hr (I've mentioned an entry in
Hello all,
I am trying to get netatalk working on my small home network (just my Linux
box and a Mac 6115). I have all of the requisite parts, and it seems to start
OK on the linux machine but won't show up in the chooser, and the AppleTalk
control panel says now AppleTalk zones available. BTW
Alan Su wrote:
Steven Morrill wrote (Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:01:09 -0800 ):
|Hello all,
|
|I have a couple of questions... What is it exactly a core dump?
|And what should I do if I have one? Is there a certain cleanup or repair
|process I need to go thru?
|
A core dump just indicates
When attempting to compile a kernel (2.0.32 or 2.0.33) on a system
recently upgraded to libc6, `make dep' fails with the following
message:
make dep
make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[1]: Leaving directory
Hi Martin,
You wrote:
For instance, users bernie and bobbern belong to group 'users'. If I set
gid=100 (group 'users' gid) then user bernie cannot, say, copy files to
the mounted msdos partition. But if I set gid=1000 (user 'bernie' gid),
then bernie can copy files to the mounted
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:
Hi to everyone,
Just a small and stupid question. How can I format floppies under Debian?
I've tried fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (which used to work with Slackware) but
it doesn't work with Debian. What am I missing?
Use superformat in the fdutils
I have been looking for Debian Linux on their ftp site for a few days.
What is the exact path I need to follow to download the complete Debian
try /debian/dists/stable
also, poke around with a browser rather than ftp (just type
ftp://ftp.debian.org into the browser). This way, you get the
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Matthias Knauff wrote:
if I want to use dselect from the DEBIAN-LINUX include the German magazine
CHIP I have a serious problem. By choosing the method on CD-ROM (Plextor
SCSI 12/20) I get always the errormessage broken pipe in When I
This is
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stupid me; what I didn't check is whether files were actually being
copied to the target msdos dir (in this case '/opendos/'). They are
being copied! But cp gives me a message to the contrary, for instance:
bernie$ cp newsgroups /opendos/
cp:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory available.
bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0
Formatting cylinder
Tommi Kaariainen wrote:
I've used the OS/2 Warp 3.0 Boot Manager with Debian for over a year now.
The trick is to put the linux loader to the boot block of the Linux root
partition by putting the command
boot=/dev/hdNUMBER
where /dev/hdNUMBER is your the aforementioned root partition in
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
The mac makes it clear as to exactly what is being installed -- that's
the biggest difference. It tells you what's happening. dpkg is better for
doing stuff en masse and certain other things, but the mac is certainly
easier, mainly because of
Hi all,
after having unsuccesfully tried to install omniORB, since the problem was in
the NameService, I tried to get a CORBA client anyway (I don't need to use the
NameService anyway).
Well I can compile, but I get segmentation fault when I try to run it. Using
gdb I found that the problem is
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:
: Hi to everyone,
:
: Just a small and stupid question. How can I format floppies under Debian?
: I've tried fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (which used to work with Slackware) but
: it doesn't work with Debian. What am I missing?
:
: Thanks,
:
: Catalin
At 06:18 21.1.98 -0700, you wrote:
Bostjan,
Did you also install LPRng instead of lpr? I recieved the same type of
error when trying to use apsfilter with LPRng. Switched to magicfilter and
everything worked fine.
Steve Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed magicfilter and works like magic.
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tommi,
My system initially was a Win95B system using FAT32 for the full 5 gig
drive. I bought Powerquest Partition Magic to resize the FAT32 partition
down so that I could put an msdos partition (800M) and a 1.5G extended
partition containing
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory available.
bash-2.01$
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think cp wants to set permissions. But it can't on a msdos filesystem.
Add the quiet line to the mount options to get rid of these messages.
You are correct sir. Thanks!
---
Bob Bernstein
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:29:47PM -0500, David E. Scott wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
Agreed. chuckle, but I'm not so sure the Win95 install wizard could
be characterized as brain-dead at least not in comparison to the truly
brain-dead installations in Win 3.1 from 3d party suppliers
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote:
Hi to everyone,
Just a small and stupid question. How can I format floppies under Debian?
I've tried fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (which used to work with Slackware) but
it doesn't work with Debian. What am I missing?
What goes
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
Well, lets see:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/zero xxx
cat: write error: File too large
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l xxx
-rw-r--r-- 1 kadamski users2147482624 Jan 25 12:02 xxx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.33
Hi!
Does anybody know how to get the SiS SG86C205 (aka 6205) working
with X-Window?
It isn't listed in the 'cards' list...
TIA!
Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
PGP key
Tommi Kaariainen wrote:
I don't know, however as far as I know putting the Linux Loader (lilo)
to the boot block of the Linux root partition (the logical partition i this
case) shouldn't break anything.
Tommi,
That's really interesting: putting LILO in the boot block of the Linux
root
P.S. Is anyone running hamm Ddebian with the wmaker_0.12* and has a working
asmail docked? I can get the 'noMail icon in the dock, but the asmail won't
start unless it creates additional window...Any solutions? BTW, I run the
asmail package from hamm/hamm/mail...
Nope but I am running wmmail
To All X users,
I am a new user of Debian Linux and installed version 1.3 with Xfree86. I
run through the XF86Config and it sets all of the hardware settings, and
then previews what the Xwindow will look like before saving the config
file. When I run using startx, xinit, or xdm, I get an error
Here's the catch... when I try to run applix I get an error saying that
there aren't any languages installed. I assume there is some kind of
postinstall script in the rpms that was lost in the conversion -
anybody know what will fix this?
I did the exact same thing and it worked for me...
Hi There
Does anyone know how to reinstall a program without purging the program then reinstalling it Other words trying to force reinstall using dpkg.. .
Thanks
Steve Koop: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a leafsite, having an uucp connection for e-mail via a smart-host.
Each time I invoke uucico from the command prompt ie
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -S systemname -x 2
I get a good connection an e-mail is transfered.
So
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's really interesting: putting LILO in the boot block of the Linux
root partition. I understood that LILO would allow you to boot into
various partitions, like the IBM Boot Manager does.
When I was in IBM Systems Programming, it was
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
But you never now if you are safe to replace or keep it, are you?
True enough, but the safer option is to not allow the installer put in
the older version. That way if the software I'm testing doesn't run, I
can trash it. However if I had let the installer go ahead and
Hi,
I've been trying to get PPP to work by following the PPP How-To. I
called my ISP and got the required info. When I asked about PAP they
didn't seem to know what I was talking about. So, I assume they don't
use PAP.
I have an external Zoom K56 flex modem connected to ttyS1 and it seems
to
Tommi Kaariainen wrote:
The sequence of events in my machine is like this:
1. The Master Boot Record (modified by OS/2 Boot Manager) of the hard disk
is read and executed.
2. The MBR starts Boot Manager
3. The user tells the Boot Manager to boot from the Linux partition.
4. The Boot
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double
click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian you
type dpkg -i filename. Dselect is not the installer, it is the package
selection tool. It shows you a list of program
Hi,
I'm thinking to get a ethernet card for my PC (PCI) and I'd like
to know which is a better supported NIC card for Debian/Linux.
I'm interested in getting 10/100 Base-T card.
Secondly, please show me how to configure the kernel/software to
make use of the NIC card. Thank in
On 26 Jan 1998 00:06:17 +0200 Tommi Kaariainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The sequence of events in my machine is like this:
1. The Master Boot Record (modified by OS/2 Boot Manager) of the hard disk
is read and executed.
2. The MBR starts Boot
Jeff Gutliph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I've been trying to get PPP to work by following the PPP How-To. I
called my ISP and got the required info. When I asked about PAP they
didn't seem to know what I was talking about. So, I assume they don't
use PAP.
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