Debian 2.0 Beta ya está en la calle

1998-06-24 Thread Enrique Zanardi
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AYUDA!!!!! particion del disco dañada

1998-06-24 Thread Roman Ferreiras
Amigos ayudenme he metido la pata al tratar de reparticionar mi disco y ahora ni el fdisk de win 95 osr/2 ni la utilidad del rescue disk de los discos de instalacion de debian quieren leer la partición el fdisk se queda leyendo y el rescue disk me dice que la particion esta dañada (bad logical

Re: Gestor de ventanas

1998-06-24 Thread Deibit
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 10:02:31PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: me podrías aconsejar un gestor de ventanas estable, sin fallos, que no ocupe demasiada memoria, y funcione bien? Prueba el WindowMaker. Esta programado por el anterior programador del AfterStep. -- _ _ __ _

Re: Debian 2.0 Beta ya está en la calle

1998-06-24 Thread Francisco Ruiz
Hola, Enrique Zanardi escribió: Beta Test de Debian v2.0 (Hamm) Me gustaría bajarme de internet la versión para i386, pero de todo el árbol ftp de debian ¿qué directorios necesito bajarme para instalar esta beta? -- -

Ampliar particion para linux y duda sobre Netscape.

1998-06-24 Thread dani
Hola amigos debianeros, tengo dos dudas(como minimo) que no me permiten usar todo lo que queria mi equipo. 1) Por que Netscape se cuelga cuando intento usarlo sin la conexion ppp establecida ? No intento acceder a ningun site, de hecho ni tan solo a un fichero local. Lo unico que quiero hacer es

Re: Gestor de ventanas

1998-06-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 10:11:00AM +0200, Deibit wrote: me podrías aconsejar un gestor de ventanas estable, sin fallos, que no ocupe demasiada memoria, y funcione bien? Prueba el WindowMaker. Esta programado por el anterior programador del AfterStep. Si bien es cierto que el

Re: Debian 2.0 Beta ya está en la calle

1998-06-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 10:21:29AM +0200, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Me gustaría bajarme de internet la versión para i386, pero de todo el árbol ftp de debian ¿qué directorios necesito bajarme para instalar esta beta? agrega (ht|f)tp://tu.replica.es/camino/antes/de/debian/ a todo esto

Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo

1998-06-24 Thread J. Parera
Hola, asta hace poco usaba el kernel 2.0.30 el cual no me daba problemas con mi zip, pero, ahora uso el kernel 2.0.34 el cual no me reconoce la ZIP. Para compilar el kernel uso make menuconfig en el cual se puede obserbar que tiene opciones diferentes a mi anterior kernel por lo que agradecería a

Re: Debian 2.0 Beta ya está en la calle

1998-06-24 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Francisco: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:30:35AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 10:21:29AM +0200, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Me gustaría bajarme de internet la versión para i386, pero de todo el árbol ftp de debian ¿qué directorios necesito bajarme para instalar esta

Re: Ampliar particion para linux y duda sobre Netscape.

1998-06-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
La primera pregunta creo que se debe a lo sigiuente:B es posible que tengas puesto como home page algo que no sea ni local (file://..) ni blank page. En ese caso entonces el Notescapes intentara 1.- hacer una resolucion inversa DNS para saber a que direccion IP conectarse

Problema grave con X

1998-06-24 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Hola. Bien, de hecho lo considero yo grave. Quise instalar el KDE que venía con el CD-ROM de la revista Linux Actual, pero no la version Beta 4 (requiere libc6 y no lo tengo), sino la Beta 3. Empezé a hacer dpkg -i paquetes_debian con todos. hasta que me di cuenta que estaba dando errores...

Re: Gestor de ventanas

1998-06-24 Thread Tinguaro Barreno Delgado
Hace poco estuve probando todos los gestores que vienen en la distribución Debian 1.3.1. El resultado es el siguiente (ordenados en cuanto a espacio en memoria): WindowManager RSS VSZ Accesorios o módulos 9wm 588 1508 wm2 764 2028 fvwm 904

fetchmail

1998-06-24 Thread MAN
Hola: reinstale debian 1.3.1 hace 12 dias. Configuré el sendmail y el fetchmail segun el Sendmail +fetchmail como La primera instalacion no me dieron ningun problema ni uno ni el otro. Pero ahora fetchmail no me baja los mensajes. Se conectacon el servidor pop3 acepta el name y el pass me dice los

Re: problems with dselect/dpkg

1998-06-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, hrdluk wrote: Im having a problem with the installation of debian. This is my first install of debian, though I have installed/used slackware for a little while. I have gotten through everything with no problems untill I hit deselect. I believe I managed to get many

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-24 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell; you may want to install netscape using the debian installer package, it preloads (or used

diald w/ dynamic ip address

1998-06-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
Can someone point me to a sample configuration of diald when the caller's ip address is dynamically assigned by the ISP? I've read the fine manual but the sample configuration file is for a fixed ip address and I can't find enough hints to make things work correctly. TIA, Pann -- To

RE: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-24 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: strings would do a good job for me, but... and then edit wordfile.txt to clean it up. Raw strings will skip sequences of fewer than 4 ASCII characters but these are unlikely to occur in a Word document. This method will suppress all

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts? It will show both. However, it could show you text that, as far as Word is concerned, is no longer in the document. Also the changes might be stored such that

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-24 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 10:57:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts? It will show both. However, it could show you text that, as far as Word is concerned, is

Re: Desperate for Optical Character Recognition

1998-06-24 Thread timothy
Hi, I was wondering if you have any tips geting this OCRShop thing to work. I d/led the sickeningly huge 9MB tar file. (Reminds me of Windoze software.:)). Untarred, ran ./installer, set it onto /usr/local/vividata and it installed itself. Now i'm stuck: The installer ocrshop scripts in

Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
I have two questions before I try to install Linux on my Thinkpad 755CD 1. The ~680 Meg hard-disk is currently DoubleSpaced under Windows 95 to look like almost 1.2 Gig. Is there any way I can re-partition it to have a dual boot, or do I need to just scrub it and install Linux (I don't mind

D2

1998-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Brien
Where can I plunk down my platinum CC to get a gold CD of D2? Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Menu

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Beattie
I am having a small problem with the Menu package and afterstep. Whenever update-menus is run, the menus are generated fine, but a transition of sections, like below renders the rest of the menu file unread. I cannot find what is wrong... -- ?package(xlockmore):needs=x11

Re: wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 24 Jun 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Shtinkov) writes: I have hamm and wu-ftpd-academ ver 2.4.2.16-9 installed, but when I log as anonymous i can't see directory listings. Are you possibly running kernel-2.0.34? This very same problem happened here on two hamm

dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: prompt. From there I'm lost. I've read the docs, and they are very confusing, contradictory and not very helpful. I try to lredir my drives, but

dselect

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Beattie
Just wondering, is it safe to '_' the following packages??? --- Removed and no longer available packages --- - Removed Required packages - --- Removed Required packages in section base --- --- Req base timezone 7.55-2 none - Removed Standard

Re: Linux Y2K

1998-06-24 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: t == timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t How will Debian other distributions handle Y2K on older computers t which don't t have a Y2K safe BIOS? Check http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980104 Ciao, Martin

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
Robert Kerr wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: prompt. From there I'm lost. I started to try this awhile back. I loaded a dos editor by copying it to a floppy first, then

Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but if I unselect tetex-bin, the dependency resolution screen comes back and selects it (and its dependencies) again. Even selecting hold for this package

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: I have two questions before I try to install Linux on my Thinkpad 755CD 1. The ~680 Meg hard-disk is currently DoubleSpaced under Windows 95 to look like almost 1.2 Gig. Is there any way I can re-partition it to have a dual boot, or do I need to

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:35:24PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: prompt. From there I'm lost. I've read the docs, and they are very confusing,

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but if I unselect tetex-bin, the dependency resolution screen comes back and selects it (and

Re: PPP Routing ??

1998-06-24 Thread roger ward
Hi Thanks for pointing me in the right direction re IP Masquerading. I have now got the Win95 machine connecting to the Internet via the Linux box. Also, it was the first time I have needed to re-compile the kernel so it was successful all around Thanks Roger Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Ian Stuart
Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: prompt. From there I'm lost. I've read the docs, and they are very confusing, contradictory and not very helpful. I

Secure credit card transactions

1998-06-24 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello, Sometime ago there was a thread on the list about secure credit card transaction software. I have searched the archives and may have not reconized the subject. Could the person/s that pointed the requester in the right directions to find the required software packages please repost your

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-24 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! Maybe copy /dev/vc* contents is not a good idea cause (I think so) is limited to video memory The information has to be stored somewhere. Otherwise, the shift-pageup could not work. Just a matter of chasing down what memory buffer holds it

Re: Linux Y2K

1998-06-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MS == Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: t == timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t How will Debian other distributions handle Y2K on older computers t which don't t have a Y2K safe BIOS? Check

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell; you may want to install netscape using the debian

getpeername: socket error (telnetd)

1998-06-24 Thread Alan
I have suddenly experienced problems trying to telnet localhost (can't connect) and telneting from a client to this host (bad port number), and have checked all the usual config files. I have now found that if I run in.telnetd I get the message: in telnetd: getpeername: Socket operation on

Re: dselect

1998-06-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Beattie wrote: Just wondering, is it safe to '_' the following packages??? --- Removed and no longer available packages --- - Removed Required packages - --- Removed Required packages in section base --- --- Req base timezone 7.55-2 none

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but if I unselect tetex-bin, the dependency resolution screen

Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i put together. I read through the documentation, but i am confused.

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tutorial for the php3 program? See http://www.php.net/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Egon Schmid
On http://ca.php.net/news.php3 there are links to some good postgres/mysql oriented articles. -Egon PS: your email adress seems not valid On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink

Re: mouseman+ with linux

1998-06-24 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 04:14:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any info on using the 4-button/1-wheel logitech mouseman+ mouse with linux? See Colas Nahaboo's X Mouse Wheel Scroll Page at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ and also also

2.1.106 + kmod + netcard?

1998-06-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, I just compiled 2.1.106, and I'm having this problem: Jun 23 07:56:48 pollux kernel: ne.c: module auto-load (kmod) support not present. Jun 23 07:56:48 pollux kernel: ne.c: unable to auto-load required 8390 module. Jun 23 07:56:48 pollux kernel: ne.c: try modprobe 8390 as root 1st. Jun

Adaptec Pledges to support Linux

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
http://www.redhat.com/news/news-details.phtml?id=97 A few excerpts ... Research Triangle Park, NC--June 23, 1998--Red Hat® Software, Inc., publisher of the Red Hat Linux Operating System, announced today that Adaptec, Inc., providers of bandwidth management technologies including SCSI

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but if I unselect

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Miguel A. Arranz
Just one thing. Why is tetex-bin recommended with a2ps? I can't see the relationship. Greetings ** Miguel A. Arranz Dpt. of Economics Universidad de Alicante Apdo. Correos 99 E-03080 ALICANTE SPAIN [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PalmPilot

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Taylor
I just to think the person from a previous message for sharing what he did to get the palmpilot working on his thinkpad. I had been working on it for 3 months and had not even thought of the port being turned off - fixed it last night and now all synched. -- __ __

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Miguel A. Arranz wrote: Just one thing. Why is tetex-bin recommended with a2ps? I can't see the relationship. I wondered about that also. From changelog.Debian.gz: a2ps (4.10.2-3) unstable; urgency=low, Closes=23352 * Added 'Recommends: groff, tetex-bin, psutils' to

smalleiffel eiffel-mode for emacs?

1998-06-24 Thread Mike Miller
Has anyone got a working copy of eiffel-mode for emacs? The copy I have works somewhat, but does not do font-lock-ing properly with emacs 20.0. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2 ethernet cards (more ...)

1998-06-24 Thread Philippe BARBELET
Hi Debian friends, I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. At boot time, the system says : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA and MCA bus!! loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 34 e8 44, IRQ 3. 3c509.c:1.07

Re: man pages problem

1998-06-24 Thread Jim Harsh
At 02:49 PM 6/22/98 -0600, you wrote: Hi, snip tried to reinstall. I get an error when dslect is tring to get man-db_2.3.10-64.deb from dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc stating that No such file or dircetory. I found man-db_2.3.10-65.deb on ftp.debian.org and it installed fine. Why is dselect

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Ashok Gopalakrishnan
Robert Kerr wrote: I'm having a very frustrating time with dosemu. I've gotten to the point where I can actually type dos at the prompt and I get a very nice c: prompt. From there I'm lost. I've read the docs, and they are very confusing, contradictory and not very helpful. I try to

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Jay Barbee
Also just to add to what Michael said... If you have any errors with your boot disks, you should try the floppy=thinkpad at the boot prompt. My thinkpad will not work without it (750) and I am pretty sure you will need the same think. As for the compressed Win95 drive... I would backup all

Re: 2 ethernet cards (more ...)

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Philippe BARBELET wrote: : Hi Debian friends, : : I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC. : : At boot time, the system says : : : 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA : and MCA bus!! : loading device 'eth0'... : eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag

PNP

1998-06-24 Thread Adam Greene
I've been out of the loop for a while and I am wondering if Plug and Play is yet in the kernel?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPP or no PPP ....

1998-06-24 Thread Gutfraind
Hello debian users! (yes it's another lost newbie question.. :( ) During hamm installation I entered the details of my modem and of my ISP (IP, user, password..). I have started pon and have heard the modem hand-shake, but what's next? I didn't get any details of what have happened. Appearently,

Re: man pages problem

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jim Harsh wrote: At 02:49 PM 6/22/98 -0600, you wrote: Hi, snip tried to reinstall. I get an error when dslect is tring to get man-db_2.3.10-64.deb from dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc stating that No such file or dircetory. I found man-db_2.3.10-65.deb on

Re: Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft winning one in the DOJ battle. Sounds like a good time for MS-ers

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and Floppy drives, so if you boot

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and Floppy drives, so if you boot from the floppy, you can't put the CD in because there is no CD-ROM DRIVE in the machine. If you turn off the ThinkPad and install the CD-ROM

Why are dump and restore setuid root?

1998-06-24 Thread Andrew Eason
I run dump and restore as root. Is there some sort of hidden feature that I am missing where it needs setuid root access? -- Andrew Eason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memory usage and Netscape

1998-06-24 Thread Mark Panzer
Ed Cogburn wrote: Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote: While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap. Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell; you may want to install

JDK1.1.5 Installation

1998-06-24 Thread Dennis Dixon
Thanks to everyone for helping me with mounting my 2nd Linux partition. I'm sure on my own I would have surely screwed it up. Now, on to new problems. I am trying to install the package 'jdk1.1.5-v7-libc5.tar.gz' (downloaded from 'ce.usu.edu/pub/mirror/linus/JDK/JDK-1.1.5/i386/libc5/v7/). I

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:47:53AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4. When I try to upgrade from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but

Re: 2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:45:21PM +, Jay Barbee wrote: I heard about the Debian 2.0-beta IRC party on slashdot.org... I was wondering at what stage is this debian group going to create the Official CD for 2.0? Will 2.0-beta be included? I would love a Hamm CD ASAP! And how does

Re: 2.0 Beta Party...

1998-06-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: We already *did* get rid of most of the bugs, otherwise we wouldn't even release a beta. The point is that we think it is quite stable now, and can be recommended to users who can't wait any day longer. Here's a question for you. I'm running 1.3r8. I ran off the

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-24 Thread Alain toussaint
i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but i have

alternative ftp sites

1998-06-24 Thread Katharine Osborne
Hi, I've been trying to download a debian package (libc6 to be specific) for quite some time but the ftp server at Debian.org is limited to 150 anonymous users and is always maxxed out. I've tried going to the international mirrors listed on the site but they all point back to the same ftp

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Multamäki
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap

Re: alternative ftp sites

1998-06-24 Thread dpk
Does anyone know of an alternative site that has the debian packages that I might try? Many thanks, Katharine Osborne Katharine, Try debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org is another name for it). Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844

Need linux for alpha

1998-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
My lab has an old Alpha 3000 sitting around (at least that's what the case says) that's not being used for anything, and for various reasons we're in search of a new OS to run on it. Can Alpha linux run here? Is there a decent release of it? I'm under the impression that our alpha port isn't

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread John Kloss
I installed debian 1.3 on my thinkpad 760xl and as I recall it wasn't that bad if you had the external floppy drive using a port replicator. so that's about extra $300 or $400 or something (I don't remember) but the drive was (and is) recognized by debian instantly and then I was able to install

Re: posix procs: where is it gone ?

1998-06-24 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:07:42 +0200 (METDST) Stelios Parnassidis writes: Is the old (?) ps, the one with the PS_PEERSONALITY setting, to find under debian ? I'm running/poerting a huge package related to my job, which rely very heavy on the posix conform switches of 'ps'. One of a

Remove user

1998-06-24 Thread Brian Morgan
simple question: What's the command for removing a user? I've looked in all my manuals, but can't find it. hamm, 2.033 kernel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux Compaq servers?

1998-06-24 Thread Chea Prince
is Compaq shipping servers with Linux installed? is there an article somewhere outlining Compaq + Linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #526

1998-06-24 Thread Paul Reavis
Dennis Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install the package 'jdk1.1.5-v7-libc5.tar.gz' (downloaded from 'ce.usu.edu/pub/mirror/linus/JDK/JDK-1.1.5/i386/libc5/v7/). Just as a thought, you might try the 1.1.6 versions; I'm using v1 and it seems fine, might try v2 soon - this is on a

Re: Need linux for alpha

1998-06-24 Thread Andy Kahn
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 03:33:47PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: My lab has an old Alpha 3000 sitting around (at least that's what the case says) that's not being used for anything, and for various reasons we're in search of a new OS to run on it. Can Alpha linux run here? Is there a decent

Re: Remove user

1998-06-24 Thread Steve Mayer
Brian, Try 'man userdel' Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Morgan wrote: simple question: What's the command for removing a user? I've looked in all my manuals, but can't find it. hamm, 2.033 kernel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

xterm-debian?

1998-06-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, What's the difference between a standard xterm and a xterm-debian terminfo/termcap entry? It is annoying to see the following when I try to remote start an xterm on a non-Debian machine (via ssh): tcsh: No entry for terminal type xterm-debian tcsh: using dumb terminal

Problem with Linux recognizing modem

1998-06-24 Thread Fungame Game
I have a modem that is installed on COM2, and is internal. It is compatible with all Hayes-type commands. PPPd is setup to dial out (using chat, using ppp-go). However, when I run it, I get something like this: pppd[299] tcgetattr I/O error. This sounded like a problem talking to my modem, or

Re: Problem with Linux recognizing modem

1998-06-24 Thread John Kloss
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Fungame Game wrote: I have a modem that is installed on COM2, and is internal. It is compatible with all Hayes-type commands. PPPd is setup to dial out (using chat, using ppp-go). However, when I run it, I get something like this: pppd[299] tcgetattr I/O error. This

JDK 1.1.5 Debian package

1998-06-24 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi, I saw your questions on the Debian users list and wondered if you were aware of the java-linux mailing list. That may be a very useful resource for you. See http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html for more info. ttyl, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: SuperDisk Drive

1998-06-24 Thread Alain toussaint
they're supported in development kernel (at least in 2.1.103 and upper),i don't know for stables kernel. Alain Hi, I would like to know if the SuperDisk Drive is supported, and how to use it ? It's a parallel port drive using 120 Mo floppy. It can be put on the printer port

again, ppp-2.3.5 and kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-24 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi, I have a problem with the mentioned combination. When i run pon to establish a ppp-connection pppd immediately exits with the error message tcgetatt (5) During booting it says ppp Version 2.2.0. But i installed ppp2.3.5. Now, do i need to upgrade my kernel ? I´ve seen some patches in var.

[Carrie.Appleby@NAU.EDU: linux]

1998-06-24 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Carrie Lynn Appleby [EMAIL PROTECTED] - i have been trying to downlad linux and have incounterd a problem downloading base-3.bin and so i havent been able to download it all. please help me [EMAIL PROTECTED] duke cox -- Please respect the privacy of this

Re: PPP or no PPP ....

1998-06-24 Thread john
1) How can I check my connection status? Use the 'plog' command. If the connection has failed, you'll see something like this: Jun 24 07:06:38 hasler pppd[223]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0 Jun 24 07:06:39 hasler chat[224]: abort on (BUSY) Jun 24

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-24 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[edited out discussion about how this could be implimented ...] But I'm sure I used to get all the messages in /var/log/kern.log before I upgraded to hamm (see messages with subject /etc/init.d/boot message) e.g. Jun 14 13:06:25 Bert kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jun 14

Re: PPP or no PPP ....

1998-06-24 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am still using bo, but most, if not all, of my reply will be valid for hamm too. On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Gutfraind wrote: During hamm installation I entered the details of my modem and of my ISP (IP, user, password..). I have started pon and have heard the modem hand-shake, but what's next?

Re: alternative ftp sites

1998-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, dpk wrote: Does anyone know of an alternative site that has the debian packages that I might try? Many thanks, Katharine Osborne Katharine, Try debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org is another name for it). It would be nice if whoever

Re: Problem with Linux recognizing modem

1998-06-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Fungame Game wrote: I have a modem that is installed on COM2, and is internal. It is compatible with all Hayes-type commands. PPPd is setup to dial out (using chat, using ppp-go). However, when I run it, I get something like this: pppd[299] tcgetattr I/O error. This

Re: alternative ftp sites

1998-06-24 Thread servis
*-Bob Nielsen (24 Jun) | On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, dpk wrote: | | Does anyone know of an alternative site that has | the debian packages that I might try? | | Many thanks, | | Katharine Osborne | | Katharine, | Try debian.egr.msu.edu (ftp.mi.us.debian.org is another name