I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for
emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and
I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and
prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine, i.e., it gets to
the login prompt. But at that
Hi,
I've being trying to get a Win95 machine to dialin with a IPX connecting,
but adding the settings for IPX as per the man page, causes pppd to fail,
saying that the ipx settings are invalid.
I take it this means the pppd isn't compiled with IPX support, as ipx is
enables in the kernel.
Why
I've seen reports on the aic7xxx and linux-kernel mailing lists about
device-negotiation error under the more recent versions of the driver.
Many of them sounded quite similar to what you've described. You might
try creating a custom install-disk, using an older version of the driver...
you can
Edward Betts wrote:
On Fri, 03 Jul, 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
Hi there. After a wonderful discussion in debian-devel :) I decided to
try out gnome. However I can't seam to find the gmc package in the
incoming or slink directory?
Does the package exist get? And if so where
Hello everyone,
I found a nice large thread in the June archives that talks about xfstt
a good bit, it begins with
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9806/msg00176.html
I installed xfstt and copied over all the *.ttf fonts from the
windows/fonts directory on the win95 partition
I am trying to install and setup smail with a debian package but it will
not install. I think I tried this a month or so ago and it did not work.
I think it partially had gotten installed but not configured. When I try
and install the package it tries to remove the last attempt I made at
I tried to connect a 33600 modem to my system.
This is a deferent computer then the one the hardisk usually runs on
if that changes anything (on the regular computer there is a 14400
modem which works fine)
I tried to set up using pppconfig.
when i start pon i get a response (in plog)
pppd 2.3.3
i tried to use fvwmconf to set up my fvwm2 window manager.
when i start it it reads the setup i made just fine and it also keeps
it when i exit fvwmconf, but i can't get it to use the configuration
on startup. when i comp the file it writes out to ~/.fvwm2rc the
system gets stuck after startup.
Hello fellow users.
The debian user lists are the most important source of
information for debian users,
especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to
that.
However the lists have grown too large. I receive about 80
MSG's per day from
the lists and I can't filter myself all those
we're now using a win 95 system in order to develop a comercial system
(software and hardware)
I am considering to try to move the system to a unix/linux base
instead. So i was wondering what are the pro's and cons of such a
switch.
That includes: How dificult is it for a programer to make the
That includes: How dificult is it for a programer to make the switch
to programing for X instead of win95.
Well, programming for X is much more verstile then Win programming.
The thing is that you have a choice in a GUI Toolkit.
The oldest and most popular is Motif. It is not free and available
I was downloading the CD image and got 99% done (628 mb) and it disappeared
from the debian.org/debian ftp site. Does anyone know where it might be?
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Mail Boxes Etc. #115, 143A Great Northern Rd. Sault Ste. Marie, ON, CA
Well, the dpkg manpage says to use dpkg --force-conflicts -i
filename.deb in order to install and ignore all conflicts (such as
overwriting the files from the partial installation). Or, to force
removal, use dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r packagename (you could
also replace -r with --purge.)
1) Is the modem plug and play, and if so, are you using isapnp?
2) What version of Debian are you using?
If you are using hamm you should be able to allow normal users to use
dial-up services by adding them to group dip. This probably holds true in
bo also, but I'm not sure (I had to change some
I'd really like to be able to get the list in digest format.
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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
Hello fellow users.
The debian user lists are the most important source of
information for debian users,
especially
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:33:33PM -0400, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
Hello fellow users.
The debian user lists are the most important source of
information for debian users,
especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to
that.
However the lists have grown too large. I receive
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've being trying to get a Win95 machine to dialin with a IPX connecting,
but adding the settings for IPX as per the man page, causes pppd to fail,
saying that the ipx settings are invalid.
I take it this means the pppd isn't compiled with IPX support,
Texpire started segfaulting on me a couple days ago, right
at the very beginning of the program. Today, fetch also started
segfaulting. It's working now, but I just wanted to let people know in
case it happens to anyone else.
Purging and reinstalling leafnode (1.4-10) did not help, but deleting
is the next most preferred contact. Host B knows that it is not the
final destination (because of the MX record for host A) so it queues the
mail in /var/spool/mqueue (if it's a linux box). Host B will attempt to
deliver that mail for as long as the timeout period allows.
That's correct. I
Greets,
I have the following line in /etc/inittab:
S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1
How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some
parameter) and restart it again ?
Try
'kill -HUP' init
damon
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Hi,
I have a bo source CD. From time to time I use some files from there.
The problem is that it's still not completly clear to me how to apply
the patches. For the moment I do like this:
1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory.
2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file.
3. Pacth the files with
Drake Diedrich wrote:
Lapack++ hasn't been packaged yet, but would be welcome. The successor,
NTL, might be a better time investment. http://math.nist.gov/tnt/
After some strugle, I've managed to compile Lapack++. The tests included
in the distribution (the netlib one) said it's OK. I
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/04/98
at 07:24 PM, kenneth scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just a guess. Make sure that you have specified a connection speed of
115200 (between computer and modem). Of course you must have '550 uarts in
the serial port.
Thanks. Have done that. It's an
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/04/98
at 07:24 PM, kenneth scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just a guess. Make sure that you have specified a connection speed of
115200 (between computer and modem). Of course you must have '550 uarts in
the serial port.
Thanks. Have done that. It's an
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
07/05/98
at 09:26 AM, Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
You most likely have a bug in your chatscript. Would you like me to vet it
for you?
Sure. Thanks. I've packed it up from OS/2 with Infozip's zip. I presume
you mean ppp.chatscript? Included other
On: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 09:03:59 + Ionut Borcoman at debian writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use the cfortran header file from this location
ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfortan
to build prototypes for BLAS and Lapack functions.
I've finally understood how to make the headers. Now I can make them
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Trevor Barrie wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as
root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble
Hello all:
Yesterday I tried to get the 2.1.108 kernel up and running.
I did get it running however I hand one problem, may ethernet
card (3Com 3C905 vortex) stopped. I am currently running
Debian's latest released kernel 2.0.34 and all is find.
With the 2.1.108 kernel, ifconfig reports the NIC
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 02:53:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip. Login as root (or
su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'. That should do it, you can check
what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'. As
for
I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as
root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root.
Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem.
The same modem works when i start it from win95
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On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:45:44AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote:
I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as
root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root.
Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem.
The same modem works when i start it from win95
Hi
Currently I have a 386 running Debian 1.3.1 (BO) and it is running the
2.0.29 kernel. I was wanting to use a EtherLink III from 3 com, it is a
3c509b.k It has both BNC and AUI on it. It also has no jumpers. It is an
ISA card. I was just wonderijng if there is a way to get that working on
teh
Hello:
To the best of my knowledge there is no reason why the
3C509 card would not work. You will probably have to
do a kernel rebuild. I suggest you down load the 2.0.34
sources however.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 5, 1998
- The debian user lists are the most important source of
- information for debian users,
- especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to
- that.
- However the lists have grown too large. I receive about 80
- MSG's per day from
- the lists and I can't filter myself all those MSG's.
-
- The debian user lists are the most important source of
- information for debian users,
- especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to
- that.
- However the lists have grown too large. I receive about 80
- MSG's per day from
- the lists and I can't filter myself all those MSG's.
-
David Flethcer wrote:
On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
I just ran apt-get to upgrade fully upgrade to hamm and everthing worked
fine except
that I got this on xcontrib:
Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
dpkg: error
Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
Hello fellow users.
The debian user lists are the most important source of
information for debian users,
especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to
that.
However the lists have grown too large. I receive about 80
MSG's per day from
the lists and
I'm trying to customize SecureCRT 2.2 so that the keys will be similar to
those of a VC. Is there a reference page or somewhere that I can find the
strings that are sent when certain keys are pressed? ie, what is sent
when F5 is pressed? SecureCRT has VT_PFx codes, but the're only the first
1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory.
2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file.
3. Pacth the files with patch -p1 xxx.dif
Is this the right way to do the things ? In the .diff files were some
lines that make me think some directory names should be changed, but,
after the change, no
Jaakko Niemi writes:
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the
secondary
IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the
IDE
primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot.
How can
I get the kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi!
For some days now my ISDN connection doesn't go down automatically anymore due
to traffic on the line. First thougt was that some update caused this, but it
seems that the dial-in-server at my uni sends some routing info periodically.
This is what tcpdump
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I'd really like to be able to get the list in digest format.
Then why don't you subscribe to the digest version? That's what I
do. Just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with subscribe as the only word in the message and viola, you're
subscribed to the digest
Craig Sanders' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp|http sites at
debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ often have poor connectivity, at least for
North American users. The following files are now available at
www.debian.org/~hilliard:
autoup.sh This differs from the version on Craig's site only in
RM == Ramin Motakef [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM For some days now my ISDN connection doesn't go down automatically
RM anymore due to traffic on the line. First thougt was that some update
RM caused this, but it seems that the dial-in-server at my uni sends some
RM routing info periodically.
Maybe you will find some helpful info at the NIC driver author's site:
http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
Mike
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
Hello all:
Yesterday I tried to get the 2.1.108 kernel up and running.
I did get it running however I hand one problem, may
Shaleh writes:
Another question would be which are the debian gnome compliant
window-managers ?
I expect a new verion of window maker (.16) and icewm to be coming into
slink real soon. Enlightenment will be GNOME compliant and will be in
Debian as soon as it is released as version
I just installed Debian 2.0 Beta from CD but am still using my old
kernel (2.0.29). The apt-get -f dist-upgrade downloaded source 2.0.34 for
me, but the cd contains version 2.0.34-2. Any recommendations on which
one I should use? Thanks,
Tom
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I want to experiment with 'raidtools' to set up my disk farm (100-200GB)
and it requires a kernel version 2.1.62.
I haven't worked with experimental kernels before - where is a good
place to get them and how would I pick one that is not TOO experimental,
i.e. doesn't break too easily...
Michael
Dear Debian Com
Is that Linux Debian support Pentium 2 ,AGP card,PCI Sound card
,i am new in Linux, i just heard Linux from internet,
i no like Microsoft Windows, but i no have choose, in my country is no
a Openmine country,
Please Help
Thank You
From
I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.33 and I am trying to install ELM
I go through the sh /Configure but when I try tail -f MAKELOG it gives me
the following error message:
cc -O -I../hdrs -c mcprt.c -o mcprt.o
mcprt.c: In function `MCprintf':
mcprt.c:64: `__builtin_va_alist'
Oh...hehehe...sorry. I didn't know there was a digest. Thanks.
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On 5 Jul 1998, Gary L.Hennigan wrote:
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I'd really like to be able to get the list in digest format.
Then why don't you
Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try
'kill -HUP' init
I don't think this will work unless you make changes to /etc/inittab
before killing init with -HUP. The best way to do what he wants is to
do killall -TERM mgetty. This will kill all running mgetty's and
init will respawn them
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Micha Feigin wrote:
I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as
root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root.
Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem.
The same modem works when i start it from win95
Did you add yourself to the
I am trying to connect a zoltrix 33600 modem to a hamm machine.
The modem is an internal modem running on ttyS3
I managed to get the modem dialing, only the comunication is really
slow. It takes 20-30 seconds to get the OK answear from the init
string (ATZ). Then the modem dials (minicom also
I uninstalled and re installed and the problem seemed to go away. :)
On Sun, 05
Jul 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: David Flethcer wrote:
Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--install):
subprocess post-installation
The changes made no difference. Thanks for the suggestions, though.
Last thing I can think of is whether the serial driver is setting up the
cua1/ttyS1 file correctly. Following is output from setserial (I'd already
reset the speed to vhi from normal):
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port:
Hi,
I upgraded to hamm from a Debian 2.0 beta using apt the other day
and everything WORKS ok BUT I am getting dependency problems with dselect.
If I run apt-get update I get a message that the system integrety is ok.
But I was attempting to install kernel 2.0.34 using dselect and I
How can I customize Xemacs to have colors and menus in text mode? I read all
the stuff about faces, I try with customize-face but no success. I have a
hamm distribution.
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TW However, whenever I select libc6-dev in deselect it gives me a
TW dependency error with libc6! The corresponding error with apt-get
TW dselect-upgrade is
libc6 and libc6 have to be the same version IIRC. Please check this.
Ciao,
Martin
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1) Adding fonts to X11 (in existing directories):
If I wanted to add the file courR14h.pcf.gz to the (existing) directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, I would:
chmod 444 *.pcf.gz
mv courR14h.pcf.gz /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
mkfontdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
xset
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Has anyone been able to use the apt upgrade method to Hamm? I get all
sorts of problems. First of all the installed system says it wants perl
5.004 I think. It has the following questions
require 5.004;
Now my poor self is trying to reamin truly Debian and I have not seen perl
version
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
I am running Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.33 and I am trying to install ELM
I go through the sh /Configure but when I try tail -f MAKELOG it gives me
the following error message:
cc -O -I../hdrs -c mcprt.c -o mcprt.o
Craig Sanders' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp|http sites at
debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ often have poor connectivity, at least for
North American users. The following files are now available at
www.debian.org/~hilliard:
[snip]
Is there any reason you don't just use
Hello,
I'm a fairly new Linux user, and am really starting to enjoy Linux and
the Debian distribution. I'm running Hamm which I have downloaded and
installed in bits and pieces with the help of dftp and dpkg. I also have
the KDE beta4 desktop, the glib version of Communicator 4.05, and the
Tkdesk
Just a quick question... I have a plug play soundcard (sb clone).
Right now I have the kernel using it as WSS. The sound often cracks,
and I can only control DSP Mic volume with mixers. Is this a problem
with WSS, or could it be a problem with my isapnp.conf file? I just
want to know before I
On Sun, 05 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
Hello,
I'm a fairly new Linux user, and am really starting to enjoy Linux and
the Debian distribution. I'm running Hamm which I have downloaded and
installed in bits and pieces with the help of dftp and dpkg. I also have
the KDE beta4 desktop, the glib
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
Hello,
I'm a fairly new Linux user, and am really starting to enjoy Linux and
the Debian distribution. I'm running Hamm which I have downloaded and
installed in bits and pieces with the help of dftp and dpkg. I also have
the KDE beta4 desktop, the
Bob,
Thanks. Looks like I had more than one problem here.
I take it I should reinstall the 2.0.32 kernel headers package then
also? I was confused about that and it didn't look right so I removed
it. This whole setup isn't very clear, but I think you've got me headed
in the right direction.
Tom
Reinhold,
Yes I did the make modules and make modules_install, but I left that out
since I didn't get far enough for that to be an issue.
There was no image file in the arch/i386/boot directory (where I was
expecting it to be), only in /usr/src/linux, which was strange, but is
likely caused by
There is a sound driver in the standard kernel source for a few of the
Crystal cards including the CS4232. I believe that it even takes care of
the PnP stuff for you (???). You may want to try that.
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I am trying and trying and trying so hard to get my email to work on my
Debian 1.3 system, but nothing I ever do seems to work. I am going nuts.
Smail has somehow gotten halfway installed on my system and it wont go
away. If I try and remove smail with this command:
dpkg
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Micha Feigin wrote:
I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as
root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root.
Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem.
The same modem works when i start it from win95
Well, the official Debian position is to link to the 2.0.32 headers,
however it should probably also work with 2.0.3{3|4}, as I doubt that
there are any significant changes (although I haven't checked).
See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the details (this is somewhat
controversial, particularly
I am trying and trying and trying so hard to get my email to work on my
Debian 1.3 system, but nothing I ever do seems to work. I am going nuts.
Smail has somehow gotten halfway installed on my system and it wont go
away. If I try and remove smail with this command:
To do it cleanly, I
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
we have a local mirror of the debian distribution that we use
to install our Debian PC's. However next week we will have to
install Debian on a PC which has no access to our network so
we want to create a CD starting from the current mirror.
Hi, I'm running a kernel (2.0.3something) with the FAT32 patch.
Do I need another patch in order to see filenames as they appear
under w95, or will the filenames always appear truncated under Linux?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David
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On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, David B. Wilson wrote:
Hi, I'm running a kernel (2.0.3something) with the FAT32 patch.
Do I need another patch in order to see filenames as they appear
under w95, or will the filenames always appear truncated under Linux?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compile with
TW However, whenever I select libc6-dev in deselect it gives me a
TW dependency error with libc6! The corresponding error with apt-get
TW dselect-upgrade is
libc6 and libc6 have to be the same version IIRC. Please check this.
Ciao,
Martin
The revision was slightly different
Hi everyone,
I have a problem configuring Mutt. All mail, unless I delete it,
is saved in my spoolfile. I'm trying to configure the mbox-hook
command to move all read mail to a different folder (mbox) but
am unable to get it to work.
The spool file is the users default mail file in
You also need to specify the vfat file system when you mount a
partition. For example to mount hda1 as vfat:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
I think if you don't specify vfat, it will mount as msdos by default,
which will give you the truncated file names.
Run the command df -T to see the file
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