RE: Más info sobre la ZIP i la impresora

1998-07-08 Thread J. Parera
Hola, Si pongo a los dos como modulos, utilizando kerneld, funcionará todo bien? Es decir, al poner mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /floppy me funcionará sin tener que teclear modprobe ppa. O si hago lpr fichero no tendré que hacer antes modprobe lp? Sí. Tienes que añadir la línea alias

Re: Conexión a internet mediante infovia

1998-07-08 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: En el p??o win95 con este tipo de programas se puede navegar y leer offline (menos el irc!) en Linux tambien es asi? He oido que mucha gente se instala servidores en sus propias máquinas para leer el correo y news en modo local o que se instalan un

Re: Configurar Debian para que acepte conexiones telefónicas

1998-07-08 Thread Tomas Bautista
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Yo me figuraba que alla la cosa era distinta y lo que infovirria venia solo por lo poco confiable del servicio mas que por otras cosas. Si solo fuera por eso... Y me acuerdo de hasta una viñeta que sacaron al poco de poner en marcha el invento,

Directorio /usr/ulib

1998-07-08 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Me ha aparecido en el disco el directorio /usr/ulib contiene cosas del termcap, debe proceder de algun paquete que he instalado pero con dpkg -S no consigo que me indique cual. ¿ De cual puede proceder ? -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Directorio /usr/ulib

1998-07-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote: Me ha aparecido en el disco el directorio /usr/ulib contiene cosas del termcap, debe proceder de algun paquete que he instalado pero con dpkg -S no consigo que me indique cual. ¿ De cual puede proceder ? Pues yo no lo

RE: Hamm? Donde

1998-07-08 Thread Manu
Si, es cierto. Yo lo he probado y salio todo a la primera La actualizacion fue desde la 2.0.33 de la distribucion de SuSE 5.1 Saludos -Mensaje original- De: Narcis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: martes 7 de julio

Re: Cambiar el mapa de teclado por defecto

1998-07-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 07:55:37PM +0200, Angel Martin Alganza wrote: Hola a todos, Cómo puedo cambiar el mapa de teclado por defecto en Debian? He cambiado mi teclado US (se ha rompido) por uno DE. /usr/sbin/kbdconfig Saludos, -- Enrique Zanardi

xtoolplaces y nuevas sesiones con olwm

1998-07-08 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hola a todos, La utilidad 'xtoolplaces' para xview (olwm) almacena en un ~/.xtoolplaces la información sobre las aplicaciones en ejecución y su posición en el escritorio. Hasta aquí me funciona perfectamente (ejecutándolo desde un item llamado 'Save Workspace' en el menú del escritorio), pero

Re: bo--hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-08 Thread john
Nathan E Norman writes: Out of curiousity, what will happen to a PPP setup in a server environment? (the linux box is the RAS) The files that the ppp postinst messes with are only used by pon to dial out. However, you may still need to do some reconfiguration as some of the changes in pppd

TCP/IP Ports JDBC-mSQL Security

1998-07-08 Thread Marcus Johnson
I'm a newbie to Linux and I've run into a problem that I can't figure out. I'm using my ISP's Debian 1.1 system and mSQL with the JDBC-mSQL driver via my shell account. I've set up an mSQL database and can query it succesfully with mSQL tools, but I haven't successfully connected with JDBC yet,

Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh, we're almost there. That's just the info we need. Now, you need to create your /etc/isapnp.conf file. The easiest way to do this is to have the pnpdump command create a template file for you. As root run: pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf You'll then edit the file. Basically, your modem can be set

Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-08 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, again.. This is getting interesting for me, because i have try to configure my modem since about 3 weeks, and i couldnt. Im my win95 modem prop. said its in COM3. In the Resources tab it said Input/Output 03E8 and

Re: Micropolis

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: | | : I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new | : of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive. | : The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
You might take a look at this before saying that. http://www.xfree86.org/sponsors.html Lawrence Walton Otak Network Manager 425.739.4247 On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way. All users should boycott them in general. Besides, the cards are

Re: Making modem talk 3........................

1998-07-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mike Schmitz wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, again.. This is getting interesting for me, because i have try to configure my modem since about 3 weeks, and i couldnt. Im my win95 modem prop. said its in COM3. In the Resources tab it said

ps command in 2.0 frozen

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I noticed that the version of ps in the frozen Debian 2.0 distribution is different than what was in 1.3. The thing I miss most about the version in 1.3 was the ability to define PS_PERSONALITY as POSIX and ps would act like the Posix version (or SYSV). I'm much more familiar with this but now

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Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Mealman
On Tue, 07 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: (To be fair, I haven't used Red Hat since 4.2 and it may have improved since then, but they severely mismanaged the conversion to glibc.) RH's gotten worse since then. Bad enough they broke libc with the 4.2 - 5.0 upgrade(I did NOT enjoy editing the

Re: SCSI Disk Farm

1998-07-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Michael Laing wrote: This success has lead us to experiment with 'electronic portfolios' in which kids create a multimedia record of things they create over the school year. We are just starting to burn CD's for each of them so they can take their portfolios home (and we

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-08 Thread Christopher Barry
I use System Commander (v3) also and I think it's a really great piece of software. Haven't tried v4, which gives you the functionality of Partition Magic built in. It's much prettier than lilo. It brings up a nice colorful iconified menu and plays a cute sound and you can configure it to do a

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 07:03:57PM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: Just the C++ part, mind you, C is still compiled by gcc. Ever compile a C++ program that was authored under gcc with egcs' strictly ANSI C++ compiler? Debian 2.0 has this too -- gcc is the GNU standard one (2.7.2.3), g++ is the

Re: Installing gnome

1998-07-08 Thread Christopher Barry
What's the url to slink anyways? -- Chris btw: That's really nifty to know the install order. I downloaded and installed Gnome last week, the last time I saw those two URLs posted to the list. I remember installing one deb, then getting a ton of errors about dependencies on other debs, and

laptop - Digital HiNote Ultra 2000

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am just installing debian on a new laptop. I've come across a couple of problems so far. 1. When rebooting, it unmounts the disks and everything, and then just hangs. It doesn't reboot. This is particularly annoying because to do a hardware reboot, I need to remove the keyboard. 2.

possible to partition??

1998-07-08 Thread S K
thanks a lot for all the info on my last posting (win98? dual boot...). but can one partition a hd that already has win98 installed without formatting it? (i think i've tried that with fdisk without success.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get

Re: laptop - Digital HiNote Ultra 2000

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Phillips
On 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...windows 95 says it's on COM4. I set it up for ppp but when I run pon I get: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) What is wrong? That usually means that there isn't any hardware on that port. What does 'setserial /dev/ttyS3' say? It says:

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Shaleh
Well on Alan Cox's web page for TV in Linux he has a pretty GIF that has the red circle w/ the slash on an ATi logo and specifically states that until ATi gives out specs their all-in-wonder card will not do anything more than X. SO I refuse to support ATi. And would ask all others to do the

REPOST: Diald routing (Help!)

1998-07-08 Thread Henrique Almeida
Hi! Im using Debian for a year on 2 of my home boxes. One is my workstation and the other is a 486. This second box serves the local net with samba and internet connection through masquerading and squid. Last week I upgraded to 2.0 and started to play with diald so my father don't have

Re: Mail gateway

1998-07-08 Thread jkern
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 10:27:30AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This allows you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be transmitted. When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server

Re: Compiling error

1998-07-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to compile some C program i got the following message: $ cc foo.c ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory $ I already installed libc5-altdev, cpp, libg++27-dev packages and I still have this message ! Install

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Alan Su
Shaleh wrote (Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:59:32 -0400 ): |Well on Alan Cox's web page for TV in Linux he has a pretty GIF that has |the red circle w/ the slash on an ATi logo and specifically states that |until ATi gives out specs their all-in-wonder card will not do anything |more than X. SO I refuse to

VideoCard

1998-07-08 Thread Rick Smith
Hi I was wondering if the Diamond 3D2000 was supported under Linux? Thanks alot Rick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: XF86Setup

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Panzer
Geoff Brimhall wrote: the problem is a reported bug. The actual problem is that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled is a soft link which is set incorrectly. The soft link is set to /var/../xkb/, when it should be set to /var/.../xkb/compiled. What would the proper soft link command be?

Re: VideoCard

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Panzer
Rick Smith wrote: Hi I was wondering if the Diamond 3D2000 was supported under Linux? Yes it is, I use the standard XF86SVGA driver (S3 works too I think). Mark Panzer Thanks alot Rick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Patrick Olson
when I try tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP it prints (with a real IP address instead of 123.123.123.123) Jul 7 20:06:00 server2 pppd[587]: local IP address 123.123.123.123 on my console. That's exactly what it should do. But if I try to redirect it to a user's file (so he can

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Paul M. Foster
Debs: snip Debian 1.3.1 is a year old. Six months ago 2.0 was announced as Near Completion, when it was nearer inception than completion. I'm not ragging on the Debian team, just saying lighten up on Red Hat a little. We're all on the same side, eh? They chose to risk leaping before

Re: VideoCard

1998-07-08 Thread Paul M. Foster
Debs/Rick: I was wondering if the Diamond 3D2000 was supported under Linux? Yes. Under X, use the s3v server. I have one of these and that's what I use. Paul M. Foster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Pete Harlan wrote: Bob Nielsen writes: (To be fair, I haven't used Red Hat since 4.2 and it may have improved since then, but they severely mismanaged the conversion to glibc.) He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones, methinks... Debian 1.3.1 is a year

Making modem talk 4........................

1998-07-08 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, YES, i (we) made it. My modem is making noises !!! But i bougth my modems not to do some noise, but to conect to internet. I have try the dip utility, but i dont like it very much. Maybe the problem is not from dip (and im almost sure the problem isnt from dip), but when i log to my

Re: possible to partition??

1998-07-08 Thread ej
Assuming that win98 is on one partition which takes up your entire drive (which I assume you mean), you need a partitioning program which can resize partitions. AFAIK Partition Magic is the only one which will do this. On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 06:21:20PM -0700, S K wrote: thanks a lot for all

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:28:37PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: when I try tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP it prints (with a real IP address instead of 123.123.123.123) Jul 7 20:06:00 server2 pppd[587]: local IP address 123.123.123.123 on my console. That's exactly what it

Re: kernel canot find map file

1998-07-08 Thread fantomas
- My kernel has complained cannot find map file for as long as I've - used it, but it seems to run fine anyway. I just saw your advice to copy - /src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map-ver so I tried it. The kernel - boot message is unchanged. I then renamed it /boot/System.map but the boot -

GIMP seems to have hung SCSI bus??

1998-07-08 Thread Matt Thompson
Ok, here's a weird one: I started GIMP today, and while it was trying to load a plug-in, my Zip started spinning non-stop. I did a ps alx to see if I could find the process causing it, and there didn't seem to be one. So I unplugged my Zip, plugged it back in, then tried to mount it, and it

Re: Making modem talk........................

1998-07-08 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Your modem is most likely Plug-N-Play. In order to initialize Plug-N-Play devices you need the isapnp package. Use dselect to install this package. You'll then need to customize the /etc/isapnp.conf file. Try to verify

Re: IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-08 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
Hello, I just have one question -- when I print to LaserJet with lp (from lprng package) command, it seems it didn't use spool directory. In other words, when I do: $ lp somefile.ps lp waits until it sends whole file to the printer, instead to put the file into queue. How to change it? Thank

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-08 Thread joost
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:56:29AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: How do you build the database for man -k? On the systems I've installed(RH, I'm currently waiting for Bo to arrive) man-k wouldn't bring up any entries. Have a look at the mandb(8) manpage. Cheers, Joost --

Where configuration is stored on Debian systems

1998-07-08 Thread joost
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian you With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system from scratch. Is there a list

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: What is running / not running at the time of the crash. The ^@ could indicate a daemon overflowing its buffer -- it could be a symptom or a cause. sounds more like a symptom to me. i've seen that lots of times after crashes - my guess is it's a result of

Firewallsetup

1998-07-08 Thread johannes . tyve
My goal is to setup a firewall to protect my subnet like this: Internet | Cisco router(192.12.120.254) | Local net 192.12.120.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 | FIREWALL eth0 = 192.12.120.190, eth1 = 192.12.120.202 | Protected subnet 192.12.120.200 netmask 255.255.255.252 This worked

Fw: Problem setting interrupt and address on network adaptor for NC2501-3 Accton Lanstation

1998-07-08 Thread riaad
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem setting interrupt and address on network adaptor for NC2501-3 Accton Lanstation Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 11:12 AM Hi There !!! First of all I would like to introduce myself to you as Riaad Isaacs. I

Problems with apt

1998-07-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
On a bo system, the only available perl is version 5.003. There is no .deb for version 5.004 unlike for Hamm which has this version. Apt-get requires version 5.004. Question: How can I install version 5.004 which requires libc6 (Hamm) on a libc5 (bo) if I want to upgrade to Hamm using

Plattencrash - /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hi, mir ist gestern waehrend eines Backup die Platte gestorben. Leider war das /var Verzeichnis noch nicht gesichert. (/var Verzeichnis lag auf der defekten Platte, das restliche System auf einer anderen). Folglich sind alle Verzeichnisse in /var und damint auch die Debian Datenbanken weg. Wie

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Marsh Ray
*-Shaleh ( 7 Jul) | | price range. As a general comment I say avoid Diamond. For a long time | they have not supported any form of driver for their cards (even their | Windows support is not all that great). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Didn't this occur around 3 or 4 years ago?

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-08 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shiraz Sayani wrote: Thomas Apel wrote: [...] Just for the record: I also got this beanie-baby-thing twice the last month. But not from AOL. The first was from msn.com and the second from fuse.net. But as Somnolent already said I'm not 100% sure if this is

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Patrick Olson wrote: when I try tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP it prints (with a real IP address instead of 123.123.123.123) Jul 7 20:06:00 server2 pppd[587]: local IP address 123.123.123.123 on my console. That's exactly what it should do. But if I

Re: Fw: Problem setting interrupt and address on network adaptor for NC2501-3 Accton Lanstation

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all I would like to introduce myself to you as Riaad Isaacs. I am employed by POS INTERNATIONAL in CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA which distributes your ACCTON Lanstation 586 MMX / PDA 2000 / NC2501-3. I would like to bring it to your

Re: Firewallsetup

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is to setup a firewall to protect my subnet like this: Internet | Cisco router (192.12.120.254) | Local net 192.12.120.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 | FIREWALL eth0 = 192.12.120.190, eth1 = 192.12.120.202 | Protected

HELP: Setting up TeTeX

1998-07-08 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 and have installed a few weeks ago, the Tetex package. This morning, before going to job, I've tried to run 'xdvi' on a file and obtain this: kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmti10 600 600 1+0/600 kpsetool: psfonts.map not found. MakeTeXnames:

Re: REPOST: Diald routing (Help!)

1998-07-08 Thread Randy Edwards
Diald is already dialing when it should but the routing table is not being updated. I've had the same problem. Somewhere (either a HOWTO or a Linux Journal article) I found advice about setting the routing manually. This is what I'm doing now. In /etc/ppp/ip-up (the script) I put a

autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Edward J. Young
I have upgraded from 1.3.1 to hamm with some difficulty, but feel like I'm getting there. My latest problem is that when invoking emacs from a console, I get segmentation fault, and no emacs. I don't believe that emacs was upgraded during the deselect process so I suspect that the version I

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Ted Harding
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Patrick Olson wrote: when I try tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP it prints (with a real IP address instead of 123.123.123.123) Jul 7 20:06:00 server2 pppd[587]: local IP address 123.123.123.123 on my console. That's exactly what it should do. But if I

bo - hamm details

1998-07-08 Thread fantomas
Hello, someone said autoup.sh will remove *-dev packages etc. is there any way to upgrade to hamm w/o this ? if I just set up dselect to download from hamm directories and I'll start installing packkages, will that be enough ? Thanks. -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice,

[Debian] installing multiple PC's

1998-07-08 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I need to install a number of PC's with an identical (or allmost) setup. However, I don't want to have to choose the packages I want to install every time again. So I'm thinking of creating a iso9660 CD-ROM from the harddisk on one PC and then using the rescue disk to create a fs on the

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Adam Klein hat gesagt: // Adam Klein wrote: I'm about to buy a new computer, and I'd like a recommendation for a mid-range ($100-$150) video card that works well with XFree86. Thanks, Adam Klein I do like cards with the NVidia RIVA 128 chip like Diamond Viper, STB Velocity or

Re: Problems with apt

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: On a bo system, the only available perl is version 5.003. There is no .deb for version 5.004 unlike for Hamm which has this version. Apt-get requires version 5.004. Question: How can I install version 5.004 which

Re: [Debian] installing multiple PC's

1998-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, I need to install a number of PC's with an identical (or allmost) setup. However, I don't want to have to choose the packages I want to install every time again. So I'm thinking of creating a iso9660 CD-ROM from the

Re: bo - hamm details

1998-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:14:29PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: Hello, someone said autoup.sh will remove *-dev packages etc. yes it will is there any way to upgrade to hamm w/o this ? if I just set up dselect to download from hamm directories and I'll start installing packkages,

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-08 Thread Mark H. Mabry
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Brandon On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote: Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP access to using this

Re: IP address printing w/ LPRng

1998-07-08 Thread Brian Morgan
Jim: Could you repost that message you sent yesterday? My windows machine went crazy last night and said I had 4,000+ messages this morning (mostly duplicates). I then went a little crazier, and just started deleting left and right, and somehow accidentally deleted your last message.

MCA support?

1998-07-08 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Does the upcoming distribution support Micro Channel installations? On the MCA Linux page, at http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ is made the statement that the next debian should include MCA support. Is it? Alan Davis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: REPOST: Diald routing (Help!)

1998-07-08 Thread Chea Prince
i'm having the same problem with slirp/ppp connection (connection gets dropped). pon scripts log in OK and slirp starts up but LCP negotiation fails with error message No Network Protocols Running tried disabling 'defaultroute' and adding the default route myself before running pon, but doing

Re[2]: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
Somnolent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't received that spam, but my guess is it may not be targeted at you (do you think an AOL user can manage it?) nb Perhaps it's worth noting here that it's not your typical 'AOL user' that one has to worry about, but rather fairly skilled pirates who

Re: GIMP seems to hang SCSI Bus

1998-07-08 Thread Matt Kopishke
Whoa, never, ever, ever, un plug a SCSI device while the system has power, I saw a machine get fried doing this! Reboot, and see if things work, and rember to shutdown your system next time! -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29

RE: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-08 Thread Richard Pemberton
Hi, I am duel booting win98 and linux using IBM's boot manager (and lilo, and loadln) my had is partitioned fat32 for win 98, one 400mb fat 16 partition (for sharing files between win and linux)and then the usual linux partitions. I find it works great. But to begin with i suggest using loadln,

RE: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Richard Pemberton
I am running a mystique 2 4mb, is damn fast, with both windows and Xfree86, it is a good fast 2d card. BUT It does not support a lot of the lower VESA2 resououtions (eg 400x300), this will not cause any problems with linux, but in dos\windows stuff it can be a real sh*t. - especially with games

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: Jaakko Niemi writes: 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

Re: Missing (files)

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Brandon Mitchell writes: On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Syed Huq wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ All the files are there except base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin. Instead of these, I see the files base-1.bin ... base-5.bin. Q1)Should I download the base-1.bin ...

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Edward J. Young
I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for packages that are headed as obsolete, one being emacs. Does this mean what I think: that emacs 19.34.? is now obsolete because I've upgraded around it and now it needs upgrading too? Probobly. There are some other packages

RE: MCA support?

1998-07-08 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I don't know about the next version (hamm) but did you know that the current version (bo) already includes MCA support? It works beautifully on my PS2 Model 85 (386 with 11 MB RAM and 2 GB IDE HD and ATAPI CDROM.) I just needed to use a couple of boot options so the kernel could find my disk

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Chea Prince
i had the same thing happen and i had selected to upgrade emacs to 20.xx...made a mess. it was the only really broken package. had been wanting to check out xemacs so ended up purging emacs and installing xemacs-20.whatever and like it. anyway, suspect you will need to purge emacs and do a

Re: Making modem talk 4........................

1998-07-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Right, well, it goes to your PNP ISA devices anyway. For an ISP dialer perhaps you could try xisp. I use diald myself. About the slowness, perhaps you are just running at a low serial rate. Make sure when you run comm programs your serial speed is 115200. The default on the port if you don't

Re: strange lock up problem

1998-07-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hello, just started with this list so hope this msg gets there. I ahve a pII/266 system with 256MB RAM, 4 IDE hard disks, and 1 4.3GB SCSI and 1 23GB SCSI disk, onboard AIC7888 SCSI controller, 3c905 card, floppy drive, (can't remember which chipset we are using on this board). Running

Re: Weird crash with dhcpcd and X11

1998-07-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark H. Mabry wrote: Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Brandon On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote: Running Debian 2.0beta and 2.0.34 with a cable-modem. I'm in the process of converting from modem ISP

diskcrash - /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash - /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello, On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I would politely ask you to pose your question in english as this is an english-language list. Oh, I´m sorry. This message should have gone to the german debian user list. Nevertheless, the problem was, that after a diskcrash my /var

RE: Firewallsetup

1998-07-08 Thread johannes . tyve
My goal is to setup a firewall to protect my subnet like this: Internet | Cisco router(192.12.120.254) | Local net 192.12.120.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 | FIREWALL eth0 = 192.12.120.190, eth1 = 192.12.120.202 | Protected subnet 192.12.120.200 netmask

Re: diskcrash - /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash - /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Will Lowe
2.) installing the base system via the rescue floppies I've several times managed to hose my /etc directory, once while trying to install a tape drive so I could back the same directory up ... I generally install the base system onto a spare partition and copy the /etc directory from it into

Re: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Edward J. Young wrote: I should mention that in the deselect screen, there are headings for packages that are headed as obsolete, one being emacs. Does this mean what I think: that emacs 19.34.? is now obsolete because I've upgraded around it and now it needs upgrading

Fw: REPOST: Diald routing (Help!)

1998-07-08 Thread Russ Cook
I too have had difficulty with ppp and diald since upgrading. With the help of Linux The Complete Reference I have edited my network and ppp scripts so that pon now connects and sets up my route correctly, and I can connect to the W95 machine on my lan. However, diald does not make a connection.

What should I mirror?

1998-07-08 Thread Fernando Fernandez
Hi! I have a private mirror of debian in one of our servers so that I can install/update a machine fast with the *latest* versions. The problem is that I have not much disk space and I would like to keep the mirrored files to a minimum. With my current mirror configuration I seem to be mirroring

xemacs-20 HTML mode

1998-07-08 Thread Paul Reavis
Sometimes the HTML mode in xemacs will allow the omission of closing tags (/p, for example), indenting correctly. Sometimes it doesn't. It seems like it just flips and flops between updates to my installation. This is under hamm. For example, when it works the way I want it to, it autoindents

RE: What's a good video card?

1998-07-08 Thread Lars Steinke
A brilliant card for Xfree and a real steal at the moment is the Xpert series from ATI: The XFree support is fab - all res, acceleration features, most color depths (apart from 24 bit, that is) are supported with 230MHz RAMDAC. Only drawback: No SVGAlib support (hardly any of the new chips

Re: diskcrash - /var gone, was: Re: Plattencrash - /var weg?

1998-07-08 Thread Dirk Luetjens
hello, 3.) got a list of installed packages from /usr/doc/* directories. should be possible to do this with dpkg --get-selections, which can of course then just be redirected into a file: dpkg --get-selections filename and then dpkg --set-selections filename Ok, I haven´t tired it, but

RE: Firewallsetup

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (outside) eth0: IP = 192.12.120.190 Netmask = 255.255.255.0 Network = 192.12.120.0 Broadcast = 192.12.120.255 Gateway = 192.12.120.254 (inside) eth1: IP = 192.12.120.202 Netmask = 255.255.255.252 Network = 192.12.120.200 Broadcast =

Rescue Disk

1998-07-08 Thread timothy
Ok, I've never done this before, so can someone guide me thru the process of making a Debian boot/rescue disk. And explain how to use it in the event that my normal bootloader partition gets fried. Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08-Jul-98 Time:

where in the world is /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd?

1998-07-08 Thread Hilton Fernandes
Hello! I'm installing Debian Linux 1.3.1 the hard way, package by package, floppy by flloppy. Yes, i'm a masochist! :-) But it is very instructive, since i have never installed any Linux in my life. :-( The PC i'm trying to do this is a dusty 486, w/o any network connections and w/o a CD-ROM.

Xserver lockup with Mystique

1998-07-08 Thread pjo
Hi, I am having and have had problems running XF86s xserver on a Matrox Mystique. The problem is this : Either the xerver is started by startx or xdm. Xserver starts, I log in. I open and close a couple of xterms. Fine. Do a bit of cd to various directories. Fine. I get advanced, I do ls in

repost: RE:XF86Setup

1998-07-08 Thread Mark Panzer
Sorry for the repost but none of my e-mail went out last night!!! Geoff Brimhall wrote: the problem is a reported bug. The actual problem is that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled is a soft link which is set incorrectly. The soft link is set to /var/../xkb/, when it should be set to

RE: Firewallsetup

1998-07-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do need (I think) to use real IP addresses because I need to have multiple web-servers (accessible from the Internet) inside the firewall that should be protected. I thought it was possible to tell my fw box to route all trafic between the two

Re: What package has patch?

1998-07-08 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:46:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is in the patch package (a fact other people already pointed out), and it has nothing special to do with perl at all. Perl is a script programming language, patch a development tool. There is a relation: they were both

RE: autoup.sh + deselect broke emacs

1998-07-08 Thread Young, Ed
Ok, I'm still confused... Emacs? Not part of the current distribution? This is alarming. I'm not sure what you mean by not to worry since the upgrade has broken Emacs and now it is catagorized as obsolete meaning it is not part of the current distrubution. I'm certain that there must be a

RE: pon troubles

1998-07-08 Thread Wandersmann
Thanks, John, for such a quick and pointed reply. Yes, I'm running pon as root. I don't know what minicom is, and as far as I can tell I don't yet have it on my system. I'll get back to you once I have downloaded it. 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS2' gave me this: /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART:

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