Re: Impresora laser... (fwd)

1998-09-02 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 01:48:20PM -0500, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: Alguien podria decirme como configurar una impresora laser 4L con todos los filtros para dvi,ps, etc Asegurate de no solo instalar el

RE: Me crecen los enanos...

1998-09-02 Thread Luís M. Arocha Hernández
Mucho me temo que solo te puedo ayudar con los problemas menores, pero... menos da una piedra. Lo del escritorio mayor que la ventana se hace con una línea Virtual 1024 768, por ejemplo. Depende de la RAM que tenga tu tarjeta, porque todos estos pixel se almacenan en ella. Además puedes tener

Re: Impresora laser...

1998-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Mira la línea Suggests del paquete magicfilter: dpkg -s magicfilter | grep Suggests Suggests: dvips, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin, pbmplus | netpbm, libjpeg-progs | libjpeg-gif, libtiff-tools, djtools, recode e instala los paquetes que consideres oportunos. -- c4eb3a729837bbbfe904006f8ea6ba75 (a

Re: Me crecen los enanos...

1998-09-02 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, A. de Miguel wrote: ¡Hola...! 1.- la tarjeta de red en el P.C. funciona bien y la reconoce y activa el Kernel pero, ahora me cuelga el zip. La unidad zip que tengo es scasi. Tengo el kernel compilado para soportar discos scsi y la aha152x pero nunca me ha reconocido

ispell con LaTeX

1998-09-02 Thread Fernando Sainz Munoz
Hola: Estoy haciendo mis primeros pinitos con LaTeX y al tratar de utilizar ispell con un archivo con acentos falla. He visto que ispell esta preparado para ignorar los comandos del LaTeX y en teoria deberia reconocer los acentos pero no lo hace. (hay un archivo espa~nol.aff que parece ser el

Re: ispell con LaTeX

1998-09-02 Thread Miguel Regalado
Fernando Sainz Munoz wrote: Hola: Estoy haciendo mis primeros pinitos con LaTeX y al tratar de utilizar ispell con un archivo con acentos falla. He visto que ispell esta preparado para ignorar los comandos del LaTeX y en teoria deberia reconocer los acentos pero no lo hace. (hay un

Re: ispell con LaTeX

1998-09-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:46:26AM +0200, Fernando Sainz Munoz wrote: Hola: Estoy haciendo mis primeros pinitos con LaTeX y al tratar de utilizar ispell con un archivo con acentos falla. He visto que ispell esta preparado para ignorar los comandos del LaTeX y en teoria deberia reconocer

netscape y bind

1998-09-02 Thread thoth
Tengo el bind 8.1.2 y el netscape 4.5b1 (libc5). El problema es que si arranco el named desconectado de internet, el netscape no me entra. Creo que hay algun problema entre los procesos named y (dns helper), pero ni idea. ¿Ha alguien le ha pasado?

Sobre acentos en bash (Era ispell con LaTeX)

1998-09-02 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Para el bash: fichero $HOME/.inputrc -- set meta-flag on# conservar bit 8 en entrada de teclado set output-meta on # conservar bit 8 en salida por terminal set convert-meta off# no convertir secuencias de escape Pues en la Deb2.0 solo he

Instalacion

1998-09-02 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Al instalar el Debian desde CD, no tengo problemas ninguno en los pasos base. El problema esta en que luego de seleccionar los paquetes en el Dselect, el mismo aborta acusando de demasiados errores. Como puedo solucionar esto? Saludos

Re: Sobre acentos en bash (Era ispell con LaTeX)

1998-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Para el bash: fichero $HOME/.inputrc -- set meta-flag on# conservar bit 8 en entrada de teclado set output-meta on # conservar bit 8 en salida por terminal set convert-meta off# no

Re: Instalacion

1998-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Vázquez, Gustavo wrote: Al instalar el Debian desde CD, no tengo problemas ninguno en los pasos base. El problema esta en que luego de seleccionar los paquetes en el Dselect, el mismo aborta acusando de demasiados errores. Como puedo solucionar esto? Puedes aceptar los

Re: Sobre acentos en bash (Era ispell con LaTeX)

1998-09-02 Thread Agustín Martín
Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Para el XWindows --- El entorno gráfico XWindows usa para configurar el teclado un comando llamado xmodmap que tiene la misma funcion que loadkeys para la consola de texto. Ernest Artiaga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) preparó un fichero de

como desinstalo redhat y monto la debian + presentacion

1998-09-02 Thread ramon
sres es la primera vez que os escribo soy usuario de redhat 5.0 ahora a llegado a mis manos la debian 2.0 hamm la pedi hace un mes y me ha llegado hoy hace varios dias que os leo y me parece fabuloso el nivel que hay tanto novatos que aprendemos de los gurus tanto en niveles de programacion y

Re: como desinstalo redhat y monto la debian + presentacion

1998-09-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, ramon wrote: ¿es muy dificil cambiar de rh a la debian? me refiero a la instalacion ¿debo formatear y empezar de nuevo? Esencialmente sí, pero puedes conservar las particiones que ya tienes. tendo 1 solo disco duro hda1 con tres particiones una dos para el windoze una

Re: Sobre acentos en bash (Era ispell con LaTeX)

1998-09-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 05:07:57PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: Para el bash: fichero $HOME/.inputrc -- set meta-flag on# conservar bit 8 en entrada de teclado set output-meta on #

Re: Instalacion

1998-09-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:40:37AM -0300, Vázquez, Gustavo wrote: Al instalar el Debian desde CD, no tengo problemas ninguno en los pasos base. El problema esta en que luego de seleccionar los paquetes en el Dselect, el mismo aborta acusando de demasiados errores. Como puedo solucionar esto?

WindowMaker

1998-09-02 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Esto... ¿no decía Enrique que el windowmaker venía completamente castellanizado? O al menos eso dijo cuando hablabamos, hace meses, de si salía o no ya la Debian 2.0. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets

Re: WindowMaker

1998-09-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:43:13AM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: Esto... ¿no decía Enrique que el windowmaker venía completamente castellanizado? O al menos eso dijo cuando hablabamos, hace meses, de si salía o no ya la Debian 2.0. En que partes falta? En este momento la version 0.19.0 no

Los enanos se convierten en gigantes... lp : unable to get major 6

1998-09-02 Thread A. de Miguel
En..fin... A pesar de la valiosa ayuda recibida, hasta el momento no he conseguido arreglar ninguno de los problemas...sino que además no consigo imprimir... ¿Que es eso de.. lp: unable to get major 6 el contexto del demesg es: ne.c: PCI BIOS reports NE 2000 clone at i/o 0x6000, irq 10.

Debian 2.0, Linux Actual y demás

1998-09-02 Thread Miguel Gil
He oido por las news, que el número de septiembre de Linux Actual incluirá Debian 2.0. ¿Tiene fundamento este rumor? Si es verdad ¿Sabe alguien si incluirán los cds oficiales? Me ha parecido, por lo que he leido en alguna lista de debian, que todavía se esta trabajando en la traducción de

Amanda tape settings for HP DDS2 DAT tape

1998-09-02 Thread David Welton
Hi, the amanda lists listed on www.amanda.org seem to be not available, so I'll ask here. Basically, all the Amanda docs have to say about this particular tape drive, as far as the proper settings are concerned are: define tapetype HP-DAT { comment DAT tape drives length 1900 mbytes

Re: netscape

1998-09-02 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: No, I'm running 4.06, but I never used the installer to install it. 4.06 is far more stable than 4.5 is. Hi, You should use the installer/wrapper of debian. it's at:

Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hiya, I'm setting up a machine to act as a firewall or router or something (not sure what the exact term is -- basically, to allow only certain Internet IPs to get to a machine that will be behind this firewall-or-whatever). As such, I was planning on two NICs and having a Debian system that

HELP: Newbie with communicator 4.06 problem

1998-09-02 Thread Albert Hurd
I just downloaded Communicator 4.06 and also 4.5, and am having the same problems in both of them. They seem to work ok for a variable amount of time (3 or 4 minutes), bringing up a few sites, bringing up Help Contents, and allowing me to set preferences, then the trouble begins: 1.Unable to

Re: FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

1998-09-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:33:46AM -0700, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in win 95 but it do not have page caching. Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95. debian? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Getting Win9x to Recognize Linux as a Network Drive

1998-09-02 Thread DMDP
Is it possible to configure Win9x to recognize a Linux (partition or physical drive) as a network drive? Has any one done this successfully? Denis

Re: Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively developed set of drivers and other information at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. manoj /* tulip.c: A DEC 21040-family ethernet driver for Linux. */ /* Written 1994-1998 by Donald

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-09-02 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Tony Schonfeld wrote about Fetchmail don't work for me ! | i need to keep a messages from a pop3 account and send it to my | machine via smtp in multi-drop mode. | | well i use this form : | | poll hostname protocol pop3 | user username

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-02 Thread James Minor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark writes: any clues,, what is it looking for? Try editing /etc/chatscript/provider and replacing the string '\d\c' with . Also try dialing in with minicom and working through the login to see what they want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: Getting Win9x to Recognize Linux as a Network Drive

1998-09-02 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote: Is it possible to configure Win9x to recognize a Linux (partition or physical drive) as a network drive? Has any one done this successfully? Yes and no. Not a whole drive, but directories on it via Samba. Paul

problems with Cyrix MediaGX system

1998-09-02 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I am having a strange problem with a new motherboard. The system is an integrated Cyrix MediaGX CPU with on-board video and sound. I can get the system to boot properly with teh Rescue disk and I can go all the way throught the base system installation but the problems begin when I

machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Azog
Hello. After a recent reboot, lilo didn't load. It went through the memory check, and then said: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. and hung. I booted from a floppy, re-ran lilo, and it still does the same thing. Just hangs. Any ideas on what might be the cause of this? Tkanks -- -Josh Co-Admin of

Re: HELP: Newbie with communicator 4.06 problem

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
I am running Debian 1.3.1, and ISP provider is cable. I have not used the deb netscape installer because I tried it with 4.04 and it removed my only reliable Netscape, 3.04, and then aborted on the installation of 4.04 :-( Check the bo (1.3) installer - it will only work with certain

Re: Pine 4.02

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I

Re: *H*E*L*P* (fwd)

1998-09-02 Thread Akop Pogosian
Getting started wit Linux. Get a good book on Linux or unix in general. Running Linux 2ed. from ORE is a very good starting point. Look at unix books in general. And use web!. There are tons of information. The sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ and http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html have tons of information

Re: majordomo

1998-09-02 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello folks :-) Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a list), but I does not understand the step 7: -- 7) Now

Compose key not working

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
I am sorry to bother the list about this. My compose key is not working after upgrading to Debian 2.0. I do not know how to define it. All the documentation I have read simply supposes there is a compose key and that Linux's default is Control-period. I had no problems using it under Debian

Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
My problem with this continue to bother me. Every time I start X I have to ajust my emacs and lyx frames because the font and geometry settings in the abovementioned files are ignored. I also have to run xkeycaps to restore the default xmodmap to get compose working in X. The contents of my

Making a disk bootable.

1998-09-02 Thread Mishka Gorodnitzky
I just got a brand new pretty-damned-big (5.1GB) IDE HD to play with and I've decided to switch over to Debian on it (currently using RedHat). The problem I'm having isn't directly Debian-related but rather lilo-related ... basically I can't get my new IDE HD to boot. Let me begin, however,

Help! I hosed my filesystem with mkfs.ext2

1998-09-02 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, It was a stupid mistake. I accidentally type mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb2. It was an unmounted file system. Someone can help me on how to bring it back? I have not rebooted my computer or anything. thanks, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel:

Specifying forward-path??

1998-09-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
Can anyone tell me how to specify the exact forward path of mail - the rfc says that @host1,@host2:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is valid, but how can I tell sendmail (or any other mail sender) to do this - the idea is to use this in a programme - so it will generate the file and then | it to mail...

Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-02 Thread Chris Hoover
Can someone tell me where to get the fonts for use with gimp? I've tried to use several of the built in xtns, and they all seem to die because I don't have the font(s) they need. Thanks -- E-Mail: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Sep-98 Time: 04:50:22 This

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so .. Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I haven't been bold enough to try 2.1 I'm

where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread eyal
Hello Everyone, Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

DNS Secondaries?

1998-09-02 Thread Gordon Russell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Is there anyone out there with permanent connections to the internet who would like to offer themselves as DNS secondaries for me? I have been using ns?.granitecanyon.com for my DNS, but it seems to be continually broken. For instance, I am subscribed to

Re: FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

1998-09-02 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in win 95 but it do not have page caching. Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95. If you want to use win95 as your proxy server to the internet, the best (and absolutely free) package is VSOCKS. Was written

Re: where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:15:40AM +, eyal wrote: Hello Everyone, Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? I found it in the non-free section. HTH, James

Re: where is zip/unzip?

1998-09-02 Thread David Z. Maze
eyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eyal Just installed Hamm, and was surprised to not find zip. A search eyal through the packages list did not help. What am I missing? Both don't meet Debian's free software standards, so they're in the non-free distribution. They can be downloaded from

IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread Bruce Jackson
I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything (either LAN or Internet) I use a modem to access the Internet. When ipmasquerading is turned on I

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- Bruce Jackson wrote about IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY | I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp | connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use | ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything | (either LAN or

Re: locking kernel, bzImage and zImage same size?

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 01:57:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed hamm on a thinkpad 560e, and the kernel from the tecra boot disk works, but I can't build my own kernel (reboots after 'loading linux...') I understand that this is a known problem, and that thinkpads, tecras,

RE: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello. After a recent reboot, lilo didn't load. It went through the memory check, and then said: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. and hung. I booted from a floppy, re-ran lilo, and it still does the same thing. Just hangs. Any ideas on what might be the cause of this? Tkanks

Getting started with Java?

1998-09-02 Thread Vincent Murphy
At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the main language in most of my courses. Therefore, I want to fix my Debian (Hamm) box up for Java development. Any easy-to-use .deb packages around which will do this for me, or do I have to go with the blackdown.org stuff? Any

Re: Best Debian-supported NICs? Also, firewalling help?

1998-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 1 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: : Hi, : : I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively : developed set of drivers and other information at : http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html. For the most part I agree - the tulip based cards are excellent.

list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread nic-debian
Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? I'm just wondering if I can search previous discussions before asking questions that have already been answered. thanks, Nick

Re: list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 02:06:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? Yes. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new

Re: list archive?

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about list archive? | Is debian-user archived somewhere publically accessible? | I'm just wondering if I can search previous discussions before | asking questions that have already been answered. | http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ -- Brian

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ KeyosfDelete: delete-next-character() XTerm*utmpInhibit: false emacs.font: 7x14 emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 xpdf.geometry:80x32+0+0 pine.geometry: 101x32+0+0 xterm.geometry: 101x32+0+0

Help! finding superblocks on hosed partition table

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Oh, dear. Just as i decided to store the whole file system, reinit the hd, and reinstall, it beat me to it by one boot. I had been getting error messaes from fdisk, and it wouldn't create my new partition 3. (the resource busy, reboot to save message) The last act was to use mtools to copy

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #913

1998-09-02 Thread Person, Rod
I can't figure this out. I have been installing Debian for about 2 weeks of and on. I'm downloading from the net to a DOS partition. Every so often my Linux partition gives me a 'can not allocate memory error.' I run df and sure enough 100% of my partition is in used. Then I run dselect again or

Errata/updates

1998-09-02 Thread Wayne Cuddy
When I was using RedHat I could go to www.redhat.com/errata and get a list of problems with packages they shipped with the last release and based on how serious the problem was I could download the package and upgrade if I wished. I am sure there is similar technique for Debian. Where do I

found superblocks, now what?

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ok, the program to find superblocks is, not surprisingly, findsuper, and it is on the resc1440 disk.. It tells me things like thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz last_mount 2611225254653 0 Wed Sep 2 04:45:27 1998 2819072 2753 999299624 -705580337 Fri Feb 1 06:19:11

Re: Fonts for Gimp

1998-09-02 Thread Frank Barknecht
Chris Hoover hat gesagt: // Chris Hoover wrote: Can someone tell me where to get the fonts for use with gimp? I've tried to use several of the built in xtns, and they all seem to die because I don't have the font(s) they need. Install the freefont and sharefont packages. sharefont lives in

Re: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

1998-09-02 Thread Jeremy Chatfield
* Eric Jacoboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I've some problems with some programs under X : when i try to run | xosview, for exemple, i get the following message : | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | titine:~# Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server | Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key | Can't open

Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse after the initial set-up. I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's

Re: Errata/updates

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- Wayne Cuddy wrote about Errata/updates | | When I was using RedHat I could go to www.redhat.com/errata and get a | list of problems with packages they shipped with the last release and | based on how serious the problem was I could download the package and | upgrade if I wished. I am sure

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-09-02 Thread Pete Harlan
Yup. For 'dbm' substitute 'hash' and it should work. I suppose the precompiled debian doesn't have dbm support turned on. (You have to use 'hash' both in the FEATURE macro and when you create the database with makemap hash /etc/virtusertable /etc/virtusertable Good luck, -- Pete

Re: Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check. Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via ethernet. I

Re: Getting started with Java?

1998-09-02 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the | main language in most of my courses. My condolances. ;-) | Therefore, I want to fix my Debian | (Hamm) box up for Java development. Any easy-to-use .deb packages around | which will

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Anders Hammarquist
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ KeyosfDelete: delete-next-character() XTerm*utmpInhibit: false emacs.font: 7x14 emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 xpdf.geometry:80x32+0+0 pine.geometry: 101x32+0+0 xterm.geometry: 101x32+0+0

pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-02 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I have succesfully installed a Debian2.0 from a CD on a laptop Toshiba Satellite 310CDS. Then I upgraded the pcmcia*.deb file the the 4th version (from slink) and installed the package. Now I have a problem related to pcmcia ethernet adaptor. The error I get is: hsogso:/etc/init.d# ifconfig

debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

1998-09-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Is it possible to use a debian2 machine as a NIS+ client? I have many machines running as ordinary NIS clients, so I know that is not a problem. I had a (rather brief) look at the site http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html (mentioned in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/FAQ), and I get the

Re: pcmcia driver problem

1998-09-02 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Giuseppe On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi, I have succesfully installed a Debian2.0 from a CD on a laptop Toshiba Satellite 310CDS. Then I upgraded the pcmcia*.deb file the the 4th version (from slink) and installed the package. Now I have

Re: debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

1998-09-02 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 2 Sep 1998, Gilbert Laycock wrote: I had a (rather brief) look at the site http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html (mentioned in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/FAQ), and I get the impression from there that a patched version of a newer (non-stable) version of glibc2 is required.

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:35:21AM -0400, James G. MacKinnon wrote: Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the rescue disk and run rdev.sh after transferring the kernel to it. We have now done this, using both a bzImage (as recommended in the readme file) and a

Re: Minimum hardware for Netscape

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is underpowered, but it's all I've got right now. I was just wondering if doubling my RAM would bring Netscape up to a

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-02 Thread James G. MacKinnon
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: Appears it does not try to mount /dev/ram0 as root device as it should. Did you really run rdev.sh right? (Make sure the floppy is writeable) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt sh /mnt/rdev.sh umount /mnt Thanks very much. This must have been it. I am

Re: Motherboard Quesiton

1998-09-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not boot without a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486 server at home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had a salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla

Linux BOOTP server: questions

1998-09-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, I'm setting up a Linux box to act as a BOOTP server - a Win95 box was trying to do the job before. I have one question: the bootpd man-page says When bootpd is started it reads a configuration file, (normally /etc/bootptab) that initializes the internal

Re: locking kernel, bzImage and zImage same size?

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 02:21:42PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: It's small enough to include it for your convienience which I didn't do. Here it is Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried

Re: Linux BOOTP server: questions

1998-09-02 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:38:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: I wonder what when it discovers that the configuration file has changed means. Does it keep an eye on the file? Yes. Jeff

SCSI,ZIP Drive

1998-09-02 Thread Marlon Urias
I'm trying to run a scsi zip, but when I go to load the scsi module: modprobe sd_mod I get a long pause during which my console spits out this: Sep 2 12:34:48 quimney kernel: scsi : 1 host. Sep 2 12:34:54 quimney kernel:

Vanishing root.

1998-09-02 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have a problem which seems a bit odd. If I send a mail from any account on my Linux box all works well, except from root. Anything send as root just seems to disappear and does not show up anywhere. I have noticed this on my current set up (Debian 1.1) and never paid much attention. Now I am

Re: Geometry and keyboard problems in X

1998-09-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:53:07AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ KeyosfDelete: delete-next-character() XTerm*utmpInhibit: false emacs.font: 7x14 emacs.geometry: 85x30+0+0 xpdf.geometry:80x32+0+0

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-02 Thread Jens Ritter
(I forwarded this mail from the Faq-O-Matic. Please obey the reply-to! Thanks Grimaldi) Petr.Herman writes in http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=170 : I have the PCI Planet ENW-8300 Combo ethernet card (plugged into the PCI Slot 2 of the Matsonic MS-5025S mainboard with the Cyrix 6x86MX

swap size

1998-09-02 Thread Max
I'm about ready to setup a machine with 512 MB of RAM and I'm wondering how much swap space I should allocate. I've read about the 2x rule, but 1 GB of swap seems somewhat excessive. I've also been told that Linux will not use more than 128 MB of swap. So, how much should I allocate? Can I

Ethernet Lock Up

1998-09-02 Thread joseph evan porter
I have a 3Com 3c905 ethernet card on a dual processor Dell Workstation. I'm using kernel 2.0.35, and occasionally I get a screen full of: eth0:error re-entering the interrupt handler (or something very similar). I haven't been able to recover from this without rebooting the whole system. I've

Re: swap size

1998-09-02 Thread Jeremy Hinegardner
A single linux swap partition cannot be more than 128MB in size. But that doesn't mean you're limited to only 1 swap partition. As far as how much you should need I can't really answer that question. But if it helps the SGI Octane workstation I use has 512MB of RAM and only one swap partition

star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Jim Harsh
I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and my German wasn't that good then. I've tried to go to caldera.com but my dns

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
A lot of the sites are drying up since StarOffice 5.0 is due out some time this week... supposedly under the same free for noncommercial users again. On 02-Sep-98 Jim Harsh wrote: I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and

Re: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Azog
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: the Verifying DMI Pool Data .. message does not come from LILO, that is a message from your bios. If you never see the LILO (or even just the 'L') then you never even made it into the boot block on the disk. Try booting a dos floppy. If that

Re: machine hangs at boot

1998-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 03:28:46PM -0500, Azog wrote: I can boot fine from a linux bootdisk, and from a dos bootdisk. Just when trying to boot from /dev/hda2 that it hangs. I've tried reinstalling lilo, uninstalling it all together, modifying lilo.conf, but nothing works. If its a hardware

Java on Linux

1998-09-02 Thread Steve Byrne
*-Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | At the start of my next term in CompSci, Java is being introduced as the | main language in most of my courses. Unless the description of the .deb package says that the version is 1.1.5v7 (last I saw it said v5), you don't want it. v7 contains significant

recovered most of disk with findsuper, needto find last partition

1998-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
amazingly, I've recovered most of my disk. from findsuper, at the beginning, thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz last_mount 3328032 64480 0 Wed Sep 2 10:38:04 1998 choose to start a cylinder 1, +64480k, and it recovers the /boot partition And immediately after this in the

Re: swap size

1998-09-02 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Sep, Max wrote: I'm about ready to setup a machine with 512 MB of RAM and I'm wondering how much swap space I should allocate. I've read about the 2x rule, but 1 GB of swap seems somewhat excessive. I've also been told that Linux will not use more than 128 MB of swap. So, how much

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
when and where do it get staroffice 5.0, and how do i compile it?? from tucson-:)) harold On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: A lot of the sites are drying up since StarOffice 5.0 is due out some time this week... supposedly under the same free for noncommercial users again. On

RE: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread Darren Benham
First wait until it's released to be downloaded. Look for it at http://www.stardivision.com On 02-Sep-98 Harold G. Stevenson wrote: when and where do it get staroffice 5.0, and how do i compile it?? from tucson-:)) harold On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Darren Benham wrote: A lot of the

-ltermcap option...

1998-09-02 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to compile pine4.02.tar.gz but I can't resolve the following problem: cc -g -DDEBUG -Dlnx -DJOB_CONTROL -DPOSIX -DMOUSE main.o libpico.a -ltermcap -o pico ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory make: *** [pico] Error 1 What should I do !? If I remove

Re: star office 4.0

1998-09-02 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:24:10 MDT, Jim Harsh wrote: I read that star office 4.0 was available for download for nocommercial users. Went to ftp.stardiv.com and downloaded what appears to be latest version, sp3-49, but it is in German. High scholl was a long time ago, and my German wasn't

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