Re: T.Quinot y 2.0

1998-09-25 Thread TooManySecrets
Enrique Zanardi el día Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 05:32:43PM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:59:48AM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. Tengo instalada la Debian 2.0, y el StarOffice 4. ¿Necesitaré instalar las famosas librerías de T.Quinot para poder poner acentos y

shell de usuario

1998-09-25 Thread Horacio Menezo Ganau
Saludos, Desde que modifiqué ~/.bashrc para crear un comando lss que fuera igual a ls -lpsa + colores, todo me fue bien como SU. Al empezar a usar el usuario normal, copié este fichero a /home/usuario/.bashrc para poder hacer lo mismo. Pero me temo que por la razón que sea (...?) la shell de

Re: kernel 2.0.35

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
Yes it is available in the slink distribution. I am running it now, works fine. Get the apt package and it will update all the packages to the slink distro HTH Mike On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 08:20:11PM +, Tony Schonfeld wrote: The kernel 2.0.35 is it available in .deb packages ? If yes

ANNOUNCE: Crude hack for installing Debian thru the loopback device.

1998-09-25 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Folks on Debian-User, I have been using Debian for quite some time and am very happy with it. I have it installed on my (very) old Dell laptop and it runs perfectly. I want to do something different however. I have the Debian 2.0 (Hamm) CD-ROM from

Re: Any advice on hard Seagate Ultra-SCSI hard disks?

1998-09-25 Thread Christopher Barry
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Sorry for this non-Debian related post... My office Seagate Barracuda ultra-SCSI 4.3GB is full, and I need to get another disk. Does anyone know the Seagate Ultra-SCSI Medalist Pro? I got these prices in Canadian currency (currently about CND$1.50 = US$1) At

Re: Any advice on hard Seagate Ultra-SCSI hard disks?

1998-09-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 04:29:09PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: ST34520N MEDALIST PRO 4.55GB SCSI ULTRA, 3.5LP 9.5MS 7200RPM $333 ST36530N MEDALIST PRO 6.5GB ULTRA SCSI, 3.5LP 11MS 7200RPM *MC=20* $588 ST39140WC MEDALIST PRO 9.10GB SCSI ULTRA, SCA 9.5MS 7200RPM *MC=20* $782 ... Try

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-25 Thread john
David Stern writes: I tried making my modem init string ATC0DT, but my modem still hangs up after about 10 s. That won't help. Try ATS7=255. That will tell the modem to wait 255 seconds for carrier. ISP-Connectivity mini-howto says: Chat sends your_init_string to the modem, then dials

samba

1998-09-25 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, I have some problem with my samba config my network config is: 1 linux box and 1 win95 box. my network is ok, because I run ip masquerade on the linux box and it works. problem 1) I can see my win95 box from my linux box, but my win95 box dont see my linux box. It's probably a

xemacs' HTML [html] mode?

1998-09-25 Thread Matt Garman
I've been working on my personal web page with xemacs recently. Just today, it started acting goofy on its own. When I open xemacs 20.4 with my .html file, the first time I press the TAB key to indent for me, xemacs runs some things off across the bottom (the status area), ending with parsing

X wallpaper

1998-09-25 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I was wondering how to use an image file as wallpaper under X. Is it a window-manager specific thing? I've been trying to use fvwm2. I've seen some screenshots on-line showing fvwm2 users with wallpaper but I don't seem to be able to find where in the config files to set it up. Thanks,

KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I tried to download KDE version 1.0 and install it using the Debian packages. However, when I install it it can't find its libraries. They install in /usr/X11R6/lib just like they're supposed to, but it can't find them. The older version doesn't have this problem, but the KDE applications

Re: X wallpaper

1998-09-25 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: I was wondering how to use an image file as wallpaper under X. Is it a window-manager specific thing? I've been trying to use fvwm2. I've seen some screenshots on-line showing fvwm2 users with wallpaper but I don't seem to be able to find where

qmail-pop3d/xinetd/vchkpw -- my madness.

1998-09-25 Thread Adam D. McKenna
I currently have a server running qmail as its MTA. I would like to run qmail-pop3d as my pop3 daemon but I can't seem to get checkpassword or vchkpw to like the way debian handles shadow passwords. (i.e. with -lcrypt instead of -lshadow...) Is there anyone here running xinetd and

Re: Win98 = Linux via E-net

1998-09-25 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: I am trying to setup my home LAN with a Win98 machine and a Linux machine with ethernet. I have successfully setup the ethernet NIC but I am not sure what to do next. I want to be able to copy files from the Win98 machine to the Linux hard drive using

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: I tried to download KDE version 1.0 and install it using the Debian packages. However, when I install it it can't find its libraries. They install in /usr/X11R6/lib just like they're supposed to, but it can't find

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Richard Heller
When I try to run kdm, it can't find libkdecore.so.1 and when I try to run kwm it can't find libkfm.so.1. I installed kdebase, kdelibs0g, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, and kdeutils. They're all version 980710-1.0-1. I had installed an older version before, but I've uninstalled it. Could the

Netscape error

1998-09-25 Thread Tomt
Hi everyone, I have installed netscape and when I go and try to run it (not as root) I get this message Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Any idea what this is and how to fix it Thanks

Re: Win98 = Linux via E-net

1998-09-25 Thread Saisanthosh B
I am trying to setup my home LAN with a Win98 machine and a Linux machine with ethernet. I have successfully setup the ethernet NIC but I am not sure what to do next. I want to be able to copy files from the Win98 machine to the Linux hard drive using explorer. I also want to be able to

Re: X wallpaper

1998-09-25 Thread Saisanthosh B
Richard Heller wrote: I was wondering how to use an image file as wallpaper under X. Is it a window-manager specific thing? I've been trying to use fvwm2. I've seen some screenshots on-line showing fvwm2 users with wallpaper but I don't seem to be able to find where in the config files to

Re: ICQ and clones

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Are there any ready-to-use ICQ programs available in .deb format? I would rather use a ICQ clone (w/o the use of Java) because ICQ from Mirabilis takes a lot of resources. regards, Ruud. Not that I know of, but try

smail spoolhost config

1998-09-25 Thread Kunihiro Fujimoto
How can I configure smail to deliver local mail to another host? I want to set up servers as follows: foo.bar.com: primary mail server outside firewall. all mails from outbound to bar.com delivered the host by MX. it has no personal accounts. all mails to foo.com sholud be accepted and delivered

Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: BB Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK -- Apart from setting this to a ridiculously high number, is there a way to disable it? /etc/syslog.conf [...] *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\

Cannot install .deb files (dpkg parse error)

1998-09-25 Thread David Karlin
Here is a snippet of a dselect session, a bit of info, and a couple of questions: snippet Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0046' near line 1: newline in field name `#padding' DPKG ERROR Do you wish to delete the

RE: No menu in wmaker

1998-09-25 Thread Cristov Russell
Marcello I tried the chmod command and got error stating that the file or directory did not exist. The only file in /etc/menu is README. The .xsession-error says: WindowMaker warning: defaults DB: couldn't find menu file menu.hook. As far as modifying the kernel, I don't know how. The

Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

1998-09-25 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Very likely. In addition to Partition Magic, many of the Linux distribs come with FIPS.EXE, which is free software. ... and can (only) resize FAT and VFAT partitions. The latest official version can BTW finally handle FAT32 as well. This

Re: Weird stuff in X

1998-09-25 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 09:35:28AM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It is a

Ham Upgrade Problem with emacs/LaTeX

1998-09-25 Thread Nick Busigin
After upgrading to HAM from BO, I have not been able to get the LaTeX key-bindings to work or even have the LaTeX menu items appear in emacs. I've tried emacs19, emacs20-nomule and xemacs but to no avail. Has anyone else run into this problem and if so, how did you solve it. Thanks in advance!

Re: ICQ and clones

1998-09-25 Thread Art Lemasters
There's licq, but I have not found any way to use it to register with the ICQ server. Art On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 04:10:21PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Are there any ready-to-use ICQ programs available in .deb format? I would rather

Installation (again)

1998-09-25 Thread Menno Scholten
Hello again, I received some mail about my problem but it still insn't solved. Can you give me an exact description of what to do. When I select Install Linux Kernel etc. it ask me for the medium I want to use. After selecting mounted partition, is akes me please choose the directory were

HOW: PRINTER INSTALL

1998-09-25 Thread BOB'S MAIL
I know this is simple, but how do I get my Okidata OL 410e installed at LPT0 (LPT1). magicfilter sets parameters, but I need something that sets up the printer. Like an installation script that creates a printer.conf file (or whatever name). I have 9 books here and they don't say how to do this

RE: Netscape error

1998-09-25 Thread FRANCK . LEGALL
Hi, This problem often occurs when somenone who is different from the person from who opened the Xsession try to run an X application.: To run an X application, you must have rights to dispay it. This can be done using the xhost command. Sorry, my english is so poor that I am not sure to be

Re: Weird stuff in X

1998-09-25 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Adam Klein wrote: I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It is a documented

Re: Weird stuff in X

1998-09-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Adam Klein wrote: I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It is a

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Waldemar Żurowski
Richard Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, and kdeutils. They're all version 980710-1.0-1. I would run ldconfig - as root - first. I don't really know, if dpkg run ldconfig itself, or each package should care about that ldconfiging just after new libraries were

Hello Debian People (new to list test)

1998-09-25 Thread Steven Udell
Hello Debian People (new to list test) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ICQ and clones

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
For most of them, you have to already have a UIN, it's a downside, but hey.. at least it works! Try getting a friend who has ICQ on a win9x machine to do it for you. On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: There's licq, but I have not found any way to use it to register with the

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-25 Thread Daniel Martin
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I'd like my computer to call up one of those automated voice business information systems, then execute some transactions by entering my user account information and make some selections from the menu. I'll need to execute this task

Re: Installation (again)

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Menno Scholten wrote: Hello again, I received some mail about my problem but it still insn't solved. Can you give me an exact description of what to do. When I select Install Linux Kernel etc. it ask me for the medium I want to use. After selecting mounted partition,

corrections to last post (all apologies)

1998-09-25 Thread justin honold
to start with, the debian-rsync script should point to 'debian/', not '/debian/'. i realize the entire problem has to do with blocking out 'binary-*/' and 'disks-*' and then attempting to allow just the i386 stuff through with '+ *i386/'. the rsync works fine if i manually specify the

question on connecting two computers

1998-09-25 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am looking for info on how to connect two PCs running linux outside of a network. I.e. I want to be able to access information on both computers fron both computers (nfs e.t.c.) Is there a manual explaining the details? Any other source of info ? Thanks George

pppd on leased line problems

1998-09-25 Thread fantomas
Hello, Ok this is kern log - note that i played with pppd, killed it few times; i happily could send packets (LED blinks) but nothing returned... Sep 24 23:49:57 home kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Sep 24 23:49:57 home kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code

Re: Netscape error

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] An example : I open a Xsession with 'franck' loggin I try to run Netscape as 'root', it doesn't work (root doesn't have rights to display on franck loggin screen) As franck, I do 'xhost +' Now, I can run and display

flicking in xterms

1998-09-25 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, When I use VI in an xterm with black background, and when I get to EOF, the xterm started flicking. It doesn't happen in rxvt though. I know there are some vars to set to fix it... Anyone give me a quick tip?? Regards, Shao

Re: Installation (again)

1998-09-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Menno Scholten wrote: Hello again, I received some mail about my problem but it still insn't solved. Can you give me an exact description of what to do. When I select Install Linux Kernel etc. it ask me for the medium I

xdm on ttys7 and ttys8

1998-09-25 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, in my inittab, I have six ttys running in run level 5. And the xdm is on ttys 7. Could anyone tell me how to get the xdm running in ttys8 as well?? In this case, I can just press ctrl-alt-f8 to change to my second xdm?? Thanks... Regards, Shao

Re: flicking in xterms

1998-09-25 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
Maybe you have set a 'Visual Bell' ? If so turn it off. ( Does it beep if it comes to that when screen flashes ? ) At 20:48 1998.09.25 +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, When I use VI in an xterm with black background, and when I get to EOF, the xterm started flicking. It doesn't

Installation Problem - Reboot Hang Up

1998-09-25 Thread Caroline Goldblat
Debian 2.0 stable System 486DX2-66 16Mb Ram 170Mb Hard Drive (2 partitions-32Mb Swap-170Mb System) 1.4 Mb floppy internal modem 1 serial port 1 parallel port 3com 3c509B network card Installation seemed to go fine. After creating boot disk and tried to reboot got the following message:

Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

1998-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Very likely. In addition to Partition Magic, many of the Linux distribs come with FIPS.EXE, which is free software. ... and can (only) resize FAT and VFAT partitions. The latest official version

Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
Hello Everyone, I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it will monitor the port and if it sees RING, the system will automagically start pon? What I am trying to do is have my home

Debian packages available now (Re: vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz under debian hamm

1998-09-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 09:40:46PM +0200, Marco Machmer wrote: hy there, i have installed the tar-file from vnc (vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz) and copied all files correctly to /usr/local/... in netscape i can start the the vnc viewer to look on my win95 desktop. the (X) vncviewer dies

Menu (how do I edit/customize) for wms from .deb/dselect

1998-09-25 Thread Steven Udell
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to customize the menu system in Debian 2.0. I have installed 3 wms so far from dselect, all work and show a pretty ok menu of some but not all of what I want in applications to use. I have installed WM GNU nextstep/fvwm2 WM standard. I have installed a non

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
At 07:00 1998.09.25 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it will monitor the port and if it sees RING, the system will automagically start pon?

Re: samba problems

1998-09-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Maybe I didn't explain very well (poor english mine!). As I said, I have three NIC's (the linux is a masq machine). The tcp/ip part is working ok, since all my internal machines can reach internet (http,telnet,etc). In the smb.conf I added the correct ip's for all

Re: xdm on ttys7 and ttys8

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, in my inittab, I have six ttys running in run level 5. And the xdm is on ttys 7. Could anyone tell me how to get the xdm running in ttys8 as well?? In this case, I can just press ctrl-alt-f8 to change to my second

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
[...] What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the system will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so I can

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote: It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all ) Setup up to listen /dev/ttySx ( x=0,1, = com1, com2 in dos ). More

Re: KDE library problems

1998-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: When I try to run kdm, it can't find libkdecore.so.1 and when I try to run kwm it can't find libkfm.so.1. I installed kdebase, kdelibs0g, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, and kdeutils. They're all version

bo-hamm upgrade

1998-09-25 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hello everyone, I need an advice on how to do it. The situation is the following: I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to configure ppp to conect to it. I can do it from a different machine and transfer files using floppies (sorry no network...) Could someone tell

new SCSI driver

1998-09-25 Thread tko
I purchased a new PCI based SCSI card locally and was dismayed to find that the 2.0.3x kernels did not support this card. I went surfing and found the linux ready driver for this card (source code no less!) So my question here is: What do I have to do to fully integrate this new SCSI driver into

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Zilvinas Valinskas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | At 07:00 1998.09.25 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote: | Hello Everyone, | | I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a | way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it | will monitor the port and if it

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread servis
*- Mike Acklin wrote about Re: Quick Question | On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote: | It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or | when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all ) | Setup up to listen

Re: SAMBA

1998-09-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: : MY win95 clients access a samba server, that connects them to the : internet via dialup, too. : The linux-box is dialing unnecessarily when win95 is trying to get : information about servers around. Which port do i have to forbid??? More :

Re: samba

1998-09-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Benoit Joly wrote: : 2) I have a printer on the win95 box (canon bjc-210) : how can I config my linux box to print there? I looked in the howto, but : it'smore like a cryptic language than a help file :). It say something : about /etc/printcap, but nothing about inkjet

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:53:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you want xringd. This a daemon that watches for incoming ring patterns i.e ring-ring-pause 60 sec.-ring. Then when a preset ring pattern is caught it will execute a command for that ring pattern, ie. execute pon and

Print Filters

1998-09-25 Thread Wayne Cuddy
What package in hamm do I need to install to get the print filter that recognizes different file formats and prints them correctly on my HP2P? This was the Magic Filter on Redhat. Thanks. Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 07:42:59AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Not mgetty. That's if you want to run a PPP server, among other things. What you want is xringd. It allows you to call your computer and run any command you want, including whatver you use to initiate your PPP link, depending

Cannot export Path when not login as root

1998-09-25 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I got a little problem. When I login as root, I can export the path properly. But I login as a normal user, my path is not exported properly. It is set to the path defined in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. If I login in an ascii mode, then the path is fine. But

Re: Print Filters

1998-09-25 Thread servis
*- Wayne Cuddy wrote about Print Filters | What package in hamm do I need to install to get the print filter that | recognizes different file formats and prints them correctly on my | HP2P? This was the Magic Filter on Redhat. | And it is call Magic Filter on Debian as well. Look for the

cannot find libXpm.so.4 when running netscape

1998-09-25 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi debies, I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb package at all. Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so what pkg do I need?? Thx for the help! regards, Shao.

xterm-debian

1998-09-25 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Another one! When I telnet to uni(sys V release 4) and run pine, I got the msg that xterm-debian unknown. I made it work by manually setting the XTERM var to VT100. But, is this the formal way or proper way to do it?? What is xterm-debian?? Any additional

Re: xterm-debian

1998-09-25 Thread Michael Stutz
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: But, is this the formal way or proper way to do it?? What is xterm-debian?? Any additional features?? Check out /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for the scoop. I put this line in my .bash_profile: alias p=export TERM=xterm; pine

Re: Menu (how do I edit/customize) for wms from .deb/dselect

1998-09-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Steven Udell wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out how to customize the menu system in Debian 2.0. I have installed 3 wms so far from dselect, all work and show a pretty ok menu of some but not all of what I want in applications to use. I have installed WM GNU nextstep/fvwm2 WM

Need help: superblock error!

1998-09-25 Thread dtctt1
During booting time I got the following message: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1428840 blocks The physical size of the device is 1427328 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt! Aboryy? I'm sure my partition table is correct, so it seems

Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

1998-09-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Very likely. In addition to Partition Magic, many of the Linux distribs come with FIPS.EXE, which is free software. ... and can (only) resize FAT and VFAT partitions.

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Lazar Fleysher
There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as /dev/ttyS1 2. When you start pon it resets the modem and after you do poff,

Re: HOW: PRINTER INSTALL

1998-09-25 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 12:07:10AM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote: I know this is simple, but how do I get my Okidata OL 410e installed at LPT0 (LPT1). magicfilter sets parameters, but I need something that sets up the printer. Like an installation script that creates a printer.conf file (or

apache virtual domain

1998-09-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How do you configure a virtual domain under Apache 1.3? I already have the DNS alias. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)

Re: samba problems

1998-09-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
WINS maps NetBIOS names to IP addresses. When it comes time to send a packet the MAC Address is gotten through arp. NetBEUI does sit right on top of ethernet (and thus uses MAC Addresses) but this is not the same thing and Linux doesn't support NetBEUI. To complicate things, a NetBT (NetBIOS

two session , only the first visible

1998-09-25 Thread Rx
I write two sessions on a CD-R with cdrecord -multi cdrecord -toc says me there is two sessions, windoz says it too. but no one can see the second session how to link the two session ? I was thinking cdrecord -multi do it alone. thanks Xavier __ [EMAIL

Re: Weird stuff in X

1998-09-25 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 10:08:44AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: OK, I'll throw in my 2 cents. I see the `blips' at 32 bit color, but not at 16 bit (Diamond Viper 330). I will try lowering the dotclock setting. My roommate has STB Velocity128 on Riva128ZX and he uses 1152x864x16bit He

Help with ssh

1998-09-25 Thread Brian Schramm
I figure that I need to configure something at this time but I am not quite sure where to start. I installed the ssh deb file on my Debian 2.0 machine. I have also installed the redhat side on my redhat machine. Now I would like to configure it so the root user has access to the debian machine

Resc1440 Floppy locks up during install of Debian 2.0

1998-09-25 Thread Dave White
Hello Everyone, The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following: Loading root.bin Loading linux . here is where it locks up -I've formatted three different floppies -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites -tried linux floppy=thinkpad with same result I used

Re: bo-hamm upgrade

1998-09-25 Thread john
Lazar Fleysher writes: I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to configure ppp to conect to it. Send me your scripts and the output of plog and I will try to help you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: pppd on leased line problems

1998-09-25 Thread john
Matus fantomas Uhlar writes: Sep 24 23:55:23 home kernel: ppp_tty_ioctl: set xmit asyncmap You shouldn't need this (but all it will do is slow you down). Sep 24 23:55:54 home kernel: ppp: ppp0 not connected to a TTY! can't go open! This looks bad. Exactly what command did you start

emacs-20.3

1998-09-25 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I am having a bit of a problem with emacs ... I cannot get it to 'set-fill-column ' .. Each time I 'M-x set-fill-column ' it does not allow me a space to specify the colum width. If I try using 'cntrl-f ' it returns the same error message 'set-fill-column requires an argument'

X on a laptop

1998-09-25 Thread Anatol Quabach
Take a deep breath, I'm new to Linux. I'm trying to set up the svga x-server on my laptop, but I have no idea which monitor to choose and how to calculate the modelines. I've done this yesterday on my desktop and it worked, so I hope to have a basic understanding of what it's all about. But what

Re: apache virtual domain

1998-09-25 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote: : How do you configure a virtual domain under Apache 1.3? : : I already have the DNS alias. It's described in file:/usr/doc/apache/manual/vhosts/index.html -Remco

Re: /usr/local

1998-09-25 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm (Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at least they create directories there). Well, our local system administrator is

Installation Issues

1998-09-25 Thread Brian Armstrong
I recently installed Debian Linux, the most recent version, and have had difficulty installing Netscape and Staroffice. It seems to need Motif or something similiar. Man pages and readme files have helped my setup of Debian Linux and xwindows. However, I need help learning what files are

Re: emacs-20.3

1998-09-25 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [1 text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)] | Hi, |I am having a bit of a problem with emacs ... I cannot get it to | 'set-fill-column ' .. Each time I 'M-x set-fill-column ' it does not allow | me a space to specify the colum width. If I try using 'cntrl-f ' it |

RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-25 Thread Bill Moshier
Anatol If you look under www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html for your laptop, you will probably find the information you need. I was able through that to find the Neomagic driver needed to run linux on a Compaq 1620 laptop. Bill Moshier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Anatol

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-25 Thread David Densmore
John Forest wrote: David Densmore wrote: I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running the svga X server. It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it starts with a completely black background and the mouse freezes as soon as I place the xterm window on the

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-25 Thread Dooms Wesley
Hi, how are you Write me back,if you want. dwesley.planetinternet.be

Re: simple password

1998-09-25 Thread dsb3
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: Horacio writes: This maybe a stupid question, but i want to change my password. When putting `passwd' linux askme for the new password. I put it in, and linux said it is too simple what can i do for linux dont say me that? Currently i have

Re: Win98 = Linux via E-net

1998-09-25 Thread dsb3
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Saisanthosh B wrote: I am trying to setup my home LAN with a Win98 machine and a Linux machine with ethernet. I have successfully setup the ethernet NIC but I am not sure what to do next. I want to be able to copy files from the Win98 machine to the Linux hard drive

Horizon PCI video

1998-09-25 Thread Bruce McCormick
Where can I find support for a STB Horizon-PCI video card? This card isn't in the card list when I run XF86Setup for my new hamm distribution, and I'm not having sucess using the detailed setup. // // Bruce McCormick

Re: simple password

1998-09-25 Thread Keith Beattie
DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: Horacio writes: This maybe a stupid question, but i want to change my password. When putting `passwd' linux askme for the new password. I put it in, and linux said it is too simple what can i do for linux dont say me that? Currently i have NO password, so

Re: Installation Issues

1998-09-25 Thread john
Brian Armstrong writes: Then, configure the ppp connection, using pap (which ppp files do I edit?). Just run pppconfig and follow directions. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: cannot find libXpm.so.4 when running netscape

1998-09-25 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:05:46 +1000 (EST) Shao Ying Zhang writes: Hi debies, I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb package at all. Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so what pkg do I need?? The needed packages are (for a

3c905 driver installed, but not in ifconfig??

1998-09-25 Thread Evan Van Dyke
I have a 3com 3c905 Ethernet card that I can't quite get to work. I have turned _OFF_ the PNP OS option in my bios btw. : I recompiled the 2.0.35 kernel including Network support, and the 3c59x driver as a module. When I boot in Linux, the driver loads fine, says it detects the card at

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