RE: Mi disco duro esta frito ...y sin tomate

1998-10-16 Thread Víctor
-Mensaje original-De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Ennombre de Jose Luis TrivinoEnviado el: jueves 15 de octubre de 1998 10:28Para: 'Lista de Debian'Asunto: Mi disco duro esta frito ...y sin tomateHola, Tengo un ordenador con debian 1.3.1 instalado. El caso esque,

Re: Una reflexión sobre locales y documentación traducida

1998-10-16 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:29:50AM +0200, Jose Luis Trivino dijo: Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: No sería más fácil que cuando se instale el paquete locales, este borre todos los subdirectorios de otros lenguajes, excluyendo el inglés y cualquier otro idioma que hayamos seleccionado? Esto

RV: De nuevo sobre mi unidad scsi...

1998-10-16 Thread Víctor
-Mensaje original-De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 16 de octubre de 1998 0:42Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.orgAsunto: RE: De nuevo sobre mi unidad scsi... -Mensaje original-De: Miguel Angel [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Problemas con send mail

1998-10-16 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, Oct 15, 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez... Antonio Castro wrote: Despues de la última actualización a Debian 2.0 me quedan algunas cosas por arreglar. Una de ellas es el sendmail. ... La recepción la hace normalmente

Re: linux actual 4 falla (fwd)

1998-10-16 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, Oct 15, 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a... ...También parece que, para rebajar costes las estampadoras bajan la calidad y resulta que los CDs se leen bien en lectores de baja velocidad (hasta 12x) pero a más alta empiezan a fallar. Yo con un lector 1x el único

DRIVERS PARA DFE-530TX (D-LINK)

1998-10-16 Thread jrivas
Necesito los drives para la tarjeta de red DFE-530TX (D-LINK) para linux. Si alguien sabe donde poder conseguirlos que lo diga. Un saludo, Esper P.D.MUCHAS GRACIAS

Re: Problemas con send mail

1998-10-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:24:31PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: A mi tambien me ocurre algo raro. Al arrancar el sistema operativo, al llegar al punto: Activando el Agente de Trasporte de Correo: sendmail se queda ahi unos 20 segundos (no

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote: Debian 2 ha cambiado el formato de /etc/ppp . . . He puesto todo como nos indicaste. Y cuando arranco pon, al poner plog me salen los siguientes mensajes: ... send (ATDT055^M) Serial connection established Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 ... Serial line is looped

RE: linux actual 4 falla (fwd)

1998-10-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
El Thu, Oct 15, 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a... ...También parece que, para rebajar costes las estampadoras bajan la calidad y resulta que los CDs se leen bien en lectores de baja velocidad (hasta 12x) pero a más alta empiezan a fallar. Yo con un lector 1x el único

Problemas de instalacion

1998-10-16 Thread MJerez.EET
Hola, mi nombre es Manolo y estoy teniendo problemas para instalar la Debian 2.0 alias hamm en un PC. El PC es un Pentium II a 266 MHz con 32 Mb de memoria Ram. Tiene una tarjeta de video S3 Virge GX2 con 4Mb de memoria en PCI, un disco duro Western Digital de 3 Gb,una grabadora Philips

Re: linux actual 4 falla (fwd)

1998-10-16 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: ... bajan la calidad y resulta que los CDs se leen bien en lectores de baja velocidad (hasta 12x) pero a más alta empiezan a fallar. ... Yo los he probado en 12x y han ido bien. Lo que si he comprobado comparando con CDs de hace 3 o 4 años, es

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Ejem, creo que el Serial line is looped back es un problema común de Infovía (corregidme si me equivoco). Lo que está pasando es que los paquetes que envía el Linux para la negociación PPP (sube el debug level del ppp a 3 para verlo, creo) le son enviados tal cual. Por eso es

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Ejem, creo que el Serial line is looped back es un problema común de Infovía (corregidme si me equivoco). Lo que está pasando es que los paquetes que envía el Linux para la negociación PPP (sube el debug level del ppp a 3 para verlo, creo) le son

Re: linux actual 4 falla (fwd)

1998-10-16 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Jordi Roman Mejias wrote: Angel Vicente Perez wrote: ... bajan la calidad y resulta que los CDs se leen bien en lectores de baja velocidad (hasta 12x) pero a más alta empiezan a fallar. ... Yo los he probado en 12x y han ido bien. Lo que si he comprobado comparando

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 05:19:12PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Por cierto, en el mensaje de Antonio Calvo donde ponia como ejemplo sus ficheros de configuracion del PPP, no incluye el /etc/ppp/options. Las opciones de este fichero no se modifican con el programa pppconfig. ¿Es que

ZIP IDE/ATAPI mal configurado

1998-10-16 Thread Miguel Barrio Orsikowsky
Saludos, Tengo una unidad ZIP 100 IDE/ATAPI interna y al arrancar Linux los parámetros Cilindros/Cabezas/Sectores salen mal configurados. ¿Alguien puede decirme cuales son los verdaderos? Por más que busco en ZIP HOWTOs no encuentro NI UNA referencia a unidades ZIP IDE. Gracias anticipadas.

Re: Sobre el leafnode

1998-10-16 Thread J . Parera
Hola, No exactamente, el leafnode te baja las noticias de los grupos a los que has accedido -o eso es lo que tiene que hacer. Es decir, tú intenta leer un grupo, y ya verás cómo a la próxima te lo baja. lo hago y me sale el fichero del grupo en los grupos interesantes del leafnode pero la próxima

Un cambio en Senmail (quizas no muy reciente)

1998-10-16 Thread Antonio Castro
Bueno pues por fin he resuelto el problema con sendmail. Puesto que nadie de la lista ha sabido darme ninguna pista sobre el particular mando esto para resaltar que efectivamente parece que hay un comportamiento distinto de sendmail con versiones anteriores. El problema quizas venga por una mala

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: kushni kushniIf there were some Debian oriented database, where one could kushniadd his experience about installation of Debian on some kushniunusual hardware, I would add mine about ThinkPad 380XD. THERE IS ! FAQ-O-MATIC !

RE: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: [snip] = try putting a send host-name statement in your dhclient.conf (see man 5 = dhclient.conf for details) = = I'd like to not even use the dhcp server but I think that would mean I'd = have to setup the Linux machine to be a

mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-16 Thread maor
|- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... loop detection: maximum hop count exceeded |- Message text follows: | Received: from whitehouse.dyn.ml.org ([127.0.0.1]) by whitehouse.dyn.ml.org

mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-16 Thread maor
|- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... loop detection: maximum hop count exceeded |- Message text follows: | Received: from whitehouse.dyn.ml.org ([127.0.0.1]) by whitehouse.dyn.ml.org

mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-16 Thread maor
|- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... loop detection: maximum hop count exceeded |- Message text follows: | Received: from whitehouse.dyn.ml.org ([127.0.0.1]) by whitehouse.dyn.ml.org

mail failed, returning to sender

1998-10-16 Thread maor
|- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... loop detection: maximum hop count exceeded |- Message text follows: | Received: from whitehouse.dyn.ml.org ([127.0.0.1]) by whitehouse.dyn.ml.org

Debian Distribution/Web Page

1998-10-16 Thread Todd Morris
[Well, I fowarded one negative comment. Here is a positive comment that webmaster recieved - Darren] I thought Debian was a rag-tag kludge loosely gopped together on the Internet. After reading reviews of Debian 2.0 and visiting your website, I have to say that I am extremely impressed. The

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Hogland, Thomas E. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): =Someone takes an IP no problem =DHCP server gives out that IP...and the unsuspecting user gets an IP =adress conflict. = =They call the helpdesk...helpdesk calls net eng... that adress is =taken out of the DHCP pool and put on the exclude

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Greg Frye
Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: [snip] (Being on the Win95/MSOffice support team can really give you a crappy outlook on life...) Tom (Another person in a shop that keeps saying, We can't use Linux - there's no company to hold responsible if there's problems.) Like Microsoft would be held

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, John! Thanks for reminding me about that. Part of the reason I forgot is that there is no direct link to it from main Web page. Perhaps FAQ-O-Matic deserved it's place on Main page. Sasha. kushni kushniIf there were some Debian oriented database, where one could kushniadd his

Re: Star Office

1998-10-16 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Dave Swegen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 10:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So star office 4/5 can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use? well thats very nice of them, but how many people are going to be prepared to wait through a 50Mb download? Has

Re: Kde Problem...

1998-10-16 Thread Greg Norris
I had to run ldconfig as root... kde didn't have any difficulties locating it's shared-libraries after that. On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:30:52PM -0500, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Hrrm, ok now this is interesting... kfm _is_ running. xterm runs(via Ctrl-F2 and running it) but kvt does not. I got

tetex-bin package removal problem -- FIX!!

1998-10-16 Thread Darxus
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: Okay, I was getting this... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get -f install Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...ok The following extra packages will be installed: tetex-base The

Re: replacment for quick books

1998-10-16 Thread Keith Beattie
Carl Vilbrandt wrote: Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ? . . . for ACT, a contact management software ? without creating one in linux. gnucash - http://www.gnucash.org/ ksb

http apt source

1998-10-16 Thread wb4mle
Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink distribution. Thanks! -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA

Re: http apt source

1998-10-16 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:51:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink distribution. Thanks! deb

Re: http apt source

1998-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the : bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping : frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink : distribution. Thanks!

Re: http apt source

1998-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink distribution. Thanks! http://ftp1.us.debian.org It was

Re: http apt source

1998-10-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink

slink and netstd package(s) question

1998-10-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, all -- sorry for being slow but I have noticed that slink now hosts netstd package and a whole pile of separate daemon and client networking packages ( for example, telnet and telnetd). Can someone point me in the general direction of the html or somesuch document hwere I can learn about what

How big is Complete Debian install from LSL?

1998-10-16 Thread fasf dsaf
I want a distro with everything. i have about 3.7 gigs to spare. the lsl has the official, binary, source, non-free us non us non free. if i install EVERYTHING on these discs, how big will everything be? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free

Re: replacment for quick books

1998-10-16 Thread Randy Edwards
Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ? Good question. I still use NT for two purposes: QuickBooks and a voice-mail system. I could live without the voice mail system but until I find a decent accounting program I'm still in the dual-boot mode. -- Regards,| Debian

config printer.

1998-10-16 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi I have a HP 5L printer, but when I print something, the paper is running but nothing is printed. Could you help me figure out the problem? Thanks. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

CD encyclopedias

1998-10-16 Thread D'jinnie
There are quite a few encyclopedias on CDs nowadays and I was wondering if there was some way of reading them with Linux? Or, alternately, if there was a Linux version for any of them? I know this seems a bit off-the-wall but I thought I'd ask :) --- Just call me a sugar vampire D'jinnie/Jinn,

win-stuff

1998-10-16 Thread D'jinnie
There seems to be a growing proliferation of cheap Win-only stuff. Do any of you think that this would negatively impact Linux new user base? I imagine most people start out dual-booting their existent machines, and I would guess that finding out a lot of your stuff won't work is quite a turnoff.

Rsync push mirrors

1998-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
Anyone know why there's a control file in the root of the debian site? There's one present on my mirror, at any rate. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)

Re: win-stuff

1998-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote: : There seems to be a growing proliferation of cheap Win-only stuff. Do : any of you think that this would negatively impact Linux new user base? I : imagine most people start out dual-booting their existent machines, and I : would guess that finding out a

Re: High points of debian

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Plelase read http://master.debian.org/~doogie/why-debian_me.txt Chris Frost wrote: I've got a few questions re: debian, coming from a longtime redhat user... I've been using redhat since around v4, and while I definately like it, sometimes things are a little unstable, I wish rpm were more

APT 0.1.7 released!

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
The APT team is proud to announce release 0.1.7 of the next-generation packaging tool, APT, which enables users to easily upgrade their whole system of Debian GNU/Linux packages to the latest versions on the world-wide network of Debian HTTP and FTP mirrors. This release covers a few issues with

Re: CD encyclopedias

1998-10-16 Thread Bill Wohler
D'jinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are quite a few encyclopedias on CDs nowadays and I was wondering if there was some way of reading them with Linux? The alternative I go for is to sign up with Encyclopedia Britannica on-line. One of the features I like is that they have the top of

Chap w/o Chap?

1998-10-16 Thread Darren Benham
I just got off the phone with tech-support for my ISP. He (tried) to tell me that they've had CHAP for the last year and a half... and I never set it up. I thought it would be impossible for me to login that way...??? Where the system-admins incomp and unable to implement the security they

ppp server gone?

1998-10-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
There isn't a server process for ppp, is there? It just relies on the client telling the server to start uup? I couldn't use ppp for a few days, when the changes to libpam came out of sequence. I upgraded again today, and got the4 rest. I was able to make a single connection. When it flaked

Help with getting my mail

1998-10-16 Thread Benjamin White
Hello all, I have had a fetchmail setup working for some time. However, today I started getting funny errors when I try to get my mail: reading message 9 of 19 (1710 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from

Is Supra 336i a Winmodem?

1998-10-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I have been trying to get my modem to work in debian, and unfortunately, unsuccessfully. I have 486DX4, it's got SupraExpress 336i Sp modem installed in it. My primary boot right now is Win95, until I can get debian setup. Modem works perfectly with Windows. In debian what happens is: Modem is on

Re: Chap w/o Chap?

1998-10-16 Thread Mitch Blevins
Darren Benham wrote: I just got off the phone with tech-support for my ISP. He (tried) to tell me that they've had CHAP for the last year and a half... and I never set it up. I thought it would be impossible for me to login that way...??? Where the system-admins incomp and unable to

Re: Chap w/o Chap?

1998-10-16 Thread john
Darren Benham writes: I just got off the phone with tech-support for my ISP. He (tried) to tell me that they've had CHAP for the last year and a half... and I never set it up. I thought it would be impossible for me to login that way...??? Many ISP's support both PAP/CHAP and scripted

Re: ? WinModem

1998-10-16 Thread Shaleh
I believe it is called isapnptools. On 15-Oct-98 David Sherow wrote: Where can I get isapnp? Shaleh wrote: Win modems are almost always made by US Robotics. You should only need to type pon. You also need to ensure that you have told ppp to use the right com port. If the modem is a

How to change Timezone...

1998-10-16 Thread Evan Van Dyke
WOuld someone knowledgable about linux tell me how to change the timezone info? The computer was set up in EST5EDT, but is now in CST6CDT. I have chanted /etc/timezone to referance the new zone, but 'date' still shows EDT even after reboot... Im sure this is a simple little fix, but it would be

Any Debian aware folks in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA?

1998-10-16 Thread stick
Howdy all. I have a user in Myrtle Beach/Seaside area of South Carolina, USA who needs some help. System disconnected while downloading packages, ppp-pam is installed, but not libpam. Now they can't get connected to their ISP so I can finish the install. Need someone familiar w/ Debian who

Re: How to change Timezone...

1998-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: WOuld someone knowledgable about linux tell me how to change the timezone info? The computer was set up in EST5EDT, but is now in CST6CDT. I have chanted /etc/timezone to referance the new zone, but 'date' still shows EDT even after reboot... Im

Re: -URGENT- exim:incoming message frozen

1998-10-16 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
Ok. The problem was that in hosts file I find the next line: 193.231.157.1routerrouter.citon.ro After I switch the plce of the router word with router.citon.ro everything goes to normal. Thanks \\\___/// \\ - - //

Re: SATAN .deb?

1998-10-16 Thread Thomas Adams
At 14:16 Uhr +0100 15.10.1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: it's an essential admin tool for checking your setup. This is the reason why it shouldn't be prepackaged. I really can't imagine anybody concerned about security trusting a prepackaged security scanner. Personally, I wouldn't. That's perhaps

Re: Hiding a Linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 01:35:49PM -0800, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: [snip] = try putting a send host-name statement in your dhclient.conf (see man 5 = dhclient.conf for details) = = I'd like to not even use the dhcp server

I can't compile anymore

1998-10-16 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I've trashed something. I've installed gcc from the 2.0 disks, it doesn't compile the linux kernel. Tried installing egcc, nope. It doesn't find some files. Tried downloading egcc from the slink directory. Same error. So this is the error I get when compiling kernel 2.1.125 with egcc: [EMAIL

Exchange root and swap partitions?

1998-10-16 Thread kaynjay
Problem. Not enough space for my root partition on hdb. At 100% use, I can't even send messages. I'd like to shrink a DOS partition on hda, expand the adjacent Linux swap partition into the freed space, then switch the root and swap partitions. One additional issue: I'll be redoing OS/2's

X and keyboard layouts

1998-10-16 Thread Bek Oberin
I've just switched from RedHat (ohh, it's a convert! :)) and I've -nealry- got the hang of this all, now. Finally. One of the last remaining annoyances: I use a modified dvorak keyboard layout (ie: not-quite-dvorak, but close) and do most of my work in text-mode consoles. But sometimes I

Re: debian latest version?

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Jason Herring Dale Davis wrote: what is debian's lattest version At the moment, 2.0 . I keep hearing about debian 2.1... We've just entered a code freeze for 2.1, meaning that we hope to release 2.1 in the not too distant future. and where can I

Re: debian latest version?

1998-10-16 Thread Alan Tam
Goto http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ 4. Compatibility issues and you may find your answer there. J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Jason Herring Dale Davis wrote: what is debian's lattest version At the moment, 2.0 . I keep hearing about debian 2.1...

exim: never stop Mail delivery failed

1998-10-16 Thread Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, I think the problems never stops. This is one of the sense of life. Although the message I sent arrive to its destination (in my case a user in doamin citon.ro) continuouslyI receive messages like this (even from messages that was send yesterday): Please tell me what is wrong or what is

Re: Exchange root and swap partitions?

1998-10-16 Thread Helge Hafting
In BwTCcC.A.87D.CLvJ2@murphy, on 10/16/98 at 12:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Problem. Not enough space for my root partition on hdb. At 100% use, I can't even send messages. I'd like to shrink a DOS partition on hda, expand the adjacent Linux swap partition into the freed space, then

Re: I can't compile anymore

1998-10-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I've trashed something. I've installed gcc from the 2.0 disks, it doesn't compile the linux kernel. Tried installing egcc, nope. It doesn't find some files. Tried downloading egcc from the slink directory. Same error. So this is the error I get when compiling kernel 2.1.125 with egcc:

Re: How big is Complete Debian install from LSL?

1998-10-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I want a distro with everything. i have about 3.7 gigs to spare. the lsl has the official, binary, source, non-free us non us non free. if i install EVERYTHING on these discs, how big will everything be? If you install EVERYTHING, you will be screwed. There are many packages in

Lilo/MBR boot problem: 1FA:

1998-10-16 Thread Duncan Thomson
I'm hoping to run a course including the installation towards the end of next week, but the machines I'll be using have a problem. When debian is installed to boot off the hard disk, a prompt: 1FA: comes up. According to the docs, this should mean that I can boot off partition 1 of the hard

Re: X and keyboard layouts

1998-10-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Bek Oberin hat gesagt: // Bek Oberin wrote: One of the last remaining annoyances: I use a modified dvorak keyboard layout (ie: not-quite-dvorak, but close) and do most of my work in text-mode consoles. But sometimes I have to boot up X to run Netscape or PilotManager. RedHad's X setup

Re: exim: never stop Mail delivery failed

1998-10-16 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
Ok. It work but now I receive in that user a lot of messages like that: Cron[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/exim -q false with the next contnBet 1998-10-16 12:09:01 queue run: process 23976 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 0zUD7c-0004xc-00 1998-10-16 12:09:02 queue run: process 23981 crashed

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote: No! Not using dhcp means guessing a free IP - or better getting a real staic one. There are other reasons for using dhcp. I have a notebook and it's very handy for getting a relevant IP wherever I happen to be. At home I have a

cdrom device not there

1998-10-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ? I have tried ./MAKEDEV cdrom and got an error Any ideas ? George --- George

eterm broken dependancies?

1998-10-16 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, The new eterm depends on eterm-backgrounds, which is a package I can't seem to find - the backgrounds packages are eterm-bg and eterm-bg-ok Is this a bug, or am I being stupid again? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn

Re: cdrom device not there

1998-10-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ? I have tried ./MAKEDEV cdrom and got an error Any ideas ? George /dev/cdrom is not a device, but a symbolic link to the cdrom device. If you have

Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread Moore, Paul
I am trying to get to grips with Debian, and I'd like to browse through the documentation. The problem I have is that my Debian PC is at one home, whereas the PC where I have the most chance to read documentation, print things out, follow up references, etc, is at work. My current work PC is

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages on a Windows box? Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have Windows gzip, tar, etc utilities). deb files are `ar' archives, they

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages on a Windows box? Probably, though I don't know how much work is involved. Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can I get at

RE: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread Moore, Paul
From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have Windows gzip, tar, etc utilities). deb(5) documents the format. Basically, it's an ar(1) archive containing tar.gz

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not a Debian package but is found on Sunsite. It saves the files in a directory in your home directory for a configurable amount of days. I still like it very much, but I just recently ran

DRIVERS FOR DFE-530TX (D-LINK)

1998-10-16 Thread jrivas
Anybody knows where i can get DFE-530TX (D-Link) drivers? Thank you for you time, Esper ---BeginMessage--- Necesito los drives para la tarjeta de red DFE-530TX (D-LINK) para linux. Si alguien sabe donde poder conseguirlos que lo diga. Un saludo, Esper P.D.

Re: High points of debian

1998-10-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 04:37:31AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Plelase read http://master.debian.org/~doogie/why-debian_me.txt Chris Frost wrote: I've got a few questions re: debian, coming from a longtime redhat user... I've been using redhat since around v4, and while I definately

netscape4.x cannot read debian-user list archives

1998-10-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0. When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives (e.g. from September, august) first time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big). When I try to read much smaller

Re: cdrom device not there

1998-10-16 Thread Dominik Rothert
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:08:17AM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote ... After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ? /dev/cdrom is just a link to another device. Is your CDROM Drive Atapi

Re: DRIVERS FOR DFE-530TX (D-LINK)

1998-10-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:48:27PM +0100, jrivas wrote: Anybody knows where i can get DFE-530TX (D-Link) drivers? Isn't that one using a DEC chipset? If so, try the tulip driver. Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Re: netscape4.x cannot read debian-user list archives

1998-10-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ netscape 4 chokes on mailing list archives ] I recognize this behaviour. I suppose what is wrong is the netscape has some, er, `shortcommings' (i.e. bugs). I always use lynx to access the debian mailing list archives or bug-track system. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

slink :i386 : net :netstd_3.07-5.deb

1998-10-16 Thread John Leget
Just updated my system and things came apart around the above with the following error messages using APT ##Preparing to replace netstd 3.07-4 (using .../net/netstd_3.07-5.deb) ... Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

Re: I can't compile anymore

1998-10-16 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linux/errno.h is in libc6-dev. You also should not try to compile 2.0 Ok, reinstalled libc6-dev, I get these messages further on in the compilation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make bzImage make modules make modules_installegcc

Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-16 Thread me
Hi all--- I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive. Here's the general setup: /dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerly DOS /dev/hda2 (~16MB) linux swap /dev/hda3 (~200mb) linux

Re: slink :i386 : net :netstd_3.07-5.deb

1998-10-16 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: Just updated my system and things came apart around the above with the following error messages using APT downgrade to perl5.004. perl5.005 has some problems and was removed from slink.(checked yesterday, though). []s, Mario O.de Menezes | Many are the

HELP:pgp5 doesn't work

1998-10-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am still trying to get pgp5 to work the selftests work, i can encrypt a file with pgp, i can decrypt it using my key, i can list the available keys etc. now i added the key of a friend, receivend an encrypted attachmet to a mail, when trying to decrypt i get the message couldn#t

Debian on Notebooks

1998-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi there, I am looking for a new laptop for debian. If you run debian nicely, please let me know. I had some problems installing and running debian on my current laptop, and if I can avoid these on my next buy, I would be very glad. So please drop a note if you are happy with your installation.

Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:07:14AM -0400, me wrote: Hi all--- I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive. Here's the general setup: /dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerly DOS

Re: BROWSER

1998-10-16 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, count zero wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Im searching for graphicals internet browsers... What can you people recomend me?? (currently im using netscape) why u want to change? netscape it's not so ugly ! Hi, You might try kfm, the filemanager of

Re: Format of .deb files

1998-10-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: I am trying to get to grips with Debian, and I'd like to browse through the documentation. The problem I have is that my Debian PC is at one home, whereas the PC where I have the most chance to read documentation, print things out,

New Install... pon not working

1998-10-16 Thread Bob Eidt
Hi, I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non- linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only method to my disposal of enhancing my installation. It would seem the best I can

Re: exim: never stop Mail delivery failed

1998-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote: : Ok. It work but now I receive in that user a lot of messages like that: : Cron[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/exim -q false with the next contnBet : 1998-10-16 12:09:01 queue run: process 23976 crashed with signal 11 while : delivering

Re: Is Supra 336i a Winmodem?

1998-10-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Andrew Ivanov wrote: : I have been trying to get my modem to work in debian, and unfortunately, : unsuccessfully. : I have 486DX4, it's got SupraExpress 336i Sp modem installed in it. My : primary boot right now is Win95, until I can get debian setup. Modem works :

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