Debian Floppy my love

2001-06-17 Thread Marco Taiana
Volevo sapere come posso installare sul mio portatile (486, 8Mb ram, 500 Mb HD) LINUX distribuzione DEBIAN. NB Non ho un lettore CD-Rom ma solo un'unità Floppy da 3,5... Grazie mille Marco I'd like to konow how to install a Debian Linux on my laptop (486, 8Mb ram, 500 Mb HD) via Floppy Disk...

Re: Windows-like crashes!

2001-06-17 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:43:02AM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote: Hi, I have been successfully using Debian Woody for about 8 months now and I am proud to say that it's not my default boot. Recently I've been trying to get XMPS working and after trying to watch a DivX with crappy quality, I

XMMS playback fault!

2001-06-17 Thread Richard Collins
XMMS plays all mp3s too fast, and high pitched, It did this before upgrading to woody. I have a AMD K6-5 550MHz on a TMC m/b with on board VIA chipset sound, but I don't think hardware is the problem. Any ideas??? Rich

Re: Debian Floppy my love

2001-06-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Volevo sapere come posso installare sul mio portatile (486, 8Mb ram, 500 Mb HD) LINUX distribuzione DEBIAN. NB Non ho un lettore CD-Rom ma solo un'unità Floppy da 3,5... Grazie mille Marco I'd like to konow how to install a Debian Linux on my laptop (486, 8Mb ram, 500 Mb HD) via Floppy

Exim Rewriting rules problems

2001-06-17 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi! Could anybody help me with configering exim correctly? I have installed exim on a machine with a dialup connection to my isp. This machine, named meister.kosmos, should relay emails from other machines on my local network (*.komsos) and should send them per smtp when connecting to my isp. I

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010616 14:03]: Note that 2.4 kernels die (after 14 days uptime here) with out of memory. I wouldn't use a 2.4 kernel for a production machine until that is fixed. I've used every release of 2.4.x,

Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

2001-06-17 Thread csj
Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/?

pppd problems

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
[this email is pretty long, so please take my apologies for eating your bandwidth] debianers, a friend of mine is experiencing severe problems connecting to her ISP in madison, wisconsin (inxpress.net). she has an internal 33.6 modem that seems to work (i have done the basic minicom AT tests),

Re: sis 6326

2001-06-17 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:11, SuperTek wrote: Has anybody succeded to configure the sis 6326 video card using xfree86config on Debian 2.2 (potato)? I need help!!! I think I have to upgrade xfree86, so, does anybody have the newest sources.list? It works here, but not with 24 bits color

Getting Rid of Gnome

2001-06-17 Thread Andrew Overholt
Hi, I think I've decided to get rid of my Gnome/Enlightenment combo as it runs pretty slow (well not slow but not incredibly fast) and I find that I don't use any of the things that Gnome gives me (like the task bar or the desktop). Is there a way that I can apt-get remove Gnome itself without

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Note that 2.4 kernels die (after 14 days uptime here) with out of memory. I wouldn't use a 2.4 kernel for a production machine until that is fixed. Ive never had a memory problem with a 2.4 kernel. I actually ran a machine with NO powersupply fan

Mozilla 0.9.1 won't install

2001-06-17 Thread Mart van de Wege
Folks, I was pleasantly surprised when I found that Mozilla had finally arrived in unstable. I fortwith tried to install it. Alas, it keeps bombing out in the postinst script with an exit code of 5. Funny thing is that it installed flawlessly on my laptop, but my desktop machine wants none of it.

Re: packages kept back

2001-06-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 12:11:28AM -0400, Daniel Jones wrote: Running unstable. Executing apt-get upgrade, I get: The following packages have been kept back ddd grace lib-xt-java libldap2 libxml-generator-perl python-numeric python-numeric-tutorial task-sgml task-tex wmaker 0

Re: sis 6326

2001-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:11:09PM -0300, SuperTek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anybody succeded to configure the sis 6326 video card using xfree86config on Debian 2.2 (potato)? I need help!!! I've managed to get a decent, but not quite satisfactory, 800x600 16bpp display using xf86config.

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-17 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:12, Thomas Martin wrote: Hello, just installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r2 and now installed X, SAWMILL, TKMIXER and XMMS from the official CDs. When I start X as root and start then XMMS I am able to to listen to AudioCDs (also the tracks are not listed in the PLAYLIST

Re: XMMS playback fault!

2001-06-17 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Sunday 17 June 2001 19:08, Richard Collins spoke wisely: XMMS plays all mp3s too fast, and high pitched, It did this before upgrading to woody. I have a AMD K6-5 550MHz on a TMC m/b with on board VIA chipset sound, but I don't think hardware is the problem. Any ideas??? Rich I had a

Re: Mozilla 0.9.1 won't install

2001-06-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:51:45PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered: I tried running dpkg with debugging info on, but unfortunately that still doesn't shed any light on the problem. Can someone give me a few pointers as to why a postinst script would bomb with this particular error? Or how I

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-17 Thread Thomas Martin
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:12, Thomas Martin wrote: Hello, just installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r2 and now installed X, SAWMILL, TKMIXER and XMMS from the official CDs. When I start X as root and start then XMMS I am able to

libpam-smbpass installation

2001-06-17 Thread Philippe Clérié
I am trying to setup libpam-smbpass to synchronize Linux and Samba passwords on a server. The intent is to have a single password for several services, but mainly Samba itself and mail. However, I am not having any real success. In smb.conf I uncommented the following: unix password sync = yes

How to use addressbook in balsa?

2001-06-17 Thread Thomas Wegner
A simple question I think. I can't managed til today to use the addressbook from balsa. I'm using debian2r2 with balsa 1.0.pre5. When pressing the B-button the addressbook appeares and I have no chance to type in a new address. I don't know what to do. The option by using gnome-card is also

Apache Listings

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know how to customize how apache lists files in directories without index.html? Perhaps a perl script to generate the pages, or something like that? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia

Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD - Kernel Panic

2001-06-17 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:53:54PM +0200, Brendon wrote: after inserting the rootdisk i receive the following error message: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0xa6,sc=340,#f=194,fs=44860,fl=101811,ds=19927266,de=61894,data=19931136,se=

Re: Logging

2001-06-17 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 07:05:14PM -0700, Reza wrote: Hi everybody, I need a little bit help I wondered if someone is doing ftp, or trying to sh me, can I see the logging? and also if someone's trying to packet me, would it be log? if yes, can anyone let me know? thank you Take a look at

Re: Architecture

2001-06-17 Thread Casper Gielen
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:44:38AM -, ? ? ?? ? ? wrote: Hey, I don't know much. So I don't know what my architecture is. How do I find out what it is? If you don't know it's i386. -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- People just generally like to

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-17 Thread Robin Gerard
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:12, Thomas Martin wrote: Add your users to the groups audio and disk so they have permission to access the devices. addgroup user group Sorry for this supid question : How to remove a user of

customize sources.list

2001-06-17 Thread thomas
hi, i would like to define different settings (stable/testing/unstable) to differente packages. is that possible? i've read through some howto's now but hey all are very basic. i couldn't find a really good one that describes some details, can anyone point me at one? thomas

Pine

2001-06-17 Thread Nick Furman
What file in the pine directory sets the domain after the @ sign. Example: nfurman@domain.com Thanks! Best Regards, Nicholas K. Furman Systems Network Administrator J-Link Computer Internet Services 157 West Main Street Ph:(570)389-6400 Bloomsburg, PA 17815

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-17 Thread David Z Maze
Thomas Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TM Adding user to group DISK solved my problem. You almost definitely don't want to add users to group disk, since that gives them read/write access to raw devices for all of your disks (meaning that they can directly read the bits off the hard disk,

bash script

2001-06-17 Thread thomas
hi, i'm trying to write a simple bash script but with no success so far. what this script basically does: it checks if my second isdn line is on and if not it tries to connect it until well until its connected :) it usually takes more than 2-3 times till the second line is connected. ok here is

resolv.conf - what generates it?

2001-06-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
What tool generates /etc/resolv.conf, and how do I change what it generates? I'm running today's potato. I need to change the contents of /etc/resolv.conf (to change the nameserver line, and add a domain line and a second nameserver line). I can do this with vi no problem, but it's temporary:

Re: bash script

2001-06-17 Thread Colin Watson
thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm trying to write a simple bash script but with no success so far. what this script basically does: it checks if my second isdn line is on and if not it tries to connect it until well until its connected :) it usually takes more than 2-3 times till the second line

Re: Pine

2001-06-17 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Nick Furman wrote: What file in the pine directory sets the domain after the @ sign. Example: nfurman@domain.com Setup, Config, user-domain Thanks! Best Regards, Nicholas K. Furman Systems Network Administrator J-Link Computer Internet Services 157 West Main Street

% with perl

2001-06-17 Thread Robin Gerard
hello, this script runs fine: #!/usr/local/bin/perl print \n\n; %loginpsswd=(gerard,12345678,jaimie,78945612,andy,45632178); print $loginpsswd{gerard}; print \n\n; print $loginpsswd{jaimie}; print \n\n; print $loginpsswd{toto}; print \n\n; but when instead of the six last lines I

Re: resolv.conf - what generates it?

2001-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Aaron writes: I can do this with vi no problem, but it's temporary: during reboot, and every few hours while the system is up, something clobbers the new resolv.conf with the old one. Are you using a dialup ppp connection with dynamic dns? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: resolv.conf - what generates it?

2001-06-17 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: What tool generates /etc/resolv.conf, and how do I change what it generates? I'd bet it was DHCP... I'm running today's potato. I need to change the contents of /etc/resolv.conf (to change the nameserver line, and add a domain line and a second

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

2001-06-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:48:05AM +0800, csj wrote: Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpQZmlAs45yR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: % with perl

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
$i=0; while ($i3) { print $loginpsswd{$loginpasswd[2*$i]}; print \n\n; } I get error ... can someone whose knows perl explain me how to write this loop correctly. An easy way is this: foreach $k (keys %loginpsswd) { print $loginpsswd{$k}.\n\n; } -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept.

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-17 Thread Thomas Martin
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:39:07PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: Thomas Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TM Adding user to group DISK solved my problem. You almost definitely don't want to add users to group disk, since that gives them read/write access to raw devices for all of your disks

Re: iPAQ ?

2001-06-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Not yet, but I'm probably going to order one within the next two weeks or so. If memory serves, you can't order one without wince (or whatever they're calling it these days)... you need a serial cradle and access to a Windows system in order to flash the bootloader onto the sucker. The Linux

partly fixed: Re: resolv.conf - what generates it?

2001-06-17 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I answer both Johns here: On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, John Galt (and a third John offlist) wrote: What tool generates /etc/resolv.conf, and how do I change what it I'd bet it was DHCP... I dont have any dhcp packages installed, so it can't be DHCP,right? On 17 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: Are you

Re: Any program to help achitectural drawing?

2001-06-17 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've just subscribed to this list and missed the beginning of the thread. I thought I'd mention QCad - it's only 2D afaik but then I don't know what architects need. See qcad.org / www.ribbonsoft.com. (I've once met its main developer :-). christian. At 2:25 Uhr -0400 17.6.2001,

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear all, I'm running mostly testing with some unstable under linux 2.2.19 (hand rolled, of course) on an IBM ThinkPad i1476 (Type 2611). Since a few

Re: Apache Listings

2001-06-17 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: Does anyone know how to customize how apache lists files in directories without index.html? Perhaps a perl script to generate the pages, or something like that? Use the config directive DirectoryIndex By defaul it is: DirectoryIndex

Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-17 Thread Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, rich wrote: Howdy all, I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? I grab the Contents.i386.gz file (obviously use the correct arch for your system). Then do something like: zgrep 'libXt.so.6'

Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-17 Thread Graham Williams
I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? If you want to find where some file lives then you can ask at http://packages.debian.org/. You probably want to apt-get install xlibs. I have a script that searches from the

MouseMan ??

2001-06-17 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I got a Fathers' Day present of a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse. Has anyone have this mouse? Will it work under Linux or FreeBSD? -=[cwa]=- FreeBSD 4.2

Perl module for filenames

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Does anyone know of a perl module which converts regular filenames containing special chars (spaces, ampersands, etc) to apache-valid names (space - %20, etc)?? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia

login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
I have just installed debian potato again and now I seem to have a problem with logging in. When I reboot the system and then try to log in on a virtual terminal as root it refuses telling me login incorrect. When I log in as a user and then log out and then log back in as root it works fine.

PPP VJ decompression error

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
What does this mean? I see this occasionally in my syslog: PPP: VJ decompression error Everything seems to work OK still but just wondered if I need to fix something? Thanks. Mark.

Re: MouseMan ??

2001-06-17 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010617 21:51]: I got a Fathers' Day present of a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse. Has anyone have this mouse? Will it work under Linux or FreeBSD? I've got the non-cordless version (I assume the receiver connects to a PS/2 port, so from

Re: % with perl

2001-06-17 Thread Dave Carrigan
Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: %loginpsswd=(gerard,12345678,jaimie,78945612,andy,45632178); print $loginpsswd{gerard}; print $loginpsswd{$loginpasswd[2*$i]}; A hash variable is not the same symbol as an array variable. %loginpasswd is a hash variable @loginpasswd is an array

Some logging not working after reinstallation

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
I have just reinstalled debian potato on this system and now some things don't work as they did before. Now I copied a lot of my config files before reinstalling so things really should be the same. Here is a specific example: I run fetchmail after establishing my ppp connection - it all works

Problem w/ linking to /etc/X11/X

2001-06-17 Thread Jeremy
I just upgraded my testing box (which is running Potato) to include the Woody version of X (4.0.3). I got the same error that I've seen that most other people have gotten with it talking about X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X. I've seen suggestions of linking /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 to it, but the

GMC not working?

2001-06-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone has this problem. GMC won't start and with the warning in .xsession-error GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion failed: (default_font != NULL) aborting... Anyone knows what's happening? Nautilus seems to

How do I restore the cdrom driver without a cd in the drive?

2001-06-17 Thread Steve Taylor
Some of the CD-Writing-HOWTO procedures -- or my error -- removed the driver for my cd-writer. It's at /dev/hdb. With this in fstab: /dev/hdb/cdrom autodefaults,noauto,ro 0 0 All was fine until I tried to configure to burn cd's; the HOWTO suggested

apache authorization fails on potato

2001-06-17 Thread Jens Gecius
Hi folks! Recently, I set up a new webserver on potato (apache 1.3.9-13.2). Unfortunately, since I moved my webpage to that server I'm unable to use user authentication. Whatever I tried, I just get a auth failed. Password-file is available, readable for the server (same for directory), created

Re: How do I restore the cdrom driver without a cd in the drive?

2001-06-17 Thread John R Lenton
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:38:55PM -0500, Steve Taylor wrote: How can I restore the cdrom driver? you can mount the cdrom as /dev/scd0, or you can modprobe -r ide-scsi and try again. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: I was a cock-teaser at Rooster Rama. I used to enrage

Enlightenment font sizes ???

2001-06-17 Thread Michael D. Schleif
DEB's == Upgraded potato to woody, including move to X v4.0.3. Most themes use font sizes too small on my display at 1600x1200 -- I guess that my eyes and I are getting old . . . Yes, I saw that the default is now 100 dpi, at least with xfs. Anyway, how do I change these font sizes? I've

Re: How do I restore the cdrom driver without a cd in the drive?

2001-06-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:38:55PM -0500, Steve Taylor wrote: Some of the CD-Writing-HOWTO procedures -- or my error -- removed the driver for my cd-writer. It's at /dev/hdb. With this in fstab: /dev/hdb /cdrom autodefaults,noauto,ro 00 All was

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