Re: help me with tar

So i use tar to compress my files before putting them on a storage band. You do not need to create a file before. Use tar without the option 'f'.

Re: Xfree is not working

What XFree level package did you install ? How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? Cheers. Bob - Original Message - From: Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 1:13 Subject: Xfree is not working Hi, I have updated woody

Re: Adding Drives

Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data I was then able to mount hdc1. This has me confused? why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? Is there a place I can get more info on mount points, etc etc? mike Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote:

Re: Java Virtual Machine

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:13, Hall Stevenson wrote: snip Which will give you a Java Runtime Environment. Note that this is non-free software. Where can one get a truly 'free' version of Java ?? This would certainly appeal to Debian folks... I will look for the kaffe package... Andrea

lpc: conflicting informnation.

Hi, I'm getting conflicting info in trying to get my printer going again. The following was done as root ... # lpc start all lp: printing enabled daemon started # lpc status all lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled

Re: I Think I Have What I Need! Going For It! STOP Make Menuconfig ERROR

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, eDoc wrote: # cd linux Uh Oh! (I think you meant cd pcmcia because I can see something called linux in /usr/src/ trying to cd there gets only an error.) no, i meant linux. in the linux tar, there is a pcmcia directory. that's what i have to remove in order to get a

Help with ssh, please

I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password. How can I elimnate this prompt? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfree is not working

What XFree level package did you install ? ??? Don't know what u mean. How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? Cheers. Bob Î have attached the XFree log and m XF86Config-4. I use Xfree 4.1.0.1 cheers, Raffaele XFree86.0.log Description: Binary data XF86Config-4 Description: Binary

Re: Help with ssh, please

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password. How can I elimnate this prompt? From

Firewall on PC

Hi all, --- OpenBSD2.9 (or any other version) versus "iptables" GNU/Linux 2.4.x --- If GNU/Linux is chosen, is Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' (woody)the right distribution?. No 'potato' due to it uses 2.2.x kernels. I think that the subjects which must be taken into account to evaluate

Debian Kernel 2.4

Hi everybody, i'm currently using potato 2.2r3 the debian stable version. The new features in the new kernel like iptables are interesting and i like to try it. I have read the document at the url http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 It contains the instructions to upgrade potato to the

Re: xine fullscreen?

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 11:58, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hello List I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only shows up in window mode (F during playback has no effect, and -pf on the command line

LILO : 2 linuses on 2 different partitions

Hi, I would like to be able to boot from lilo 2 different linuxes (debian and Connectiva) each of which is installed in a different partition and uses a 2.4.x kernel. For the moment with the following configuration I have been sort of unsuccesful (It searches the modules in the wrong place)

Re: Modem configuration + Dial up - Procedure

Shaul Karl writes: You might install the pppconfig deb and run it. He already has pppconfig. It's in the base system. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

instalacion de potato

buena s a todos .me gustaria ke me echaseis una mano ,voy directo al grano . tengo un thinkpad 750c ,intento de instalar la potato via cdrom puerto paralelo pero por lo visto esto solo me funciona cuando instalo la suse 6.2. Aparte el floppy del portatil es de 2.88 y me da probemas a la lectura

Re: Adding Drives

Sorry but I am confused. If you add a physycal hard disk, the kernel upon recognizing it will assign a DRIVE id such as /dev/hda for the first IDE drive, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc for the third IDE and so on. Now, on you /dev/hdc drive you will need some partitions. Each primary partition is called

Bad memory?

Hey, I was trying to compile gaim last night, but gcc keeps dying of signal 11, here's the output: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make[2]: *** [autorecon.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gaim-0.46/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]:

Re: Firewall on PC

Hi, plz. wrap lines at 72 chars. Thx. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Davi Leal wrote: Hi all, --- OpenBSD 2.9 (or any other version) versus iptables GNU/Linux 2.4.x --- If GNU/Linux is chosen, is Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' (woody) the right distribution?. No 'potato' due to it uses 2.2.x

Possible X bug?

Hi all, I think I may have possibly stumbled accross an X bug, but I was interested to see if anyone else had encountered it before bugging the harried souls of the X Strikeforce. A quick look at the billions of bugs filed against xserver-xfree86 hasn't turned up anything relevant... I have a

Re: xine fullscreen?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:58:26AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hello List I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only shows up in window mode (F during playback has no effect,

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

Hi Blars, as a matter of fact it was dselect under woody to automatically select and install the package modutils-2.4.10-3 when I asked for kernel-2.4.10. So, do you mean that there's something wrong under debian woody? Vittorio Blars Blarson [debian-user] 24/10/01 02:01 -0700: In article

Re: Firewall on PC

Is the functionality level of the 2.4.x filter the same/greater/lower than the OpenBSD filter?. From my point of view functionality is very close. -- Alexey

Re: xine fullscreen?

Quoth Joerg Johannes, I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only shows up in window mode (F during playback has no effect, and -pf on the command line neither...) I'm using the xine-ui deb

gnucash woody

This is not another question about how to install gnucash 1.6.x on woody. There have been a few recent threads which answer this question. My question is: when woody is released as stable, is there any chance that it will include a modern gnucash? Woody currently has gnucash 1.3.4 which is an

Re: Bad memory?

I was trying to compile gaim last night, but gcc keeps dying of signal 11, here's the output: snip I've heard that signal 11 is only caused by bad ram, so I installed memtest86 on my computer, and after about an hour, my RAM passed all the tests. Could it still be bad (It's worked fine

Re: lpc: conflicting information

Hmmm ... since I posted the message below I've installed cupsys [although the command 'cupsys' as root did not seem to work; what am I missing here ?] and running 'lpc status all' gives me the response waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) 'man lp' showed me the 'lp int ioctl' command to

Re: PCMCIA -- Unstable -- Kernel 2.4.12

Hi 1. Why u afraid to reboot ya laptop? You shoud leave old kernel *always* if somthing goes wrong u can always boot in old configuration, at the moment I got 3-4 diff kernels on my system. 2. if u try install 3Com 3c589 is supported in kernel, u can install it like a module, (my one 2.4.12-ac5)

Re: Debian Kernel 2.4

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-10-24 14:00): Hi everybody, i'm currently using potato 2.2r3 the debian stable version. The new features in the new kernel like iptables are interesting and i like to try it. I have read the document at the url

2.4.6 NFS problem

i'm running a RedHat 6.1 box with kernel 2.2.17 with the following: # rpc.mountd --version Universal NFS Server 2.2beta37 # rpc.nfsd --version Universal NFS Server 2.2beta37 # cat /etc/exports /usr/office/clients 192.168.2.2/255.255.255.0(rw) 192.168.2.6/255.255.255.0(rw) /usr/office/closed

Woody with Kernel 2.4.13 doesnt' see more than 8gig

Any ideas why Potato saw the whole 20 gig IDE drive and Woody with kernel 2.4.13 only sees 8?

Re: 2.4.6 NFS problem

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the 2.2.18 kernel, mount /swlf works perfectly. I recently upgraded the kernal to 2.4.6, and now all of my mounts time out. The following appears in my /var/log/messages: Oct 24 09:10:17 calypso kernel: portmap:

Re: Java Virtual Machine

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:21:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:51:31AM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. You put a line like this in

Re: 2.4.6 NFS problem

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: You're not running 'portmap' on the client or /etc/hosts.allow prevents access to it. Fix that. oh man . . . thanks. -- ) ,_),_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_,

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

I agree with Scott. With the help of a good admin any body can use Linux right _now_. Remember that for a user like you said the computer is a tool so as long as the admin makes sure that the applications the users need are there it's only a matter of time before the user feels at home with the

Re: instalacion de potato

mimebla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: buena s a todos .me gustaria ke me echaseis una mano ,voy directo al grano . tengo un thinkpad 750c ,intento de instalar la potato via cdrom puerto paralelo pero por lo visto esto solo me funciona cuando instalo la suse 6.2. Si vas a instalar

Help with ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

Hello, I have problems with installing the ATI Rage Fury Pro 123 Video Card under potato. Can anybody tell me which server under XF86 and which chip should I select ? Or e-mail me some configuration files ? Please Help ! Thank you, Petru

Re: Xfree is not working

Raffaele Sandrini wrote: I have updated woody yesterday. As i could see Xfree was updated to version 4.1 (i think). After that its not starting. But doesn't output any error message it starts and the shuts down. It worked perfectly before the update. Any hints? Try editing

Re: lpc: conflicting informnation.

hi On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:30:42PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm getting conflicting info in trying to get my printer going again. The following was done as root ... # lpc start all lp: printing enabled daemon started # lpc status all

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

hi there I am mantainer of the gnulpr packages this means in particular 'printtool' and 'lpr-ppd' I am not currently using 'lprng' or 'cups' the upstream developers told me that printtool should generate an /etc/printcap that works with 'lprng' so I would like it most, if this was really

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. Brian, Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out... Cheers, Doug

Re: Adding Drives

I think I see the confusion. Your filesystem is not hda. Your filesystem *includes* hda. Now it includes hdc too. This is different than under Windows, where every drive has its root directory and all the subfolders appear under it, and each drive's filesystem is independent from the others.

Re: lpc: conflicting information

hmm I guess you are not into C programming, right? by issuing 'man lp' you have read a manual page about C programming (did you notice the LP(4) on top? it means 'this is quite advanced') that explains how a C program may access some specific parameters of a /dev/lp parallel device using

Re: instalacion de potato

buena s a todos .me gustaria ke me echaseis una mano ,voy directo al grano . tengo un thinkpad 750c ,intento de instalar la potato via cdrom puerto paralelo pero por lo visto esto solo me funciona cuando instalo la suse 6.2. Si vas a instalar Suse, es mejor que pidas

Re: lpr doesn't work under woody

please send me the output of this command $ dpkg -l printtool lpr lprng printfilters-ppd a. On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:06:25PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: Yep, I'm having the same problem. I'm running an EPSON Stylus Photo 700 under woody using printtool (which I thought had conflicted with

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess is that 60-90% of the packages in unstable do not require the latest lib versions to

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. ROTFLMAO!! TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using its apt access method for a while, but sometimes

RE: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. Brian, Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out... especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to. (Myself included.) --jeh

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that (snip) Absolutely - I've been far from convinced by a lot of the requirements. I normally like to stick with

Formatting //dev/fd0 for bootdisk

I recently installed kernel 2.4.8 and the compilation went fine. To test it before actually changing from my previous version I did a dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192 using a Imation floppy 2.0MB, High density formatted with superformat /dev/fd0 hd On using this diskette to boot up, there is a

Re: lpc: conflicting information

Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'man lp' showed me the 'lp int ioctl' command to reset the printer but when I tried it I received the response lp: command not found. Do you have cupsys-client installed? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! The cost of

Re: Java Virtual Machine

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 16:45, the Edward Blevins wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:21:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:51:31AM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages

diamond viper 770

Hi there what's all this stuff about xfree86 and xf86setup?? What are these? I think it's some kind of program that takes care of the video cards in linux. Does debian contain this program ass well? I heard that suse uses something else named SuSE X-Server or something. In the drivers list

Re: LILO : 2 linuses on 2 different partitions

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:54:53AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: I would like to be able to boot from lilo 2 different linuxes (debian and Connectiva) each of which is installed in a different partition and uses a 2.4.x kernel. For the moment with the following configuration I have been sort of

Mirror for debian-cd

Hello, I want to create and burn a CD containing a custom version of woody : no XWindow, no fancy apps, just the minimum to have a firewall running. I don't want to create a separate distro, just a stripped down version of woody that fits on one CD with a few packages that I would add myself

Keyboard loss

Hmmm - strangely, although my laptop works fine normally, if I start gpm or xdm then the keyboard becomes inoperative. If I log in remotely and kill them, it works again. Any clues as to what's going wrong? -- Mark

Re: xine fullscreen?

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 15:33, Damon Muller wrote: Quoth Joerg Johannes, I'm trying to get xine to work in fullscreen mode, but I can't get it. I have a GeForce card with nvidia drivers, XV is working, but xine only shows up in window mode (F during playback has no effect, and -pf on the

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Aurelio Turco wrote: No reinstalls are ever needed with debian. This is not a Microsoft OS. Go, tell 'em, brother! So, apt-get dist-upgrade automatically purges old and no longer needed files and directory structures? Well, apt-get --purge dist-upgrade will remove old and no longer

Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

Please allow us to introduce ourselves, Igoework.com is represented by a group that includes: - Talented engineers(Mechanical and Electrical) - Software solutions(CAD, FEA) - Manufacturing vendors (Castings, Sheet Metal, Plastics, SLA, etc) - Technical placement (Direct placement of

Apache segfaults upon receiving first hit

I'm running woody, php4.0.5-2 and Apache 1.3.19-1. I made one small change to my php.ini file (adjusting the include_path variable) and now every time I start apache, it segfaults when it receives the first hit. This is the error I get in my error.log [Wed Oct 24 09:50:21 2001] [notice]

Re: Problems configuring /etc/network/interfaces

Charles Bray wrote: Strangely (to me), if I comment out the auto lo line in /etc/network/interfaces and reboot, I can then successfully ping the loopback address, indicating that the interface has been automatically activated. (So auto lo is evidently shutting it down. I wish I could find

Re: lpr (-#num parameter)

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | Using sid. | | How can I print multiple copies using lpr? I tried this: ... | Does Debian lpr come with this option disabled? Which 'lpr' are you using? There are several variants. I use CUPS, and the SysV commands, 'lp

Información sobre notebook compac 1245

Estoy buscando flopy disk del notebook compac presario 1245 si es que tiene la pieza facilitarme una proforma a mi correo, soy de Lima-perú y quisiera saber como puedo cerrar el trato incluyendo los gastos de envio. esperando que pueda responder pronto el correo un amigo de siempre Manuel.

Re: lpr (-#num parameter)

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: ... | -#num The quantity num is the number of copies desired of each file | named. For example, Duh! I just realized what is wrong with this : the shell uses '#' to mean the beginning of a comment. Everything

Kernel 2.4.13 has no /dev files or info with lspci

lspci only gives the board numbers. no descriptions show up /dev does not have my hdaxx partitions thus i cannot mount them any help would be appreciated. Thanks

can't get banner page to print

Hi, I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng. I have an hp 940c deskjet printer attached to /dev/lp0 I seem to have no troubles printing simple text files such as /etc/hosts or whatever. I would use this command to print: lp /etc/hosts but I

Re: Help with ssh, please

BURLET Frederic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Doug Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out... 1) dselect isn't on its way out 2) unlike apt-get, it's allows for interactive package selection during upgrades 3) it fails more

100hz in Xfree86-4.1?

Hi, I recently bought a monitor capable of doing 1280x960x100hz, but X uses 85hz. Now i was wondering how i can tell X to use 100hz instead. Victor

How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b) reinstall exactly those package after erasing all of my HD For

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. ROTFLMAO!! TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:43:50AM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess is that 60-90% of

Which Xfree version I have?

Hello Which linux command should I issue to know what XFree version I am running? Thank you. Marcel

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Kai Sterker wrote: I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b) reinstall exactly

Re: Gnucash

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:02:15PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: And the Debian system is so inflexible that nobody can take care of his packages while he's away? No, but new upstream versions aren't usually considered a good enough reason to do that without consulting him first. The release of

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Kai Sterker wrote: Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b)

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

Subject: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed? dpkg --get-selections (I think) Hall

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kai Sterker wrote: (snip) Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually selecting every single package. (snip) dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections are

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

On 24-Oct-2001 Kai Sterker wrote: Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b) reinstall exactly those

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

--- Kai Sterker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can dpkg -l packages.`date +%Y%m%d` Note that is a lowercase L

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Brian Nelson wrote: Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of something you just deselected. That's a tricky task for the system to handle because

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: (snip) dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt. Damn, that's annoying. ): I suppose that eventually I'll have to switch back to apt, then. Hopefully it'll work better for me by then. Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mind you, one

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

On approximately Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:28:09AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major

the {home} and {end} keys in woody via ssh

Greetings, I use PuTTY to ssh into my boxen. I recently upgraded a couple of them to woody, and the {home} and {end} keys don't seem to work properly anymore, instead of going to the beginning or end of the line, they produce a tilde and a beep. They function properly at the console,

Windows software gaaaahhhhh!

I need to be able to run software that hasn't been ported to linux on my system. Presently I have a duel boot machine, but I would rather run the software while in the debian linux boot. I realize that this requires me to download and install wine on the system, but what else do I need to do to

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel (2)

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:59:10PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Irvine Russell wrote: Thanks to nate and jerome. I followed your suggestions and have another problem. When I: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 I get the following (I haven't include the whole

How to apt-move?

Hello, I am a very new apt-mover who hopes someone can help me apt-move. I have 2.2r3 on which i have apt-get installed a package from testing (it works). The package, and all its dependencies are now in the apt archive on my computer. I wish to move this set of packages into a correct Debian

Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

(This message addressed to debian-user mailing list) Please allow us to introduce ourselves, Igoework.com is represented by a group that includes: [SNIP] (a commercial) Best Regards, Manuel Paez, President Igoework.com Inc. http://www.igoework.com Cell: 847-477-1367 Fax: 847-745-0348

Re: Java Virtual Machine

Patrick Lane wrote: What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. --Patrick The newer versions of Mozilla (0.9.x) have an automatic plugin d/l feature. If you go to a site that requires the Java

Re: LILO : 2 linuses on 2 different partitions

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:11, Jan Schlesner wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:54:53AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: I would like to be able to boot from lilo 2 different linuxes (debian and Connectiva) each of which is installed in a different partition and uses a 2.4.x kernel. For the

[ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly the mode to directories only? PHP Nuke requires me to change all files to 666 (chmod -R 666 *) and to 777 all direcotories in order to use the file manager... Can this be done in a sinle operation? Thanks!

Re: Which Xfree version I have?

Which linux command should I issue to know what XFree version I am running? Thank you. As root: X -version The first line of output tells the version number. Cheers :o) Johnny :o)

exporting /usr NFS for small network

I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this seems to work fine. My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are the configuration issues. How must disks be partitioned? Are all the X/card and

Re: How to apt-move?

Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: So I try to apt-move, but I fail, and I do not understand why. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and what I need to do to get on with it? This is what happens when I run apt-move: mycomp:~# apt-move getlocal move packages Updating from local

Re: How do you apply an 'ac' patch?

Thomas Weinbrenner([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:55:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Morbo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Sorry, I know this is basic stuff, but what is the correct way to apply an Alan Cox patch? (Or probably any

Re: LILO : 2 linuses on 2 different partitions

Hi, I would like to be able to boot from lilo 2 different linuxes (debian and Connectiva) each of which is installed in a different partition and uses a 2.4.x kernel. For the moment with the following configuration I have been sort of unsuccesful (It searches the modules in the wrong

Re: the {home} and {end} keys in woody via ssh

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings, I use PuTTY to ssh into my boxen. I recently upgraded a couple of them to woody, and the {home} and {end} keys don't seem to work properly anymore, instead of going to the beginning or end of the line, they produce a tilde

Re: Help with ATI Rage Fury Pro 128

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:15:49PM +0200 or thereabouts, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Hello, I have problems with installing the ATI Rage Fury Pro 123 Video Card under potato. Can anybody tell me which server under XF86 and which chip should I select ? Or e-mail me some configuration files ?

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson wrote: Mark Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of something you just deselected.

XFree86 version?

I've just intallet Debian Potata 2.2r3 I need to know which XFree version I have. Does anybody know? Thanks Marcel

Re: can't get banner page to print

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:28, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng. I have an hp 940c deskjet printer attached to /dev/lp0 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp940c|hp940c:\

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