Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
I ran into that one also. The file should be named menu.lst (lowercase L) not menu.1st (one). Depending on font, it can look practically the same. Bob On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:11:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: I am trying to install grub on my system so I can try out the GNU/HURD, but I

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:05:51PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 05:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 20:08, craigw wrote: On Sat May 11, 2002 at 11:57:19PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 23:37, Miroslav Mazurek wrote:

Re: woody install loops after asking for password

2002-05-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:04:30AM +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Now I only had to fix sources.list since the installer put stable instead of testing there, but I guess that will be right for the final release. I noticed the same thing, is this a known bug? Not really, since after

Re: X troubles

2002-05-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
ADSL doesn't necessarily require pppoe. It depends on how the ISP has configured their system. In my case, I was given a static IP and all I needed to do was configure networking to use this IP with my ISP's gateway and DNS. With dynamic IPs, I believe some use DHCP instead of pppoe. I don't

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know about potato, but in woody it is libncurses5-dev. On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: Which ncurses package for debian has the development headers and libs? I installed bin, base, and term, which one am I missing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: poweroff wont poweroff

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700 craigw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake 8.2, Debian (mostly)Potato with a hand rolled 2.4.18, Corel 1.2 with a hand rolled

Re: NAV detected a virus in a document you authored.

2002-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
Probably none. Some of the latest virii will send mail using a From: address out of the address book of the infected system. Presumably someone has this list in their (Windows) address book. On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:29:46AM +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: What was this about? Which email contained

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:45:55AM -0600, dave mallery wrote: After Corel Linux 1.0 had been out a while, I saw some copies at my local Costco warehouse for ~$25 (US). It included WP 8.1 with a hefty manual as well as a nice little Tux figure which I have sitting on top of my computer

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:30:35AM -0700, craigw wrote: On Tue Apr 23, 2002 at 09:27:28AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: David Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They would have known that BOTH Correll Office 2002 and CorrellDraw run on Linux here is the link: A bit more research

Re: config file for current kernel

2002-04-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
which I could use to know the configuration of the current running kernel ? Thanks Kapil If you have installed your kernel from a .deb (either downloaded or self-compiled with make-kpkg), a copy of the config file will be in /boot. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL

Re: Automated spam reporting?

2002-04-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:42:30AM -0700, ben wrote: On Sunday 21 April 2002 03:16 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Are there any debianified tools to look up proper abuse contacts and fire off spam reports automagically a-la spamcop? i don't know of any debian specific tool for the job,

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . . testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new testing distribution (or the old woody distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror. knuth:~# apt-get install testing Reading

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:29:18AM -0400, dscpubl wrote: Hello there - Pleae also cc: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], because my normal listserver address goes to what *was* my potato box. Now it is woody-not-yet-workin box, so please cc: me here. I just got woody Compact and went to

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The safest way to transition from potato to woody is not to install woody over potato, but to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The upgrade capability is what distinguishes Debian from the rest of the pack. On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:16:10PM +0200, DSC Extra wrote: This is me, having gotten my email

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
Do you have an ispell-dictionary package installed (iamerican, ibritish, etc., etc.)? The ispell package itself does not use /usr/lib/ispell. Bob On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:23:40PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834 wrote: After a testing dist-upgrade I lost ispell. The

Re: I don't want sshd

2002-02-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:12:10AM -0800, Matthew Thompson wrote: dpkg-reconfigure ssh When it asks Do you want to run the sshd server answer no instead of yes. Hmm... I have no recollection of ever being asked this question. Greetings, Is it possible that, when Eric

Re: Woody Killed PCMCIA

2001-10-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
At 12:29 AM 10/21/01 -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: If you upgraded to woody, it should have downloaded the new pcmcia-modules package, so you shouldn't need to copy anything. You can check in /lib/modules/version (where version is the output of uname -r). There should be a pcmcia directory in

fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
With the latest woody version of fetchmail (5.9.0-4), fetchmail hangs when trying to retrieve a message. This just started a few days ago after an upgrade. I tried manually retrieving a message and also tried getmail and was able to retrieve messages normally. Here is a script of what

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
the server, while the server is waiting for some additional information. * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the latest woody version of fetchmail (5.9.0-4), fetchmail hangs when trying to retrieve a message. This just started a few days ago after an upgrade. I tried manually

Re: apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:31PM +, andrej hocevar wrote: hello lately i've installed grub since some have mentioned it here. the only two things i had in my lilo.conf and that i want to retain were vga=7 and append=apm=on. let chain-load, i've found another way of defining the vga-mode

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
No. Nothing in the exchange identifies it, although it is (I believe) a Unix system of some sort. On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:45:31PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just now fetchmail worked quickly again. SMTP was also speedy (it was very slow also). I

Re: Which CDs to buy? (Did apt-get, nervous about kernel compile)

2001-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:41:18PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: I'm still learning Debian-Linux, was so pleased that apt-get worked. It took 12 hours (!), but afterward Mozilla was finally working, so now I have internet access. After the apt-get dist-upgrade I got a message saying that

Re: Kernel after dist-upgrade

2001-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:53:39PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: I have a kernel built with an epoch as the documentation suggests. Will my kernel be replaced when I dist-upgrade from potato 2.2.18pre21 to testing 2.4.something? No.

Re: OT - Finding old PCI Ethernet cards

2001-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:03:17PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote: Slightly off topic... I am still running an old 1.2.13 kernel system, and I have found it increasingly difficult to buy a system with enough ISA slots for my old hardware. So, I want to put a PCI ethernet card in instead of an

Re: Vmware

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:21:14PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: try first compiling the 2.2 kernel with SMP support. 2.2 needed that for vmware to work. 2.4 works fine without it. I have never had any problems with vmware and a non-SMP 2.2 kernel.

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know if the digest shows this, but individual messages have the following footer added: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Victor Desa wrote: Please, take me out from

Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

2001-09-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:18:12PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: %% Jorge Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: js I think that, if it is a bug, it should be submited against apt, js since dpkg didn't seem to get to execute. Looking through the APT bug reports, I think this bug has been fixed

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:39:11AM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: I've just done an apt-get update apt-get upgrade for the first time in a week or two (usig woody), and I've lost the fonts that appear on buttons in Netscape, and all the fonts in Mozilla. They're all replaced by strange little

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz extension means tar compressed with gzip. It is the same as .tar.gz. You can also decompress and untar in one

Re: Fonts lost in Netscape Mozilla after apt-get upgrade

2001-09-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:28:04PM +, Preben Randhol wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13/09/2001 (23:05) : See the following: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user20010109/msg00426.html

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got 50 MB of upgraded packages(!) This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop

Re: kernel 2.2.17 - 2.2.19

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:15:48AM +0200, Maciej Bobrowski wrote: Hi, I have debian potato with kernel 2.2.17. there is a kernel-image-2.2.19 at http://packages.debian.org/ and some mirrors. I have the deb file. Can I simply upgrade my kernel image to 2.2.19 by dpkg program ??. I mean:

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:27:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got 50 MB

Re: Update startup floppy for upgraded 2.2r3

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:48:27PM -0700, David S. Bach wrote: I upgraded my kernel to 2.2r3. The computer requires a floppy for booting and I need to know how to create or update the existing floppy (and to create a backup copy) so that when I boot I will be running the 2.2.32 kernel. Try

Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got 50 MB of upgraded packages(!) This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications which have pop-up or drop-down menus, that the text has been

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:22:41PM +0200, Julio Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, I've just upgraded to woody from a freshly installed potato system. I run tasksel and select some things, but some tasks do not exist. For example, it compilains about a missing task-common-devel, so I can't

Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:46:41AM +, gerard robin wrote: hello, I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. It is in the card list and the package xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when I install this package I can set up correctly xwindow except the form of the pointer of the mouse. In the

Re: xserver-S3

2001-09-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:53:45PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:46:41AM +, gerard robin wrote: hello, I have a video-card S3 Trio 3D/2X. It is in the card list and the package xserver-S3 exist in potato, but when I install this package I can set up

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb file? Thanks. apt-get install mpg123

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:52:33PM -0600, John Galt wrote: mpg123 is non-free. it's only free-as-in-free-beer, not free-as-in-free-speech. It uses the Fraunhofer codec. On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: Hello

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free so that is the only

Re: a woodied gnumeric

2001-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:17:43PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Any word on when woody will have an installable gnumeric? I've had gnumeric (0.64-1) running in woody for several months without problems. I don't recall having to install any non-woody packages to get it to install, but I have

Re: VMware and Debian

2001-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:49:17AM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote: Thanks for answers but they don't solve my problem (but they are very good hints for later operations). I downloaded the VMware-2.0.4-1142.tar.gz from their site. I read the INSTALL file where it is written: To install/upgrade

Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

2001-08-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:50:21PM +0100, Pedro Neves wrote: Hi: How come DVD playing in Linux is illegal? Is there any place where I can get more info about this? It is only illegal for those residing in the U.S. and other oppressive countries. There are two issues, the DMCA law, which is

Re: printtool?

2001-08-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:11:43AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: RedHat has a handy utility called printtool for configuring printers. Is there a Debian equivalent? If not, how do you folks configure printers? There is a package for printtool in testing/unstable. Personally, I've always used

PLIP and Windows

2001-08-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Is PLIP compatible with parallel port Direct Cable Connection in Windows (i.e., can it be used to network a computer running Linux to one running Windows?) Any caveats? I have several computers networked via 10base2 and would like to add a notebook to these, but I have only seen pcmcia cards for

Re: Help! I can't choose my network card in the kernel build options.

2001-08-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 04:22:57PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: I'm trying to rebuild my kernel, and my network card does not come up as an option. The network card is an rtl8139. I have the options for 3COM, AMD Lance, and WD cards, but the RealTek option is grayed out. I enabled TCP/IP

Re: Playing Quicktime movies on woody

2001-08-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:18:49PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello there, I'd like to play QuickTime movies on my woody box, so I've installed the following packages: gxanim 0.50-6 xanim 2.80.1-13 xanim-modules 2.80.1.12 However, when I try to play a movie

Re: where are include files?

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:35:55AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I know this may be a stupid question but where are the standard include files? I've done an apt-get of gcc. I *used* to be able to compile things. But I can't even compile 'hello world' now. It can't find stdio.h. I can't compile a

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session from the same machine

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: (snip) If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All fully up to date. (snip) Well, to

Re: dselect

2001-08-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:44:23AM -0600, Donald D. Daniel wrote: dselect worked perfectly. Then I attempted to use it, instead of dpkg, to install a *.deb file off my disk. I found my mistake, and sucessfully installed with dpkg -i. However, now dselect hangs on update, and dselect cannot

Re: iptables vs ipchains vs ipmasq

2001-08-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:18:14AM +0200, thomas anderson wrote: I want to setup my internal network to access the internet via my linux machine over a dial-up line. it seems that ipmasq does the trick...then ipchains comes along now iptables..the best bet so far is iptables...now, is there a

Re: error message with libdb.so.3

2001-08-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:35:58PM -0400, Joe Bouchard wrote: On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib. Later while doing

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: apt-get build-deps not working ?

2001-07-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:26:32AM +, Remco Rijnders wrote: Hi all, I am trying to build a package from source but get the following error: bash-2.04# apt-get build-dep cdrecord E: Invalid operation build-dep Anyone has any idea as to what might be wrong? What version of apt do you

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540 Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:46:38AM -0500, DvB wrote: HP's sourceforge page says something about recompiling ghostscript with the hpdj driver included, which sounds like a real hassle to

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a new installation from scratch (2.2 rev 3), but I didn't get any printer settings, nor I saw any script for that. I have a HP deskjet 540, does some one know how to configure it? What would be better, cups or

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:34:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:29:12PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in thinking that it is different from 2.2.x?

Re: ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames' (was: Re: No such file or directory - huh?!)

2001-07-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:15:11PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: Joost Kooij wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote: ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
She responded to one of my messages asking why I was sending her email! I suggested that she should read the unsubscribe information which is appended to all messages on this list. On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:18:06PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: you have a interesting way of putting it

Re: Soundblaster 16

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really sure what groups I was a

Re: Glibc

2001-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:31:20PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: When trying to dselect upgrade to woody, I keep running into errors that say that GLIBC_2.2 is required, I tried adding things that say they have glibc, but it doesn't seem to fix it. Any recommendations? glibc = libc6 The

Re: No bbox device for ghostscript?

2001-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:40:26PM -0600, C Want wrote: Hi, I couldn't find the answer to this in the archives so I thought I would ask on this list. The Debian ghostscript packages do not contain the bbox device for computing the bounding box of a postscript file. Does anybody know

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:21:21AM +0200, Stephen Rueger wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote: This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to unstable. My mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very, bad. How risky

Re: From IDE ATAPI cdrom to scsi simulation : trouble - help

2001-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:40:51PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been making a fresh installation of potato r.3, to get scsi support I made-kpkg a new kernel image with scsi support, rebooted with the new image, but now I am unable to read from cdrom. I know that the symbolic links

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:44:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: Why do certain peoples' posts to this list show up as attached text files in my mail client (OE)? I get a blank message with two attachments: .txt and .dat. The text

Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba)

2001-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:33:05PM -0400, D-Man wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | That's a nice idea . . . now where do I find such a thing? | | You can probably find one in |

Re: zip utility (was Re: CUPS and LJ (was Re: LaserJet Plus and Samba))

2001-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:54:43PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: Huh? You can use the program zip, available for Linux. You don't need to use a Win machine. Be careful when you extract it, though. The nearly convention that tar.gz archives use

Re: su doesn't work; root cannot log in! Arrgggg

2001-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: problem with rpm2html

2001-06-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: I want to know what's inside some rpm packages. I found rpm2html can generate html pages out of the contents of an rpm package. But everytime I say rpm2html a-package.rpm it says config file a-package.rpm seems invalid I tried

Re: wordperfect on linux

2001-06-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:23:55PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Agner-Nichols wrote: I am trying to install WordPerfect on Linux -- it is set up to use a 2.0.8 kernel, but I am running Potato 2.2.12, and I get a 'cannot open libXt.so.6' message

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:34PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one machine that's cutting edge, i do

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it can be installed anywhere.

Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:19:49PM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: Sean Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale I haven't figured out if kernel-package includes the patches Herbert puts into the kernel-source .debs. I tried to patch in 2.4.5-ac17

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:17:14PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700): True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each destination architecture, optimizing appropriately. so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird

Re: testing?

2001-06-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:41:00PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading to testing this weekend. Is it stable enough for day-to-day use on a non-server? I've been using it for several months with few problems. Upgrading from potato is occasionally a problem. See the list

Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -0700, G.LeeJohnson wrote: May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself a

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
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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: 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

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

2001-06-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:31:47PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:45:31PM -0400, Daniel Hoffman wrote: . . . What's your favorite lightweight (but still fully functional!) window manager? FVWM? Enlightenment? Windowmaker? As long as everyone else is jumping in, icewm

Re: ghostscript on Debian 2.2 - lprsetup.sh no included?

2001-06-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
apt-get install {magicfilter|apsfilter} On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to setup a non-postscript capable printer in /etc/printcap. According to /usr/shared/doc/gs/Unix-lpr.htm there should be a script lprsetup.sh A shell script which sets

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:11:04AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Just a few random checks that come to mind: * what is the chip controlling the serial port to the ISDN modem? Is it an 8250 or a 16650? I seem to remember that the 8250 were not very good but I don't remember when

Re: agpgart module

2001-06-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:44:41PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote: Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still us driver 0.9.7, I don't know if there were changes for 1.0 This is my /proc/nv/card0: - Driver Info - NVRM Version: 1.0-769 -- Card Info -- Model:

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:20:06PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: Nick wrote: [snip] I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is 2.0.38-2.0.38-3. Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your kernel version *can't* be right - I'm running Debian

Re: Need help with NVIDIA driver installation

2001-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
I recommend that you download the following: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-glx-src/nvidia-glx-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/n/nvidia-kernel-src/nvidia-kernel-src_0.9.769-1_i386.deb Install these and follow the (rather terse)

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 03:51:57AM +0100, Nick wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:15:02 -0700, Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have the2.2.r3 version of Debian. The full kernel description is 2.0.38-2.0.38-3. Can't comment on any of your other issues at the moment, but your

Re: upgrade of woody--downgrade of apache

2001-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:22:22AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: I originally was running Debian stable. Runing a php4 website. Because of another project, I had to upgrade to woody. The problem is, The apache vesion in woody, does not work with php4. So I want to downgrade my version of

Re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
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Re: Newbie floppy disk access question

2001-05-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to load a tar file driver from floppy disk. There is a file floppy in my root directory. This is empty. How do I find the file on my floppy disk? You need to mount the floppy. /floppy is an empty directory (not a file)

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm running WP 8.1, which came bundled with Corel Linux 1.0 (not free, but $25 on a closeout at Costco, with a Tux toy and a $10 rebate--I bought it just for WP and the manual). This version came as a .deb and works very nicely. I don't see that problem. Bob On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM

Re: Which Linux NVIDIA driver to download?

2001-05-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am trying to install a Linux driver for my NVIDIA GTS2 Geforce video card. Their site lists RPM, RPMS, and tar files for non-RPM systems. I should use the tar file, right? Either that or get the Debian nvidia-glx-src and

Re: Is Redhat that bad - a question.

2001-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:52:41PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: Printing in Debian sucks, fix it. ;-( Not if it ain't broke! I've never had any problems in 4 years of Debian use, with three different printers. lprng + magicfilter + gs (if you aren't using a postscript printer).

posts to d-u from german news site

2001-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
It looks like this list is getting bombarded with german-language postings to a USENET list whose configuration ist upgefucked: Resent-Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:04:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: einstein.holzland.thur.de: news set sender to news

Re: Mozilla M18-3 SSL support? (was Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites)

2001-05-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:02:43AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: unofficial, but real debian packages made by a real debian developer. they are the same packages as potato's M18, just with 0.9. they are compiled for unstable-i386 so if you use potato (or arch != i386) you must apt-get

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