is modules_2.1.23-1.deb corrupted?

1997-03-02 Thread Lawrence Chim
I found that the ismod, modprobe, rmmod are missing in the modules deb. Are they moved to a new package, or the deb is corrupted? dpkg --contents modules_2.1.23-1.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Feb 26 10:22 1997 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Feb 26 10:22 1997 etc/ -rw-r--r--

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-02 Thread Lawrence Chim
Igor Grubman wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Lawrence Chim wrote: Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: snip first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way is to mount the win95

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread Lawrence Chim
Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Unless its changed in the past few months, Linux can read and write to dos/windows 95 partitions without a problem. There are two ways. The first is with the mtools (do a man mtools to get more info), although this is usually only with a floppy. The second way

problem compiling kernel using make-kpkg

1997-01-15 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have problem to compile the Linux kernel 2.0.28 using make-kpkg, here is a part of the screen dump, it didn't happen when I compiled 2.0.26 MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?] FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (CONFIG_YM3812) [Y/n/?] I/O base for SB Check from manual of the card

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 05:08 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Don Prezioso wrote: I think the /dev entry you want is /dev/sonycd I have the same kind of drive, and I didn't need to create the device. Off the wall wild guess, I think the major number was 15. I can't be sure right now since my Debian machine is down with a dead

PPP always disconnected

1997-01-14 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am using US Robotics modem and I don't know why the modem is always disconnected after 10~20 mins. Anyone knows how to fix it. Pls reply by mail, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to find out who has fingered me?

1997-01-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-13 Thread Matt Lawrence
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After typing in cdu31a=0x340 at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any

Re: Scanner software recomendations ?

1997-01-12 Thread Lawrence Chim
Stan Brown wrote: I am looking for a software package to use to interface am HP scanner to my Debian system. Any recomendations? xvscan, but you have to pay for it. you can go to http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/Welcome.html to get more info. lawrence

should X 3.2-2 go to rex-fixed?

1997-01-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Why X 3.2-2 go to bo, rather than rex-fixed? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-08 Thread Lawrence Chim
or compile a Java program, the terminal just hangs until I press ^c. should be ln -s /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java-jdk /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
still in 1.0.2-3, hope it fixes in 1.0.2-4 lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script: ping -i 120 $5 /dev/null 21 ^ | what is it? not found in man page lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

SUN pkg - deb?

1997-01-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there any program that can covert SUN pkg packaging format to debian deb format? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is base deb?

1997-01-03 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir. Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir. Does it moved to a new place. The base package has been replaced by base-files and base-passwd. So

Re: where is base deb?

1997-01-03 Thread Lawrence Chim
If you are doing an upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2, don't force-remove the base package even it is marked obsolete. The package still own files that the system need. Does Debian offer a systematic way to get ride of obsolete packages? I have force removed the base and install the base-file and

Re: wine dor Debian ?

1997-01-02 Thread Lawrence Chim
Stan Brown wrote: Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a month or so ago I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my finger on it at the moment. yes, go to debian/project/experiment. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

where is base deb?

1997-01-02 Thread Lawrence Chim
Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir. Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir. Does it moved to a new place. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ppp install problem

1996-12-23 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have problem to upgrade PPP and it seems that it is a chown problem. Any helps? Preparing to replace ppp 2.2.0f-2 (using ppp_2.2.0f-19.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ppp ... Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/ppp ... Configuration file

Re: soft windows

1996-11-27 Thread Lawrence Chim
Fundamental wrote: Can debian handle dual processors and does debian (or any linux) have a windows/win95 emulator? dual processors - yes, you need to compile the kernel by yourself windows 3.1 - yes with wine (free) or WABI ($200) windows 95 - NO lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: icmpinfo

1996-11-26 Thread Lawrence Chim
unreachable (frag 22923:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [tos 0xc0] lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VFAT32 support?

1996-11-26 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: icmpinfo

1996-11-26 Thread Lawrence Chim
it? I checked the resolv.conf and there is already a line nameserver 127.0.0.1 lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: icmpinfo

1996-11-26 Thread Lawrence Chim
to get more info. about these kind of message, like faq? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VFAT32 support?

1996-11-26 Thread Lawrence Chim
that most dos utilities won't work with it either. So, is there any plan to support it. I heard that vfat32 is part of Win95. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc-5.4.13

1996-11-24 Thread Lawrence Chim
Bruce Perens wrote: From: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should be the last libc5 release and the next one should be libc6. Debian 1.3 (the release after this one) is based on LIBC 6. Hopefully netscape works with it :-) lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: lprng gone?

1996-11-23 Thread Lawrence Chim
Scott Barker wrote: I just got an alert about a linux security hole. The alert recommended using lprng from ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental But, lprng is missing. Will it return? What is it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: libc-5.4.13

1996-11-23 Thread Lawrence Chim
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Will Debian 1.2 have libc-5.4.13? It's on sunsite; says it's a bugfix. It should be the last libc5 release and the next one should be libc6. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

depend problem

1996-11-22 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have a dependency problem when installing motifnls. motifnls depends on xbaseR6 xbaseR6 does not appear to be available lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cron problem

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
getopt: illegal option -- o lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard disk recommendation

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. Which Seagate/Quantum drive was using and which IBM drive is using by SGI? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

where is 'gv'?

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
where is 'gv'? It used to be in rex but disppear recently. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cron problem

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
Rick Macdonald wrote: Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why cron always send mail to root with the following body. Any idea? Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin

PnP in kernel?

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just courius why the PnP is not part of the kernel and I have to patch the kernel everytime I upgrade the kernel. lawrence, -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.

Re: cron problem

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
Rick Macdonald wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why cron always send mail to root with the following body. Any idea? Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily getopt

xterm resource not working after upgrading to XFree 3.2

1996-11-21 Thread Lawrence Chim
' and it works. It seems that it changes the way how we set the X resources. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Invitation for testers of frozen distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is the 2GB partition install problem solved yet? Our various FTP sites carry three distributions these days: stable: Debian 1.1 frozen: Debian 1.2 pre-release unstable: Debian 1.3 development It's time for those of you who would like to help test Debian 1.2 to

icmp: udp port route unreachable

1996-11-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
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bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Lawrence Chim
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? lawrence, -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.

hard disk recommendation

1996-11-18 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? I am currently using Quantum GP and it is very noisy. I looked at the Web and found that IBM is cheaper then Quantum, while seagate is the most expensive one (more than $200 over Quantum). lawrence, -- This message was distributed

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

1996-11-15 Thread Lawrence Chim
Philippe Troin wrote: On 14 Nov 1996 00:36:38 CST Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libhistory.so.2.0.1 has inconsistent soname (libreadline.so.2.0), skipping That's a bug in libreadline2. I'll upload a fixed

Re: JDK

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is anybody can help describe me how i can install JDK in my box. Or if there is a package for it. As far as I know there is no Debian package. You can download the Linux port from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. The site points to installation

any tcp/ip meter?

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
is there any program to display the bps of each socket/port? I have tried the pppstats and it only displayed the total bps. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

urgent question : can't map /lib/libc

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
I don't know why after my linux always displays can't map /lib/libc after few hours run and I have to reboot my linux box. anyone know why? is it ld.so problem?? the only things I did was that I upgrade ld.so to 1.8.x from 1.7.x lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: how to download in the background?

1996-11-13 Thread Lawrence Chim
Thanks for all guys sent me mails. I found that the most easy command is GET http://xxx.xxx.xxx/www/zzz/abc.zip abc.zip lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pgp

1996-11-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Lawrence == Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lawrence Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I find a .deb of PGP? ftp://ftp.inf.tu

how to download in the background?

1996-11-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is it possible to download something, say http://xxx.xxx.xxx/abc.zip in the background? For example, I can run ncftp, get a file, press CTRL-Z, type bg, then I can logout and ncftp still downloading the file for me. Is there an equivalent command for downloading from http? lawrence

EIDE CD-ROM not detected

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
I have a SCSI and a EIDE CD-ROM. I don't know why linux cannnot detect (then mount) the EIDE CD-ROM unless I boot the DOS first then run loadlin. It seems that it needs the DOS cdrom driver to initialise the CDROM first. lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: pgp

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Where can I find a .deb of PGP? ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/os/linux/debian-non-US no, it have been move to ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ lawrence

where is e2fsprogs_1.06-1?

1996-11-10 Thread Lawrence Chim
when I install e2fsprogs_1.06-2, it displays the following error mesg. dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: e2fsprogs pre-depends on e2fsprogs (= 1.06-1) dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for e2fsprogs (wanted due to e2fsprogs) where to find the e2fsprogs_1.06-1? lawrence

rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just downloaded debmake_1.09.deb and installed it. However, I couldn't find rpminstall, where to get it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpminstall not found in debmake 1.09

1996-11-09 Thread Lawrence Chim
Warwick HARVEY wrote: Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just downloaded debmake_1.09.deb and installed it. However, I couldn't find rpminstall, where to get it? At some stage it had its name changed to alien. At some stage later, the documentation was updated to reflect

elm problem

1996-10-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: elm problem

1996-10-29 Thread Lawrence Chim
Erik van der Meulen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 That used to occur from

does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0

1996-10-25 Thread Lawrence Chim
Once I upgrade libc to 5.4.7-1, netscape cannot run and it said bus error. Then I downgrade to 5.2.18, netscape runs again. Is it a bug? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-04 Thread Lawrence Chim
when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. Is is a install script problem? or a file dependancy problem? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

does Linux support 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI?

1996-08-22 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone using it? Does the kernel support it yet?

Re: Where is the kernel-package package?

1996-08-15 Thread Lawrence Chim
what is kernel-package? Hello, I've been searching all over my system and ftp.debian.org and I haven't found the kernel-package package. I've got the Linux-2.0.12 source and I'd like to build a custom debian kernel image. Anybody know where to find it? Thanks. --

enlarge the ext2 partition without reinstall

1996-08-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is it possible to enlarge my current partition without reformatting it? My current partition is 1GB and I would like to extend it to 1.5GB.

FAX program for Linux

1996-06-19 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there any FAX package in the debian distribution?

kernel header files

1996-06-12 Thread Lawrence Chim
I don't know why there is a libc5-dev. If I install a new kernel, it comes with its only kernel headers. Is it necessary to install lib5-dev in order to compile programs. Also, if I install libc5-dev, can I still install a newer version of linux kernel whenever it is available. libc5-dev: The

Linux 2.0 in Debian 1.1

1996-06-11 Thread Lawrence Chim
As Linux 2.0 already released, I think it should be included in the debain 1.1 official release.

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
BTW: When will 1.1 be released? I am uploading yet another pass at the installation floppies today. We're also dealing with some FTP site problems. I'm going to make a new stable archive this week, and will let that propogate out to all of the FTP mirrors. We then will give it a few more

ghostscript 3.53

1996-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
I know that gs 3.53 is out for a while but I couldn't find it in the debian ftp site. Since only version 3 or later supports my printer (canon BJC 600), can anyone tell me where to find the deb file?

program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the *.tar?

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