On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote:
[ snip ]
: Why not just install the netscape packages? They're in potato, and
: slink too I belive. The Export Version of Netscape contains only
: 40-bit encryption, instead of 128-bit, that's the only difference.
... and Fortify patches most
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
[ snip ]
: What I did was to select the kernel options good ol' Bruce listed in
: the readme on the rescue disk statically (initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos,
: fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs). Then I added major categories of
: features statically
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
: - Hi all,
: - I have got netscape 4.5 libc5 version. In the ftp directory, I
: - also saw a glibc version.
: -
: - Which one is supposed to be better?? What is the difference
: - between libc glibc??
:
: I loaded gliobc version;
:
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
: Hello all.
: I have these messages being repeated over and over and over in my syslog,
: every
: 10 minutes.
: What do they mean?
:
: Dec 15 06:42:26 snafu syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart.
: Dec 15 06:51:27 snafu inetd[8525]: auth/tcp: bind: Address
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote:
:
: Just go for an Adaptec. You will have problems that you never dreamt
: of.
: The topic was about ethernet cards!
http://www.adaptec.com/products/index.html#fastethernet
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Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Andreas Rapp wrote:
: We are using a Debian system at our company
: as eMail and Internet Gateway. To make it
: more reliable I would like to add RAID.
:
: Has anyone experience with RAID controllers
: or software solutions ?
The DPT RAID controllers are excellent
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Two things:
:
: 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root
: and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies.
: /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack
:
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
: Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
:
: What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it
: says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ...
:
: Could be that nethack is not allowd to write
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
:
:
: Sorry for the off topic question
:
: Pretty much what the topic is.. how can you redirect a /~user and all the
: subdirs to a new URL? It has to be possible but i have not found anything
: other then simple file redirects. Again
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
: For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp
: Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp
: connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so
: joe cannot go bellow ~joe ?
It's possible, but it's a
What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it
says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ...
brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll `which nethack`
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root games1137 Oct 29 1997
/usr/games/nethack*
brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll
total 3
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Vazquez Jr, E A wrote:
: Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response
: to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs.
:
: - Ed
:
: I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as
: booting linux.. but
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote:
:
: dpkg... anyone know what's up?
:
: Yeah ... frozen isn't really frozen, we seem to have two unstable releases
: at the same time (slink and potato). Wonder when we will get the
: announcement that
On 1 Dec 1998, rathon wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I bought a Netgear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter card - FX310tx by Bay Networks.
:
: Then I looked thru the EthernetHOW-TO and this card is not listed anywhere.
tulip.o
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MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Jameson Burt wrote:
: I see no upgrade notes for slink.
: For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in
:.../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade
: Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the
: upgrade distribution. For example, I might install
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
: Reply-To:
: Hi
:
: A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel
: distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying loading
: Linux .. I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite.
Never did
: : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel.
:
: Why not?
:
: Because I was a Slackware
Anybody know what happened to orbs.dorkslayers.com? I'd email them, but
there are no address records for the domain - just ns and glue records.
bohr:~ $ dig @ns1.orbs.org -t any dorkslayers.com
; DiG 8.1 @ns1.orbs.org -t dorkslayers.com
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 10:22:24AM +0100, Egon Schmid wrote:
: Oh sorry, I have never tried to build a kernel the Debian way. So I have
: to symlink the header files according the README. Could it be that there
: is something wrong?
:
: We'll
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, BOHICA wrote:
: If the author of the utility loadlin.exe (Hans Lerman) has stated on his web
: page (http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen) that all versions greater than
: 2.1.22 should be installed with the updated version of loadlin (v1.6a) due
: to memory detection
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
[ snip ]
: Instead you can get real, official addresses from the local ISP, or
: even use the reserved numbers for internal, disconnected networks (do
: not remember them, should be at any HowTo), so that any IPmasq will
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote:
: On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
:
: On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian
: package? If so, which package? Thank you,
: Pedro I. Sanchez
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote:
: Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as
: you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a
: user-agent.
:
: Bad assumption as Exim
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ryan King wrote:
: I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having
: trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until
: time to install the drivers, and then all I get /dev/fd0: Device not
: configured).
At the boot: prompt
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
: I have a question about ifconfig.
: I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local
: network.
: I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76
: I type:
: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76
:
: then I check it with ifconfig and
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote:
: i was wondering whether there's debian package for tcpwrapper ... can someone
: please tell me where do i find it ?
: sib
wiz:~ $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/tcpd
netbase: /usr/sbin/tcpd
It's already part of netbase, which is priority Standard so it's
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Wilson's Lan Connection wrote:
: Hi
: I can't find my own domain name on my dns server using nslookup and
: traceroute.
:
: Here is what happens
: ++
: douala1.com
: server: ns1.douala1.com
: Address : 207.8.232.130
:
: ns1.douala1.com can't find
On 18 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I
: have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives,
: but Linux knows). If you're only running Linux you're ok
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
: A friend of mine have a problem installing Debian 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad
: 380xd:
: every time I boot from CD, lilo loads 'root.bin' and 'linux' and then
: reboot my machine.
:
: Some suggestions?
Yes. You need a disk with a zImage kernel
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, ivan wrote:
: Hello,
:
: The reason I ask is because Linux reports:
: Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63
linux is almost always right. But to check, just head over to the
Quantum web site and look up the part number.
: DOS BIOS on the other
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
: Hi,
:
: My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
: message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
: but when I run free under Debian it comes up with:
:
: # free
: total
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote:
: I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get:
:
: AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s)
: AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s)
:
: Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full
: transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
[ snip ]
: connect/reconnect and ncr53c8xx driver). If that is not an option, does
: anyone have any experience with having AHA152x driver and the zipzoom adaptor
: (if those two are going to work together at all?), and the impact on that
: driver
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip ]
: The permissions are whacked! And the file README is a symlink to something,
: yet it appears to be an executable. All symlinks had this feature, making
: upgrading a potential disaster.
:
: The source CD had the same problem, but the
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote:
: After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a
: verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain
: because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap
: partition, it immediately chokes, saying
[ snip ]
: Hmm, there isn't even a lib or bin directory! I'm using ProFTP (just
: noticed that the subject makes it look like I'm running anonftp). I can
: copy these over from an old install, but what's a better way to fix this?
ProFTP doesn't need a lib or bin directory, which is truly
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeff Miller wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but...
:
: When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do
I have to do to see the whole name?
mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt (use the appropriate device
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, joseph evan porter wrote:
:
: I keep on seeing the following error message appear over and over in
: /var/log/syslog:
:
: Nov 10 13:21:46 chinook kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=112 w=0)
:
: Does anyone have any idea what this might be about?
:
: I'm
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x?
No.
: I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything.
It's not fully backwards compatible, it's non-free as you can get, and
there's controversy as to whether it's legal at all
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured
: out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the
: /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things.
: I now have 2 questions,
I think you
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
[ snip ]
: Of course, 970Kb sounds just a tad large for a normal kernel. You might
: be able to cut it down considerably (and free up some of that memory for
: your applications) by compiling more of the features as modules, and
: letting kerneld
On 6 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: A == AJT60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: A On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$ memo. See slashdot for
: the pointer.
:
: A Also, it's unlikely that this was deliberatly leaked
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:
[ snip ]
: You have three choices:
:
: 1. Live with it
: 2. Compile a non-SMB kernel
: 3. move to a 2.1.x kernel.
FWIW, we have a server that gets the crap kicked out of it
(debian.midco.net) which is running 2.1.125 - it's an IBM Server 325
with
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Person, Rod wrote:
: Please again,
:
: What happened to the xadmin package? I can't find it anywhere.
: I even did a search on debian.org and nothing.
The maintainer who also happens to be the author removed it.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:
:
: Hi
:
: How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of
: my network with just a single posting.
RTFM the qpopper man page and keep a weather eye for Bulletins.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mrpeabody wrote:
: I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it
: dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to
: work now after I installed the scsi drive. The network card says its
: IRQ is blocked or used by another
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote:
:
:
: Greg Vence wrote:
:
: Hello,
:
: It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does?
: I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm
: missing?
:
: No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote:
[ snip ]
: I'd like to find a nice essential things to download after doing a bare
: floppy install FAQ or some such.
There is a reason the install throws you into dselect after the initial
reboot :) dselect has a minimum set of packages ready for
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
: installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail. I had a
: problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my
: own. Now I want to instal procmail
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
: At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote:
: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
:
: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is
: apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of
:
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
: Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me
: into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that
: is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the
: maintainer of the
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
: Hay all:
:
: I think md is for the ramdisk.
No, md is Multiple Device Driver. Usually it's the NEXT driver that's
hanging, and that's almost always a SCSI driver.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I thought that might be the answer. If I build a custom kernel (no
: modules, everthing built in) for the gateway machine on another
: computer how can I replace the kernel on the boot/rescue disk that I
: tried to use? Will the install then
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote:
: No replies to my last post. Probably it was too long. Compressed:
:
: What does a kernel to be used with rescue disks need other than
: initrd/ramdisk?
From
http://debian.midco.net/debian/dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/install.txt
(or any other
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote:
: Hello,
:
: At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was
: running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges.
: Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened.
:
: The Lan Watch showed someone form
Hi,
I'll be performing some work on the debian.midco.net mirror site tonight
(like , I already started :). This means that there will be periods of
time when the archive will NOT be available. Sorry for any
inconvenience.
On the bright side, if all goes as planned we'll go from an 18 G spool
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jim wrote:
: Hi,
:
: On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This
: driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can
: someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release?
: Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl.
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
: controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840
: bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
: detected. Then I enabled the bios on the
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: Helge Hafting wrote:
:
: You don't have . in your path, so files are *not* considered executable
: just because they are in the *current* directory.
:
: This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called
: ls
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote:
[ snip ]
: *.*.*.*.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com
: ^^
: should this be my new domainname?
I have a sneaky suspicion that Shaw's forward and reverse lookups don't
jive.
Do an nslookup on the IP address you are assigned. Now do a
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, jrivas wrote:
: Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux
: drivers?
Netgear FA-310TX does, and does it transparently - plug the card into a
10Base hub, it runs 10 Mbps ... plug it into a 10/100 switch and it
switches to 100 Mbps full-duplex ...
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
: Greetings,
: Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't
understand
: upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need
: to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
: Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at
: bootup:
: PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
: PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
:
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: Dear all,
:
: I've been reading Manoj's instructions for kernel configurations,
: and it says that your kernel source shouldn't be in /usr/src/linux
:
: where does the kernel-source package put it (and are there some
: step-by-step
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the
: bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping
: frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink
: distribution. Thanks!
Anyone know why there's a control file in the root of the debian site?
There's one present on my mirror, at any rate.
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MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net
finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
: There seems to be a growing proliferation of cheap Win-only stuff. Do
: any of you think that this would negatively impact Linux new user base? I
: imagine most people start out dual-booting their existent machines, and I
: would guess that finding out a
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote:
: Ok. It work but now I receive in that user a lot of messages like that:
: Cron[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/exim -q false with the next contnBet
: 1998-10-16 12:09:01 queue run: process 23976 crashed with signal 11 while
: delivering
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
: I have been trying to get my modem to work in debian, and unfortunately,
: unsuccessfully.
: I have 486DX4, it's got SupraExpress 336i Sp modem installed in it. My
: primary boot right now is Win95, until I can get debian setup. Modem works
:
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:
: Win modems are almost always made by US Robotics. You should only need to
type
: pon. You also need to ensure that you have told ppp to use the right com
: port. If the modem is a plug and play modem, you need to install the isapnp
: tools and follow
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
:
: Why am I getting this stuff ?
[ snip retarded mail system complaining ]
Someone has severely hosed their MTA config. The listmasters will
remove the offending subscriber, i imagine :)
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Sherow wrote:
[ snip ]
: P.S. I will never buy another IBM
That's too bad - the PC Server 325 and Netfinity platforms make some
kick-ass Linux servers ...
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Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
: On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote:
:
: snip
: Didn't everyone noticed that the system wide profile (/etc/profile)
: includes .?
Yuck.
Thanks for pointing that out - looks like I've some editing to do.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South
Hi,
I've got a Samba server here that runs great! I've got an NT machine on
my laptop and I can interface with the Samba server directly in any way
I want, except for one thing:
When I try to install a program (Visio) as a network shared app, the
installation always tells me I've determined
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
:
: Hi again Matthew
:
: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: snippety
:
: Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules:
:
: ne io=0x300
:
: Is this OK (it seems to have worked),
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Howdy,
:
: I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately
: the machine keeps rebooting after Linux... I tried creating
: a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help.
:
: Any other ideas?
Hi,
I
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Greg Vence wrote:
: Hello,
:
: It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does?
: I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm
: missing?
rawrite2 works with NT Workstation 4, SP3 here. It also works fine on
Win95.
--
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:
: I am having trouble printing in WP8 under Linux 2.0 but have no problem
: under any other program, eg Netscape. I have a Lexmark
Doesn't WP8 write to the priner directly? WP has always done that
AFAIK.
Of course, I don't know how to fix the problem
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under
: linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under
: win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is
: 100MBit ethernet,
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: To cut to the chase, here's what I need:
:
: Mail arriving at the Linux box destined for ourdomain.net should be
: forwarded to a specific host (IP address or nameserved, doesn't matter
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote:
[ snip ]
: Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by exporting CD-R of
: Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the binary-i386.raw images that
: I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've
: thought of this
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote:
: greetings,
:
: I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT ;0)
: ), what are the steps necessary.
login as root
mke2fs /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd /
find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
umount /mnt
vi /etc/fstab
reboot
--
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kendall P. Bullen wrote:
: On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote:
:
: Could someone please tell how can I insert under
: Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard?
: I mean what sequence of keys ?
:
: Er, insert it where?! In EMACS, you
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
[ snip ]
: If you're using a pentium-class machine in 2038, you deserve what you
: get. I can't believe it would be operative after that long.
I know people still sing PDP-11s -today- ! Who would have thought
they'd still be around? Their cost of
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
[ snip ]
: Well i cannot find it. you can see at imagmakiks debian page:
They're wrong. Use the debian packages instead :)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/graphics/imagemagick_4.0.4-3.deb
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
: On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:16:22PM +, Kent West wrote:
: I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any
: messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to
: this message (to me) if this message
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
[ snip ]
: I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as
`password`..
I really hope this machine isn't connected to the Internet :)
Log in as root. Type:
echo 'filsin:password' | chpasswd
All done.
--
Nathan
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Noel Yap wrote:
: Dave White wrote:
: The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:
:
: Loading root.bin
: Loading linux .
: here is where it locks up
:
: -I've formatted three different floppies
: -downloaded resc1440.bin from
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
: I have been getting streams of messages as follows:
:
: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14
: Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times
Add the following line to /etc/conf.modules or the
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
: I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I
: can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/graphics/xv_3.10a-16.deb
: (undefined references to
Hi,
I was fortunate enough to receive an IBM Thinkpad 380Z this week. The
machine will dual boot NT and Debian.
However, I had little luck with the boot disks. resc1440.bin would do
the looping reboot. resc1440-fast.bin would freeze after decompressing
the kernel. resc1440tecra.bin and
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Robert Rati wrote:
: I have noticed special options when creating a kernel for ISDN support. I
: am considering getting an ADSL line since it is being tested in my area.
: Does Debian support ADSL and if so, what is needed?
Unless you're getting an internal ADSL card,
For those who saw my original post and cared ..
I discovered why pgpverify quit working. Seems David Lawrence has begun
sending his control messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of
[EMAIL PROTECTED].
Solution? Add these lines to /etc/news/control.ctl:
--
newgroup:[EMAIL
I _had_ pgpverify working with INN 1.7.2. Now, suddenly, it doesn't
work anymore :) I'm not at all sure this is Debian's fault (I don't
recall a new INN package being installed), but I wondered if anyone else
was having luck (good or bad) with Debian INN and pgpverify ...
Back to my attempts to
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote:
: Hi folks,
:
: I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day.
: The hard disk is spinning at the full speed.
: Is there a program to slow down the spinning
: when my system is not in use? Please let me
: know. Thanks in advance.
You could enable APM
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[ snip ]
: Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior.
: I'm considering trying a different network card.
I have an irrational fear of NE2000 clones - I've never seen one work
right :) I'd replace it and see what happens.
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Tom Malloy wrote:
: Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for
: the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the
: kernel? Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected
: Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
: Install the kernel-package package then:
:
: man make-kpkg
:
: OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do
:
: make xconfig
: make
: make-kpkg binary
:
: in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?
You
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
:Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates
: subdirectory is for?
:
:Yes, I know it's for proposed updates ;-), but what for what dist?
: Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new incoming
: type of
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote:
: Dear Debs,
: this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules
: mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous
: message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity.
:
: I have just succeeded in compiling
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