Can't access Swat.

1999-12-11 Thread ktb
I'm trying to set up a network with Samba and can't get Swat to open in my Netscape browser. I've tried, http://localhost:901/ which nets Netscape unable to locate the server keyword.netscape.com Please check the server name and try again. http://xyf:901/ Gives the same error. (xyf is my

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-10 Thread ktb
Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows

Re: New Guy questions

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Jason Vormbaum wrote: Hi, I am completely new to the Linux world. Today i set up a Linux machine and somehow I got it to boot, but now I don't know what to do with it. I need to connect it to my network to start with, but in the setup the 3Com 3c905 card I am using was not there.

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Kent West wrote: ktb wrote: I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty

Re: Floppy Drive

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I access my floppy drive from command line? You can do so with the following command, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy that is if you have a /floppy directory which I think is created by default so you probably do and the file system you are trying to access

Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
If you have 'X' up I would say install Netscape Communicator. If your downloading ftp I would try 'ncftp'. hth, kent Andy Thomas wrote: I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by

Re: PPP Connected... what about mail?

1999-12-09 Thread ktb
Andy Thomas wrote: I've connected with PPP but don't know how to get mail under Debian. Lynx is working just fine. Does anyone know where Lynx downloads files to by default? I haven't used Lynx much but I would guess the directory you fired it up in or your home directory, possibly /tmp.

Re: Setting Path ENV variable

1999-12-08 Thread ktb
Andy Thomas wrote: Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? To get to that file you have to be signed in as root or su to root

Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-08 Thread ktb
I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been

Re: xconsole placement

1999-12-08 Thread ktb
To reply to my own message, what I figured out is I needed to move -file /dev/console to the beginning of the command like so, + I exec xconsole -file /dev/console now it's working fine. kent ktb wrote: I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + I exec xconsole -geometry 480x130

xconsole placement

1999-12-07 Thread ktb
I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + I exec xconsole -geometry 480x130+297+434 -bg gainsboro -exitOnFail -dae -notify -file /dev/console These are the permissions, ~$ l /dev/xconsole prw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1951 Dec 7 00:10 /dev/xconsole| At any rate with this setup,

Re: Epson L 1500

1999-12-07 Thread ktb
I didn't see it listed here, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Epsonformat=full but maybe someone else knows. Just thought I'd make you aware of the link if you didn't know. hth, kent Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, anyone knows

64Mb memory problem (only 16Mb is seen by the kernel)

1999-12-07 Thread ktb
This is a long shot but did you recently compile your kernel? There is a place where you can select something about 16mb of memory. Maybe a coincidence maybe not. hth. kent Hai, I have been working with debian 2.1 for almost one year now in a productive environent and I'm real happy with it!

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot

xterm title bar change and prompt change

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
This may be hard to explain but I'll try. I have this in my /home/kent/.bashrc, case $TERM in xterm*) PS1=\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1=\w\$ ;; esac This displays user name or [EMAIL PROTECTED] name:directory. For example:

Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-05 Thread ktb
I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable root partition is on hdb3 and Redhat's is on hdb1. I have lilo installed now through

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-05 Thread ktb
Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: I've looked through the archives, lilo documentation and howtos. I'm either not understanding this or am not seeing what I need. I have windows 95 on hda. Slink and Redhat 6.0 are on hdb. Slink's bootable root

Switch /hdb for /hda?

1999-12-04 Thread ktb
I have been having problems with my hard drive with Slink on it putting out the following errors and hanging: Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Dec 3 22:14:14 xyf kernel: ide0: reset: success Dec 3 22:14:24 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

Re: Checking MD5sums

1999-12-02 Thread ktb
I did a, ~$ apropos md5sums debsums (1) - Check the md5sums of a package debsums_gen (8) - Generate /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums for packages lacking it dh_md5sums (1) - generate DEBIAN/md5sums file Looks like there is one that checks .debs it's in the debsums package. I'm

Re: Checking MD5sums

1999-12-02 Thread ktb
Richard Drisko wrote: Check out man md5sum Do a locate sum|less and you'll find all files containing sum. hth, kent Hi, Awhile ago I remember seeing something to verify the MD5 sums of binaries in installed packages. I don't remember if it was a script or a package or what but can

Re: Problems mounting CD-ROM

1999-11-25 Thread ktb
I don't know if this will help or not but if I put an audio CD into my drive and use your mount command I get the same error. When I use a Debian cd it mounts fine. Just a stab in the dark. hth, kent Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM. When I use dmesg I get the

kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-24 Thread ktb
I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this. Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here and how I can fix this? I just

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-24 Thread ktb
Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the error please let me know. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: I'm getting these errors

Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near startup links for Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
of -e aborted due to compilation errors. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I don't know if that will give anyone more info to help me or not. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
and it worked perfectly. The only thing now is I get no output to xconsole but I will start to work on that. kent ktb wrote: Ok, I left things last night late and am back at it. I booted up today and tried reinstalling sysklogd again. This time dselect tells me, Bareword found where

Apache/Netscape unable to find server.

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have no desire at this time to set up a web server for myself but I am doing some volunteer work for and archeology agency (writing a search program to work through a browser). I'm suppose to meet with them on Monday and I can't test my script. I had

Re: Apache/Netscape unable to find server.

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
Erick Kinnee wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:35:55PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have no desire at this time to set up a web server for myself but I am doing some volunteer work for and archeology agency (writing a search program to work through

Re: Apache/Netscape unable to find server.

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
Eric G . Miller wrote: Umm, Either just point your browser at http://localhost or add a line to /etc/hosts that will resolve to the local box, so connections can be passed on to apache. The first way is easiest, unless your script has that domain hardwired into it. Your right the first

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
aphro wrote: can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to hack some perl scripts up at times. thanks! nate

/etc/syslog/conf

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
I saw this nifty little command at Linux.com and I thought I would give it a try. It reroutes log information to tty12. The command was, echo '*.* /dev/tty12' /etc/syslog.conf The file now looks like this, ~$ cat /etc/syslog.conf *.* /dev/tty12 I didn't realize that it would become permanent

Re: file of manage

1999-11-20 Thread ktb
HU-LIAO wrote: Halleo, I am a new user of Debian. For keeping the system run better or solving some problems occured, could anyone tell me what kinds of files to manage the system and where there are, or where I could find this kind information or books? I would suggest looking at

Bash can't find, PS1 and HISTSIZE

1999-11-19 Thread ktb
I have freshly installed Slink and put the following lines in my ~.bashrc : case $TERM in xterm*) PS1 =\[\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w\007\]\w\$ ;; *) PS1 =\w\$ ;; esac HISTSIZE =1000 _ I get the

Re: Installation

1999-11-19 Thread ktb
James D. Scott wrote: How do I change the Debian install routine so I can put Linux on my secondary hard drive. Not with Windows. Jim Scott I may be wrong but it sounds like you have two HDs and you wish to install Debian on your second HD. Windows is on your first HD. If that is the

Re: Code Freeze for Potato

1999-11-08 Thread ktb
No, see, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/07/1611205mode=thread kent Account for Debian group mail wrote: Did Potato go into code freeze on Nov 7 as planned? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

HD problem/kern.log.3gz

1999-11-05 Thread ktb
I was running the [EMAIL PROTECTED] program a month or so back and got up in the morning and found my X screen completely frozen. Ctrl-alt-delete or Ctrl-alt-backspace had no effect. So I did a hard reset. I got the forced check as expected but in the final stages of the boot routine I received

Re: User menu problem

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
G. Crimp wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:52:05PM -0500, ktb wrote: You could edit /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook directly. kent Bad idea. /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook is an automatically generated file. Next time the file is regenerated, any changes you made

Re: Archives?

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
Take a look at the Debian site, http://www.debian.org/ kent Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: Does this mailing list has any message archives somewhere on the web? Regards, Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal

Re: x windows problem

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
Alfalfa Sprout wrote: Hey. I think I setup the mouse as the wrong type in xf86config (I wanted to use XF86Setup, but when I try to go into that, all I get is a scrambled screen). Anyway, the computer boots into x windows everytime (which is annoying...I'd like it to boot into text linux

Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
If you hit the tab key twice in a row it lists all available commands. This seems like a useless thing because I see no way of sending the output to 'less' and most of the 1917 possibilities scroll off the screen. Anyway my problem is I get the same result if I hit the Esc key twice. I'm

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
listed under commands or list that pertained to tabtab. I'll keep looking. Thanks, kent Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:14:35 -0500, ktb wrote: Anyone know the name of this program? The shell, IIRC. Kent, have you tried

Re: Regroup/Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
to complete an argument to exim (with the files in your pwd). 'eximNOSPACEtabtab' will attempt to complete a command (in your $PATH) beginning with 'exim'. Robert. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ktb wrote: When I tried 'exim tabtab' the output listed 156 files in my home

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
I started with Debian after one year of windows 95 experience. It took some patience and persistence but I've learned a lot. Difficulties are not barriers to learning they are learning. Which distro a person starts with really is up to what the person wishes to do with it. I took some time

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
Brad wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ktb wrote: I'd like to get rid of it unless someone else has a better idea. Anyone know the name of this program? It's a feature of bash, as has been mentioned. According to the bash manpage, you can get rid of it by adding a line set disable-completion

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
Carl Mummert wrote: It's a feature of bash, as has been mentioned. According to the bash manpage, you can get rid of it by adding a line set disable-completion on in your /etc/inputrc (for the entire system) or ~/.inputrc (for whichever user's home directory it's in). Be advised you have to

Re: User menu problem

1999-07-05 Thread ktb
You could edit /etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook directly. kent Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, I have just installed StarOffice 5.1 in my Debian 2.1 system. I tried to put an entry into the menu system (I use fvwm2 as a window manager). So I created a file .menu/soffice in my home directory

Re: device files

1999-07-03 Thread ktb
Have you tried looking in your /dev directory? kent John Cuson wrote: hi- can anyone point me to where i might find a device file index of some sort? John Cuson [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Re: What's compiled into the kernel?

1999-07-03 Thread ktb
Would it be something like /boot/config-2.0.36 that you are looking for? hth, kent Kent West wrote: This may be a stupid question, but I couldn't figure out how to phrase it for the archive search engine to return anything useful. How do I find out what's compiled into my kernel? For

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-07-01 Thread ktb
The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: Hello, A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom. Can you tell me how to make a boot floppy please? Much appreciated! First go to the Debian site and look at the

Re: How to create rescue disk in Debian

1999-06-30 Thread ktb
Rian Fahrizal wrote: I want to know how to create rescue disk in Debian, since I've a problem with my Debian which slow in startup Maybe I'm wrong but I'll make the assumption you are booting from a floppy. If so, set up your system to boot off the hard drive. You can use a program such

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-27 Thread ktb
I don't know if this will help or not as I'm really not familiar with the program but after a cd install the xzoom program is found here, /usr/X11R6/bin/xzoom I looked under dselect and no zoom was found just xzoom. If there is a zoom program perhaps it wasn't included with Slink. Just some

Re: Help!

1999-06-27 Thread ktb
Algernon NG wrote: Help me! First I subscribe to debian-user, then I subscribed to debian-user-digest, and unsubscribed from debian-user. Since then I receive no emails. Do I have to be subscribed to debian-user to receive debian-user-digest? No, you didn't say how long you've waited,

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-06-26 Thread ktb
Karen Hanson wrote: I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, slink, I think. Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes too. Sometimes the crash is

Re: installing packages

1999-06-26 Thread ktb
Jason Errol Draut wrote: I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files

Re: multi-cd help

1999-06-25 Thread ktb
Dselect automatically asks for the first or second cd as it needs it when installing programs. At least that has been my experience. You have to choose 'multi cd' in 'access.' hth, kent Aaron Solochek wrote: I'm attempting to install stuff using dselect off the double cd image that I

Re: Hardware support

1999-06-23 Thread ktb
Take a look at the install manual for your architecture at, http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ hth, kent Rolf Edlund wrote: Hi, all you Linux users out there! I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ? /R --

Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?

1999-06-22 Thread ktb
I poked around and found this link, http://proforma.real.com/mario/player/player.html hth, kent Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available downloads (neither free, nor

Re: Q: Lexmark 2050

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
Take a look at, http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark which was found in the Printing HOWTO at, http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html#ss3.1 In short they clasify your printer as a paperweight meaning, These printers don't work at all. They may work in

Re: Atapi Boot disk

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
belindacobby wrote: We have a AMD K6 2 with an Atapi CD Rom. Could you please inform me as to where I can download a suitable Boot disk. Thanks. Very much appreciated! Have you taken a look at the Debian web site? http://www.debian.org/ I'm assuming you want to install Debian on your

Re: HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. I remember that string somewhat. I think they were talking about MARK

Re: pine 4.10 .deb

1999-06-21 Thread ktb
I found what I think you were searching for here, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00668.html Unfortunately the link to http://ompages.com is dead right now but maybe you could email him. hth, kent Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A

Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread ktb
Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from within a single xterm window. I poked around in the packages at the Debian site but can't find anything. I don't even know

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-16 Thread ktb
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Jun, Gareth wrote about Re: Switch console in xterm On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, ktb wrote: Somewhere I heard there exists a program that will allow you to switch consoles in an xterm. In other words it would be like switching consoles with ctrl+alt+F* but from

Re: ppp don't work

1999-06-14 Thread ktb
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: Subject: ppp don't work Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:41:17 -0600 From: Camilo Alejandro Arboleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ascom Colombia To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help! I am trying to configure PPPD in Debian 2.1, using wvdial as dialer. I edited all

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-12 Thread ktb
I kind of hate to jump into a string like this but at the risk of sounding real stupid how can one create this /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz file. I've searched for it on my Slink system and it just isn't there. I took a look at the dpkg man page and see no reference to the file. I see that

Re: New Debian Logos

1999-06-11 Thread ktb
Check out the Debian Weekly News, http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/23/ kent Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: Can anyone let me know where I can get the New Debian logo's from? As I wish to update my web pages etc... Regards Graham -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-11 Thread ktb
As root use the command, shutdown -h now See man shutdown for more details. When I use this command I still have to press the off/on button so this might not be exactly the answer to your question. hth, kent Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi My new box has an automatic shut-off

Re: How/where can I see the messages from booting

1999-06-10 Thread ktb
After you boot you can use the command dmesg and pipe it through less or more. For example at the prompt, $ dmesg | less That won't show the whole boot message but most of it. hth, kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, as you can see I'm new in that media because that's my second try to

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread ktb
Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread ktb
Jim B wrote: That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however,

PPP problem

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
I've installed Hamm on an old 486 via floppy and I'm trying to get a connection to the net. I installed a new modem Zoom 56k model 2819A. I ran pppconfig. When I try to dial out this is what /var/log/ppp.log says: Jun 6 09:40:50 www pppd[222]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Jun 6 09:40:51

Mouse without gpmconfig?

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
I've been looking in the archives and can't find an answer. I have Hamm base installed on an old 486 with only an 80 MB HD. I would like to get the mouse working but don't know if I can without gpm. This is a console only machine. The mouse I have is a 9 pin serial. It has three buttons and

Re: PPP problem

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
John Hasler wrote: ktb writes: Jun 6 09:40:51 www chat[223]: _K^M ... : C^?NNECT 115200^M : _e|c^?^?e t^? I~ter~ut ^ubra^?^?a^M What UART does this machine have on the modem port? If it is not a 16550 you should not accept pppconfig's default speed of 115200. Run

Re: OT: dual processor question

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
I've got three old IBM PS/2 #70s. There looks to be an extra socket for a processor on the motherboard. I don't know if it would really help to speed up the system or not as they only have 4 MB of RAM, or even if it would work. I was thinking about trying to add a processor to one of the

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as root

1999-06-07 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debians I'm a newbie; just managed to boot my 486/66 (28 ram, 540 WD HD) onto Linux late last night, and all seems to be well and good, only I can't install anything. Dselect won't let me choose the access method to use (I'm installing from the dos-partition,

Re: fvwm2 preference file?

1999-06-06 Thread ktb
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me which file is fvwm2's preference? Thanks! Take a look at the file .fvwm2rc there it explains the differernt *.hook files you can create in order to do it the debian way. I place the exterms and so forth that I want to load on startup in

Re: installing debian

1999-06-04 Thread ktb
Keith R. wrote: ive ben trying to install debian linux on an older 386 of mine an ibm ps/2 model 56slc it has a micro channel architecture when i place the boot disk in it goes through every thing seemingly well except it doesnt pick up the scsi drive and host adapter thats part of the

Re: Unknown processes.

1999-06-04 Thread ktb
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, after having been logged on my box for a while I have a lot of these processes running. I do not know where they come from (I am still a newbie), and I have the feeling they slow me down. What are these: 275 ttyp0S 0:00 bash -rcfile .bashrc 7343

Can't read /floppy/type.txt

1999-06-03 Thread ktb
I'm trying to install on an IBM ps/2 model 70. I'm using an MCA Slink rescue disk. The computer reads the floppy fine until I get to the point in the install that says, Install operating system kernel and modules. I then get an error that reads, Cannot read /floppy/type.txt : Invalid argument

Re:

1999-06-02 Thread ktb
Igor Majdandzic wrote: Hi, just one quick quastion: WHEN NEW VERSION OF DEBIAN IS COMING OUT? Thanks, MadMan You can find the info here, http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ Posting in html on this list is best not done:) kent

IBM PS/2 386 #70

1999-05-31 Thread ktb
I took a look at the archives and see many no responses so I'm not too hopeful about this but... The computer has a 58 meg ESDI HD. I'm trying to do a floppy install. I used the Debian 1.2 boot disk for IBM PS2 systems from, http://mojo.calyx.net/~bri/projects/debian/MCA/ Everything went

Re: Copy/Cut Past in X windows?

1999-05-30 Thread ktb
John Foster wrote: One of the things that I seem to have missed in setting up Linux is the ability (as in Windows) to be able to highlight almost anything in any window and cut/copy it to another window. I have not been able to find any means to do that consistantly in Xwindows. Some

Re: getting out of fvwm

1999-05-29 Thread ktb
Barry Kauler wrote: I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! I got X windows running, with default window manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight into graphics mode and gave me a login window for fvwm. This question is asked

Re: getting out of fvwm

1999-05-29 Thread ktb
Barry Kauler wrote: I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! I got X windows running, with default window manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight into graphics mode and gave me a login window for fvwm. In Red Hat, this is controlled

Re: HELP!!!

1999-05-29 Thread ktb
Kyle Landon wrote: Hi all, First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. I can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot seem to do much at the $. A few

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-23 Thread ktb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 1999 19:18:48 +0200 Peter Granroth wrote: How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? If you put the following in root's .bashrc (assuming you use bash), you can start X programs when su root in a

Re: zxip??

1999-05-21 Thread ktb
Person, Roderick wrote: was I in some haze or fog or was it just to late at night, but wasn't there a package called xzip or some type of .zip .tar frontend for x. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find anything in slink. Rod After selecting select hit space bar and then type / you

Re: Xemacs won't use setup files

1999-05-17 Thread ktb
Micha Feigin wrote: When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and .xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around. If you're talking about saving Font, Size, Weight. Add the following line to your .emacs file, (setq options-save-faces t) if that

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread ktb
J Horacio MG wrote: I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id -

Re: help with internet connection needed

1999-05-01 Thread ktb
Run pppconfig as root. After running this program use pon connection name to connect and poff to disconnect. See the man page for pppconfig. hth, kent Jason Winters wrote: how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-04-28 Thread ktb
Jason Winters wrote: how do you install kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw Here are the directions from a few days ago. I followed this and installed kde on Slink. I had to install the rpm package and librpm1 in addition to what is

Re: Apache?

1999-04-27 Thread ktb
ying shang wrote: When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I can not find out where is the home directory of the apache. The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for example used with the program Joe, ~$ which joe /usr/bin/joe or you could use,

xterm/top horizontal scrollbar

1999-04-23 Thread ktb
I have Top loading in an Xterm window in Fvwm2. I set Top to display the command line instead of the command name and some of the command lines are well off the right edge of the Xterm window. I can resize the window to view these command lines but I was hoping I could find an option to Xterm to

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

1999-04-23 Thread ktb
I've used both (4.5 libc5, 4.51 glibc2) and haven't experienced any difference. Both have there bugs of course. kent Sami Dalouche wrote: In one of their readmes, they theid the glibc2 version is less stable than their libc5 version of communicator/navigator. Have anyone tried the both

Re: debian logo thing

1999-04-22 Thread ktb
Chad A. Adlawan wrote: hello List ... anyone know what came out of that debin logo contest announced 2 months ago ? They are voting again. ... i also saw some Debian logo at slashdot (debian/corel/kde news) ... is that the official debian logo ? No. Check out the last two Debian

Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions

1999-04-22 Thread ktb
Ulrik Haugen wrote: * Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the 40 - 80 some megs of updated packages. I'm afraid I choose a rather misleading

Re: uppgrading packages to unstable versions

1999-04-22 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: Ulrik Haugen wrote: * Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unstable is now based on a new glibc. So if you want to migrate to it, tell dselect (or apt) to update based on the unstable directory and download the 40 - 80 some megs of updated packages. I'm afraid I choose

Re: Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread ktb
Nidge Jones wrote: Real dumb stupid silly question.. Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker parameter at boot ! I guess it's set with setterm -blank - but where. I have snooped about all over the place trying find the answer to this. I want to disable mine (-blank 0)

Re: Printer Compatability

1999-04-20 Thread ktb
Micha Feigin wrote: I couldn't find the answear to this on the Hardware-HOWTO I am looking for a printer to connect to my linux machine. I was wondering which of these printers (this are whats avainlable) will work with linux without too much of a fuss ( I don't have too much time in

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