PS: Of course it might be possible to only have the bare essiental
files on the root file system, and remount partitions like /etc
over the top of the root filesystem, but I don't like this, as IMHO it
makes it harder (read near impossible) to actively maintain, and
might cause problems for
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Marter wrote:
1. chroot is not one of the commands on the rescue disk.
I haven't had to do a rescue for several years, but the other
time I started by doing a chroot to my usual disk partition.
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:45:52PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
Hi, I need to back up 4 or 5 local Debian boxes, and am wondering
which of the various backup programs included in Debian have worked
well for people. I've had a look at afbackup and tob, and they seem
*ok*, but nothing
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:28PM -0500, John Marter wrote:
The rescue disk has LILO v17. I figured out that I could do
lilo -r /mnt
try this ...
cd /mnt/etc
lilo -C lilo.conf
other than that I dunno...(I already replied about a better resue disk
in this thread)
-Steve
--
** Stephen
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:10:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- Keith wrote about Upgraded to 2.0 now xwindows doesn't start
| I upgraded to Debian 2.0 now I get this message when I try and start
| xwindows.
|
| Any suggestions.
|
| (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples
|
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:37:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my
daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the
Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to
I just replied to a bug report about xfstt which I uploaded last night and
wanted to put out a quick warning just so noone else gets burned by it.
(btw if your not installing packages from unstable you have
no need to worry)
As of this version /etc/init.d/xfstt is now a conffile...
I added a test
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:18:36AM -0700, Alexander wrote:
Hi...
Linux has no Y2K issues aside from the BIOS. It's that simple. However,
sometime in the 2030s, it will have some time_t problems if not fixed by
then. They should be, although you will probably need to upgrade your
embedded
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this
problem the wrong
way though. Now let me make sure
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 01:43:27AM +0200, Christopher Barry wrote:
Hello everyone,
Hi...
sorry I took so long to reply, I don't always have tiome to read the
debian-user list...its hard enough keeping up with all the other
debian-* lists I read.
[I am the xfstt maintainer btw]
FontPath
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:38:11AM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote:
I installed xfstt from slink installed some fonts and it works. But when
I chose them in the Netscape preferences I can't set the size anymore.
The dropdown boxes are greyed out.
What's the reason for this and how can I change
I was just playing with this a little more
I think this si a bug in netscape...
It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well
You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape
and come back in it does not remember the font size that you used.
I would recomend not
educated guesses and poking
around on master (of course...master doesn't use exim..so I had to guess abit)
but I would still like to see what an exim setup SHOULD be.
2) which doesn't work: (properly)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]$ which netscape
/usr/bin/which: /dev/null: Permission denied
/usr/bin/which
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 10:57:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 09:34:00AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Why would strings show only the first, and not all of the texts?
It will show both. However, it could show you text that, as far as Word
is concerned, is
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:26:18AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 22-Jun-98 Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Hi, folks.
Is there any way to read in my linux box a word 7 .doc file?
Mantaining the indents and bolds would be a plus, but mainly I
just need to read the text in it.
I
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 11:32:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:33:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Definitly. And lucky for us...it will be impossible for Uncle Bill to force
Linux users to install IE. Oh and another great Feature that comes with IE
ActiveX.
The
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:33:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LIKE Word...but please NOT word!
Let's not get hysterical.
I mean really...its a word processor...nice to have but...come on...
they can't even keep it
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:02:15AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi Mark!
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote:
Hi folks!
I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it
comes with my CD because I had it
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:52:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote:
Oh gee just what we need. I will admit, I could use a good word
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:29:15AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:31:07PM +, Jay Barbee wrote:
I did not want it installed, I prefer the sym-links myself aswell. All
seems
normal now that it is removed. I guess I will know when it is time to
reboot
[I tried to send a message like this last night but accidently
screwed up...so I apologize if the old version shoots out of my home
mail system at some point to this list]
Ok...I have been digging around here at work, and we seem to have a problem.
All of us techs ocasionally need to fix
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote:
Well. I like that we are mentioned (-: Looks like IE for Linux is
coming our way.
I hope they are not wasting their time with a program like IE that most
will never use, I hope they
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 02:14:48AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
Dear all,
I guess I could probably RTFM, but there you are. I know basic C,
and I'd like to get used to using libraries.
I have myself been refered to the libc documentation itself but...
Other than that I know of nothing
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:42:04PM -0700, Marcus Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 1998 Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
So, given the fact I'm not in a position to compel the admin to upgrade
to Debian 1.3 or 2.0 (but can and will lobby for it),
Probably your admin will feel more necouraged if you
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:36:55AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote:
Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a
ROM image for
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 11:19:20AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
Steve,
As for me, it is simple. I buy the parts, build my own. I've built my
own since my first PC was bought, a Hyundai 386sx-16 w/DOS 6.22 on it and
nothing else. I realized long ago, 9 years now, that the big names
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:07:35AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:13:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bad newsI can't find xgs anywhere!
I just spent some time digging around the web, I found its
offcial homepage is gone...I was able to find the authors homepage
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:41:31PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
JB == Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JB I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is
JB it's story?
JB is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect?
file-rc is an approach to
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:46:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reply-To:
Hi,
I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have
some questions now. First, my situation:
1. Nightly running:
wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \
:
-- 1 root root0 Jun 12 15:22 safe
so noone has permission to do ANYTHING to the file.
now as sjc (normal user) in test:
$ cat safe
cat: safe: Permission denied
then:
$ rm safe
rm: remove `safe', overriding mode ? y
$ ls -l
total 0
$
ok why does this work? rm does not acess
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:18:07AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Max Lawson wrote:
Hi !
I'm going to install Debian Gnu/Linux on three boxes. But I don't want to
upgrade from r1.3 to the incoming r2.0. (I'm far from beeing an
install-guru)
I was told that I could order CDs
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 12:16:07PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 08:43:44PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
BTW they seem very suceptible to IO bandwidth.. a few things:
1) never burn files that are not stored on a local drive
2) put the writer on its own IDE
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 12:45:04PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:43:28PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
Well, that is over a network, which has nothing to do with SCSI, IDE, or
parallel ports... the network is the bottleneck instead of the interface.
Yes, I am well
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
Hallo all,
as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would
like to start this (hopefully) littly project.
This sounds like an interesting idea.
I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 07:16:53PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote:
I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now
and
have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information,
installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address.
Proprietary to Debian...
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 11:52:24PM +0300, shaul wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote:
I'm using the -g flag. But gdb will tell me what code is causing the
crash right?
Thanks,
It will depend. If the binary is stripped, you might not get much
information out of
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:32:10AM -0400, Kiyan Azarbar wrote:
I had an idea recently. I would like to install a very minimal Linux/Debian
base on the family 486. I already have a little LAN going here, using the
192.168.1.X subnet. We have three (sometimes four) computers connected, using
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Well, try putting in -I/usr/src/linux/include for every file
compiled in the tree; and see if that improves things.
At the last resort, you can try mkdir /usr/src/tmp; mv the
2.0.32 headers there, and
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 11:32:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forgive my posting this here, but . . .
Well I for one can find it in my heart to forgive you :)
As I was wondering aimlessly around the sites of the people on this list
looking for hints and tips for a Linux 'virgin', I
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:39:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After searching and searching the FAQ's and HOW-TO's I found that I could
enable the COM port on the Linux box in the /etc/inittab file. I can now
log onto my Linux box from hyper terminal on the Windows machine but I
still
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 04:22:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets
an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting
that he run e2fsck -b 8193
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:00:04PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote:
Macs can read zip disks in either mac format or msdos format (as preformatted,
though not as formatted under Linux). So the interchangeability options
that I seem to have right now are either
mac w95
or else
linux w95
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 09:56:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like I have one of two alternatives:
1) 'Borrow' the net info from one of the Windows machines and sneak onto
the net at night.
This sounds like what I did at work :)
2) Go with the null-modem cable idea.
Choice
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote:
I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port
zip drive?
Yes
It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is partition
4 (for no apprent reason)
Is insmod ppa only for parallel port zip
Just a very quick note...
AFAIK memtest86 (GREAT Program)
is in hwtools package not sysutils (at least it is in hamm
I dunno about bo but I would assume that it is the same)
BTW a tip...
I have seen tohers do it (and I did it myself..)
I added this to lilo.conf:
image=/boot/memtest86.bin
Well...
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 03:15:10AM +0300, Liran Zvibel wrote:
Hello,
I would like to add some user interface to my programs, till now all I do
is write to stdout and stderr, and read from stdin, but it doesn't look
good.
What types of programs are these?
if they read form stdin and
Earlier I wrote asking about rescue disks and (I didn't keep the message)
someone mentioned tomsrtbt (aka Tom's Unix ona FLoppy)
I am extremely impressed and recommend this disk to
EVERYONE!
I neve rthought so much coul dbe crammed onto one disk!
The disk right out of the box works GREAT...
in
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 06:28:03PM -0500, wrote:
Has anyone got audio/speaker to work
with the Ensoniq AudioPCI card?
yes I have :)
The Sound-HOWTO indicates that the
Ensoniq SoundScape card is supported,
but I don't think AudioPCI card is the
same.
I have good news and I have bad
I have gotten this too...
if you can tyope commands / login etc
excpet it looks AFU then try this
login on the AFU Terminal
then use the command reset
I have found this fixes it well
BTW I put reset in my .bash_logout
so that the tty gets reset when I logout
(unfortunatly it does it in xterms
What exactly is the problem?
does it give an error when you run /usr/games/fortune ?
I think the actual fortunes need to be instalkled separately
(and unfortunatly the good fortunes are in a separate package...
that on eis really a must...I woul dlove to see the offensive
package merged back in
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