Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-08 Thread ugs
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: ugs wrote: 2) When I forced the issue, I got an error similar to the one Joey Hess reported earlier with 1.0.2.2: Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like appletviewer, javac, etc, I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/prog

Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-07 Thread ugs
1) From my tribulations with JDK, I do believe jdk-common and jdk-static depend on each other. Thus, neither can be installed. 2) When I forced the issue, I got an error similar to the one Joey Hess reported earlier with 1.0.2.2: Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like

Re: How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-06 Thread ugs
Before I tell you what I do to make a perfect and bootable copy of your current Linux setup, let me tell you how I have my hard drives configured. the problem with this is that if you backup errors or a program upgrade that you later decided that you didn't want you can't get to the

Re: How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-05 Thread ugs
I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper than a *quality* tape system? Before I tell you what I do

Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.

1996-12-15 Thread ugs
What was the command line for your mknod for each one? mknod tty9 c 4 9 mknod tty10 c 4 10 mknod tty11 c 4 11 etc. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the trick with X 3.2?

1996-11-29 Thread ugs
I've looked through the dependencies and I think xlib6 should be installed first. Turns out there is something called xlib that is blocking an easy upgrade. I get the following few errors: dpkg: considering removing

Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.

1996-11-28 Thread ugs
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Adam Heath wrote: I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. You can even go to tty24! To switch, hit LEFT ALT-(F1 - F12) for

Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.

1996-11-27 Thread ugs
I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: xdm -- Second X Session

1996-11-26 Thread ugs
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Joey Hess wrote: Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Here's mine: :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 -bpp 16 :1.0 :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 This starts up 2 xdms, one at 16bpp and the other at 256 colors. The vt7 and vt8 are important -- without them, the 2 xdm's fight

xdm -- Second X Session

1996-11-25 Thread ugs
Can someone clue me in or point me in the right direction on have xdm start up a second X session on startup. I did manage to change no-start-xdm to start-xdm in /etc/X11/config, and that change now causes xdm to manage one session nicely. So far, I've only been able to manually get a second X

Re: cleaning up kernel source

1996-11-06 Thread ugs
On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: David Morris: do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header files as part of the libc5 package. So that's what's been going on. What I've been doing is

When on the updates?

1996-11-01 Thread ugs
I'm fairly new to debian. I see on the debian-changes mailing list where some security upgrades have been released. I've check the debian ftp server for about a week now and the upgrades don't appear there. Am I checking in the right place? If so, about how long is it between the time an