Not able to get Debian packages using FTP
Hi There, I had successfully installed the base system on my Intel PC.Now I run DSELECT, FTP access, give ftp site : ftp.debian.org; debian dir: /pub/debian;download dir: debian etc, I get this error : NET::FTP:bad host name 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP error,script exit status 1. Any idea what is the problem and its solution? One thing I think is that, I should have already connected to my ISP to get files over internet, but I am not sure how to start the connection in Linux. Please let me know what is to be done. Thanks in advance arihant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 question
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? You do that with your monitor... it has functions on it, to make it wider, and taller. Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X windows? Equivalent? No, and god forbid... There are several file managers... one really good, which I think just made it into Debian, is Xplore. But, to acquire such managers that work completely you need to purchase motif, and/or CDE. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re[2]: Xfree86 question
there's 'the linux explorer' -- not really like m$'s file manager... http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer/ at some point around Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:16:14 -0800 (PST) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: FileRunner does a nice job. On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? You do that with your monitor... it has functions on it, to make it wider, and taller. Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X windows? Equivalent? No, and god forbid... There are several file managers... one really good, which I think just made it into Debian, is Xplore. But, to acquire such managers that work completely you need to purchase motif, and/or CDE. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . George Bonser Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
a single command
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. -- `` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a single command
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. rm -rf apps Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also select the module for the backpack cd drive, and you probably don't need the cdrom module. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a single command
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:10:35PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. Try rm -r dir or rm -rf dir. Read the rm manpage for details. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect ftp upgrade
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: I would like to upgrade to libc6 and I tried to do so via dselect ftp, but I can not find the unstable or hamm directory at ftp.debian and dselect just quits on me. Can someone tell me how to upgrade packages via ftp. I am also insearch of an efficient web browser, and I am considering the latest version of Amaya. Is there a .deb binary yet? Any comments on this particular browser is welcomed. Someone else already mentioned my upgrade howto, but seems to have forgotten to tell you where to find it :) http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP dialup. :(.
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the usual garbage. I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. I open another bash term, and try to ping my ISP's domain server, and it tells me that the network is unreachable. :(. Afew seconds later, minicom hungup. My ppp.log says Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp2 Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Connection terminated. Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Problem: nothing was received Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Exit. So, then I follow the configuration instructions in section 6 (Network Installation) of the Debian Users Guide. Putting... (Most of which was there already). /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 jade /etc/resolv.conf domain cablenett.net search cablenett.net nameserver 196.3.144.2 nameserver 196.3.144.3 /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on /etc/ppp/options debug /dev/ttyS0 38400 modem crtscts lock connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect asyncmap 0 defaultroute Then I try again, going through the same process as described before. This time, my PPP doesn't output anything, pinging the DNS server's IP still generates a network unreachable message, I still get hungup, and the PPP log also says: Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 321 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Exit. Something is really weird because, previously, I was using RedHat for a while and the same stuff with network unreachable messages and getting hungup would happen. :(. Can anyone help me? Thanks alot!!! Timothy PS: Merry Christmas everyone! :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP Dialup
PS: Merry Christmas everyone! :) And also to you. Now, as for the ppp problem: which version of pppd are you using? the one from stable or unstable? It seems that you're able to dial ok, and you have a routine worked out for starting up ppp on the remote machine, so you ought to make this a chat script so you don't have to try to do this by hand. I have a feeling that dialing up via minicom and then trying to start pppd manually may be part of the problem -- you should be able to set up pppd to dial and log into the remote host via chat. Let me know if you need help with this part, and let me know which pppd you're using -- the setup is somewhat different. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |The problem with computers: | || | rivendell[501] [~] love me | | bash: love: command not found | | rivendell[502] [~] hug me| | bash: hug: command not found | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
Timothy Hospedales wrote: In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the usual garbage. I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. I open another bash term, and try to ping my ISP's domain server, and it tells me that the network is unreachable. :(. Afew seconds later, minicom hungup. This is normal, considering the way you are trying to do it. Read on... /etc/ppp/options debug /dev/ttyS0 38400 modem crtscts lock connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect asyncmap 0 defaultroute Then I try again, going through the same process as described before. This time, my PPP doesn't output anything, pinging the DNS server's IP still generates a network unreachable message, I still get hungup, and the PPP log also says: Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 321 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Exit. You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom. All the info you need to dial should be in /etc/ppp/ppp-connect. Edit that file and put in the info needed, and then simply type pppd as root at a shell prompt. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You cannot paint the 'Mona Lisa' by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. -- William F. Buckley, Jr. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? Thanks, Timothy You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom. All the info you need to dial should be in /etc/ppp/ppp-connect. Edit that file and put in the info needed, and then simply type pppd as root at a shell prompt. Tim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
virtual hosts with Apache
I just setup Apache and I want to be able to have virtual hosts. My host name is speedy and I want it to show up in netscape as amwalker.speedy.net. How do I do this. I read the docs at the apache site,but it did not work. Thanks for your help. -- `` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? \r Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
menu in fvwm?
Simple question: Can the results of the menu program be used in plain fvwm? If so, what are the lines to add to my .fvwmrc? Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc info
Hi all. I've just been browsing the GNU site trying to find out what the differences in the C libraries are and i could find no mention of libc5, libc6 or glibc. I know that Debian is in the process of moving to libc6 and that RH has already (somewhat shakily) moved to glibc. Is libc6 just another way of saying glibc? If you can refer me to any site/doc to satisfy my curiosity, please do so. Personally I'm happy to continue tinkering with the compiler/libs which came with my Deb 1.3.1 CDs but I am curious about the changes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 10:48:48AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: 1) What is in your /etc/exports? # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /usr/local/rising *.rising.com.au(rw) 2) also, debian runs a number of rcp services out of inetd so make sure /etc/hosts.allow and .deny are set up correctly. All the rpc serves in /etc/inetd.conf are commented out. portmap is running as daemon, and rpc.nfsd/mountd as root. 3) You can client -- server does not work, do you mean that the server is unable to mount a client drive? Does it give an error? From the client, I cannot mount a server drive: bash-2.00# mount yodeller:/usr/local/rising /mnt mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered [8:12pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpcinfo -p yodeller No remote programs registered. [8:12pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpcinfo -p yodeller program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 151 udp937 mountd 152 udp937 mountd 151 tcp940 mountd 152 tcp940 mountd yodeller is the server, silly the client (aka dialup-2 due to dynamic IPs); [8:13pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ rpcinfo -p dialup-2 program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 151 udp834 mountd 152 udp834 mountd 151 tcp837 mountd 152 tcp837 mountd So with rpcinfo, server - server, client - client, and server - client works, but the crucial one, client - server, doesn't. It certainly appears to be some sort of firewall problem but there's a direct link between them (PPP), no masquerading etc. I can even mount drives server - client (ie on yodeller I can mount drives on silly). But not the other way around. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS
On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: When I have NFS problems, I resort to using 'showmount -e system.com' from each machine to the other, just to make sure what is exported is what I think it is.. bash-2.00# showmount yodeller mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered :-( But rpcinfo on yodeller says portmap, mountd and nfsd ARE running, and so does ps. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc info
I've just been browsing the GNU site trying to find out what the differences in the C libraries are and i could find no mention of libc5, libc6 or glibc. My understanding isn't complete, and may in fact be downright wrong, but I believe that libc6 is the second GNU libc and that libc4 (the old a.out system) was the first one. The migration away from the GNU libc (to libc5 which was ELF) I don't know the reasons for but presumably was becase this other libc was more fully developed at the time. Is libc6 just another way of saying glibc? Yep. Debian is calling it libc6, RedHat is calling it glibc (GNU libc). I don't know what the offical name is amoung linux users is. If you can refer me to any site/doc to satisfy my curiosity, please do so. The Free Software Foundation's web site is probably as good a place as any to start. Try here: http://www.fsf.org/software/libc/libc.html Hope this helps, Adam. Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian install not recognizing cdrom
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2.10 but can't get it to access my cdrom. I have a Soundblaster cdrom, which is recognised by Redhat as sbpcd. I've installed the rescue disk and the driver disk and the shell prompt says that /dev/sbpcd is available; however when I try to mount the cdrom it says /dev/sbpcd is not available. Does this mean that I've got to copy everything to floppies in order to install debian :( Anthony -- ** Anthony Campbell* Using RedHat Linux - Windows-free zone * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a single command
Is there a command to delete all files and subdirectories within a directory. For example, I have the directory apps in my home directory. Lets says apps has 7 files and 2 directories. With one command, how can I delete the apps directory and all its contents. I looked at the man page but didn't see anything helpful. Thanks. rm -fr /home/apps ...or to remove anything inside /home/apps but leave /home/apps standing rm -fr /home/apps/* Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 02:29:19PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: When I have NFS problems, I resort to using 'showmount -e system.com' from each machine to the other, just to make sure what is exported is what I think it is.. bash-2.00# showmount yodeller mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered :-( But rpcinfo on yodeller says portmap, mountd and nfsd ARE running, and so does ps. Comment the ALL:PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny and try it again Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Have you ever seen an atom, Little bits of everything floating by, Take a good look at them, Collectively they compose all you see including your eye - Whoops - Blues Traveler ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
Timothy Hospedales wrote: Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? you would include \r in the string you are sending. Just FYI, everything works in pairs of lookfor send so, if you are trying to watch for your login prompt, then send your userid you'd have something like: oginmy_id You can also have 'sub-pairs' of 'expect'/'send' like this for hitting enter a few times: ogin--ogin--ogin--ogin--oginmy_id The chat program will look for ogin, not seeing it send what is after the - , which in this case is nothing, so will send a CR, then watch for ogin , etc until it gets to the end of the string. If it sees ogin anywhere in that sequence, it will drop out and send my_id. If you find you really need to send the \r, you should make the sequence look like this: ogin-\r-ogin-\r-ogin-\r-ogin my_id Tim PS: This is all bringing back horrible memories of HDB uucp -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Have you ever seen an atom, Little bits of everything floating by, Take a good look at them, Collectively they compose all you see including your eye - Whoops - Blues Traveler ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: windows
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and as we all know, 1601 is an important date ;-) Now why they didn't keep with the VMS standard, which also had a 64-bit time structure (I forget the resolution), with time 0 sometime in 1858, I'll never know. (the 1858 date was chosen because that is, in fact, astronomical time 0, so VMS was indeed adhering to a pre-existing standard) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
Jan Francsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux. When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right Directory. Evrytime I do so, dselect says Dir don´t exists. I have checked under win95 and the dir´s are there on my cd it must be Debian/Local . Well, if it's one of the official CDs, using the directory name / should work. (this will cause dselect to display stuff about directories that have two slashes, which looks ugly to me, but it works...) If your CD isn't organized like an official CD, you'll have to find the right directory. when I check the cdrom Path (ls /cdrom) in a second shell, nothing was in it. Is this ok ? If not, how can I mount a CD and where do I find it ? Well, that is to be expected, since dselect mounts the cdrom in a place of its own choosing, not in /cdrom. To find out where it is mounted, after you've selected your cdrom inside dselect and it's been mounted (you can tell because that'll be when it spins up), switch to another console and issue the mount command. See where it says your cdrom device is mounted (probably /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt) Then, look inside that directory and see what's there - you're looking for a directory named stable or bo - if, for example, you can find these directories by doing: ls /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/ then you can use / for the directory when asked by dselect. If you find these directories by doing: ls /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Debian Then answer Debian when asked for the directory by dselect. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...
Hi, I have a hypothetical situation ... and it's corrlaly questions... If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and printers... What if one of the machines was a windows machine...? What if they where both windows machines ? :) What protocols should I use Thanks... Merry Christmas ... to all. -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Windows internals
At 18:41 23-12-97 +1100, you wrote: If you thought Unix's handling of the date, being seconds since Jan 1, 1970, in a 32 bit value, was weird, I quote your from the Win32 API help: The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. Still, by my calculations, that should last us until the year 60095. Perhaps there's something in the 95 :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ Actually, until February 27th 60095 AG. (Of course, while AD stands for 'Annus Domini', AG stands for 'Annus Gatesis', from Latin: Gates, Gatesis, etc.) What is going to do the grand-grand-grand-...-grandson of Bill Gates on February 28th of that remote year? I guess he'll run to his local computer store to get Debian Release 2^128. Best wishes from Northern Italy... # ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Roberto Tonetti *** T o n e t t i . d o c *** via Roma 36/38I -- 13862 BRUSNENGO (BI) -- Upper Italy fax, modem, phone:+39-15-985488 (GMT +0100) Internet e-mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Two mysteries shall remain unexplained forever: death and vulgarity. ~ OSCAR WILDE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: a hypothetical, some questions and merry christmas...
On Dec 25, Kevin J Poorman wrote Hi, I have a hypothetical situation ... and it's corrlaly questions... If I wanted to connect 2 debian machines together with ethernet cards ... How would I set it up so that the 2 computers can share files and printers... What if one of the machines was a windows machine...? What if they where both windows machines ? :) What protocols should I use The common answer to each above is TCP/IP, and SMB. Windows machines (3.11 and better) will talk to each other using NETBEUI. Add TCP/IP as a protocol in windows. Under Linux, you should install samba, which will talk to your windows machines using SMB over TCP/IP, the same as an NT or 95 or 3.11 machine. To talk linux to linux, use NFS, and the lpr system can print to 'remote' printers on other *nix systems. Tim -- Tim Sailer (at home) Coastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems Operations PO Box 671 http://www.buoy.comRidge, NY 11961 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED](516) 476-3031 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Boris == Boris D Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Does anybody working on the egcs package? If not, I would like Boris to try. The egcs package is currently being maintained by Galen Hazelwood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Binaries for i386, sparc, and powerpc architecures are in project/experimental. Boris Also I am going to do some research on the Scheme-C scheme. Oh, good. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then nothing would detect the modem on /dev/ttyS0. I then booted off my bootdisk that I made during debian setup, and it was recognized okay.. Any ideas on how to fix this? Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by another user, wvdial (http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial). It starts to work beautifully, and logs in, detects a ppp, starts my ppp, and then disconnects, and says the ppp deamon exited with error code 2. I check the ppp-errors file, and it says that the /etc/ppp/ppp-connect file doesn't exist. Now, I take out the line 'connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect' from the options file in /etc/ppp/ and dial again. This time it exits with error code 1. The ppp log file also says: Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:24 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x70 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x71 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x72 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x73 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x74 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x74 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x75 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x75 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x77 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x77 auth chap md5] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Modem hangup Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Connection terminated. Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Exit. Any ideas? Thanx alot! Timothy PS: Assuming I ever get this to work, does anyone know if Apache or any other web servers will work even though I've got a dynamic IP? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help Backpack CD-ROM
Adam Klein wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 04:58:29PM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 from a backpack cd. I get a message saying that /dev/bpcd is not a block device. I have selected the cdrom module in the device install. Any Ideas? You need to also select the module for the backpack cd drive, and you probably don't need the cdrom module. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I did not see a backpack cd module in the list but when I get back to work I will check. Thanks for the help. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: The first thing that happened is that when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then nothing would detect the modem on /dev/ttyS0. I then booted off my bootdisk that I made during debian setup, and it was recognized okay.. Any ideas on how to fix this? Are you using a plugn'play modem? And what do you mean by nothing would recognize it? Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can Try looking in /usr/doc/ppp* for some examples and readmes. beautifully, and logs in, detects a ppp, starts my ppp, and then disconnects, and says the ppp deamon exited with error code 2. I check the ppp-errors file, and it says that the /etc/ppp/ppp-connect file doesn't exist. Now, I take out the line 'connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect' from the options file in /etc/ppp/ and dial again. This time it exits with error code 1. The ppp log file also says: The /etc/ppp/ppp-connect file is the one pppd uses to connect, IIRC, so without it, pppd has no idea what to do with itself. ppp-connect should be a script that dials the modem and logs into the remote server, I think. PS: Assuming I ever get this to work, does anyone know if Apache or any other web servers will work even though I've got a dynamic IP? I don't think apache will care. The problem lies in the fact that in order to connect to your apache server, I've got to know your IP address, or your hostname (which is essentially the same thing, because it'll get resolved to your ip address), and those'll keep changing, so getting people to _find_ your machine might be tough. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |The problem with computers: | || | rivendell[501] [~] love me | | bash: love: command not found | | rivendell[502] [~] hug me| | bash: hug: command not found | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
Just as an aside, people with dynamic IP can use the dynamic IP DNS service offered by Monolith, and then other systems will always be able to find you whatever your IP is. It's free. Check out http://www.ml.org/ . I am using this to provide DNS for my laptop ricochet wireless modem. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If it happens to be powered up, you will be talking to my laptop via radio. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Amanda for Debian?
I can't seem to find a debian package for amanda (backup software from University of MD), so I thought I would just build it. Unfortuntely it core dumps during configure with the folowing error message: checking whether /sbin/dump supports -E for estimates... Memory fault (core dumped) Anyone have a clue here? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Matrox Millenium II vs. #9 Revolution 3D
Hi. I am about to get a new P II system and had to decide on many alterantives available. My current concern is what video card would suit me the best. I have no doubt that I would go with AGP one (even not for the sake of performance, but to save PCI slot :) and my current choice is between Matrox Millenium II AGP and Number Nine Revolution 3D AGP. Matrox seems to be the fastest under X (and free driver is already available from S.u.S.E.), Revolution 3D is faster under Windows. I do not intend to use Windows a lot, so the best bet would be Matrox, but I heard the opinion that in spite of the fact that it is the fastest, it's image quality is substantially worse than that of Number Nine cards. Could anyone confirm this? And another thing, assuming I would have to use Accelerated X server with my card, what are the cons of the fact that server is libc5 compiled and my system will be libc6-based (of course, I would have to install libc5 runtime libraries also). I would greatly appreciate any input. Thanks a lot. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on Aptiva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: Folks, Has anyone installed Debian on an IBM Aptiva L5H? I have a user here that wants to get one, but only if Linux will install and run with little hassle. My girlfriend has Debian running on an Aptiva, but it's not an L5H. I think it's an S9C. Anyway, the only probs were that it needed XFree v3.3.1, which isn't in bo, and that the stupid modem is one of those windows only modems, so it doesn't work with linux. - M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mark Monty Montague | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't do Windows(tm) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- DON'T PANIC! I'm a trained professional, and far more | *Why* question qualified to panic in this situation than you are. | authority? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is HP Office Jet Series 500 All In One Printer Supported?
I have been given an HP Office Jet Series 500, Model 500 All in One combination printer, fax, copier, scanner. Is anyone successfully using this model printer under Linux? If so, what driver do you use? Thanks. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
