Re: something just sorta cool ...

1998-04-08 Thread Adam Shand
This will make the viewer command work even if netscape isn't already running. Basically, you're saying run netscape -remote OR run netscape. If the remote command fails (netscape's not already running), then you'll fire up a new one! If netscape is already running, then you'll open the

Re: kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:56:09AM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote: I tried using my old .config file from 2.0.30 and menuconfig did not show me the NLS and code page options. I had to use the default .config file and go from scratch. Also, if you don't say Y to the NLS support, the kernel

cross compiling from linux to dos

1998-04-08 Thread Rohit Mehta
hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different operating system?? any illumination would be

Re: Installing debian

1998-04-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Edward Christopher Kern wrote: [ snip problem ] : The details: IBM 486/50 8 MB RAM, 212 MB SCSI HDD. Currently DOS, : attempting debian. Not to be a smartass, but I suspect you've left out a few details. For example, is this an MCA or ISA machine? If it's MCA, you'll

problems with cvs

1998-04-08 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, recently I upgraded my cvs client, and started having problems trying to add directories in a remote server, connected through ssh. Here is a debug of it: $ mkdir testremote $ cvs -t add testremote - Starting server: ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l zorzella cvs server - Create_Admin

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Winkler
Ah okay, when I try using gpmconfig it tells me gpm: /dev/psaux: No such device. So what does that mean? There is a file /dev/psaux which looks right, but I can't get cat /dev/psaux to work either. Any thoughts? -Original Message- From: Robert Wilderspin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan

Re: error de instalacion

1998-04-08 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, pirusta wrote: me sale el error hdd:irq timeout:status 0x50 cuatro veces, luego hdd:ATAPI reset complete, y despues de salir otras cuarto veces el otro, me sale end_request:I/O error,dev 16:40,sector 0. En principio parece ser problema del CD(hdd), pero no se porque, ya

Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Ziemowit
Hey, No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation..How to add packages!!

1998-04-08 Thread sohel
Hi, I am new to this list. I just installed a base debian linux on my machine. Now i would like to add different softwares/packages. What would be procedure to go about it?? Also how can i mount my cdrom so that i can copy these packages? The mount command only shows /dev/hdb1 and proc. Debian is

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? It works fine on Pentium IIs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Carroll Kong
It should work. My friend runs Red Hat 5.0 with a Pentium II. Carroll Kong On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? PII is 386-compatible (IOW, it will run code compiled for a/on an i386); ergo, PII will work. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Markus Lechner
This is what i did - setting up my PII as a PPro. Never had any problems. But some Kernel-Makefiles showed a Pentium (only) config *after* i tried to configure as PPro. I manually reset this to PPro - no problems. My machine is running continously with two to three Users logged in localy. BTW

Re: Installation..How to add packages!!

1998-04-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
sohel wrote: Hi, I am new to this list. I just installed a base debian linux on my machine. Now i would like to add different softwares/packages. What would be procedure to go about it?? Become root; then use dselect. Take time to read the help screens - the interface is not

Xwindows

1998-04-08 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Hello to the Debian users list. I have hade good luck so far in setting up my system with Debian 1.3.1 (kernal 2.0.29) from the FTP site. I had installed the Xwindows and it came up at boot time but was a complete mess so I deinstalled and started over. I thought the installation went proper

Re: Server(s) Needed=DO NOT SPAM THIS LIST

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: WHOEVR YOU ARE: DO NOT SEND BULK MAIL TO THIS LIST. THE MAIL SERVERS THIS LIST USES ARE DONATED FREE, GRATIS, SO THE MEMBERS CAN DEVELOP FREE SOFTWARE. YOU COST THIS PROJECT MONEY, REAL MONEY BY SENDING SPAM TO THIS MAILING LIST DO NOT

Re: KDE

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there a kdebase one on the way too? Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can remember. Regards Graham -- Graham

CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-08 Thread Martin Oldfield
Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives. Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

THANKS: gs-aladdin 5.* for bo

1998-04-08 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi, I would like to thank everyone who answered my post Regards, Ulisses PD: It works perfectly (of course ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-08 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all, I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a RAID0 (stripping) installation. Also I would like to know if the menu for installation has RAID0 configuration options Thanks in advance, Ulisses PD:

Emerging Markets Technology and Information

1998-04-08 Thread Khawar Nehal
Dear Sir/Madam, ZT is a company which provides the following services : Supply of printed, online, and cdrom versions of business directories and analysis reports of the following emerging markets : UAE, HongKong, NewZealand, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Kazakistan, Myanmar.

CONFIRM s040804432015036

1998-04-08 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
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Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 10:47:04PM -0400, Dan Winkler wrote: Ah okay, when I try using gpmconfig it tells me gpm: /dev/psaux: No such device. So what does that mean? There is a file /dev/psaux which looks right, but I can't get cat /dev/psaux to work either. Any thoughts? That means the

Re: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-08 Thread Carroll Kong
Yeah. I burned ~ 5 CDs in Linux. My overall record with the Ricoh and Yamaha is still ~ 30 successful vs 0 misburns. Only the Yamaha worked, not the Ricoh1060, in Linux. I use cdrecord ver 1.6alpha 14 with mkisofs. (It comes with mkisofs). I did not try the RW discs on it yet

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ray Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to the list. I have been on for only few days and already have 75 messages from the list. [...] How are all you guys handling the subject threading deal? I use newsgate to forward various mailing lists to strictly

CD-R, CD-RW : philips ?

1998-04-08 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Does anyone have experience with philips 3610 ? De: MAILSYS / X400 (//INTERNET/FR/ATLAS/THOMSONRFC-822:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) A: MAILSYS / X400 (//INTERNET/FR/ATLAS/THOMSONRFC-822:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cc: MAILSYS / X400 (//INTERNET/FR/ATLAS/THOMSONRFC-822:debian-user@lists.debian.org)

Tkdesk error

1998-04-08 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi all, Sorry if this question is a bit simple, but I'm just starting to learn Linux. I have a problem with Tkdesk, I've installed it and when I try to run it I get the following message: font -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* doesn't exist So there is a font missing, where should it be and how

Sqiud and Socks

1998-04-08 Thread Bujtar Janos
Hello ! I'd like to set up inside firewall Netscape communicators to get to the Net. I set up Squid proxy on port 3128 to cache http and ftp queries and on the same machine a dual homed socks5 proxy (port 1080) (Debian Linux). Socks is only for mail/irc purposes (Mail server is out there on the

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread servis
On 7 Apr, George Bonser wrote: Last I heard, P-II sould be set up as PPro but I will double check it. From what I have heard(read?) the PII's are just PPro's w/ MMX and different cache. So compile kernel w/ PPro option. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: Need help with da requirements

1998-04-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hey, : No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, : Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? Works more or less the same as a PPro. The major difference between a PPro and a PII, iirc, the L1 and L2 cache location

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi, As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone would have bothered implementing RAID for Linux. :) It's already done. I'm running here with 2 0.5GB scsi disks as RAID-0 with /var mounted there. Also something like 20+20mb swap partitions on

Re: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-08 Thread dpk
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives. I have recently started working with a Sony CDU924S (CD-R) with a Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller using cdrecord.

Re: KDE

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Pople
There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there a kdebase one on the way too? Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can remember. Regards Graham Out of

Re:

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Pople
Hi, When I install Debian packages (from diskette) using dselect, I am asked for the packages.gz. Where can I get this file? Best Regards, Chee Seng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Just type 'scan' when it asks you for it, and it will add all the files on the disk instead of using a package.gz file.

clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread David B Wilson
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? Ctrl+Alt+Del works. If you want to restrict normal users from doing CAD, then put the allowed users in /etc/shutdown.allow. Of course, over the network, this doesn't work. You could use the sudo or super packages, though. -- To

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and watch for the bios screen. Then shut it off. If there

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-08 Thread Jeff Katcher
Matt Kennedy wrote: SNIP library files needed to run KDE on Debian (I think it takes care of libgif2). You also need to get QT version 1.3 or better. KDE's site has a link to Troll Tech who makes QT where you can get the current version 1.33. /SNIP I found that KDE required QT1, but the

Re: cross compiling from linux to dos

1998-04-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Rohit Mehta wrote: hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, David B Wilson wrote: Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) David, You can do a clean shutdown as a non-root user if you have planned for it as root. You can set

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 8 Apr, Kenneth L. Summers wrote in reply to David B. Wilson Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console, press

Mouse

1998-04-08 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, I have a microsoft ps/2 mouse with the wheel and I was wondering if the wheel could be used as a third button under X? as it can be under Win95. If so what do I set the mouse up as? I have tried saying that the mouse is three buttons but It doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Regards Graham

Mail Problems, Again

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have been trying to fix my smail program to be able to receive mail from others using my static ip/monolith address. These questions are based on my home machine and I have read over DNS/SMAIL/NETWORK, etc. manpages and HOWTO's. I came accross some messages between George Bonser

HiSax?

1998-04-08 Thread Atte Koivula
Do I need to include the HiSax driver to the kernel if I want to make my ISDN card (AVM ISDN A1) work with Debian? If so, I'm stumped since the Debian installation program whines that the device is busy... - Yorka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Scanners?

1998-04-08 Thread Don Berkich
I'm looking for advice on what flat-bed SCSI scanner to buy; something in the $200 - $400 price range, if possible. I've got Debian 1.3.1 on a Cyrix-166 machine currently, but I'll soon be upgrading to a dual PII-300. Advice on what scanners to avoid would also be most welcome. Thanks! Don

Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-08 Thread Ramon Olivella
In order to configure a graphic card under Debian 1.3.1 it doesn't appear in the drivers installation list. These are my technical specifications : Manufacturer : California Graphics Model : 3D Emotion Chipset : Hawk Real 3 D Graphic chipset : 3Dfx

Re:Xwindows

1998-04-08 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Did you setup the file 'XF86Config' ?. Your problem look likely come from the setup. If you did not setup that, use 'XF86Setup' command. Jongmook for me xwindows took several tries to get it installed correctly. the key i think was finding out exactly what kind of monitor and monitor card i

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should point out that it is considered a bad security idea to put . (or in fact any directory name that doesn't begin with /) in root's PATH. If you're just wanting to do something one time, it might be ok to do 'PATH=$PATH:.' as above but I

Re: Emacs 19.34

1998-04-08 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: I am using the emacs package (19.34) and am finding that increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that depend on either emacs19 or emacs20 and for some reason the emacs package doesn't provide emacs19 as I would expect it

Re: cross compiling from linux to dos

1998-04-08 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corcete Dutra
hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different operating system?? The README and INSTALL files

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Accelerator : Alliance Semiconductor's 128-bit ProMotion AT25 PC RAMDAC : 190 Mhz Where can I find a driver for this card ? There is a driver for AT25-based cards in the newest XFree86 3.3.2 SVGA server. If you are running bo, then upgrading to hamm will let you use this

Re: Tkdesk error

1998-04-08 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: font -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* doesn't exist So there is a font missing, where should it be and how should I install it. You should install either the xfnt75 or xfnt100 package. I'll try to remember to have the next tkdesk recommend

Re: Unable to start program

1998-04-08 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Torsten Hilbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why this is a security hole when it's done as the last

[no subject]

1998-04-08 Thread Valerie CAYOL
I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, and so far I have performed the basic installation. Severall problems have appeared : 1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device driver I was not able to find the

hanging on boot

1998-04-08 Thread Philip Jensen
Hi I have managed to install Debian v1.3 (I think) onto my Thinkpad760E. But I have a couple of problems During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, and I respond [Yes] it asks which drive (/dev/hda) which is correct, then wants to boot /dev/hda2, not /dev/hda7 which is

MD5 check failed for some packages!!

1998-04-08 Thread William R. Ward
Hi all, in a recent attempt to mirror hamm from the CDROM.COM web site (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm) I received errors when validating the MD5 checksums on the following files. I don't know if they are bad on the debian.org site, since only FTP is supported there and I find

Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0

1998-04-08 Thread Geza Gyorgyi
% To Philip Jensen, the Maintainers of the Debian installation software % During the install when asked if I want to boot off the hard drive, and I respond [Yes] it

Re: Emacs 19.34

1998-04-08 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Torsten Hilbrich writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: I am using the emacs package (19.34) and am finding that increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that depend on either emacs19 or emacs20 and for some reason the emacs package doesn't provide emacs19 as

Quantum fireball ST 3.2 and kernel 2.0.32

1998-04-08 Thread Kiyan Azarbar
I have a quantum fireball ST, 3.2 gig. It sounds quite nice and fast in Windows, but under Linux it thrashes around quite a bit. I hear much much more disk activity than in Windows, and sometimes it sounds unhealthy (I can hear the drive rattling around). This doesn't give me warm fuzzies since

Unable to open an initial console.

1998-04-08 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I somehow messed up one of my long-stable hamm systems during an upgrade. On boot-up, even a single-user boot, the boot process fails with the message in the subject line above. What may have caused this is that I ran out of space on my /usr partition during the upgrade. Things have been

gdk-imlibg

1998-04-08 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Does anyone know where I can find the binaries of gdk-imlibg and gdk-imlibg-dev? I downloaded the Enlightenment .13 binary and imlib1g from a Japanese site during a severe net dredge for Enlightenment. Everything is working fine right now, but to install imlibg, I had to remove the old imlib1,