Problemas LILO

1998-06-15 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Hola. No se si os acordareis que hace un tiempo escribí pidiendo ayuda sobre LILO. Bien, pues, resulta que formateé el disco entero y volví a empezar... pero me encuentro con problemas aun. Voy al grano: mi ordenador tiene dos discos duros de 3,2 gb cada uno. En el primer disco tengo una

3COM 3C_916

1998-06-15 Thread Fernando Sainz Munoz
Hola a todos: Tengo un PC con una tarjeta de red 3COM 3C_916 y me gustaria poder conectarme a la red. He buscado en internet si estaba soportada y solo he encontrado referencias a las 3C_900 y 3C_905 ¿ Sabe alguien si esta soportada esta tarjeta o si hay alguien trabajando en ello ? Saludos.

HP Deskjet 690C

1998-06-15 Thread J. Parera
Si alguien tiene dicha impresora le agradecería que me enviase sus filtros pués yo para crearlos-usarlos lo he hecho con el magicfilter, con los filtros de la deskjet, los cuales no me funcionan del todo bien. Por ejemplo si imprimo texto si funciona bien pero al imprimir un documento de LyX ( ps,

re:La impresora ha dejado de funcionar

1998-06-15 Thread CARLOS=MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI%DIDES.SINFO%BI.LARRASKITU
Aupa gente! A mí, así a botepronto se me ocurre que podría ser que tengas compilado el soporte de la impresora como módulo y no tengas el kerneld cargado para que lo lance on-the-fly. Sólo es una idea. Si eso prueba a lanzarlo con insmod lp.o o algo así (no tengo el ordenador delante y no lo

Re: Problemas LILO

1998-06-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:36:19AM +0200, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Voy al grano: mi ordenador tiene dos discos duros de 3,2 gb cada uno. En el primer disco tengo una partición primaria DOS de 2,1gb y una partición extendida DOS de 1,1gb. En el segundo disco tengo otra partición

Re: 3COM 3C_916

1998-06-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 12:22:25PM +0200, Fernando Sainz Munoz wrote: Tengo un PC con una tarjeta de red 3COM 3C_916 y me gustaria poder conectarme a la red. He buscado en internet si estaba soportada y solo he encontrado referencias a las 3C_900 y 3C_905 en los kerneles nuevos (2.1.104 es el

RE: Problemas LILO

1998-06-15 Thread Raimon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 15-Jun-98 Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: El primer disco se llama /dev/hda, y el segundo /dev/hdc. La partición de linux se llama /dev/hdc3 y la de swap /dev/hdc2. Ahora viene mi problema... He intentado instalar LILO, y parece que me lo instala bien,

2.1.x version of ipmasq!

1998-06-15 Thread Paul Miller
For those of you running the bleeding edge development kernels, I modified the /etc/rc.boot/ipmasq script (from Debian's ipmasq package) so it can be used with either ipfwadm or ipchains. You'll need to add variables EXTERNAL and INTERNAL to your configuration (/etc/ipmasq.conf). These

Re: perl broken install (bo)

1998-06-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Marco Frattola wrote: installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't install, saying that subprocess post install script returned error 123 or something like this. What's error 123 and how can I fix it? without perl, other packages

Junk being written to wtmp by X

1998-06-15 Thread Derek Tam
Here's a look at the output of a last command: reboot system boot Sun Jun 14 15:58 p*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sun Jun 14 15:21 - down (00:34) dtam ttyp0:0.0 Sun Jun 14 14:55 - down (01:00) p*** O[EMAIL

dselect

1998-06-15 Thread Zim Lin
Whenever I try to install using dselect, I keep getting not a debian archive errors or something like that. Does anybody know how this can be fixed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GECM.COM: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed

1998-06-15 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:42:38 EDT, Paul Miller wrote: Either debian.org or someone on this list has or relays to a system called 'gecm.com'. I've been receiving lots of messages saying that a delivery has failed, which is not true. These messages are usually

Linux Office automation Tools How do they stack up?

1998-06-15 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, I guess I am an old geezer, however, I think the power of these packages make them idea for implementing very powerful applications and EIS systems. So I would like to hear what the opinions are of this august group. thanks, allan bart - == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst

Re: Junk being written to wtmp by X

1998-06-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Derek Tam wrote: Here's a look at the output of a last command: reboot system boot Sun Jun 14 15:58 p*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sun Jun 14 15:21 - down (00:34) Known problem with xbase:

Re: Tape drive sense errors

1998-06-15 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
How do you clean the heads? I have got an Iomega Ditto internal 2Gb drive. Are there head cleaning tapes available? Johann, I have an internal SCSI tape drive (1/4). All I do is open the system up to expose the tape heads and use stereo casette tape cleaning fluid on Qtips on the

port redirection

1998-06-15 Thread Terence Kearns
Does anyone know where I can get a program to redirect a port from one computer to another? I want to redirect port 80 from one of my computers to my gateway (which is a 386SX16 with 4mb RAM and 40MB HDD). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shanta McBain wrote: Hi all Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the file and goes to the next step. I then reboot

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shanta McBain wrote: Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical

Re: libBrokenLocale - what is it?

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adrian Monk wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:40 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: (snip) The install of the Slackware package has overwritten the file permissions of apparently several files and directories. and Steve Lamb wrote: Stupid question, is your passwd file there? That is about the

Re: fvwm95

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ralph Winslow wrote: I've just run dselect to try to download xview (I'm running hamm) and it offered to install ~15-20 packages. I said go ahead, and now my system, which had had a nifty W$95 style desktop, seems to be running a blank X system with one xterm. I can use it to spawn new

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:55:37AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: files/dirs in the other panel. MC should be required software, its that good. DEFINITELY! I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and certainly haven't

Exim woes

1998-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
I lost my basic exim aliases file. Could someone be so kind as to send one to me? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and

Imlib 1.6 is now in Debian's Incoming!!!!!!!!!

1998-06-15 Thread Shaleh
Yes after much trial and hard ship (ok after me putting it off and complaining a lot) Imlib 1.6 is now resting comfortably in Debian's Incoming and will appear in slink shortly. SO yes, now GNOME and Debian will happen. Jim Pick and I seem to have it so we can make auto gen packages from cvs so

Debian and Fat32

1998-06-15 Thread Phlip
I've seen where Debian has a Linux Kernel 2.0.33 that will allow access to Fat32 partitions but I can't find the Debian package. Is it available yet? Thanks Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

giflib-3.0 AND Imlib 1.6 is now in Debian

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes after much trial and hard ship (ok after me putting it off and complaining a lot) Imlib 1.6 is now resting comfortably in Debian's Incoming and will appear in slink shortly. Please allow me to jump in here with a related question. I was seized by urge to

Re: perl broken install (bo)

1998-06-15 Thread George R
On 06/15/98 at 10:18 AM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Marco Frattola wrote: installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't install, saying that subprocess post install script returned error 123 or something like this.

Re: giflib-3.0 AND Imlib 1.6 is now in Debian

1998-06-15 Thread Shaleh
Oops. Forgot to mention that I said no more non-free/contrib. We now use ungiflib. It is giflib w/ the lzw ripped out. The RH guys are using this as well. So it is kinda the de facto standard in GNOME right now. So grab libungif (or whatever Jim Pick called it). Imlib will allow either

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-15 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Bernt T. Hansen wrote: Johann asks: How do you clean the heads? [...] Bernt responds: I have an internal SCSI tape drive (1/4). All I do is open the system up to expose the tape heads and use stereo casette tape cleaning fluid on Qtips on the heads. I

port forwarding in 2.1.x

1998-06-15 Thread Paul Miller
How can I do port forwarding in 2.1.106? I've tried to use ipchains, and it's not working .. with the -j REDIRECT option, ipchains seg.faults. Any ideas? -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and Fat32

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phlip wrote: I've seen where Debian has a Linux Kernel 2.0.33 that will allow access to Fat32 partitions but I can't find the Debian package. Is it available yet? Thanks Paul ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.33_2.0.33-9.deb There's

Re[2]: giflib-3.0 AND Imlib 1.6 is now in Debian

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So grab libungif (or whatever Jim Pick called it). Imlib will allow either giflib or ungiflib. So if you have giflib, no need for a new version. Thanks for the reminder; I saw this (on the labs.redhat site if memory serves me) but it had slipped my mind.

which reference book on linux?

1998-06-15 Thread Manos Papantoniou
Hi all, I would like to know if anyone knows a book that he found usefull as a reference to linux, of intermediate/advanced level, and preferably one that does not specialise on non-debian distributions (ie one with lots of examples that are irrelevant to debian). I have seen the linux bible

Re: port redirection

1998-06-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Terence Kearns wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a program to redirect a port from one computer to another? I want to redirect port 80 from one of my computers to my gateway (which is a 386SX16 with 4mb RAM and 40MB HDD). The package redir or redir2 should

Re: which reference book on linux?

1998-06-15 Thread Shaleh
I have learned all I know from three sources: 1. This list. Read the posts even if you think they don't apply to you. You'll be amazed what you find. 2. /usr/doc/* Esp. the HOWTO's directory 3. irc discussions -- you will be amazed at what is talked about in irc. Try to visit

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread damon
Greets, Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option (delete logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you delete an extended partition untill all logical

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-15 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | lpd tends to die within a day or so, and pland dies within minutes, announcing | (incorrectly) an application logout. I'm not using pland but I get exactly the same behaviour with lpd on our production system. If you find a solution for this,

vcs Error

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Beattie
When I log into tty10, and try to run mc, I get the following error: TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs (It appears 3 times.) Can someone explain to me what this is, or how to fix it? It

Re: XFree86 problems

1998-06-15 Thread joost
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Matt Kopishke wrote: dselect told me I needed), but after runinng XFree86Config, when it goes to graphic mode, my screen goes crazy, it has many moving, blue lines, and it even messes up the other terminals. That sounds like your setup is making your card do things

インストールについて

1998-06-15 Thread ono ikuo
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Top doesnt work on a terminal

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Beattie
I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt appears in the middle of the system info at the top of the screen, and when using commands such as u, the prompt appears with $xx sequences. the xx being

Re: Install problem

1998-06-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Shanta McBain wrote: Hi all Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the

PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread M.C. Bezemer
Hi, I've a problem: my laptop doesn't seem to see a Fujitsu LAN card (10 base-T). Is the problem in the kernel or is it somewhere else? Thanx in advance, Maarten Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Ian Stuart
M.C. Bezemer wrote: I've a problem: my laptop doesn't seem to see a Fujitsu LAN card (10 base-T). Is the problem in the kernel or is it somewhere else? To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. For this, you'll need the

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Debian User List Account
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: To get a PCMCIA card to work, you need to remake the kernel, and the PCMCIA modules, and then reinstall the kernel. For this, you'll need the kernel source and the pcmcia source. installing the kernel source is ok (2.0.32-5 from hamm), but how should

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: I use make-kpkg, so I run make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image # custom.1.0 is kernel name this went fine... now do the PCMCIA modules: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 modules_image this gave an error:

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Ian Stuart wrote: I use make-kpkg, so I run make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image # custom.1.0 is kernel name this went fine... now do the PCMCIA modules: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 modules_image this

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: What are you trying to do? The modules are included in the kernel-image .deb package you made with make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image. There is noo need for a separate module_image package. I do sometimes have problems with the

Re: PCMCIA question

1998-06-15 Thread Ian Stuart
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: What are you trying to do? The modules are included in the kernel-image .deb package you made with make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image. There is noo need for a separate module_image package. I do sometimes have problems with the installation of modules if I

Re: Top doesnt work on a terminal

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt appears in the middle of the system info at the top of the screen, and when using commands such as u, the

X windows blanks my monitor...

1998-06-15 Thread Rift
Setting up X windows, I have a problem. Anytime I run X -probeonly, my monitor goes blank, then the monitor's status LED changes to show that It's in standby or 'no-signal' mode. It doesn't seem to matter which X server I use to do this, unless I use XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria, (I'm running a

Re: Install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: [ snip ] : Sounds like that disk 5 was bad. Use another disk and rebuild (rawrite2) : disk 5 and try the install from the beginning. As the docs say, most : install problems stem from bad disks. : : Hmm - I found this as well - a friend made the

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk

xkoules locked my system

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Malloy
I just tried to play a game I have on my system, which is part of the distribution, called xkoules. I had never used it before. While some text was scrolling in the game window I clicked my mouse on it. My system just froze. I had a blank screen. I could not exit X with ctrl-alt-backspace.

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 15 Jun 1998, Hannu Koivisto wrote: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | lpd tends to die within a day or so, and pland dies within minutes, announcing | (incorrectly) an application logout. I'm not using pland but I get exactly the same behaviour with lpd on our

Re: problem using staroffice 4 (fwd)

1998-06-15 Thread joost
other email i wrote your, said that i had problems with the instalation of one program. It was StarOffice 4. I was working with glibc and today i change to the none-glibc version of debian. I could install staroffice without problems. When i read some documents, there said that Staroffice

Re: HELP: w/ grep on a log file.

1998-06-15 Thread david . oswald
THank for looking into this everyone. Turns out that the sed is not necessary. The date + %a %b %d statement needs to be modified! I really need to get my shit together. The correct statement is date +%a %b %d where the space between the + and the %a needs to be

real audio for slink?

1998-06-15 Thread Paul McDermott
hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink uses old libs ie xlib6, g++27, and lib5 i don't want to put them on unless I have to.

Can autofs mount smbfs shares?

1998-06-15 Thread servis
Hi all, Can the autofs package be set up to mount smbfs shares on a Win95 box? I can mount manually with 'smbmount //machine/share /mount -n' but if autofs could be set up do it that would be great. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue

A pleasant cron surprise

1998-06-15 Thread Igor S. Livshits
Hello, Well, I left my hamm system half set up when other things distracted me. I had cron running, but no functional MTA fully installed. I was thus plesantly surprised that cron actually managed to get an email message to me once it executed a scheduled command for me. Question is: Does cron

Re: gcc can't compile, egcc can!??

1998-06-15 Thread servis
On 14 Jun, Zack Weinberg wrote: One thing that bothers me is that your kernel compile was affected. The kernel shouldn't use anything from libc. If the kernel boots it's fine, but there might be something strange going on there. It was failing on the compile of the [x/menu]config generation

Re: xkoules locked my system

1998-06-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:04:51AM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: I just tried to play a game I have on my system, which is part of the distribution, called xkoules. I had never used it before. While some text was scrolling in the game window I clicked my mouse on it. My system just froze. I

Wine configuration error

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
The following happened with wine_980614 from slink, but also occurs with earlier versions: When configuring with /usr/sbin/wineconf, I got the following error(s): Name main::RCS_ID used only once: possible typo at /usr/sbin/wineconf line 7. Name main::rest used only once: possible typo at

Running new programs

1998-06-15 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm still a novice debian user, so forgive me if this seems like a rudimentary question. How do you run a program (or package?) once you've installed and configured it. For instance, I've just installed a few games, netscape, and various other utilities that I would like to use, but I don't know

Re: インストールについて

1998-06-15 Thread Masato Taruishi
Hi. This is a maling list for English. If you want to speak in Japanese, you can send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This is roman-character for Japanese - kokoha eigo no maling list desu. mosi nihongo wo tukaitai nonara [EMAIL PROTECTED] no houni mail wo okurimashou.

Re: Running new programs

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: I'm still a novice debian user, so forgive me if this seems like a rudimentary question. How do you run a program (or package?) once you've installed and configured it. For instance, I've just installed a few games, netscape, and various other

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-15 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Timothy C. Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file to mp3

Kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-15 Thread timothy
Does anyone know when the .deb package for the 2.0.34 kernel source will be available? Will it be soon, or should I go ahead use a tgz? (What are the disadvantages of this as opposed to using the .deb file?) Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt weirdness

1998-06-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JG == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JG On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: IG Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334 IG Carp::croak('Timeout') called at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 1060 JG I'm sure Manoj can say more, but it sounds to me like this

smail set-up

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Roark
I am new to smail (been using sendmail), and have a couple of questions. I am setting up services on a client only machine ( a laptop ). I will be receiving mail using fetchmail from several sources. I can't figure out how to do two things: 1. change the name of any outgoing mail to another

gnome for debian

1998-06-15 Thread Brian Morgan
Can anyone tell me how to get gnome 2.0 installed on a Debian 2.0 machine? Is it even available for Debian yet? I keep hearing rumors that it is, but haven't been able to find anything on Gnome's website about how to get it installed. Suggestions? Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

XF86Setup/Mouse Device

1998-06-15 Thread Dennis Dixon
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that responds to my inquiries. I find it amazing that so many people take the time to help out others less knowledgable. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I have more questions. It seems every time I try to do something, it generates more problems. 1) I have

Re: Domain name server

1998-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Erik Eriksson wrote: resolv.conf file, i.e you must write the IP address of the domain name server, but what if you don't have any? We reach Internet through a proxy, shall I use its IP address instead?. Thanks for help. If you access Internet, you must have a DNS server. To

Re: DNS and Host access.

1998-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Hi, like to deny access to say the web site if someone used say http://ftp.bogus.org and just allow access from http://www.bogus.org, I have been unable to find a way to do this, so at the moment you can access any of these services by using any of

Re: Debian and Fat32

1998-06-15 Thread DrZap
To get this kernel, you will need to download and compile the source code. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome for debian

1998-06-15 Thread Shaleh
GNOME was held up by me. I had some hassles w/ a needed package. GNOME .20 (note version -- it is NOT 2.0) will appear VERY VERY soon. Jim Pick is the main GNOME fellow for Debian and you can see more by visiting his website www.jimpick.com and gnome.jimpick.com. Brian Morgan wrote: Can

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Shanta McBain
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk

Installing netscape 3.04

1998-06-15 Thread Tom Kuiper
I downloaded the Netscape-3.04 installer from http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape3.html The download was transparent, that is, my current netscape (3.01) did not ask me where to put it. I assumed that it was put somewhere where dselect would find it. I then

Re: dselect

1998-06-15 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Zim Lin wrote: : Whenever I try to install using dselect, I keep getting not a debian : archive errors or something like that. Does anybody know how this can : be fixed? Are you sure you filled in correct values in the Access Method part of dselect? Maybe there's an

gnus

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have a number of mail related customizations, such as (setq mail-self-blind t) in my .emacs file, but gnus doesn't use them when I reply to a message. How can I make gnus see and use such customizations? If I use R or r to reply to a message, it is sent only to the author. How can

Re: Installing netscape 3.04

1998-06-15 Thread joost
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tom Kuiper wrote: I downloaded the Netscape-3.04 installer from http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/netscape3.html The download was transparent, that is, my current netscape (3.01) did not ask me where to put it. I assumed that it was

PPP dial-up in HAMM

1998-06-15 Thread Larry Panzer
Dear Debian (Linux) users, I installed Hamm today from my Win 95 partiton (hda1) onto my Linux partitions (hda2 /, and hda3 /usr, hda4 swap). I beleved that I set-up PPP correctly, following the procedure to not configure a network hook-up in the initial install and then followed the PPP setup