Re: Los cores

1998-07-23 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
Ayer, Santiago Vila escribió: El mismo día, Enrique Zanardi tecleó: Antes de hoy, yo dije escribiendo: Por cierto que acabo de traducir bash(1), supongo que saldrá en la próxima versión de manpages-es (proyecto PAMELI). ¿Y por qué no en la próxima versión de bash? Oye, por mí no hay

RE Servidor de correo

1998-07-23 Thread J. Parera
Hola, he leido en la guia garl (capítulo 14) que smail puede enviar el correo de tres formas distintas: foreground - procesa inmediatamente los mensajes background - igual al anterior pero en segundo plano (procesos padre e hijos) queued -- encolado puestas en la variable delivery_mode del

Re: Los cores

1998-07-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:10:46AM +0200, Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote: Pues posiblemente porque la FSF no cree en las páginas man. Si algunas ¿Eh? ¿Cómorl? ¿Que no cree? Pues le puedo pasar unas 523 páginas man a la FSF (¿Felisa Sánchez Fernández?) esa a ver si cree. Le aseguro que Es

cdda2wav

1998-07-23 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Hola, tengo un problemilla con cdda2wav y querria ver si a alguno mas le pasa. 1º el cdda2wav que tengo es el de bo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/docs/music/BORRADOR2 $ dpkg -l|grep cdda2wav ii cdda2wav0.8-1 get WAV files from digital audio cd's y el problema son dos: 1º no funciona el

RE: /usr/lib/syslinux

1998-07-23 Thread J. Parera
Hola, Y por supuesto, debes visitar /usr/doc/syslinux Josep (Josep = Jose), date un paseo por tu /usr/doc , te sorprenderá la cantidad de documentación que tienes ahí. ok, ya lo he hecho. Se trata de un cargador de linux para arrancar desde un disco con formato DOS. No he averiguado más

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-23 Thread Matthew Myers
Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does when in the wrong video mode. I am running a Dell Latitude CP M233XT with the NM2190 chipset. I am very frustrated. I would really like to use

Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-23 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Joey Hess; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I take it you're not using the rvplayer debian package? You should try it. It's only in debian 2.0pre, but it makes installing real player very easy (and it should work on older debian 1.3 systems as well). -- see shy jo Sorry to butt

Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running

1998-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Damir J. Naden wrote: Sorry to butt in here, but just a quick question: I am using realplayer5.0, installed with rvplayer package from hamm, on a hamm based system. It works, and it worked first time I installed it. However, I can not for the life of me play _two_ songs in a row, without

FHS-correct place for x root pics

1998-07-23 Thread the lone gunman
I have some snazzy pictures that I have setup as default backgrounds for x (root window) on my system. I am curious, though, as to where I should store these for a FHS compliance. I'm guessing something like /usr/local/lib, but I'm not sure. Thanks for any suggestions! -- Unsubscribe?

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-23 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way to test the source of the problem is to print to a file on Win3.1. Then send the print file directly to the printer by 'cat file.prn /dev/lpN' where N is probably 1 for 2.0.X kernels and 0 for 2.1.X kernels. This will eliminate

sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Robert Rati
I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting from Win95. I've read all the FAQs and

emacs/xemacs conflict?

1998-07-23 Thread the lone gunman
Why do the emacs and xemacs packages conflict under debian? I wanted to try xemacs, but had to dpkg -r emacs before I could dpkg -i xemacs Since I no longer have GNU emacs on my system, is it okay to make /usr/local/bin/emacs a symbollic link to /usr/bin/xemacs? Also, I got a few warning

Re: good digital clock for x?

1998-07-23 Thread H Huang
the lone gunman wrote: Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :) I'd recommend asclock, which comes with afterstep. If you don't want the

autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm

1998-07-23 Thread JonesMB
I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and try wine. I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb This is what it wrote 250 CWD command successful. Local directory now /tmp/libs libstdc++2.8_*.deb:

Re: Debian 1.3 libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaleh wrote: We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do not make yourself go through more hassle than needed. apt has a upgrade feature which will update your system. We also have an autoup.sh script on the ftp site which will update for

magicfilter does ps?

1998-07-23 Thread the lone gunman
On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the staircase effect, and simply type lp somefile.ps and postscript files would print out automatically. On Debian, now, I have magicfilter (not APSfilter) installed,

My Date is always 3 hrs off

1998-07-23 Thread Keith
I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 To change the date to July 22 1998 11:30pm. It changes the date, until I reboot. If I check my cmos clock it is right. So I am assuming that it, meaning Linux, thinks

elm signature file

1998-07-23 Thread Keith
I think I am having some trouble setting up a ~/.signature file in Elm. If this message has my name at the bottom than everything is working, if not I need help. I just want to put a signature on all my email. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: My Date is always 3 hrs off

1998-07-23 Thread Alex Pennace
Keith wrote: I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 [snip] This is what I get when I display the time and date: Wed Apr 22 11:30:02 EDT 1998 But like I said it reverts back three hours slow

Off-Topic -- CGI_Lite

1998-07-23 Thread Pure Energy
Sorry for the off topic here but has/is CGI_Lite module been included in any of the Debian perl packages? Its required for some of my cgi's and was in the hopes that maybe someone has included some of these often used modules in a package. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Will Hamm X work with Cirrus 7548 chip?

1998-07-23 Thread Matthew Ando
Hello, I have an old laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus 7548 chip. It ran XFree I believe 3.2 fine on Red Hat 4.1. I recently upgraded to Hamm, and now I get the message _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to

Re: Off-Topic -- CGI_Lite

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Pure Energy wrote: Sorry for the off topic here but has/is CGI_Lite module been included in any of the Debian perl packages? Its required for some of my cgi's and was in the hopes that maybe someone has included some of these often used modules in a package. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Debian 1.3 libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Apt is in slink, we can not put it in stable. Autoup.sh apparently still has a flake now and then. There is a howto in the hamm directory (I believe) which tells you step by step how and what to update by hand. This is how I and many others do it. Once you update the 5 or so needed packages,

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Yo Pete, It worked just great ... thanks a million!! Now to set about finding where to modify the default colours Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford.

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks Gary, Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-23 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Thanks alot Matt regards Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, the lone gunman wrote: On Wed, Jul 22,

Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Paul Serice
I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. My current setup is ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. When I type dpkg --install e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb, I get the following: dpkg:

Re: elm signature file

1998-07-23 Thread fantomas
- I think I am having some trouble setting up a ~/.signature file in - Elm. If this message has my name at the bottom than everything is - working, if not I need help. I just want to put a signature on all - my email. hmmm edit your ~/.elm/elmrc and define # local .signature file to append to

Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Johnie Ingram
We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown, as the release of 2.0 hamm will happen: in Austrailia: at 10:00 AM ACT on Friday Jul 24 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight UTC on Friday Jul 24 in America: at 8:00 PM EDT on Thursday Jul 23

Re: Debian 1.3 libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shaleh wrote: We have done all the work needed to support libc6 for you. Please do This stuff always seems odd to me. Has autoup stopped killing people's systems? Yup, I've upgraded lots of systems

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Damon Muller
Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main Debian archive. Got this, installed it - it's

Check deb-Paket?

1998-07-23 Thread Michael Taeschner
Hallo, Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von .deb-Paketen? Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... Dann frage ich mich aber, wie dselect nach ftp die heruntergeladenen Pakete prueft bzw. wie Maintainer ihren ftp-Mirror checken? Danke im Voraus,

Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, JonesMB wrote: I am trying to upgrade from bo to hamm so I can run the new bash and try wine. I run autoup.sh and it ftp'ed the files needed for the upgrade. It failed to get me the file libstdc++2.8_*.deb [...deleted...] autoup.sh is expecting to find it in libs/,

autoup.sh v0.28 released

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
v0.28: 1998-07-23 (Craig Sanders) - libstdc++2.8 has moved from libs/ to base/ - libnet-perl has moved from interpreters/ to base/ as usual, it is available from http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ (primary site) ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ and

Re: X with a NeoMagic card

1998-07-23 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ok.. I found the key, I tried that and I also hooked up an external monitor to see if I could see something and it turned of the monitor like Win95 does when in the wrong video mode. What's in your /etc/X11/XF86Config? -- Ian

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Few days ago I had a chance to compare redhat against debian. I had installed Debian 1.3 from CD on tiny configuration: ROM=4M, HD=120M, Monochroom Hercules, Cyrix 486DX, 50Mh. A friend of mine tried to do the same job with RH5.1 but was unable to install due to the lack of disk space, ROM size

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 08:04:33PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). You have to compile sound as a kernel module.

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily). Theres a sound card in the machine but its

Re: magicfilter does ps?

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
the lone gunman writes: On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the staircase effect, and simply type lp somefile.ps and postscript files would print out automatically. On Debian, now, I have

Re: rvplayer 5.0 with deb pkg

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
Mark H. Mabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed rvplayer-5.0 with the Debian package and it still does not seem to work correctly. (I have also tried it by hand and still no luck.) When I click on a link with RealAudio, I get a Save As dialog box rather than having the player

Re: My Date is always 3 hrs off

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Keith writes: I am having some trouble getting my time correct on my Debian 1.3 system. I am in the Eastern time zone. I type: date 0722233098 To change the date to July 22 1998 11:30pm. It changes the date, until I reboot. If I check my cmos clock it is right. So I am assuming that

Re: where did cvs-pcl go?

1998-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Hsieh writes: Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? It should be around in slink. It may be removed from hamm due to showstop errors during its installation. Regards, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for

Re: Mouse movement weirdness with latest X packages

1998-07-23 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
FYI: I just upgraged to the rev 3.3.2.2-3 X11 packages and the mouse movement sluggishness and jerkiness seems to have gone away, and it seems that the random button pressing behavior has disappeared. I'm guessing this is what affected me, although I'm using xserver-s3, not the SVGA server (from

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Ken Gray wrote: 1 easy installation (i.e. auto recognition) No auto recognition for ISA in Linux yet... Linus haven't yet seen a good implementation of Prug'n'Pray. PCI works regardless of distribution. RedHat installation is more beautiful, Debian is more informative

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-23 Thread Jaakko Niemi
I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles. The systems seem stable, otherwise. Only common hardware are ultra-SCSI disks and

Re: where did cvs-pcl go?

1998-07-23 Thread Jens Ritter
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know why the cvs-pcl package went away? Will it be coming back soon? It has an important bug against it (see bug tracking system: #22577), because of which the install procedure for emacsen fail. It has been removed from hamm because it prevented

Re: Portuguese Keyboard

1998-07-23 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Ana Graca Silva wrote: Thanks all Debian useres for the answers to my question! I've solved my problem making a substituition of the file default.map in /usr/linb/kbd/keytables by pt.map ... It was so simple ... For further information, take a look at

Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello, I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. Thanks, Curt

Re: Check deb-Paket?

1998-07-23 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:31:35AM +0200, Michael Taeschner wrote: Wie ueberpruefe ich auf der Kommandozeile die Integritaet von .deb-Paketen? Die man-pages (uralt) sagen, dass es keine Checksumme gaebe... That is correct: the packages themselves do not contain checksums. Dann frage ich

Re: XFree 86 on CL 7548?

1998-07-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Matthew Ando wrote: Hello, I've upgraded to Hamm beta from Red Hat 4.1. I had X working with RH 3 and RH 4.1; 4.1's version of X is 3.2.x I have a laptop (Samsung sens 810) with a Cirrus Logic 7548 chip. After installing XFree 86 3.3 from Hamm, I get the famous

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: At 10:44 PM 7/19/1998 -0700, you wrote: It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try to use 0x300 (sound cards,

XF86Config mode settings for Number 9 FX Motion 771

1998-07-23 Thread Chris Evans
/dev/lp1 and printing sorted out! Now trouble is that I cannot get my combination of a number 9 FX Motion 771 card (it's an approved S3 card, fairly sure it has 4Mb RAM) to run X in 1024X768. I know it will do this as it ran NT at that resolution. I think I successfully (but not usably)

Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-23 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared lib(s) you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue disk, then run restore. My bo machine shows: All those libs seemed to be located in my /lib/

Re: Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Paul Serice wrote: I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages. My current setup is ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. [...]

Debian Beta 2.0 CD listings

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello, Can somebody with the Debain 2.0 beta CD do a dir on it and send me the listing. I need the root dir of the cd at least. A dir of the whole CD would be better. Curt

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Brother Ian. (p.s. Can you tell I'm excited?)

Re: sound problems

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: I'm having problems getting my sound card recognized. I think it is because my sound card is pnp and isapnp is loaded after the sound is initialize (ot attempted to be initialied). I have a SB/WSS card on my motherboard, and got the IRQ and IO setting

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
WaitIs this officalIs Debian 2.0 going to be released today??? I need to know before I start Downloading the beta CD Image Thanks, Curt -Original Message- From: Ian Keith Setford

Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread SEGV
This maybe isn't the most perfect forum for these questions, but it's one I read... What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? I'm starting to use more true-blue C++ constructs at work, and it would be nice to have them at home as well. For instance, browsing my

Re: Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Curt, you will not be able to burn a Debian CD under Windows (properly, anyway). Your only option will be to retrieve the Official D2 CD ISO images and then burn them directly to the CD from your Winbloze box. That, or use a Linux system to mirror the FTP site and build the CD from Linux from

Re: Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, g++ 2.7.2.3 is fairly out of date with respect to C++ standards. Use egcs C++ 1.x instead. Egcs is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is somewhat equivalent to gcc/g++ 2.9x.x, sort of :). Anyway, the egcs version of g++ conforms much more closely to the latest C++ standard. However,

Re: Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:35:51AM -0400, SEGV wrote: What is the state of Standard C++ (as adopted by ISO/ANSI) on GNU/Linux? Debian 2.0 will ship with the egcs C++ compiler (http://egcs.cygnus.com/) version 1.0.3 . For instance, browsing my system I see that c++ is gcc version 2.7.2.3. It

RE: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Frock
Yes, it's official alrighty ;) check http://www.netgod.net/ for more info. /Frock -Original Message- From: Curt E. Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. juli 1998 15:33 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today! WaitIs this

Re: autoup.sh fails when upgrading bo - hamm

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
I got the same message when I tried to run autoup.sh. However, I was trying to run it on a hamm system instead of trying to do an upgrade from bo. This is because I'm a newbie and don't know what I'm doing yet. Nonetheless, thought I'd let everyone know I saw the error also. At 07:43 PM 7/23/1998

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Patrick Olson (22 Jul) | | The output of lpq is sure interesting! | | The junk below is all from ONE print job from ONE Win3.1 computer. Think | this could be part of the problem? Note that I had to take the printer | offline to get all the pieces to be in the queue together. | | server2#

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know. Otherwise I a day or so I will upload this to the main

Re: Debian 2.0 Release later today!

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- From the oceans of code emerges Debian 2.0! And it is good! Come forward my brothers (and sisters) and embrace this glorious gift. Take forth this gift and sow it's seed for it will reign eternal. Ahhh... yes Brother! CD images! and hamm

Re: Debian Std C++?

1998-07-23 Thread Hannu Koivisto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | egcs 1.0.3 still does not understand namespaces fully yet, but its C++ | support is a big improvement over 2.7.2.3's . The original poster might want to try latest egcs snapshots from egcs.cygnus.com. They work better for me than 1.0.3 in general and they include

cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread David Parmet
newbie alert. since my 1.3 box, which i'm upgrading asap, doesn't have a cd-rom drive and has only a 14.4 modem, i was thinking of upgrading both before upgrading to 2.0. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-23 Thread Kent West
I tried to install Redhat on an older non-name-brand 486, but it wouldn't see one of my hard drives, so I tried Debian, and have stuck with it. The impression I've gotton from reading mail archives, etc, is that Redhat is easier to get up and running for the newbie, but only because it is more

Re: Burning my own CD under Windows

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I want to burn a cd with Debian 2.0 beta. I know you can download the images and use a linux program to make a cd. But I want to burn it under Windows. I just need to know the directory where every thing is just like it is on the cd. | | |

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Hi, Ok, What I believe to be the final build of the Enlightenment trilogy is uploaded to www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software/enlightenment. If you have ANY probelms, please let me know.

Re: Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

1998-07-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Perhaps you do have those libs (in name, anyway). I know that much is trimmed from libc to make everything fit on the boot floppy. Jeff Schreiber wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared lib(s) you're

Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Curt E. Spann
Hello, I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even possibly to make it? Will I have

Re: cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? You

Re: cd rom drives

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
newbie alert. Greetings. now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i get to shove the new stuff into their proper

Mirror after release

1998-07-23 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink frozen - stable? I just want to know how to adjust my mirror configuration file

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Curt E. Spann wrote: I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Marsh Ray
From: Curt E. Spann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even

Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Curt E. Spann (23 Jul) | Hello, | I am wondering if there is any Linux version of the boot screen like in Win95. So as linux is booting instead of seeing all that informtion it will be a graphical image of Linux or something. If there isn't one I would like to make one. Is it even

System timer resolution

1998-07-23 Thread Juan Pedro Lara Mendiola
¡Hello friends! I need to know how I can improve the system timer resolution. I think that I have to change a system variable named HZ. That variable establishes the timer interrupt frequency (defined 100 Hz). I need to use timers with resolution less than miliseconds. What do I have to do?

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: I'm getting errors on the e14 package. Seems like my imlib is broken Error message when I start E14 enlightenment: error in loading shared

Re: Mirror after release

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink

Official 2.0 CD's available Friday??

1998-07-23 Thread Young, Ed
I received an email from one of the CD vendors on the Debian distribution network (www.netgod.net) that the Official 2.0 CD's will ship Friday, July 23rd. Is this correct? Does this mean that Hamm (2.0) has gone from beta to full release? I've been folowing this list and the announce list and

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. You do *NOT* need the -dev files of any lib that is on your sytem to use E or any other app. The -dev

(fwd) New boot logo patch, testers wanted

1998-07-23 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
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Re: Graphical Linux Logo on boot

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jul-98 Will Lowe wrote: There is an ascii-linux-logo program floating around someplace (no clue where), or you could design an ascii-logo and just dump it to the screen at some point early in the boot scripts. I think it's floating around in a lot of places. Here's a copy of my

xterm-debian and pine problem

1998-07-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6 location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm displayed on hamm

Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Jack A Walker
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would

Re: autoup.sh v0.28 released

1998-07-23 Thread JonesMB
Now you tell me about the autoup.sh v0.28 upgrade :-) Yesterday I did some more hunting and found the 2 packages that autoup.sh v0.27 expected to be in libs - I found them in base. I downloaded them and autoup'ed again. It installed everything but it still complained about some conflicts.

UMSDOS on Debian

1998-07-23 Thread Salvador Bosque i Puy
I would like to install Debian without partitioning a disk. Is it possible to install Debian on a UMSDOS filesystem? Has anybody some hints or can post any pointer regarding this issue? Thanks Salvador Bosque -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread aqy6633
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would

Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-23 Thread Rick Fadler
Hi, I'm assuming with all the year 2000 compliance hype that there must be a document somewhere describing the year 2000 issues related to specific Debian releases of linux. Specifically, we have built an embedded system using Debian version 1.3. Being an embedded system, we've stripped out most

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote: Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know

cd_autoup.sh and hamm upgrade problems.

1998-07-23 Thread Clemmitt Sigler
Hi, I'm not subscribed to debian-user any more because of the volume, but please feel free to respond to me directly via e-mail if you have any questions, comments, etc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I helped a friend upgrade from bo to hamm yesterday over the phone. This is not easy in and of itself :^)

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Sheesh. I packaged this thing to AVOID this mess (-: E and all needed libs are now in Incoming on their way into slink. If you can wait three days or so, all should be cleaned up by dselect. Thank you and enjoy your new window manager (-: It's zlib1g

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib - get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Shaleh
Richard L. Alhama wrote: Thanks for the help. Package E15 again! E .15 rrrggg -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

RE: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Jul-98 Jack A Walker wrote: Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this

Re: Stupid unix

1998-07-23 Thread servis
*-Jack A Walker (23 Jul) | Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple | way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would | like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be | lowercase letters only. I know this seems

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