Re: Deshacer RM

1998-09-22 Thread Valentín Ruano Rubio
-Original Message- From: Octavio Rodriguez Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista de Linux Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Date: viernes 18 de septiembre de 1998 16:47 Subject: Re: Deshacer RM Hola, ¿Alguien puede explicarme por que no existe un 'undelete' en todos los unices?

Leafnode + Netscape

1998-09-22 Thread Javier Arregui
Hola, saludos a todos. Estoy trabajando todavia con bo, y tengo el ya conocido problema de que la version 1.0.3 de leafnode da un error de sintaxis en Netscape 4.04 al tratar de obtener los grupos de noticias. Lei en algun mensaje de esta lista que lo que habia que hacer era actualizarse a una

Re: Variables para españolizar el sistema

1998-09-22 Thread Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Iron wrote: Las variables de entorno generales que se vayan a emplear tanto en una shel (consola o xterm) como en X-Window hay que ponerlas en /etc/environment, por To'sta mu bien pero... ¿donde configuro el perfil de usuario para X? m'explico. /etc/profile es a

Re: configurar X y conexión a INFOVIA :(

1998-09-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 01:06:44PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: 1.- El cannot open mouse es porque no tienes el dispositivo bien enlazado, posiblemente, haz un ls -la /dev/mouse, deberia estar enlazado a /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) o /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) dependiendo de donde tienes el raton. Si

RE: configuracion de las X. (Novato)

1998-09-22 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Hola. Bienvenido! A mi me pasó una cosa similar con un Logitech PilotMouse PS/2. NO se me ocurrió preguntar a la lista, de manera que lo hice a saco. Repetí la instalación de Linux, y cuando ponía devices, seleccioné el PS/2 y lo instalé. No se si hay algun método más fino de ejecutar ESA

Re: configuracion de las X. (Novato)

1998-09-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:25:39PM +0200, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Repetí la instalación de Linux, y cuando ponía devices, seleccioné el PS/2 y lo instalé. No se si hay algun método más fino de ejecutar ESA parte de la instalación, pero yo lo hice así y me funcionó. $ modconf

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-22 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the better, however we

RE: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread David Karlin
Hi, Backing up to a partition on the same disk provides you no protection against a disk-crash. If the drive fails, you will most likely lose date on *all* partitions. Better to have another drive, be it tape, HDD, zip, or whatever. --David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
At 08:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0200, you wrote: On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes: I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as guest. My username on the Debian box is westk.

Re:

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
At 04:30 PM 9/21/1998 -0600, you wrote: How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want to change it to unstable from stable. If I understand what you're asking, just go into the Access item in dselect and choose FTP and it'll ask you several questions, one of which

Can't connect to Samba box from NT ws

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
I've posted a similar message detailing difficulties connecting to an NT server from a Samba box; now I'm having problems connecting to that Samba box from an NT workstation. I've got an account on the Linux box (westk), but when I try to connect to it from my NT ws, it asks for a username and

Re: REMOVE!!!

1998-09-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kent West wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't have to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all, but isn't

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
At 06:32 PM 9/21/1998 -0500, you wrote: At 08:53 PM 9/21/1998 +0200, you wrote: On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes: I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as guest.

getting sendmail to relay...

1998-09-22 Thread D'jinnie
Hi - I've just installed Debian on my laptop (whee!) and put sendmail on it, made it masquerade and relay to the main machine that's connected to the Internet (Slackware 3.5). However, I was stumped trying to get the slackware machine to relay all the mail for irony.org. here's what it logs: Sep

Re: mixed text and postscript

1998-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
| I'd like to be able to print both text and PostScript using one | printcap entry. HP recommends setting up two separate printcap ... | this with LPRng? I'm using an HP LaserJet 4000N with a JetDirect | card. Nothing wrong with Magicfilter, but it doesn't have to be that magic either.

Re: getting sendmail to relay...

1998-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
slackware machine to relay all the mail for irony.org. here's what it logs: Sep 21 19:47:19 irony sendmail[3703]: TAA03703: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [192.168.13.4], reject=550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied Does anybody know the arcane wonders

Re: Shared Lib problem

1998-09-22 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 21 06:47:01 1998 I'm having problems using some software downloaded from the net (netscape, StarOffice etc etc). Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. I did for

Re: getting sendmail to relay...

1998-09-22 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: Hi - I've just installed Debian on my laptop (whee!) and put sendmail on it, made it masquerade and relay to the main machine that's connected to the Internet (Slackware 3.5). However, I was stumped trying to get the slackware machine to relay all the mail

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1998-09-22 Thread me
I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until I rebooted and began deselect. I received the message fs type iso9660 not supported by kernal. I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660 file system. What do I need to do. If you can help please

/usr/lib/X11 vs. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

1998-09-22 Thread shaul
These 2 directories (/usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) seems to me an exact copy of each other. I could not find any link between them. Can I rm --force --recursive --verbose /usr/lib/X11 ? And if not, why ? What are the possible explanations that I have 2 copies of the same directory ? Are

Re: /usr/lib/X11 vs. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

1998-09-22 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about /usr/lib/X11 vs. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 | These 2 directories (/usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) seems to me an exact | copy of each other. I could not find any link between them. | Can I rm --force --recursive --verbose /usr/lib/X11 ? | And if not, why ? | What

Re: /usr/lib/X11 vs. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

1998-09-22 Thread aqy6633
These 2 directories (/usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) seems to me an exact copy of each other. I could not find any link between them. Can I rm --force --recursive --verbose /usr/lib/X11 ? And if not, why ? jessica:~ ls -l /usr/lib/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 25

Q:xfsft binary on debian system

1998-09-22 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, everybody -- has anbody tried to install the precompiled binary for xfsft (not xfstt) that is available from this site: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/xfsft.html I'd like to know if it is possible to just copy that font server over the regular one debian uses (part of xbase, I

mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread D'jinnie
I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow illegal? --- My vote IS for sale! All you have to do is lower my taxes. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Shaleh
You do mem=?? where ?? is the amount of RAM in your system. 96m, 128m, 256m, 1gb, whatever. You could also do mem=8m which would mean the system only uses the first 8 megs of RAM. Linus and others do this to test low memory situations. Just dont say mem=128m when you have 64m (or 8mb). Things

Re: chown for the floppy group

1998-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may mount a floppy. - I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write to the floppy

Re: gs-aladdin 5.10 always crashing

1998-09-22 Thread Alex Graf
OK, I figured this one out myself. I found a file in /usr/doc/libpaperg/examples called gs-frontend.c or something. With a bit of modification, this program fixes things. I rename the /usr/bin/gs binary to /usr/bin/gs-5.10, and put the latter in the #DEFINE at the top of the C program

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow illegal? For a text based mp3 player: mpg123 for debian is available. For an X based mp3 player: There are

printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Greg Norris
I'm planning to purchase a laser-printer in the near future, and am currently looking at a HP LaserJet 6Lse. I was wondering if anyone has used this model under Linux, and how well it performed if so. As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is Enhanced HP PCL 5

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread aqy6633
I'm planning to purchase a laser-printer in the near future, and am currently looking at a HP LaserJet 6Lse. I was wondering if anyone has used this model under Linux, and how well it performed if so. I use it with no problems here. Nice printer. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread stick
Ralph Winslow said When JonesMB wrote, I replied: I assume that your 2Gb. is on a different spindle, 'cause if it isn't, it won't do you a hell of a lot of good in the event of a disk failure. I've enclosed the perl that I use to backup some essentials that I'd need to re-build from a

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1998-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofscr' (without ''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup). I installed Debian 2.0 from

Re: Samba

1998-09-22 Thread King Lee
Hello, Thanks to Nagler and others who replied: I'm running bo, and I've installed samba. When, from the command line I type smbd -D and then ps -aux | grep smbd I do not see the smbd running. When I look in /var/log I get Added interface ip=127.0.0.1

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread King Lee
Hello, I use two IDE drives, and nightly (with cron) copy selected files from the drive that contains my data two the other. I have a script that that uses find and cpio. The important line is something like cd $dir; find . ! -name *.o ! -name *.exe ... | cpio -pdv $backup I wont know how

Re: Q:xfsft binary on debian system

1998-09-22 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:18:23PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi, everybody -- has anbody tried to install the precompiled binary for xfsft (not xfstt) that is available from this site: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~pommnitz/xfsft.html I have NOT tried it (as the xfstt maintainer for

Re: Samba

1998-09-22 Thread Guoqiang Dai
King Lee wrote: Hello, Thanks to Nagler and others who replied: I'm running bo, and I've installed samba. When, from the command line I type smbd -D and then ps -aux | grep smbd I do not see the smbd running. When I look in /var/log I get Added

Re: Can't connect to Samba box from NT ws

1998-09-22 Thread Guoqiang Dai
Kent West wrote: I've posted a similar message detailing difficulties connecting to an NT server from a Samba box; now I'm having problems connecting to that Samba box from an NT workstation. I've got an account on the Linux box (westk), but when I try to connect to it from my NT ws, it

Re: adding SCSI disks

1998-09-22 Thread Marco Frattola
can't you just change the SCSI ids? if you're not booting off id0 on the 2940AU would it be a problem to just bump them all by a digit? maybe i'm wrong, but i don't think it would work. let me explain you why. disk are named not only by their id's, but also by their controller. so i think

Re: adding SCSI disks

1998-09-22 Thread Marco Frattola
[snip] problem description sdf/sdg/sdh/whatever and the machine won't boot. how can I change lilo.conf before adding new disks to let the machine boot again? I know it can be done (it's done at the end of debian config, when the istall program asks: do you want to boot from hd?) I have tried

Re: Shared Lib problem

1998-09-22 Thread technical
The saga continues, Switching to netscape to try and resolve this. Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. I got that and used it to install netscape 4.03 (setenv TMPDIR ; dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-12.deb) followed dependencies etc etc No joy, it still SEGVs.

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | When I say didn't work I mean I get the error: | Unable to find swap-space signature | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024) | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024) | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Ryan King wrote: I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current WindowsNT O/S. An extremely

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:42:43AM -0400, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: same results. When NT's disk administrator trys to play with the hard drive, irregardless of how safe is says it is, its writes something to the boot sector to identify the drive to disk manager. It messes up the table

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 12:44:06PM -0500, Ryan King wrote: Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right... WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap). Odd, but perhaps they were in that order on the disk. First of all, it said VFS: Mounted root (ex2

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:12:15PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond me). Also the 2.1.x

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofscr' (without ''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup).

Re: Hard drive woes...

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
Adam Lazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fan on my power supply recently siezed up, I have since replaced it, but it was not working for 2 days without me noticing. This allowed my box to get HOT, and as a result my hard drive isn't too happy anymore... In my MS-DOS partition (have to use

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
D'jinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow illegal? They are in the non-free and contrib sections. Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). Jens -- [EMAIL

Re: One last chance

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
john mcpeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, O.K. no one can write a driver for a network adapter to use the LPT in w95. (I know I can't) This is what I want to do. I want to plip some files from my win95 box(bob) to my Linux box(hal). I was reading Another FAT 32 question and it sounds

Re: Re Help

1998-09-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
2. I got the floppy mounted with the following command mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt one you do this you can only see the files in the diskette that was mounted. Even when the diskette is changed. my question is once you mount a floppy and use it do you have to unmount it before you

Problems with system locking up, and blank or garbled vid screens.

1998-09-22 Thread Goofball
I just recently upgraded to a brand new sparkly AMD K6-2 300mhz CPU. This involved replacing the MotherBoard and RAM also. After doing so, I booted up to find that my Debian Linux was displaying garbled video, or just a plain blank screen. After a liitle experimentation, I decided that my

Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help? Funny, wuz having that same

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Christophe Broult
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 07:06 PM 9/21/98 +0200, you wrote: Hello, I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 Mb

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
BTW, I'm fairly new to internet/Linux-speak; what's IIRC? (Sorry for my ignorance.) IIRC = If I Remember Correctly. IMHO = In My Humble Opinion HTH = Hope That Helps RTFM = Read The F** Manual FYI = For Your Information etc... Get the jargon package.. has heaps of these.

Re: losing 10s per day?

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Shane Hynes wrote: Hi, I've recently upgraded to Hamm and have started noticing that my clock is consistently losing 9.5 sec per day. This wasn't happening under the bo release. I update my clock with netdate daily so the the error isn't cumulative isn't really a

Re: Samba

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
snip I fiddled around with the network and the message about failing to bind went away. Samba seems to work - I can use it as a print server. However, I am puzzled about why don't see a smbd process running when enter ps -aux | grep smbd If smbd is called by nmbd, then do I

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow illegal? For a text based mp3 player: mpg123 for debian is available. For an X based mp3 player: There are plenty, but x11amp is the one I

Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread schulte
According to Daniel Mashao: I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help? Try: dpkg -i libwine*.deb wine*.deb (in _one command_

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-22 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hello I need some clarifications on this issues from a previous mail 3. Currently my system does not see my network card. what programs to can I get to help me atomatically dectect it. Basically I have just the os with no packages. Can I do it manually ? How? Did you set up network support

Syncing local SW depot to remote one

1998-09-22 Thread Joe Marchak
Hi, I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like to automatically update from an ftp site. Is there a good way to do this? Thanks, -Joe. Joe Marchak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-09-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
5. In dos you can have your current directory listed in the command prompt by doing prompt $p$g what is the equivalent for linux. Add the following line to your .bash_profile: export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which editor do I

pcmcia scsi

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a model that is know it works with Debian linux? Thanks a lot, Giuseppe Sacco

X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-22 Thread David Densmore
I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running the svga X server. It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it starts with a completely black background and the mouse freezes as soon as I place the xterm window on the screen (still using TWM). After a couple of

Re: ISDN-Setup

1998-09-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
HM == Helmut Metzdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HM 1: use the old config files (pap-secrets, host.conf, hosts, HM resolv.conf)by copying them to the appropriate places (/etc, HM /etc/ppp). Yes. HM 2: my old entries in isdnlog.conf are placed in callerid.conf. I think so. HM 3: country-

Multiple NE2000 Cards (Using NE Loadable Module)

1998-09-22 Thread James Brown \(Ender/GCC\)
Hi, I need HELP! I'm trying to set up debian (running .30 kernel, and libc5 NOT hamm!), with 2 NE2000 compatable network cards. One is 0x340 Irq=5, and other is 0x360 irq 12. I'm read the minihowto (Multiple Ethernet), and put that in my lilo config, but that seems to only apply with the

NFSROOT problems

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I found an extrange behaviour in NFSROOT while not using BOOTP or RARP to provide client-ip, Instead I provide it in the command line Using the following kernel 2.0.35 configuration: CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M386=y

Re: your mail

1998-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: : How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want : to change it to unstable from stable. Have a look at the 'Access' option in dselect's main menu. When configuring the access method, you'll be asked which distribution it

Solutioned: NFSROOT problems

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It was a silly mistake Ulisses -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNgeH6Q/N+5+NQ63pAQEiIAL/aFUaR+lpmXvb8i9Acek4iOb27n72gdGU

this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Jeremy Freeman
i have been pulling my hair our over this one and it is something so simple you will laugh at me My PPP doesnt work now dont all roll your eyes let me explain my chat script works and my pppd works but when ever i try and open a link to my isp it all terminates and puts this error in my

Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

1998-09-22 Thread Guido Bozzetto
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you can setup raid on the second spindle. As an example: /usr under Debian is fairly static, so don't include it in any raid solution. /home on the other hand has lots of stuff

Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6). Bostjan

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6). I installed it, I have libc5-compat. All went fine. Bye, Giuseppe

DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Smith, Brian N.
How does one get DHCP to initiate on bootup? All the Faqs seem to point to assigning the IP address when compiling and assume it will never change Thanks in advance Brian Smith

Re: DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Are you talking about the client or the server? If you are talking about the client then you should have installed (automatically, from dhcpcd*.deb) a script in /etc/init.d/ that will start the client at boot time. But if you have a PCMCIA network card you should set DHCP=y in

Bootloaders

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to modify command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want: This is one of the parameters I want to modify:

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): May be an easier way but how about making an XDM group? Put the users in that. Then let group xdm be a member of floppy. ? What do you mean by XDM group? Mike Stone

X-Window is free again

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- http://www.opengroup.org/x Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm - - Computers are

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Oz Dror
What is the MIME type for mp3 what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

RE: Bootup error

1998-09-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
It looks like you might have an IDE interface enabled at int 14. Try moving the scsi to int 10. You also need to add append=mem=96M to your lilo.conf file. How about sending a few more details about your system? jim -- From: Shane S.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September

More hard disk woes

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch with a

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Sure. You can run pretty much anything in hamm that ran in bo. You just need the proper packages from old-libs. Since I am running Netscape 3.04, I have several packages from old-libs installed, but I would guess that libc5 is all that WP needs. Mike On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 01:49:02PM

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
It looks like time to post this again! (originally posted 7 Mar 1997). Still works for Debian 2.0 so far as I am aware. My scripts are based on those posted to this list by Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday 7th October 1996 (subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?). I've

Re: non microsoft OS using windows drivers

1998-09-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Great! May by this will be a good solution for my Primax scanner, which is equipped only with M$-Win drivers... According to the license I may use them WITH THIS SCANNER, not with the particular OS. So may be the React OS will be the good solution for me... Wojtek

Mapping memory

1998-09-22 Thread Ruben Usamentiaga Fernandez
I have a device witch maps memory in the mega 12, but i have physical memory at this location. Is there any way to solve it?

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:36:36AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: They are in the non-free and contrib sections. Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). My MP3 player package, eMusic, is in main. Also, FreeAMP is in main. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough? That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask for a username and password? (or do you perhaps need PPP in lowercase?) This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd at all; this often happens when there's

RE: Bootloaders

1998-09-22 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Ulysses, On 22-Sep-98 Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to modify command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want: nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none ^ The

Compiling the dpkg source package..

1998-09-22 Thread ninjaz
Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for compiling dpkg from source? I've tried both the versions in hamm and slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and ./configure (it's installation instructions) does nothing useful. I also tried autoconf and

More hard disk woes (repeat)

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
(resent as smail configuration was dodgy - apologies if it appears twice) I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted,

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?

1998-09-22 Thread tko
Edward J Young writes: [snip] I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Greg Norris wrote: Of course, any suggestions for alternate laser-printers which work well under Linux would also be greatly appreciated. The HP LaserJet 4M+ is a good printer with a lot of features. With magicfilter installed, it works like a charm. It's an older model,

Support for PC2TV on ATI Xpert@Play?

1998-09-22 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have an ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card that I've been unable to connect to my TV. Is this feature supported by the Xfree86 project? (I haven't found any specific reference to this feature in the docs). Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Motif on Hamm??

1998-09-22 Thread Wayne Cuddy
What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Jeremy Freeman
you know you might be right :) i just phoned my isp and they confermed that i had to send a lowercase ppp to activate my ppp session lots of rolling eyes and gasping well i am going to go home tonight and check if it is the case i will be very angery and very happy because i have spent about 3

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is Enhanced HP PCL 5 (which I believe is a superset of postscript, but might well be mistaken on that point). No; it's a superset of HP's PCL (Printer Control Language) - a proprietary

Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

1998-09-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:31:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for compiling dpkg from source? I've tried both the versions in hamm and slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and ./configure (it's

Remote printer and magicfiler

1998-09-22 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! I'm using remote printer (connected to Win95) through Samba is ther a way to use magicfilter in this situation? -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate IT Manager @ PDi | http://plukwa.pdi.net/| the power of Source

Modem recommendation

1998-09-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under Debian 2.0. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

Re: Modem recommendation

1998-09-22 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: My personal preference is Zyxel -- www.zyxel.com Peter -Original Message- From: G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:46 AM Subject: Modem recommendation Hi all, I am switching from

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