Ver fichero dvi

1998-10-29 Thread Alfredo Casademunt
Hola. Me he descargado de internet un fichero en formato dvi y cuando quiero verlo el xdvi dice: xdvi.bin: Postamble doesn't begin with POST y aborta, ¿ me falta algo por instalar ? Un saludo. Alfredo.

Re: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-29 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:30:32PM +0100, Santiago Vila dijo: * Si al desempaquetar el .deb obtienes las fuentes desempaquetadas, cuando quieres borrar el paquete es un lío, pues en cada directorio habrá ficheros objeto (*.o). Ahora que el .deb contiene el código fuente empaquetado,

Y ya que hablamos de Slink...

1998-10-29 Thread Tomás Bautista
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Y naturalmente puedes bajar ambos de Slink. Y hablando de Slink... ¿qué tal anda? ¿Tiene muchos bugs? Estoy a la expectativa de pasar mi máquina a slink, pero... prefiero que cuenten Vds. si vale la pena. Saludos, Tomás. _ Tomas

No mataras ...

1998-10-29 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Tengo un CD estropeado, mejor dicho mal grabado. Lo meto en el lector, monto el cdrom como siempre y hago un ls para listar el contenido. Hasta aqui, todo bien. Pero cuando intento editar o copiar (abrir en definitiva) alguno de los ficheros, el lector empieza a dar vueltas pa'lante y

Re: Ver fichero dvi

1998-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Alfredo Casademunt wrote: Me he descargado de internet un fichero en formato dvi y cuando quiero verlo el xdvi dice: xdvi.bin: Postamble doesn't begin with POST y aborta, ¿ me falta algo por instalar ? Probablemente no. Ese mensaje quiere decir que el fichero .dvi

Re: Y ya que hablamos de Slink...

1998-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Tomás Bautista wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Y naturalmente puedes bajar ambos de Slink. Y hablando de Slink... ¿qué tal anda? ¿Tiene muchos bugs? Estoy a la expectativa de pasar mi máquina a slink, pero... prefiero que cuenten Vds. si vale

Re: No mataras ...

1998-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:55:46AM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ¿No hay otra solucion menos drastica? El kernel esta tratando de leer algo que no puede leer... de hecho los mensajes vienen del kernel. Asi, a quien quieres matar es al kernel :-) En el 2.1.x hay una opcion que se llama

Re: Y ya que hablamos de Slink...

1998-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:28:44AM +, Tomás Bautista wrote: Y hablando de Slink... ¿qué tal anda? ¿Tiene muchos bugs? Estoy a la expectativa de pasar mi máquina a slink, pero... prefiero que cuenten Vds. si vale la pena. Depende. En *este* momento instalar X es posible aunque hay que

Re: No mataras ...

1998-10-29 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:55:46AM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ¿No hay otra solucion menos drastica? El kernel esta tratando de leer algo que no puede leer... de hecho los mensajes vienen del kernel. Asi, a quien quieres matar es al kernel :-) En

Re: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-29 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:56:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila dijo: Ugo Enrico Albarello: Epa, como así? Y si voy a compilar 2.1.x? No cambian los archivos en ./include/* ? Cambian los ficheros include del núcleo. Los de libc6-dev no tienen por qué cambiar, a menos que quieras que cada nuevo

RE: Aventuras instalando hamm

1998-10-29 Thread jarregui
Hola, yo continuo con mi guerra... Ya me funciona el xdm. Tras mucho tiempo probando todo lo que se me ocurría y lo que me habéis sugerido alguno, (hasta he llegado a intentar analizar el core con el gdb...) el problema estaba en el paquete ldso. La versión que tenía era todavía la de bo

xbase 3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hola! Acabo de actualizar a xbase 3.3.2.3a-6 from 3.3.2.2-4 y ya no me funcionan las X. Es decir, aparece el twm en vez de el wmaker. He attachado el fichero con lo que he intentado hacer. He mirado el el bug tracking y no encuentro nada que se parezca. He instalado: xbase, xbase-clients,

RE: Aventuras instalando hamm

1998-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pregunta IMPORTANTE: ¿mi sistema sigue siendo libc5 compatible? ¿la versión de ldso se había conservado por error o es que tiene que mantenerse la antigua? No, hombre, el ldso nuevo te debe funcionar. Si tienes cosas en /usr/lib/libc5-compat (es

Re: No mataras ...

1998-10-29 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Lord of Hell wrote: yo tambien tengo un cd mal grabado pero no tan danado probastes con umount /dev/cdrom eject Si, pero no lo desmonta ni me deja hacer un eject. Ese mensaje debe provenir de syslogd si no quieres ver ningun mensaje de error mata al demonion de syslogd pero con esa

Re: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.

1998-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:23:31AM -0500, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: Yo en otra máquina renombre esos directorios e hice enlaces simbólicos a los de /usr/src/linux/include (con kernel 2.1.125), habrá algún problema? Sí. Eso fue lo que te contestó Santiago. Lo archivos en /usr/include/linux y

Re: xbase 3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: He attachado el fichero con lo que he intentado hacer. He mirado el el bug tracking y no encuentro nada que se parezca. He instalado: xbase, xbase-clients, xserver-vga16, xserver-svga, xserver-common, xfonts-base,

screen: utilizarlo sin perder en `entorno'

1998-10-29 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, pues también estoy probando la utilidad `screen', que permite desde un terminal disponer de varias ventanas a pantalla completa, entre las que puedes operar con combinaciones de teclas, y así moverte entre varios programas que funcionen

wwwoffle: dudas sobre su funcionamiento.

1998-10-29 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, pues he instalado el proxy `wwwoffled' y realmente es comodísimo encargarle las páginas para que te las baje cuando se establezca la conexión a internet y después puedas navegar off-line. Pero me gustaría saber dos cosas: - Cuando actualiza las páginas, ¿ baja

Mozilla 5.0: evitar ventana del `composer'

1998-10-29 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, tengo instalado el Mozilla 5.0 (Netscape Lite 5.0b1/Export, 08-Apr-98; (c) 1995-1997 Netscape Communications Corp.) que traia la revista Linux Actual nº2. Cuando lo lanzo, siempre me habre una ventana del mozilla composer,cosa un poco mosqueante en un 486 trabajando

Re: Notification of incoming telnet sessions..

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On 28 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Petter Adsen wrote: Michael Beattie writes: | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an [snip]

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Andy Kennedy
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. menu too fast to read anything. I finished

Modem settings

1998-10-29 Thread Patrick L. McGillan
Hi, Seems to me that under WIN95, the dial-up program sent a string to the modem to make it talk at its fullest 56k rate. Under ppp, only atz is sent to the modem before the dial string. While I can understand, that different modems would use a different init string, somewhere there must be a list

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Carsten Wimmer
Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. But if I type something on the keyboard and hit column ~70, all the next characters are placed on the same row and column

Two idential root partitions - how?

1998-10-29 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I'm installing Debian. I'm partitioning as follows: 100 Meg root partition 3 Gig /usr partition 100 Meg root partition - identical copy This is just in case one root partition dies - I'll have a backup. What is the best way to make the second root partition an identical copy? Also, I

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1207

1998-10-29 Thread Robert King
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena wrote: Hi all, so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i put the queues? NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet nad

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the

Re: Modem settings

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PLM == Patrick L McGillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PLM Seems to me that under WIN95, the dial-up program sent a string to the PLM modem to make it talk at its fullest 56k rate. Under ppp, only atz is PLM sent to the modem before the dial string. While I can understand, that PLM different

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Questions Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:43:14PM +0200 In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about

Re: Two idential root partitions - how?

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP 100 Meg root partition MP 3 Gig /usr partition MP 100 Meg root partition - identical copy MP This is just in case one root partition dies - I'll have a backup. What MP is the best way to make the second root partition an identical copy? dd

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: [snip] | You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit | before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. | Didn't even start -- failed to even open the file up. No, compressed files have to be read

realplayer just buzzing.

1998-10-29 Thread Brent McMillan
I downloaded RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.45 and in a bout of lazyness, downloaded the rvplayer.deb installer. Install went without any error messages I could see, but when I try to play realaudio, I just get a bunch of feedback and buzzing. Videos play very slowly aswell. Any ideas?

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. But if I type something on the keyboard and hit

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | [snip] | | | You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit | | before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. | | Didn't even start -- failed to even open

Re: realplayer just buzzing.

1998-10-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brent McMillan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I downloaded RealPlayer, Version 5.0.0.45 and in a bout of lazyness, downloaded the rvplayer.deb installer. Install went without any error messages I could see, but when I try to play realaudio, I just get a bunch of feedback and

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Questions Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:06:21PM +0100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): w == wtopa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w 1. The debian policy manual Section 3.4 System Run Levels talks about w

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Questions Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:43:14PM +0200 In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Questions Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:50:51PM + In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or

Re: lynx colours

1998-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, mwb == mwb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mwb Here's how I've changed my /etc/lynx.conf to contain. I haven't figured mwb out what color 3 does. # The Integer value is interpreted as follows: # 0 - normal - normal text # 1 - bold - hyperlinks, see also

Re: apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?

1998-10-29 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:59:50AM -0800, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns anything. I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still does not work. Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do

ppp questions.

1998-10-29 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Just loaded Debian 2.0 and configured my isp connection with pppconfig and everything works, but there are some differences from my previous 1.3.1 installation. First, in the messages there is a notice that says 'Cannot determine ethernet address for Proxy ARP'. I'm somewhat unclear as to

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
On 28 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole file and even though, in your case, the file is truncated it'll do what it can. In Darxus' case that means it's

Re: colors in text-mode

1998-10-29 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: Hi! I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: I tried this and the colors themselves work fine.

Re: ppp questions.

1998-10-29 Thread john
tony mollica writes: First, in the messages there is a notice that says 'Cannot determine ethernet address for Proxy ARP'. I'm somewhat unclear as to what this means to the status of my connection, Nothing. It is an advisory notice which is irrelevant in your case. If it bothers you put

Re: Mirrors

1998-10-29 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Stephen A. Witt wrote: My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian distribution. I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while -- main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all, contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386. Now I decided

Modem connection speed

1998-10-29 Thread Kent West
Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an

Re: ppp questions.

1998-10-29 Thread tony mollica
Thanks for the reply. The kernel version is 2.0.34, it's the one installed from the cheapbytes disk. I haven't rebuilt the kernel yet. The thing that bothers me is that with the Debian 1.3.1 (2.0.33) installation there were almost never any errors reported but with this new one, there may be

Re: Modem connection speed

1998-10-29 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

1998-10-29 Thread Darxus
I installed Windows (see what you made me do??). I installed WinZip. I told WinZip to open my 2.6gb home.tgz file... it said okay... it said this file contains home.tar, you want me to extract it to a temp dir open it ? So unlike our beloved Unix utilities, winzip CAN seek past 2gb. BUT it

Re: NEW USER - mainframe connection

1998-10-29 Thread D'jinnie
:Can Linux connect to a IBM Mainframe - on windows I use software that has :something called TN3270 or a IRMA gateway allows me to connect via a :VT100 like terminal. What package would work for this - it does not seem :to be listed in the package descriptions. Aside from x3270 there is tn3270

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

1998-10-29 Thread Mark Panzer
Darxus wrote: I installed Windows (see what you made me do??). I installed WinZip. I told WinZip to open my 2.6gb home.tgz file... it said okay... it said this file contains home.tar, you want me to extract it to a temp dir open it ? So unlike our beloved Unix utilities, winzip CAN seek

Mailreader: Win Eudora folders - Linux?, pop3 mail on Linux?

1998-10-29 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi all, I have to little questions: - Is it possible (and how :) to convert Windows Eudora Folders, and Adresses to Linux? - What is the best way to get pop3 mail on Linux? fetchmail, then working locally, or pop3 mailclient, or what else? BTW which mailclient would you recommend? Thanks

japanese on linux

1998-10-29 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, I'd like to write some japanese texts on Linux. Figured out how to use XEmacs mule and the input methods, but printing doesn't work. May this be caused by missing printer fonts? Where can I get them? Or is there a better program around (I heard rumours about a linux port of jwp)? Is there a

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz

1998-10-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: == Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb. If the latter than does that mean that a linux disk partition can't be

Re: japanese on linux

1998-10-29 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi, I'd like to write some japanese texts on Linux. Figured out how to use XEmacs mule and the input methods, but printing doesn't work. May this be caused by missing printer fonts? Where can I get them? Or is there a better program around (I heard rumours about a

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled tried to restore it, I | found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?). [...] | You can force gzip to handle it as a stream.

Re: Modem settings

1998-10-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On 29 Oct 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: You can enable (a rather crappy) logfunction in windows to catch the initstring. Then you just have to instert it in /etc/ppp/peers/* Or you could grab it out of the registry if you are up to that daunting behemouth... it's in: (usually... the

Re: modem connection speed

1998-10-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On 28 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Michael == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael If you are using chat, pass it the '-v' option. I am passing the -v option to chat, and indeed, I am also using W2S95=47 (I have a rockwell chip modem). plog does not have

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz

1998-10-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: == Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb. If the latter than

Re: Two idential root partitions - how?

1998-10-29 Thread wb2oyc
Mark, I'm installing Debian. Good choice! I'm partitioning as follows: 100 Meg root partition 3 Gig /usr partition 100 Meg root partition - identical copy 1st question; is this all one big disk? For what follows, I'm assuming it is. I like to do something like this 100M / 64M swap

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

1998-10-29 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:39:59AM -0600, Mark Panzer wrote: Darxus wrote: I installed Windows (see what you made me do??). I installed WinZip. I told WinZip to open my 2.6gb home.tgz file... it said okay... it said this file contains home.tar, you want me to extract it to a temp dir

Re: Two idential root partitions - how?

1998-10-29 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, wb2oyc wrote: 1st question; is this all one big disk? For what follows, I'm assuming it is. I like to do something like this 100M / 64M swap 100M /var (and I prefer putting this on a 2nd disk if possible) whatever's left for /usr if its all on a single disk.

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/28/98 at 12:53 PM, Jerry E. McGoveran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst.

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:24:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stock qmail program itself only goes into /var/qmail, which is how I prefer it. If we installed every upstream program where the stock installation goes, it would be an extremely difficult system to use and administer.

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 02:57:53PM -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: There *is* support for 2GB files somewhere, but I think you'll have to do some web searches or hit the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for info on where and how. (Or, as has also been suggested, find a 64-bit machine. :-/ ) I

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-29 Thread Steven Udell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim r said How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? Personally, I don't like the shell-specific

Re: wmaker 0.20.2

1998-10-29 Thread Rene Hogendoorn
Marcelo == Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:50:02AM -0800, Mike Wood Marcelo wrote: Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I

Diamond Stealth 2000 / 4 megs

1998-10-29 Thread PJ Barbera
Anybody running this card on 1.3 or 2.0 ? Could you post your config ?? Can get X to run for the hell of it. Worked under Slack and Redhat Unless the Problem lies elsewhere... Pete You might be a hacker if .You've every dated one of your high school janitors or maids

Re: Two idential root partitions - how?

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Hmm. From what you're saying here, and from what other responses have MP said, perhaps having separate partitions is not that useful. Also, there They are useful if you have a server. So you can assure that a overgrowing /home doesn't fill

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
w == wtopa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w policy manual. Ok, I just looked and yes, I do have file-rc w installed!(?) How I don't know but its here. Now I have some more If you want the symlink scheme back, then just deinstall file-rc. Better check that the symlinks are there before you

Re: apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?

1998-10-29 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns anything. I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still does not work. Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as super-user, I get the following

HELP: no xterm after slink upgrade!!!

1998-10-29 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, wanting to use stuff like gnome enligthement etc, i put the unstable distrib into the apt source lists, running dselect took a while to make the upgrade and now things like xterm, xsetroot etc. are missing!!! i tryed to reiinstall the xbase package, but it is reportd to be there i i

Why the system freezing ?

1998-10-29 Thread cj
I'm newbie in Debian.When the install process go to the step build the XF86Config file,it will return can't build the file and show the build XF86Config file again.But it freezing in this tty.The process is to run the svag postinst script.Why? Another question,how to change the builtin 320x200?

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-29 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
It should be easier for normal packages (without daemons, inetd.conf enties etc.) to have two conflicting packages installed. For example, I'd like to have gs-alladin and gs installed in parallel; gs-alladin for it's pdf support, and gs for it's better Epson Stylus Color driver. But it is

Samba printer

1998-10-29 Thread Matt Thompson
Hello, I've been combing Debian Glimpse and dejanews, but haven't found anything. :( Here's my story: I have Samba installed and sharing files to my Win95B ThinkPad just fine. When I highlight my Linux box (Mattyt) in Windoze Explorer, it lists my HPDeskJet660C, but when I right-click the

Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

1998-10-29 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hello Nikolai, is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my mirror (at home).

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-29 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole file and even though, in your case, the file is truncated it'll do what it can. In Darxus' case that means it's trying to

problemas con la instalacion

1998-10-29 Thread Victor Ortega - Mostoles
Hola, os escribo este mail porque tengo algunos problemillas al instalar la version 2.0 de Debian (en concreto la de la revista Linux Actual). Os cuento, hay dos puntos de la instalación que me quedo en blanco, uno es cuando me pregunta qué modulos hay que cargar en el kernel, así como sus

Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there any way to kill a virtual console without rebooting? I ask because for some reason I keep getting lockups when using vim to edit multiple buffers. I can switch to a different vc and carry on, but no other keys work on the vc I started from. Even if I kill the process I was using there,

Re: Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-29 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Is there any way to kill a virtual console without rebooting? I ask because for some reason I keep getting lockups when using vim to edit multiple buffers. I can switch to a different vc and carry on, but no other keys work on the vc I started from. Even if I kill the process I was using

Re: heavy dpkg problem

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: My dpkg does not work any more: /var/lib/dpkg/status not available. I can't install any packages any more. If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for status-old, status.yesterday.0,

cucipop, apop and db2

1998-10-29 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I have a problem with cucipop-1.31 and apop. It seems that I have to use the makevpopdb command to get cucipop to work with the apop-method. (because I have to supply plain-text passwords for apop-crypt to cucipop) But everytimes I start makevpopdb /etc/mail/vpop.db it says me makedb2:

lilo (linux only hd - dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread Kevin Grant
Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: I have one dos/windows only hd. I have one linux only hd. I want to be able

Old, expired bug reports archived somewhere?

1998-10-29 Thread Patrick Weemeeuw
Is there a location where old, expired bug reports are archived? If so, where? [ If not, there is a need for that. I'm thinking of servers, where stability is important and who run older Debian software, or, my situation: I have a problem that has already been submitted as bug, and fixed; and I

Re: Mailreader: Win Eudora folders - Linux?, pop3 mail on Linux?

1998-10-29 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ingo Hohmann escribió: Hi all, I have to little questions: - Is it possible (and how :) to convert Windows Eudora Folders, and Adresses to Linux? - What is the best way to get pop3 mail on Linux? fetchmail, then working locally, or pop3 mailclient, or what else? BTW

Re: How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger

1998-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:50:31AM -0800, Joe Smith wrote: Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? I've not looked at icons. To make your font settings resolution

Very serious smail problem!

1998-10-29 Thread Jose Gomez Dans
Hi! First of all, let me please inform you that due to the nature of this problem, you'll have to e-mail cc's of any answers to me directly :-/// on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the inconvenience. On with the query. I am running debian hamm, and all went fine for abouta month.

Re: Mirrors

1998-10-29 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the distribution (e.g. unstable). I was

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can always (under win95) go to the debian ftp site and download any .deb package, then boot linux and mount the windows partition. Then cd to the directory with the .deb and do a dpkg -i filename.deb. My system has a windows partition, and I have that listed in my /etc/fstab so it is mounted

Re: Why the system freezing ?

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 29 Oct 1998, it was written: I'm newbie in Debian.When the install process go to the step build the XF86Config file,it will return can't build the file and show the build XF86Config file again.But it freezing in this tty.The process is to run the svag postinst script.Why? Another

Modem connection speed

1998-10-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Windows is doing something extra with modems. I upgraded from a motorola 28.8 to a hayes 56k v.90 (externals). Now I would expect that any two external modems would look about the same to the computer. Infact I had to do NOTHING to get linux to dial out and connect to my ISP with the new modem.

Local LaTeX configuration

1998-10-29 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, first: I'm no TeX Guru, so propably this is more a LaTeX problem than it's a debians. What I'd like to do is to install our department's logo which comes as a .ins and .dtx file with a Metafont file on my local debian system. I extrated all information to a local dir

Re: Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to kill a virtual console without rebooting? As root, kill the shell running on that console. Failing that, kill the getty as well... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn

icons with fvwm2

1998-10-29 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I noticed that fvwm2 use the .xpm files for icons. I have a problem with hamm: if I run emacs from then fvwm2 menu and I iconifiy the emacs frame than I don't get the correct Icon; but if I run emacs from a shell than I get the right icon. I think this is related to the environment,

Re: problemas con la instalacion

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Waller
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problemas con la instalacion Date: Thu, 29 Oct 98 10:50:20 +0100 From: Victor Ortega - Mostoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hola, os escribo este mail porque tengo algunos problemillas al instalar la version 2.0 de Debian (en concreto la de la revista Linux

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-29 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Thank you fpr your reply! We've found the PCI-versions of the VGA card ATI Mach64 GT (Rage II) (rev. 154),ATI 3D-Charger 2MB in the most of the other of 12 PCs, which run fine. Just the AGP version doesn't, but we can live with it. Thank you again, Andreas Wehler Subject: Re: X11: HELP

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-29 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:04:20AM +, Steven Udell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jim r said How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt...

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: : : 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems : installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail. I had a : problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my : own. Now I want to instal procmail

libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb safe on hamm?

1998-10-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I had a hamm system with a _few_ selected slink packages. I installed the new netscape navigator debs from slink using `apt-get install' and see that the following were also installed: libc6-dev_2.0.7u-4.deb libc6-doc_2.0.7u-4.deb libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb Since no dependencies were broken, can

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: : On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : : I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is : apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of :

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