At 09:59 PM 12/15/1998 -0600, KTB wrote:
Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring
X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point.
I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose
the debian release because I wanted to learn
Reply-To:
Hi
This isn't really important but here goes anyway. I have over the last week
or so being introducing myself to Debian and playing with Hamm and Slink. At
one point my Mutt mailer was running with a nice colour setup (not one I made
rather it was installed by one of the Mutt debs I
I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with.
Redhat removes a lot of options to give you a working system without much
configuration on your part. Later, when you are shooting for guru-ship
you can go to Debian and really get into it. Both systems are a
tremendous
What is a linux dream computer?
I've finally put aside a couple of bucks, and I'm wondering:
What's the ultimate linux computer today? Which video card is the best
(which one does the most, 2d/3d/mpeg/tv; ideal is a 3dfx) ? What sound (3d?;
ideal is an aureal) card?
What laptop is the best deal?
At 10:15 AM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
snip
discernable difference (on the other hand, every time I have GNU/
Linux shoved in my face, I give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know
how to remove it? I can't find where it's coming from).
I vaguely remember a thread about
Thomas Adams wrote:
i installed a hamm system (Scientific Workstation) and can't connect to it.
Neither ping, telnet nor smtp or something else works. It's like there is
no network installed. But it is, I, sitting at the computer, can connect to
any other machine, I can browse the web,
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:29:49PM -, Moore, Paul wrote:
The sound card is described as a SoundBlaster 16 Compatible, made by
SoundPro. Again, will this be supported, and/or is it a good card? The
only real use I have for sound is likely to be for games (both under
Linux and Windows), so
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:10:27AM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote:
How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click on the
print button, I get a screen with the print command defaulting to lpd.
Is there some other place I need to specify which printer in my printcap I
want to print
At 08:39 AM 12/16/1998 +, Rich Hartman wrote:
Hey there everybody,
After using KDE for a while, I've decided to ditch it and try
Gnome... my question is - How do I remove it so that EVERYTHING is
gone? This is my second attempt at running debian (had it running
earlier this year with
Clyde Wilson writes:
Clyde I agree with you Kent. Debian is much too difficult to start out with.
Clyde Redhat removes a lot of options to give you a working system without
Clyde much configuration on your part. Later, when you are shooting for
Clyde guru-ship you can go to Debian and really get
I have put together a 486DX2-66 machine from old parts. It's a
vers-local bus machine with 8M of dram, 200mb disk drive (I have a 2g
I can swap in), an 8x ide cdrom drive, and a cirrus based vesa local
bus video card (boca) with 1m on it (add two chips for 2m). I have
tried to boot slackware and
what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up)
all
requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other
traffic
is routed via eth0
(Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the
class
B 130.2)
Subject: RE:RE: switch off Debian
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 12:03:56AM -0800
In reply to:Michael Wahl
Quoting Michael Wahl([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Good Morning everybody !!!
I'd like to thank you for your quick and good help.
It seems I need some basic instructions for
OK well I guess I am qualified to put in my two hapeth here as I have just
moved to Debian after using RedHat since 4.0.
RedHat is VERY easy to install in some ways. Its hardware detection is very
very good and it takes about 15 minutes to do the whole thing. It does however
have some major
At 04:38 PM 12/16/1998 +0100, Lyndon Fletcher wrote:
Hi,
I'm reposting this message with a few clarifications in the hope that
someone will answer my questions.
I was recently lent an old 486 PC by a friend so that I could do some
Web server development. The machine is not mine and not readily
At 05:13 PM 12/16/1998 +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
i installed a hamm system (Scientific Workstation) and can't connect to it.
Neither ping, telnet nor smtp or something else works. It's like there is
no network installed. But it is, I, sitting at the computer, can connect to
any other machine, I
Horacio writes:
bug? which bug? Never did that and I'm not having any probs (AFAIK) with
ppp.
ppp2.3.5 was originally shipped with no group search permission on
/etc/chatscripts.
BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
command?
What are you trying to do? I
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote:
what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up)
all
requests for the ISPs network
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:32:43PM -0500, Mark Tucker wrote:
I've been working on a similar setup only with with two ethernet cards,
one for the lan and the other for internet access. The problem I've been
having is that when I attempt to specify the device I get an error:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid
At 08:19 AM 12/16/1998 -0500, Jeff Miller wrote:
Hello,
My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and
I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected
'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83
(Linux). I can
bob bled,
Two years ago, Red Hat was certainly easier to install. Today, debian
is much easier. Debian fixed its problems, and red had made no
discernable difference (on the other hand, every time I have GNU/
Linux shoved in my face, I give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the configuration file; XF86Setup makes it
rick
--
john jabbed,
...on the other hand, every time I have GNU/ Linux shoved in my face, I
give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know how to remove it? I can't
find where it's coming from
/etc/motd, of course. You can put what ever you want there.
that was the first place i looked, but it's
Hi, All
i've put script (hw init) in /etc/rc.boot which cause
my system to hang completely. I got rescue disk, booted
using rescue root=/dev/hda3 but /etc/rc.boot is still
executed and computer still hangs.
So, the question is how to boot from rescue disk and
to able to mount / but not to
Hi
Ive been very happy with debian so far. But the only thing that im not unhappy
about
is why X keeps crashing on me.ive been promised that linux is a much stable OS.
My card is a s3 virge/gx2
running at 24 bit with a virtual resolution of 1028 768
using the SVGA server
the server would load
Yo-
Does anyone have this card working? If so, how?
TIA.
-Ian
Moore, Paul wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very*
good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main
compatibility worries are with video and sound cards.
The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a
How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click
on the print button, I get a screen with the print command
defaulting to lpd.
Are you sure that the print command says lpd? It should say lpr. lpr
is the client that sends a page to the printer. lpd is the daemon.
i.e.
At 11:28 AM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the configuration file; XF86Setup makes it
rick
Unless I'm mistaken, and I could very
On 14 Dec 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
Llista mail debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi All!
I want to do a printing quota under Linux using de LPRng. The
quota system is very easy (Quota = Quota - Num_lines_printed), but I don't
know who to interact with de LPR, I need a filter? How
Hello All,
I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home
directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from
/var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin.
I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:19:35AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote:
what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection
Hi,
Is there anyone using debian with umsdos? Is there a documentation
somewhere of how to install a Debian umsdos root filesystem? The umsdos
howto is pretty old...
I have a PC with NT borrowed for some weeks and I don't want to
repartition the disk... Is there a better solution? Is it possible
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
Hi, All
i've put script (hw init) in /etc/rc.boot which cause
my system to hang completely. I got rescue disk, booted
using rescue root=/dev/hda3 but /etc/rc.boot is still
executed and computer still hangs.
So, the question is how to boot from rescue
I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC.
I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with.
1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers
for it during the install drivers phase of installation, I keep
getting the
kent komplained,
At 11:28 AM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the configuration file; XF86Setup makes it
rick
Unless I'm
1. I'm not receiving any of the emails from the list, for the last couple
of
hours. I can post (obviously), but I am not receiving mail from the list,
unless it addressed specifically to me. Any thoughts?
2. Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I
type
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:39:33 CST, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
[ snip ]
: Then I modified the Makefile as follows before compiling:
:
: ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk
:
: RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440
There's a file on the rescue disk (rdev.sh?) that
Hello, everybody,
I am presently experiencing the following problem:
On my hamm installation I get only beeps when pressing the diaresis keys
on my german keyboard (i.e. adiaresis, odiaresis, udiaresis). Pressing the
ssharp key gives me an output similar to ESC-. . The consoles and X
terminals
Finally I have worked out what I was doing wrong, (Hopefully this will help the
next person who makes this mistake) and it was (as always) really stupid. I was
trying to make using non-elf (a.out) binaries, which was causing the problem.
(This probably stems from using DJGPP for two years, which
Hello,
I am at wit's end with this problem. I am trying to set up a PPP
server at work. It is a Debian machine running hamm with ppp version
2.3.5-2. Same setup at my home-machine as well. I am setting this up
in the server with mgetty and AutoPPP. Autoppp works and I get a
succesful PAP login.
On 15 Dec 98, at 21:59, KTB wrote:
Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring
X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point. I
also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose the
debian release because I wanted to learn
Subject says it all. How can I put non-inetd services under
hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?
Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I type
lpr -Pprintername FILENAME and I get a cover page, a page DESCRIBING the
desired file, and then a blank sheet. When I print from Netscape, it either
prints hundreds of blank pages, or hundreds of pages with jumbled text.
I installed apache, but at the end of the configuration stage it failed to
start, giving an error. I ran apacheconfig, and got the following output
(essentially the same error):
Save these changes to the configuration files? [Y/n]
Rotated `/etc/apache/httpd.conf'
I recently ran dselect for the first time and it found that xbase was
not fully configured on my system. Funny that I have been running
X with no problem. Anyway it asked if I wanted to use xdm and i
foolishly said yes even though I already was using kdm. The result
is that on boot up the
HI Everyone,
This is not a debian-specific question, but have no-one else to ask. I
have been playing with sockets and can not seem to figure out how to use
select() system call. I am trying to monitor wether a socket is ready for
read and write. Read-monitor works ok, but wrtie --not. When the
Actually, I thought this way until I loaded Debian 2.0 - it automates X and
ppp setup quite well... Nothing like Debian 1.3 (which was almost fully
manual for both). It also has several sample configurations available,
which loads preconfigured sets of packages depending on your intended
purpose
Kent,
just as a little background...I started off with slackware...It actually
proved to be a little to difficult for my tastes..then on the advice of a
friend (What's up karl?) I switched to debian. It was like a godsend. Things
worked well, and I have a great time with it. Yet, just for kicks
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:15:51PM +0100, Dieter Jäger wrote:
I am trying to use fetchmail to receive mail from Compuserve.
Everything works fine except that sometimes, when I get a mail from
the
Compuserve Postmaster with an Sender of @ or even , because there
is no
domain, fetchmail
On 16-Dec-98 Lazar Fleysher wrote:
HI Everyone,
This is not a debian-specific question, but have no-one else to ask. I
have been playing with sockets and can not seem to figure out how to use
select() system call. I am trying to monitor wether a socket is ready for
read and write.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, John Greer wrote:
I recently ran dselect for the first time and it found that xbase was
not fully configured on my system. Funny that I have been running
X with no problem. Anyway it asked if I wanted to use xdm and i
foolishly
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:04:04PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
Subject says it all. How can I put non-inetd services under
hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?
If you really want that, the best thing to do is run Apache from inetd.
According to the manpage it can be run that way.
Regards,
Jeff
At 12:26 PM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
kent komplained,
At 11:28 AM 12/16/1998 -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
kent kalled,
ANyway, the easiest way I've found to install X is XF86Setup rather
than xf86Setup
^^^ -- xf86config
that's the
Hey,
When your installation starts up (before it asks you if you want to use
color or not), check for a line that says: hdc (or hdd, it matters what
slot the wire from your CD-ROM to your I/O board) Mitsumi ATAPI
detected or something like that. If you see a line like that, you don't
need any
Thanks for the tips and advices I got. In the end, I did not do
exactly as any of those suggested, but came up with a new twist.
1) Took the rescue and drivers disk images from slink, there were
finally the 1.44M versions. These worked for the Adaptec 7890, but the
install program is buggy: it
when I tried to remove KDE via dselect,
it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they weren't empty
or something)
I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the orphan
directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we can
go in later and clean
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:19:35AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Lee Bradshaw wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote:
what I wish to
arch wrote:
Hi
Ive been very happy with debian so far. But the only thing that im not
unhappy about
is why X keeps crashing on me.ive been promised that linux is a much stable
OS.
My card is a s3 virge/gx2
running at 24 bit with a virtual resolution of 1028 768
using the SVGA
I have to totally agree with Colin. I have spent many nights up with linux
until 5 or 6am, so tired that I see double images. Then something clicks and
everything I could figure out starts working!!
As for my experiences with other Linux dists. I have used Red Hat 5.1 and
Open Linux 1.2 and the
Ian wrote:
Yo-
Does anyone have this card working? If so, how?
You either need OSS/Linux, which is commercial (www.4front-tech.com) or
use the ALSA sound drivers. I believe there are patches for the 2.0.xx
kernels somewhere, it comes standard in 2.1.xxx kernels.
--
Hey all,
Just about finished totally installing Linux. Need some help with my
sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel
boots up it says Sound Initialized. But when I try to run a program
that uses sound it says /dev/audio device not configured. What do I
do? And
Subject: strange modem behaviour
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:43:13PM +0100
In reply to:Lukas Eppler
Quoting Lukas Eppler([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
When using my modem by ppp, everything works fine, always. But when
trying to dial with the following script (which I plan to use
Autoppp works and I get a
succesful PAP login. After that though, the home-client machine and
the work-server don't seem to communicate the local and remote
addresses properly - resulting in the home machine giving up saying
that it Could not determine local IP address and hangs up ppp with
No
On 16-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote:
Hey all,
Just about finished totally installing Linux. Need some help with my
sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel
boots up it says Sound Initialized. But when I try to run a program
that uses sound it says /dev/audio
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is
192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I
have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local
network. Let's further say that I
I'm having a bit of trouble with apt-get.
Background:
slink install from HDD
connected to LAN without trouble
installed socks-client via sneakernet and configured per the man page,
setting http and ftp for port 1080 in socks.conf
can successfully pass through firewall with minicom
read the man
Subject: Mutt colours
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:44:29PM +
In reply to:Patrick Colbeck
Quoting Patrick Colbeck([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Reply-To:
Hi
This isn't really important but here goes anyway. I have over the last week
or so being introducing myself to Debian
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Steffen R . Mueller wrote:
Hi all,
the latest german news magazine FOCUS has a short review of Linux
mentioning the Halloween papers from Micro$oft. Below the article there was
a small table mentioning Caldera, Debian, RedHat and SuSe.
SuSe got an A while Debian
Joe Emenaker wrote:
when I tried to remove KDE via dselect,
it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they weren't empty
or something)
I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the orphan
directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we
Hi, Andrew!
I tried to make it work but failed miserably. Here is what I put in
.Xresources: (from http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Software/Software.html)
!
! Netscape russification
!
Netscape*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-koi8-r
Netscape*XmTextField.fontList:
Tried that as wellit changes the font nicely in my buttons and menus
in Netscape, but doesnt do for form
Also, I played around with Netscape.ad , saved in my ~/
Still no go.
Any alternative ways to 'cyrillize' Netscape?
Andrew
On Sun, 13 Dec, 1998 à 02:32:05PM -0800, Sean wrote:
I am currently attempting to install debian 2.0 (hamm) on a
486-25MHz computer with 4MB of memory using floppy disks.
[...]
Lilo says I have bad disk geometry 0/0/0. Which is wierd because in
the partioning program run by the
On Sat, 12 Dec, 1998 à 01:18:48AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:50:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!!
Toll! Der Maus! (IIRC)
Actually, most Germans know this from the Pink Panther cartoon show. I doubt
Shaleh wrote:
On 16-Dec-98 Jeff Browning wrote:
Hey all,
Just about finished totally installing Linux. Need some help with my
sound card. I compiled a new kernel with sound support. When the kernel
boots up it says Sound Initialized. But when I try to run a program
that uses sound
At 12:49 PM 12/16/1998 -0600, Brian Morgan wrote:
Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I type
lpr -Pprintername FILENAME and I get a cover page, a page DESCRIBING the
desired file, and then a blank sheet. When I print from Netscape, it either
prints hundreds of
shutdown -h now
Then wait until you see a message informing you that the system has
shutdown.
-Original Message-
From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Michael Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date:
At 01:22 PM 12/16/1998 -0500, Sunil N. Goda wrote:
I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC.
I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with.
1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers
for it during the
Hi. I am trying to install the wmaker_0.20.3-1.deb and
libwmaker0_0.20.3-1.deb but need to install libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb first
to satisfy dependencies. I downloaded libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb and tried to
install this, but get further errors telling me that
libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb cannot be installed:
Stefan Gundel dixit:
Hello, everybody,
I am presently experiencing the following problem:
On my hamm installation I get only beeps when pressing the diaresis keys
on my german keyboard (i.e. adiaresis, odiaresis, udiaresis). Pressing the
ssharp key gives me an output similar to ESC-. .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Horacio writes:
BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
command?
What are you trying to do? I can think of no reason that a user would ever
need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.
I don't get it, I am supposed not to use root except
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Phillip Deackes wrote:
dpkg: considering removing libstdc++2.8 in favour of libc6 ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove libstdc++2.8 (--auto-deconfigure will help):
netstd pre-depends on libstdc++2.8 (= 2.90.26-1)
libstdc++2.8 is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding
From: Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: lpr printing difficulties
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:12:06 -0600
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0
Importance: Normal
Anyone know anything about what Kent West is referring to (see below) about
input
On 16 Dec 1998q, Chris Evans wrote:
On 15 Dec 98, at 21:59, KTB wrote:
[snip]
I'm copying this to the list as a sort of thank you to so many
people who've helped me directly or have asked questions or
answered questions other than mine which have helped me!
Seasonal greetings all!
Debian Gurus,
I recently bought the CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD set (4 CDs). They are
most cool. I have a question though:
Is there a way to completely build a debian linux installation from
source code on the Source CD? I mean this:
use the binary CD to do a minimum install system, then use a
I'm going to take a stab at this, but by no means am I an expert on the
subject - so take this as just a suggestion:
I've installed Debian on three machines now - all with different CD drives.
I've selected the generic CDROM drivers in each case, and haven't had a
problem yet. Have you tried
I am sure its possible, but how do I do it? TIA!!
Possible yes, but not out of the box. dselect has no support for source
packages. So you will have to come up w/ a way mass extract and build the
sources. possibly a cvs server you can inject all the source into, then do a
make world a la
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Horacio writes:
BTW, how can I give a normal user permission to use the smail/sendmail
command?
What are you trying to do? I can think of no reason that a user would eve
r
need to type 'smail' or 'sendmail'.
Many thanks to all those who posted replies to my plea for help. I
downloaded the newer libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb and installed it. Once
this had been done, I was able to install libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb without
problems.
Cheers.
--
Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux v.2.0
Andrew Lynch wrote:
...
Is there a way to completely build a debian linux installation from
source code on the Source CD? I mean this:
...
from the original source code? This would be more time consuming,
obviously, but would capture the benefits of compiled for target
optimizations
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