Re: quedada

1999-10-30 Thread Jordi
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:26:40PM +0100, Correcaminos wrote: je je je... Nosotros nos estamos haciendo camisetas. Queríamos ponernos el logo de Debian (el guapo), pero resulta que sólo se lo pueden poner los desarrolladores y peña del equipo, etc :( Esto me parece de circo. O sea, si no

ipchains

1999-10-30 Thread cygar
Buenas. tengo una simple duda por que ando con problemas con mis reglas de ipchains, si mando un ipchains -A input -d 0/0 -s localhost telnet -p tcp -i ppp0 . Debo especificarle la direccion que tengo asignada a mi int. ppp0 ,no?? ahi localhost no iria ya que significaria otro interfaz (lo) de

Re: quedada

1999-10-30 Thread Sergio Rael
El viernes 29 de octubre, Barbwired escribió: GNUdista :-) Mi ilusión hecha realidad, llenar el bar de linuxeros que canten a coro la canción del Stallman. Bueno, pues entonces se lo digo a las niñas de [EMAIL PROTECTED] para no ser yo la única ;-) Jamás pensé que llegaría el día en el que

RE: Problemas con el manual.

1999-10-30 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Rafael Eduardo Martín Candial [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 29 de octubre de 1999 21:14 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Problemas con el manual. Cuando ejecuto el man con un usuario distinto de root se produce el

Re: quedada

1999-10-30 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 29 de octubre de 1999 a la(s) 11:04:28 +0100, Jaime E. Villate contaba: Te refieres a la espiral o a la botella con la espiral encima? De todas formas me parece ridículo que solo permitan a los desarrolladores usar alguno de los dos, especialmente cuando actualmente es casi imposible

kipping remote directories in sinc

1999-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I am working on a several projects as home work, both on my local computer and on the university comuter. The access i have to the university computer from home is through telnet and ftp. I want to keep the directories both at home and the university in sinc with each other (make shure that i have

Re: samba questions : thanks

1999-10-30 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to you, I'm gonna mount it this W.E. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.

Re: fvwm: Am I missing something or is it a bug ?

1999-10-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 6 elif [ ! -d $HOME/.fvwm -a ! -e '$HOME/.fvwm.nowarn ] Notice the quotes on this line. There's a single-quote before the second $HOME which should be a double quote. -- Greg Wooledge| Truth belongs to everybody. [EMAIL

Roland RAP10/SCC01 Sound

1999-10-30 Thread Peter Good
Has anyone ever had any success with the driver contained within mpu401-0.2.tar.gz provided by Kim Burgaard? It seems to be incomplete, if anyone has a suggestion for another way to get this type of card running, it will be well appreciated. Pete

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
As far as I know changing the links in rc.#/ from S##bla to K##bla is the preferred way to start or kill the scripts at boot or when you change runlevels. Regards, Onno At 04:57 PM 10/29/99 +, Pollywog wrote: On 29-Oct-99 aphro wrote: its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
As far I can see it's works for me... On my potato box installed with the new flops this looks like: willem:/etc/rc2.d# grep -n portmap * S18portmap:3:# start/stop portmap daemon. S18portmap:5:test -f /sbin/portmap || exit 0 S18portmap:9: echo -n Starting portmap daemon: S18portmap:10: echo

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they decompressed? The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15% then gzip. To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d file To leave the file compressed: bzcat file | tar -x

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
Ah, mistery solved ;-) Thanks, Onno At 08:22 PM 10/29/99 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Onno wrote: Strange, why not the normal way??? mv /etc/rc2.d/S18portmap /etc/rc2.d/K35portmap Is this wrong or something ??? Slink doesn't have a seperate init

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
I frequently see references to Slashdot here, and when I point my browser at them, the page is always rendered in grey/dark grey on black. Am I doing something wrong? The background should be white maybe you changed your prefs??? My usual workaround is (because I run netscrape with -install)

jdk1.2

1999-10-30 Thread James Sasitorn
is there a .deb package available? thanks, james [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs

1999-10-30 Thread James Sasitorn
Im having some difficulties using the save options in xemacs21. It creates the file, but for some reason it doesnt always save all the options nor always load the config file. I traced some of it to the emacs version checking, but its still a poor science. Anyone know a good fix? Also does anyone

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
Ah, I missed that... Thanks, Onno At 11:55 AM 10/29/99 -0500, David Blackman wrote: Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags -xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file. --dave On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz

Re: problems with mirror

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
The same problems here I use rsync for the moment now but -I think- that there is some timeout setting on ftp.debian.org that is set wrong Anyway it's a pain in the ass! Regards, Onno At 09:49 PM 10/29/99 +, John wrote: Hi all, Im using the current potato with mirror 2.9-10 ive

Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: loonys.net: host not found) (fwd)

1999-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
In that hope that you read debian-user, please note you have problems with your DNS set-up, since loonys.net is apparently non-existent: --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:28:05 +0100 From:Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: olly@lfix.co.uk Subject:

Re: SOUND KERNEL 2.2.10

1999-10-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:28:10PM -0400, Camiel Coenen wrote: I read somewhere that all kernels from 2.2.7 on, have sound support built-in. Are you talking debians kernel-images? I have a ES1869 soundcard on my laptop and kernel 2.2.10 but still I don't have any sound. Although I tried

I shrunk my swap partition, how do I let linux know?

1999-10-30 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I have been trying to make a boot/root disk, so I can have a kernel boot with support for my ZIP drive, and PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM if possible. WOW, I can't believe how hard this is! To make it easier I shrunk my swap partition size by 17 meg, and created a spare ext2 partition of 17 meg.

Raid controllers (Was: Curious)

1999-10-30 Thread ferret
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: i would suggest the ami megaraid controller, it works good, is cheap, supports onboard cache and has decent drivers in both 2.0 and 2.2 i hear that mylex makes some damn good drivers for linux too ..but from what i've read their stuff is real high end and

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

1999-10-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:48:36AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except I have done it in less than 2 hours including alsa + pcmcia + irda ... that

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

1999-10-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 06:58:54PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to XFree86 3.3.5,

RE: Re: make-dpkg error

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Mayes
(But I don't know how to conveniently get this version of gcc under Debian. I believe Alan Cox specifically disrecommended gcc 2.95 for kernel 2.2.13.) Ouch. Really? I'd just finished compiling a kernel package (2.2.13) with no apparent errors when I saw this message. Were these

Re: swap partition size OK... Pointers to MINIMUM boot configuration info?

1999-10-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On 30/10/99 John Miskinis wrote: I am hoping that there are some sites out there that will explain how to create a minimum barebones system. I have created what I believe are the essential devices, and am using the simple /etc/inittab and /etc/rc from the howto. The system hangs after

Re: windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-30 Thread Ralf Comtesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hello, I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as windowmanager instead of enlightenment. Hello Gana, I do use this combination on my computer and I would

Debian -VS- RedHat, again?

1999-10-30 Thread John Gay
I recently picked up PC PLUS magazine, it has great Linux coverage this issue. StarOffice and Netscape 4.7 for Linux Plus loads of other Linux software as well. It also has an interview with Colin Fenwick, VP for RedHat Europe. I almost choked when I read the following quote from him. There are

swap partition size OK... Pointers to MINIMUM boot configuration info?

1999-10-30 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Thanks! That was the info I needed. I ran mkswap, and it now refects the proper size of the swap file during bootup. I could REALLY use some pointers to sites that have info on how to create a minimum startup configuration. I have been following the Bootdisk-HOWTO, but I am left with many

Re: Calling in on my server

1999-10-30 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:13:34AM -0700, aphro wrote this is the only relavent line in pap-secrets (the rest are commented out) * wpp-22* (nothing is sensored in that^^^) Try adding a fifth field, like so: * wpp-22* * I don't have good docs on it, but the fifth field

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-30 Thread John Pearson
What's proabably happened is that you have LILO installed on a partition boot record rather than the MBR, and that partition is still active. Make sure that DOS's FDISK has the correct partition listed as A, and run sys c: to overwrite the partition MBR. On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:51:03AM -0500,

Re: Debian -VS- RedHat, again?

1999-10-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
John Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently picked up PC PLUS magazine, it has great Linux coverage this issue. StarOffice and Netscape 4.7 for Linux Plus loads of other Linux software as well. It also has an interview with Colin Fenwick, VP for RedHat Europe. I almost choked when I

mount Partition

1999-10-30 Thread Robin Gressmann
Hello, (sorry, my english is not very good) My problem: I have got a large harddisk (2GB). I have make 3 partittions: 1. 64MB for all files that need for boot Linux (in the beginning of my harddisk) - /dev/hdc1 2. 64MB Swap 3. the rest for all other files (/dev/hdc3) I do not know, how I have

Re: mount Partition

1999-10-30 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Robin Gressmann wrote: Hello, (sorry, my english is not very good) My problem: I have got a large harddisk (2GB). I have make 3 partittions: 1. 64MB for all files that need for boot Linux (in the beginning of my harddisk) - /dev/hdc1 2. 64MB Swap

Re: emacs

1999-10-30 Thread N. Raghavendra
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, James Sasitorn wrote: Im having some difficulties using the save options in xemacs21. Also does anyone know the config option line to set the c/c++/java default tab width? I use XEmacs 20.4, and have no idea about v.21. In my .emacs I have included the lines (add-hook

? GDM xmodmap

1999-10-30 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao, I use GDM and I would like to setup my keyboard from the beginning (since gdmgreetings). Where is the right place to put: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap /usr/bin/setleds +nums ? I have tryed: /etc/gdm$ cat Init/Default #!/bin/sh # Use the Init/* script for programs that are

Re: qestion to squid?

1999-10-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Nixdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use Squid-Cache as http/ftp proxy. The problem is, that the currently running squid is very slow (128MB RAM, 2GB HDD). Squid should be very very fast on a machine like that. If it isn't something is wrong with the

Re: Debian Linux vs BSD

1999-10-30 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:30:19PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: There is one question. They announce openBSD ships with a secure version of ProFTP. The version appears to be older than the bug version(s). Is there something inherently different about BSD that it was not affected by the bug ?

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-30 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:58:50AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On 29/10/99 Martin Fluch wrote: Ther is a script called update-rc.d ... no this is not what we are looking for, update-rc.d only works if there is no symlinks at all for a given script, so to use it to change a runlevel you

acroread broken? (potato)

1999-10-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the potato system, and when I try to follow links, I

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-30 Thread Ethan Benson
Look at the man page for update-rc.d: -f Force removal of symlinks even if /etc/init.d/name still exists. =20 This sounds exactly like what you need... yes I read the man page, yes I tried this, no it didn't work :| Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key:

inodes

1999-10-30 Thread Ethan Benson
I recently noticed that the defaults for mkfs.ext2 have changed somewhat recently (or maybe not somewhere after 2.2 kernel was finalized)... the main changes I am interested in are the default block size which was 1024 and is now 4096 and the number of inodes created which was 1 for every

[Debian: XFree86] Linux shut down the VGA-Output

1999-10-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and good afternoon, I am lost !!! Please help !!! I have tried again to install Debian 2.1 but now I have a problem with the configuration of X and can not do anything. OK, I have installed the Base and some selected tasks inclusive XFree86 and fvwm2. While configuration I have

Re: I shrunk my swap partition, how do I let linux know?

1999-10-30 Thread John Hasler
You need to turn off swap with swapoff, reformat the swap partition with mkswap, and turn swap back on with swapon. man swapon, man mkswap. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: need HELP /* upgrading */

1999-10-30 Thread Shaul Karl
hi, I am trying to upgrade the slink to potato. Got some questions: 1. glibc2.1 is required for most recent applications. The version of it in slink, i believe, is something 2.0.xx. So which package should I upgrade first? run apt-get update and then apt-get -s dist-upgrade. This

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Linux shut down the VGA-Output

1999-10-30 Thread Daniel Faller
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 you wrote Michelle Konzack: Now when I reboot, it waits very lon at a Font-Server and then if the bootprocess continuses, the monitor flash 2 times and then they go in Stand-By mode and shut down. Boot from debian rescue disk, or a mini-linux distribution, such as

FvwmTaskBar

1999-10-30 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Suddenly I discovered that from 11 days a process is eating all the power. Top says: 14 0 856 788 584 R 0 98.2 0.6 17047m /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95//FvwmTaskBar 9 4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/.fvwm95/post.hook 0 8 The process belongs to the user (not shown above) that is not logged

Re: acroread broken? (potato)

1999-10-30 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Having just received a very amazing CD, enjoying it on a Mac and a Windoze machine, I thought acroread would probably work with it. I get messages about compressed pdf from other pdf readers. There is some problem with graphics rendering on the

Trying to access msdos in debian 2.1

1999-10-30 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I am trying to install Precision Insight's NeoMagic X Server so that I can get my IBM Thinkpad 390E up and running with X Windows. At this point in time, I do not have internet access on this laptop. On another computer (Win98), I downloaded the x server onto a floppy with

RE: Debian Linux vs BSD

1999-10-30 Thread Paul McHale
This was my mistake. There is a link on the openBSD site to ports. This link is to the xBSD general repository which I mistakenly thought was the openBSD repository. The ProFTP program is part of the general repository. Sorry for the confusion. I also assume this means that openBSD is more

Re: Trying to access msdos in debian 2.1

1999-10-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi everybody, I am trying to install Precision Insight's NeoMagic X Server so that I can get my IBM Thinkpad 390E up and running with X Windows. At this point in time, I do not have internet access on this laptop. On another

Re: acroread broken? (potato)

1999-10-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
acroread has always worked for me, xpdf and ghostview often do not! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Clark) writes: Have you tried xpdf, or ghostview or gv to see if the file works in any of them? I've found that the portable pdf format isn't entirely portable ;) -- Ashley Clark --

Re: make .deb from installed files? WAS: tkman not in potato

1999-10-30 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:58:56AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: [02:54:13 /tmp]$ grep tkman /var/state/apt/lists/* /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_ Packages:Suggests: tkman grep: /var/state/apt/lists/lock: Permission denied grep:

Debian GNU/Linux at Linux.com

1999-10-30 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991029/193/ Anti RedHat pricing, and pro rumoured Debian pricing /nisse

Printer sharing

1999-10-30 Thread Brian Schramm
I know I asked this question a long time ago but I need to ask again since my brain went dead and I cannot remember how to do it. I am running Slink and I need to share printers between two machines on my home network. How do I set it up? Brian Schramm

Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released

1999-10-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files installed. - desktop#

Re: debian-security: another new mailing list

1999-10-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Keith Harbaugh wrote: This is to announce the establishment of a new debian mailing list: debian-security, for the discussion of all aspects of security significant to the Debian system, including cryptography. How can it happen that this

dpkg Serious Warning?

1999-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00 -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? It doesn't. dpkg does. dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-source-2.2.12' missing,

Re: Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released

1999-10-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files installed.

mouse

1999-10-30 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, I am using potato with kernel 2.2.12. After I change my mouse (ps2), I cannot use it. There is a cross fixed in the center of the screen. Even I change the XF86Config by XF86Setup, it still don't work. When I installed debian, there was program to configure the mouse. I don't know what's the

xcdroast

1999-10-30 Thread Hans Gubitz
xcdroast (0.96e) starts with the messages: ERROR at listbox.tcl line 179: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel ERROR at text.tcl line 455: bad event type or keysym MouseWheel In the Setup-menu Defaults has no entries. Whats wrong? Hans Gubitz -- Hans Gubitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-30 Thread Simon Michael
T.V.Gnanasekaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I can give a description of my current setup. - I have moved away from windowmaker's dock/clip/etc since trying out the stable gnome panel. I disabled clip dock

Re: Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released

1999-10-30 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:23, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr

matrox - openGL?

1999-10-30 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
is matrox g200 3d accelerated card? if yes, is the support in linux is for the 3d accelaration? can i run openGL apps like quake3d? i have a matrox mystique g200 8mb video ram. -gnana

SB 128 PCI with 2.0.X

1999-10-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I've seen posts about getting this sound card to work with kernel 2.2.X, but does it work with 2.0.X ? Thanks, -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/

Re: windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-30 Thread Simon Michael
Ralf Comtesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To all: Maybe someone else can help me? One way that works ok for me: don't run gnome-session, don't let windowmaker save session on exit, save windowmaker session manually from the menu whenever you want.

Re: Re: make-dpkg error

1999-10-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
Chris Mayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ouch. Really? I'd just finished compiling a kernel package (2.2.13) with no apparent errors when I saw this message. I've got a 2.2.12 kernel built with gcc 2.95.x at home, and a 2.2.13 kernel built with gcc 2.95.x at work. I haven't seen any weird

Re: FvwmTaskBar

1999-10-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
Blazej Sawionek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Suddenly I discovered that from 11 days a process is eating all the power. Top says: 14 0 856 788 584 R 0 98.2 0.6 17047m /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95//FvwmTaskBar 9 4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/.fvwm95/post.hook 0 8 You might want to

Re: mouse

1999-10-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
Jianbo Wang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am using potato with kernel 2.2.12. After I change my mouse (ps2), I cannot use it. There is a cross fixed in the center of the screen. Make sure you compiled PS/2 mouse support into your 2.2.12 kernel. It's not there by default. The .config file

sound problems: what next?

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, I installed a new kernel in the hopes that my recent sound problems were a result of corrupt modules, but no luck. Same errors. TO recap, here are the errors: loop awe_wave AWE32: not detected modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module synth0 /dev/sequencer: Device not configured

Re: matrox - openGL?

1999-10-30 Thread aphro
http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ g200 is supported, reports are OpenGL in linux runs faster then in windows on the G200 series. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet

Re: windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-30 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 11:06:28AM +0200, Ralf Comtesse wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hello, I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as windowmanager instead of enlightenment.

Re: mount Partition

1999-10-30 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Robin Gressmann wrote: My problem: I have got a large harddisk (2GB). I have make 3 partittions: 1. 64MB for all files that need for boot Linux (in the beginning of my harddisk) - /dev/hdc1 This is good. You should put the following

Re: problems with mirror

1999-10-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Onno wrote: : The same problems here : : I use rsync for the moment now but -I think- : that there is some timeout setting on ftp.debian.org : that is set wrong You should always mirror from a local mirror; ftp.debian.org is plenty busy. rsync is far superior

6.4 gb hd

1999-10-30 Thread gisela ishihara
hello everybody i have just installed a 6.4 gb hd and i can not boot the debian instalation i have read that only i need to make a small (10 mb) partition and to put the kernel image there? is that true? how can i accomplish that? thanks a lot

xwindows

1999-10-30 Thread raymond ferrari
I was in xwindows today reading the information under Debian online help and specifically the ethernet Howto, clicked on 3com to read documentation and that's when nothing happened. Everything froze, except my hard drive. The light kept going, blinking but I couldn't exit, shutdown,

Where I find kernel and netscape?

1999-10-30 Thread Ribamar FS
Hello! Sorry my english (I brazilian) :) Where do I find the packages of the kernel of Debian? I bought Debian 2.1 in just a CD (Cheapbytes) and I am having difficulties of finding the kernel and the netscape. Can anybody help me? -- Abracos, Ribamar FS UIN 11.899.781 mailto:[EMAIL

upgrading to potato

1999-10-30 Thread Y. J. Chun
Hi. I know this kind of question have been asked many times here but could not find an answer to this problem on the list... to upgrade to potato from slink, i did following apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after modified sources.list to point unstable dist. but the dist-upgrade only

Re: upgrading to potato

1999-10-30 Thread Y. J. Chun
Y. J. Chun writes: Hi. I know this kind of question have been asked many times here but could not find an answer to this problem on the list... to upgrade to potato from slink, i did following apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade after modified sources.list to point unstable dist.

Re: Debian GNU/Linux at Linux.com

1999-10-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Personally, I prefer Debian because of its GNU emphasis and I happen to prefer apt to rpm. However, I have nothing but respect for Red Hat for trying to sell Linux to corporates. If Linux is to scale the enterprise, RH will have made a real contribution. Meanwhile, RH suffered commercially by

Re: Debian -VS- RedHat, again?

1999-10-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks for the tip!

Re: xwindows

1999-10-30 Thread Andrei Ivanov
You go back into linux. By default thesystem will detect unclean shutdown and will try to check/fix the partitions. You can look in log files, once you get in , for clues to what happened. /var/log/syslog and ~/.xsession-errors could be a good place to start. Andrew

Re: problems with mirror

1999-10-30 Thread John
I would expect debian.org would be a busy mirror etc etc. But why is mirror giving me errors on a local mirror with prepending what seems /bin/ls: to file names ... huh :) thanx cheers Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Onno wrote: : The same problems here : : I use rsync