Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: Greetings. I'm still running `bo' and I would like to get a few additional packages. 'dselect' doesn't work anymore because it can't find Packages.gz anyway. I've poked around myself with ftp and with Netscape, and I can't find a bo distribution with a Packages.gz file.

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
Dear Joey and group, I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so dselect won't work. Regarrds Tom Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:01 +0100 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Kuiper [EMAIL

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: Dear Joey and group, I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so dselect won't work. Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update manually. Regards,

Re: eth0--what's up?

2000-02-20 Thread aphro
its normal, there isn't supposed to be a device for eth* in /dev nate On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Fish Smith wrote: dyson_ Whoo--I saw the Matrix last night, quite a trip. dyson_ dyson_ On to business. dyson_ What exactly is eth0? From the way I've seen it dyson_ discussed I always presumed it was

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Tom Kuiper
Tom Kuiper wrote: Dear Joey and group, I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so dselect won't work. Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update manually. I haven't

Re: How to get bo packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Kuiper wrote: Tom Kuiper wrote: Dear Joey and group, I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so dselect won't work. Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups...

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-20 19:35:22, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Michael Symalla wrote: Hi, I think that won't solve my problem as my AWE64 is not an pci device ;-( As far as I understood the help for the es1370 driver, it is for pci soundcards. On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
Ron Rademaker said: I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just reinstalled them and all was fine. I did it, and now I'm in trouble. One of the packages it removed was kde-corel. That's no big loss

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Henry White
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:06:06PM -0500, Henry White wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Is

Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:25:16PM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: Perhaps you don't have an empty directory var on the root partition? Try booting into single user mode then, $ mount /var. What happens? I added the following line manually to the /etc/mtab file : /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 rw 0 0

Re: low mem boot disks

2000-02-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Wakko Warner wrote: slink was the last debian dist with lowmem boot disks, where have they gone? AFAIK, there was nobody around to work on them for potato. Don't tell me that the programs have gotten so big they won't work on a 2-4mb machine. It is a manpower, not a

Sound editor for large wave files

2000-02-20 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
I am looking for a sound editor that works well with large files. I need to be able to split a large wave file into pieces and normalize it so I can burn them on a cd. I tried xwave but it tries to load the whole file into memory, and that doesn't work with only 64 MB ram... Oh, and with large

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:14:05PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed generated a stream of 1s and 0s: DM == Dan Melomedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM In your case a good idea would be -march=i686. Note in this DM case the resulting binary will be only running on PPro and DM above.

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-20 Thread Alec Smith
To get the AWE64 to ru wit Linux, check /usr/doc/linux/Documentation/sound/AWE64 if you have the kernel sources installed. I've used these directions and had no problem getting sound to work. On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-20 19:35:22, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: On

Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-20 Thread Zygmunt Orłowski
If you are interested in clean source of energy - please find : http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/metoz and after: http://free.polbox.pl/m/metoz.The METOZ machine is a hydraulics device and the description of METOZ is destineted mainly for the inquiring mind. You can find

Compiling (gnome) files

2000-02-20 Thread Chris Gray
Hi. I hope this isn't a FAQ. If it is, I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere. I am quite prepared to rtfm as long as you tell me which fm to read. Anyway, my problem is this: when I try to compile a program, and it's mostly gnome programs that do this, I get copious error messages

Re: Getting the wm working?

2000-02-20 Thread kmself
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:14:59PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: There's some confusion at hand here OK Installed from frozen. Installed wmaker but when I try to startx, just the standard xinit screen appears. xinit is a console program which starts the X Server, and optionally one

Sierra Screamin' 3-D (Rendition Verite 1000)

2000-02-20 Thread boot100
I have installed various versions of linux on my old system and I have never been able to run X in anything other than 640X480 with this video card. Has anyone worked with this card and overcome this problem? The monitor is a Compaq Presario 140.

dhcpcd on slink

2000-02-20 Thread John G. Norman
Hi. I've been RTFM and the Debian e-mail archives for quite awhile, and I can't get dhcpcd to work on slink (2.2.12). I'm trying to do dhcp to MediaOne in Cambridge, MA. When I run the daemon, I get the error: SIOCADDRT Any ideas? Is dhcpcd known to work on Debian? I'm trying to use version

Re: Is there a kernel-image-2.2.14 that is compiled with SMP on

2000-02-20 Thread Svante Signell
I think you have to compile it yourself. At least I had to do this to make my SMP system work on Potato/Woody. Just download kernel-source-2.2.14 and follow the instructions. Rajesh Radhakrishnan writes: Hi, I downloaded 'kernel-image-2.2.14.deb' after seeing someone post here.

UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? Can you compare it to other alternatives? Thank you. -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaul Karl wrote: Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? Can you compare it to other alternatives? apcd is one. Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread webmaster
How do I install a second NIC??? I only know the IRQ of it, NOT the IO address... HOW can I install it??? Look at your /etc/conf.modules there must be something like: options 3c509 irq=11 options ne io=0x320 irq=5 Here you can place you NIC, if you know the right type. Uwe

Re: How to install a second NIC

2000-02-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Try this link: worked for me. http://www.linux.com/howto/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 To get the io of an ISA card, use the scientific approach of trying io=ox2a0, io=0x2c0, io=200 up to io=300 in multiples of twenty. Can't say why but again it always seems to work in the end. Its worth

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-02-20 Thread Adam Shand
I will third that statement. Netscape will take from like 30-60 megs depending... 4.7, btw. On the subject of memory leaks, has anyone ran (g)top after having had gaim open for a few hours I don't know anything about the AOL IM protocol, but I'm guessing it doesn't require upwards of

Re: OpenSSH over old nonfree

2000-02-20 Thread Adam Shand
On a local potato I just installed ssh 1.2.2-1 and clicked through all the warnings about installing it over the old non-free ssh. Since I was unable to log into the old sshd, I figured I had nothing to lose. that is probably symptamatic of another problem though. the old sshd works just

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Schuster) writes: So, are there other options? I guess I could download the whole potato tree of the ftp server (the connection at work is fast), put it onto some CDs, extract the tree to my harddisk, and use apt to upgrade. Another option is to get a CD of the

Sound Blaser Live

2000-02-20 Thread Mars Moon
Hi People, I was looking for a Sound Blaser Live sound driver for linux. So far the search is fuitless, I am only able to find Sound Blaser 64awe etc. So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? Yours, Mark Get your free full featured

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2000-02-20 Thread TaoX { Brian Hinson; }
ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem is... when I send messages for help I get responses... but I have yet to

Re: your mail

2000-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
when I send messages for help I get responses... but I have yet to see a question from anyone else? Am I supposed to check something, like a pop server or news server? or are they emailed to me? I just don't know what or where to go/do to see other people messages for this list... Best

Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading

2000-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
apt is already installed. Then dependencies should be met automatically. If they aren't, you should perhaps submit a bug against apt. I personally have been using potato for months now with only a few problems, so upgrading to potato early wouldn't be a terrible idea. But how would one

Re: none

2000-02-20 Thread Marshal Wong
TaoX { Brian Hinson; } [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok.. here is the lamest question ever, but I have tried and tried to find the answer myself with no luck.. I just signed up on this list and this is my first time to ever be on a list like this, but the question or problem is... when I send

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

2000-02-20 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? Can you compare it to other alternatives? Network UPS Tools (was smart-ups tools). http://www.exploits.org/nut/ -- oneiros ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1024D/62C2F77D wheniwasalittlekid

gdm

2000-02-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm trying to install gdm, but it seems that apt-get couldn't get libesd0 and esound. What's the problem with the distribution site? Here's the output: bdg:/home/okidz# apt-get -b --fix-missing install gdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra

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