Linux can mount Windows 95 filesystems. Ther may still be a problem with
NT filesystems, I'm not sure. It can be a client, server, or browse master
for Windows networks. It shares disks and printers. There is very limited
support for executing Windows programs under Linux.
Bruce
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I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It
seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior,
sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out.
Is this a known
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
What I need to know is, is there any magic order I need to do
everything in? I know the last time I tried to futz with my libraries,
my whole system *stopped* (because I rmed the old libraries before
copying in the new ones. I guess cp was linked to
Okay folks...I've narrowed down my problem to /etc/init.d/network, where
the first attempt to ifconfig eth0 fails, because I have no eth0! I told
the installer that I was connected to the network via ethernet. NT (also
on the system) says taht I have a Novell NE2000 card. What's wrong? do I
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian,
and thus some stuff like contrib and non-free might not make it on
to the CD.
Hmm, the last InfoMagic Developer's Resource had only room for Debian on
not even a whole disk. It had
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish Which software would be best to handle this? From the name,
Hamish suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd
Hamish guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need
Hamish cnews or inn. I'm reasonably
Hello again.
I'm new to the Linux Wonderfull World, and surfing the Web,
I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed
it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and
an energy problem caused the system to display this message when the
computer
Hi All,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lars,
What you need is a copy of the Adobe Acrobat viewer software.
Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript
already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?)
even through Ghostscript can handle it. But
I have given the go-ahead for Debian 1.2 to be released. Currently
ftp.debian.org and the mirror at BNL have up-to-date archives. Other
mirrors are catching up, and we'll hold off on the release announcement
until they are in sync. Most critical is that your mirror have the
1996-12-8 boot floppy
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Adam Shand wrote:
What I would like to see added to non-free (more than stable/unstable) is
the copyright files for each package, already unpacked, so the packages
don't need to be unpacked to be investigated. This would make it a lot
less work determining which packages
Hello folks...I've got a CD-ROM from IConnect, made ~ the first of July.
It seems to install just fine, but when it reboots, the network doesn't
start up. I've got a NE2000 card, and I think that I configured
everything okay...it works fine when I install from my old .93r6 cd, for
instance.
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so
fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but
how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded?
If you need it, compile it into the kernel,
Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my
Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the
LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then
timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my system's config
requests.
My ISP account works fine
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right? Which one should I be using?
The US version is legal to use in the US, and illegal
On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:38:05 -0200 Alexander Gieg
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello!
I'm new to the Linux Wonderfull World, and surfing the Web,
I found the Debian page. I downloaded the Debian Linux, installed
it, and used (+/-) since October, but I've not much experience, and
an energy
I think the license should be placed in the archive next to the package
so that it is easy to read.
Regarding InfoMagic, I think this time he only has one CD for Debian,
and thus some stuff like contrib and non-free might not make it on
to the CD.
Thanks
Bruce
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Actually, it looks as if contrib made it onto the CD, but non-free did
not.
Bruce
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Hello,
I just upgraded from Debian 1.1 to pre-1.2. I tought it would
be nice to have packages dwww and info2www so I installed them.
But I just can't get Apache configured the way it could handle
cgi-scripts. I had some problems while installing it, but it
was finally installed without errors
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
I advised Joel to look over the licenses of the individual programs in
non-free, and decide what he could legally include. I don't know if he'll
have space.
Since there has been discussion of splitting up non-free, how about
creating a 'non-dist' for
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail seems to
process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient' from my ISP, it
doesn't seem to be running the .forward file. Does anyone have this same
situation.
From: Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09 Dec 1996 16:51:19 -0500
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right.
It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim
vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is
sporadic behavior,
On 9 Dec 1996, Norman Walsh wrote:
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It
seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical
bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior,
sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right? Which one should I be using?
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Mercurial Canid wrote:
Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk
and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount
it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to
Martin == Martin Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin I have been running Debian on my laptop for a few months
Martin now. Good job guys. Unless I intentionally remove the
Martin cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not
Martin spin down. What would be nice
At 10:54 PM 12/8/96 -6000, Dave Ewaldz wrote:
Hi all, I am trying to get ppp version 2.2.0f-18 running on my
Debian 1.1 system. It is dialing up and logging in fine, but when the
LCP negotiation phase starts, it seems to loop for a while, then
timeout. It looks like my ISP is not acking my
Martin Unless I intentionally remove the
Martin cron package form this machine, the hard drive will not
Martin spin down.
There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning
down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the
disk right away just in case the
I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to
/var/spool/mail/nobody.
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file.
I can get procmail to run from the command line,
formail -s procmail
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:39:00 -0200 Alexander Gieg
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount
the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition,
but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* well.
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
as it should've been. A few people have told me
Better would be Ghostscript with gv. Since most people have Ghostscript
already. Ghostview is not setup to view pdf files(have this changed?)
even through Ghostscript can handle it. But 'gv' on the other hand can
handle pdf files and it looks much better then Ghostview. This way you
don't
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish Which software would be best to handle this? From the name,
Hamish suck sounds like just the thing to get the news in, but I'd
Hamish guess it won't be interested in batching for UUCP, so I'd need
Hamish cnews or inn. I'm reasonably
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
as it should've been. A few people have
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail
to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail
telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid,
as it should've been. A few people
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and
going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying
thing left:
- The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
- unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
- (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
It seems you NE2000 is not configured, because you are using module.
Add in you '/etc/modules' one line :
ne
to say kerneld to load module ne at boot time
and add in your /etc/conf.modules something like :
ne irq=10 io=0x300
to give parameters to module ne, because MODULE ne can't autoprobe
Hi,
I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
manual pages for X. The pages are in the system and mandb says it is processing
the corresponding directories but I can't read them unless I specifically
read the file I want using
man -l /usr/X11R6/man/man1/XFree86.1x.gz
As root
add the line /usr/X11R6/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
then run ldconfig
Hi
==
I am trying to use mpeg_play to visualize some videos (in mpeg
format).
The installation with dselect (or with dpkg -i) seems OK, no
error messages, but when I try to run mpeg_play the message
Hi everybody,
well, I happen to be one of them new Debian Linux users,
you know, with them stupid questions, stuff you've heard
of thousands of times. So please, if this ain't the right
place let me know first, then flame if I insist.
Just got my hands on Infomagic's Linux 6 CD set distrib.
Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem:
mount -t ext2 /dev/partition mountpoint
From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical
mountpoint is /mnt.
I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-(
Looks like it's verty f**cked'up then...
You linux root
Last night, I upgraded 2 machine to 1.2 from 1.1. All went fairly smooth,
with 2 hitches. First, I had to install the 'rex' ld.so, because
dselect/dpkg couldn't resolve the pre-depends on libdl. 2nd, cron
was killed/died, and not started up again. I didn't catch this until
this morning when I
Hi,
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I've tried gv; it looks nice, but for me, it doesn't have scrollbars
in the file open window, which makes it useless! Version 2.7b5-3.
You don't need scrollbars. You can move up and down right or left of
click and drag of page on display. I find this very useful
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right? Which one should I be using?
1) That is completely right.
2) The i-version since it
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I'm in the same boat. When I use ~.forward all my mail gets sent to
/var/spool/mail/nobody.
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mark W. Blunier wrote:
I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file.
I think that some questions may be solved here... ;)
FAQ-launcher-URLs: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
Magic
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Hello,
we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote
machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to
remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the
same user-id and
Howdy,
I'm trying to install Debian 1.1.4 on a Compaq Prosignia vs which has only a
SCSI-harddisk and CD-ROM (no IDE). However the SCSI-controller is integrated
on the motherboard and I do not have a clue what kind of card this is.
Apparently Linux does not recognize it, but since I don't know
I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and fvwm2
installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several
other
graphical programs) I get the message
fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
I am running X 3.2, and have several 'libX**.so.6'
The only problem I had with upgrading debian was the information on how to do
it. Now that I know, I see that it is VERY simple and straightforward, but
maybe, it should be discussed somewhere in the install guide or some such (I
could not find a description on the debian.org web site).
I am
Hello,
we have a small problem using the combination of lpr, lprm on a remote
machine. A user, who started a printjob with lpr is not allowed to
remove his own printjob on the other machine. The /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files are distributed with nis, so both computer use the
same
Thanks! You folks are great. All I had to do was install the module with
the apropriate conf info (io=0x300 irq=10) and it is working great. Next
I'll recompile the kernel to get rid off all those extraneous CD drive
checks...but first, maybe I'd better see if I can mount the smb share with
the
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:28:56 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
rmit.edu.au) wrote:
H. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained.
However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit.
Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway,
this is
Try the boot disk set in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/frozen/disks-i386/1996-12-8 . It has more
disk controllers set up to autoconfigure. You can probably figure out
what SCSI controller you have that way.
Bruce
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I have X all nicely set up now, but fvwm won't run. I have both fvwm and
fvwm2
installed (fvwm version 1.24r-24) and when I try to start fvwm (and several
other
graphical programs) I get the message
fvwm: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
I am running X 3.2, and have several
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and
going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying
thing left:
- The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
- unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
- (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various
binaries losing their suid bits.
This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until
a new version of dpkg fixes it.
Guy
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- The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
- unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
- (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
- letters as H, f and so on.
Try looking at it with antialiasing turned on,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes:
I have noticed that since upgrading to the new X server I can't get the
manual pages for X.
You probably have the MANPATH environment variable set. Unset it.
Guy
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I had a similar problem. It turned out that pppd started the negotiation
phase too early when the peer had not finished send all the preliminary
junk. I fixed it by adding a \d (a timeout of about 1 sec) to the last
chat transmit.
hope it works
-alex
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Dave Ewaldz wrote:
I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on
the screent:
GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ...
GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 ..
GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error
$id: cm206.c,v 0.99.1.1 1996/08/11 10:35:01 david Exp $
For now, please boot your system with the command:
linux reserve=0x340
or
linux cm206=0x350
Where 0x350 is any unused address on your system. I'll have to remove
this from the next kernel. I wanted to see if more than one person hit
this problem, or if it was simply someone with
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, David Morris wrote:
This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to
another hard drive that was on this list a while ago.
As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this
is what might happen...
Current
Hi,
seems like problems with the ftp sites recurring...
master.debian.org:/debian/ is empty again.
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/systems/linux/distributions/debian
is outdated.. the rex/disks-i386 has only 1996-11-28
Seems like only ftp.debian.org is still up and running.
I don't know about
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Hello.
I had Debian 1.1 updated with many rex packages. I upgraded my kbd package
from kbd_0.91-6.deb to kbd_0.91-12.deb and the following happened:
My /etc/kbd/config
CONSOLE=/dev/tty0
TERM=linux
KEYMAP=es.map
SOFTFONT=iso01.f16
disappeared!
And now I
The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy
/usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the
package didn't do this for you while upgrading.
Thanks
Bruce
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I've been experimenting with the commercial Wingz product.
They have a shareware version available at sunsite.unc.edu.
Very nice!
--- Jean Pierre
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any good spreadsheet for Linux (X11) ?
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
The configuration file is changed - I think you have to copy
/usr/lib/keymaps/es.map into /etc/kbd/default.map . I'm surprised the
package didn't do this for you while upgrading.
Oh, yes, the package have put an
Hello,
I am still Debian1.1 - compiling a C++ program, which used to
compile cleanly only a few weeks ago, gives me the following
error message:
/lib/libm.so.5: undefined reference to '__getfpucw'
Do I need to upgrade any libraries ?
Can anybody help me sort this out please ?
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3
[8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb
(Reading database ... 22830 files and directories
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Butch Kemper wrote:
I have a problem booting the Debian Kernel 2.0.25 as it hangs with this on
the screent:
GSCD: Version 0.4a Oliver Raupach ...
GSCD: Trying to detect a Goldstar R420 ..
GSCD: GoldStar Interfac Adapter does not exist or H/W error
$id:
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