I have installed two machines from the current Rex distribution.
The distribution was aligned on Monday to my mirror FTP.FUNET.FI
that is usually quite up-to-date. There has not been modifications
in the mirror this week any more and so I hope to have the final one.
The base set of the system
From: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp is still missing from the base install set.
Might not get fixed in 1.2, I'm out of space.
MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
Can you figure out
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
I've got four modems that people can use to dial into my linux machine.
I keep the standard defaults in a file called options.std.dialin, and
then I've got four files that merely read like so:
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# Set IP address...
:xxx.yyy.zzz.200
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
Can you figure out why?
What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up
being the
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a
machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master
boot record.
Can you figure out why?
no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise
option in
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh dear. I have just installed a complete Debian system for a new recruit
who is now 4 hours away by jet. Is there any automated way of finding
missing bits?
Yes - track updates to 1.2 as they are released, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc.
Or what is my best
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Fred Zarnowski wrote:
I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no
CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via
floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like
Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44
Lord Of The CLUTZ's [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was wondering, when I installed debian it installed getty (or so I thought)
however when I do man getty it gives me the man page for agetty, I would
prefer to have getty, because it does a clear screen after logout, I prefer
that better... any
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
this fixes most of the problems i had with the 1996-12-7 set. I'm still
having a few problems with the new disks:
1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually
I haven't constructed it yet. Unfortunately, it's two disks not one.
Bruce
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Hi All,
Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it
to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way.
Thanks,
David
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I chose to just change the ling in sendmail that points to procmail,
since I don't regenerate sendmail.cf very often. The symlink would
work too, though.
Hi,
thanks again for your response.
I chose the symlink method because I generate sendmail.cf very often.
It works great.
As you know,
In your email to me, David Puryear, you wrote:
Hi All,
Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it
to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way.
Install apsfilter.
Tim
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i recently made the rather unpleasant mistake of fsck'ing my mounted root
filesystem. oops. as a result of this, i decided to just reinstall from
scratch and use my backed up home directories. here's some observations and
bugs that i've noticed (i don't know how to use the bug reporting
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
I've got four modems that people can use to dial into my linux machine.
I keep the standard defaults in a file called options.std.dialin, and
then I've got four files that merely read like so:
[snip]
It seems kinda silly that there's no way to have
In your email to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:
Weird, but inn will not load on startup for me.
/etc/init.d/inn looks correct, runs fine by hand for root
(although it doesn't specify a path, but adding that didn't
seem to help); it just doesn't run on startup. S21inn
exists in /etc/rc2.d as
In your email to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:
Weird, but inn will not load on startup for me.
/etc/init.d/inn looks correct, runs fine by hand for root
(although it doesn't specify a path, but adding that didn't
seem to help); it just doesn't run on startup. S21inn
exists in
Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it
to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way.
E, isn't the whole point of dvi that it is device independent,
ie it must be converted into something else to print? dvips (to
postscript) is the common
We've been moving disks around today and apparently the master copy of
Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8 was corrupted. The bad version is currently
on ftp.debian.org . The version at debian.crosslink.net was not damanged.
The bad version has disk image files that are some size other than
1.44MB or
In ftp.lh.umu.se the following files seem to have different sizes than the
ones in debian.crosslink.net.
o drv1200.bin
o drv1440.bin
o linux
o md5sum.txt
o resq1440.bin
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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote:
In ftp.lh.umu.se the following files seem to have different sizes than the
ones in debian.crosslink.net.
o drv1200.bin
o drv1440.bin
o linux
o md5sum.txt
o resq1440.bin
Ok, thanks for pointing that out. The problem is
I have both the dos and linux versions of the 3c509 config program. The linux
version can be found from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup/ . There
seems to be a new version of the program, dated 12/11/96.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/linux.html has stuff about linux network
I just setup mgetty/vgetty+sendfax today and was testing out faxes when
this happened. I figure it shouldn't. :)
-=-=-
[root:/var/spool/fax/incoming] ls -la ff2ad00aeS1-_-FAXBACK_.01
-rw-rw 1 root fax47031 Dec 10 01:19 ff2ad00aeS1-_-FAXBACK_.01
[root:/var/spool/fax/incoming]
The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with
fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and
Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use
56+ bits outside the United States.
There is, of
Howdy one and all,
I upgraded to 1.2 from 1.1 and I have been banging my head on my keyboard
trying to fix the two problems I ran across.
*** gcc ***
This probably has to do with the upgrade I tried last week. According to
'dpkg --list', everything is installed and configured. That is all fine
According to Hamish Moffatt:
Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it
to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way.
E, isn't the whole point of dvi that it is device independent,
ie it must be converted into something else to print?
I've heard somewhere that 1.2 could be bootable from a CD.
Well, I have a CD-writer (under Win NT, no chance :-)) a
complete mirror of the Debian distribution.
But i've no experience writing a CD. I would appreciate any
help.
Thanks,
Pierre Blanchet.
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Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from
lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up
with 'disable all cache' to get the machine to boot from the floppy.
Everything else went fairly normal, but
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a
nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a
specific cursor color, either for each window or globally?
Thanks, Chris.
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Fred Zarnowski wrote:
I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no
CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via
floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like
Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But back to the mission impossible. Last night I tried with different
irq and base io addresses using both the dos and linux version of
the config programs. The linux version finds the cards, tells the
irq and io address but insmod fails. The command I used is
I am about to make a fresh install of Debian 1.2
and am trying to determine which packages I need.
Debian's web pages has two sites for downloading;
an interface to the ftp site, and a direct
connection to the ftp site. The interface contains
a list of packages which is much shorter than the
1) Will there ever be a debian version of Vim which supports -g under X,
or will I have to compile my own?
2) How can I get my keys mapped properly? I want del to delete the
character under the cursor, bs to delete the previous character, home to
move to the beginning of the line, end to move to
Hello all...
Installed the new 1.2 - loved it...
1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on
inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was
some strange goings on when I moved the selection bar up and down.
with XFree86 3.2, the xterm has built in color capabilities. unfortunately,
it's one of the things i haven't gotten around to setting up yet. i think you
have to insert something like the following into your Xresources file:
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: color
#endif
although someone will
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a
nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a
specific cursor color, either for each window or globally?
Set the `XTerm*pointerColor' resource.
Guy
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the Edward Blevins writes:
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
Good thing, too. We've got enough IP-space cramping as it is.
Agreed!
Um ipv6 anyone? Read the specs. Our little 32bit ip pool
is about to get a 96bit boost. (technically 65bits when you
consider that is what they are
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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
We've been moving disks around today and apparently the master copy of
Debian-1.2/disks-i386/1996-12-8 was corrupted. The bad version is currently
on ftp.debian.org . The version at debian.crosslink.net was not
My question :
How does one get Debian updates from a Debian ftp site using a
non-Debian machine ??
I read that there is a 'dftp' C-shell-script in the 'contrib/tool'
directory in the ftp site but I couldn't find it !! Does anyone know
where it is ??
I also have difficulties in finding out more
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you please tell us the md5 sum of the md5sum.txt file?
344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt
Guy
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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'
Well, if you are pure Debian-1.1, and didn't upgrade anything between
a few weeks
Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm
attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the
1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver
modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or without the
irq and base io given as parameter.
Hello all...
Installed the new 1.2 - loved it...
1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on
inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was
some strange goings on when I moved the selection bar up and
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Eric Budd wrote:
Forgive for asking a stupid qeustion, but here goes. . .
I am building a system from used parts to run debian on, and the hard drive
I have is DOS-formatted, but not as a system disk. Is there any way that i
can format that disk for Debian straight
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On 12 Dec 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
344cbc40324ebd10a526a1e83263c7b7 md5sum.txt
Oops! This is the set I was testing yesterday.
When selecting modules, there are still some windows that are not drawed
properly. When I select a module, I don't see the plus sign +
hello all...
I should have been more specific when I spoke of the
strangeness I saw in the drivers selection menu.
I saw this in the net selection for ethernet device drivers. This
was not serious because I could recognize my ethernet card by
The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with
fewer bits. Currently, it is illegal under the Data Encryption and
Privacy Act (modified) of 1995 to export encryption programs which use
56+ bits outside the United States.
The international version
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a
nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a
specific cursor color, either for each window or globally?
You can get all this from the xterm man page, I believe, but here
are the lines I put in my
Hi!
I just tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2. Unfortunately, dpkg has the
following problem:
# dselect
dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency:
perl pre-depends on libdl1
dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for perl (wanted due to perl)
installation script returned error exit status 1.
Yes, I had the same problem. It looked confusing, but I was able to
select and enable the module with no problems. Still, it should be fixed.
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his
private, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote:
Thaks for your mail. I made a record of the terminal session and I'm
attaching it here. I made a completely fresh install with the
1996-12-8 floppies and only selected nfs from the device driver
modules. I tried to install 3c509 but it failed with or
There was a recent mention on debian-user of a conversion utility that
could covert a red hat package to debian. I lost the reference and could
not find it in the archive. Could someone refresh my memory?
Thanks, Richard
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When selecting modules, there are still some windows that are not drawed
properly.
We have a new volunteer working on modconf, who hopefully will fix it.
He has also written a lot of new information on the drivers.
I really thought that was not the final disk set...
There will be more, but I
It's called alien, and it's part of the debmake package.
Bruce
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If you post to the Debian lists from several different machines, try
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Then you'll only have to deal with the Spam Filter once. For example,
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That gives me the
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Fred Zarnowski wrote:
I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no
CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via
floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like
Yes, I know about the empty messages sent by the Debian list server.
The system that delivers the list mail had a full filesystem, and
the system that manages the subscriber list had its disk restored.
One of these things confounded the mailing lists. All subscribers
got empty messages. At least
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
Can you figure out why?
What BIOS do you have?
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible
if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy
disk.
Don't know what you mean.
hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to
smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases.
it tells me:
/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases
the mode for /etc/aliases is -rw-r--r--
any ideas??
i tried to
System Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi there. i have upgraded to debian 1.2. i also upgraded my smail to
smail_3.2-3.deb. since then i have not been able to exec /usr/sbin/mkaliases.
it tells me:
/usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases
the mode for
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Will there ever be a debian version of Vim which supports -g under X,
or will I have to compile my own?
4.5-4, in bo. (This has been the cause of a couple of bug reports from
people who believe there should be a separate version without X support.
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on
a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems
completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of
machines). 486 motherboards are starting to be
Allan Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Fred Zarnowski wrote:
I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and
no
CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via
floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I
Hello,
The International Version of PGP is a slightly modified algorithm with
fewer bits.
No. This is not true at all. The international PGP Version has the same
algorithms with the same number of bits. There is completely no difference
between the algortihms used. In facte the
Hello,
I'm not sure about PGP, but DES actually gets _weaker_ if encrypted with
two keys. Three keys does make it much stronger, though, as you say.
actually encrypting 3 times with keys of size n if never stronger as
encrypting one tome with keysize n*3 (if there is no waekness in the
I had two wd8013 cards installed in my machine (Bo distribution).
My customer kernel 2.0.27 has support for both 3com and wd8013
network cards. I had to replace one of the wd8013 by a 3com509B.
Both cards are recognized at boot but the 3com509B is not working
although the wd8013 one does. The
Hi David,
You wrote:
Hello all...
Installed the new 1.2 - loved it...
1) did any body else out there notice some funky things going on
inside the drivers/modules selection menu? It worked but there was
some strange goings on when I moved the selection
Hi. I've been running Debian 1.1 for a few months now. I haven't had
any problems, except I can't get the sound card to work. Actually, it
is a modem/sound combination card. The modem part works, and I can
listen to audio cd's, but I can't play audio files. I recently
upgraded to the 2.0.23
Did this ever made to the list. I have got some confusing
automatic messages.
Esa
I have installed two machines from the current Rex distribution.
The distribution was aligned on Monday to my mirror FTP.FUNET.FI
that is usually quite up-to-date. There has not been modifications
in the
From: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or
Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for
DOS.
I think this was getting a bit confused.
If you have a Laplink Cable, you can use the Laplink Cable to
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