gif file in gimp

1998-02-06 Thread Cheng Tang
I installed newest version of gimp in hamm, but it can neither view .gif file nor save in this format. Is there something wrong in my configuration? -cheng -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

newbie question

1998-02-06 Thread Mark Goble
Okay i installed debian linux 1.3 yesterday on my computer, but i don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do once it boots and it goes to the prompt ($). I would like to install xwindows (or another good program) and bitchx. Could someone please tell me how i would go about doing this? -- TO

Re: gif file in gimp

1998-02-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
I installed newest version of gimp in hamm, but it can neither view .gif file nor save in this format. Is there something wrong in my configuration? .gif is a patented format--you can't legally use it without paying royalties to Unisys. That said, there is support for it in the

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread fpolacco
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 05:33:06PM -0500, John Kloss wrote: ... and I can say this about /dev/cua* It is NOT obsolete. Believe me, they are obsolete, and aren't any more installed. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many

Re: newbie question

1998-02-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Okay i installed debian linux 1.3 yesterday on my computer, but i don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do once it boots and it goes to the prompt ($). I would like to install xwindows (or another good program) and bitchx. Could someone please tell me how i would go about doing

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread B. Bell
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, John Kloss wrote: Okay, I'm pretty new to linux but I have my version up and running on my laptop just fine and I can say this about /dev/cua* It is NOT obsolete. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many times

FetchMail Problem

1998-02-06 Thread Kevin Traas
I've searched through the FetchMail docs and I've only come up more unsure and, possibly, confused than I was before. I'm hoping you can help. I have a multi-drop mailbox at my ISP that I pull mail from. We have about 30 users on this end that mail from this box gets distrubuted to. Right now,

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-06 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Johann Spies wrote: It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about Lynx and StarOffice. .. cut .. I was wandering whether anyone could use Lyx for anything serious. Are there proper documentation somewhere? Johann. Yes, I

RAID5

1998-02-06 Thread Greg Green
Hello all: Can anyone point me in a good direction to learn how to set up RAID5 ? I am wanting to add three SCSI drives to my 1 EIDE Drive system. I am thinking that I could add another EIDE drive as a mirror to the boot device/operating system, and RAID5 the 3 SCSI devices for mass storage and

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread John Kloss
As I recall I tried using ttyS0 (I want to use ttyS0 not ttys0 right? I think the other one is a terminal port). At any rate, things never worked out for that one. Believe me, that was the first one that I tried, since that was what the PCMCIA-HOWTO recommended. As an aside, I don't nor have I

ISDN and SMP?

1998-02-06 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently purchased spellcaster isdn cards, and it seems that Babylon(their isdn4linux, sorta) does not want to run on smp kernels. Does anyone know if isdn4linux runs/works with smp kernels? Thanks, - -- Walter L. Preuninger II

Re: RAID5

1998-02-06 Thread whkye
Hi! I would like to add the question. (Sorry !) Debian supports the HA(High Avaliablility) or PDB(Parallel Data Base) ? Thanks for any related response whkye Greg Green wrote: Hello all: Can anyone point me in a good direction to learn how to set up RAID5 ? I am wanting to add three SCSI

Cheap hardware for

1998-02-06 Thread Will Lowe
I'm planning to build a new box in the next month or two. It'll sit between my 10Mbit ethernet line and my current machine. I need to use this (old) one to dual-boot to Win95 sometimes, but I've become dependent on linux to do email/web/etc., so I'll masquerade the Win95 machine through the

Re: Hamm LaTeX: regmar.sty?

1998-02-06 Thread Noel Yap
Will Lowe wrote: I'm using the tetex distribution in hamm. I need to set my margins to normal US default ones; I used to do this with regmar.sty in previous/other versions of latex. How do I do this in tetex -- I can't find regmar.sty anywhere ... Use `fullpage.sty', eg,

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-06 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. If you're using hamm, edit /etc/default/rcS and set EDITMOTD=no. HTH, Adam Klein

Re: sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-06 Thread Scott McDermott
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 09:16:24AM -0600, Charles Read wrote: I cannot find a sendmail-HOWTO on the web? What's the next best resource for sendmail? www.sendmail.org Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread Scott McDermott
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:24:16AM +0200, impale wrote: What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? I believe the former is for callout only which the latter is for callin/callout. Whether this refers to traffic or connection I don't know, just remember gleaning this from making

Re: Hamm LaTeX: regmar.sty?

1998-02-06 Thread Will Lowe
Thanks for the help. :) Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/

Re: sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Charles == Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I cannot find a sendmail-HOWTO on the web? What's the next Charles best resource for sendmail? I assume that your problm can't be solved by a simple invocation of /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig. There is the best sendmail

Printer Accounting??

1998-02-06 Thread Chris
I am trying to set up a printer accounting system on our network. Is there a package available that can do this??? Basically I have a debian linux server, and a HP laserjet 5M (postscript) which is running at the moment as a remote printer (via a jetdirect print server build into the printer).

Re: newbie question

1998-02-06 Thread Steven Morrill
Mark Goble wrote: (snip) A couple of suggestions from someone _still_ in the newbie stage: Get ahold of the Debian installation instructions and read up on using deselect to install XFree86. Another good set of Debian specific instructions is the "Debian User's Guide" by Dale Scheetz

UPS again

1998-02-06 Thread William R Ward
Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought

Question re: splitting files

1998-02-06 Thread Steven Morrill
Hello all... Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install the program?

HP 100VG

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Madlik
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use one of HP 100 VG card : J2585B and my debian couldn't recognize thi card absolutelly. Does anybody know how to use this card in Linux ? Thanx Marty +---+ | Martin Madlik

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-06 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, John Spence wrote: One interesting point: I've noticed that it is very common for people to move to Debian after using other distributions. I would make a guess and claim that there aren't too many people who migrate from Debian to another dist after using Debian for at

Re: http://www.de.debian.org/contact.html

1998-02-06 Thread jdassen
[Please make sure your mail gets properly configured too - your address is wrong.] On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 04:04:26PM +0100, Thomas Winterstetter wrote: i am in desperate search of a QUALIFIED individual to build and configure a DEBIAN-based single work-station. i'm in frankfurt, germany and

Installing xlib6g for gs on system not using X

1998-02-06 Thread Frere Roy
Hello, I am installing GhostScript (gs_3.33_6.deb) on my libc6 system. I do not X windows but svgalibg1_1.2.13-1.deb The gs package *requires* xlib6g library but when trying to install that I get the following 3 errors: ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libc5-compat/usr/X11R6/lib (No such

Re: C++ Profiler

1998-02-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ about a C++ profiler ] is there such a thing in Debian (Linux awaiting packaging)? I believe gprof does work with C++ programs. You need to compile and link with the -pg option, then run the program, and then run pgrof with the program name as argument. gprof is in the binutils package (at

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello all... Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install the

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. If you're using hamm, edit

Re: ISDN and SMP?

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased spellcaster isdn cards, and it seems that Babylon(their isdn4linux, sorta) does not want to run on smp kernels. Does anyone know if isdn4linux runs/works with smp kernels? Don't know, but check out de.alt.comm.isdn4linux

JPython license: Free software?

1998-02-06 Thread G. Sumner Hayes
Hello, I'm curious as to people's opinions on the license for the JPython package. It's a Python-Java bytecode compiler; the full text of the license is available at: http://www.python.org/jpython/license.html Does this qualify as free software (under the terms of the Debian Social

Re: perl5.004_04 bo?

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Joergen Haegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would perl 5.004_04 break debian 1.3.1? You mean the package found in bo-unstable? No, don't think so. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: gif file in gimp

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: faxing using linux?

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-06 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
What package is the Millenium II support under? SVGA? Paul Yes. The hamm (unstable) distribution of xbase+xserver-vga (Debian) has already the Millenium II option. At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e

Re: procmail and smail

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: faxing using linux?

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: Help with a postgreSQL-query

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: MANPATH etc

1998-02-06 Thread office
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E-mail server setup

1998-02-06 Thread eugene mendoza
I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which has sendmail ver 8.6.12. I've a subdomain of my own. What is the simplest way of doing this? The email will be stored on the linux server which will also be a name server and provide other services. Much Obliged. Best Regards, Eugene

question about wget and proxies

1998-02-06 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
I tried to downloed some files with wget ftp. wget is always responsing No route to host. I'm stuck behind a firewall of my provider. http download works fine, and ftp proxy vars are set like the http proxy vars. Any Idea? btw. is their a ftp-client package with proxy support? Is it possible to

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-06 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
Sen Nagata wrote: i no longer have this problem. a kind soul on #debian helped diagnose the problem. in my case, xemacs was trying to use libc5 libraries -- the fix was to change the order of directories in /etc/ld.so.conf -- /usr/X11R6/lib came after two libc5-compat directories, so i

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-06 Thread Jens Christian Lisner
Sorry for my last xemacs20 mail. It was my mistake. jenne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-06 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - I am experimenting with xemacs 20.3 on debian linux 2.0.29 machine w/ AMD K6 200MHz / 32M RAM. It takes xemacs about a full minute to load in xwindows. Anyone else experience such a prolonged load wait, or is it just me ( 20.3 ;-)? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

/etc/porttime seems to not work

1998-02-06 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi, I would like to confirm prior to send a bugif the following /etc/porttime should work (logoutd is always running) users can sometimes log at after 24:00 wich is not the spected behaviour... thanks in advance, Ulisses --- begin # /etc/porttime

majordomo package

1998-02-06 Thread tko
When I upgraded the majordomo package to the current release, it broke the existing majordomo setup. I've straightened it out, but what a hassle! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ...

Subtle X-server problem

1998-02-06 Thread Tom Irving
I 'd like to know if anyone else has encountered this problem and has found a work around. If I run gdb and mess aroundin the help menu long enough the x-server locks up in such a manner that you can't cntrl-alt-BS out, change consoles or anything nd your onlu option is to turn the computer on

libpam0g

1998-02-06 Thread dpk
I successfully upgraded to libc6 after a few hours of frustration :) Although I was able to get around this on my own quite easily, I thought it may be a concern for users with less experience: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] dpkg -s libpam0g Package: libpam0g [snip] Depends: libc6, libpam0g-util (=

Modem

1998-02-06 Thread Beverly Decker
I have a U.S. Robotics 33.6 Voice Video Faxmodem and when I went to go to add new hardware it gave me a choice to add it and to pick from the list but mine wasn't listed, I had to pick one close to it which was sportster 28800. How can I get mine to show up? Can you help? Do I need the drivers

dual mode?

1998-02-06 Thread tko
I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports dual mode. So, what is dual mode? And does one need dual mode to run Debian under SMP kernel option? Or can one use non-Intel processors? -- -= Sent by Debian

Re: E-mail server setup

1998-02-06 Thread tko
eugene mendoza writes: I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which has sendmail ver 8.6.12. I've a subdomain of my own. What is the simplest way of doing this? The email will be stored on the linux server which will also be a name server and provide other services. Much

Re: libpam0g

1998-02-06 Thread James Troup
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] dpkg -s libpam0g Package: libpam0g [snip] Depends: libc6, libpam0g-util (= 0.57b-0) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] dpkg -s libpam0g-util [snip] Depends: libpam0g (= 0.57b-0), libc6, libpwdb0g Is there a reason why these two packages would

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-06 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install the program? I

boot/mount more info and 2 more questions

1998-02-06 Thread T-SNAKE
#1 OK, I got my /etc/fstab file here (mostly): #file systemmount pointtypeoptions dump pass /dev/hda2/ ext2 defaults0 1 /dev/hda3none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda4/usr ext2 defaults

Re: libpam0g

1998-02-06 Thread dpk
On 6 Feb 1998, James Troup wrote: You don't need to use --force-depends. 15:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/temp $sudo dpkg -iEG libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb Selecting previously deselected package libpam0g. (Reading database ... 30225 files and directories currently installed.)

locate

1998-02-06 Thread herbert betz
Hello, as a linux newbie I don't know how to fix a problem I have using LOCATE. It worked allright, when I installed it, but after a while UPDATEDB and LOCATE didn't seem to do anything, when I invoked them (except giving back the prompt without any message). Manpage or reinstalling locate

XFREE86 ?

1998-02-06 Thread Robert Ayotte
I have just installed Debian 1.3 with the default packages. Everything seems to be OK. Now, I want to install X Windows. When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package. I have noticed that there are several different front-ends to the X GUI available in the distribution but I

Re: XFREE86 ?

1998-02-06 Thread Will Lowe
When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package. You need xbase, xserver-(insert-card-type-here), xfntbase, and xfnt75. Xbase should depend on all the others, so dselect can probably help you out if you just select xbase for install.

Re: XFREE86 ?

1998-02-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Robert Ayotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RA Now, I want to install X Windows. RA RA When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package. xf86 is huge enough that Debian has broken it up into several packages. Most of these live in the x11 section. You at least need the xbase and

Re: XFREE86 ?

1998-02-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package. I have noticed that there are several different front-ends to the X GUI available in the distribution but I can't find XFREE86. I looked at your FTP site and found out that Debian 1.3.1 included XFREE86 but what is the name of

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-06 Thread Will Lowe
I'm pretty sure it's GPL'd. Thanks a lot. maybe you could package it and put it in the contrib or whatever. If it's GPL'd, it can go in main. Not sure what it'll take to get it working under Debian, though. I'm assuming your a Debian Developer? Yep. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UPS again

1998-02-06 Thread Brian White
Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I

Re: FetchMail Problem

1998-02-06 Thread Rob Riggs
Kevin Traas wrote: 1. Can I have FetchMail look at To: to determine recipients rather than X-Envelope-To? (i.e. using envelope keyword) My reason for this question is that the To header may/will have addresses that are not local to my domain. Will FetchMail try to redirect mail to these

Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-06 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the /var/log/mlddc file is empty. When I type that

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-06 Thread Christopher Judd
Is there any way in Debian I can break files down to floppy size for archive purposes? Say I want to backup netscape so I don't have to go back and download it again if I do a complete re-install... How do I accomplish this? and how do I re-assemble the pieces to install the program?

Re: FetchMail Problem

1998-02-06 Thread Glynn Clements
Kevin Traas wrote: I've searched through the FetchMail docs and I've only come up more unsure and, possibly, confused than I was before. I'm hoping you can help. I have a multi-drop mailbox at my ISP that I pull mail from. We have about 30 users on this end that mail from this box gets

RE: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-06 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Dunno - like I said, I skipped installing LILO completely (because it said the 1024-cyl limit in the docs). Loadlin worked fine for running things... Now if I can find the odd problem with my domainname not talking to dselect I can call it working! :-) -- From: David E.

RE: MANPATH etc

1998-02-06 Thread Paul Rightley
I have found it difficult to get dselect to work correctly with the non-US site(s). I usually just ftp ssh*.deb from the correct directory and install it with dpki -i ssh*.deb There may be a better way (but I don't know about it). Paul On 05-Feb-98 Dave Mallery wrote: thanks much... the

modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Lily
Hello, i'm Lily(nickname) !!! my problem is that i want to have internet under Linux but i don't have '/dev/cua?' . How can i do to have these ( i have already try with MAKEDEV but nothing) ?? thanks for all... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

1998-02-06 Thread David Wright
I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this. ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER - ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATZ OK ATL1 OK ATDT5551212 ogin:\qmagic-login-id\q RING ata ogin: The

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Lily wrote: Hello, i'm Lily(nickname) !!! my problem is that i want to have internet under Linux but i don't have '/dev/cua?' . How can i do to have these ( i have already try with MAKEDEV but nothing) ?? thanks for all... /dev/cua? are obsolete and depriciated. You

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

1998-02-06 Thread Tim Sailer
David Wright wrote: I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this. ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER - ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATZ OK ATL1 OK ATDT5551212 ogin:\qmagic-login-id\q RING

Re: Summaries for /var/log log files.

1998-02-06 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Anthony Towns wrote: Are there any packages/programs/whatever that provide nice, readable summaries for the various logs in /var/log? Things along the lines of the daily Usenet summaries that inn produces, but for things such as apache, inetd, mail, the ip paranoia

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and \q

1998-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: David Wright wrote: OK ATDT5551212 ogin:\qmagic-login-id\q RING ata ogin: I thought the \q codes would prevent the secret callback username from appearing in syslog, but it looks like this. Why? Take

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Lily
Ok !!! but i've tried with it... all i know is that my modem is on com 4 under windows what would it be under Linux... and when i do `dmesg | grep PPP` there is nothing although i have installed ppp and recompiled the kernel of Linux, make the modules and install it... So, what can i do more

[no subject]

1998-02-06 Thread Tony
Hello, I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). What is a block device, and how to get the cd recognised? Also - I

Re: your mail

1998-02-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). Have you looked at dmesg? Does it show the CD as being detected? Have

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Thomson) writes: Hi, I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks in. On my system I had to

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Spence) writes: One interesting point: I've noticed that it is very common for people to move to Debian after using other distributions. I would make a guess and claim that there aren't too many people who migrate from Debian to another dist after using Debian for at

.config options differ between dists

1998-02-06 Thread John Spence
I asked a question recently about the differences in .config and thought that the difference related to kernel versions. But i've just had a look at another dists' /usr/src/linux/.config file which uses the same kernel version as me and it is different. The differences relate to the details of

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Lily
well, i'm back again !!! I have reinstalled PPP and now when i make : `dmesg | grep PPP`, i've got a message which indicates me that i have ppp. i've tried to connect with /dev/ttyS3 but it doesn't work... can you tell me what is the command line to get to connect ? the one i use is : pppd

Super-dooper config utils (was Which Linux distribution)

1998-02-06 Thread John Spence
[GUI admin stuff snipped] Webmin and Linuxconf has the same idea. Maybe we could tinker with it and start from there. I'd like to see more scripts like my Debian sendmailconfig script. Not only does it ask you the correct questions but it is a great source of information for understanding

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 09:19:32PM +0100, Lily wrote: [snip] one thing, i've got a USR Sportster Winmodem 33.6 PC, does is work under Linux ? No Winmodems won't work. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

www.debian.org: berlin projec home page

1998-02-06 Thread ninjaz
Has anyone noticed that the debian web site has changed into a berlin site? This should probably be fixed soon. :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: modem and device

1998-02-06 Thread Lily
yes i'm sure it's a winmodem Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Well, now I know what the problem is. Linux does not support the Winmodem because it doesn't work like most modems, but has a proprietary interface. Are you sure it's a winmodem? Lily wrote: well, i'm back again !!! I have

www.debian.org trouble

1998-02-06 Thread Adam Klein
Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed this, and is anything being done about it? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Matrox Millenum II under XFree86 [was: Which Linux distribution???]

1998-02-06 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having a little trouble with configuring my card. I have the 250MHz type with 8 megs of ram.. anyhow, when I switch to another console and return, the screen is shifted about 5 and wrapped around the other side.. Also, the X doesn't fill the screen correctly -- squished vertically and too

Re: www.debian.org trouble

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:45:47PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed this, and is anything being done about it? www.debian.org is restored.

Re: www.debian.org trouble

1998-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Klein wrote: Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed this, and is anything being done about it? The admins are working on this as we speak. -- see shy jo -- TO

Re: www.debian.org: berlin projec home page

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 01:22:49PM -0700, ninjaz wrote: Has anyone noticed that the debian web site has changed into a berlin site? This should probably be fixed soon. :) This was a mistake, we're working on it. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Matrox Millenum II under XFree86 [was: Which Linux distribution???]

1998-02-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I'm having a little trouble with configuring my card. I have the 250MHz type with 8 megs of ram.. anyhow, when I switch to another console and return, the screen is shifted about 5 and wrapped around the other side.. Also, the X doesn't fill the screen correctly -- squished vertically and

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-06 Thread Paul Miller
The KDE project is starting to make some configuration programs.. I haven't used all of these programs, but the ones I've used are really good. sysv init editor user editor (w/ quota options) kdm configuration filesystem analyser + mount/unmount (intergraded with desktop) ppp (never used it, but

Re: Matrox Millenum II under XFree86 [was: Which Linux distribution???]

1998-02-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
I'm having a little trouble with configuring my card. I have the 250MHz type with 8 megs of ram.. anyhow, when I switch to another console and return, the screen is shifted about 5 and wrapped around the other side.. Also, the X doesn't fill the screen correctly -- squished

FW: ppp troubles

1998-02-06 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
-Original Message- From: Fulgham, Brent/SCO Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 9:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: ppp troubles Is there anything unusual about using ppp-2.3.2 under hamm? I had a working ppp system under Red Hat 4.1. I had to remove that partition

Re: question about wget and proxies

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And why does netscape-3.01 gunzip all .gz and .tgz files??? (Not fair if you download a orig.tar.gz file!) You download the tar.gz and netscape does a gunzip on the fly, so the file is transfered gziped but it will save it gunzipped. No Problem.

Re: none

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). What is a block device, and how to get

Re: boot/mount more info and 2 more questions

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #1 OK, I got my /etc/fstab file here (mostly): #file systemmount pointtypeoptions dump pass /dev/hda2/ ext2 defaults0 1 /dev/hda3none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda4

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