Re: Programa de correo?

1998-05-27 Thread Deibit
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 06:55:31PM +0200, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Bien, pues, aprovechando los problemas de los correos en HTML y tal, que buen programa de correo me recomendaríais? En modo consola el mutt, en X el mutt en una Xterm.. 8) Yo antes siempre usaba pine y pensaba

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola, Hola ... en X-window y me paso a una consola virtual con p.e. Ctr-Alt-F8 cuando vuelvo a la consola donde estan las X Sabes cual es?. Normalmente es la consola 7 (-- Ctrl-Alt-F7) pero puede variar, ya que es configurable.

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola, Tengo una duda que seguro que es muy elemental, pero es que no se ni como buscarla en dejanews. El problema es que cuando estoy en X-window y me paso a una consola virtual con p.e. Ctr-Alt-F8 cuando vuelvo a la consola donde estan las X

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Carlos
Jose M. Bello Dieguez wrote: At 10:21 26/05/98 +0100, you wrote: Arriésgate. Prácticamente no va a haber más cambios (D.m.) de aquí a que salga la 2.0. Eso significa que estemos en deep-frozen mode. ;-) Me gusta el riesgo, pero sensato. Lo hare ;-) [ ...] sé qué versión, y ésa no la

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Wed, May 27, 1998 at 12:30:04AM +0200, Juan Ignacio Llona... On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Tengo una duda que seguro que es muy elemental, pero es que no se ni como buscarla en dejanews. El problema es que cuando estoy en X-window y me paso a una consola virtual con

¿Que os parece el nuevo Debian 2.0?

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Bofarull
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Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Carlos
Jose M. Bello Dieguez wrote: Pues si te arriesgas y lo consigues, avisa, por favor!!! Ayer me tiré un buen rato intentando instalar, y nada de nada. Cada biblioteca que bajo me pide otra nueva (o una nueva versión de las que ya tengo), hasta llegar a un cul de sac entre dos bibliotecas

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:16:27AM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: A mi me ocurre que cuando voy a bajarme por ejemplo libreadline2_2.1-7 (que es la que aparece en la pagina oficial de hamm en Debian), el navegador me dice que no esta. Asi me ocurre con varios otros. ¿Quiza se deba a los cambios que

Re: ¿Que os parece el nuevo Debian 2.0?

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Carlos
Juan Bofarull wrote: ¿Os lo habeis instalado alguien? Aun esta en hamm, pero tiene cosas muy buenas. Este mensaje os lo mando desde StarOffice 4.0 corriendo sobre Debian 2.0 con libc6 Saludos Juan Bofarull ¿Que tal importar archivos de Word? ¿Lo has probado? A mi eso no me va muy bien. Y

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:02:32AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:16:27AM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: A mi me ocurre que cuando voy a bajarme por ejemplo libreadline2_2.1-7 (que es la que aparece en la pagina oficial de hamm en Debian), el navegador me dice que no

Re: PVM3

1998-05-27 Thread Antonio Vieiro Varela
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Josi Antonio Pozo wrote: Hola amigos: quisiera que alguien me pudiera solucionar un problemilla que tengo con PVM. La verdad es que no arranca ni para atras. Os paso los mensajes que me salen al intentar arrancar con 'pvm'. Pero antes los que hay en .profile:

Re: ¿Que os parece el nuevo Debian 2.0?

1998-05-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 12:10:17PM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: Bueno, y a nivel de distribucion, ¿se ha pensado en incorporar StarOffice a non-free de Debian? Tiendo a pensar que no puede ser por algun motivo legal de esos, pero me gustaria qu ealguien me lo confirmase ;-) Te lo confirmo. Las

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:01:18AM +0100, Alberto F. Hamilton Castro wrote: On Wed, 27 May 1998, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola a todos, al hilo de esto, a mi me sucede algo parecido, aunque no siempre. Cuando cambio a consola de texto e intento volver a las X se me cuelgan todas las

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 09:34:16AM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: tty libres. Por cierto, ¿ se pueden cargar las X en más de un terminal a la vez ? A mi no me deja. $ startx -- :1 Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ¿Que os parece el nuevo Debian 2.0?

1998-05-27 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Juan Carlos decía: ¿Que tal importar archivos de Word? ¿Lo has probado? A mi eso no me va muy bien. Y otra cosa: ¿porque genera tantos 'core' por el HD (y tan grandes)? ¿No se puede hacer que no se generen esos coredumps? Sólo funciona bien de veras con los ficheros rtf. Ayer me baje el service

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Carlos
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Como dijo Enrique, es mas sencillo usar APT y buscar un mirror que haga http. (En Alemania creo que hay uno, http://ftp.de.debian.org/) Marcelo Mmmm, la cosa es que se me hace nuevo a mi esto del APT, pero bueno, voy a intentar hacerlo

APT.

1998-05-27 Thread Juan Carlos
Hola otra vez. Estoy intentando hacer el APT por http y no consigo que funcione. Esto es lo que hago: 1.- entro en dselect y selecciono Access. Obtengo lo siguiente: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-05-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 06:29:49PM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: 1.- dpkg -i apt_0.0.15...deb 2.- apt-get upgrade /donde/sea/que/esten/los/paquetes/libc6...-.deb y aqui se acabo el chollo. Me suelta una sarta de cosas en algo que a pesar de ser ingles podria interpretarse como chino con mi

Re: APT.

1998-05-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 07:28:32PM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: Hola otra vez. Estoy intentando hacer el APT por http y no consigo que funcione. Esto es lo que hago: 1.- entro en dselect y selecciono Access. Obtengo lo siguiente: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:

Re: Pasar de X a consola y volver

1998-05-27 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Solo puedo deciros una cosa: Muchas Gracias a Todos :-))) -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/| mailto:[EMAIL

CD Debian 1.3.1-r8

1998-05-27 Thread Rafael Castillo Mejia
Hola a todos, yo soy un principiante en lo que es el tema de linux pero estoy interezado en instalar este sistema... mi pregunta es la siguiente Como es la distribucion de los archivos y subdirectorios del CD de instalacion de Debia n 1.3.1-r8 (lo estoy bajando de la red y no se como es la

RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-27 Thread timothy
You download the jdk1.1-runtime debian package (And jdk1.1-dev if you want to do development) from non-free/devel. Then use dpkg as usual. Timothy How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-May-98 Time: 18:54:53 This

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 with a 14 monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would fatigue too

taper 6.8.x for bo?

1998-05-27 Thread servis
Does anybody have a deb of taper 6.8.x for bo(and probably an updated ncurses set)? Taper 6.7.x has a bug in handling tapes 2GB, which I now have.(See previous question on st* devices) I can't upgrade to hamm yet so that option is out. Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-27 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi Timothy, On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You download the jdk1.1-runtime debian package (And jdk1.1-dev if you want to do development) from non-free/devel. Then use dpkg as usual. Timothy How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? Sorry for the terseness of my

Re: samba

1998-05-27 Thread Greg Norris
Ok, I think I have it working now. I have a single win95 machine on a local network (twisted-pair crossover cable), with the linux box acting as a samba server. Samba's set to act as a wins server for win95 (I suppose I could drop that part... how bad could broadcasts possibly be with only 2

Hamm ...

1998-05-27 Thread Marcelo Laurenti
Hi Anybody has upgraded to hamm?? I'm having trouble with WTEMP, it seems to be destroyed after a reboot. Any sugestions Thanks Marcelo Marcelo Laurenti Escuela de Ingenieria Electronica [EMAIL PROTECTED] FCEIA UNR (servidor: cain.eie.fceia.unr.edu.ar) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Installing X-Windows?

1998-05-27 Thread Ben Szyc
I've just recently started using Debian and thought it's bout time I installed X-Windows but I don't have much idea where to start. Can someone please help me in detail if possible??? thanx in advance :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-27 Thread John Goerzen
Stuart Krivis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat

RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-27 Thread timothy
If you are using hamm (Debian 2.0), you just ftp: ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel and download the jdk*deb packages. Then use dpkg as usual. I don't think jdk1.1.5 is packaged for Bo (Debian 1.3), so if you are using bo, you will probably have to see

Netscape not resolving some domain names

1998-05-27 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I have just installed Netscape Communicator 4.05 on my Debian 1.3 system and I am having alittle trouble. Problem #1 Netscape does not resolve all domain names. It will go to the Gimp site but not AfterStep or Netscape homepage. I am assuming that it has something to do with reverse DNS or

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-27 Thread Jonathan Hester
Friends, a question: I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my old IBM PS/1 Consultant machine. During the installation procedure, when the time comes to partition my hard drive, the operating system cannot find my hard drive. I know the hard drive is operational because it boots under DOS. I

JDK 1.1.5 and Java ICQ

1998-05-27 Thread Corey Miller
I've been trying to run the Java version of ICQ on my hamm system. I get the following error when ICQ tries to display information in text boxes: Warning: Name: textfield Class: XmTextField Character 'S' not supported in font. Discarded. This happens for all

Re: Hamm ...

1998-05-27 Thread Jack Kern
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:47:44PM -0300, Marcelo Laurenti wrote: Hi Anybody has upgraded to hamm?? I'm having trouble with WTEMP, it seems to be destroyed after a reboot. If you have not yet, get autoup.sh and other info: http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/

RE: JDK 1.1.5 and Java ICQ

1998-05-27 Thread timothy
For me this only happens when people with non-standard characters in their name, (like what Alt-### keys under dos make), comm me. Most of the time if I rename them to something normal its all fine. Timothy On 27-May-98 Corey Miller wrote: I've been trying to run the Java version of ICQ

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo, Why do you call that an upgrade? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. Johann. Yes, that was my experience also, but I did not give

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-27 Thread Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel
On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Or you could use ICQ for Java. I've used it with Solaris x86 and RedHat 5. It seems to be pretty stable. I have experienced a few too many crashes. It is also a memory hog (12 meg). Which is much more than the, what, 3k that it takes inetd to listen

creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I'm trolling for ideas and guidance. I'm trying to help my parents enter the electronic age. They basically know nothing about computers. They're 80 and I'm stubborn. This means that things have to be super easy for them, and I'm hoping to avoid windoze. So far I have set

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Bonard B. Timmons III; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, that was my experience also, but I did not give up. I am glad because exim really is clean, powerful, and logical. I would be glad to assist anyone; at the very least I can help those

fetchmail sendmail/smail

1998-05-27 Thread Darren Benham
Ok... I get this message when I run fetchmail... fetchmail: 9 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (3345 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.skylink.net I've successfully set up fetchmail on several systems but

RE: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Darren Benham
On 27-May-98 G. Crimp wrote: I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, logout, shutdown, or call up a graphic mail user agent (maybe xfmail or netscape) just by clicking the appropriate

Printing to appletalk printer?

1998-05-27 Thread Asher Haig
Is it possible to make linux print to an appletalk printer? I see papd can spool from appletalk to an lp printer. Can it work the other way? I want to print to an HP 6MP hooked up via a Jet Direct Plus to 10bT ethernet. It does NOT have a specific IP address assigned to it -- I only have 6

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel
On Tue, 26 May 1998, G. Crimp wrote: I'm trolling for ideas and guidance. I'm trying to help my parents enter the electronic age. They basically know nothing about computers. They're 80 and I'm stubborn. This means that things have to be super easy for them, and I'm hoping to avoid

File-system on tape

1998-05-27 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi, Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it is very slow, but is it possible? If not, is it possible to have several files on one tape and how to access them? Any input is appreciated. Thank you all ZORO -- To

mount cdrom?

1998-05-27 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
Ahh I know this is a stupid question, but how do I mount a cdrom? I have a sun scsi cdrom set to address 6, and a directory (mount point) called cdrom created in / Whats the the command line to mount it? Thanks. == live life to the full because your DEAD longer than your alive.

RE: mount cdrom?

1998-05-27 Thread Mark Ciciretti
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom On 27-May-98 Mikhali Mifsud wrote: Ahh I know this is a stupid question, but how do I mount a cdrom? I have a sun scsi cdrom set to address 6, and a directory (mount point) called cdrom created in / Whats the the command line to mount it? Thanks.

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 80:3b

1998-05-27 Thread the lone gunman
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the answers. I installed the system by booting from a floppy and installing the base system from cdrom. (My cdrom is bootable; the cd is bootable, but for

how to get color ls display?

1998-05-27 Thread the lone gunman
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the answers. Getting color with ls! I copied my /etc/DIR_COLORS from my old slackware system to my new Debian system. In my /etc/profile, I have dircolors -b

fetchmail just hangs

1998-05-27 Thread the lone gunman
Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the answers. I have ppp successfully running, but cannot get fetchmail (or popclient) to work. Here's the commands I've tried: fetchmail -k -u my username my

reply address...

1998-05-27 Thread the lone gunman
Hello: I just posted three messages to the mailing list: A question about being unable to mount my root-partition, a question about colorizing ls, and a fetchmail question. I did not provide a (correct) return email address. It is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry. Thanks for your help! -- To

Re: Printing to appletalk printer?

1998-05-27 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 26 Apr, Asher Haig wrote: Is it possible to make linux print to an appletalk printer? I see papd can spool from appletalk to an lp printer. Can it work the other way? I want to print to an HP 6MP hooked up via a Jet Direct Plus to 10bT ethernet. It does NOT have a specific IP address

Re: HELP! Installing Packages From Another Drive...

1998-05-27 Thread Jean-Luc Anthoine
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Harry Tuttle wrote: Chris, Where do you find the options, ie. nonumtail, user, rw, exec, for the fstab file? I have looked in (man)fstab, mount, mfstab, etc, but have been unable to find anything. What I am really interested in is the nonumtail meaning.

Re: scsi tape devices?

1998-05-27 Thread Jean-Luc Anthoine
On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me what the *a, *l, and *m devices are/do for for my scsi tape drive? The Linux Device List was not very enlighting. 0 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 128 May 28 1997 /dev/nst0 0 crw-rw 1 root disk

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 11:39:09PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, 25 May 1998 23:37:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Wouldn't it just be easier to set the executable to GUID games and have all the game files owned by games? That way there is

Xauthority permission change

1998-05-27 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
When I su root and run X (startx) from the su'ed shell, the owner and modes of the real-UID-user's-home/.Xauthority are changed to root and rw--- (ls format). (The file group doesn't change.) Next time you start X as a normal user, no X applications can be started because .Xauthority is not

Re: fetchmail sendmail/smail

1998-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DB == Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB fetchmail: 9 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] DB reading message 1 (3345 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed DB fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.skylink.net Try adding smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc

Re: fetchmail just hangs

1998-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
tlg == the lone gunman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tlg fetchmail (or popclient) will connect to the server, prompt me for my tlg password, then start reading messages. It will say tlg reading message 1 (size) tlg print one or two periods, then sit there indefinately. If I watch the tlg modem

Re: Installing X-Windows?

1998-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BS == Ben Szyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS I've just recently started using Debian and thought it's bout time I BS installed X-Windows but I don't have much idea where to start. Can BS someone please help me in detail if possible??? The best way is to use dselect to install the needed

THANKS: Re: starting point doc abut regexp and perl

1998-05-27 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hello Hamish! On Wed, 27 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:53:19PM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: I would like some URLs to get an starting point about perl(I searched in www.perl.com) and it's regular expressions. The manual pages are huge and not very didactic for

Hamm Upgrade Failure - problem with dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb

1998-05-27 Thread Mark Phillips
I am trying to upgrade to Hamm. I have run the autoup script, I think successfully. Now I am trying to run deselect to upgrade everything else, but it bombs out when I try to install, complaining that: Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ...

Re: Boot problem after installation

1998-05-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:56:13PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:27:09PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. If I boot from the 'Custom Boot Floppy' it works, but

Re: SMTP connection went away?

1998-05-27 Thread selber
+- My mail system seems to be working since the upgrade to hamm/frozen. +- However, I just tried telnet localhost 25 and got connection +- refused. I had noticed after the upgrade that /etc/inetd.conf had this +- line (note the #): +- # smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd

Re: SMTP connection went away?

1998-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
HS == selber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] HS How can I convince smail to accept my existence again? Try running smailconfig again. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Hester) writes: displayed by pressing F4 at the boot: prompt, the following special parameter is recommended for IBM PS/1's with IDE hard drives: hd=cylinders,heads,sectors Thus, I tried booting by typing the following at the boot: prompt - linux

X Windows, how to set up?

1998-05-27 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have installed the base system and standard packages. Can anyone me tell if this is enough for running X Windows? If not, what do I need more, and where can I find documentation. /Tomas Petersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 26 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, Why do you call that an upgrade? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. I

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 20 h 2, the keyboard of G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, logout, shutdown, or call up a graphic mail user agent

Re: X Windows, how to set up?

1998-05-27 Thread Mike Acklin
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:28:15PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I have installed the base system and standard packages. Can anyone me tell if this is enough for running X Windows? If not, what do I need more, and where can I find documentation. /Tomas Petersson Tomas, Yes,

Re: X Windows, how to set up?

1998-05-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TP == Tomas Petersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TP Hello, I have installed the base system and standard packages. TP Can anyone me tell if this is enough for running X Windows? TP If not, what do I need more, and where can I find documentation. Check http://www.debian.org/fom/21.html for some

Installing Hamm - NFS not working

1998-05-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all I am trying to install base2_0.tgz via NFS. On 192.168.37.2 I have /tmp(rw) in /etc/exports (I have also tried other lines such as /tmp*.lynagh.demon.co.uk(ro,insecure) but no better luck) When I mount -t nfs 192.168.37.2:/tmp /mnt from 192.168.37.2 it all works fine, but when I

Printer compatibility

1998-05-27 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Anyone tried one of these with linux? Can you recommend a printing package pls (or tell me which FM to R? =) Thanks, Matthew Mannesmann Tally MT-910 laser printer for sale 300 dpi, 2 font cartridges, 2Mb RAM, parallel interface, dual 250 sheet trays. Comes with spare

DNS.

1998-05-27 Thread Johan Berglund
I´m about to move a web-server (Debian) from one place to another and have to change IP. I now like to install and use DNS on the server. I´d like the DNS in the new server to handle my domain. My domain is now handled by my ISP but I need the ability to add and remove hostnames. I guess this is

Re: File-system on tape

1998-05-27 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:15:58PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi, Hi Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it is very slow, but is it possible? That is really very sick and twisted to even think of such a thing... hmm I

Can I read NTFS from Linux?

1998-05-27 Thread Robbie McGarrigle
HELP! I've just installed a Debian Linux *bare* system.. I got it on a bunch of 8 floppies whilst @ work. I can download lotsa stuff at work but I don't know how to read my NTFS partition from within Linux. COnfig is: 2 SCSI disks (1 NTFS partition on first disk, 1 Linux on 2nd 1 Linux

Last try: can't make rshd recognize +@netgroup

1998-05-27 Thread Kevin Squire
Hi there -- I've tried asking this before, but I think I might have been asking the wrong question (or at least no one answered). I'll try one more time with different wording. On a hamm machine, I'm trying to get rshd to let me put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in hosts.equiv. If I list the local

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Tim O'Brien
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 20 h 2, the keyboard of G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, logout,

ppp, chat slow connect

1998-05-27 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I finally got pon to start pppd and chat to connect to the internet via modem. The first time I typed pon it dialed out, but this was after playing with the commands manually from the command line. The next time I booted the system and tried it again nothing happened. I typed ps and saw that

Re: File-system on tape

1998-05-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
No, it isn't. In unix the basic requirement for a filesystem-capable device is that it be a block-device (as opposed to a character device). The real clincher is that a filesystem device needs to support random access. Most tape drives (DDS2 being a notable exception) support only sequential reads

Mouse problem running 'xbase-configure'

1998-05-27 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, when I try to configure X I get the errormsg below as soon as I move the mouse. I have a standard Microsoft mouse connected to COM1 Any ideas? /Tomas Petersson can't read tkPriv(x): no such element in array while executing if {(300 !=

Debian JDK page

1998-05-27 Thread Paul Reavis
Well, I got dragged around on errands all night last night, so didn't get this done before the JDK FAQ was published, but it's up now- Still very rough; needs lots of input from you good people out there. Focus is on getting various versions of the JDK running on various versions of Debian. As

Re: DNS.

1998-05-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Johan Berglund wrote: I´m about to move a web-server (Debian) from one place to another and have to change IP. I now like to install and use DNS on the server. I´d like the DNS in the new server to handle my domain. My domain is now handled by my ISP but I need the ability to add and remove

Re: Last try: can't make rshd recognize +@netgroup

1998-05-27 Thread Pierre Blanchet
KS == Kevin Squire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS Hi there -- KS I've tried asking this before, but I think I might have been asking the KS wrong question (or at least no one answered). I'll try one more time with KS different wording. On a hamm machine, I'm trying to get rshd to let me

can't start netscape

1998-05-27 Thread Richard Sevenich
I just installed Hamm and am using kde as the desktop environment. Attempting to start netscape yields error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' The netscape version is one I used earlier under bo (netscape 4.05). The library in the error message exists. Any advice/hints? TIA Richard

Re: ATI Rage Pro AGP

1998-05-27 Thread Steve Izma
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:08:59 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - High-performance AGP-enabled video. Integrated ATI Rage Pro video controller with up to 4MB 100MHz SGRAM video memory Uses 1X Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) bus for faster graphics processing. I

RE: Java JDK 1.15 on Debian?

1998-05-27 Thread Jay Barbee
You download the jdk1.1-runtime debian package (And jdk1.1-dev if you want to do development) from non-free/devel. Then use dpkg as usual. Timothy How do you install the Java JDK 1.15 on Debian? Is this for HAMM or BO installations? I thought last time I looked that JDK 1.1 was for HAMM

Now that I downloaded GNOME whow do I run it?

1998-05-27 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have doenloaded gnome from slink and yes it I ran dpkg on it and it seems to be well installed but how do I use it? I thought it would be like the nice KDE desktop but it just seems to be eating my disk space. How do I run it? Why is there no documentation about running it?

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote: : : Friends, a question: : : I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my old IBM PS/1 Consultant : machine. During the installation procedure, when the time comes : to partition my hard drive, the operating system cannot find my : hard drive. I know the

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-27 Thread Nuno Carvalho
I really need ICQ cause some of my friends use it on Windoze and we like to know when someone are online! I think this is the better idea ! ;) Thanks Next weekend I will try ICQ for JAVA on linux! ;) Beste regards, Nuno Carvalho --- Nuno Emanuel

system time

1998-05-27 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- where can I change the system time / rerun the timezone setup? - -- Stone's Law: One man's simple is another man's huh? - -- == Christian Zander

Re: system time

1998-05-27 Thread Steve Mayer
Chris, Try tzconfig to change the timezone setup and 'man hwclock' or 'man date' for ways to set the system time. Stever Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Zander wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- where can I change the system time / rerun the timezone setup? - -- Stone's Law:

Installation problems

1998-05-27 Thread Igor S. Livshits
Hello, This is my first attempt at installing any Linux in years; so, if I missed an FAQ section somewhere, please point me there first. I am trying to install 1.3 on a new Dell. I boot off the rescue floppy and quickly get to the please wait...determining current state window. This screen never

lilo compile problem (can't add entry for dos)

1998-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
i tried to change lilo.conf to add an entry for msdos thats sitting on a diferent partition on my hardisk (I'm using lilo ver 20 if i'm not mistaken the one that comes with the Hamm-frozen instelation) i added the lines: other=/dev/hda1 label=Dos the answear i got was sometimes error near line 11

2.0 boot floppies

1998-05-27 Thread Babs
does anyone know the proper syntax to use make-kpkg for making boot floppies for v.2.0??? Info needed asap as i need to install the os on a box for work. Thanks, Fuzy :) Thanks, Babs, Your Got.Net PC Tech... http://we.got.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:28:42PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: [..] I wholeheartedly DISAGREE with that. Exim is a breeze, at least for me. Smail should not be considered as an internet mailer in my opinion and should be left to uucp only setups.

problem setting network - installing Hamm/frozen

1998-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a problem that while installing hamm release 26/4 when i go into setting up the network, if i chose the option that i am not connected to a network the menu jumps back to the start (chose color or mono monitor) and then when i get back to the options i am again on the option for confiuring

Re: Boot problem after installation (and a cfdisk query)

1998-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:56:13PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:27:09PM +0200, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I have just installed Debian Linux, everything went fine except I can't boot from the harddrive. If I boot

Re: Now that I downloaded GNOME whow do I run it?

1998-05-27 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: I have doenloaded gnome from slink and yes it I ran dpkg on it and it seems to be well installed but how do I use it? I thought it would be like the nice KDE desktop but it just seems to be eating my disk space. How do I run it? Why is there no

Installing 1.3 on IBM PS/1

1998-05-27 Thread Jonathan Hester
Thanks very much to Bonard Timmons and Nathan Norman for their advice. However, I'm still having trouble installing Debian 1.3 on my IBM PS/1. As recommended, I'm typing the following at the boot: prompt - linux hda=934,16,17 (My hard disk has 934 cylinders, 16 heads, and 17

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Peter Prohaska wrote: On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:28:42PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: [..] I wholeheartedly DISAGREE with that. Exim is a breeze, at least for me. Smail should not be considered as an internet mailer in my

Re: Installing X-Windows?

1998-05-27 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I just finished installing my X on a new system. I assume you are using the 1.3 release of linux (bo). I used dselect to install the system. It took me 3 tries to get it right (I'm new to using the Debian so maybe I'm doing something wrong... but it seemed that if you just pick all of the

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