ldap

1998-07-28 Thread crontab
Hola, me gustaria saber si hay algun servidor FTP que autentifique chequeando contra LDAP y no contra los tipicos ficheros /etc/passwd y /etc/shadow. ldap== Lightweight Directory Access Protocol saludos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Distribución de Debian 2.0

1998-07-28 Thread J. Parera
Hola, ante la polémica que surgió con el distribuidor que les comenté hace poco he buscado otro el cual puede que sea algo mejor que el que dije antes. Además está ubicado en Alemania por lo que devería llegar antes el paquete. Les envio las páginas que tiene dicho distribuidor (15kb): Creen

Donde pillo la 2.0? y aludos a todos

1998-07-28 Thread Ignacio Torres Masdeu
Bueno, este es un mail con dos objetivos principales. 1.- Saludar a todos pq soy nuevo en la lista 2.- Saber donde puedo conseguir la Debian 2.0 estable (en España) Por ahora poco mas. No me pegueis por la firma, en cuanto encuentre la Debian 2.0 cambiara el contenido de los parentesis ;)

Re: Getting Samba working on BO

1998-07-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but I guess I'll ask it anyways. Not as bad as some I've asked :) Sorry to take so long to reply, I am sometimes really slow about reading the mailing lists I'm on. How do I get Samba working on my BO

Re: samba printing problems

1998-07-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the apps that create the problems have an option for 'background' printing or something similiar? They send the print data to the spooler in chunks when the program is not busy. That might be something to look for. Nope. Paintbrush has very

Re: partition memory

1998-07-28 Thread Geoff Brimhall
For disk partition stuff, use 'df' To know the size of a directory, use 'du -s /path/to/directory' To know memory stuff, there is a command line command (which I don't know), but I have found it the easiest to look at, with a shell text editor such as pico or joe, /proc/memory. Actually, a

Re: Partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Some seem to have good reasons for installing on more than one partition. As of yet, I'm still running from just one root partition and a swap. If you ever come up with a good reason for doing it another way, you can always change it around. Tom -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Advanced Power Management Linux

1998-07-28 Thread alexander e dukat
Linux is able to control the APM features nicely. I am just not looking into them. To have it work, in the BIOS, APM needs to be on, but all of the features disabled, linux will handle the features. There is APM management in the new kernels, but I believe that is mainly for laptops. To get it

Good tool to do WSYSIG html (or XML, SGML) editing ?

1998-07-28 Thread Geoff Brimhall
I know Netscape's 4.0 Composer is pretty good for editing basic web pages. However, for more advanced stuff I was wondering if maybe emac's HTML extension is good - does anyone have any other suggestions For instance, QWeb displays SGML documents, but is there a corresponding WYSIYG SGML

websites

1998-07-28 Thread alexander e dukat
I am lucky I checked the main debian site to see that 2.0 was released. The US site has yet to be updated. Wondering why it has taken so long? Alex -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Alt keys stopped working in Xemacs

1998-07-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Did you happen to upgrade your X windows packages? With the new and improved XKB extensions, the keyboard setup for Windows keyboards with those new funny windows keys, the ALT keys are now ALT and the phunkey windows keys are now META keys. You want your ALT keys to be meta keys. You can edit

Re: DHCP and hostname

1998-07-28 Thread Troy
Would work for the hostname command, I am unsure if you have a MTA set up, which you would also need to change the hostname in. do a grep yourcurrenthostname /etc/* | more to see how many files it is in. On mine it comes up in: HOSTNAME hostname mailname hosts and ssh config files [which you

cdrom images available on fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de

1998-07-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
they are available for rsync downloads: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jul 24 04:40 Debian-2.0-Official-CD-Images-24-Jul-1998-02:40-GMT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 Jul 24 15:01 MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1055 Jul 24 04:40 README.cdwrite -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: even more sound problems

1998-07-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You know, none of the *play programs I've installed for debian have ever worked. Go figure. Anyway, the 'sndkit' you can get from sunsite has a program called 'vplay' which has always worked well for me. I'm email you separately the source (+ compiled binary in case you're not interested in

Re: any risk in using /home/root

1998-07-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 08:24:20AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: hmmm maybe i'd mount /home as noexec too... users could hate it cause it would prevent from using scripts and e.g. links to ssh (like fantomas.fantomas.sk. - /usr/bin/ssh which would call ssh to fantomas.fantomas.sk) but

Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?

1998-07-28 Thread Paul
Another possible option here is to use SHIFT-PGUP if on a virtual terminal or use the scroll bars in an xterm. Has the added benifit of not having to retype the command that is erroring. On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supose I have a program that output long text to stderr. Can I

dselect

1998-07-28 Thread David Parmet
Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? For the past two days, I've been trying to run dselect and I get stable binaries not found or non-free binaries you get the idea... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

xemacs not starting unless connected to the net

1998-07-28 Thread Keith
My xemacs does not start unless I am connected to the internet. I do not use emacs for anything that needs me connected to the Net. I am assuming that it has something to do with the email part of xemacs is there a way to make it not try adn dial the net everytime I open xemacs. Regular emacs

apt errors; what?

1998-07-28 Thread Ian Eure
After a week-long vacation, I come back to work and do ``apt-get update;apt-get upgrade''. All is fine for a while, then I get these errors... Any idea what this is? I installed the latest apt (0.1.3) and I still have problems with it. /etc/apt/sources.list is deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

Re: lexmark printers

1998-07-28 Thread Anders Hammarquist
There are some pretty good deals on Lexmark printers at my University. They use PCL5 and PS emulation. Anybody have any experience with Lexmark's emulation and Linux ? I've heard that the emulation isn't perfect. Since they don't support Linux, they are not likely to offer any solutions. Any

Re: dselect

1998-07-28 Thread Ralph Winslow
David Parmet wrote: Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? Perhaps you're still specifying frozen - if so, convert to stable. I've noticed that my best sites were one by one becoming inaccessable - then remembered that the release had happened. Thus frozen becomes stable. For the past

Questions

1998-07-28 Thread Chris Nelson
Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct with that being the file, then how do you install it? Is it a compressed file?

Re: Questions

1998-07-28 Thread servis
*-Chris Nelson (27 Jul) | Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My | first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? | The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct | with that being the file, then how do you install

Re: Questions

1998-07-28 Thread aqy6633
Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct with that being the file, then how do you install it? Is it a compressed

Re: dselect

1998-07-28 Thread David Parmet
I'm specifying stable, non-free, contrib, etc... still no go... On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: David Parmet wrote: Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? Perhaps you're still specifying frozen - if so, convert to stable. I've noticed that my best sites were one by

Re: Questions

1998-07-28 Thread Kent West
At 07:16 PM 7/27/1998 -0700, you wrote: Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct with that being the file, then how do you

Re: dselect

1998-07-28 Thread Kent West
At 10:31 PM 7/27/1998 -0400, you wrote: I'm specifying stable, non-free, contrib, etc... still no go... On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: David Parmet wrote: Is there some sort of reconfig going on ? Perhaps you're still specifying frozen - if so, convert to stable. I've

FHS-compliant location of X backgrounds?

1998-07-28 Thread the lone gunman
I have some nice images that I have setup as the default desktop background in X (the default image for the root window) on my system. I was wondering if anyone knows the correct, FHS-compliant place to store these? I was thinking something as in /usr/local/lib or something of sorts. Any

Re: FHS-compliant location of X backgrounds?

1998-07-28 Thread Shaleh
1) /usr/local is fair game -- do as you wish. 2) ANY lib directory is WRONG for anything but libs. /usr/local/pix is a good choice. Or if you must: /usr/local/share/pix or bgs. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Questions

1998-07-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Chris Nelson wrote: Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. Once you get installed be sure to try the Debian Tutorial, http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html, and send us comments if you want. Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp

Re: FHS-compliant location of X backgrounds?

1998-07-28 Thread Razathorn
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 11:45:32PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: 1) /usr/local is fair game -- do as you wish. 2) ANY lib directory is WRONG for anything but libs. /usr/local/pix is a good choice. Or if you must: /usr/local/share/pix or bgs. I disagree with #2 -- /usr/lib has many directories

Re: FHS-compliant location of X backgrounds?

1998-07-28 Thread Shaleh
As I recall, the FHS states that lib dirs are for libs (what you define a lib could be up for a debate) only. Someone care to wave the FHS under my nose and show me wrong (-: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

not a block device?

1998-07-28 Thread Dave Jones
Hello All: Compiled Kernel 2.0.35 with ppa support as a module. When I try to mount the zip drive it returns the message mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device Tried changing port settings in BIOS and running MAKEDEV neither helped. Anyone ran into anything like this?

colors wrong in x server

1998-07-28 Thread Dave Jones
Hello All: Another bit of a snag here. Using SVGA Xserver with a Trident Providea 9685 card which has 4 Mb Ram. Colors don't come out right, screen is real dark. Can't see items in the menus unless you are selecting them. Title bars are the same colors as the background. Anyone know what I

CLUE: July 24, 1998 Talk of the Nation]

1998-07-28 Thread Art Lemasters
This, from one of my Colorado Linux User Group leaders. ...a bit of motivation for us. Note the D.C. office POC. Art - Forwarded message from a CLUE leader - This may be of interest. (Requires RealAudio.) http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/archives/1998/scifricurrent.html NPR's

Bo-Packages - ftp?

1998-07-28 Thread Clemens Heuberger
I have still a bo-box somewhere at home, and I do not have time to upgrade it now, but I would need auctex. Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? Thanks. Clemens Heuberger -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-28 Thread Marty
An update to my own post: Thanks to everyone who replied. One of the systems is now stable after removing a set of SIMM modules. The other system hang also appears to be hardware (removing an AGP video adapter seems to eliminate the problem). I now believe that Debian is not a cause of the

Re: Good tool to do WSYSIG html (or XML, SGML) editing ?

1998-07-28 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 04:22:18PM -0700, Geoff Brimhall wrote: For instance, QWeb displays SGML documents, but is there a corresponding WYSIYG SGML editor ? WYSIWYG SGML editor is nonsense. Because SGML do structure markup. How it will look depends on the filter you use to convert SGML to

Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joel Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=-=-=-=-=- No you can't use the less command. To switch stdout with stderr do # ln -s /dev/stdout /dev/stderr Don't try this at home kids. It's nonsense. [please THINK before you tell someone to perform some command as root

Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi, A while back before I reinstalled hamm I had X11amp working perfectly but having since installed it again I'm having a weird problem. When I run X11Amp as root everything is perfect but when running it as a normal user it appears on screen but the volume is always set to zero and it never

Xircom builtin pcmcia ethernet/modem card.

1998-07-28 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have installed hamm on a new Digital HiNote Laptop. It has a built in Xircom ethernet/modem card - ie both the ethernet and the modem are on the same card. I know it is possible to get this all working because I have heard people with a RedHat system have done so without too many

qpoper?

1998-07-28 Thread Mikhali Mifsud
If I want pop access I (think) I have to install qpoper. When I try and install it it complains libc6 and libgdbmg1 is not installed. I checked stable/binary but couldnt find them. Any ideas? Thanks. == Im trying to stop an epidemic, while your driving the monkey to the airport.

Re: not a block device?

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:09:08AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Compiled Kernel 2.0.35 with ppa support as a module. When I try to mount the zip drive it returns the message mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device Tried changing port settings in BIOS and running MAKEDEV

New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts

1998-07-28 Thread Chris Ulrich
I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. I'm sure I'll have more questions later, but I've got some questions right now. 1: Is it necessary to have all the dead accounts that come in the

ldap / ftp server?

1998-07-28 Thread crontab
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a FTP server that authenticates the users by LDAP (no with /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow) I am looking for one to my Solaris 2.51 (at work) and another to my Debian (at home). Regards ldap== Lightweight Directory Access Protocol -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Reinsberger
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi, A while back before I reinstalled hamm I had X11amp working perfectly but having since installed it again I'm having a weird problem. When I run X11Amp as root everything is perfect but when running it as a normal [...] directory and set

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
George Bonser wrote: Check the ownership and rights of the audio device and see if they got changed. If users can not write to the device, they can not play. George Bonser Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? I'm added to group audio and I had the permissions of

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Jens Reinsberger wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi, A while back before I reinstalled hamm I had X11amp working perfectly but having since installed it again I'm having a weird problem. When I run X11Amp as root everything is perfect but when running it as a

[Debian] keyboard stops working on Compaq EP

1998-07-28 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 (can't use 2.0 for development reasons) on a new Compaq EP 6350. The Compaq has a ps2 style mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately about one time out of three when I boot the PC it hangs for a very short time after installing the PS/2 driver afterwards the

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-28 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Hello, I getting ready to purchase a new system but before I do I need to know some stuff. First does Linux support dvd drives. Probably not yet. And since the DVD videos will also likely be useless ther is not much point. DVD is nice for TV's, waste of time for computers.

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: I'm added to group audio and I had the permissions of /dev/audio and /dev/dsp set to 770 so before I file a bug report should I mess with anything else? If it would neither run as root nor as a user, that would be one

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry wrote: George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: I'm added to group audio and I had the permissions of /dev/audio and /dev/dsp set to 770 so before I file a bug report should I mess with anything else? If it would neither run as root nor

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry wrote: Christopher Barry wrote: George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: I'm added to group audio and I had the permissions of /dev/audio and /dev/dsp set to 770 so before I file a bug report should I mess with anything else?

Re: New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. I'm sure I'll have more questions later, but I've got some questions right now. 1:

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:07:37AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: I just looked at my /etc/group file for the first time. Maybe part of it is wrong? I attached a copy. Okay, I did chmod 777 /dev/mixer and everything works now. Mixer is also root.audio, so I really am clueless here as to

RE: Can less read its input from the std

1998-07-28 Thread Richardson,Anthony
To switch stdout and stderr try this (in bash): program 31 12 23 | less stderr will be paged thru less, while stdout will be sent to the display. Does any one have a cleaner solution? (I don't like using the temporary file discriptor (3)). Tony Richardson On Monday, July 27, 1998 3:25 PM,

xcdroast cant find scsi

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi, xcdroast is not able to find generic-scsi cdrom support, but it is compiled into my kernel, and scsi driver support is enabled. it is also possible to mount the scsi burner. (the faq says, there has to be a sg device in /proc/devices. my scsi device is called sr there. confusing ...) need

Re: xcdroast cant find scsi

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 02:32:58PM +0200, Jens Lisner wrote: xcdroast is not able to find generic-scsi cdrom support, but it is compiled into my kernel, and scsi driver support is enabled. it is also possible to mount the scsi burner. (the faq says, there has to be a sg device in

Re: xemacs not starting unless connected to the net

1998-07-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: | My xemacs does not start unless I am connected to the internet. I do not | use emacs for anything that needs me connected to the Net. I am assuming that | it has something to do with the email part of xemacs is there a way | to make it not try adn dial the net

Help required SB16 PnP

1998-07-28 Thread Ivan
Hi EveryOne ! I'm trying to enable sound support on my Debian system which, according to the reading I've done, requires recompilation of the kernel. Using config (the how-to or readme suggested that xconfig is not the best to use ?) I have configured everything that I want except SOUND!!! The

Re: Help required SB16 PnP

1998-07-28 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- You will have to download and use the isapnptools package. Once you have that installed just follow along with the instructions and you should have sound. By the way, sound *must* be compiled as a module in order for the isapnptools to work properly. -Ian

cyrillic fonts in netscape?

1998-07-28 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I recently got some Bulgarian collegues who like to read cyrillic texts on the web. Does anyone know who to make netscape use cyrillic fonts (and where to get them)? Any comments appreciated, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven

are there old bo packages mirrored anywhere

1998-07-28 Thread Jan Menzel
Hello all, congratulations for finishing hamm, but I'm not interested in updating because my 486er is working als firewall with IP-masquerading, ftp-, www-, mail-, X11 and smb-file-server and is doing that very well. So, is there a possibility to get old bo packages further?

Re: are there old bo packages mirrored anywhere

1998-07-28 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:21:36PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: Hello all, congratulations for finishing hamm, but I'm not interested in updating because my 486er is working als firewall with IP-masquerading, ftp-, www-, mail-, X11 and smb-file-server and is doing that very well. So, is

Re: qpoper?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mikhali Mifsud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want pop access I (think) I have to install qpoper. When I try and install it it complains libc6 and libgdbmg1 is not installed. I checked stable/binary but couldnt find them. Any ideas? Thanks. Yep. Stable points to

Re: your or redhat?

1998-07-28 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Ken Gray wrote: thanks for the break down. i think ill get them all! ;) i just saw a place up here were i can get redhat suse debian and slacker +snapshots for $12 Be warned that only Debian can possibly be the Official CDs (complete distribution). RedHat, SuSe and Slackware

App, !getty on /dev/tty1?

1998-07-28 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm working on a solution where the client does not want their users to have to login to Linux (at the console) before running a custom app. It's a very vertical solution with no need for security and there will be no need to run anything else on the box. What I want to do is replace getty on

Suppressing trailer page on remote printer

1998-07-28 Thread Paul Reavis
I have my printing working over an ethernet connection to the HP LaserJet 5 here at the office, but I've never figured out how to suppress the trailer page, which looks something like this: User: paul Host: slackguy.partnersoft.com Class: slackguy.partnersoft.com Job: stdin from the a2ps I just

[OUT OFF SUBJECT] microsoft support linux

1998-07-28 Thread Eugene Sevinian
They decided to write a program for some unix platforms. Look at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/download/unix.htm Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe?

dpkg

1998-07-28 Thread G. Kaplan
In the file /var/lib/dpkg/status on my system there are several entries under the heading : Status: install ok not-installed What does it mean? Other status lines that appear seem to make sense: install ok half-configured #? a dependency has not been satisfied install ok installed

Re: apt errors; what?

1998-07-28 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Ian Eure wrote: After a week-long vacation, I come back to work and do ``apt-get update;apt-get upgrade''. All is fine for a while, then I get these errors... Any idea what this is? I installed the latest apt (0.1.3) and I still have problems with it.

What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, It is possible to obtain some money at the office for a new server. Here is the 'generic configuration' that I have in mind: - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone

How often ftp sites are updated ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, I am trying to make a local mirror of slink at the office. I am mirroring a nearby site which have hamm and slink. The problem is that today, when I wanted to install something, I discovered that many packages were missing. Also, making some Packages files with debian-scanpackage, I've found

netCDF or HDF

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Hi, I am making a program that will store some matrixes. In my Win$$ period I used to store such data in MAT files (Matlab binary files). Now I'm thinking to change to netCDF or HDF. What are the differences from them and what/why should I choose one instead of the other ? TIA, Ionutz --

Re: Help required SB16 PnP

1998-07-28 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: Hi EveryOne ! I'm trying to enable sound support on my Debian system which, according to the reading I've done, requires recompilation of the kernel. Using config (the how-to or readme suggested that xconfig is not the best to use ?) I have configured

Re: What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread aqy6633
Wow, good choice, man! Check out http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ or http://www.varesearch.com/ Alex Y. - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone - Flatbed SCSI

Re: What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Ionut Borcoman at home wrote: - 2 Mb AGP Card Might was well get 4 MB so you can do 24 bpp at high resolutions! The problem is that I am not sure about what brands/models to look for. Get it from a Linux vendor like www.varesearch.com or build it from parts. VA Research

Re: New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts

1998-07-28 Thread Chris Ulrich
-- On Jul 28, 10:33am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Subject: Re: New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: They all have * in the password field by default, which means that they can't login. Sometimes you do need to switch

Re: What should I buy ?

1998-07-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at home
Havoc Pennington wrote: Get it from a Linux vendor like www.varesearch.com or build it from parts. VA Research is an excellent company in our experience. Look in Linux Journal for more vendors. Actually I have to restrict to local vendors (from Romania). Most probably we will complete a

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi, A while back before I reinstalled hamm I had X11amp working perfectly but having since installed it again I'm having a weird problem. When I run X11Amp as root everything is perfect but when running it as a normal user it appears on screen

Re: New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts

1998-07-28 Thread Adam Keys
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 01:33:29AM -0700, Chris Ulrich wrote: I recently got tired of taking care of my own installation of linux and decided to install debian. So far, I've been pretty happy with it. I'm sure I'll have more questions later, but I've got some questions right now. 1:

Re: qpoper?

1998-07-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
Are you trying to install a hamm package on a bo system? Bob On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mikhali Mifsud wrote: If I want pop access I (think) I have to install qpoper. When I try and install it it complains libc6 and libgdbmg1 is not installed. I checked stable/binary but couldnt find them.

2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-28 Thread d1temp
Hi, got the CDimages for binary-i386 and contrib, md5sums check out, but what is supposed to be symlinks (AFAIK), for instance from inside binary-i386 to inside binary-all show up as zero-size plain files. For instance /mountpoint/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/text -r--r--r-- 1 root

changing partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Yanick MICHOU
Hi ! Is there a command to change (increase) the linux partition over unallocated place on the hard disk ? My problem is that I dedicated too little place to the linux partition at the installation. I've jus't installed Hamm, Xwindow, and part of teTex so I would better not be obliged to do it all

Floppy Install hangs on DECpc 320P notebook

1998-07-28 Thread Daniel Mendyke
I'm trying to install to a DECpc 320P notebook but the install process hangs at the line 'hde: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS' I've tried floppies made with both the file 'resc1440.bin' and 'resc1440tecra.bin' and both stop at the same point. The PC I'm trying the install on is a

Re: changing partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Shaleh
There are apps to do this. However I would not trust my hard drive to them. Wipe it and start clean. Otherwise you will likely regret it. Seems rough, but at least you know it is right. I place partition stretchers in the same boat as hard drive compressors. They may work today, maybe

Re: Questions

1998-07-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Chris, The easiest by far is to get the CD as already mentioned. However if you're anxious to get going, here's a quick summary of how to get started by downloading a few files from the FTP site (I'm assuming you have a machine already running DOS/Windows): 1) On ftp.debian.org go to this

Re: 2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, got the CDimages for binary-i386 and contrib, md5sums check out, but what is supposed to be symlinks (AFAIK), for instance from inside binary-i386 to inside binary-all show up as zero-size plain files. For instance /mountpoint/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/text

Re: Booting a machine with only a cdrom ..

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Ritter
C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am not allowed to install Linux on one of the machines on the college, however I must get the machine to run Linux in order to write a Linux CDROM. However, the machine has a CDROM drive which I can use. I am just wondering if it is possible

Re: are there old bo packages mirrored anywhere

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Ritter
Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:21:36PM +0200, Jan Menzel wrote: [...] You wont really see any new packages for bo anyway now...but... you can always get the source from hamm and build it...its not tough. I would imagine that for most packages its

Re: RAID Controller

1998-07-28 Thread Jens Ritter
Johnny Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Dell Server with a PowerEdge RAID controller. It is supposed to be able to be a bootable device. But the install for the newest version of Debian doesn't pick it up. Does anyone have any ideas? What modules do you include on install? Does

Re: changing partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Eric
Partition Magic is an _excellent_ program for resizing partitions. I have entrusted my disk to it on numerous occasions (and so have some of my friends) and it has never had a problem. Too bad it's a DOS/Windows program and won't resize ext2 partitions. :( _ _ | |(_) | _| | | |

Re: changing partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Eric
Partition Magic is an _excellent_ program for resizing partitions. I have entrusted my disk to it on numerous occasions (and so have some of my friends) and it has never had a problem. Too bad it's a DOS/Windows program and won't resize ext2 partitions. :( _ _ | |(_) | _| | | |

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:07:37AM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: I just looked at my /etc/group file for the first time. Maybe part of it is wrong? I attached a copy. Okay, I did chmod 777 /dev/mixer and everything works now. Mixer is also root.audio, so I

PC Card Modem and Printer Recommendations

1998-07-28 Thread Justin Liu
Hi - I have an IBM Thinkpad 560 with Debian 1.3.1 (among other OS's) installed on it and I was looking for some equipment recommendations. I plan an upgrade to hamm sometime soon. I want to get a 56K PC card modem, hopefully one that will also work with OS/2 and Windoze if it needs to. The

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Christopher Barry
Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Hi, A while back before I reinstalled hamm I had X11amp working perfectly but having since installed it again I'm having a weird problem. When I run X11Amp as root everything is perfect but when running it as a

Re: PC Card Modem and Printer Recommendations

1998-07-28 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 28 Jul, Justin Liu wrote: Hi - I have an IBM Thinkpad 560 with Debian 1.3.1 (among other OS's) installed on it and I was looking for some equipment recommendations. I plan an upgrade to hamm sometime soon. I want to get a 56K PC card modem, hopefully one that will also work with OS/2

Re: changing partition size

1998-07-28 Thread Adam Lazur
Partition Magic is an _excellent_ program for resizing partitions. I have entrusted my disk to it on numerous occasions (and so have some of my friends) and it has never had a problem. Too bad it's a DOS/Windows program and won't resize ext2 partitions. :( Word on the street is Parition

Re: FHS-compliant location of X backgrounds?

1998-07-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 12:11:30AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: As I recall, the FHS states that lib dirs are for libs (what you define a lib could be up for a debate) only. Someone care to wave the FHS under my nose and show me wrong (-: I think this has to do with the fact that we now have

kernel compile errors

1998-07-28 Thread Chris Ulrich
I just recently abandoned my own linux setup and installed debian (hamm). This is a pretty much stock setup -- the only thing un-debian I've done so far is change /bin/sh to point to pdksh, but that *shouldn't* be the problem because I've compiled many kernels with my old setup where I didn't

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