Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread David R. Leal Valmana
Antonio Castro wrote: Bueno ante todo agradecer los comentarios recibidos sobre la actualización a hamm. Quiero expresar desde aqui que Debian con detalles como el de la actualización de versión desde versiones anteriores a la 2.0 parece evolucionar desde una distribución poco amigable a

smail

1998-10-07 Thread Fernando
Hola: He instalado Debian 2.0 en el PC del trabajo y estoy intentando configurar el correo con smail. Mi PC esta dentro de una red local y tiene un gateway a internet. He configurado smail para que no utilice un smarthost ya que no es eso lo que quiero. (Existe un servidor de correo en la red)

Discos de instalacion de Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Aurora Sanchez Garrido
Hola a todos: Ya estuve hablando de este tema con los autores de la utilidad dinstall, herramienta para crear discos de instalacion de Debian. Mi pregunta es la siguiente: dinstall es un programa ejecutable, por lo tanto, debo tenerlo incluido dentro del root.bin en un floppy

SLACKWARE

1998-10-07 Thread LUIS VILLAVERDE
Para todos los que le pueda interesar he creado una lista de SLACKWARE en castellano, para que colaboréis todos. Para suscribiros http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/slackware O enviadme un e-mail... Un saludo. - TWIPS HANDLE

Re: Discos de instalacion de Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:19:45PM +0200, Aurora Sanchez Garrido wrote: Hola a todos: Ya estuve hablando de este tema con los autores de la utilidad dinstall, herramienta para crear discos de instalacion de Debian. Mi pregunta es la siguiente: dinstall es un programa

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 10:21:41AM +0100, David R. Leal Valmana wrote: Creo que con esta versi'on se ha mejorado el problema de los discos de arranque, pero en cambio si entras en la informaci'on que aparece en la gu'ia de instalaci'on de debian la informaci'on que dan sobre los pasos de

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread David R. Leal Valmana
Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 10:21:41AM +0100, David R. Leal Valmana wrote: Creo que con esta versi'on se ha mejorado el problema de los discos de arranque, pero en cambio si entras en la informaci'on que aparece en la gu'ia de instalaci'on de debian la informaci'on que

Re: Compilar el Kernel

1998-10-07 Thread Humberto . Morell
Hola Jose He de cambiar una macro definida en un fichero '.h' de /usr/include y me han comentado que he de recompilar el kernel. En el How-To del kernel pone como recompilar,ejecutanto' make config' Te recomiendo make menuconfig para mi resulta mas facil en el directorio /usr/src/linux

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Antonio Castro wrote: Quiero expresar desde aqui que Debian con detalles como el de la actualización de versión desde versiones anteriores a la 2.0 parece evolucionar desde una distribución poco amigable a una distribución casi nada amigable. Si te refieres al autoup.sh

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BFQu=E9_es_APT??=

1998-10-07 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Saludos. Soy nuevo en la lista (y en Linux) y después de leer unos mensajes sobre la Amistosidad de Debian, me ha surgido esta pregunta: ¿Qué es APT? ¿Es como el dselect pero mejorado? Por cierto, para añadir mi granito a la enorme montaña que se está formando, también probe instalar el emacs, y

Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BFQu=E9_es_APT??=

1998-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: ¿Qué es APT? ¿Es como el dselect pero mejorado? APT = A Package Tool. Todavía no es como el dselect pero mejorado, pero lo será. Como no está terminado, lo que hay hecho hasta ahora es: * Un método de acceso nuevo para dselect. Dado que

kernel 2.0.34 y FAT32

1998-10-07 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hola a todos, A cabo de actualizarme al nucleo 2.0.34 (todavía en bo) por que necesitaré acceso a FAT32 dentro de poco, el problema es que no he visto ningún sitio donde decirle al nucleo lo de la FAT32 ¿a caso lo lleva por defecto y no hay que decirle nada en el config? La actualización ha

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread Correcaminos
Tiempo ha, hablando con Enrique Zanardi, tocabamos este tema, aunque no demasiado profundamente. Desconozco si ha nivel de Debian.org se ha planteado este tema, aunque presupongo que si (me refiero al sustituto del dselect y demas). Si no fuera asi, siempre podriamos intentar poner nosotros un

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Disculpen la intromisión, pero solo tengo 2 o 3 comentarios que hacer después de leer este mensaje. On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 02:07:02PM +0100, David R. Leal Valmana wrote: Enrique Zanardi wrote: (la revista con esto se contagia ya que tambi'en da poca informaci'on), por otro lado salen

problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-07 Thread A. de Miguel
Resulta que como resultado de la actualización a debian2 borré mi /etc/ppp y ahora al intentar rehacerlo segun la spanish infobia How-to me al procesar mi /etc/ppp/options me da un error raro: unrecognized option +ua con lo que no puedo conectarme la linea del options dice: +ua

Re: wmaker

1998-10-07 Thread TooManySecrets
Marcelo E. Magallon el día Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:06:45PM -0600 expuso lo siguiente: A mi me funciona: * botón derecho en la ventana raíz (ok, ok, en el escritorio) - WorkSpace - Appearance - Themes - tema... Si no, puedes darle: $ setstyle

Re: Acentos en Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread dcharro
Carlos Costa Portela escribio: ¿Has probado con ALT GR + VOCAL? Suerte, Si, pero siguen sin salir acentuadas. Salen caracteres extraños. Tengo la Deb2.0 y voy a probar con el Communicator4.05. Gracias David

Re: Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-07 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas Me he animado a contar aqui mi experiencia con Linux, siendo un novato total hasta hace poco (y casi total actualmente), y que en buen parte ha sido con Debian. Curiosamente comence con una Slackware96, sin tener idea de Unix, y la instale a la primera aun sin enterarme de la mitad de

Re: Linux Actual

1998-10-07 Thread Ignacio Arenaza
Jose == Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jose En cualquier caso, me gustaria que abordaran temas de mas Jose nivel fuertes como (algunos ya han salido el algun numero de Jose P.Actual o Linux Actual): Jose El CVS (casi imprescindible para grandes proyectos)

Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've got installed? In other words, how do I just get gnome (and its dependents)

dot matrix printer

1998-10-07 Thread Justin Maurer
we're setting up our print server at school - one machine is going to have 3 printers hanging off of it. one of them, however, is a dot matrix printer. it is a Panasonic KX-P1624. we have had difficulties in setting it up (it is a dot matrix printer). please contact me if you can help (i

Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Adrian Gudas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and mess with their heads. Can I talk to Mr. Gates? No, sir...) Could you clarify

Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:02:31PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root (ext2) filesystem Unable to

[off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. At the moment, I am using a for loop of about 70 iterations.. works okay, but on a faster system it will die.. (needed to slow down I/O with an interface card) I was looking at the info page for libc (which seems to

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to download everything that's got a newer version to what I've got installed? In other words,

Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Kent West
At 07:22 PM 10/6/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hope this wasn't two much, or too little, hand-holding. No, no, thanks a lot -- you solved a lot of problems for me. This is so much better than Windows tech support. (I like to call them and mess with their heads. Can I

// in paths

1998-10-07 Thread David S. Zelinsky
When I type (in bash): % type foo it returns foo is /usr/local/bin//foo with two /'s before `foo'. (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.) Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone know what's causing it? Or how to fix it? I'm using Debian 2.0 (hamm); kernel version 2.0.34

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. In general, you cannot guarantee pauses in a multitasking system like Unix or Linux. Pauses can be set in microseconds using usleep(), but not in

Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, H C Pumphrey wrote: Hi debian users and SANE people: [...] No-one mentions the 3181x / 3151x so I can't tell from this what to do about my card. If anyone can tell me what to do or point me at the right documentation, I'd be grateful. [...] If you go to the SANE ftp

standard ML

1998-10-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
Hello, I am a computer science student, and will be using standard ML in the near future for a few projects. I have noticed the ocaml 1.05-2 package at debian.org I have read the description, it seems that it is not exactly the same as SML. Is this true? if so is there a .deb package that would

Re: [EDI software]

1998-10-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Greg Vence wrote: EDI = Electronic Data Interchange. It is a layer in Electronic Commerce. However, I haven't seen it on Linux, but haven't really looked either. Syed Huq wrote: Peter, Did you mean EDA ?? What is EDI ?? There was a discussion on the

Where is .deb for enlightenment?

1998-10-07 Thread zuwi
Where could I find the .deb for enlightenment, please? Ftp.enlightenment.org has only got .rpm. And I've not find it in ftp.debian.org. Thanks in advance. zuwi

Re: What causes single user boot? (last stereogram)

1998-10-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: At 09:10 PM 10/6/1998 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: [stereogram .sig] Now that, folks, has class.. Cool Ray :) I kept focusing on the row with Os in it and never could see anything. Finally I gave up on

Re: dot matrix printer

1998-10-07 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Justin Maurer wrote: matrix printer. it is a Panasonic KX-P1624. we have had difficulties in setting it up (it is a dot matrix printer). please contact me if you can help (i am not subscribed to the list). it would be nice if there was one tool or something that would work

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. At the moment, I am using a for loop of about 70 iterations.. works okay, but on a faster system it will die.. (needed to slow down I/O with an interface card) man

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Kent West wrote, I replied: In my experience, this isn't nearly worth the trouble. Were I you, I'd simply use dpkg -i. If I go into the Method option of dselect and change my ftp source from stable to unstable, in order for me to download one package (gnome), will dselect try to

Re: // in paths

1998-10-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
When David S. Zelinsky wrote, I replied: I can't help with what causes it, but I can tell you that it's no big deal. /usr/local/bin//foo is equivalent to /usr/local/bin/foo (i.e. the double (or triple or whatever) slashes are the same as one slash). When I type (in bash): % type foo

IP Masq

1998-10-07 Thread Collin Rose
I have IP masq and all dependents. How do I set it up for a PPP Dial up connection?

Re: standard ML

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Kenneth F. Ryder III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am a computer science student, and will be using standard ML in the near future for a few projects. I have noticed the ocaml 1.05-2 package at debian.org I have read the description, it seems that it is not exactly the same as SML. Is this

Re: lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
I've had a similar hardware configuration running linux before, but that was Slackware 3.0 (when *it* was considered NEW). I've not tried Debian with only 4M of RAM (and hercules card), but I can tell you that Debian 2.0 liked my 386 with 8M RAM. The Debian installation process, however, does

HELP! Frozen e-mail barrage!

1998-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I have a headless machine here on my network (actually the one which provides the masquerading firewall etc) if I log into it and run sudo mailq it lists hoardes of e-mails frozen! The weird thing is that it is not a machine which is used for e-mail transfer! I have tried going into

RE: Where is .deb for enlightenment?

1998-10-07 Thread Shaleh
Debs of E are in the dists/slink/main/binary-???/X11 directory. It is version .14, .15 is not released yet so no debs exist. On 07-Oct-98 zuwi wrote: Where could I find the .deb for enlightenment, please? Ftp.enlightenment.org has only got .rpm. And I've not find it in ftp.debian.org.

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
I often have to manually set my terminal type to 'vt100' every time I log into my linux box from the windoze machine in my office. export TERM=vt100 then all works fine. You might also want to look into using the stty command to rebind certain keys to match what your terminal emulator

Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
If you can boot to your hard drive from floppy, then do so, log in as root, then try this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV console then try rebooting from the hard drive. For some strange reason, /dev/console is easily corrupted and then causes a LOT of weird problems like this. - DeJay.

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread LUK ShunTim
Blazej Sawionek wrote: LUK ShunTim wrote: KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Sorry I don't uderstand what you are trying to do, but 4.5bPR2 is already available - maybe that can help you? Blazej, May be I have not made myself very clear. What I would like to do is something like this. After I

Acrobat Reader trouble.

1998-10-07 Thread Akop Pogosian
Hello. My printing system has been working very well before I tried to print something with Acrobat Reader. My configuration is the following: Debian 2.0 + Ghostscript 5.5 + rhs-printfilters + Epson Stylus 400. The rhs-printfilter was modified to use a uniprint driver instead of stcolor, and I

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Just something to add to this (although Randy is correct): Let's say you have a 1.2GB /dev/hda. Make the partitions something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-07 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 7 Oct 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: Some other people may shoot themselves in the foot if they don't learn that rm is in most Unix/Linux systems a powerful and unforgiving beast that does its work irreversibly. Thinking that rm is kinder and gentler than it is may lead to carelessness in

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. At the moment, I am using a for loop of about 70 iterations.. works okay, but on a faster system it will die.. (needed to

Re: // in paths

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
yes, i've seen it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# cd etc/.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] //# cd etc/.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /# and repeat this ad-nauseum can't explain this, though, as I've only seen this happen with debian! - DeJay. _ / Bedrock \__ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay

Re: IP Masq

1998-10-07 Thread Dimitri P.
You have IP-masqdo you mean configured or simply installed? you can run ipmasqconfig , or edit /etc/ipmasq.conf read the how-to or simply do this: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx the address of your internal class C network

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On 7 Oct 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. In general, you cannot guarantee pauses in a multitasking system like Unix or Linux. Pauses can

Plug-and-Pray Question

1998-10-07 Thread Christopher J. Stevenson
You'll need to recompile the kernel regardless; whether you build sound into the kernel or as a module, you have to recompile to tell the kernel/module the necessary parameters like the IRQ or DMA channel of your card. Also check to see if your card is a PnP type card. If so, you'll need to

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: Blazej Sawionek wrote: LUK ShunTim wrote: KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Sorry I don't uderstand what you are trying to do, but 4.5bPR2 is already available - maybe that can help you? Blazej, May be I have not made myself very clear. What

Re: Where is .deb for enlightenment?

1998-10-07 Thread David
You should use alien to translate .rpm to .deb, or click on documentation in the ER home page, they have all the package. But, be careful, don't downgrade... On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, zuwi wrote: Where could I find the .deb for enlightenment, please? Ftp.enlightenment.org has only got .rpm. And

Re: Plug-and-Pray Question

1998-10-07 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Christopher J. Stevenson wrote: Does isapnp work with PCI cards. (I have a PCI Network card that's PnP) Let Of course isapnp doesn't work with PCI cards, it only works with ISA cards. What you should do is set the irq's of the PCI slots in your bios that will remove 1/2 of

Re: Will pointing dselect to slink hose hamm system?

1998-10-07 Thread Jim Russell
In other words, how do I just get gnome (and its dependents) without messing up my hamm system and/or what dselect looks for in the future? Add the new source line in /etc/apt/sources.list, but leave the hamm one there as well. Even easier -- Gnome has its own Debian site that contains

Re: HELP! Frozen e-mail barrage!

1998-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
shortly after sending it I found the problem... anyone else seen this: runq is ocasionally run (I think by cron but I can't be sure) but runq i sNOT on the path! The path set is /bin:/usr/bin but NOT /usr/sbin where runq actually is...I sym linked it and this solved it. ANyone else seen this

HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0 (fwd)

1998-10-07 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no matter what I try. The parallel port has Base I/O address 0x378. I believe that this is /dev/lp0. Someone please confirm / correct this for me. Secondly, I'm

beginner, system questions

1998-10-07 Thread Aldinga Library
I have an NEC powermate 468 sx-25i with 4mb ram and 120mb hd, with floppy drive only. I use the internet at the local public library. I have done a bare minimum install of 8 floppies by internet ftp. I have some questions. I have a floppy with several text files on it, How do you list the

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-07 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Aldinga Library wrote: I have a floppy with several text files on it, How do you list the filenames and file sizes on the floppy disk. How do you copy an individual file from the floppy disk. How do you save an individual file to the floppy disk. I cant seem to find how

someone pass me the dunce-cap, please

1998-10-07 Thread AJT60
I sent a message to the list a couple of days ago, in desperation over my not working .xsession file. I forgot that I wasn't subscribed to the list, so I have no idea whether there were any responses or in fact whether my message even appeared. But what I truly deserve the dunce-cap for, is the

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-10-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, pages, the functions may not be thread safe. However I think that if libc6 in hamm supports POSIX threads, then the library functions in there must be thread safe. Any ideas on this from you guys? I don't think it is safe to make this assumption on any system. All I can suggest is to

Re: Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-07 Thread Erik Ch. Ohrnberger
If it's the same card that I got with the Artect AT6, it's a real brain damaged one (read only, can't write). I hooked up a Zip plus drive and could read just fine, but could not write to the Zip Plus drive. When I swapped SCSI cards with a more normal one, everything just worked fine. My

Re: Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/06/98 at 05:22 PM, Adrian Gudas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Okay, this is a bit of a newbie question. You've been warned... I haven't installed Linux yet, but I'm going to as soon as my CD's arrive in the mail. I'm pretty well-versed with the setup procedures (after

squid

1998-10-07 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
Hello all, I am having a slight problem. I run a squid proxy on my machine to save me time when I revisit sites, as my dialup connection is also firewalled my squid communicates with my ISP's squid on a parent-child basis. My problem is that my squid will not pass on

running X windows

1998-10-07 Thread Bostjan JERKO
I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary user. It works fine if I log on as root. I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running. The messages I get are : _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... Socket CreateListener() Failed

Re: beginner, system questions

1998-10-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a floppy with several text files on it, first you need to mount the floppy: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt (you may need to specify the filesystem, try -t msdos) How do you list the filenames and file sizes on the floppy disk. ls -s -k /mnt How do you copy an individual file from the floppy

Font Issues

1998-10-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
If I use an application requiring too many fonts eg StarOffice I find that starting another application eg. Lynx has problem finding the right fonts. I can solve this simply by killing X and restarting but is there a better way to restore fonts? (This applies to colors too).

Re: Iomega Ditto Max and LINUX?

1998-10-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Kent Andersen wrote: Is there any drivers available for the ditto Max tape drive for linux or more to the point is there anyway I can make it work under Linux??? Yes, ftape 4.02 can control the ditto Max. I gave up on the ftape- ditto 2Gb combination because of a lot of

Re: URGENT !!! SYSTEM BROKEN (CONT)

1998-10-07 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi George On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following to my prvious email I have installed lilo. the system can boot from floppy. However, when I try to boot from disk the boot starts but it hangs with the following message VFS Mounted root

Re: // in paths

1998-10-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
When I type (in bash): % type foo it returns foo is /usr/local/bin//foo with two /'s before `foo'. (I get the same effect with `csh' and `which'.) Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone know what's causing it? Or how to fix it? This is what you get if the directory

request for help

1998-10-07 Thread Z.S. Choy
Hi , I've a problem which I hope I could get some help from the experts :- I'm a new Debian user. I'm trying to install the OS into my existing Windows 95 pc with the following configuration :- 133MHZ Pendium 82Mbyte RAM Drive C: 1.2Gbyte (primary ide master) Drive D : 850Mbyte (2ndary

Re: moving / sda4 -- sdb1

1998-10-07 Thread John Leget
Thanx to everyone, ;0) All sorted, unfortunately i'll have to move it again as the original partition was larger than i remebered grin. At least ive had practice. My problem was i overlooked duplicate entries of root= in my lilo config :(. Id fixed the first one and neglected to check the rest of

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: May be I have not made myself very clear. What I would like to do is something like this. After I read a web page in Netscape, I would like to bookmark it. There is a Location icon in the Netscape browser window to the left

Re: [off topic] A pause in C?

1998-10-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 07 October 1998 01:42 Subject: [off topic] A pause in C? I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working on. At the moment, I am

Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation so it starts with text installation. I would like to start graphical installation, but I guess that I am missing some libraries. Can anybody tell me which libraries are needed for

Re: Re(2): Multi-partitions

1998-10-07 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: Could you clarify another couple things: 1. Does fips work with FAT32? I have it, but I've been too scared to use it. I believe the most recent version does. 2. How does lilo work? (Any complications I need to know about...?) I won't add much to

What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
My debian system is starting various processes which I don't need. I presume I could prevent this by deleting the links in /etc/rc0.d but is this the correct way to do it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Anthony: There is a file in /usr/sbin call update-rc.d. It permitts the addition and removal of startup files from the respective run-level directories. Peter -Original Message- From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Steven Udell
Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello Anthony: There is a file in /usr/sbin call update-rc.d. It permitts the addition and removal of startup files from the respective run-level directories. My debian system is starting various processes which I don't need. I presume I could prevent this by

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Blazej Sawionek
When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation Most probably you use X as yourself and install WP as root. You must enable root do display at your DISPLAY e.g.: xhost + (as yourself) Blazej

Re: What is the correct way to modify startup scripts?

1998-10-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I clean up the boot process of these old first install modules..that arnt needed anymore and my present kernel handles fine ? edit /etc/modules Mike. -- Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will? --

X Installation

1998-10-07 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to graphics mode. All the screen went blank, so I had to reboot. Now, how can

Is PPP needed for ISDN?

1998-10-07 Thread Remo Badii
Dear Debs, 1) is PPP support needed for ISDN (which uses, as the documentation says, syncPPP instead)? At the moment, I have PPP as a module in the kernel and I am about to try an ISDN connection. 2) Is VJ compression advisable/irrelevant/dangerous? There are warnings against VJ in

How can I see which host a user is logged in from?

1998-10-07 Thread Tomas Petersson
How can I see which host a user is logged in from? If I use finger, the hostname gets truncated. /Tomas

Re: How can I see which host a user is logged in from?

1998-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tomas Petersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I see which host a user is logged in from? If I use finger, the hostname gets truncated. last -ad | less Mike Stone

Re: Where is fdformat, mkfs.[fat|vfat] ?

1998-10-07 Thread Jack Kern
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:41:18PM +0700, Oleg E.Krivosheev wrote: the fdformat was/is mentioned in the several HOWTOs. Is there debian (hamm/slink) package where i can find it? I believe fdformat has been superseded in hamm by superformat and mformat. locate format :

Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I look forward to hearing from someone who can offer help on making make config work. I followed the instructions of http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html, The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ: Debian and the kernel. Installed: gcc, libc6-dev, bin86, binutils, and gawk. Executed:

rawrite2 NT

1998-10-07 Thread Greg Vence
Hello, It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm missing? I'm not sure if I can find a Win95 box. But would it work there? Thanx -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Are you in the root account? Are you in directory /usr/src/linux? Have you installed the source of the linux kernel? Give me more details and we can help you. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread \J.H.M.Dassen\ \J.H.M.Dassen\
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 08:43:50AM -0500, Brian Armstrong wrote: Typed:make config which resulted in the following: make:***No rule to make target config! Stop. You need to be in the top level directory of the kernel source to run make config. HTH, Ray -- Obsig:

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Pierre Blanchet
I look forward to hearing from someone who can offer help on making make config work. I followed the instructions of http://www.us.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html, The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ: Debian and the kernel. Installed: gcc, libc6-dev, bin86, binutils, and gawk.

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
I appreciate your getting back to me. Yes, I am in the root account. I, am not at my Linux computer, but, I can be in the directory /usr/src/linux. Yes, I installed the source of the linux kernel. Since I am new to Linux, I am not sure what details might be helpful. Brian werewolf.net Paulo

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net

Re: Make Config Does Not Work!

1998-10-07 Thread Brian Armstrong
Since a number of people responded to the email with the instruction to You also need to install kernel-source*.deb. I will double check this. I will look for the file and check dselect's selected files. If it doesn't show up, I will load it. Thank you for your help. Brian Werewolf.net

network

1998-10-07 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, I installed the debian but the network part does not work. I have a 3Com Ethernet XL NIC adaptor (3c905b-tx). Does somebody have experience with this kind of network problem. Thanks. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara

Re: network

1998-10-07 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Zheng What does the dmesg command say? Did it see the card and load the driver at boot time? If so, what does ifconfig say? Peter -Original Message- From: Zheng Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998

Re: network

1998-10-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, I installed the debian but the network part does not work. I have a 3Com Ethernet XL NIC adaptor (3c905b-tx). Does somebody have experience with this kind of network problem. Thanks. I recently mailed to this list about my problems with exactly the same card. The problem is in the

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 7 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Hello ! When I start Wordperfect installation I get a message, that it can't start graphical installation so it starts with text installation. I would like to start graphical installation, but I guess that I am missing some libraries. Can anybody tell

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