On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 01:27:20PM -0600, Jason Ish wrote:
I have to install Linux onto a umsdos file system on one of my computers,
even though I know it isn't a suggested practice.
What steps should I take to install a fresh debian system onto umsdos. I
have a up and running Debian system
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this:
red# zgv
svgalib: FATAL internal error:
Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything.
Normally I'd suggest sending something like this to [EMAIL
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible
about booting from an extended partition?
I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone
then
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:39:05AM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip - BIOS and large HDs]
Take your pick. What many people seem to be confused about is that
many, if not most, decisions concerning this stuff are driven by
market forces requiring backward
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:06:02AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions
which use the lilo boot system.
I don't believe this.
I don't know why, but this is
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote:
[snip]
DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies
again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it
switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them
from
On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 10:00:58PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
Hi,
If you are in a hurry do
touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0
otherwise read on :)
I was qurious about what makes XEmacs so slow at startup. With the help of
the strace(1) utility I found the following interesting behaviour
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:48:57AM +0100, Àlex Maneu wrote:
[snip]
And another question! I use a Iomega Zip 100MB
parallel port drive. I can use it with fstab, but
I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel
port. I've heard that there's a patch or something
that you can
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 01:26:17PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no
disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print.
The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported.
How can I disable ppa, and print?
Two
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 12:31:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
G. Crimp wrote:
I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things
that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection
browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to
me to
On Wed, Jan 08, 1997 at 11:17:42PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote:
G. Crimp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/8/98 10:51 PM
I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things
that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection
browser. The screen package is one. From the
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:17:27PM -0500, debian mail recipient wrote:
I've had a problem telnet-ing to my machine recently, and the reason is
because xinetd is not starting. This is because the startup script
(S20xinetd)
checks for a file called /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap and, as it is not on
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 05:45:00PM +, Ian Watkins wrote:
MM I have tried all sorts of things to get around this, what have I m
MM I have not got module versioning installed in the kernel as far as
MM
MM Try to recompile the module under new kernel v33 or insmod it with o
MM
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
Gregory,
I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the
monitor.
Correct, however monitors *do* have a bandwidth limitation - for instance my
Iiyama is 160MHz. I believe that the dot-clock you specify
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:
Hi all!
I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have
some doubts.
WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO
SHARE INTERRUPTS?
I think it is more of a case of
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, David E. Scott wrote:
Tyson,
I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the
installation process.
Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:04:40AM +0100, joost witteveen wrote:
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Let's compare like with like. To install a program on windows you double
click it and then keep clicking on next. To install a program on Debian
you
type dpkg -i filename. Dselect
On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 08:18:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2 Feb, Andrew wrote:
I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look
feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link
anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 10:26:48PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
On my P166 (64 meg RAM) it takes about 20 seconds. Strange, on a BSDi
P133 it takes about 5-10 seconds and that machine has less memory. I
suspect our Xemacs is loading a bunch of unneeded stuff but I don't
know for sure. You
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive
to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing
parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells
me device/resource
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote:
[Please CC replies]
Hi,
I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and
deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well.
When
I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens:
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:32:47PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
I have spent quite some time on this one. Reverting to the bo
svgatextmode does not help. The thing that makes the difference is the
particular font chosen. If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still
scroll right back to the
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 02:49:36AM -0600, Alex Romosan wrote:
the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since
base-files_1.6.1 has removed this link as it is against FHS, it might be put
back in before the release, but it is good that we can find broken
packages now.
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Hubert Fauque wrote:
Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
I get the dread:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X
try
xhost name of your computer
in your .xsession
On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote:
Hello,
Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working
with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud
of myself ;-)).
Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian
Try using the diagnostic tools and setting the card to Auto 16/4. I have a
Turbo 16/4 at work and it works fine. The routing table looks strange - how
does the kernel pick which card to send data out on?
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 08:16:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
[kermit:/root]
On Sep 08, Nils Rennebarth wrote
On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
does anyone know what's happened to www.linuxhq.com?
It appears to have moved to www.ecsnet.com, at least this is what altavista
says. It's ping'able but http connections are refused for now.
Don't know what's up
On Sep 06, Karsten Bolding wrote
Hi
Got my new machine (orca) and started to migrate programs from the old
(dolphin). So far I've run into two problems - maybe unrelated - but both has
to du with
X.
1: ncview is a very nice utility to browse netcdf-files
On Sep 19, Lazaro Salem wrote
FYI, I also had several primary DOS partitions. MS-DOS sees them all.
I've done it on my system with both versions 5.0 and 6.x of MS-DOS.
If your unseable DOS partitions were primary (just check what cfdisk
sees as DOS partitions: if they are on /dev/?daN with ?
On Sep 29, Will Lowe wrote
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that
are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.)
On Oct 02, G. Crimp wrote
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(259, 15, 63) logical=(64, 63, 63)
Have you changed your BIOS settings - LBA - Large - CHS? This might
have messed something up.
Adrian
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the
Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5
and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine.
However dpkg-ftp doesn't work and dftp doesn't take into account what I
have set in dselect :-(
I *could* copy the archive over, but I'd rather avoid
On Oct 09, Remco Blaakmeer wrote
On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5
and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine.
However dpkg-ftp doesn't work and dftp doesn't take into account
On Oct 08, Stephen Zander wrote
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Any ideas on how best to do this? I have installed a version of Socks5
and have symlink /usr/bin/ftp to point to /usr/bin/rftp. This works fine.
What sort of fire-wall? Does it support
user remote-id@remote-site e-mail
Hmm
Well that script doesn't work (total brain failure). However this one
works in most circumstances. Unfortunately it's got a bit bigger and will
grow even larger when I add a bit more intelligence into it.
/* makes ftp script to download all packages
marked for install which are different from
On Oct 12, Al Youngwerth wrote
I use a debian box running smail as our local and Internet mail server for
our lan. Is there an easy way I can setup smail to process mail that should
be delivered locally immediately but queue up mail bound for the Internet
and send it all out once every 30
On Oct 11, Julien Pham wrote
First : my xterm has no color. Or, no, it has colors (when I do a ls
--color in it, it works) but when I launch a text based appli (such as
deselect for example) in it, it in in B W... Why ?
I think I have reported this as a bug against dselect?? Try using rxvt
On Oct 12, Al Youngwerth wrote
I use a debian box running smail as our local and Internet mail server for
our lan. Is there an easy way I can setup smail to process mail that should
be delivered locally immediately but queue up mail bound for the Internet
and send it all out once every 30
On Oct 11, Julien Pham wrote
First : my xterm has no color. Or, no, it has colors (when I do a ls
--color in it, it works) but when I launch a text based appli (such as
deselect for example) in it, it in in B W... Why ?
I think I have reported this as a bug against dselect?? Try using rxvt
On Oct 14, Julien Pham wrote
I have installed magicfilter, but it doesn't work and send strange files to
the printer...
And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it
doesn't work.
You want to add the userid that you normally use (not root, but the
other one). As
On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote
Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote:
However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus,
I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see
lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk.
That's a
On Oct 16, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I now use inn and newsx [ ... ]
INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks
everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET
using a Unix-like file system.
The thing I
On Jun 21, Juan Carlos Muro wrote
^^^
Your date is set wrongly!
- How can I do for the files and folders' colours to appear?
eval `/usr/bin/dircolors`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls -l'
alias sl='ls'
alias ll='ls -al'
- How can I do the PWD to appear in the 'prompt'?
if [
On Nov 05, Stephen Ryan wrote
Charles Read wrote:
I'v installed Debian 1.3 on an AMD-K6 platform.
My Xserver, XF86_S3V, starts out fine and autodetects
the chipset used for my Nitro 3D (S3 ViRGE/GX).
In the /etc/X11/XF86Setup, I specify in the Pointer
section a protocol of
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 07:27:43PM -0800, Jason Wright wrote:
Setting the binary +s allowed it to run, and start sucking all available
memory:
overmind:/var/adm ] ps -auxww | grep xmcd
peewee 28825 0.0 0.5 836 360 p0 S 19:17 0:00 grep xmcd
root 28809 43.3 50.7 64088
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 04:54:02PM -0700, Keith Holler wrote:
One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive
installs
as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a
prin
ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your
On Mon, Nov 24, 1997 at 11:15:17AM -0800, TJM wrote:
I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30
kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage
is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes
with the
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:58:25AM -0600, Jones, David A (CAP, ITS, US) wrote:
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 1997 9:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: HotJava browser for Linux?
Dave-
JavaSoft
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 07:41:48AM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
Two questions:
1. If I used dvihp to generate a PCL file, can I then
go to a DOS shell in Win95 and say:
c: copy PCL.file LPT1
I tried this, but first page was very messed up.
DOS is stuffed - you must use copy /b
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:23:44PM +, E Papantoniou wrote:
(this is a repost)
Hi all,
my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time.
When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do
Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 10:05:54PM -0500, Lou5212 wrote:
I'm trying to optain or download the EPP Driver which is said to increase
loading time to at least 18 to 24 megs a min.
My Zip is so slow I loose my patience.
I have a 166mhz can you please tell me how I can increase loading time.
No -
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
Hello,
I checked the dpkg man page and the dpkg --help listing but could
not find an answer:
Is there an option or set of flags that can be passed to dpkg in
order for it to provide a listing of installed packages that
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 01:39:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3 Jun, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, click_here wrote:
I recently chmod / -R 777 my system to try and cure a permission problem I
was having, I know - major stupid, This might
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Max Lawson wrote:
Hi,
I know the ZIP drive is supported in the kernel; and
I would like to know if the ZIP+ drive is supported too.
Not yet - try looking at http://www.torque.net/zip.html
Adrian
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Boris Lackovic wrote:
helo!!
Where can I find socks package?
Running bo 1.3.1.
I would like to install sockd demon to help local users to use port 1080
as SOCKS port for the netscape etc... in my gateway to another network.
Btw...Im inside
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
Is there a way to make CTRL+ALT+DEL shutdown and reboot the computer in X?
I have this in my .fvwm2rc. You will need to setup sudo to use it though.
AddToMenu Quit
+Quit fvwm Quit
+Reboot exec sudo reboot -t now
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:35:28PM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote:
How can I customize Xemacs to have colors and menus in text mode? I read all
the stuff about faces, I try with customize-face but no success. I have a
hamm distribution.
Something like this in .emacs:
(set-face-foreground
on remote server (lp normally - look in /etc/printcap)
type of print spooler on remote server (BSD)
description :-)
Adrian
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On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
- Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
[snip copious headers]
I have used the program cdda2wave.
I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more).
After my tryings I deleted my big files:
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 09:02:37PM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote:
I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem
to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files.
They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There
are several,
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:13:05PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote:
Hi,
The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for
documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But,
I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 07:52:58PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00:44 +0200 (CEST)
Jens Reinsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to know if there is a kernel module for Debian linux.
Any hints/suggestions?
There is a kernel module floating around somewhere (try a
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote:
fyi,
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head
screwed on right (apart from the I don't think Microsoft is an evil
company bit which I
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote:
fyi,
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
If that's the one I've seen
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:43:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Alexander wrote:
A deleted inode seems to have zero dtime sometimes when the machine is not
shut down normally. (i.e., power failure, system crash, nuclear
accident...)
I tend to get
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the
resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded
to:
Version: 2.0.7t-1
with
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 06:07:12PM +0200, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote:
Hi,
one stupid question:
Does svgalib support mach64 (it supports mach32)?
The docs seem to indicate that although the code is there, it doesn't work :-(
I've just uploaded 1.3.0 which you might have more success with.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
/etc/inetd.conf gets wiped out by some package, but i still haven't
figured it out which one is the culprit. this means that none of your
daemons (telnet, ftp) get started, so you can't log in remotely. i
don't think netstd is the problem, but i
hello,
I am wanting to use a DEC vt420 terminal with my linux box, what is the
best way to connect the terminal to linux?
thanks
Syd
You need to use a null modem cable. Try using the screen program if you
have problems. To change some of the settings, press F3 on the DEC.
HTH
Adrian
--
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Can someone enlighten me on two problems?nbsp; I can'tnbsp; seem to solve
them with the available documentation
P1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured
hardware is the same I now get an error message.nbsp; Here is the
On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 12:32:10PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus
if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state:
never, always, if-parent-has-focus.
Great idea! If this could be a style option then it
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 08:07:03AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Luiz Otavio L Zorzella writes:
Here it goes.
It comes from: http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma/
I translated the most important items: 2, 3 and 7.
Well, folks.
I don't know about you, but I tried. And tryed. And
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 11:30:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep, I lied. I thought I had posted my last message of the day, but there
has been an outpouring of requests for the loggin surrounding my PPP
problem. I concede that I should have included it in my original posting.
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 12:35:17AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last year, I think it was, someone mentioned a crash burn win95 logo
splash screen. Does anyone know where it is (I've tried to look for it,
but there are a *lot* of win95 startup screens)?
This is actually the second
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:52:41AM -0400, Adam Greene wrote:
Whats with these 2.1.xx kernels, When I was in University over a year ago,
they had 2.1.xx kernels, will this kernel ever come out of development, and
is Plug-and-Play in the kernel yet???
It sounds like there is going to be a code
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
My XFree86 stuff looks much darker than on PCs or Macs... sounds like a
gamma problem to me.
Anyone have any pointers to docs on setting up gamma on XFree86? Doesn't
seem to be a how-to on it.
I've seen someone else has answered
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:21:28PM -0500, Chris wrote:
Hello.
I have been reading about Debian, and I am eager to try it out.
However, I seem to have a problem that I have not found an answer for
yet, even after searching through all of the FAQ's and help documents I
could find. The
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed
to having a static swap partition?
Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993)
increase the wear and tear on my hard drive?
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 10:40:55PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Matt Thompson wrote:
This printer is exactly the same as the HP 660 repackaged with a different
model number (I know this for a fact because I work for Mac/PC Zone :) ).
Make sure to install the gs or gs-alladin and
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:25:12PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
First, the '_' character is illegal in host names. RFC 952 contains the
requirements for hostnames:
1. A name (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z),
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:23:13AM -0400, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote:
I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bash
script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait
statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry.
My trouble is
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi there,
When I press M-g (which as a developer I use frequently) I get A-g not
defined. So my ALT key has reverted to ALT behaviour, instead of META
which I am sure it was before.
What has changed? I'm need my M-g!
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:52:15PM -0500, pgarcia wrote:
I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X.
When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies.
When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security
is completely disabled. What gives? How do I use an
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and
Debian of course)?
We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for
offsite access (so they do all their WWW browsing via a
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:08:36AM -0400, Jeff Shilt wrote:
I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it
I get
bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory
I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out .
and tried to run postinst with
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 12:22:14PM -0500, Asher Haig wrote:
Has anyone managed to make DOSEmu 97.7 work? There doesn't seem to be a
.deb file, so I downloaded the source from the dosemu site. It compiled
fine and everything in setup seemed to go fine to the point where I tried
to run dos.
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:49:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 08:37:08PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote:
I'm confused by your message. You use /dev/sda4 with a parallel port
zip drive?
Yes
It seems to me that they come formatted with 1 partition...which is
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 02:06:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
Dear Debian People,
Thought it best to mail this separately to the last one, since the
problems are entirely different. I could do with being able to run a
couple of dos sysadmin programs on Selwyn-Server2, which I can mount
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:21:58AM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
[snip]
The xdm-errors file gives an error that there are no valid resolutions
for the xserver / monitor. The machine is at home, and I neglected
to beinf the error report with me to work. If there were no valid
resolutions,
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 03:55:23PM +0900, Kevin Squire wrote:
[snip - problems with nis]
Try looking at /etc/nsswitch.conf, to get info on it do info libc -name
service switch - nss configuration file, also man nsswitch.
Cheers
Adrian
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Mike Nachlinger wrote:
I'm running Debian 1.3.1r6 on a P5/120 96meg, libc.so.5.4.38
Printer Hewlett Packard LaserJet 6mp 19meg postscript
Printing under kernel 2.0.33 no problems.
Printing under any 2.1.xx[x] kernel doesn't happen.
This is using
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:34:45PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the
most
stable?
At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Hi all
I d/led Hamms Lincity, Lincity-svga and the SVGAlib dummy. However,
after typing 5 for mouse (PS2 - I do not have gpm if that makes
a difference) it just stopped. I then tried removing the svgalib dummy
and installing
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 02:08:40PM +0100, Robbie McGarrigle wrote:
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:
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 11:19:02AM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
Hello:
I just installed Debian/GNU 1.3.1, I've got pretty much everything
going as I want it.
On problem, though, is as follows:
I'm using fvwm2 as a window manager under XFree86. When I
click and hold the left mouse
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, click_here wrote:
The only way I can print is with cat filename /dev/lp1
If I use anything other, I get:
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice
Operand stack:
--nostringval--
followed by lots of hex addresses, offsets, names,
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the
machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was
running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return
the fqdn? or is there another
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version
did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in
3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July).
It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2-1 at
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote:
[snip]
NT needs read access to /dev/hda1 IIRC - so it must be FAT/NTFS
Using fdisk (linux) I got the following partition table:
[snip]
Unfortunately after the command 'w'
Command (m for help): w
I got the message:
The
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote:
It doesn't work basically!
It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0
CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault
when it attempts to initialise the display)
If I select
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