Re: XDM
Assuming that you have hamm installed. It's not the case in slink. Sasha. it's not xfree86,it's a commercial one (doesn't remember it though). Alain T.
Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?
i have the same problem,my cdrom is no more accessible (though it's not a indrance for now),i have a pioneer ATAPI CD drive,a regular ide card and the drive is properly configured as slave (my Hard Drive is master),i did not have the problem before when i was having Ontrack Disk Manager but i have removed it knowing linux can work with big drive,but since then,the CD drive stopped working,here's my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only do you know if adding the linear parameter would help ??? Thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SuperDisk Drive
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Re: Xwindow from win95?
Is there any program that people know of that will allow my to xwindow to my debian box from my win95 machine? Thanks. there's also VNC (Virtual Network Computing) that allow what you need,the main feature is that it doesn't store any state information (it is basically stateless like NC),the way it work is that both X and the X server run on the linux machine and the win95 machine use only a graphic displaying program,it allow you to keep your session while working on different computer,it's released under the GPL,but i think it's only available on hamm (or maybe slink),you can have a look at it at: http://www.orl.co.uk/ ,it's quite impressive. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwindow from win95?
i forgot to say that the graphic display program run on X,on win95/NT and on java. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
python-extclass missing
anyone know what happened to this package ??? dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/interpreters/python-extclass_1.0.2-4.deb: No such file or directory. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP problem
Every time I try to connect to my internet provider I am able to establish the connection, but after like 5-10 seconds prog reports something like: cannot find ethernet address for system ARP. I have tried everything, but can't get it to work. Why is it even looking for ethernet address? I am using PPP over TCP/IP. Can someone please tell me what am I doing wrong? check in /etc/ppp/options (or something like that,i'm running on slink and it's different than in 1.3.1),there a line marked proxyarp,put a # before this. I also don't have device driver for Sound Blaster. I tried using MAKEDEV, but I don't have any docs. Can someone who got his/her SB to work tell me what to do? Thx in advance :) run /dev/MAKEDEV update,if you have the sound blaster driver enabled,it will include it in your /dev directory,here an excerpt from the manpage: update Run MAKEDEV in update mode. This reads the list of devices currently available from /proc/devices, and updates all entries in /dev to match the device numbers found there. if you want to know more,run: man MAKEDEV Alain Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smail bug ?????
i did a fresh install of slink last night ( also tonight) and i possibly found a bug in smail,when i did the installation,the smailconfig command used when dselect install thing did not have the same behavior than the one used in a bo installation (i.e.i choosen the no.4 option,local mail delivered only) but it did not ask to which user to send root mail and my /etc/aliases was empty,after the installation,i choosed to download all my e-mail waiting on my isp mail server,the mail downloaded properly but then there where no mail in both 2 account on my computer,i fired up ircii,go to the irc.debian.org server and asked for help,with the help of a very good user,whe both troubleshooted my installation of smail but unfortunately,this hasn't given much result,i ended up downloading exim tonight,it installed right ( asked the right questions grin) and i could download mail properly,now my /etc/aliases file look right. Alain p.s.BTW there could be a very real possibility that some mail messages was bounced so excuse me if such messages ended up on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-windows on a Valuepoint
check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this: # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # When adding X servers, please keep the following things in mind: # - For each X server other than :0, the display number must be # on the command line # - This is the place to add the -bpp option to the command line # - If you run multiple X servers, it is wise to add the vtXX # option to each of them, since this is the only sure way of # knowing in advance which X server attaches to which console. # # Example: # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it may be different on your system (i'm using the latest unstable version,but i don't think it will be much different on your system). Alain p.s.also notice that there are 2 Xserver(s) file Xserver (found in /etc/X11/) and Xservers (found in /etc/X11/xdm/) it's the later that you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
broken upgrade of gzip
i was installing dosemu on my machine and dselect also upgraded other component on my system but the upgrade of gzip broke,it asked for the debianutils =1.6 package and i searched in bo-unstable and bo-updates,i've found nothing,does i need to search in the hamm directory to find it or it's better if i compile it myself ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian/GNU Linux on IBM PS/2
: I have several PS/2`s: : : 3-55sx : 6-56sx : 1-57sx : 1-80 : : Unfortunately, all have 4Mb of RAM except the Model 57sx which has 12. : Any suggestion? Is 8Mb of RAM enough for running X. Hmm, I can't answer that. I don't run X on any of our PS/2s - they're all acting in some sort of server role. my machine has 16 MB ram and run X perfectly well (if not speedy),i'm using KDE too,you could always setup the 12 MB machine to act as an X server and the other machines as X client,i think it would use less memory. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and ADSL
Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then it's *** 35c/mb! *** somewhat expensive this option,Videotron (in Montreal,QC,Canada) charge 49.95$ for CableModem access including the Modem,eth card and 2 GIG of bandwith per month,i wish i could live in Montreal !! ISDN is about $70/month rental, with timed local calls; costs a small fortune for a semi-permanent connection. (That's for 2xB + 1xD, ie basic rate.) dont know about this and i dont want to know,price are very expensive here for ISDN (i used to know the price about 3 year and 1 day's ago and i forgot it 3 years ago). Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and ADSL
Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then it's *** 35c/mb! *** somewhat expensive this option,Videotron (in Montreal,QC,Canada) charge 49.95$ for CableModem access including the Modem,eth card and 2 GIG of bandwith per month,i wish i could live in Montreal !! oups.forget what i said about the eth card included,it's 15$ (i think) for buying it. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does KDE need Xserver-vga16 (or any X server for that mather)
stable/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3-4.deb
You also need AT LEAST one server. Install the vga16 server as well as one
of the others for your video card (which one depends on your video card, X
servers are hardware dependant)
The vga16 server comes with XF86Setup, a nice (not really) GUI config
program. It's much nicer (REALLY) than xf86config, and will be easier for
you to use. Once you have configured your X server, you can install KDE.
i can only use this server ('till i change graphic card),i'll not need
either XF86Setup and xf86config,i have a backup of the X config files i
modified (and that was when i was running KDE on X so it doesn't change
here).
p.s.i'm running debian 1.3.1
You'd be wise to use hamm for this I think, but it should be at least
possible with bo.
except some gripe (atribuable to both my keyboard who's never configured
but fine enough as is and the state of the KDE bug,but they're not
critical and i reboot far less than when i was running win95).
Alain
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Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux
Hi, I'm connecting to internet through PPP dialup. I've recompiled the kernel with all IP-Masquerade and configured one of my NT4.0 box as described in the IP-Masquerade Mini-HOWTO and it did not work. My Linux box has the IP address: 192.168.188.2 My NT4.0 has IP address: 192.168.188.4 I can ping/ftp between machines without any problem. do you have a nameserver on your linux box (or is one configured in NT either your provider DNS server or one you have) ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does KDE need Xserver-vga16 (or any X server for that mather)
i was reinstalling all the app needed in my system and installed kde too,but i want to know if kde need any of those files: stable/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xfnt75_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xfntbase_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3-4.deb it's because if i dont need them,i'll save about 40 minutes of download time (and also because i can't connect for more than 5 minutes in daytime,i have to wait 'till midnight to connect for extended period). p.s.i'm running debian 1.3.1 thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde dont work
i installed kde tonight,also started it but it gave me these error messages: kwm: cannot connect to X server ~$ kcmbell: cannot connect to X server kpanel: cannot connect to X server kbgndwm: cannot connect to X server krootwm: cannot connect to X server kcminput: cannot connect to X server Starting audio server with talk id 0. kfm: cannot connect to X server does X have to be running when i do the command startkde ??? p.s.i used to have X running at boot but when i rebooted (after the kde install),i was no more having an xterm so i couldn't start kde when X was up,if i need to start it,which file i need to modify so it start when X get started ??? also,the kde version is the Beta4 from bo-unstable. thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde dont work
Hello all,i got it working finaly,it's awesome,i like it very much and i look stable on my setup (16 MB ram,48 MB swap). thanks !! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?
i'll try to find something tonight,there is some utility for doing the stuff you describe here (though i'm not sure about the DHTML thingie). Alain (who did his last night searching program and d/l documents). I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for quite a while for my web site, it's actually not that bad, and I have only been using Linux for the past month and for compatibility and to save confusion, I typed all filenames and target frames in capital letters (eg a href=BLAH.HTM target=MAIN). However MS doesn't like all capitals, and changes it on its own accord. What this boils down to is that I've spent about 3 hours going through my web site correcting every filename, so that it works in linux. Another thing I am not happy about is that my marquees created with frontpage 97 only work with MS IE (3 or 4), not with netscape! I made sure that I included no ActiveX or Microsoft Plugins so that it would work on any browser (apart from DHTML, but I'm going to change this when I get the time), but FrontPage still decided that my pages mustn't look good on any browser other than a MS one. I really don't have the time or the patience to write all the HTML codes, so I would like a decent web designing package that I can use in linux. Please could I have some recommendations/suggestions of such a package, commercial or not... Thanks, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
found a great graphic card
while surfing the content of the jameco catalog (received it this morning),i found a great deal on a VL-BUS graphic card,from the image,it look like a a number 9 unit with an S3 chip,it's listed at around 45 bucks for a 1 Mb combo (doesn't need more,i only have a 14 inch monitor),i'd like to know if it well supported by Xfree (3.3.1 i think,my system is bo). thanks !! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: found a great graphic card
I believe the S3 chips are fairly well supported. I have been running on one for a couple years. I don't know about mnumber nine and the associated RAMDAC's and such though. Does 'jameco' have a web site, or is that their proper name? you can see their web site at: http://www.jameco.com/ and yes it's their true name,i did a visit and i dont know if it still a S3 card,i'll mail them after i get some sleep time. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X at boot
Actually, I've had this happen before to me too. I don't remember what the exact circumstances were, so I didn't submit a bug report. Can you describe the exact procedure that led to this situation? i don't know,it's just that i looked in the boot sequence (to be exact,in the /etc/init.d/ section),and found 2 files (xdm and xdm.dpkg-dist),i did a cat on these files (hoping they where text like files) and found that there where nothing in xdm and there where text in the second one,in the upper part of the xdm.dpkg-dist file,i found this inscription ( #/etc/init.d/xdm: start or stop XDM.),so far,except curiosity,there where no way i could know that the source of my problem was these files. hope it help. Alain Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X at boot
i think i found the problem,if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm,there's nothing
who's writen on screen but if i do a cat /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist,then i
have this output (it will be shown after my message),does it's possible
that dpkg failed to update the /etc/init.d/xdm ???
Alain
--/etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/xdm: start or stop XDM.
test -x /usr/bin/X11/xdm || exit 0
test -f /etc/X11/config || exit 0
if grep -q ^xbase-not-configured /etc/X11/config
then
exit 0
fi
run_xdm=0
if grep -q ^start-xdm /etc/X11/config
then
run_xdm=1
fi
case $1 in
start)
if [ $run_xdm = 1 ]
then
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm
fi
;;
stop)
if [ $run_xdm = 1 ]
then
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --pidfile /var/run/xdm-pid \
--exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm
fi
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/init.d/xdm {start|stop}
exit 1
esac
exit 0
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Re: starting X at boot
it work !! i copied the xdm.dpkg-dist file over xdm and now,i boot with X enabled !! Alain p.s.something to check next time that a user run into this problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
securing debian
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i need root access) and i want to take care of the permission of my different ppp config files so they are only viewable when root and by the ppp dialer (i'm using pon only,i dont have a ppp util for X nor i need to have one) also,does it's possible to do the same thing with the config files for mail (i'm using smail and fetchmail but i only need to take care of the .fetchmailrc file) thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Ben does there is a a reference for this package (say a web page,manual,etc...)it's because i'm a bit nervous to try an unknown (by me) package and removing any root access (which i can do anyway using the /etc/login.access,take a look at man 5 login.access for information on that topic),and yes i'm using shadow password. thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Ben this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to give root access to my brother: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. it's because that when i was in win95,my brother had full access to the dialer and so,it could use the internet without my consentment,i dont want to give him any root privilege at all,i think that bloking access to root login while still allowing to su root and a regular change of password will be a better security scheme. thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
But you don't have to give root access to your brother. Sudo lets you set up access by username, in the /etc/sudoers file. i.e., on my system: # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL blp ALL=(ALL) ALL So no one but root, blp can take advantage of sudo, and anyone else who tries will get a message logged in syslog saying that they tried. nice,so in my system,i could have only # User privilege specification alain ALL=(ALL) ALL to allow root access only to myself ??? and also,to block access to my account from anywhere except the console,is there some information available on how to do it (basically,i would only allow loging in my system from the console and not anywhere else). thanks a lot for your help. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD and then locking the bios already done. - but if he's smart enough that you have to worry about the root password, he's going to know how to reset the bios. i dont think he'll be able to do that because he dont know much about computer,but he's fast to learn and he regularly use a chat software and there's some people in town (6 including me) who use linux and/or freeBSD so if he dont know how to do a particular thing,he will ask other how to do it,also,i'll rule out the fact that he can read manpages because he dont know a word in english (and all the document on my computer are in english). In addition, if you have dos/windoze installed as well, and he can run it, he can most likely reset your bios without even taking the case off (use one of the numerous bios hacking programs around). no,i dont have windows on this machine. Maybe a bit of botherly agreement is called for here? done deal here too,it's just that i'm making it sure that he dont find a breach in our agreement. Just my .2c worth Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i made my second mess with dselect
while installing stuff (in X) i pressed on the home key in dselect,i pressed the home key several time to get back to the upper section of the menu but my keyboard was not fully set so i got this as result: *== Req base adduser 3.6 3.6 Add users and groups to t *== Req base ae 962-14 962-14 Anthony's Editor -- a tin *== Req base base-files 1.3.5 1.3.5 Debian Base System Miscel *== Req base base-passwd 1.3.1 1.3.1 as you can see,the line begin with a *== sign,do i can put *** sign to get it back to default or there is another way ?? also,my keyboard mapping is perfect under linux ( not X) but then in X,it's not perfect,does there is a straightforward way to get the same result in X (say,copy the keyboard mapping file that linux use under the X one ???) Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'm not able to run mosaic
i tried to run mosaic (i've just installed it) and it gave me this error,does anyone know what it mean ?? ~$ Mosaic Couldn't open display: (NULL) Error: Can't open display: thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
posting of a big document
i'm writing this e-mail because sooner this week,i got to modify the layout of my filesystem (don't know how to call what i did) because of a lack of space on my hard disk and i've writen a document intended for newbie like me,the only drawback is that the document is 7 pages long,so i want to know if this would be a problem to some user on this list if i post this on the list (the size of the document is 7k),also,the document is somewhat roughly edited (there may be typo and i could use better word but it's my first document i do and i want to get some experience in this domain). thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X at boot
What version of grep do you have there? Version 2.1-7 is broken, that might also be the cause. In any case, you can always look at /var/log/xdm-errors i dont even have this file ( /var/log/xdm-error) and grep is version 2.0 thanks for your help. Alain Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unresolved symbols during fresh Debian install
Hello, I am attempting to install Debian 1.3 by CD-ROM using a Philips/LMS CM-206 CD-ROM drive. The drive is proprietary, thus requiring the use of the device driver disk. The following error message appears when attempting to load the appropriate module: /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o: unresolved symbol(s) /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o: unresolved symbol register_cdrom /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o: unresolved symbol unregister_cdrom /lib/modules/2.0.29/cdrom/cm206.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_fops I have asked for help about this situation several times and have not had much success in getting a response. If this is not the place to ask for this kind of help, then could someone please let me know who I should talk to in order for me to figure this out. Thanks. Shane it's the right place,i dont know why it got unanswered but a trick you could try is to change disk,sometime,a computer will bark when it try to boot on a defective disk and this MAY be the result (i'm not shooting but instead put a strong emphasis on the word). Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux
i was doing a bit of surfing when i run unto an article (on cnet section http://buzz.builder.com/) that there was a version of M$ netshow available for linux (among other Unix platform),you can take a look for yourself at: http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/download/unix.htm here's a part of the page: This beta release of Microsoft NetShow includes executables for the following platforms: x86 Linux ELF netshow_linux -i dont think it will be popular SGI Irix 6.x netshow_sgi Sun Sparc SunOS 4.x netshow_sunos Sun Sparc SunOS 5.5+ netshow_solaris Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5+ netshow_solaris have fun !!! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree 3.3.2 as a Debian package
Well I had the same problem with an ATI 3d charger, and the quick fix is to pick up 3.3.2 from www.xfree86.org in a .tgz and drop the executable right into /usr/X11R6/bin (actually I left the old Debian one, added xfree's and suse's, and made .../XF86_Mach64 a link to the one I want). Just check that your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config is a link to /etc/X11 because the one you pick up won't have this debianisation. Cheers, do you (or anyone) think it would also be possible to take the sources of 3.3.2 and take the .diff.gz and the .src file from bo and compile that ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how stable is KDE on Debian 1.3.1 r6
i'm writing this list because i want to know if there's someone using KDE on a bo system and i'd like to know if it's good to try the binary available or i'm better to compile the sources ?? thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Star Office Anyone Using it?
hi, I see that it is available for home usage for free, you can get a cdrom for 8 bucks. so how does it stack up against applixware or other packages that you know of? allan bart i'm using it (the 3.1 version) and it's been relatively good at the very few task i given it but it's somewhat of a behemoth on my computer (486/DX2 50 mhz,16 MB ram,1.7 gig hard drive),i'll do real work when i get back to school in september. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a PDF reader
Hi ! Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? Thanks. adobe has one for X,you can get it at: http://www.adobe.com/ Alain -- Andreas Saudemont email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a PDF reader
Hi ! Does anyone know where I could find a PDF reader for Linux ? Thanks. oooppssforgot to say there's a package for acroread ( the acrobat reader) on the debian ftp server,but i think you should be better to use a mirror from France,check in the contrib section,it's there: *** Opt contrib acroread 3.0-1 3.0-1 Adobe Portable Document Format file viewer. this one is for debian 1.3.1 -- Andreas Saudemont email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
starting X at boot
i was surfing on the internet and viewed some comments on enabling X at boot,i tried the trick down there ( modify /etc/X11/config so the line no-start-xdm look like start-xdm,backup /etc/inittab and modify so when booting,it load into runlevel 5) but this hasn't worked,is there some document i could read for enabling X at boot ( and i did read a lot of the manpage sooner this week on this) ??? p.s.i put the backup inittab back into the /etc directory so it start back in runlevel 2. p.p.s.i'm using debian 1.3.1 Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X at boot
# xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X ---cut--- Look at the last line, I bet it is missing on your system. It tells xdm which xserver to run on what display. If there is no such line, xdm will still be running, you'll just not notice anything you would expect (like seeing the xserver you expect it to start.) Cheers, the line is there and my /etc/X11/config file is writen as this: # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm xdm-start-server i think there other thing to play as well but dont know what. Alain Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X at boot
Have you guys already tried Debian's xbase-configure yet? It is normally run during the xbase package install, but I believe that it will setup xdm to start at boot if you haven't already done so. -Ossama i'll check into this. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: StarOffice
on the subject of Star Office,does it can open XLS files (M$ excel),i needed to open one and it hasn't worked,does anyone here has been able to do so ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: StarOffice
Yes, although I don't know which version of Excel was used. All I had to do was to click on the 'file type' button and select excel. It didn't preserve the column width format, so I had to adjust that in Star Calc itself (StarOffice-3.1). i have another question,where do i find this button,i searched all menu i could find,i enabled all the bar available (ya know,the ones right on top of the grid) and i've never found this (BTW i'm using the same version as yours),i dived into an unknown menu (where it offer to customize the menu command) and i did a mistake i think (i wanted to get out of there and the only button i've seen who permit that was the button reset) press the reset button and then,scalc3 made a segfault error,it core dumped too. thanks for your help. Alain Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to libc6 script?
need the script,i can download it for you (and this apply for anyone on this list who's in the same situation,just mail me if you need it) and send it by e-mail ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chmod not working
i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x on it to no avail,does all this qualify as a bug ??? p.s.the problem is just an annoyance as i can still access my home dir and run program from there. thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod not working
I think that you must think that 'drwxr-x--x' means something different than it does. Seeing this permission in ls means that the user (owner) of the directory has read, write, and execute privileges, that people in the same group as the owner have read and execute privileges, and that anyone else has only execute privilege. Did you perhaps mistype the above and leave out the word not somewhere? o,you're all right,while typing this message,i noticed my error,never mind this tread (and i got my lesson,i'll mess with thing like this only when i got a good night),it's been about 18-2X hours that i'm doing without sleeping (and i seriously think this affect my judgement). very sorry. Alain p.s.i was expecting that the permission look like this: drwx-rx--x i know it can't now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod not working
I think you have misunderstood some of what has been said in the replies, doing a chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x or chmod 751 on a directody will give it the permissions of drwxr-x--x as you say it has, so to me it looks like chmod had done what you asked. It may help us if you told us what you had the permissions set to before you tried to change them, and what you expect the result of the chmod command to be. i was root,i'm the only one administrator in the house here (and the only one who know something about computer),the permission was good before,in just that i needed to run the chown program to change the owner (i was root when i changed the home partition),live by learning,i propose that this thread be closed as the problem was mostly a lack of concentration of my part. thanks for all who responded and i'm very sorry that my message has caused a bandwith hog for a stupid user error. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE Debian Package
Should we get a petition and a nice request letter going? :-) Anthony you bet,count me in. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X
Hi, good morning (just waked up) Looking into /etc/X11/Xsession, I see that it looks into $HOME/.xsession; sorry for the .xinitrc red herring. Look into that. Interesting file ;-) interresting indeed,i'll look what's possible to customize here (should keep me busy from now on to september or so !!!) thanks for your help. Alain manoj -- cheese, and another thing entirely.) Capa de Fromage (French) Head hmm,in french,this would be Face De Fromage !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stuck with only 1 xterm in X
does anyone know how to open several xterm in X,i'd like to run more commands/program in X but dont know how (i tried to open another xterm from the first one but then,i could not use the first xterm since the where no longer any prompt) also, how do i start X when booting my computer,it's well enough configured to my liking that i'd like to have it running every time i open my computer. thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 setup
Xlib5 setup in deselect ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (no such file or directory), skipping it did that when i installed a second time debian 1.3.1 (and basically every time i installed it),i dont give it much tought (i dont think it's an important error). xserver-vga (3.3-3) in deselect current default X server /bin/false found (how is this possible after I reformat the hard disk?) because it found no default server,it give /bin/false,i dont give it much tough either (the system is still useable and X run without any problem). XFree86 file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is missing this one is an error i care about (it's because i haven't seen it in my last install and this file is needed for the good working of X). Also when it asks to create a new config file for X (select y or n) and I ask it to create a new one, it gives the errors shown above in xlib6 setup until I select n. All the other packages install ok, why does X seem to be missing files and find some /bin/false/ found which shouldn't be there? Thanks for any help you can give. one thing i'd like to know is did you install everything you wanted at once or just installed the base system,if you installed the whole shoebang,i dont recommend it,the way i did proceed to install my distribution is to install only what's selected in the dselect menu for a base install,nothing more,after,i did update my installation by indicating dselect to include the package file from bo-unstable and only after that i did a next round installing the rest of the stuff i needed,now this system work fine. Mark Panzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X
Hi,
Firstly, you could try starting the second xterm inside the
first one like so:
% xterm
See the `' symbol? That send the xterm launched into the background,
and returns your command prompt on the first xterm. Voila! tow
command prompts ;-)
i'll do it a try right now.
Secondly, you should look into installing and running a window
manager like twm (the standard, vanilla window manager), fvwm2 (the
middle of the road window manager), fvwm95 looks like windows ;-(;
wmaker (supposedly, the window manager fo the future, still lacks
feature I have grown used to). However, this is highly subh=jective,
and doubtless I shall be flamed ercilessly.
twm is what i'm running,do you know if fvwm2 run on 16 colors ?? i tried
fvwm95 too but it hasn't worked (i discovered the reason about 30 minutes
ago when surfing in a mass of document and config files).
When starting, X looks for a file called .xsession (or
.xinitrc, I forget what the default is now). I am including a copy of
my .xsession to use as an example (do not just copy it over, I have a
myriad of things in there that you do not need).
it will help,but it's currious i dont have any .xinitrc file on my system
and even more currious that i run the apropos command for something on
xinitrc and it didn't found a manpage for it ( i did apropos .xinitrc
apropos xinitrc and find / -name *xinitrc* ,nothing at all)
Hope this helps.
manoj
--
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G. Ingersoll
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cut below
#!/bin/sh
# Merge in defaults and keymaps
umask 022
export default_dir=${default_dir:=$HOME}
userresources=$default_dir/.Xresources
usermodmap=$default_dir/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/lib/X11/xdm/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/lib/X11/.Xmodmap
# load common variables
if test -f $default_dir/.bash_vars ; then
. $default_dir/.bash_vars
fi
if [ ! $DISPLAY -o $DISPLAY = :0.0 ]; then
DISPLAY=`hostname`:0
fi
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# This is useful if you use ssh
eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add /dev/null
xset -c b 95 s default
#xwrits +frugal +iconified +clock +beep +breakclock +lock
#xearth -pos 42.22.41 -77.75 #-orbit 51.6 234.8
##xearth -label -grid -pos orbit,1,41.67 -fork
#tvtwm -s
#nice xcb -l v -geometry 200x500-0+365
#nice sunclock -icongeometry -0+0 -iconic
#xvtdl
#nice pland
xicon
#nice xmultibiff -mail ~/var/spool/mail/{important,admin,digital,bcast}
#nice xwalld
if [ -z $MANPATH ]; then
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man; export MANPATH
fi
# Start some shelltools and the window manager
if test -x /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2; then
#fvwm2 -f FvwmM4 -m4prog /usr/bin/m4 .fvwm2rc
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm2
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/fvwm ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/twm ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/twm
fi
# xkeycaps -kbd ms104
exec xterm -ut -T login -n login -fg Black -bg LightSteelBlue -geometry
80x24+10+93 -ls
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Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X
a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i found that i asked more than enough questions) ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
Hello all i did my first kernel compile (make menuconfig,make clean, make-kpkg clean, make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_image) and installed the resulting .deb package of the kernel,runned lilo (twice) and rebooted,the kernel loaded fine but i think i lacked something ( i guess i did not make the module thinking that the installation of the .deb file would do it),anyway,here's the error messages i got when booting the kernel: Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) /dev/hda1: clean, 23305/105664 files, 350526/421312 blocks Loading modules: linear /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol unregister_md_personality_Rb61b57be /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol md_size_Ra3598823 /lib/modules/2.0.29/block/linear.o: unresolved symbol register_md_personality_Rac6e8416 cdrom Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ vfat /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_get_entry_Rf33fbfbb /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_mark_buffer_dirty_Rcc359597/lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_put_inode_Rfb77d10e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_scan_R30ef1fbe /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_parent_ino_R656ae616 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_add_cluster_R4f7eb0a2 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_lock_creation_R26cc6438 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_statfs_Rfdf09406 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_dir_operations_Rcf5febac /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_unlock_creation_R16929a2b /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_a2uni_Rb951cd1a /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_write_inode_Rb5e94b7f /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_code2uni_R6832fb5c /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_put_super_R9a22962f /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_cache_inval_inode_Red6e1d29/lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_date_unix2dos_R8f42586e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_read_super_R8c561915 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_bmap_R828c222b /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_notify_change_R5bf2f7a9 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_fs_panic_R50ae0d8a /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_brelse_R8297f36e /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_readdirx_R6b584186 /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs/vfat.o: unresolved symbol fat_read_inode_R0f6dbd83 lp lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) serial Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ppp CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. slhc Checking all file systems... Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) Mounting local file systems ... Mounting remote file systems ... scuse me if it make the message long a bit but there's some driver who loaded but other who didn't,does there is something to do now. thanks a lot. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
I suspect that you were already running 2.0.29 before you built your custom one. It is possible that there were some modules in the old kernel that were not included in your custom kernel. Try this and see if it corrects the problem: mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29-old then immediately reinstall the kernel .deb that you built and reboot. it worked but i have another problem,the kernel still load fine but i found 4 suspect line when the kernel load,here are them: Loading modules: linear can't locate module linear cdrom can't locate module cdrom vfat lp lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) serial can't locate module serial do you (or anyone here) know what it mean ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for PowerPC
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think there will be a Debian for the Mac version of the powerPC as long as these machine remain proprietary,there's version of linux for the IBM powerPC line but the only linux distribution especially for the Mac PPC is available at: http://www.mklinux.apple.com/ i did research some documentation there and their linux version have some files covered under another licence than the GPL due to the proprietary nature of the machine (and these files i'm talking'bout are sometime critical to linux) hope this help. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!
I am assuming that you either compiled support for these directly into the kernel or you have no need for them. If this is the case, edit /etc/modules and remove the references to linear, cdrom, and serial. i compiled them in the kernel (and yes i trully need them as i only have 1 machine and need access to the internet). thanks a lot for all the help you have given to me,it was very usefull. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for PowerPC
Thanx for the reply. So how does one get started with the IBM PowerPC then if there are no disks-powerpc? you check elsewhere for now,it's a very real possibility that Debian developper are crafting a very good distribution but that need time and they seem to be very busy (with the release of hamm i.e. Debian 2.0) if you need something that'll run on a IBM PPC,you can take a look at the linuxppc web site ( http://www.linuxppc.org if my memory is exact,i'll check when reconnecting to the internet i.e. in a few minutes). HTH (Hope That Help) Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection
do you have a nameserver (bind) ?? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making a kernel .deb file with make-kpkg
i wanted to rebuild my kernel and decided to try using the make-kpkg utility,i read the info file,run make menuconfig,make dep,make clean and finaly make-kpkg --zimage,it compiled thing but it gave me only a zImage file,i searched long and large in the info file (read it 3 times) for instruction on how to create a .deb file out of my compiled kernel and found nothing,does anyone know here how i can create such package or at least do this: kernel_image This target produces a Debian package of the Linux kernel source image, and any modules configured in the kernel configuration file .config. If there is no .config file in the kernel source directory, a default configuration is provided similar to the one used to create the Debian boot-floppies. The package produced updates the /boot/psdatabase file at install time, it also update symbolic links in the root directory to point to the new kernel image in /boot. It also offers to run the Linux loader, LILO, creating a configuration file for LILO if needed. It also offers to put the new kernel on a floppy, formatting the floppy if needed. On dele^m tion, the package checks the version of the kernel running, and refuses to delete a running kernel. where do i define this option,i tried it on the command line ( make-kpkg --targets=kernel_image ) but this hasn't worked,also,another question,what's the difference between a zImage kernel and a bzImage one ??? thanks a lot Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making a kernel .deb file with make-kpkg
I'm guessing that you looked for it in /usr/src/linux, and didn't find it. If you haven't already, look in the /usr/src directory. This is where the .deb appears on my box using make-kpkg. did a find / -name *.deb,file not found Answering the second question, bzImage allows for a larget kernel image to be used. zImage is limited to 512 KB, or something like that. Other than that, no difference. glad to know that altough i never did a custom kernel who was bigger than that. i want to thanks everyone who answered to this,i'll try those trick tomorow morning (it's around 3h00 am here and i'm sleeping on the keyboard),if it work and there's someone who need a new kernel ( 2.0.29 presently but i can compile other kernel too),give me a call (er..e-mail) and i'll hapily do it,thanks. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs initialization
Would you please tell me where emacs-19.34 expects site-start.el to be in the debian 1.3.r6 distribution? Thank you for your help, Geza Gyorgyi accordind to the command: find / -print | grep site-start.el - the only file with site-start.el in the content of the file is /etc/emacs/site-start.el itself,hope that help. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Modes in X
An XF86 question: I purged, then reloaded, X-related debian packages once and now XF86Setup appears to be missing. What package should I download to have it back? Geza Gyorgyi the VGA16 server,it's included there. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big hard disks
Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it be standard IDE interface be able to access the full disk? Some yes,i do have a EIDE hard drive pluged into a regular IDE interface (and the CD pluged as slave on the same interface). BIOS's don't boot with a HDD over 500MB if they are older. My BIOS is (C) 1992 ZDS (Zenith Data Systems). I don't have the system config. floppy which changes settings in the CMOS via a DOS executable. The BIOS in this sheesh,you need to tell the bios that you have a big drive (normaly,bios has provision for special drive who's the bios has no spec for (mine is a type 47 drive for example)) but you need a way to tell it,for the disquette,try contacting zenith if you can have a replacement one system seems to only load the OS and provided system services but doesn't have a setup utility built into it. Does this mean I'd have a problem installing a new hard disk? yep,if you dont have the disquette. My current HDD is a Western Digital 125MB, therefore couldn't you just let the BIOS think it's only 125MB and have it read off the MBR to load LILO? there may be possibility,i'll check for that. Then (from looking at some Mini-HOWTO's) you could tell LILO of the correct drive geometry? The final problem I have is once I can boot off this big drive, what is the best way to partition it? Do I have to mount all these partitions to their directories every time I boot up, and won't this mess up the way files are installed by dselect, or the basic Linux install its self? Thanks for your help, it's greatly appreciated. the best way for a first install is that when you'll buy the drive,the vendor will give you a disquette containing Ontrack Drive Manager (you can download it from some drive manufacturer web site too),format the drive,it doesn't matter if this utility format the drive as a dos drive because you'll have to format it a second time (in the installation of linux) make sure you have a bootable dos (or win95 or NT or whatever else that ontrack support) disquette too,when formatting (either in disk manager or in linux) choose only to have a single partition (simpler for now),i dont recommend trying to do several partitions for now,you'll have ample time to read documents and change your mind later on,if you need more information,mail me or the list. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Mailsystem HELP!
did you try the -q and the -m options ??? here's how i'm using smail: sendmail -bd -q30m p.s.i think sendmail is a symlink to smail -q[interval] Cause smail to process its input spool directory. If an interval is given, smail will repeatedly check its input spool directory, sleeping for the given interval between checks. The interval is in seconds, though it can be defined as a sequence of numbers with suffixes of `s' for seconds, `m' for minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days, `w' for weeks and `y' for years. For example, -q2h30m specifies an interval of two hours and 30 minutes. This flag is useful in conjunction with the -bd mode of oper- ation and will cause the daemon process to wake up on these intervals and perform queue processing. Performing a single queue run is the default mode of operation if smail is invoked as runq. Any parameters are used to match message ids in the queue, and those messages are processed. If a mes- sage id is given, but the message is not in the queue (due to a mistake or the message having been already delivered), then the parameter is silently ignored. -m or -om Allow retention of the sender as a recipient for alias and mailing list expansions that include the sender. If this is Not set, the sender will not receive a copy of the message only as a result of being in an alias or mailing list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Installation
Dear Sir/Madam, I am a Linux novice who would like to get started with Debian Linux. I currently have a Zenith Data Systems 486 33MHz SX with 16Mb of RAM, a 125Mb Hard Drive, a 1.44Mb floppy, and a VGA display. I have successfully installed the base system, unfortunately I would like to run X-window for Linux. I doubt that it would work on only a 125Mb hard drive, and I don't even have a CD-ROM. It would be nice if someone could steer me towards an inexpensive option for the minimum hardware required to run X. I have no real experience with UNIX or Linux and would like to use this system for a learning platform. I have attempted to install a IDE compatable CD-ROM on a Plug-and-Play compatable sound card but have not been able to get this set-up to detected or used by Linux. Could you offer any suggestions? you need a bigger hard disk,i use nearly the same computer ( 486/DX2 50 mhz,16 MB ram,1.7 GIG hard disk,bare-bone vga) and yes i use X (on 16 color except when running xquake,but even with this low end system,Star Office run fine),about your CD,does your hard disk is IDE,if yes,plug the CD on the same interface as the hard disk and put the jumper (if there's one) on the slave setting (a manual help there but on my CD unit,it's clearly marked). Might it be a better idea to aquire a new/er computer on which to install Linux. Could you please tell me the hardware which would keep me within a ~$500 budget ( I am a high school student with limited funds). Even a 386 type computer would be okay, if it works with Linux, but where could I find parts? I have a 14 VGA monitor which I'm planning to use with this system. My main problem is picking devices which are comptable with Linux, what would you recommend? Please offer any help you can. for a 500$ budget,you can buy a texas size hard disk (say in the 4 to 6 GIG range). Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modem Help Please!!!
I have a zoom 56k modem..I noticed that Debian and most other linux have support for ethernet cards but not much for regular modems...How do i use my modem under linux. My modem is on port 2 irq 3.. Please help if you can!? Thanks Brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] first,put a enter at the end of each line in your message,it did not make your message unreadable on my mailreader but there are other mailreader who will put your message as one line and your message may be deleted ASAP by a potentially bored user (think as a user who's used to be receiving 200 messages each day's !!!). now,for the lack of driver for modem is that the serial driver,the ppp driver and the slhc driver is all that's needed for a ppp net connection,i think your problem is that the modem is plug play and this is what cause your problem,do a check on the board (if it's an internal modem,i dont know where to check for an external one) or check in the manual,there may be a mode witch (hope i got the spelling right) disable the plug play,you should provide us with more detail because i can't help further than this. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the FAQ-O-MATIC is down ?????
i tried to see the FAQ-O-MATIC but the (debian) server keep saying error 404 file not found,where i can see it Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
i think there's a Unix version of pkzip 2.60 available on the pkzip web site,doesn't know if it run on Linux (had no time to check this when i viewed the site),i'm pretty sure that it also work with gzipped file,the address is: http://www.pkware.com/ Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have downloaded a lot of files onto here that I want to install to linux. Some of these files are too large to put onto floppy, so they need to be split. I have gzip for dos on win95, also pkzip. The command for pkzip would be pkzip -e0 - a:\bla.zip *.* What is the equivalent for gzip? How would I stich the files back together again? [0] - it is doublespaced. bleargh. I cannot remove it for work reasons. bleargh again. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Installation
He's right, definitely a new hard drive. I installed Debian on a 100meg partition to test it out, and have since installed XWindows and KDE. Now I want to start adding some proper applications, and run out of room. However, I think a 4-6 gig is a bit overkill - just 1 gig would probably sort you out with all the Linux apps your'll need. yep,excellent reply,instaid of buying a 4-6 gig drive,get one smaller and get a good graphic card too if you think you'll use X a lot,i got mine free but it's far from the best (especially when it's not upgradable). Alain Graham Pople ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SNES emulators at Emulation One (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/index.htm) All emulators at E1 Newsletter (http://www.jalna.demon.co.uk/e1news.htm) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question (long)
I just recompiled my kernel using kernel 2.0.32, and everything seems to work well, except when I boot I get the following error messages which I take it means I screwed something up. (Is this because I configured serial support as a module?) Any help would be appreciated. Apr 15 21:03:05 debian kerneld: started, pid=100, qid=0 Apr 15 21:03:05 debian insmod: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/serial.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on_R5f048a24 Apr 15 21:03:05 debian insmod: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/serial.o: unresolved. did you run: make modules Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
possible intrusion in my box ??????
i was in the process of reading my syslog and noted some suspicious lines in there,there was possibly an attack of my box via telnet,i wanted to know more so i did: grep telnetd /var/log/daemon.log and got these result: Apr 3 02:10:30 main in.telnetd[374]: connect from ppp-annex-0454.mtl.total.net Apr 3 02:10:35 main telnetd[374]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 4 23:25:41 main in.telnetd[243]: connect from ppp154.207.mmtl.videotron.netApr 4 23:43:35 main telnetd[243]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 4 23:47:53 main in.telnetd[248]: connect from ppp154.207.mmtl.videotron.netApr 4 23:49:43 main telnetd[248]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 5 00:23:46 main in.telnetd[260]: connect from ppp154.207.mmtl.videotron.netApr 5 00:24:01 main telnetd[260]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 7 00:53:07 main in.telnetd[816]: connect from host-209-138-8-98.bhm.BELLSOUTH.net Apr 7 00:53:08 main telnetd[816]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 7 00:59:31 main in.telnetd[820]: connect from host-209-138-8-98.bhm.BELLSOUTH.net Apr 7 00:59:42 main telnetd[820]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 11 21:18:37 main in.telnetd[287]: connect from ppp-51x2-0105.que.total.net Apr 11 21:18:38 main telnetd[287]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 13 01:15:01 main in.telnetd[242]: connect from ppp117.223.mmtl.videotron.netApr 13 01:15:22 main telnetd[242]: ttloop: peer died: Success Apr 13 04:31:43 main in.telnetd[382]: connect from ts1-15.f127.quebectel.com Apr 13 04:38:15 main telnetd[382]: ttloop: peer died: Success anyone know what's this and where to look for security advices and the likes (i dont know anymore where to start) ??? thanks a lot !! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Hurd ????
I know what you mean. I wait for Debian GNU/Hurd ;) Debian GNU/Hurd ? does there's plan for this in the Debian organisation ??? Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration problem
For answering this question we need to know what mail agent that you are using and how it is configured. Are you configured to use your ISP's SMTP server and their POP3 server correctly. smail and fetchmail,also,it's my ISP sysadmin itself who configured my .fetchamailrc file. Also I'm happy that you are in the process of getting a new box that will meet your requirements. Once you have the box set up, I use the Netscape mailer for both fetching and sending mail from my ISP. netscape look cumbersome enough with my resolution that i'm not particularly inclined to let it do duties as my mailer but thing may change when i get that new computer (i once did a lot of configuration messing in the loze95 world with netscape). In the options dialog window there are configuration options for your ISP's server addresses and you can customize where you want to receive your mail. This is really a neat option. ok,nice option to know !! On your new computer you will find that now most low end machines come with 2 megs of video ram that will allow you to run 16 bit mode at 1024x768. Tiger has a networking box for $480 that looks like an excellent low end machine. http://www.tigerdirect.com/tiger_systems/tiger_workstations_1.htm This happens to be the next system that I am adding to my own net. could you give me some feedback on this computer,also,does it's buildable or it come pre-built ?? Of course the broken dose of windoz/mslost will be replaced by the truly great penguin :-) We really are looking for world domination over the broken systems of the world. well,i think i need this system,i get a look now !! Enough fun, my mind just went on vacation. But this system comes complete with ethernet card and appears to be ready for primme time. Have a happy Easter i got my Easter blast yesterday !!! thanks a lot for your help. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing with Debian?
The router finds the hardware (or MAC) address by broadcasting a request to the network. It basicly asks Does anybody here know what the MAC address is for the interface ip-address. and someone will respond with it. As for your routing problem ... do you have a real IP address assigned to that laptop? If you are using something like 192.168.x.x it is not going to work. Also, you need to use an IP address that is part of the network that the router is set up to route for. If you try to give it just any IP address, maybe one you have been given by an ISP for a dedicated dialup, the router will most likely ignore it because it is outside the range of the network that it routes data for. i have a question,if there's 192.168.x.x type address and the server's kernel is compiled with ip masquerading,does the laptop would then be able to access the internet ?? also,you ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) could check if there's a resolv.conf file in your /etc directory and make it's correctly configured,other than that,i could not help further because of lack of knowledge in networking (i'm in the learning stage tough) Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration problem
I probably could write you a video mode that runs at low refresh rates with 320x200 and no double scan. You could even make me to do it ;) But serious: You don't want to run X Window with 320x200: The most programs will have a window much bigger than your screen. It would be possible using the virtual desktop (as you are doing it now (4 times bigger). But then you would have to scroll around to find the buttons of the program. No, I don't think you want this. I really urge you to buy a better graphic card. A trio64v2 is pretty cheap, and will give you all modes you need on a 15 inch monitor. For a 17 inch monitor, a card with 4 MB is desirable. Marcus no,i dont think this would be useable at such low res,i'm allready in the process of buying a new computer (in fact,i'll build it from piece) and maybe this one will serve only for text usage,another thing,does anyone here know if netscape 3.01 would work at 16 color,i tried but it complained ??? Alain also,i'm having problem mailing with pine,my PPP is up but then,pine give me this error message when i try to send mail: [Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!] anyone having a clue as what this message is ??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?
Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a deb file with netscape in. What do I do? Cheers, Tristan you download netscape (3.01 for a debian 1.3.1 installation) from the netscape site,it come in a .tar.gz file,you put it in the /tmp directory and then,you install the netscape package and it will install itself. Alain p.s.for debian 2.0,you download communicator (dont know witch version on this one) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration problem
First of all I notice that you are saying that you only have 256k of video ram. If this is the case then you cannot even run 640x480x256 color mode. This requires a least 1 meg of video ram. At 256K of video ram 320x200 mode is the only mode that you can possible run which is atrocious resolution. You probably have more video ram than you are saying. Check your computer by running SuperProbe as root. This program will return your video system hardware including how much video ram you have. Also if you really have only 256k of video ram, spend a few bucks and get at least 1 meg of video ram for your system. Hope this helps :-) here's the output of SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Oak OTI037C (Port Probed) Memory: 256 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) and the card is not upgradable,i checked (i also have the manual),i would have a good use of the spare memory chip i have if this card where upgradable,i dont really mind the resolution but would it be possible to add the 320x200 video mode to the XF86Config without the doublescan thing (this is what mess my configuration because of this note: # Low-res Doublescan modes # If your chipset does not support doublescan, you get a 'squashed' # resolution like 320x400. and of course my card doesn't support it !!). thanks a lot. Alain Toussaint p.s.scuse me for the late reply,i was not often at home lately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X configuration problem
Run xf86 config again. When you get to the section that asks if the following displays resolutions are correct, pick a color depth to change and change/keep your existing resolutions but when asked if you want a virtual desktop select No. If you don't adjust your color-depths per resolution I believe that the script defaults to a Virtual Desktop. Hope this helps. i did that (just reconfigured thing) but the problem is still there,i seriously think that my graphic card dont support doublescan,i searched the manual of my card but i've found nothing there. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X configuration problem
this is what occur to me,my card dont support doublescan mode so the resolution is way bad,does anyone here have an answer to this ??? thanks a lot Alain Toussaint p.s.i considered changing my graphic card but my local hardware vendor sell the card for the price of a pentium motherboard (i'm located outside the map,hardware are expensive here). p.p.s.scuse me for the long message too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
database server/debian stability
the good address for postgreSQL is http://www.postgresql.org/ it's not a comercial organisation. Alain Take a look at postgresql.. You can find it on the web at www.postgresql.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what serve the file in the /dev directory
i did some work removing unneeded files/devices in the /dev directory but i still get an error ( cp: /mnt/bin/bash: No space left on device ),what command i need to do to know the space left on my disk and does there is some utility to compress the library so they still remain executable (i allready taken care off the potential performance hit because the root disk is copied to a ramdrive and root is mounted there). Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian not working on a PC without math copro
thanks a lot for all who responded to this thread,your help was greatly apreciated. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what serve the file in the /dev directory
Hello i need to know what serve the files in the /dev directory,it's because i did some experiment trying to build a boot/root disk set (sort of rescue disk and a good way to learn about linux),i copied all the files in the /dev directory to a floppy disk (the root disk in question) using this method: cd /dev find . -print | cpio -pmd /mnt/dev i also copied the needed library for bash ( libreadline.so.2, libncurses.so.3.0, libdl.so.1 and libc.so.5 ) but now,i lack the space needed for copying bash,does anyone here know where i can get the information i need to safely prune the /dev directory without erasing something important ?? thanks a lot for your help !! Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what serve the file in the /dev directory
Those are your device drivers! BE CAREFUL IN THERE! For example, if you have an ide hard disk it is /dev/hda i do know,i take extreme precaution before making a move there but there's cryptic devices there who i don't know they're purpose,all who's compiled in my custom kernel is serial,ide hard drive and ide cd so i know that i dont touch ttyS* hda and hdb,i removed sd* and lp device (i didn't compiled these in the kernel),here's the device i'm not sure about they're definition: nst*, pty*, hitcd, hwtrap, importbm, jbm, logibm, mcd, st* ( are these an interface for st506 hard drive), ttyq*, md*, rft*, qscd, xda*, sndstat. that's nearly all i've found in my /etc directory on the disquette who i dont know about these. Alain Toussaint p.s. the * denote a wildcard,i didn't wanted to write the full name of the device. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian not working on a PC without math copro
a friend of mine was trying to install debina but unfortunately he couldn't because her machine didn't have a math coprocessors,do you know if there's installation disk for this,here's the spec of his machine: Its a 486SL, with an award Bios - no coprocessor socket of course It has 32MB of RAM, an Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller with a Seagate 2gig drive, a 1.44mb floppy, a generic VGA only video card (640x480x256 max), a Digiboard 8i 8-port serial adaptor, however I pulled that out, and a Etherlink III ISA 3Com ethernet card, to attach to the internal network in my house. The CDROM (Toshiba 3401 1x) is mounted, but not connected. It has a microsoft mouse compatible trackball built into the keyboard. you can respond either to: [EMAIL PROTECTED](me) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the friend in question) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!
unmount is not the prefered method,use umount in it place. Alain Toussaint -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynx get stuck (sort of...it's an annoyance)
i'm writing because when i visit web pages in lynx and when i press on a link who's not working,lynx patiently wait for the server to answer (witch can take a very long time sometime) and i cannot do anything except doing the CTRL-C boogie and when i do so,i lose my page (and often,i dont remember the URL of the page in question),does there is a way for configuring lynx so that after a time it say an error message that the server doesn't answer and recover from being stuck ??? Alain Toussaint -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell XPS/60
could be that your P60 overheat,my 486 do it too when open more than 48 hours (the CD drive to be exact),that can cause problem when having moderate to heavy load (or even light load depending on how your system is well cooled),check that you have a CPU cooling fan and that it work !! p.s.my 486 is a 50 mhz,this problem can hapen sooner on a faster chip,another thing is that my bedroom is trully warm when my computer have been left open for a lot of time !!! Alain Toussaint -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subscription problem
i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ?? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installing hamm on a production box
Hello all i'm currently considering having hamm as second OS on my production Debian box,and if i install it,i would also need to read some document on how to setup it (PPP networking in my case) so i could install it via ftp,here's what i think i will need to know: 1-:does there is document on setting lilo for dual booting,i read some posts (in the digest user list) about setting lilo for quadbooting and it sound a bit difficult (i think i read that in the last digest in a message with Kernel as subject) ?? 2-:i also would like to know how to setup PPP networking (for installation purpose),does there is some document i need to read for this ?? now,here's how i would run hamm,my first partition contain debian 1.3.0 ,/dev/hda2 is swap and /dev/hda3 would be the hamm partition (a 1.1 gig partition),all i do that's critical on my box is e-mail (let's say that's the most important function of my computer) and PPP networking 3-:the 64 000$ question,does you (anyone here i mean) recommend that i install hamm on my system considering the last paragraph and the fact that i have well enough time to tinker with it ??? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hamm installation problem
i was installing hamm tonight and i got a problem while doing so,here's what i did: 1-:repartition my hard disk,i had a 400 meg partition as /dev/hda1,a 48 meg swap partition /dev/hda2 and a 1.1 gig /dev/hda3 partition,i separated /dev/hda3 as 2 partition (hda 3 and hda4) and copied the base2_0.tgz file to the hda4 partition. 2-:i beginned the installation with new rescue,driver and root disk (the root one wasn't needed tought) and got to the point where it asked me to point to the base install file (where it ask for the base2_0.tgz) and the installation did somewhat like a reset pointing me to the debut (where it ask for color on mono install),i choose color at that point and it returned me the place it ask for the same file (base2_0.tgz) but then,instead of letting me choose between the /dev/hda1 and the /dev/hda4 (the 2 place where base2_0.tgz would be found) it only offered me hda1 as choice. hope this help Alain -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
deltree for linux
does exist a deltree lookalike for linux (or a good way to get rid of some directory and their files) ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
newbie ppp.....i need help
look like you've got the same problem as me when i choose to ditch win95 and go for Linux,you need 3 files for hooking PPP to a Linux box: rule no.1-:the PPP HOWTO say that you dont normaly have to touch (read: edit) the file /etc/ppp/options ,but the one you wrote (King) should not cause problem to your setup. rule no.2-:the 3 files needed are called /etc/ppp.chatscript, /etc/ppp.options_out and /etc/resolv.conf,here's the template for doing them: /etc/ppp.chatscript ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT(your ISP phone number here) ogin (your login name,ask your isp for it if you dont know it) word (your password) /etc/ppp.options_out /dev/ttyS1 115200 noipdefault modem crtscts defaultroute p.s.the first line is my serial number and the baud rate for my modem (a 33.6) for a 14 400,you should use a 38 400 baud rate and replace my serial number for the one you modem is connected with. /etc/resolv.conf- search . (the . is clearly a DOT,you'd better include it) nameserver 255.255.255.255 (this line is bogus,replace the 255.255.255.255 with the one your ISP use,if you dont know what it is,call your ISP and ask for the address of the DNS server.) if there's anything else you have problem,feel free to mail me,hope to have helped !! Alain -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: i made a mess with dselect
Someone else has advised you that a 1.3.1r6 CDs are available at farily cheap prices. Another approach is to reinstall from the 1.3 CD, then use dselect/dpkg-ftp to upgrade. That would greatly reduce the amount of data to be downloaded by ftp, which would be beneficial if on-line time is a concern. With a 28.8 connection a complete install by ftp might run 12-26 hours or longer, depending on how many packages you install, but upgrading from 1.3 to 1.3.1r6 would take less than 20% of that. i'm only using pine,lynx,ircII and the base utils,i dont use X for now,my machine is only used in reading document and doing research about car/engine modification and some other topic,and my modem (33.6) can do 12 megabytes/hour when the wind's right and my ISP unplug the time counter between midnight and 8 o'clock (am),so does this will take a long time to do the ftp install ??? 2-: for the CD,is there anyone here who can say how long the delivery take when sending some to Canada (Quebec especially),it may sound a dumb question but usually,all the thing i see at the TV and mag. say that i need to allocate 4 to 6 week for the delivery ?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
re: New Linux User (late reply)
one thing i would suggest in your case is that if you had a big enough hard drive,you can allway copy the content of you CD to the hard disk (in DOS) and start from that,i did it,but in my case,it was more in the interest of speed rater than incompatibility,my HD is a 1.7 gig unit. Alain -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
i made a mess with dselect
tonight,i got dselect to upgrade my debian distribution,i connected to the ftp.debian.org site (via dselect),cd to /debian,it updated her package.gz file,and i choosen to install all package suggested by dselect in the install menu,but the installation has gone wrong,i tried to undo the change but this only got me in trouble (i'm a beginner only using debian since 4th january),here's what i want to know,i need to save my personnal mail,i want to wipe-out the linux partition and re-install thing up (i'm using a CD from boot magazine to install debian on my computer): 1-:my mail is stored in /var/spool/mail/$USER (i.e.my username),do i need just to copy this file (to another partition) and when i'm done,i re-copy the file to it original place (i.e. /var/spool/mail/$USER) and pine will acomodate it ?? 2-:if i wipe-out my hard disk,does PPP networking would be available on the boot,root and install disk so that instead of using the CD,i could connect directly to the net for the latest distribution ?? 3 (and last)-:the distribution on the CD is debian 1.3.0 and the one from ftp.debian.org is 1.3.1r6 (i think..i'm not sure),does it is worth the trouble to connect to the net for the latest release or i'm better of keeping the CD version ?? thanks a lot Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
